A.D. THE EIS^GLISH VOYAGES 



adde the securitie of passage, with other privileges most 

 necessary to use the trade with your men, your majestic 

 shall doe that which belongeth to a most honorable & 

 liberal prince, and deserve so much of us, as by no 

 continuance or length of time shalbe forgotten. Which 

 request of ours we do most instantly desire to be taken 

 in good part of your majestic, and so great a benefit 

 towards us & our men, we shall endcvor by diligence 

 to requite when time shal serve thereunto. The God 

 Almighty long preserve your Imperial majestic. 



A letter of M. John Newbery, written from Alepo, 

 to M. Richard Hakluit of Oxford, the 28. of 

 May, Anno 1583. 



Ight welbelovcd, and my assured good friend, I 

 heartily commend mc unto you, hoping of your 

 good health, &c. After we set sailc from Graves- 

 end, which was the 13. day of February last, wee 

 remained upon our coast untill the 11. day of March, 

 and that day we set sailc from Falmouth, and never 

 ankcred till wee arrived in the road of Tripolic in Syria, 

 which was the last day of Aprill last past, where wee 



[II. i. 246.] stayed 14. dayes : and the twentie of this present we 

 came hither to Alepo, and with Gods helpc, within five 

 or sixe dayes goe from hence towards the Indies. Since 

 my comming to Tripolis I have made very earnest in- 

 quirie both there and here, for the booke of Cosmo- 



Abilfada Is- grraphie of Abilfada Ismael, but by no meanes can heare 

 of it. Some say that possibly it may be had in rersia, 

 but notwithstanding I will not faile to make inquirie 

 for it, both in Babylon, and in Balsara, and if I can 

 finde it in any of these places, I wil send it you from 

 thence. The letter which you delivered me for to 

 copy out, that came from M. Thomas Stevens in Goa, 

 as also the note you gave mee of Francis Fernandes 

 the Portugal, I brought thence with me among other 

 writings unawares, the which I have sent you here in- 

 closed. Here is great preparation for the warres in 



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mael his Cos 

 mographie. 



