A.D. 



:58o. 



Linen-cloth 

 g9od marchan- 

 dize. 



Nutmegs and 

 long Peper 

 growing in 

 Barateve. 



Commendation 

 of the Island 

 oj Barateve. 



Java 



major. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



many dangers by windes and shoalds. The people of 

 this Island are comely in body and stature, and of a civill 

 behaviour, just in dealing, and courteous to strangers, 

 whereof we had the experience sundry wayes, they being 

 most glad of our presence, and very ready to releeve our 

 wants in those things which their Countrey did yeelde. 

 The men goe naked, saving their heads and privities, 

 every man having something or other hanging at their 

 eares. Their women are covered from the middle downe 

 to the foote, wearing a great number of bracelets upon 

 their armes, for some had 8. upon each arme, being made 

 some of bone, some of home, and some of brasse, the 

 lightest whereof by our estimation waied two ounces 

 apeece. 



With this people linnen-cloth is good marchandize, 

 and of good request, whereof they make rols for their 

 heads, and girdles to weare about them. 



Their Island is both rich and fruitfull : rich in golde, 

 silver, copper, and sulphur, wherein they seeme skilfull 

 and expert, not onely to trie the same, but in working 

 it also artificially into any forme and fashion that 

 pleaseth them. 



Their fruits be divers and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, 

 long pepper, lemmons, cucumbers, cocos, figu, sagu, with 

 divers other sorts : and among all the rest, wee had one 

 fruite, in bignesse, forme, and huske, like a Bay berry, 

 hard of substance, and pleasant of taste, which being 

 sodden, becommeth soft, and is a most good and whol- 

 some victuall, whereof we tooke reasonable store, as we 

 did also of the other fruits and spices : so that to confesse 

 a trueth, since the time that we first set out of our owne 

 Countrey of England, we happened upon no place 

 (Ternate onely excepted) wherein we found more com- 

 forts and better meanes of refreshing. 



At our departure from Barateve, we set our course for 

 Java major, where arriving, we found great courtesie, and 

 honourable entertainment. This Island is governed by 

 5. Kings, whom they call Rajah : as Rajah Donaw, and 



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