A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1580. 



sugar, and other spices, they make divers sorts of meates 

 very pleasant of taste, and nourishing to nature. 

 [III. 742.] The French pocks is here very common to all, and 



The French ^]^^^ helpe themselves, sitting naked from ten to two in 

 the Sunne, whereby the venemous humour is drawen out. 

 Not long before our departure, they tolde us, that not 

 farre off there were such great Ships as ours, wishing us to 

 beware : upon this our Captaine would stay no longer. 



From Java Major we sailed for the cape of Good 



Hope, which was the first land we fell withall : neither 



did we touch with it, or any other land, untill we came to 



The Cape of Sierra Leona, upon the coast of Guinea : notwithstanding 



spej- ranne hard aboord the Cape, finding the report of the 



anxa not so ^ . . r ^ ^ ^ rr ° 1 ^ • • 1 



dangerous as "ortugals to be most raise, who aihrme, that it is the 

 the Portugals most dangerous Cape of the world, never without in- 

 have given out. tolerable stormes and present danger to travailers, which 



come neere the same. 



This Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest Cape 



we saw in the whole circumference of the earth, and we 



passed by it the 18. of June. 

 Sierra Leona. From thence we continued our course to Sierra Leona, 



on the coast of Guinea, where we arrived the 22. of July, 



and found necessarie provisions, great store of Elephants, 

 Oister-trees. Oisters upon trees of one kind, spawning and increasing 



infinitely, the Oister suffering no budde to grow. We 



departed thence the 24. day. 



We arrived in England the third of November 1580. 



being the third yeere of our departure. 



The names of the Kings or Princes of Java at the time of 

 our English mens being there. 

 Raja Donaw. fRaja Tymbanton. 



Raja Rabacapala. < Raja Mawgbange. 

 Raja Bacabatra. (Raja Patimara. 



Certaine wordes of the naturall language of Java, learned 



and observed by our men there. 

 ^ Sabuck, silke. f Larnike, drinke. 



(^Sagu, bread of the Countrey. (^Paree, ryce in the huske. 



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