AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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defence, if you shall be set upon or otherwise be forced 

 for your owne safegard to do it. 



13 Item, wee will that you deale altogether in this 

 voyage like good and honest merchants, traffiquing and 

 exchanging ware for ware, with all courtesie to the 

 nations you shall deale with, as well Ethniks as others, 

 and for that cause you shall instruct all those that shall 

 goe with you, that whensoever you or any of you shall 

 happen to come in any place to conference with the 

 people of those parts, that in all your doings and theirs, 



[III. 756.] you and they so behave your selves towards the sayd 

 people, as may rather procure their friendship and good 

 liking toward you by courtesie, then to move them to 

 offence or misliking, and especially you shall have great 

 care of the performance of your word and promise to 

 them. 



14 Item wee will, that by the advise of your Assis- 

 tants, in places where you and they shall thinke most fit, 

 you settle if you can a beginning of a further trade to bee 



Strange people had hereafter : and from such places doe bring over with 

 to be brought y^^ some fewe men and women if you may, and doe 

 home. •'i 1 ^ ^ ^ -^ ^ 



also leave some one or two, or more, as to you and your 



Assistants shall seeme convenient of our nation with them 

 for pledges, and to learne the tongue and secrets of the 

 countreys, having diligent care that in delivering and 

 taking of hostages, you deliver not personages of more 

 value then you receive, but rather deliver meane persons 

 under colour of men of value, as the Infidels do for the 

 most part use. Provided that you stay not longer to 

 make continuance of further trade, then shall be expedient 

 for good exchange of the wares presently carried with 

 you. 



1 5 Item you shall have care, and give generall warning, 

 that no person of what calling soever hee be, shall take 

 up, or keepe to himselfe or his private use, any stone, 

 pearle, golde, silver, or other matter of commoditie to be 

 had or found in places where you shall come, but hee the 

 said person, so seased of such stone, pearle, golde, silver, 



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