JOHN CHIDLEY 



A.D. 



1589. 



483383 great houses which pay tribute, and 39400 men 

 of warre. 



21 The port of Cauchinchina standeth in the latitude 

 of sixteene degrees and a halfe to the Northward. 



22 The citie Champa standeth in fourteene degrees 

 to the Northwards of the Equinoctiall. 



23 The province of Enam hath 7. great cities, and 13. [III. 839.] 

 small and 90. townes and castles, and is 88. leagues 



broad, and hath 589296. great houses that pay tribute, 

 and 1 5 100. souldiers. 



{Horsemen 454528.} {Footmen 7459057.} 

 The to tall summe 7923785. 



A briefe relation of a voyage of The Delight a 

 ship of Bristol! one of the consorts of M. John 

 Chidley esquire and M. Paul Wheele, made 

 unto the Straight of Magellan : v^ith divers 

 accidents that happened unto the company, 

 during their 6. v^eekes abode there: Begun 

 in the yeere 1589. Written by W. Magoths. 



He fift of August 1589. the worshipfull 

 M. John Chidley of Chidley in the 

 countie of Devon esquire, with M. Paul 

 Wheele and Captaine Andrew Mericke 

 set forth from Plimmouth with three 

 tall ships, the one called The wilde man 

 of three hundred tunnes, wherein went 

 for General the aforesaid M. John Chidley and Benjamin 

 Wood as Master, the other called The white Lion, 

 whereof M. Paul Wheele was captaine and John Ellis 

 Master, of the burthen of 340. tunnes : the third The 

 Delight of Bristol, wherein went M. Andrew Merick 

 as Captaine, and Robert Burnet Master, with two 

 pinnesses of 14. or 15. tunnes a piece. The Generall 

 in his ship had 180. persons: M. Paul Wheele had 140, 

 in our owne ship we were 91. men and boyes. Our 

 voyage was intended by the Streight of Magellan for 



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