A.D. 



1596. 



Jezt a nation 

 of Tartars 

 dwellbigonthc 

 continent to 

 the North of 

 China using 

 cloth. 



The Pilot. 



The Master. 



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the Japonians for foode, with other such like commodi- 

 ties. On the other side the said Jezi Tartari buy of 

 the Japonians, cloth to make them garments, with weapons 

 and other instruments. These Tartars (they say) are a 

 most barbarous kinde of people, of a browne colour, with 

 long haire on their heads and beardes like the Moscovites : 

 they live by hunting and fishing, and neglect husbandry. 

 This Northerly princedome of Zuegara (as the sayd 

 governour reported to our Fathers) aboundeth with 

 excellent grapes both black and white, which without 

 the labour of man grow naturally in all places, and he 

 promised the Fathers to bring some of these vines to 

 Miaco, that they might be planted there. 



Advertisements touching the shippes that goe 

 from Sivil to the Indies of Spaine ; together 

 with some notes of the Contractation house 

 in Sivil. 



Our Pilot must be examined in the Con- 

 tractation house, and allowed by such as 

 be appointed for the examination of Pilots, 

 that hee be a sufficient man to take the 

 charge in hand, and that which belongeth 

 thereunto, and to governe and lead the 

 same ship directly by his onely commande- 

 ment to such ports as are convenient for the voyage that 

 hee taketh in hand. 



You must have a Master, that must give in sureties to 

 the value of 6000 dukats : and such as be his sureties 

 must be landed men, and their lands worth to the value 

 of that summe aforesayd, if the sayd ship be betweene 

 three or foure hundred tunnes. And if shee be more 

 or lesse of burthen, then he must give sureties of a greater 

 summe or lesse, according to the proportion of her 

 burden. 



He shall in all his voyage give a just and true accompt 

 of all such goods, and marchandizes, as shall in all that 



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