84 A LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS 



cannott prevaile they come with flattering wordes and a great 

 showe of service to haue their good willes, and this was a great 

 vexation done to Floras in keeping his goodes vntill they had 

 wearied him, and although hee had sufficient meanes to prevent 

 the same att ye Court, yet hee did it not in regarde the charges 

 would haue lyen wholie on the Seaventh voyage, Neither as 

 hee with had hee any whome hee could send, himself not 

 beeing to be spared, which forced him to giue them Content 

 and gett from them as the first tyme in takeing a parcell of 

 Cloth which were not worth halfe the money. And the second 

 tyme hee tooke the Governers sonne from out of the Custome- 

 house prisoner aboard not without danger. And so ye James 

 also had beene served, If the Globe had not come to succour. 



Yett this place much continueth (?) 



but yet it yeild- 



eth, as at Mocha from whence it is 



transpo Egipt, Beniamin cometh by land, Lau 



throug[h] augh, which passage by the presente 



warrs is stopt, the gould for the most parte cometh from 

 Xamaj, but all here beeing in vproare, little is brought, here 

 falleth good store of hearts and Buff skynnes, which are cur- 

 rant Commodities for Japan, so that it may well bee conclud- 

 ed that if peace might come here would bee good profitt gotten 

 for our Companie : Secondlie there might bee hope to gett 

 footing in China, because of the amitie, it is betweene China 

 and Siam, and an Ambassador might bee sent with the Am- 

 bassadors of Siam with letters of Commendations from his 

 Maty, to the King of China or at least to the Mandorin 

 of Canton; whereby at the least they might be spoken with 

 all and here and giue answere to our reasons, but as long as 

 the Warrs do contynue at Siam, there is but little hope of 

 either. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



