TO THE READER, 
the Waft and Defcrt Part of the Indies , 
caufed their King to be entertayned & 
honoured among the People^ ncreafed 
and enhaunfed their credit and Name 
exceedingly* and the fundry commo¬ 
dities of their feuerall fruits and fpices 
haue diiperfed & communicated not 
onely to their owne Countrymen,but 
alfo to all Nations vnder the Sunne. 
But here the Matter ftayed not : For 
then came the Englijh (a People that in 
the Art of Navigation giueth place to 
none other) and they were incited to 
take this Indian Voyage in hande,and to 
make it generally knowne vnto their 
Ijlandy&t therevpon Syr Francis Drake, 
& Mafler Thomo* Candijh did not only 
fayle into the fayde Indies , but alfo tra- 
uelled round about the world, with a 
mod happy and famous fucceffe. 
Whofe examples diuers honourable 
Gentlemen and valiant Captaines of 
England haue followed * to their vn- 
fpeakeable praifeand commendation, 
& the exceeding glory of their Coun¬ 
try : as namely the Right Honourable 
Earle of Cumberland , the Lord Thomas 
Howard , Syr Francis Drake , Syr Martin 
Frobijher , Syr Richard Greenefteld , Syr 
John Hawkins , and Syr Walter Raleigh , 
with diuers others named and mentio- 
nedinthisBooke, AndlaftofaiI,the 
People of the Lowe■ Countreys beeing in- 
ftru&ed by the diligent fearch and tra- 
uell of the. Englifh Nation^ fell to the like 
trafficke into the Indies , and haue per¬ 
formed many Honourable and profi¬ 
table Voyages ♦ Among whom the 
Author ofthis Booke, lohn-Hngh L'mft 
chote of Harlem was one, that continu¬ 
ed in India for the mod part of nine 
yeares - and had good oportunity of 
Jure and certaine intelligences by rea- 
fon of his feruice vnder Vincentiusda 
Fon[ecd y a. Fryer Dominican fit by K.Phi¬ 
lip created Cdrchbijhop ofall India. This 
Man Hugh Linfchote behauedhimfclfc 
fo honeflly and warily during the time 
of his abode there,that he was not one¬ 
ly in high fauour of his Lord and Mai- 
fter, but he was alfo fingularly and ge¬ 
nerally belouedof all the Inhabitants 
of the places where hee was mofl reft* 
ant . He did mod diligently and con- 
fiderately obferue and colled together 
all occurrents and accidents that hap¬ 
pened in his memory & knowledge, 
and the fame hath committed to wri¬ 
ting in the Dutch Tongue with all faith- 
f nines, to his owne euerlafhng praife, 
and to the benefit of his Countrey, to¬ 
gether with the feuerall CMappes and 
deferiptions of the Countreysfiitics and 
Townes , & all the commodities there- 
vnto belonging . Which Booke being 
commended 3 by Maifter Richard Hack- 
luyt , a man that laboureth greatly to 
aduanceour Englijh Name and Nati. 
on, the Printer thought good to caufe 
the fame to bee tranflated into the En- 
glifh Tongue. 
The Volume conteyneth in itfoure The Firft 
feuerall Treadles : T he Firft is , The Booke. 
Voyage or lourney by Sea of the layde 
Hugh Linschote the Author ^ into the Eajl 
or Portingall Indies , together with all 
thtSea-CoaftsjHauens fi'mers and Creckes 
ofthe fame,their Cuftomes and Religion , 
their Policie and Gouemement , their 
Marchandtjesj Drugges , Spyces, Hearbsfic 
Plants ) the vertues whereof areexpla- ] 
nedbythe Annotations of Do cl or Palu- 
danusj the learned Phifttianoi Enckhuy . 
fen : And lafl of all, a Memoriall of fuch 
Accidents as fell out during the Authors 
aboade in India. 
T he Second T rcatife is , ThcDefcri- The 
ption of Guinea , UWanicongo , Angola j Second 
Monomotapa'f&c. with a difeonery of Bookejft/ 
the great Ifland of Madagafcar , andaltJ^rjV 
the Sballowes , Cltjfes-md IJlands of the 
Indian Seas : The moft part whereof 
was colleded befbreby on t Pigafetta 
from the mouth of Edward Lopez , and 
publi filed \n Englijhthehtt year e. 
TheThtrd Treatife is , 1 he Natiiga - The 
tion of the Port ingales into the Eaft In- Third 
dies: & from thence to Malacca^ China> Booke 
Iapon 3 faua and Sunda : And from China 
to the Wejlerne or Spanijh Indies , and all 
the Coafl of Brajilia^&c. 
The Fourth and laft Treatife is , A The 
moft true & exa<ft Snmmarie of all the Fourth 
Rents 9 DemayneS; Tdles y Taxes, Impoftst Booke, 
Tributes ? 
