9'a 
and the beade Under the Uutber, flutmmmg 
in that manner,andd?aU)tng the ffpppe Urifb 
beragataff tlje lumta anD tljetr rigfjt courfe : 
thereby p?cfently they knetue tbe canfe of 
tbetr fo going bachetoos: fo that baning a£ 
tbelaftffricken long toltb ffaues and other 
(ncaponsUppon the ftgjes fade, in the endc 
then tirofee it off, and thereby the fill) left the 
(hip, after it badlayne 14 -bay eg Under the 
fame, d?au?tng the Ibtp toitb it again® toind 
andtoitber: fo? tabteb caufe tbe tmiceroy 
in Goa caufcdtt to be painted in bis pallace 
fo? a perpetual* memo?y, Inhere 31 baue often 
read it, Untb tbe bay and time, and tbe name 
botb of tbe fljippe and Captaine,tnbicb 31 can 
not inell remember, although it bee no great 
matter. 
Cbere are many other gibes in thofe feas 
andriuers* Bin the Ktuer of Bengala called 
Ganges, and by Malacca there are Croco* 
S>iles,and other fea Serpents of an Uttfpeahc* 
able greatnes, Subic!) often times doe ouer* 
turnefmal Sihcr boates and other fcu£es,and 
deuourethc men that are therein: and fome 
oftbem creeping out of the tuater bnto the 
Sande do fnatcb Uppc diuers men, inhicb they 
hale after them, and then UtU them and eate 
them, as it dayly bappenetb in thofe Conn* 
fries* Sphere are by Malacca certaine fiih 
(belles found on the 0 jo?e, much like §c»calop 
fhelles,fo great and fo heauie,that ftno ttrong 
menhaue enough to doe tmth a (leaner to 
o?aU) one of them after them* Within them 
there is a fiih tobteb they of Malacca do cate. 
Chere toe fome of thofe fljelles in fbebal* 
laff of the ihippe that came from Malacca, $ 
feept company tohbsfrom the 30and of S. 
Helena, to the SiflandC of T ercera , tobcre 
the ihippe toas call atuay, and fome of the 
(belles taken out of her, tnhich the 31efuites 
of Malacca had fcnt Unto Lisbone, to fet in 
the boats of their church and Cloyff er, tohich 
they there had caufcdfo bee made, and moff 
fumpfuoufly built. 2 Che like happened to a 
(hippe called S. Peter, that faylcd from Co- 
chimtofoardes Portingall, that fell Upon a 
fande, tohich at this day is called after the 
fame ihips name S. Peters fande, lying from 
Goa £>outb^>oufbeaff tinder 6 . degrees bp* 
on the £>outb fide, fobcrc it boas caff atoay, 
but all the men faued thcmfelues, and of the 
turodc of the ihippe that inas caff atoay, they 
made a fmall 35arkc 0 ? Carnell, toheretoith 
they all arriued in India : $ tohile they tocre 
bufied about building of their thip, they found 
fuch great Crabbes upon that land, and in fo 
great numbers, that they toe conffratned 
(o make a fconce, and by gmd loaf eh to de¬ 
fend fbemfelucs from the, fo? that they toe 
of an Unreafonable greatnes, fo that inborn* 
The 1 .Booke.* 
focncr they got Under their clatos, if coif him 
his life: this is moff true and not long Cnee 
done, fo? that in the fame ihippe toherein 3 S 
came out of India into Portmgal , there 
toe ttoo of the £>aylo?s that had beene in 
the fame fhippe called S. Peter, and affirmed 
it fo? a truth, as it is Itketotfe paynted in dP 
uers places in Goa, fo? a perpetual memo?y, 
tohich 3 thought grad to fet dotone, to ffjeine 
the ffrangeneife of thofe gibes: and if is to be 
thought that there are many other gibes and 
fea monff ers, as yet to Us not knoU)n,l»blcb 
are dayly found by fuch as continually ufe to 
fea, and dco often mate forth them. 3nd this 
(hall be fufficienf fo? the gibes $ fea monff ers 
Of India* 
The 49* Chapter. 
Ofall fruits, trees, plants,and common 
hearbs in India, andfirft of a certain 
fruit called Ananas. 
‘Hamsby the Canarijns cab AnnotSa 
led Ananafia, by the Brafili - d. p B 
ansNana , and by others in 
Hifipaniola laiama : by the 
Spaniards in Brafilia Pinas , 
becaufe of a certain refemblance which 
thefruitehath with the Pineapple* It 
commethoutof the Prouinceof^w- 
fia Croce , firil brought into Brafilia, the ’ 
totheSpaniih Indies , and afterwardes 
into the Eaft Indies, where no we they 
grow in great abundance,ofthe bignes 
of Citrones, or of a common CMelon , 
They are of a faire colour, ofa yellow 
greene,which greennes when it is ripe 
vadeth away* It is fweet in tafte,& plea- 
fant in fmell, like to an Abricot, fo that 
by the very fmell of them a man may 
know the houfes wherein thefe fruites 
are kept. A far off they fhew like Arti¬ 
chokes, but they haue no fuch iharpe 
prickes on their leaues: the plants or 
ftalkes whereon they grow are as bigge 
as a Thiftle, and haue a roote alfo like a 
Thiftle, wheron groweth but one N ut 
in the middle of the ftalke, and rounde 
about it certaine fmall ftalkes whereon 
fome fruite likewife doeth often times 
grow.I haue had fome of the Slips here 
in 
