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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04364	True report of the gainefull, prosperous and speedy voiage to Iaua in the East Indies, performed by a fleete of eight ships of Amsterdam which set forth from Texell in Holland, the first of Maie 1598, Stilo Nouo, whereof foure returned againe the 19. of Iuly anno 1599. in lesse than 15. moneths, the other foure went forward from Iaua for the Moluccas.	Neck, Jacob Cornelissoon van, ca. 1564-1638.; Warwyck, Wijbrant van, ca. 1569-1615.	1599 (1599)	STC 14478; ESTC S1251	12,187	30

and borne about China hee was well entreated cherished and much made of This Abdoll vpon his returne to Iaua being demanded The relation of Abdoll an Indian concerning the Netherlands concerning the state of the Netherlands made vnto the principall men of Bantam a full declaration thereof with all the rarities and singularities which he had there seene and obserued Which albeit to the greatest part of readers who haue trauailed those countries may seeme nothing strange and scarce worthy the relation yet because the report was made by so meere a stranger with the Iauans that heard it wrought so good effect I thought it not altogether impertinent here in this place to make rehearsall thereof First therefore he tolde them to their great admiration in that hoat climate That hee had seene aboue a thousand sleds drawen and great numbers of horsemen riding vpon the frozen water in winter time and that he had beheld more then two hundreth thousand people trauailing on foote and on horseback vpon the yce as likewise that the said sleds were by horses drawen so swiftly that they made more way in three houres than any man could go on foote in tenne And also that himselfe for pleasure had been so drawen the horses being brauely adorned with bels and cymbals Howbeit they would hardly be induced to beleeue that those countries should be so extreamely colde and the waters so mightely frozen as to beare such an huge waight Hee tolde them moreouer that Holland was a free countrey and that euery man there was his owne Master and that there was not one slaue or captiue in the whole land Moreouer that the houses in regarde of their beautifull and lofty building resembled stately pallaces their inward rich furniture being altogether answerable to their outward glorious shew Also that the Churches which he called Mesquitas were of such bignesse capacity as they might receiue the people of any prety towne He affirmed likewise that the Hollanders with the assistance of their confederates and friendes maintained warres against the King of Spaine whose mighty puissance is feared and redoubted of all the potentates of Europa And albeit the said warres had continued aboue thirty yeares yet that during all that time the saide Hollanders increased both in might wealth In like sort he informed them of the strange situation of Holland as being a countrey driuing vpon the water the earth or ground whereof they vse insteed of fewell and that he had oft times warmed himselfe and had seene meat dressed with fires made of the same earth In briefe that it was a waterish and fenny countrey and full of riuers chanels and ditches and that therein was an innume●able multitude of boates and small shippes as likewise great store of tall and seruiceable ships wherwith they sailed vnto all quarters of the world c. This man Abdoll wee found to bee a captiue or slaue and sawe there his wife and children in very poore estate dwelling in a little cottage not so bigge as an hogsty but by oure meanes he was made free and well rewarded Not withstanding he did but euil recompence vs for he was charged to be the cause why pepper was solde dearer then ordinary vnto vs by a penny in the pounde for hee told them that certaine shippes of Zeland and of other places were comming thitherwardes And here the reader is to vnderstand that some foure moneths before the said three ships arriued at Bantam the Portugales came with an Armada The Portugals go about to hinder the trade of the Hollanders of gallies and fustes being set foorth by the Viceroy of Goa and the gouernour of Molucca to intercept the traffique of the Hollanders vnto those partes and to make them loose all their expenses labour and time which they had bestowed and also that their great and rich presentes which they gaue vnto the Iauans the yeare before to bring them into vtter detestation of the Hollanders might not be altogether in vaine The Generall of them that came from Goa was Don Luis and of those that came from Molucca Don Emanuell who brought their Armada before Bantam intending to surprize the citty vnder pretence that the same preparation was made to resist certaine pirates that came thither out of Holland the last yeare and were determined this yeare also to come againe Vnder these colours they sought to take the towne and to fortifie the same they built certaine sconces in the countrey committing great outrages rauishing the Women with many other villanies Hereupon the townsemen of Bantam very secretly prouided certaine gallies and fustes in great hast and sodainly assailed the Portugales before they were well aware of them for which cause finding but small resistance they tooke 3 Portugale gallies with certaine shippes and slewe about The Portugals vanquished 300 of them taking 150 Portugales prisoners of which we daily saw some going vp downe the streetes of Bantam like slaues and captiues Besides these they tooke about 900 galli-slaues prisoners Vpon this hard successe the rest of the Portugals betooke themselues to flight but whither they bee arriued at Goa or Molucca or what is become of them since we are not able to auouch The foresaid attempt and ouerthrowe bred greater enmity betweene the Portugales and them of Bantam and gaue an especiall occasion for the aduauncement of our traffique The fiue ships whereof we haue before signified The course which the fiue ships tooke after they were separated from their three consorts about the Cape of buona esperanza that foure were dispatched by the whole companie for the Moluccas being seuered beyonde the Cape of buona speranza from the other three of their company and hauing quite lost them came all of them shortly after vnder an Island called as it is thought by the Portugals Isola de Don Galopes but they named it the Island of Mauritius Here they entered into an hauen calling the same Warwicke after the name of their Viceadmirall wherin they found very good harborow in twenty degrees of southerly latitude This Island being situate to the East of Madagascar The Isle of Mauritius described and containing as much in compasse as all Holland is a very high goodly and pleasant land full of green fruitfull vallies and replenished with Palmito-trees from the which droppeth holesome wine Likewise here are very many trees of right Great store of Ebenwood Ebenwood as black asiet and as smooth hard as the very Iuory and the quantity of this wood is so exceeding that many ships may be laden herewith For to saile into this hauen you must bring the two highest mountaines one ouer the other leauing sixe small Islands on your right hand and so you may enter in vpon 30 fadomes of water Lying win the bay they had 10. 12. 14. fadoms On their left hād was a litle Island which they named Hemskerk Island and the bay it selfe they called Warwick