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A20784	The vvorld encompassed by Sir Francis Drake being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios formerly imprinted; carefully collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher preacher in this imployment, and diuers others his followers in the same: offered now at last to publique view, both for the honour of the actor, but especially for the stirring vp of herock spirits, to benefit their countrie, and eternize their names by like noble attempts.	Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.; Fletcher, Francis, 16th cent.	1628 (1628)	STC 7161; ESTC S105366	81,588	115

wee would giue them as kniues margarites glasses and such like whereof men of 60. 70. yeares old were as glad as if they had receiued some exceeding rich commodity being a most simple and plaine dealing people Their resort vnto vs was such as considering the shortnesse of the time was wonderfull to vs to behold Not farre from this viz. in 22. deg 30. min. lay Mormorena another great towne of the same people ouer whom 2. Spaniards held the gouerment with these our generall thought meet to deale or at least to try their courtesy whether they would in way of traffique giue vs such things as we needed or no and therefore Ian. 26 Ian. the 26. we cast anchor here we found them more for feare then for loue somewhat tractable and receiued from them by exchange many good things very necessarie for our vses Amongst other things which we had of them the sheepe of the countrey viz. such as we mentioned before bearing the leatherne bags were most memorable Their height and length was equall to a pretty cow and their strength fully answerable if not by much exceeding their size or stature Vpon one of their backes did sit at one time three well growne and tall men and one boy no mans foot touching the ground by a large foot in length the beast nothing at all complaining of his burthen in the meane time These sheepe haue neckes like camels their heads bearing a reasonable resemblance of another sheepe The Spaniards vse them to great profit Their wooll is exceeding fine their flesh good meate their increase ordinarie and besides they supply the roome of horses for burthen or trauell yea they serue to carry ouer the mountaines maruellous loades for 300. leagues together where no other carriage can be made but by them onely Hereabout as also all along and vp into the countrey throughout the Prouince of Cusko the common ground wheresoeuer it bee taken vp in euery hundred pound weight of earth yeeldeth 25. s. of pure siluer after the rate of a crowne an ounce The next place likely to affoord vs any newes of our ships for in all this way from the height where wee builded our pinnace there was no bay or harbour at all for shipping was the port of the towne of Arica standing in 20. deg whither we arriued the 7. of February Feb. 7 This towne seemed to vs to stand in the most fruitfull soile that we saw all alongst these coasts both for that it is situate in the mouth of a most pleasant and fertile vally abounding with all good things as also in that it hath continuall trade of shipping as well from Lyma as from all other parts of Peru. It is inhabited by the Spaniards In two barks here we found some forty and odde barres of siluer of the bignesse and fashion of a brickbatte and in waight each of them about 20. pounds of which wee tooke the burthen on our selues to ease them and so departed towards Chowley with which wee fell the second day following Feb. 9 viz. Febr. 9. and in our way to Lima we met with another barke at Ariquipa which had begun to loade some siluer and gold but hauing had as it seemed from Arica by land some notice of our coming had vnloaden the same againe before our arriuall Yet in this our passage we met another barke loaden with linnen some of which we thought might stand vs in some stead and therefore tooke it with vs. Feb. 15 At Lima we arriued Febr. 15. and notwithstanding the Spaniards forces though they had thirtie ships at that present in harbour there whereof 17. most of them the especiall ships in all the South sea were fully ready we entred and anchored all night in the middest of them in the Calao and might haue made more spoile amongst them in few houres if we had beene affected to reuenge then the Spaniard could haue recouered againe in many yeares But wee had more care to get vp that company which we had so long mist then to recompence their cruell and hard dealing by an euen requitall which now wee might haue tooke This Lima stands in 12. deg 30. min. South latitude Here albeit no good newes of our ships could bee had yet got we the newes of some things that seemed to comfort if not to counteruaile our trauells thither as namely that in the ship of one Mighell Angell there there were 1500. barres of plate besides some other things as silkes linnen and in one a chest full of royals of plate which might stand vs in some stead in the other ships aboard whom we made somewhat bold to bid our selues welcome Here also we heard the report of some things that had befallen in neere Europe since our departure thence In particular of the death of some great personages as the king of Portugall and both the kings of Morocco and Fesse dead all three in one day at one battell The death of the king of France and the Pope of Rome Whose abhominations as they are in part cut off from some Christian kingdomes where his shame is manifest so do his vassals and accursed instruments labour by all meanes possible to repaire that losse by spreading the same the further in these parts where his diuellish illusions and damnable deceiuings are not knowne And as his doctrine takes place any where so do the manners that necessarily accompanie the same infinuate themselues together with the doctrine For as its true that in all the parts of America where the Spaniards haue any gouernment the poisonous infection of Popery hath spread it selfe so on the other side it is as true that there is no Citie as Lima Panama Mexico c. no towne or village yea no house almost in all these Prouinces wherein amongst other the like Spanish vertues not onely whoredome but the filthinesse of Sodome not to bee named among Christians is not common without reproofe the Popes pardons being more rife in these parts then they be in any part of Europe for these filthinesses whereout he sucketh no small aduantage Notwithstanding the Indians who are nothing neerer the true knowledge of God then they were afore abhorre this most filthie and loathsome manner of liuing Shewing themselues in respect of the Spaniards as the Scythians did in respect of the Grecians who in their barbarous ignorance yet in life and behauiour did so farre excell the wise and learned Greekes as they were short of them in the gifts of learning and knowledge But as the Pope and Antichristian Bishops labour by their wicked factors with tooth and naile to deface the glory of God and to shut vp in darknesse the light of the Gospell so God doth not suffer his name and Religion to be altogether without witnesse to the reprouing both of his false and damnable doctrine as also crying out against his vnmeasurable and abhominable licentiounesse of the flesh euen in these parts For in this City of Lima not two

wholly dedicated to the onely vse of the gods they worshipped and besides this they were wrought vppon with the matted downe of red feathers distinguished into diuers workes and formes In the meane time our Generall hauing assembled his men together as forecasting the danger and worst that might fall our prepared himselfe to stand vpon sure ground that wee might at all times be ready in our owne defence if any thing should chance otherwise then was looked for or expected Wherefore euery man being in a warlike readinesse he marched within his fenced place making against their approach a most warlike shew as he did also at all other times of their resort whereby if they had beene desperate enemies they could not haue chosen but haue conceiued terrour and feare with discouragement to attempt any thing against vs in beholding of the same When they were come somewhat neere vnto vs trooping togetehr they gaue vs a common or a generall salutation obseruing in the meane time a generall silence Whereupon he who bare the Scepter before the king being prompted by another whom the king assigned to that office pronounced with an audible and manly voice what the other spake to him in secret continuing whether it were his oration or proclamation at the least halfe an houre At the close whereof there was a common Amen in signe of approbation giuen by euery person And the king himselfe with the whole number of men and women the little children onely remaining behind came further downe the hill and as they came set themselues againe in their former order And being now come to the foot of the hill and neere out for t the Scepter bearer with a composed countenance and stately carriage began a song and answerable thereunto obserued a kind of measures in a dance whom the king with his guard and euery other sort of person following did in like manner sing and daunce sauing onely the women who danced but kept silence As they danced they still came on and our Generall perceiuing their plaine and simple meaning gaue order that they might freely enter without interruption within our bulwarke Where after they had entred they yet continued their song and dance a reasonable time their women also following them with their wassaile boales in their hands their bodies bruised their faces torne their dugges breasts and other parts bespotted with bloud trickling downe from the wounds which with their nailes they had made before their comming After that they had satisfied or rather tired themselues in this manner they made signes to our Generall to haue him sit down Vnto whom both the king and diuers others made seuerall orations or rather indeed if wee had vnderstood them supplications that hee would take the Prouince and kingdome into his hand and become their king and patron making signes that they would resigne vnto him their right and title in the whole land and become his vassals in themselues and their posterities Which that they might make vs indéed beleeue that it was their true meaning and intent the king himselfe with all the rest with one consent and with great reuerence ioyfully singing a song set the crowne vpon his head inriched his necke with all their chaines and offering vnto him many other things honoured him by the name of Hyóh Adding thereunto as it might seeme a song and dance of triumph because they were not onely visited of the gods for so they still iudged vs to be but the great and chiefe god was now become their god their king and patron and themselues were become the onely happie and blessed people in all the World These things being so freely offered our Generall thought not meet to reiect or refuse the same both for that he would not giue them any cause of mistrust or disliking of him that being the onely place wherein at this present we were of necessitie inforced to seeke reliefe of many things and chiefely for that he knew not to what good end God had brought this to passe or what honour and profit it might bring to our countrie in time to come Wherefore in the name and to the vse of her most excellent maiesty he tooke the scepter crowne and dignity of the sayd countrie into his hand wishing nothing more then that it had layen so fitly for her maiesty to enioy as it was now her proper owne and that the riches and treasures thereof wherewith in the vpland countries it abounds might with as great conueniency be transported to the enriching of her kingdome here at home as it is in plenty to be attained there and especially that so tractable and louing a people as they shewed themselues to be might haue meanes to haue manifested their most willing obedience the more vnto her and by her meanes as a mother and nurse of the Church of Christ might by the preaching of the Gospell be brought to the right knowledge and obedience of the true and euerliuing God The ceremonies of this resigning and receiuing of the kingdome being thus performed the common sort both of men and women leauing the king and his guard about him with our generall dispersed themselues among our people taking a diligent view or suruey of euery man and finding such as pleased their fancies which commonly were the youngest of vs they presently enclosing them about offred their sacrifices vnto them crying out with lamentable shreekes and moanes weeping and scratching and tearing their very flesh off their faces with their nailes neither were it the women alone which did this but euen old men roaring and crying out were as violent as the women were We groaned in spirit to see the power of Sathan so farre preuaile in seducing these so harmelesse soules and laboured by all means both by shewing our great dislike and when that serued not by violent withholding of their hands from that madnesse directing them by our eyes and hands lift vp towards heauen to the liuing God whom they ought to serue but so mad were they vpon their Idolatry that forcible withholding them wou'd not preuaile for as soone as they could get liberty to their hands againe they would be as violent as they were before till such time as they when they worshipped were conueyed from them into the tents whom yet as men desides themselues they would with fury and outrage seeke to haue againe After that time had a little qualified their madnes they then began to shew make knowne vnto vs their griefes and diseases which they carried about them some of them hauing old aches some shruncke sinewes some old soares and canckred vlcers some wounds more lately receiued and the like in most lamentable manner crauing helpe and cure thereof from vs making signes that if we did but blowe vpon their griefes or but touched the diseased places they would be whole Their griefes we could not but take pitty on them and to our power desire to helpe them but that if it pleased God to

open their eyes they might vnderstand we were but men and no gods we vsed ordinary meanes as lotions emplaisters and vnguents most fitly as farre as our skills could guesse agreeing to the natures of their griefes beseeching God if it made for his glory to giue cure to their diseases by these meanes The like we did from time to time as they resorted to vs. Few were the dayes wherein they were absent from vs during the whole time of our abode in that place and ordinarily euery third day they brought their sacrifices till such time as they certainely vnderstood our meaning that we tooke no pleasure but were displeased with them whereupon their zeale abated and their sacrificing for a season to our good liking ceased not-withstanding they continued still to make their resort vnto vs in great abundance and in such sort that they oft-times forgate to prouide meate for their owne sustenance so that our generall of whom they made account as of a father was faine to performe the office of a father to them relieuing them with such victualls as we had prouided for our selues as Muscles Scales and such like wherein they tooke exceeding much content and seeing that their sacrifices were displeasing to vs yet hating ingratitude they sought to recompence vs with such things as they had which they willingly inforced vpon vs though it were neuer so necessarie or needfull for themselues to keepe They are a people of a tractable free and louing nature without guile or treachery they bowes and arrowes their only weapons and almost all their wealth they vse very skillfully but yet not to do any great harme with them being by reason of their weakenesse more fit for children then for men sending the arrow neither farre off nor with any great force and yet are the men commonly so strong of body that that which 2. or 3. of our men could hardly beare one of them would take vpon his backe and without grudging carrie it easily away vp hill and downe hill an English mile together they are also exceeding swift in running and of long continuance the vse whereof is so familiar with them that they seldome goe but for the most part runne One thing we obserued in them with admiration that if at any time they chanced to see a fish so neere the shoare that they might reach the place without swimming they would neuer or very seldome misse to take it After that our necessary businesses were well dispatched our generall with his gentlemen and many of his company made a journy vp into the land to see the manner of their dwelling and to be the better acquainted with the nature and commodities of the country Their houses were all such as wee haue formerly described and being many of them in one place made seuerall villages here and there The inland we found to be farre different from the shoare a goodly country and fruitfull soyle stored with many blessings fit for the vse of man infinite was the company of very large and fat Deere which there we sawe by thousands as we supposed in a heard besides a multitude of a strange kinde of Conies by farre exceeding them in number their heads and bodies in which they resemble other Conies are but small his tayle like the tayle of a Rat exceeding long and his feet like the pawes of a Want or Moale vnder his chinne on either side he hath a bagge into which he gathereth his meate when he hath filled his belly abroade that he may with it either feed his young or feed himselfe when he lists not to trauaile from his burrough the people eate their bodies and make great account of their skinnes for their kings holidaies coate was made of them This country our generall named Albion and that for two causes the one in respect of the white bancks and cliffes which lie toward the sea the other that it might haue some affinity euen in name also with our owne country which was sometime so called Before we went from thence our generall caused to be set vp a monument of our being there as also of her maiesties and successors right and title to that kingdome namely a plate of brasse fast nailed to a great and firme post whereon is engrauen her graces name and the day and yeare of our arriuall there and of the free giuing vp of the prouince and kingdome both by the king and people into her maiesties hands together with her highnesse picture and armes in a piece of sixpence currant English monie shewing it selfe by a hole made of purpose through the plate vnderneath was likewise engrauen the name of our generall c. The Spaniards neuer had any dealing or so much as set a foote in this country the vtmost of their discoueries reaching onely to many degrees Southward of this place And now as the time of our departure was perceiued by them to draw nigh so did the sorrowes and miseries of this people seeme to themselues to increase vpon them and the more certaine they were of our going away the more doubtfull they shewed themselues what they might doe so that we might easily iudge that that ioy being exceeding great wherewith they receiued vs at our first arriuall was cleane drowned in their excessiue sorrow for our departing For they did not onely loose on a sudden all mirth ioy glad countenance pleasant speeches agility of body familiar reioycing one with another and all pleasure what euer flesh and bloud might bee delighted in but with sighes and sorrowings with heauy hearts and grieued minds they powred out wofull complaints and moanes with bitter teares and wringing of their hands tormenting themselues And as men refusing all comfort they onely accounted themselues as cast-awayes and those whom the gods were about to forsake So that nothing we could say or do was able to ease them of their so heauy a burthen or to deliuer them from so desperate a straite as our leauing of them did seeme to them that it would cast them into Howbeit seeing they could not still enioy our presence they supposing vs to be gods indeed thought it their duties to intreate vs that being absent we would yet be mindfull of them and making signes of their desires that in time to come wee would see them againe they stole vpon vs a sacrifice and set it on fire erre we were aware burning therein a chaine and a bunch of feathers We laboured by all meanes possible to withhold or withdraw them but could not preuaile till at last we fell to prayers and singing of Psalmes whereby they were allured immediatly to forget their folly and leaue their sacrifice vnconsumed suffering the fire to go out and imitating vs in all our actions they fell a lifting vp their eyes and hands to heauen as they saw vs do Iuly 23 The 23. of Iuly they tooke a sorrowfull farewell of vs but being loath to leaue vs they presently ranne to the tops of the

to haue gone to Tidore but in coasting along a little Iland belonging to the king of Terenate Nou. 4 Nouemb 4. his deputy or Viceroy with all expedition came off to our ship in a canow and without any feare or doubting of our good meaning came presently aboard Who after some conference with our Generall intreated him by any meanes to runne with Terenate not with Tidore assuring him that his king would be wondrous glad of his comming and be ready to do for him what he could and what our Generall in reason should require For which purpose he himselfe would that night bee with his king to carry him the newes with whom if he once dealt he should find that as he was a king so his word should stand wheras if he dealt with the Portingals who had the command of Tidore he should find in them nothing but deceit and treachery And besides that if he went to Tidore before he came to Terenate than would his king haue nothing to doe with vs for he held the Portingall as an enemy On these perswasions our Generall resolued to runne with Terenate where the next day very early in the morning we came to anchor And presently our General sent a messenger to the king with a veluet cloake for a present and token that his comming should be in peace and that he required no other thing at his hands but that his victuals being spent in so long a voiage he might haue supply from him by way of traffique and exchange of marchandise whereof he had store of diuers sorts of such things as he wanted Which he thought he might be the bolder to require at his hands both for that the thing was lawfull and that he offered him no preiudice or wrong therein as also because he was intreated to repaire to that place by his Viceroy at Mutir who assured him of necessarie prouision in such manner as now he required the same Before this the Viceroy according to his promise had beene with the king signifying vnto him what a mighty Prince and kingdome we belonged vnto what good things the king might receiue from vs not onely now but for hereafter by way of traffique yea what honour and benefit it might be to him to be in league and friendship with so noble and famous a Prince as we serued And farther what a discouragement it would be to the Portugals his enemies to heare and see it In hearing whereof the king was so presently moued to the well liking of the matter that before our messenger could come halfe the way he had sent the Viceroy with diuers others of his Nobles and Councellors to our Generall with speciall message that he should not onely haue what things he needed or would require with peace and friendship but that be would willingly entertaine amitie with so famous and renowned a Princes as was ours and that if it seemed good in her eyes to accept of it he would sequester the commodities and traffique of his whole Iland from others especially from his enemies the Portugals from whom he had nothing but by the sword and reserue it to the intercourse of our Nation if we would embrace it In token whereof he had now sent to our Generall his signet and would within short time after come in his owne person with his brethren and Nobles with boats or canowes into our ship and be a meanes of bringing her into a safer harbour While they were deliuering their message to vs our messenger was come vnto the Court who being met by the way by certaine noble personages was with great solemnitie conueied into the kings presence at whose hands he was most friendly and graciously entertained and hauing deliuered his errand together with his present vnto the king the king seemed to him to iudge himselfe blame-worthy that he had not sooner hasted in person to present himselfe to our Generall who came so farre and from so great a Prince And presently with all expedition he made ready himselfe with the chiefest of all his States and Councellors to make repaire vnto vs. The manner of his comming as it was princely so truly it seemed to vs very strange maruellous seruing at the present not so much to set out his owne royall and kingly state which was great as to do honour to her highnesse to whom we belonged wherein how willingly he imployed himselfe the sequell will make manifest First therefore before his comming did he send off 3. great and large Canowes in each whereof were certaine of the greatest personages that were about him attired all of them in white Lawne or cloth of Calecut hauing ouer their heads from one end of the Canow to the other a couering of thinne and fine mats borne vp by a frame made of reedes vnder which euery man sate in order according to his dignity the hoary heads of many of them set forth the greater reuerence due to their persons and manifestly shewed that the king vsed the aduice of a graue and prudent Counsell in his affaires Besides these were diuerse others young and comely men a great number attired in white as were the other but with manifest differences hauing their places also vnder the same couering but in inferior order as their calling required The rest of the men were souldiers who stood in comely order round about on both sides on the outside of whom againe did sit the rowers in certaine galleries which being 3. on each side all alongst the Canow did lie off from the side thereof some 3. or 4. yards one being orderly builded lower then the other in euery of which galleries was an equall number of banckes whereon did sit the rowers about the number of fourescoure in one Canow In the forepart of each Canow sate two men the one holding a Tabret the other a piece of brasse whereon they both at once stroke and obseruing a due time and reasonable space betweene each stroake by the sound thereof directed the rowers to keepe their stroake with their oares as on the contrary the rowers ending their stroake with a song gaue warning to the others to strike againe and so continued they their way with maruelous swiftnesse neither were their Canowes naked or vnfurnished of warlike munition they had each of thē at least one small cast piece of about a yard in length mounted vpon a stocke which was set vpright besides euery man except the rowers had his sword dagger and target and some of them some other weapons as lances calliuers bowes arrowes and many darts These Canowes comming neere our ship in order rowed round about vs one after another and the men as they passe by vs did vs a kinde of homage with great solemnity the greatest personages beginning first with reuerend countenance and behauiour to bow their bodies euen to the ground which done they put our owne messenger aboard vs againe and signified to vs that their king who himselfe was comming had

inch and halfe in breadth which made a faire and princely shew somewhat resembling a crowne in forme about his necke hee had a chaine of perfect gold the linkes very great and onefold double on his left hand was a Diamond an Emerald a Ruby and a Turky 4 very faire and perfect jewells on his right hand in one ring a big and perfect Turky and in another ring many Diamonds of a smaller size very artificially set and couched together As thus he sate in his chaire of State at his right side there stood a page with a very costly fanne richly embrodered and beset with Saphires breathing gathering the aire to refresh the king the place very hot both by reason of the sunne and the assembly of so great a multitude After a while our gentlemen men hauing deliuered their message and receiued answer were licenced to depart and were safely conducted backe againe by one of the chiefe of the kings Councell who had charge from the king himselfe to performe the same Our gentlemen obseruing the castle as well as they could could not couceiue it to be a place of any great force two onely canons they there saw and those at that present vntrauersable because vnmounted These with all other furniture of like sort which they haue they haue gotten them from the Portingals by whom the castle it selfe was also builded whiles they inhabited that place and Iland Who seeking to settle a tyrannous gouernment as in other places so ouer this people and not contenting themselues with a better estate then they deserued except they might as they thought make sure worke by leauing none of the royall bloud aliue who should make challenge to the kingdome cruelly murthered the king himselfe father to him who now raignes and intended the like to all his sonnes Which cauelty instead of establishing brought such a shaking on their vsurped estate that they were faine without couenanting to carrie away goods munition or any thing else to quitte the place and the whole Iland to saue their liues For the present king with his brethren in reuenge of their fathers murther so bestirred themselues that the Portingall was wholly driuen from that Iland and glad that he yet keepes footing in Tidore These foure yeares this king hath beene increasing and was as was affirmed at that present Lord of an hundred Ilands thereabout and was euen now preparing his forces to hazard a chance with the Portingals for Tidore it selfe The people are Moores whose Religion consists much in certaine superstitious obseruations of new Moones and certaine seasons with a rigid and strickt kind of fasting We had experience hereof in the Viceroy and his retinue who lay aboard vs all the time for the most part during our abode in this place who during their perscribed time would neither eate not drinke not so much as a cup of cold water in the day so zealous are they in their selfe deuised worship but yet in the night would eate threetimes and that very largely This Terenate stands in 27. min. North latitude While we rode at anchor in the harbour at Terenate besides the natiues there came aboard vs another a goodly gentleman very well accompanied with his interpreter to view our ship and to conferre with our Generall he was apparelled much after our manner most neate and Courtlike his carriage the most respectiue and full of discreet behauiour that euer we had seene Hee told vs that he was himselfe but a stranger in those Ilands being a naturall of the Prouince of Paghia in China his name Pausaos of the familie of Hombu of which familie there had 11. raigned in continuall succession these two hundred yeares and king Bonog by the death of his elder brother who dyed by a fall from his horse the rightfull heire of all China is the twelfth of this race he is of 22. yeares of age his mother yet liuing he hath a wife and by her sonne he is well beloued and highly honoured of all his subjects and liues in great peace from any feare of forreine inuasion but it was not this mans fortune to enioy his part of this happinesse both of his king and countrey as hee most desired For being accused of a capitall crime whereof through free yet he could not euidently make his innocency appeare and knowing the peremptory iustice of China to be irreuocable if he should expect the sentence of the Iudges he before hand made suite to his king that it would please him to commit his trial to Gods prouidence and iudgement and to that end to permit him to trauell on this condition that if the brought not home some worthy intelligence such as his Maiestie had neuer had before and were most fit to be knowne and most honorable for China he should for euer liue an exile or else dye for daring to set foot againe in his owne countrey for he was assured that the God of heauen had care of innocency The king granted his suite and now he had beene three yeares abroad and at this present came from Tidore where he had remained two moneths to see the English Generall of whom he heard such strange things and from him if it pleased God to afford it to learne some such intelligence as might make way for his returne into his countrey and therefore he earnestly intreated our Generall to make relation to him of the occasion way and manner of his coming so far from England thither with the manifold occurrences that had happened to him by the way Our Generall gaue ample satisfaction to each part of his request the stranger hearkened with great attention and delight to his discourse and as he naturally excelled in memory besides his helpe of art to better the same so he firmely printed it in his mind and with great reuerence thanked God who had so vnexpectedly brought him to the notice of such admirable things Then fell he to intreate our Generall with many most earnest and vehement persuasions that be would be content to see his countrey before his departure any farther Westward that it should be a most pleasant most honourable and most profitable thing for him that he should gaine hereby the notice and carrie home the description of one of the most ancient mightiest and richest kingdomes in the world Hereupon he tooke occasion to relate the number and greatnesse of the Prouinces with the rare commodities and good things they yeelded the number statelinesse and riches of their Cities with what abundance of men victuals munition and all manner of necessaries and delightfull things they were stored with In particular touching ordnance and great gunnes the late inuention of a scab-shind F●●er amongst vs in Europe he related that in Suntien by some called Quinzai which is the chiefest Citie of all China they had brasse ordnance of all sorts much easier to be trauersed then ours were and so perfectly made that they would hit a shillng aboue 2000. yeares agoe With