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A00611	The voyage and trauaile of M. Cæsar Frederick, merchant of Venice, into the East India, the Indies, and beyond the Indies. Wherein are contained very pleasant and rare matters, with the customes and rites of those countries. Also, heerein are discovered the merchandises and commodities of those countreyes, aswell the aboundaunce of goulde and siluer, as spices, drugges, pearles, and other jewelles. Written at sea in the Hercules of London: comming from Turkie, the 25. of March. 1588. For the profitabvle instruction of merchants and all other trauellers for their better direction and knowledge of those countreyes. Out of Italian, by T H.; Viagge de M. Cesare de i Federici, nell' India Orientale, et oltra l'India. English	Federici, Cesare.; Hickock, Thomas.	1588 (1588)	STC 10746; ESTC S112444	73,405	88

to make them to pay custome as other did at which time the citizens were glad to way their Pepper in the night that they laded the ships withall that went to Portingale and stole the custome in the night The king of Cochine hauing vnderstanding of this would not suffer any more Pepper to be wayed then presentlye after this the Merchants were licenced to doo as they did before and there was no more speach of this matter nor any more wrong doone This king of Cochine is of a small power in respect of the other kings of the Indies for he can make but seuentye thousand men of armes in his campe hee hath a great number of Gentlemen which he calleth Amochy and some are called Nayry these two sorts of men estéeme not their liues any thing so that it maye be for the honor of his king they will thrust themselues forward in euery danger although they knowe they shall dye These men goe naked from the girdell vpwards with a clothe rowled about their legs going bare footed and hauing theyr haire verye long and rolled vp together on the top of his head and alwayes they carrie their Bucklers or Targets with them and their Swords naked these Nayry haue their wiues common amongst themselues and when any of them go into the house of any of these women he leaueth his Sworde and Target at the dore and the time that he is there there dare not any be so hardy as to come into that house The kings children shall not inherit the kingdome after their Father bicause they holde this opinion that perchance they were not begotten of the king their Father but of some other man therefore they accept for their King one of the Sonnes of the kings Sisters or of some other woman of the bloud royall for that they be sure they are of the bloud royall The Nayri and their wiues vse for a brauerye to make great holes in their eares and so bigge and wide that it is incredible holding this opinion that the greater the holes be the more noble they estéeme themselues I had leaue of one of them to measure the circumference of one of them with a thred and within that circumference I put my arme vp to the shoulder clothed as it was so that in effect they are monstrous great Thus they doo make them when they be little for then they open the eare and hange a péece of golde or lead thereat and in the opening in the ●ole they put a certaine leafe that they haue for that purpose which maketh the hole so great They lade Ships in Cochine for Portingale and for Ormus but they that go for Ormus carrie no Pepper but by Contrabanda as for Sinamond they easilye get leaue to carrye that awaye for all other Spices and drugs they maye liberallye carrie them to Ormus or Cambaia and so all other merchandize which come from other places but out of the kingdome of Cochine proper they carry away from thence into Portingale great aboundance of Pepper great quantitie of Ginger dried and conserued wilde Sinamond good quantitie of Arecha great store of Cordage of Cayro made of the barke of the Trée of the great Nut and better then that of Hempe of which they carrie great store into Portingale The Shippes euerye yeare depart from Cochine to goe for Portingale in the fist of December or the fift of Januarie Nowe to followe my voyage for the Indies From Cochine I went to Coylane distant from Cochine seauentie and two miles which Coylan is a small Fort of the king of Portingales scituate in the kingdome of Coylane which is a King of the Gentiles and of small trade at that place they lade onlye halfe a Shippe of Pepper and then she goeth to Cochine to take in the rest and from thence to Cao Comeri is seauentie and two miles and there endeth the coast of the Indies and alongst this coast néere to the water side and also of Cao comery downe to the low land of Chialoa which is about two hundred miles The people there are as it were all returned to the Christian faith there are also Churches of the Friers of Saint Paules order which Friers doo very much good in those places to turne the people and in conuerting them and take great trouble in instructing them in the lawe of Christ The fishing for Pearles THe Sea that lieth betwéene the coast which discendeth from Cao Comery to the low land of Chialoa and the Iland Zeyland they call it the Fishing of Pearles which fishing they make euerye yeare beginning in Marche or Aprill and it lasteth 50 daies but they do not fish euery yeare in one place but one yeare in one place another yeare in another place of the same sea when the time of this fishing draweth néere then they send verye good Dyuers that goe to discouer where the greatest heapes of Dysters be vnder water and right against that place where the greatest store of Dysters be there they make or plant a village with houses and a Bazaro all of stone which standeth as long as the fishing time lasteth and it is furnished with all thing necessary now then it is néere vnto places that are inhabited and other times far of according to the place where they fish The fishermē are all Christians of the countrey and who that will may go to fishing paying a certaine dutie to the king of Portingale to the Churches of the friers of S. Paule which are in that coast all the while that they are fishing there is thrée or foure Fustes armed to defend the fishermen from Corsarios It was my chance to be there one time in my passage saw the order that they vsed in fishing which is this there are 3 or 4 barks y ● make cōsort together which are like to our little pilot boats a litle lesse there goeth 7. or 8. men in a Boate and I haue séene in a morning great number of them go out and anker in 15. or 18 fadomes of water which is the ordinarye depth of all that coast when they are at ankor they cast a rope into the Sea and at the end of the rope they make fast a great stone and then there is ready a man that hath his nose and his eares well stopped and annoynted with Oyle and a Basket about his neck or vnder his left arme then he goeth downe by the rope to the bottome of the sea and as fast as he can he filleth the basket and when it is full he shaketh the rope his fellowes that are in the Bark hale him vp with the basket and in such wise they go one by one vntill they haue laden their barke with Oysters and then at the euening they come to the village and then euery company maketh theire mountaine or heape of Oysters one distant from another in such wise that you shall sée a great

in the kingdom of Assi The great trade that is at Malacca Voiages which are onlye for the king and his noble men At the Moluccos they lade the Cloues The ship of Drugs so termed of the Portingales The distance of places Ilands not discouered A kind of iealious people China is vnder the gouernment of the great Tartar The riches of China It is a most excellent fine mettall as may be made Tymor an Iland from whence commeth all the white Sādolo A market kept aboord of the ships A prince of a merueilous strength and power Treason Great triumph● The mountains of Zerziline A miserable thing They would haue giuen two hundred a halfe of pepper for a small dish of water and they woul● not take it their miserie was so great A rare thing The loue of the King to strangers was so great that he would take no custome of them The commodities that goe out of Orisa This cloth we call Nettle cloth In this Bengala they lade Nutmegges for there they growe The Riuer of Ganges Bazaras and Pa●uas are the names of the Barkes that they row in the Riuer Ganges A town made for two or three monthes and then burnt The commodities that are laden in Satagan These Gentiles are Idolators Moores are of the sect of Mahomet A Ceremonye of the gentiles when they are dead Portingales doo not drink of the water of the Riuer Ganges Mergy a harbour where ships land Niper Wine is a most excellent drink Niper Wine good to cure the french disease Niper Wine very deere in the Indians Great extremitie at Sea This Tortu go is a shell fishe which liueth in y ● Sea and yet laieth his Egges in the Sand I haue seene 200. and od egges in one of their b●● lies Tauay vnder the King of Pegu. Martauan a Citie vnder the King of Pegu. A custom that these People haue when the King is in the warres A lawe in Pegu for killing of men Great pride of the Portin galles A good discrete way taken for safe garde of his goods A reuenge on the Portingales Pegu is the name of the Kingdome and y ● choice Citie is called after that name A thing most meruailous that at the comming of the tide that the earth should quake This tide is like to the tides in our Riuer of Seuerne These tides make their iust course as o●rs doo This Macareo is a tide or a coraot Houses made of Cane and couered with leaues of trees Godon is a pla●e or house for merchants to lay their goods in The forme of the building of the new Cittye of Pegu. A rich and stately Pallaice Fower white Eliphants This mony cald tansa is halfe a ducket which may be three shillings and foure pence The Prince valure of a King to hazard his whole Kingdome ●o● 〈…〉 Eliphant Eliphantes houses golded ouer with Golde and ●aue the●● meat giuen them in vessells of Siluer and Golde A warhke pollicie An execllent deuice to ●un● and take wilde Elliphants A subtill composition An excellent pastime of the Eliphants These canes are like to thē in Spaine which they call Iaco de●ore A strange thing that a beast so wilde should in so short time be made ●ame The greatest strength that the King of Pegu hath A goodly order in a barberous people The order of their weapons and number of his men Exercise in armes is the cheefest defence of a Cuntry 26. crowned Kinges at his commaund 15. hundreth thousand men in one Camp A people of a hard nature and fit for warres Eating of Serpents This King of Pegu is the great King of Tartaria which we call the great Cam or the King of Q●in say The riches of this Ring of Pegu. An excellent fine mettall made by a mixture of Copper and Lead The great pompe of this King The order of their going This King hath one wise and 300. concubines The order of Iustice No difference of person before the king in controuersies or in Iustice If we had such paper in England sutes in law would not hang so long The commodities that are ventured in Pegu. Note the de parture of the Ships from S. Tomes to Pegu. Commodities brought into Pegu. The Chicken● are peeces of Golde woorth sterling 7. shillinges The Custome house of Pegu is in y ● Kinges house Great rigour for the stea ling of Cust omes Iewells paye custome In those Centries there is another inner lodging but euery man that trauelleth must hier his house and bring his necessaries with him Description of the fruitfulnes of that soyle Deling is a small litter caried with men as is aforesaide Most vile filching of goods Pay custome of the same goods Tareghe are names of the brookes The brokers are lowed to make good al the debts to the merchant A law for banckroutes Euery man may stampe what mony ●e will Buy Golde filuer with copper and leade The order of their monye How a man may despose him selfe for the trade in Pegu. Good instructions The merchandise that goe out of Pegu. Idoll houses what fashion they are of Idoll houses couered with Golde An honest care of hea then people Bargaines made with the nipping of Fingers vnder a cloth The Authors desire to see his Cuntry This Touffon is an extraordinary storme at Sea Touffon commeth but euery 10. or 12. yeeres A heauy case A manifest token of the ebbing and flowing in those Cuntries This Iland is called Sond●ua Victualles good cheap Sondiua is the fruitfull le●t Cuntry in all the world Chitigan is a port in Bengala where the Portingalles goe with their ships The King of Rachim neighbour to Bengala The force of the King of Rachim The commodities that goe from Chitigan to the Indies The Portingall ships depart toward Portingall out of the harbor of Cochine Goa was besieged A Chicken or a Henne cost 6. shillinges Opiū a good Commoditye in Pegu. A reconing before the hoste Pepper tree Ginger Cloues Nutmegs and Maces White Sandolo Canfora Lignū Aloes Beniamin Long Pepper This Muske the Iewes do● counter●eite and open the Cods and take out halfe the good muske and take and beat the flesh of an asse and put that in the roome of it Amber Rubies Saphires and Spinelly Pearles Spodiom On the coaste of Melindy in Ethiopia in the land of Caferaria the great trade that the Portingalls haue Buying and selling with out woords one to ano●hes Golden trades that the Portingalls haue An order how to prouide to goe ouer the Desart from Babilon to Alepo 36 daies iourny ouer the Wilderne An order how to prouide for the going to Ierusalems Counsell of the author A very good order that they haue in those Cuntries for the recouering of the Goods of the dead Those Merchants that dieth in Pegu lo●e the one third of their goods to the King Order of apirell in Pegu. The order of the womens aparell in Pegu. An admonition of the Author

yet standeth with the mountaine that is made of the substance that hath fallen from it maketh a greater shew then you shall finde comming neere to it Babilon and Basora FRom Babilon I departed for Basora shipping my selfe in one of the barks that vse to go in the riuer Tigris frō Babilon to Basora and from Basora to Babilon which barks are made after the manner of Fusts or Galliots with a Speron and a couered poope they haue no pumpe in thē because of the great aboundance of pitch which they haue to pitch them withall which pitch they haue in abundance two dayes iorney from Babilon neere vnto the riuer Euphrates there is a citie called Ayit néere vnto which citie there is a great plaine full of pitch very meruelous to beholde and a thing almost incredible that out of a hole in the earth which continually throweth out pitch into the ayre with continual smoake which pitch is throwne with such force that being hot it falleth like as it were sprinkled ouer all the plaine in such aboundance that the plaine is alwayes full of pitch the Mores and the Arabians of that place say that that hole is the mouth of hell and in truth it is a thing very notable to be marked and by this pitch the people haue great benefite to pitch their barks which barks they call Daneck and Saffin When the riuer of Tigris is well replenished with water you may passe from Babilon to Basora in 8. or 9. daies and sometimes more and somtimes lesse we were halfe so much more which is 14 or 15. daies because the waters were lowe they may sayle day and night and there is some places in this way where you pay so many Madiens on a ba●le if the waters be low it is 18. dayes iorney Basora BAsora is a Cittie of the Arabians which of osde time was gouerned by those Arabians called Zizarii but nowe it is gouerned by the great Turke where he keepeth an army to his great charges The Arabians called Zizarii haue the possession of a great Countrey and cannot be ouercome of the Turk because that the sea ●ath deuided their countrey into an Iland by channels with the ebbing flowing of the 〈…〉 for that cause the Turk cannot bring an army ag 〈…〉 neither by sea nor by land and another reason is the inhabitants of that Iland are verye strong and warlike men a daies iorney before you come to Basora you shall haue a little castel or fort which is set on that point of the land where the Riuers Euphrates and Tigris méete together and the castell is called Corna at this point the two riuers maketh a monsirous great riuer and runneth into the sea which is called the gulfe of Persia which is towards the South Basora is distant from the sea fiftéene miles and it is a cittie of great trade of Spices drugges which come from Ormus Also there is great store of corne Rice and Dates which the countrey dooth yéeld I shipped my selfe in Basora to go for Ormus and so we sailed through the Persian sea 600 miles which is the distance from Basora to Ormus and we sailed in small Ships made of boards bound together with small cords or ropes and in stéed of calking they lay betwéene euerie board certaine strawe which they haue and so they sowe board and board together with the strawe betwéene where through there commeth much water and they are very dangerous Departing from Basora we passed 200 miles with the sea on our right hand along the gulfe vntill at length we arriued at an Iland called Carichii from whence we sailed to Ormus in sight of the Persian shore on the left side and on the right side towards Arabia we discouered infinit Ilands Ormus ORmus is an Iland in circuit 25 or 30 miles and it is the most barrenest and most drie Iland in all the world because that in it there is nothing to be had but salt water and wood all other things necessarye for mans life is brought out of Persia 12 miles of and out of other Ilands néere therevnto adioining in such aboundance and quantitie that the citie is alwaies replenished with all manner of store there is standing néere vnto the waters side a verie faire castell in the which the captaine of the king of Portingale is alwaies resident with a good band of Portingales and before this castell is a verye fayre prospect in the citie dwelleth the married men Soldiers and Merchants of euery nation amongst whom there is Mores and Gentiles In this Citie there is verie great trade for all sorts of Spices drugs Silke cloth of Silke Brocardo and diuers other sorts of merchandize which come out of Persia and amongst all other trades and Merchandize the trade of Horsses is very great there which they carry from thence into the Indies This Iland hath a More king of the race of the Persians who is created and made king by the captaine of the castell in the name of the king of Portingale At the creation of this king I was there and saw the ceremonies that they vse in it which are as followeth The old King being dead the Captaine of the Portingales chooseth another of the blood Royall and maketh this election in the Castell with great ceremonies and when he is elected the Captaine sweareth him to be true and faithfull to the king of Portingale as his Lord and Gouernor and then he giueth him the Scepter Regall after this with great feasting and pompe with great company he is brought into the Roiall palace in the citie This king kéepeth a good traine and hath sufficient reuenues to maintaine himselfe without troubling of any bicause the Captaine of the Castell dooth maintaine and defend his right and when that the Captaine and he ride together he is honored as a King yet he cannot ride abroade with his traine without the consent of the captaine first had it behooueth them to doo this and it is necessarie bicause of the great trade that is in the citie their proper language is the Persian toong There I shipped my selfe to go for Goa a Cittie in the Indies in a Ship that had foure score horsses in hir this is to aduertise those Merchants that go from Ormus to Goa to ship themselues in those Ships that carrie Horsses because euery Ship that carrieth twentie Horsses or vpwards are priueleged that all the Merchandize whatsoeuer they carrie that they owe no custome whereas the Ships that carrieth not Horsses are bound to pa●● eight per cento of all the goods they bring Goa Dui and Cambaia GOa is the principallest Cittye that the Portingales haue in the Indies where is resident the Viceroy with his court and ministers of the king of Portingale frō Ormus to Goa is 990 miles distance in which passage the first Cittie that you come to in the Indies is called Dui and is scituate in

iurisdiction of the Captaine of the castell are these that euery yeare hee sendeth a small Ship to Timor to lande white Sandolo for all the best commeth from this Iland there commeth also from Color but that is not so good also he sendeth another small ship euerye yeare to Cochine China to lade there wood of Aleos for that all the wood of Aleos cōmeth from this place which is in the firme land néere vnto China and in that kingdome I could not knowe how that wood groweth by any meanes For that the people of the countrie will not suffer the Portingales to come within the land but onelye for wood and water and as for all other things that they wanted as victuals or merchandize the people bring y ● a boord the ship in small barkes so that euery daye there is a mart kept in the Ship vntill such time as she be laden also there goeth another ship for the said Captaine of Malacca to Asion to lade Verzino all these voiages are for the Captaine of the Castell of Malacca and when he is not disposed to make these voiages he selleth them to another The Citie Sion SIon was the imperiall seate and a great Citie but in the yeare of our Lord God 1567 it was taken by the king of Pegu which king made a voyage or came by land foure moneths iourney with an armie of men through his land and the number of his armie was a Milion and foure hundreth thousand men of warre when he came to the Citie he gaue assault to it and besieged it twentye and one moneths before he could winne it with great losse of his people this I know for that I was in Pegu six monethes after his departure and sawe when that his officers that were in Pegu sent fiue hundreth thousand men of warre to furnish the places of them that were slaine and lost in that assault yet for all this if there had not béene treason against the Citie it had not béene lost for on a night there was one of the gates set open through the which with great trouble the king gat into the Citye and became gouernor of Sion and when the Emperor saw that he was betraid and that his enimie was in the Citie he poisoned himselfe and the wiues and children fréend and noblemen that were not slaine in the first affront of the entrance into the Citie were all carried captiues into Pegu where I was at the comming home of the king with his triumphes and victorie which comming home and returning from the warres was a goodlye sight to behold to see the Elephants come home in a square laden with Gold Siluer Jewels and with Noble men and women that were taken prisoners in that Citie Now to returne to my voyage I departed from Malacca in a great Shippe which went for S. Tome being a Cittie scituate on the coast of Chiriamandell because the captain of the castels of Malacca hauing vnderstanding proaduyzo that the king of Assi would come with a great armye and power of men against them therefore vpon this he would not giue licence that anye Ships should departe Wherefore in this Shippe we departed in the night without making anye prouision of our water and wee were in that shippe fower hundreth and odde men we departed from thence with Intention to goe to an Ilande to take in water but the windes were so contrary that they woulde not suffer vs to fetch it so that by this meanes wee were two and forty dayes in the sea as it were lost and we were driuen too and fro so that the first land that we discouered was beyonde Sainct Tomes more then fiue hundreth miles which were the mountaines of Zerzerline neere vnto the kingdome of Orisa and so we came to Orisa with manye sicke and more that weare deade for want of water and they that were sicke in fower dayes died and I for the space of a yeare after had my throate so sore hoarse that I coulde neuer fatisfie my thirst in drinking of water I iudge the reason of my hoarsenesse to be with soppes that I wette in vinnigar and Oyle wherewith I sustained my selfe many dayes there were not any want of breade neither of wine But the wines of that countrie are so hotte that without water they kill a man neither are they able to drinke them when we beganne to want water I sawe certaine Moores that were officers in the Ship that solde a smal dish full for a Duckat after this I sawe one that would haue giuen a Barre of Pepper which is two quintalles and a halfe for a little measure of water and he could not haue it Truely I beléeue that I had died with my slaue whom then I had to serue me which cost me very déere but to prouide for the daunger at hand I sold my slaue for halfe that he was worth because that I would saue his drinke that he drunks to serue my owne purpose and saue my life Of the Kingdome of Orisa and the Riuer Ganges ORisa was a faire Kingdome and trustye through the which a man might haue gone with Golde in his hand without any danger at all as long as the lawfull King reined which was a gentile which was in the citie called Catecha which was within the land sixe dayes Journey This King loued Strangers meruailous well and Marchants which came in and out in his Kingdome in such wise that he would take no custome of of them neither any other greeuous thing Onlye the Ship that came thither paide a small thing according to her portage and euery yeere in the port of Orisa laded 25. or 30. Ships great and small with Ryce diuers sortes of fine white bumbaste cloth Oyle of Zerzclnie which they make of a Séede and is very good to eate and to frye fishe withall great store of Butter Lacca long Pepper Ginger Mirabolany drye and condyt great store of cloth of hearbes which is a kinde of Silke which groweth amongst the woods without any labour of man only when the bole therof is growen round as big as an Orenge then they take care only to gather them About sixteene yeeres passed this King with his Kingdome were destroyed by the King of Patane which was also King of the greatest parte of Bengala and when he had got the kingdome he set custome there twenty pro cento as Marchants paide in his Kingdome but this tirant enioyed his kingdome but a small time but was conquered by another tirant which was the greate Magoll King of Agraa Dely and of all Cambaia without any resistance I departed from Orisa to Bengala to the harber Picheno which is distant from Orisa towards the Easte a hundreth and seauenty miles They goe as it were rowing alongst the coaste fiftie fower miles and then we enter into the Riuer Ganges from the mouth of this Riuer to a Citie called

the Indies often times there is not stormes as is in other countries but euerie ten or twelue yeeres there is such tempests and stormes that it is a thing incredible but to those that haue séene it neither doe they knowe certaine what yeere it will come Unfortunate are they that are at Sea in that yéere and time of Touffon because few there are that escape that daunger In this yéere it was our chance to bee at Sea with the like storme but it happened well vnto vs for that our Shippe was newly ouer-plancked and had not any thing in her saue victuall and balastes Siluer and Golde whiche from Pegu they carrie to Bengala and no other kinde of Merchandise This Touffon or cruell storme endured thrée dayes and thrée nightes In which time it caried away our sayles yardes and Rother and because the Shippe laboured in the Sea we cut our mast ouer bo●rd which when we had done she laboured a greate deale more then before for when our Mast was gone the Shippe laboured worse then before in such wise that the Shippe was almoste full with Water that came in ouer the highest and so went downe and for the space of three dayes and three nightes sixtie men did nothing but bale out Water out of her in this wise twentie men in one place and twentie men in another place and twentie in another place and for all this storme the Shippe was so good that shée tooke not one iot of Water alowe through the sides but all ranne downe through the hatches that those sixtie men did nothing but cast the Sea into the Sea And thus driuing two and fro as the winde and Sea woulde wée were driuen in a darke night about fowre of the clocke and cast on a Sholde yet when it was day we coulde neither sée land on one side nor other knew not where wee were And as it pleased the deuine power there came a great waue of the Sea and so driue vs beyond the Shold And when we felt the Ship a●lote wee rose vp as men reuiued because the Sea was calme and smoth water and then sounding we found twelue fadome Water and within a while after we had but ●i●e Fadom and then presently we came to anckor with a small anckor that was left vs with the sterne for all our other were lost in y ● storme by and by the Shippe was a ground and stroke and then wée did prop her that shee shoulde not ouerthrowe When it was day the ship was all a drye and found the Shippe a good mile from the sea on drie Lande This Toffon béeing ended we discouered an Ilande not farre from vs and we went from the ship on the Sandes to see what Ilande it was and we founde it a place inhabited and to my iudgement the firtelest Ilande in all the Worlde the which is deuided into two pars by a chanel which passeth be twéen it w t great trouble we brought our ship into y ● chanell which parteth the Ilande with a flowing Water and there we determined to stay fortie dayes to refresh vs and when the people of y e Iland saw the Ship and that we were comming a lande presently they made a place of Bazar or a market with Shops right ouer against the Ship with all manner of prouision of victualles to eat which they brought downe in great abundance and solde it so good cheape that we were amazed at the cheapenesse thereof I bought many salted kine there for the prouision of the Ship for halfe a Larine a peece which Larine may be twelue shillinges sixe pence and verie good and fat and fowre wilde hogges ready dressed for a Larine a great fat henne for a Bizze a peece which is at the most a pennie and the people tolde vs that we were deceiued the halfe of our monie because we bought thinges so déere Also a sacke of fine Ryce for a thing of nothing and consequently all other things for humaine sustenance were in such abundance that it is a thing incredible but to them that haue seene it This Ilande is called Sondiua belonging to the kingdom of Bengala distant 120 miles from Chitigan to which place we were bound The people are Moores and the King a verie good man of a Moore king for if he had béene a Tyrant as others bee hee might haue robbed vs of all because the Portugall Captaine of Chitigan was in armes against the Retor of that place and euerie day there were some slaine at which newes wee rested there with no small feare kéeping good watch ward abroad euerie night as the vse is but the gouernour of the Towne did cōfort vs and bad vs that we should feare nothing but that we should repose our selues securely without any danger although the Portugalles of Chitigan had slaine the Gouernour of that Citie and saide that wée were not culpable in that fact and more he did vs euerie day what pleasure he coulde which was a thing contrarie to our iudgementes considering that they and the people of Chitigan were both subiectes to one King We departed from Sondiua and came to Chitigan the great port of Bengala at the same time that the Portugalles had made peace and taken a truce with the gouernours of the Towne with this condition that the cheefe Captaine of the Portugalles with his Shippes shoulde depart without any lading for there were then at that time eightéene Shippes of Portugalles great and small This Captaine being a Gentleman and of good courage Yet for all this he was contented to depart to his greate hindrance rather then hee woulde séeke to hinder so manye of his freendes as were there as also because the time of the yéere was spent to goe to the Indies The night before he departed euerie Shippe that had any lading in them put it a boorde of the Captaine to helpe to ease his charge and to recompence his courtesies In this time there came a Messenger from the King of Rachim to this Portugall Captaine who saide in the behalfe of his King that hée had heard of the courage and valure of him desiring him gentlie that he woulde vouchsafe to come with this Shippe into his port and comming thither hee shoulde bee verie well entreated This Portugall went thether and verie well satisfied of this King This King of Rachim hath his seate in the middle coast betweene Bengala and Pegu and the greatest enemy hee hath is the King of Pegu which King of Pegu imagineth night and day to make this King of Rachim his subiect but by no meanes he is able to do it because the King of Pegu hath no power nor armie by sea And this King of Rachim may arme two hundreth Galleyes or Fusts by Sea and by Lande he hath certaine s●uses with the which when the king of Pegu pretendeth any harme towardes him hee may at his pleasure drowne a great part