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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

THE Voyage and Trauaile OF M. CAESAR 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 Iewelles Written at Sea in the HERCVLES of London comming from Turkie the 25. of March 1588. For the profitable instruction of Merchants and all other trauellers for their better direction and knowledge of those Countreyes Out of Jtalian by T H. AT LONDON Printed by RICHARD JONES and EDWARD WHITE 18. Iunij 1588. ¶ TO THE RIGHT HOnourable CHARLES Lord Howard Baron of Effingham Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter Lorde high Admirall of England and one of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Counsaile Thomas Hickock wisheth long life in good health with much encrease of Honour and all happy successe HAuing Right Honourable long time purposed to put somewhat in practize that I might present to your honourable viewe the weaknesse of my abilitie hath hitherto holden mee in doubt whither I were best by writing to shew my good wil or by staying my penne to conceale the same But being at Sea in March last in the Hercules of London I resolued to take in hand the translating of this little worke out of Italian into Englishe aswell in regarde of the newnesse therof being neuer printed before that time as also for the rarenesse of the subiect and matter it treateth off and the commoditie thar Merchants and other my Cuntrimen may reape by it And hauing finished the same presuming more vpon your honourable curtesie then vpon the worthinesse of so small a woorke and hoping of your honourable fauour for the defence therof I am bolde in all humble and dutifull sort to present the same to your honourable viewe and protection not as a thing worthy the patronage of so honorable a personage as your honour is but as a token of my dutifull affection and bounden duty to your Lordship beseechiug you therfore to vouchsafe of the same with so good a will as I present it vnto you And so most humbly I take my leaue beseeching the almightie to blesse and prosper you in all your honourable enterprises to the good liking of her Maiesty and profite of the Common-weale Your Honours most humble and ready at commaund Thomas Hickock Caesar Frederick to the Reader I Hauing Gentle Reader for the space of eighteene yeeres continually coasted trauailed as it were all the East Indies and many other countreyes beyonde the Indies wherein I haue had both good and yll successe in my trauells I haue seen vnderstood many things worthy the noting and to bee knowne to all the world the which were neuer as yet written of any I thought it good seeing the almightie had giuen mee grace after so long perilles in passing such a long voyage to returne into my owne Country the noble Citie of Venice I say I thought it good as breefely as I could to write and set foorth this voiage made by mee with the meruellous things I haue seene in my trauels in the Indies The mightie Princes that gouern those Cuntreys Their Religion and faith that they haue the rytes and customes which they vse and liue by of the diuers successe that hapned vnto me and howe many of these conntreys are a bounding with spices drugs and Iewels giuing also profitable aduertisement to all those that haue a desire to make such a voyage And because that the whole world may more commodiously reioice at this my trauell I haue caused it to bee printed in this order and nowe I present it vnto you Gentle and Jouing Readers to whome for the varieties of thinges herein conteined I hope that it shall bee with great delight receiued and thus God of his goodnesse keepe you ¶ To the courteous Reader BEing at Sea Gentle and friendly Reader in this my last voyage to Tripoly in Anno. 1587. This little Booke of M. Caesar Fredericks Merchant of Venice comming into my handes which when I had read it ouer I was desirous to translate the same out of Italian into our vulgar tongue In which Booke Gentle Reader thou must not looke for a garden of sweete English Roses meaning pleasant English termes but thou shalt finde bancks full of Sauory for I haue not beene a Scholler brought vp to write fine Schoole-termes but haue simplie folowed the Authors sence in that phraze of speech that we commonly vse In which Booke if thou readest it through thou shalt find good sauour to thy selfe and profite to thy Countrie And as the author was in traualing these Countries eighteene yeres and got great benefite in them with a small stocke so mayest thou if thou wilt trauell those Countries and get great gaine as he did For why the way is layde open before thee and as thou readest consider with thy selfe that he which looketh on a Iewell perceiueth not at once all the faultes in it but when many eyes haue the same some findeth one fault and some another so that the blemishes cannot be hid So Gentle Reader thou mayest see that in this worke which I coulde not see wherein if thou finde a blemish in this my simple worke I pray thee hartily couer the same with the shadowe of Patience or else friendly correct the same and not rashly to iudge or contemne the paines of a willing minde so shall I be encouraged to take the like paines in annother Thus I refer to the Epistle of the author wherein thou shalt vnderstande the effect of this booke and all the trauails that he tooke in those Countries read I say then iudge of the matter according to thy good discretion Thus I leaue thee to the tuition of the almighty who euer keepe thee in health and giue thee in the Lorde thy owne hearts desire T. Hickock ¶ A voyage to the East Indies and beyond the Indies c. IN the yeere of our Lorde God 1563. I Caesar Frederick being in Venice and very desirous to sée the Easte partes of the worlde I Shipped my selfe in a shippe called the Gradaige of Venice with certaine merchandise gouerned by M. Iacamo Vatica which was bound to Cypris with his ship with whome I went and when wee were ariued in Cipris I left that ship and went in a lesser to Tripoly in Soria where I stayde a while Afterward I I tooke my iourney to Alexo there I acquainted my selfe with merchantes of Armenia and Moores that were Merchants and consorted to go with them to Ornus and we departed from Alepo and in two dayes iourny and a halfe we came to a Citie called Bir. Of the Citie of BIR. BI R is a small citie verie scarce of all maner of victuals and neere vnto the walls of the city runneth the riuer of Euphrates in this citie the