Angle of the Sunne beames heateth and what encrease the Sunnes continuance doeth adde thereunto it might expresly be set downe what force of heat and cold is in all regions Thus you partly see by comparing a Climate to vs well knowen and familiarly acquainted by like height of the Sunne in both places that vnder the Equinoctiall in Iune is no excessiue heat but a temperate aire rather tending to cold For as they haue there for the most part a continuall moderate heat so yet sometime they are a little pinched with colde and vse the benefite of fire as well as we especially in the euening when they goe to bed for as they lye in hanging beds tied fast in the vpper part of the house so will they haue fires made on both sides their bed of which two fires the one they deuise superstitiously to driue away spirits and the other to keepe away from them the coldnesse of the nights Also in many places of Torrida Zona especially in the higher landes somewhat mountainous the people a litle shrincke at the cold and are often forced to prouide themselues clothing so that the Spaniards haue found in the West Indies many people clothed especially in Winter whereby appeareth that with their heat there is colde intermingled else would they neuer prouide this remedy of clothing which to them is rather a griefe and trouble then otherwise For when they goe to warres they will put off all their apparell thinking it to be combersome and will alwayes goe naked that they thereby might be more nimble in their sight Some there be that thinke the middle zone extreme hot because the people of the countrey can and doe liue without clothing wherein they childishly are deceiued for our Clime rather tendeth to extremitie of colde because wee cannot liue without clothing for this our double lining furring and wearing so many clothes is a remedy against extremitie and argueth not the goodnesse of the habitation but inconuenience and iniury of colde and that is rather the moderate temperate and delectable habitation where none of these troublesome things are required but that we may liue naked and bare as nature bringeth vs foorth Others againe imagine the middle zone to be extreme hot because the people of Africa especially the Ethiopians are so cole blacke and their haire like wooll curled short which blacknesse and curled haire they suppose to come onely by the parching heat of the Sunne which how it should be possible I cannot see for euen vnder the Equinoctiall in America and in the East Indies and in the Ilands Moluccae the people are not blacke but tauney and white with long haire vncurled as wee haue so that if the Ethiopians blacknesse came by the heat of the Sunne why should not those Americans and Indians also be as blacke as they seeing the Sunne is equally distant from them both they abiding in one Parallel for the concaue and conuere Superficies of the Orbe of the Sunne is concentrike and equidistant to the earth except any man should imagine somewhat of Aux Solis and Oppositum which indifferently may be applied aswel to the one place as to the other But the Sunne is thought to giue no otherwise heat but by way of Angle in reflection and not by his neerenesse to the earth for throughout all Africa yea in the middest of the middle Zone and in all other places vpon the tops of mountaines there lyeth continuall snow which is neerer to the Orbe of the Sunne then the people are in the valley by so much as the height of these mountaines amount vnto and yet the Sunne notwithstanding his neerenesse can not melt the snow for want of conuenient place of reflections Also the middle region of the aire where all the haile frost and snow is engendred is neerer vnto the Sunne then the earth is and yet there continueth perpetuall cold because there is nothing that the Sunne beames may reflect against whereby appeareth that the neerenesse of the body of the Sunne worketh nothing Therefore to returne againe to the blacke Moores I my selfe haue seene an Ethiopian as blacke as a cole brought into England who taking a faire English woman to wife begat a sonne in all respects as blacke as the father was although England were his natiue countrey and an English woman his mother whereby it seemeth this blacknes procceedeth rather of some natural infection of that man which was so strong that neither the nature of the Clime neither the good complexion of the mother concurring coulde any thing alter and therefore wee cannot impute it to the nature of the Clime And for a more fresh example our people of Meta Incognita of whom and for whom this discourse is taken in hande that were brought this last yeere into England were all generally of the same colour that many nations be lying in the middest of the middle Zone And this their colour was not onely in the face which was subiect to Sunne and aire but also in their bodies which were stil couered with garments as ours are yea the very sucking childe of twelue moneths age had his skinne of the very same colour that most haue vnder the Equinoctiall which thing cannot proceed by reason of the Clime for that they are at least ten degrees more towardes the North then wee in England are No the Sunne neuer commeth neere their Zenith by fourtie degrees for in effect they are within three or foure degrees of that which they call the frosen Zone and as I saide fourtie degrees from the burning Zone whereby it followeth that there is some other cause then the Climate or the Sonnes perpendicular reflexion that should cause the Ethiopians great blacknesse And the most probable cause to my iudgement is that this blackenesse proceedeth of some naturall infection of the first inhabitants of that Countrey and so all the whole progenie of them descended are still polluted with the same blot of infection Therefore it shall not bee farre from our purpose to examine the first originall of these blacke men and howe by a lineall discent they haue hitherto continued thus blacke It manifestly and plainely appeareth by holy Scripture that after the generall inundation and ouerflowing of the earth there remained no moe men aliue but Noe and his three sonnes Sem Cham and Iaphet who onely were left to possesse and inhabite the whole face of the earth therefore all the sundry discents that vntil this present day haue inhabited the whole earth must needes come of the off-spring either of Sem Cham or Iaphet as the onely sonnes of Noe who all three being white and their wiues also by course of nature should haue begotten and brought foorth white children But the enuie of our great and continuall enemie the wicked Spirite is such that as hee coulde not suffer our olde father Adam to liue in the felicitie and Angelike state wherein hee
so called arising into the ayre according to Munster eight or nine Germaine miles in height and continually flaming like Aetna yet as Benzo an Italian and Historiographer of the West Indies witnesseth is it not able to melt the girdle of snowe embracing the middest thereof Which thing what reason haue we more to admire in the mountaine of Hecla And thus much briefly concerning firie mountaines Now that also is to be amended whereas they write that these mountaines are lifted vp euen vnto the skies For they haue no extraordinarie height beyond the other mountaines of Island but especially that third mountaine called by Munster Helga and by vs Helgafel that is the holy mount standing iust by a monastery of the same name being couered with snowe vpon no part thereof in Summer time neither deserueth it the name of an high mountaine but rather of an humble hillocke neuer yet as I sayd in the beginning of this section so much as once suspected of burning Neither yet ought perpetuall snowe to be ascribed to Hecla onely or to a few others for Island hath very many such snowy mountaines all which the Cosmographer who hath so extolled and admired these three should not easily finde out and reckon vp in a whole yere And that also is not to be omitted that mount Hecla standeth not towards the West as Munster and Ziegler haue noted but betweene the South and the East neither is it an headland but rather a mid-land hill Continueth alwayes burning c. whosoeuer they be that haue ascribed vnto Hecla perpetuall belching out of flames they are farre besides the marke insomuch that as often as it hath beâ—e enflamed our countreymen haue recorded it in their yerely Chronicles for a rare accident namely in the yeeres of Christ 1104 1157 1222 1300 1341 1362 and 1389 For from that yeere we neuer heard of the burning of this mountaine vntill the yeere 1558 which was the last breaking foorth of fire in that mountaine In the meane time I say not that is impossible but that the bottome of the hill may inwardly breed and nourish flames which at certaine seasons as hath bene heretofore obserued haue burst out and perhaps may do the like hereafter The seuenth section The flame of mount Hecla will not burne towe which is most apt for the wieke of a candle neither is it quenched with water and by the same force that bullets are discharged out of warlike engines with vs from thence are great stones cast foorth into the aire by reason of the mixture of colde and fire and brimstone This place is thought of some to be the prison of vncleane soules Item Zieglerus This place is the prison of vncleane soules VVIll not burne towe Where these writers should finde such matters it is not easie to coniecture For our people are altogether ignorant of them neither had they â—uer bene heard of heere among vs if they had not brought them to light For there is no man with vs so rashly and fondly curious that dareth for his life the hill being on fire trie any such conclusions or to our knowledge that euer durst which notwithstanding Munster affirmeth saying They that are desirous to contemplate the nature of so huge a fire for the same purpose approch vnto the mountaine are by some gulfe swallowed vp aliue c. which thing as I sayd is altogether vnknowen vnto our nation Yet there is a booke extant written in the ancient language of the Noruagians wherein you may finde some miracles of earthâ— water fire and aire c. coâ—fusedly written few of them true and the most part vaine and false Whereupon it easily appeareth that it was written long since by some that were imagined to be great wise men in the â—imâ— of Popery They called it a royall looking glasse howbeit in regard of the fond fables wherewith but for the most part vnder the shew of religion and piety whereby it is more difficult to finde out the cousinage it doeth all ouer swarme it deserueth not the name of a looking glasse royall but rather of a popular and olde wiues looking glasse In this glasse there are found certâ—ine figments of the burning of Hecla not much vnlike these which we now entreat of nor any whit more grounded vpon experience and for that cause to be reiected But that I may not seeme somewhat foolehardy for accusing this royall looking glasse of falshood not to mention any of those things which it râ—porteth as lesse credible loe heere a few things friendly reader which I suppose deserue no credit at all 1 Of a certaine Isle in Ireland hauing a church and a parish in it the inhabitants whereof deceasing are not buried in the earth but like liuing men do continually against some banke or wall in the Churchyard stand bolt-vpright neither are they suâ—iect to any corruption or downefall insomuch that any of the posteritie may there seeke for and beholde their ancestors 2 Of another Isle of Ireland where men are not mortall 3 Of all the earth and trees of Ireland being of force to resist all poisons and to kill serpents and other venimous things in any countrey whatsoeuer by the onely vertue and presence thereof yea euen without touching 4 Of a third Isle of Ireland that the one halfe thereof became an habitation of deuils but that the sayd deuils haue no iurisâ—iction ouer the other halfe by reason of a Church there built although as the whole Isle is without inhabitants so this part is continually destitute of a Pastor and of diuine seruice and that it is so by nature 5 Of a fourth Isle of Ireland floating vp and downe in an huge lake the grasse whereof is a most present remedy for all kinde of diseases and that the Iland at certeine seasons especially on Sundayes commeth to the banke of the lake so that any man may then easily enter into it as it were into a shippe which notwithstanding sayth he destiny will not suffer any more then one to enter at a time Furthermore he reporteth that this Iland euery seuenth yere groweth fast to the banke so that you cannot discerne it from firme land but that into the place thereof there succeedeth another altogether like the former in nature quantiâ—ie and vertue which from what place it commeth no man can tell and that all this happeneth with a kinde of thundering 6 Of the hunters of Norway who are so expert to tame wood for so he speaketh very improperly whereas vnto wood neither life nor taming can be ascribed that wooden pattens of eight elnes long being bound to the soles of their feet do cary them with so great celeritie euen vpon hie mountaines that they cannot be outrun either by the swiftnes of hounds and deere or yet by the flying of birds And that they will kill nine roes or more at one course with one stroke of a dart These and such like concerning Ireland Norway
croaking coax coax Nay it is so palpable that it is not worthy to be smiled at much lesse to be refuted But I will not trifle any longer with the fond Papists let vs rather come vnto our owne writers And first of all I cannot here omit a saying of that most worthie man Doctor Caspar Peucer There is in Islande quoth he mount Hecla being of as dreadfull a depth as any vaste gulfe or as hell it selfe which resoundeth with lamentable miserable yellings that the noise of the cryers may be heard for the space of a great league round about Great swannes of vgly blacke Rauens and Vultures lie hoouering about this place which are thought of the inhabitantes to nestle there The common people of that countrey are verily perswaded that there is a descent downe into hell by this gulfe and therefore when any battailes are foughten else where in whatsoeuer part of the whole world or any bloudie slaughters are committed they haue learned by long experience what horrible tumults and out-cryes what monstrous skritches are heard round about this mountaine Who durst be so bold most learned Sir to bring such an incredible report to your eares Neither hath Island any Uultures but that second kinde of Eagles which Plinie noted by their white tayles and called them Pygarsi neither are there any with vs that can beare witnesse of the foresaid spectacle nor yet is it likely that Rauens and Eagles would nestle in that place when as they should rather be driuen from thence by fire and smoke being things most contrarie to their nature And yet notwithstanding for proofe of this matter as also of a strange tumult heard within the hollow of the mountaine they allege the experience of the inhabitants which indeede testifieth all things to the contrarie But whereabout should that hole or windowe of the mountaine he by the which we may heare outcries noyse and tumults done among them who inhabite the most contrarie distant aud remote places of the earth from vs Concerning which thing I would aske the author of this fable many questions if I might but come to the knowledge of him in the meane time I could wish that from hencefoorth he would learne to tell troth not presume with so impudent a face to enforme excellent Peucer or others of such vnknowen and incredible matters But to returne to Munster who endeuouring to search out the causes of the great and strange fire of that famous hill Aetna is it not monstrous that the very same thing which he there maketh natural he should here imagine to be preternaturall yea infernal But why do I speake of Aetna Let vs rather consider what Munster in another place thinketh of the burning of Hecla It is without doubt saith he that some mountaines and fields burned in old time throughout the whole world and in this our age do burne As for example mount Hecla in Island at certaine seasons casteth abroad great stones spitteth our brimstone and disperseth ashes for such a distance round about that the land cannot be inhabited within 20. miles thereof But where mountaines do continually burne we vnderstand that there is no stopping of the passages wherby they poure forth abundance of fire sometime flaming sometime smoaking as it were a streaming flood But if betweene times the fire encreaseth all secret passages being shut vp the inner parts of the mountaine are notwithstanding enflamed The fire in the vpper part for want of matter somewhat abateth for the time But when a more vehement spirite the same or other passages being set open again doth with great violence breake prison it casteth forth ashes sand brimstone pumistones lumpes resembling iron great stones much other matter not without the domage of the whole region adioyning Thus farre Munster Where consider good Reader how he cutteth his throat with his owne sword consider I say that in this place there is the very same opinion of the burning of Hecla the burning of Aetna which notwithstanding in his 4. booke is very diuerse for there he is faine to run to infernall causes A certaine fierie mountaine of West India hath farre more friendly censurers historiographers then our Hecla who make not an infernall gulfe therof The History of which mountain because it is short sweete I will set downe being written by Hieronimus Benzo an Italian in his history of the new world lib. 2. These be the words About 35. miles distant from Leon there is a mountaine which at a great hole belcheth out such mightie balles of flames that in the night they shine farre and neare aboue 100â— miles Some were of opinion that within it was molten gold ministring continuall matter nourishment for the fire Hereupon a certain Dominican Frier determining to make trial of the matter caused a brasse ketâ—le an iroÌ„ chain to be made afterward ascending to the top of the hill with 4. other Spaniards he letteth downe the chaine the kettle 140. elnes into the fornace there by extreme heate of the fire the kettle part of the chaine melted The monke in a rage ran back to Leon chid the smith because he had made the chaine far more slender then himselfe had coÌ„manded The smith hammers out another of more substance strength then the former The Monke returnes to the mountains and le ts downe the chaine the cauldron but with the like successe that he had before Neither did the caldroÌ„ only vanish melt a way but also vpon the sudden there came out of the depth a flame of fire which had almost coÌ„sumed the Frier his companions Then they all returned so astonished that they had small list afterward to prosecute that attempt c. What great difference is there betweene these two censures In a fiery hill of West India they search for gold but in mount Hecla of Island they seeke for hel Howbeit they wil perhaps reiect this as a thing too new altogether vnknowen to ancient writers Why therefore haue not writers imagined the same prison of soules to be in Chimaera an hill in Lycia which by report flameth continually day and night that is in mount Hecla of Island Why haue they not imagined the same to be in the mountaines of Ephesus which being touched with a burning torch are reported to conceiue so much fire that the very stones sand lying in the water are caused to burne from the which a staffe being burnt vpon them trailed after a man on the ground there proceede whole riuers of fire as Plinie testifieth Why not in Cophantrus a mountaine of Bactria alwayes burning in the night Why not in the Isle of Hiera flaming in the midst of the sea Why not in Aeolia in old time likewise burning for certaine daies in the midst of the sea Why not in the field of Babylon burning in the day season Why not in the fields of Aethiopia glittering alwaies like stars in
which is the Spanish name of their burning Ague for as I tolde you before it is a very burning and pestilent ague The originall cause thereof is imputed to the Euening or first night ayre which they tearme La serena wherein they say and hold very firme opinion that who so is then abroad in the open ayre shall certainly be infected to the death not being of the Indian or naturall race of chose countrey people by holding their watch our men were thus subiected to the infectious ayre which at S. Iago was most dangerous deadly of all other places With the inconuenience of continuall mortalitie we were forced to giue ouer our intended enterprise to goe with Nombre de Dios and so ouerland to Panama where we should haue strooken the stroke for the treasure and full recompence of our redious trauailes And thus at Cartagena wee tooke our first resolution to returne homewardes the forme of whiâ—h resolution I thought good here to put downe vnder the principall Captaines hands as followeth A resolution of the Land-captaines what course they thinke most expedient to bee taken Giuen at Cartagena the xxvij of Februarie 1585. WHereas it hath pleased the Generall to demaund the opinions of his Captaines what course they thinke most expedient to be now vndertaken the Land-captaines being assembled by themselues together and hauing aduised here vpon doe in three ponits deliuer the same The first touching the keeping of the towne against the force of the enemie either that which is present or that which may come out of Spaine is answered thus VVE holde opinion that with this troope of men which we haue presently with vs in land-seruice being victualled and munitioned wee may well keepe the Towne albeit that of men able to answere present seruice we haue not aboue 700. The residue being some 150. men by reason of their hurts and sicknesse are altogether vnable to stand vs in any stead wherefore hereupon the Sea-captaines are likewise to giue their resolution how they wiâ—l vndertake the safetie and seruice of the Shippes vpon the arriuall of any Spanish Fleete The second poyâ—t we make to be this whether it bee meete to goe presently homeward or els to continue further tryall of our fortune in vndertaking such like enterprise as we haue done already and thereby to seeke after that bountifull masse of treasure for recompence of our trauailes which was generally expected at our comming forth of England wherein we answere THat it is well knowen how both we and the souldiers are entred into this action as voluntarie men without any imprest or gage from her Maiestie or any body els aâ—d forasmuch as we haue hither to discharged the parts of honest men so that now by the great blessing and fauour of our good God there haue bin taken three such notable townes wherein by the estâ—mation of all men would haue bene found some very great treasures knowing that S. Iago was the chiefe citie of all the Ilands and traffiques there abouts S. Domingo the chiefe citie of Hispaniola and the hâ—ad gouernment not only of that Iland but also of Cuba and of all the Ilands about it as also of such inhabitations of the firme land as were next vnto it a place that is both magnificently builded and interteineth great trades of marchandise and now lastly the citie of Cartagena which cannot be denied to be one of the chiefe places of most especiall importance to the Spaniard of all the cities which be on this side of the West India we doe therefore consider that since all these citiâ—â— with their goods prisoner taken in them and the ransoms of the said cities being all put together are found fâ—â—re short to satisfie that expectation which by the generality of the enterprisers was first conceiued And being further aduised of the slendernesse of our strength whereunto we be nâ—w reduced aswell in respect of the small number of able bodies as also not a litle in regard of the slacke disposition of the greater part of those which remaine very many of the better mindes and men being either consumed by death or weakened by sicknes and hurts And lastly since that as yet there is not laid downe to our knowledge any such enterprise as may seeme conuenieâ—t tâ— be vndertaken with such few as we are presently able to make and withall of such certaine likelihoode as with Gods good successe which it may please him to bestow vpon vs the same may promise to yeeld vs any sufficient contentment We doe therefore conclude hereupon thâ—t it is better to hold sure as we may the honour already gotten and with the same to returne towards our gracious Soueraigne and Countrey from whence if it shall please her Maiestie to set vs foorth againe with her orderly meanes and intertainment we are most ready and willing to goe through with any thing that the vttermost of our strength and indeuour shall be able to reach vnto but therewithall wee doe aduise and protest that it is farre from our thoughts either to refuse or so much as to seeme to be wearie of any thing which for the present shal be further required or directed to be done by vs from our Generall The third and last poynt is concerning the ransome of this citie of Cartagena for the which before it was rouched with any fire there was made an offer of some xxvij or xxviij thousand pounds sterling THus much we vtter herein as our opinions agreeing so it be done in good sort to accept this offer aforesayde rather then to breake off by standing still vpon our demaunds of one hundred thousand poundes which seemes a matter impossible to bee performed for the present by them and to say â—â—â—ch wee may now with much honour and reputation better be satisfied with that summe offred by them at the first if they will now bee contented to giue it then wee might at that time with a great deale more inasmuch as we haue taken our full pleasure both in the vttermost sacking and spoyling of all their housholde goods and marchandize as also in that we haue consumed and ruined a great part of their Towne with fire And thus much further is considered herein by vs that as there bee in the Uoyage a great many poore men who haue willingly aduentured their liues and trauailes and diuers amongst them hauing spent their apparell and such other little prouisions as their small meanes might haue giuen them leaue to prepare which being done vpon such good and allowable intention as this action hath alwayes carryed with it meaning against the Spanyard our greatest and most dangerous enemie so surely wee cannot but haue an inward regarde so farre as may lye in vs to helpe eyther in all good sort towards the satisfaction of this their expectation and by procuring them some little benefite to incourage them and to nourish this readie and willing disposition of theirs both in them and in others by
dozens died into skarlet LondoÌ„ clothes much talked of in Persia. Much Venice cloth worne in Persia. The second admission to the Shaughs presence the 29. of Iune 1566. at which time he receiued the priuiledge The Shaughs promise to increase the priuiledge Aleppo a citie of great trade Armenians barter with the Venetians The distance from Shamaky to Aleppo Armenians and other desirous to barter silke and spices for karsies The Shaugh desirous to bargaine for our commodities 2000. pieces of karsies to be sent into Persia He departed from Casbin the 15. of Iuly Rich. Iohnsons great negligence Cozomomet was Arthur Edwards friend to the Shaugh Victuals and all things dear at Casbin The Ambassador of y e prince of Gilan Gilan but fiue dayes riding from Casbin Gals Grainâ— Ormus Aleppo M. Anthonie Ienkinsons offer to the Persian M. Anthonie Ienkinson commended The Shaughs letters to the Moscoup companie * By the word Karangies I thinke they meane karsles Fishing for Sturgeon for 3. moneths The Englishmen in making of cables set on worke a 100. men in Russia Sosnoua tree excellent for the 〈◊〉 of the wolfe The description of Rose Island A verst is but 3. quarters of an english mile At this towne Newnox Richard Chanceller in his first voyage with â—is companie a shipboard were relieued August The riuer Owiga The fall of a riuer A lake very ful of Islands The famous lake of Onega S. Clement his Monasterie ‖ Or. Sermaxe The riuer of Volhuski The lake of Ladiskai The Monasterie of Gosnopoli The Citie of Nouogrod Trauel by Sleds 2000. Sleds belongiâ—g to one towne A good caueat for seasonable trauell Nouogrod within 180. miles of the Narue This is meant by Alderman Bond the elder English Merchants for discouery of new trades Triall by lots The riuer of Ob traffikable The vse of furres wholesome delicate graue and comely The trade to S. Nicholas offensiue to diuers princes states Eastward Smolenâ—co won by the Russe Polotzko taken Polotzko recouered by Stephanus Batore 1568 In this voyage went Thomas Bannister Geofrey Ducket for their voyage into Persia. The abbey of S. Nicholas of 20 Monks The English house at S. Nâ—cholas The riuer of Dwina Colmogro An English house with lands at Colmogro The description of the inland of Moscouie â—is arriuall at Mosco A special house at Mosco built for Ambassadours Two Pristaues His admission to the Emperors presence The Queenes present The Emperoâ—s speech to the Ambassadour A second conference with the Emperor Andrew Sauia Ambassadour to the Queene Oâ—â—rhosâ—n sâ—or Cara Recâ— Naramsi Reca Their arriual at Bilbil the 14. of August 1568. Prince Erasbec Christopher Faucet and Richard Pingle Warre against the Portingals at Ormuz The gouernour of Grozin his Merchant The generall inconstancie in the merchants and dealers of those parts The trade betweene the Venetians and the Armenians not easily to be broken Babylon 15. dayes iourneâ— from Casbin His voyage to Gilan The malice of the Turkish merchants The price of spices Londro Loâ—don The Venetians traffike in England The English Barke assaulted neere Astracan by the Nagaian Tartars Astraâ—an besâ—eged by 70000. Turks and Tartars The death of Thomas Banister and Laurence Chapman Humfrey Greensell burnt at Ormus The English ship taken by the Cassaks Ice in the beginning of October 1574 Grosin or Georgia How strangers are vsed A goodly and well grounded religion Their opinion of Christ. Their money Their bookes and learning Such was the law of the Macedonians for treason Dissention for religion Their priests and preaching Their Lent Their saints and holy men Pilgrimage Their praier worshipping of God and Mahumet Washing and outward clenlinesse Their swearing The kings magnificence Pursuiuants The kings company with his wiues and concubines The succession of y â— kingdom Circumcision Their houses and maner of eating Bondmen and bondwomen Women bought sold and let to hire Abundance of oile issuing out of the ground Oleum Petroleum Two sorts of kine Foxes in great plenty Fiue ships of Freeboters taken 1571 The citie of Mosco burnt by y â— Crimme Englishmen smothered at the burning of Mosco M. Glouer and M. Rowley preserued Andrew Sauinâ— Ambassadour from the Emperour The causes of the Emperors displeasure He maruelleth the company do not coÌ„ferre with him of Lappia 1574. 5 English men wintered in Lappia Christopher Colt a simple marchant Good trade in winter in Lappia Henry Cocknedge honest but ignorant Roger Leche expert of Lappia If the companie do not enter into the trade of Lappia others wil preuent them The trade of Vedagoba He can say somewhat though not much 1183 barrels of oyle bought by others Colt sold 27 barrels to a Hollander The first Interrogatorie The deponents answeâ— Pechingo abbey The second Interrogatorie The deponents answer Note Hull the best market of England for sale of fish ‖ 1568 pag. 394. Yeraslaue Great store oâ— Licoris Perauolok Astracan Peter Garrard Ice at Astracan for foure moneths Anno 1580. Astracan situate vpon an IslaÌ„d The variation oâ— the compas in Aâ—â—racan was 13. deg 40. minuts May. Vchoog Shoald water Flats Chetera Boâ—gorâ— The Caspiaâ— sea 45. degrees 20. minuts The first obseruâ—tion in the Caspian sea Brackish water farre within the sea 43. degrees 15. minuts 41. degrees 32. minuts 40. degrees 54. minuts Bilbill Bachu port Thomas Hâ—dson oâ— Limehouse maister of the English barke M. Christopher Burrough The receiuing of the English into Derbent The latitude of Bildih 40. deg 25 min. The variation of the compas 10 deg 40. min. Zeâ—e Island The English suffer shipwracke Arthur Edwards dieth at Astâ—acan Septâ—mber The Armenian village The Turke his treasure sent to Derbent Osman Basha Derbent built by Alexander the great The latitude of Derbent 41. deg 52. min. The variation of the Compasse Nezauoo Two Spaniards deliuered by our English men A strange accident of prouision for their reliefe Nouember Ice the 13 of Nouember in the mouth of the riuer of Volga The 16 day Trauaile vpâ— on the yce Chetera Babbas The English ship cut in pieces with yce December Their returne to Astracan The breaking vp of the yce Morgan Hubblethorne dier sent into Persia. May. Borroughs streiâ—s The land of Samoeda The Queenes letters The Queenes letters The Citie of Siberia Willoughbies land How to note downe in his Iornall of the voyage his dead reckoning and other obseruations For noting the shape and view of the land at first discouery c. For obseruing of tides and currants To take the platformes of places witâ—in compasse of view vpon land M. d ee gaue them a Chart of his owne making which here he refers them vnto A good consideration Ingens Sinus post Insulam Vaigats Nouâ—m Zemblam Tabin promontorium ingens Quo propius ad polum acceditur eò directorium Nauticum magis a Septeouiorâ— deuiat Bautisus Oechardus maxima fluâ—ina in hunc Sinum illabuntur Postulata Mercatoris de quibus certior fieri cupit
This was Bake of Ratciâ—ste who with the barke called the Roe robbed certaine Gâ—ecians in the Lâ—uant The description of Augusta in Germanie Venice The number of â—â—wes in Vâ—nice The excesse of the women of Venice His embarking at Venice for Ierusalem Cyprus Missagh Ioppa The Basha of Ioppa Rama Troopes of theeuish Arabians â—is arriuall in the sight of Ierusalem The monuments in and about Ierusalem S. Helens chapell His departure from Ierusalem Tripolis in Syria Salina Missagh a town in Cyprus Candie Zante Istria Mustasa interpâ—es M. Wil. Hareborne sent ambassador to the Turke A request for the preferring of Mustafa Beg. Supply of the want of oile Leo Asricamâ—â— lib. 8. Leo Africanus lib 4. This may be learned at Alget Ianuary the fourteenth C. Vincente C. Santa Maria. Tariffa Velez Malaga C. de Gates C. de Palos Denia Formentera Cabrera February the first Mallorca The shippes men goe on land at Porto de Sant Pedro. The Ambassadour betrayed February the sixth The English men are surprised The Spaniards come to the sea side to speake with the captaine The Spaniards come a game to parse The Ambassadour writeth to the Viceroy The ninth of February The ship Susan prepareth to defend herselfe The effect of the Viceroys letter in the Captaine of the Susan The eâ—â—ect of the Ambassadors answere Galata Sardinia Fauagniana Cisimbri Pantalaria Sicilia C. Passaro Poâ—to de Contâ— in Cephalonia Zante Prodeno Sapientia Modon C. Maâ—apan Cerigo C. Malio Menelaus â—ellapola Both Miloâ— Fâ—lcâ—nara Antâ—milâ— Fermeniâ— Zâ—â— Negroponte Andri Psaâ—a Sarafo Sigraâ— port in Metelin Porto Delfin The city of Chio. A By. Ermin or Customer Baberno Tenedo Maure Galâ—poli Marmora Araâ—â—ia Silauria Ponte grande Ponte picola Ponte S. Stephano The arriuall of the Susan at Constantinople The Ambassadour giueth a present to the great Basâ—a A man halfe naked goeth before y e great Basâ—a The Ambassadours entertainment with the Bassas Santa Sophia A discription of their church The ship commeth to the custome house The Ambassador presenteth the Admirall Vchali The Susan goeth from the Custome house The Admirall departeth to the sea The Ambassadoâ—rs repaire to the great Turke court The entertainment at dinner of the Ambassadours men The Turke is presented with a rich present An English ship sunke by two gallies of Alger The money of Alger The custome The waights The measure The surest lodging for a christian This is another officer Other smal customs you pay besides which may be at two in the huÌ„dred and for â—onsullage you pay two in the hundred Cairo three daies iourney from Alexandria by land The Inuentorie of our ships and goods sunke and taken by the gallies of Alger Man doth purpose and God doth dispose A new master chosen The new master died The Iesus arriued in Tripolis Another ship of Bristow came to Tripolis A conspiracie practised by the French Factor to deceiue a Turkish marchant of 450 crowns The beginning of their troubles and occasion of all their miserie The Englishmen araigned Master Dier condemned to be hanged ouer a bulwarke A Frenchman turned Turke in hope of his life and afterward was hanged Euery fiue men allowed but two pence of bread a day The Turkes builded a church The Christians sent 3. times a weeke 30. miles to fetch wood Eighteene captiues run away from Tripolis The iudgement of God vpon blasâ—â—eâ—â—ers The Greene Dragon The Kings sonne had a captiue that was sonne to one of the Queenes Maiesties guard that was forced to turne Turke The first motion for those Englishmens deliuerie The Englishmen released The plagues and punishments that happened to the King and his people The king lost 150. Camels taken by the wilde Moores Two Englishmen shipped to Constantinople with M. Barton The souldiers of Tripolis kil the King Two Gallies of Venice tooke the king of Tripolie his galley and killed the kings sonne and all the Turkes in it and released all the Christians being in number 150. Edoardo Baron Mahumed Beg. Hamburâ— Brunswig Halberstat Eisleben Copper Mines Iena Great wood of firre trees Bamberg Nurenberg Augspurg The borders of Italy Venice Ragusa Seruia Chierâ—isa Or Fochia Nouibazar Or Nissa Sophia Phâ—lippopoli Andrinopoliâ— Siliueri Constantinople Pompeys piller Prouaâ— Vâ—rna Or Moldania Paâ—sin vpon the riuer of Prut Yas Soâ—sâ—hen Nyester a riuer Camyenetâ— Skala Leopolis or Leunpurg Grodecz Vilna Iaroslaw Lanczut Cracouia Leade Minesâ— Bendzâ—n Salt digged out of mountaines in Poland Bitom Oppelen Schurgasse Brigk Breslaw Magdeburg Lunenberg Hamborg Fontecho signifieth an house of trafique aâ— the Sulyard Bichier Rossetto 1566. The descriptâ—on oâ— Cairo Olde Thebes Pieces of dry wood in stead of torches The mountaine of pardons Grida a port neere Mecca The Portugals greatly feared in the Red sea Forty or fifty rich ships arriue yerely at Grida | 〈◊〉 A fathomâ— Caesar Fredericke trauelled eighteene yeeres in the East Indies The authours going froÌ„ Venice to Cyprus and Tripoly The riuer Euphrates Feluchia a small city on Euphrates Mosul The Arabian theeues are in number like to Ants. The olde Babylon hath great trade w t marchants 〈◊〉 A bridge made of boats These bricks be in thicknes six or seuen inches and a foot a halfe square This hole whereour coÌ„meth this pitch is most true and the water pitch runneth into the valley or Iland where the pitch resteth the water runneth into the riuer Euphrates and it maketh all the riuer to be as it were bâ—ackish with the smell of pitch and brimstone Zizarij an ancient people At the castle of Corna the riuer Euphrates and Tygris do meet Ormus is the barrennest Iland in all the world Carichij an Iland in y e gulfe of Persia. Ormus is alwayes replenished with abundance of victuall and yet there is none that groweth in the Iland Great trade of merchandise in Ormus The election of the king of Ormus A priuilege for Marchants Diu. Cambaietta Marchants that trauell to the Indies must cary their prouision of houshold with theÌ„ Great â—â—oâ—e of men of warre and rouers oâ— the coast of Cambaia A maruellous â—oâ—d delight in women Tana an Iland whereoâ— Odoricus writeth pag 41. Great ordinance made in pieces and â—et seruiceable The chiefe place the Portugals haue in the Indies A very good sale for horses A most vnkind wicked treasoÌ„ against their prince this they haue for giuing credit to strangers rather then to their owne natiue people The sacking in the city An excellent good policy to intrap men A discription of the burning place Feasting and dancing when they should mourne Mourning when they should reioyce The cause why the women do so burâ—e themselues Penegonde Men ride on bullocksâ— and trauell with thâ—m on the way The marchandise that come in and out to Bezeneger euery yere The apparell of those people Their Winter is our Summer Foure small fortes of the Portugals Bettell is a very profitable herbe in that countrey Enimies to the king of Portugall