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A01426	The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555. Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christ church in Oxford; Tratato. Que compôs o nobre & notavel capitão Antonio Galvão, dos diversos & desvayrados caminhos, por onde nos tempos passados a pimenta & especearia veyo da India ás nossas partes. English	Galvão, António, d. 1557.; Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.	1601 (1601)	STC 11543; ESTC S105675	96,105	110

that made this discouerie was a seruant of the kings and his name was Sequeira Many suppose that than also there were those places countreyes and Islands discouered which before were neuer knowne to vs since the flood In the yéere 1480. the valiant king Don Alphonso died and left many things woorthy of memorie behinde him and his sonne Don Iohn the second succéeded him Who in the yéere 1481. gaue direction for the building of the castle De Mina to one Diego d'Azambuxa who did so and was made captaine of it In the yéere 1484. the foresaid king Iohn sent out one Diego Caon a knight of his Court to discouer and he went to the Riuer of Congo standing on the south side in 7. or 8. degrées of latitude where he erected a pillar of stone with the royall armes and letters of Portugall wherein he wrote the commandement that he had receiued from the king with the time and day of his being there From thence he went vnto a riuer néere the Tropicke of Capricorne setting still vp pillars of stone where he thought it conuenient and so came backe againe vnto Congo and to the king of that countrey who thereupon sent an ambassadour and men of credite into Portugall In the next yéere or the second following one Iohn Alonso d'Aueiro came from the kingdome of Benin and brought home pepper with a taile which was the first of that kinde séene in Portugall In the yéere 1487. king Iohn sent to discouer India ouer land In which iourney went one Pedro de Couillan a seruant of the kings and Alfonso de Payua because they could speake the Arabian toong They went out in the moneth of May and the same yeere they tooke shipping at Naples and arriued in the Isle of Rhodes and lodged in the house that was prouided for the Portugall knights of that order from thence they went to Alexandria and so to Cayro and thence to the hauen of Toro in the companie of the Carauans or carriers which were Moores There they tooke shipping and being on the Red sea they arriued at the citie of Aden and there they separated themselues for Alfonso de Payua went towards Aethiopia and Pedro de Couillan into India Who came vnto the cities of Cananor and Calicut and came backe vnto Goa where he tooke shipping vnto Sofala being on the coast of Africa in the southerne latitude of 20. degrées to sée the mines that were of so great name From Sofala he turned backe to Mosambique and vnto the cities of Quiloa Mombaza and Melinde till he came backe againe vnto the citie of Aden where he and Alfonso de Payua deuided themselues and thence he sailed againe through the Red sea vnto the citie of Cayro where he thought to haue met with his companion but there he heard that he was dead by the letters that he receiued from king Iohn his master in which letters he was farther commanded to trauaile into the countrey and dominions of Presbyter Iohn Vpon this commandement he prouided for his farther iourney and from Cairo went backe againe to the hauen of Toro and from thence to Aden where he had béen twise before and there hearing of the fame of the citie of Ormuz he determined to goe thither and therefore went along the coast of Arabia vnto the Cape Razalgate standing vnder the Tropicke of Cancer and from thence he went to Ormuz standing in 27. degrées on that side There he learned and vnderstood of the streigth of Persia and of that countrey and entred there into the Red sea and passed ouer to the realme of the Abassini which commonly is called Presbyter Iohns countrey or Aethiopia and there he was detained till the yéere 1520. when there came thither the ambassadour Don Roderigo de Lima This Pedro de Couillan was the first Portugall that euer knew and saw the Indias and those seas and other places adioyning thereunto In the yéere 1490. the king sent vnto Congo one Gonzalo de Sosa a gentleman with thrée ships and in them sent home the ambassadour of Congo which was sent into Portugall whom Diego Caon had brought from thence who at his being in Portugall was baptised both himselfe and others of his companie The aforesaid Gonzalo de Sosa died in that iourney by the way and in his roome they chose his nephew Ruy de Sosa for their captaine and so being come vnto Congo the king was very glad of their comming and yéelded himselfe and the greater part of his realme to be baptized whereof the Portugals had good cause to reioice séeing by them so many Infidels were conuerted from gentilitie and paganisme to Christianitie The first beginning of the Discoueries of the Spanyards with the continuation of the Discoueries of the Portugals IN the yéere 1492. in the time of Don Ferdinando king of Castile he being at the siege of Granada dispatched one Christopher Columbus a Genoway with three ships to goe and discouer Noua Spagna who first had offered his seruice for a westerne discouerie vnto king Iohn of Portugall but he would not entertaine him He being sufficiently furnished for this enterprise departed from the towne of Palos the third day of August hauing with him as captaines and pilots Martin Alfonso Pinzon Francis Martinez Pinzon Vincent Yannes Pinzon and Bartholomew Columbus his brother with 120. persons more in his companie and some affirme that they were the first that sailed by latitudes They tooke the Canaries in their way and there refreshed themselues taking their course thence towards Cipango but finding the sea by the way full of wéeds they were amazed and with great feare arriued at the Antiles the tenth day of October and the first Island that they descried was called Guanahany where they went on land and tooke possession of it and named it San Saluador This Island standeth in 25. degrées of northerly latitude And after that they found many Islands which they called the Princes because they were the first that they had discouered The Sauages of those parts call these Islands by the name of Lucaios hauing in déede seuerall names for them And they doe stand on the north side almost vnder the Tropicke of Cancer As for the Island of S. Iames or Iamaica it standeth betwéene 16. and 17. degrées Thence they went to the Island which the naturals of the countrey call Cuba and the Spanyards call it Ferdinandina bicause their kings name was Ferdinando standing in 22. degrées from whence the Indians conducted them vnto another Island which they call Hayti and the Spanyards called it Isabella in the memorie of the Quéene of Castile which was so called and they named it also Hispaniola In that Island the Admirall ship of Columbus was cast away of the timber and planks whereof they made a forte wherein they

in the time of Fredericke Barbarossa it is written that there came to Lubec a citie of Germanie one Canoa with certaine Indians like vnto a long barge which seemed to haue come from the coast of Baccalaos which standeth in the same latitude that Germanie doth The Germaines greatly woondered to sée such a barge and such people not knowing from whence they came nor vnderstanding their spéech especially because there was then no knowledge of that countrey as now there is it may be credible that though the boate was small in respect of those huge seas yet the winde and water might bring them thither as we sée in these our daies that the Almadie which is but a small boate commeth notwithstanding from Quiloa Mosambique and Sofala to the Island of S. Helena being a small spot of land standing in the maine Ocean off the coast of Bona Sperança so farre separated In the yéere 1300. after the comming of Christ the great Soldan of Cayro commanded that the spiceries and drugs and marchandises of India should be carried through the Red sea as it was vsed before at which time they vnladed on the Arabian side at the hauen of Iuda and carried them vnto the house at Mecca and the carriers of it were the pilgrims So that each Prince vsed a custome to augment the honour and increase the profite of his countrey And these Soldans had speciall regarde to Cayro from whence the wares were carried vnto the countreyes of Egypt Lybia Africa the kingdomes of Tunez Tremessen Fez Marocco Suz and some of it was carried beyond the mountaines of Atlas vnto the citie of Tombuto and the kingdome of the Ialophos vntill afterwards that the Portugals did bring it about the Cape of Bona Sperança vnto the citie of Lisbone as in place conuenient we purpose to shew more at large In the yéere 1344. king Peter the fourth of that name reigning in Arragon the Chronicles of his time report that one Don Luis of Cerda sonne vnto the sonne of Don Iohn of Cerda craued aide of him to goe and to conquers the Isles of the Canaries standing in 28. degrées of latitude to the north because they were giuen vnto him by Pope Clement the sixt which was a French man Whereby in those daies there grew a knowledge of those Islands in all Europe and specially in Spaine for such great Princes would not begin nor enterprise things of such moment without great certaintie About this time also the Island of Madera was discouered by an English man called Macham who sailing out of England into Spaine with a woman of his was driuen out of his direct course by a tempest and arriued in that Island and cast his anker in that hauen which now is called Machico after the name of Macham And bicause his louer was then sea-sicke he there went on land with some of his companie and in the meane time his ship weyed and put to sea leauing him there whereupon his louer for thought died Macham which greatly loued her built in the Island a chappell or hermitage to burie her in calling it by the name of Iesus Chappell and wrote or graued vpon the stone of her tombe his name and hers and the occasion whereupon they arriued there After this he made himselfe a boate all of a trée the trées being there of a great compasse about and went to sea in it with those men of his companie that were left with him and fell with the coast of Africke without saile or oare and the Moores among whom he came tooke it for a miracle and presented him vnto the king of that countrey and that king also admiring the accident sent him and his companie vnto the king of Castile In the yéere 1395. king Henrie the third of that name reigning in Castile the information which Macham gaue of this Island and also the ship wherein he went thither mooued many of France and of Castile to goe and discouer it and the great Canarie And they which went were principally the Andaluzes the Biscaines and the Guepus●oes carrying with them many people and horses But I know not whether the charge of that voiage was theirs or the kings But by whom soeuer it was set out they seeme to be the first that discouered the Canaries and landed in them where also they tooke 150 of the Islanders prisoners Concerning the time of this discouerie there is some difference among the writers for some affirme this to be done in the yeere 1405. The first beginning of the Portugall Discoueries THe Chronicles of Portugall haue this record That after the incarnation of Christ 1415. king Iohn the first of that name king of Portugall departed from the citie of Lisbon with the Prince Don Duarte or Edward and Don Peter and Don Henry his sonnes with other Lords and nobles of his realme and sailed into Africa where he tooke the great citie of Ceuta standing on the north side thereof betwéene 35. and 36. degrees in latitude which was one of the principall causes of the enlarging of the dominions of Portugall When they were come from thence Henry the kings third sonne desirous to enlarge the kingdome to discouer strange vnknowne countreyes being then in Algarbe gaue direction for the discouery of the coast of Mauritania For in those daies none of the Portugals had euer passed the Cape de Non standing in 29. degrées of latitude And for the better accomplishing of this discouerie the aforesaid Don Henry prepared a fléete gaue commandement to the chiefe captaines to procéede in discouerie from the aforesaide Cape forward Which they did But when they came to another Cape named Bojador there was not one of them that durst goe farther or beyond it at which fearefull and cowardly faintnes of theirs the Prince was excéedingly displeased In the yéere 1417. king Iohn the second reigning in Castile and his mother Ladie Katharine then vsing the gouernment one Monsieur Ruben of Bracamonte which was then Admirall of France craued the conquest of the Islands of the Canaries with the title to be king of them for a kinsman of his called Monsieur Iohn Betancourt which being granted him by the Quéene and farther also partly furnished out he departed from Siuill with a good armie But the chiefe or principall cause that mooued him to enter into this action was to discouer and perfectly to take a view of the Island of Madera whereof Macham before had giuen so much information But for all that he went vnto the Canaries and carried with him a Friar called Mendo to be as Bishop thereof admitted by Pope Martine the fift When they were landed they wonne Lancerota Forteuentura Gomera and Ferro from whence they sent into Spaine many slaues honie waxe Camfora or Camfire hides Orchall figs Sanguis Draconis and other marchandises whereof they made good profit And this armie also as they report discouered Porto Santo

THE DISCOVERIES of the World from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555. Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by ANTONIE GALVANO Gouernour of Ternate the chiefe Island of the Malucos Corrected quoted and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford LONDINI Impensis G. Bishop 1601. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR Robert Cecill Knight principall Secretarie to her Maiestie Master of the Court of VVards and Liueries the woorthy Chancellour of the Vniuersitie of Cambridge and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell RIght Honorable while I went about to publish our English Voyages and Discoueries I was aduised by master WALTER COPE a gentleman of rare and excellent parts to draw them into a short sum adding that in his opinion that course woulde prooue most acceptable to the world especially to men of great action and employment Although in that worke then vnder the presse I could not conueniently alter my course yet holding his aduise as in many things else so in this for sound and very good I heere present vnto your Honour a briefe Treatie most agreeable to the same The authour whereof was one Antonie Galuano a Portugall gentleman of whose pietie towards God equitie towards men fidelity to his Prince loue to his countrey skill in sea causes experience in Histories liberalitie towards his nation vigilance valour wisedome and diligence in restoring setling the decaied state of The Isles of Maluco where he remained sixe or seuen yeeres gouernour if it please your Honour to read Fernando Lopez de Castagneda or Ioannes Maffeius in their Histories of The East Indies you shall finde more written in his singular commendation then a large Epistle can well comprehend The worke though s●all in bulke containeth so much rare and profitable matter as I know not where to seeke the like within so narrow and streite a compasse For heerein is orderly declared who were The first Discouerours of the world since the time of the flood by what waies from age to age the spicerie drugs and riches of the East were conueied into The West what were the causes of the alterations of those courses as namely the changes of Empires and gouernments The ceasing of all trafficke for many yeeres by The Gothes inuasion of the Romane Empire The rising vp of The Mahumetane sect with their ouerrunning of Afrike and Spaine The renewing againe after many yeeres disturbance of the trafficke and entercourse of The East Indies first by the Califas of the aforesaid sect and eftsoones by The Venetians Ienowais and Florentines Then followeth the taking of Ceuta in Barbarie by Iohn the first king of Portugall of that name in the yeere of our Lord 1415. whose third sonne Don Henry which he had by the vertuous Ladie Philippa daughter of Iohn of Gante and sister to Henry the fourth king of England was the first beginner of all the Portugall discoueries and continued the same for the space of fortie and three yeeres euen to his dying day By whose encouragement the kings of Portugall found out with much patience and constancie the last way of the bringing the Spicerie into Europe by The Cape of Buona Sperança and for these hundred yeeres past haue become the chiefe Lords of the riches of the Orient By emulation of which their good endeuours The Antiles and The west Indies began to be discouered by The kings of Spaine The infancies of both which most important enterprises The progresse of the same from time to time the discoueries of Islands riuers baies and harbours of many rich prouinces kingdomes and countries The erecting of castles in sundry conuenient Islands and places with the drawing of trafficke vnto the same where when by whom and by whose authority is heere succinctly and faithfully recorded So that if it please your Honour at your conuenient leisure to take a sea card or a mappe of the world and carie your eie vpon the coast of Africa from Cape de Non lying on the mayne in 29. degrees of northerly latitude and follow the shore about the Cape of Buona Sperança till you come to the mouth of The Redde Sea and passing thence along by the countrey of Arabia crosse ouer to India and doubling Cape Comory compasse the gulfe of Bengala shooting by the citie of Malacca through The streite of Cincapura coast al the south of Asia to the northeast part of China and comprehend in this view all the Islands from The Açores and Madera in the West to The Malucoes The Philippinas and Iapan in the East you shall heere finde by order who were the first discouerours conquerours and planters in euery place as also the natures and commodities of the soyles togither with the forces qualities and conditions of the inhabitants And that which I mention of the Orient is likewise to be vnderstood of The Occident Now touching the translation it may please you sir to be aduertised that it was first done into our language by some honest and well affected marchant of our nation whose name by no meanes I could attaine vnto and that as it seemeth many yeeres ago For it hath lien by me aboue these twelue yeeres In all which space though I haue made much inquirie and sent to Lisbon where it seemeth it was printed yet to this day I could neuer obtaine the originall copie whereby I might reforme the manifold errours of the translator For whereas a good translator ought to be well acquainted with the proprietie of the tongue out of which and of that into which he translateth and thirdly with the subiect or matter it selfe I found this translator very defectiue in all three especially in the last For the supplying of whose defects I had none other remedie but to haue recourse vnto the originall histories which as it appeereth are very many and many of them exceeding rare and hard to come by out of which the authour himselfe drew the greatest part of this discourse And in very deede it cost me more trauaile to search out the grounds thereof and to annexe the marginall quotations vnto the worke then the translation of many such bookes would haue put me vnto Of which quotations there is yet a farther vse to wit that such as haue leasure sufficient and are desirous to reade these things more at large for breuitie oftentimes breedeth obscuritie may fully satisfie their desires by hauing recourse by the helpe therof to the pure fountaines out of which those waters which are drawne are for the most part most sweete and holsome Now if any man shall maruel that in these Discoueries of The World for the ●pace almost of fower thousand yeeres here set downe our nation is scarce fower times mentioned Hee is to vnderstand that when this authour ended this discourse which was about the yeere of Grace 1555. there was little extant of our mens trauailes And for ought I can see there had no great matter yet come to