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A10231	Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... The fourth edition, much enlarged with additions, and illustrated with mappes through the whole worke; and three whole treatises annexed, one of Russia and other northeasterne regions by Sr. Ierome Horsey; the second of the Gulfe of Bengala by Master William Methold; the third of the Saracenicall empire, translated out of Arabike by T. Erpenius. By Samuel Purchas, parson of St. Martins by Ludgate, London.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.; Makīn, Jirjis ibn al-ʻAmīd, 1205-1273. Taŕikh al-Muslimin. English.; Methold, William, 1590-1653.; Horsey, Jerome, Sir, d. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 20508.5; ESTC S111832	2,067,390	1,140

renue their mourning with great howling as they then did for Kashurakeny who died the yeere before They report that the Canibals haue a Sea behinde them They found a Bath two miles about so hote that they could not drinke it Master Patteson was slaine by the Sauages of Nanhoc a Riuer of the Tarentines Their short Commons caused feare of mutiny One of the Sauages called Aminquin for a straw hat and knife giuen him stript himselfe of his cloathing to Beuers skinnes worth in England 50. shillings or three pound to present them to the President leauing onely a flap to couer his priuities He would also haue come with them for England In winter they are poore and weake and do not then company with their wiues but in Summer when they are fat and lusty But your eyes wearied with this Northerne view which in that Winter communicated with vs in extremitie of cold looke now for greater hopes in the Southerne Plantation as the right arme of his Virginian body with greater costs and numbers furnished from hence But first let me tell you that by some lately these Northerne Parts are stiled by the Name of New-England as being supposed in the same Latitude with Noua Albion on the South Sea discouered by Sir Francis Drake hauing New France on the North and the Southern Plantation of Virginia on the South New Spaine New Granado New Andalusia being in the same Continent A Map and Discouerie hereof was set forth this last yeere by Captaine Iohn Smith with new English Names exchanged for the Saluage It lyeth betwixt 41. degrees and 45. minutes The harsh Names of the habitations of those parts I forbeare to recite the commodities are expressed by that Author First for fish let not any thinke this contemptible when by his report the Hollanders reape from three kinds Herring Cod and Ling fifteene hundred thousand pound yeerely herevpon principally founding their greatnesse by Sea and Land In March Aprill May and halfe Iune here is Cod in abundance in May Iune Iuly and August Mullet and Sturgeon whose Roes doe make Caularie and Puttargo Their store of Herrings they compare to the haires of their heads In the end of August September October and Nouember you haue Cod againe to make Corfish or Poore-Iohnt wice as good as in New-found-land where their fishing also is chiefely but in Iune and Iuly Mullets are here taken by Nets which at Cape Blanke are hooked and twice as large He addes store of Red-berries called Alkermes Muske-Rats Beuers Otters Martins Blacke Foxes probabilities of Mines and manifold commodities of the soile the particulars whereof I referre to the booke it selfe together with the arguments for a Plantation there There also you may reade his Obseruations and Discoueries Anno 1614. with the successe of sixe ships that went the next yeere and his disasters by French Pirats and English perfidie This present yeere 1616. eight voluntarie ships went thither to make further tryall and hereafter we hope to haue English Colonies renued in this Northerly Plantation newly called New-England §. II. Of the Southerne Plantation and Colonies and many causes alledged of the ill successe thereof at the first CAptaine Bartholomew Gosnold hauing long sollicited many of his friends at last preuailed with some Gentlemen as Master Edward Maria Wingfield Captaine Iohn Smith and diuers others with the helpe of some Noblemen and Merchants his Maiestie granting Commission for establishing Councels to direct here and to gouerne and execute there so that December 19. 1606. they set saile and after long contending with contrarie windes and the windy inconstancie of some of the company that would haue returned for England before they had saluted their desired Port they were by a storme forced into the same vnexpected where after some harme by assault of the Sauages on the 13. of May Master Wingfield was chosen President their fort contriued and the fals soone after discouered Sixe weekes being thus spent Captaine Newport returned with the ships and Captaine Smith before held in much iealousie was by the paines of Mr Hunt the Preacher reconciled and admitted of the Councell a hundred being left there for the Plantation Within ten dayes after the departure of this moueable Tauerne as they called it a more sauage enemy then the Sauages had assaulted them and scarcely ten left vntouched with sicknesse through want of conuenient lodging and diet of which from May to September fifty dyed Wingfield was deposed and Ratcliffe established in his place and by the industrie of Smith Iames Towne was builded the Sauages supplying their necessities they failing Captaine Smith sought trade abroad others at home intending a returne in the Pinace for England by his vnexpected returning were forced to stay or sinke which action cost the life of Captaine Kendall Soone after the like plot of the President and Captaine Archer was discouered and by him againe suppressed The Winter approaching the Riuers afforded them plenty of Cranes Swannes Geese Ducks with which and Pease wilde Beasts and other land-commodities they dayly feasted But in the discouerie of Chickahamine Riuer George Casson was surprised and Smith with two others were beset with two hundred Sauages his men slaine and himselfe in a quagmire taken prisoner but after a moneth he procured himselfe not onely libertie but great admiration amongst them and returning once more stayed the Pinace from flight and the Fort from being abandoned The Treasurer and Councell meane-while carefull to supply their wants sent two ships with neere a hundred men Capt. Newport arriued safely Captaine Nelson with the other ship by force of windes was driuen to shift as hee could elsewhere Now the Sauages enchanted by Smiths relations of God Nature and Art were in manner at his command till the ambition of some by giuing foure times as much for their commodities as he appointed seeking to seeme of so much greater magnificence and authoritie made them prize their commodities dearer Newport whom Smith had called father and extolled with Powhatan the Emperour went with solemnitie to visit him sending Smith before who after his manner of State gaue him royall entertainment sitting vpon his bed of Mats his pillow of leather embroidered with pearle and white beads attired with a robe of skins large as an Irish mantle at his head and feet sate a handsome yong woman on each side his house twenty others their heads and shoulders painted red with a great chaine of white beades about their necks before those sate his chiefest men in like order in his Arbor-like house Newport gaue him a boy for whom Powhatan gaue him Namontacke his seruant which was after brought into England Powhatan wittily cheated our men and offering so much corne as they gaue copper said he could eate that not this Their gettings in this voyage other commodities and their townes were casually consumed by fire and the ship staying fourteene weekes spent most of that prouision for the reliefe of the

in water thicke and white the next day in fresh and the day after saw two Islands in the mouth of Amazones accounting themselues fortie Leagues vp the Riuer May 22. they were in the Riuer of Wiapogo which they called Caroleigh in three degrees and halfe Northward from the Line The people were ready to giue them entertainment The Iayos and Capayos offered them their owne houses and gardens already planted two of which he accepted with some gardens vndertaking to defend them against the Charibes and their other enemies They desired him to send into England for some to teach them to pray and gaue fiue pledges to be sent thither He after intending for England dyed aboord his ship of the Flux They intoxicate the fish with a strong sentedwood called Ayaw whereby they easily take them on the top of the water Their bread is Cassaui of which chewed they also make drinke They are much troubled with a Worme like a Flea the Spaniards call it Niguas which creepes into the flesh of their toes vnder the nailes and multiply there with much multiplication of torment except they vse speedie preuention One was so pestred with them that for remedie they were faine to hold his feet vpwards and powre thereon melted Wax hot which being cold they plucked off and therewith seuen or eight hundred Niguas The people are of modest countenance naked but would weare clothes if they had them Huntly returned for England and left there fiue and thirtie which should haue bin succoured it Discord had suffered Anno 1605. a ship was sent for supply but the Mariners and Land-men quarelling these were left on Land at Saint Lucia an Island in twelue degrees of Northerly Latitude to the number of threescore and seuen and most of them slaine a by the Ilanders These Indians go naked haue long blacke haire their bodies painted red with three strokes also of red from the eare to the eye Eleuen of our men after much miserie and famishment which killed some of them in the way got to Coro and after good and bad entercourse of fortunes with the Spaniards some returned home The Spaniards there as Iohn Nichol one of this companie testifieth told them of a Vision of Christ on the Crosse appearing to our King and reuoking him from his error at the sight whereof three of our Bishops fell into a trance and so continued three dayes after which they became Catholikes and preached and the King had sent to the Pope for learned men to perfect this Conuersion These were the Spanish tricks with faithlesse tales to peruert these men to their faith The Mariners gaue names to the places which they left according to their conceits of these men Rogues Bay Cape Knaue Riuer of Rascals They came as farre as Comana or Cumana where they obserued the weather hot till noone and then a coole breeze and thunder without raine by windes and current they were detained from Wiapogo which they sought A Fleming there told them fabulous rumours of Warres with Spaine Another ship of Amsterdam to disgrace our men told the Indians of Wiapoco that they came to inhabit there and to oppresse them as the Spaniards did See what gaine can doe without godlinesse A ship of Middleburgh came thither with Negros to sell thither came also a ship of Saint Malos The Indians of these parts as Wilson reporteth choose their Captaines at their drunken Feasts in this sort They set the nominated person in the midst with his hands lifted ouer his head making Orations to him to bee valiant after which they whip him with a whip that fetcheth bloud at euery stroke for tryall of his courage he neuer mouing thereat They haue commerce with the Deuill For they told vs of three ships in the Riuer of Amazons and that One two moneths after would visit vs They call this Deuill Peyae with whom the men haue often conference the women neuer that they could perceiue they suffer not meane-while a childe in the house When any bee sicke they thus consult of their recouerie and if their Oracle answer death they will giue no Physicke if life they vse their best helpes For an Axe they would trauell with them two or three moneths or finde them so long victuals at home The Iayos are proud ingenious giuen to flouting The Arwakos of better carriage The Saspayes craftie The two former hate the Spaniards as much as the Caribes Their houses haue doores at each end the men keepe at one end the women at the other they are like Barnes but longer some hundred and fiftie paces long and twentie broad an hundred of them keepe together in one No raine commeth in notwithstanding that store which falleth in Aprill May Iune and most of Iuly They paint them when they goe to feasts Against the time of trauell the women haue as roome apart whereto they goe alone and are deliuered without helpe which done shee cals her husband and deliuers it to him who presently washeth it in a pot of water and paints it with sundry colours I could not heare saith Wilson the woman so much as grone all the time of her trauell When one dyes they make great moane ten or twelue dayes together and sometimes longer Here are store of Deere Hares Conies Hogs Monkeyes Leopards Lyons Porke-pines Parrots as big as Hennes blue and red very beautifull c. He returned with the rest in a ship of Amsterdam the Indians being loth to part with them They often inquired of Sir Walter Raleigh and one came from Orenoque to aske of him alledging his promise of returne The like remembrances of him are mentioned by Master Harcourt in his late published Voyage to Guiana This worthy Gentleman An. 1608. with Gentlemen and others to the number of 97. set forth for Wiapoco The ninth of May they fell into the Current of that great and famous Riuer of Amazones of which they drunke fresh and good being 30. leagues from Land the tenth day the water became muddy whitish and thicke the eleuenth day they made Land and their Pinnace being left dry vpon the Ebbe by the next floud comming on was almost spoyled Thence they stood along the Coast to Wiapoco whither they came May the seuenteenth and setled themselues at Caripo Hee tooke possession in his Maiesties name as Captaine Leigh had also done of this spacious Countrey of Guiana bounded on the North with Orenoque and the Sea on the East and South with the Riuer of Amazones on the West with the Mountaines of Peru The Charibes are the Ancient Inhabitants the Other later Incrochers There is no setled gouernment amongst them only they acknowledge a superioritie which they will obey as long as they please They commonly punish Murther Adulterie by death which are the only offences punished amongst them and certaine persons are appointed to execute those punishments The better sort haue two or three wiues or more the rest but one

the care of his brother his two sonnes which slaying the eldest making himselfe King by his tyrannies caused diuers of the Iauan Nobilitie to forsake their Country Amongst the rest Paramisora fled to Cingapura who with his many followers was entertained kindly by Sangesinga whom not long after he vngratefully slew and by the helpe of his Iauans possessed himselfe of the state The King of Siam whose tributary and son-in-law Sangesinga had bin forced him to leaue his ill gotten throne and to seek new habitation one hundred and fortie miles thence where he settled himselfe at the riuer Muar with two thousand followers some of which were called Cellati men that liued on the Sea by fishing and pyracie these he would not receiue into his new fortresse of Pago as not well trusting them though before they had made him lord of Cingapura These therefore seated themselues fifteene miles from Muar in the place neere which Malaca now standeth ioyning with the Natiues halfe Sauages whose language is called Malayan The place growing strait they remoued three miles vp the riuer where was a Hill called Beitan with a large plaine the commodiousnesse whereof inuited Paramisora to leaue Pago and to ioyne with them in this new foundation which was after called Malaca signifying a banished man in remembrance of this Iauans exile In succeeding times the merchandize and Merchants too remoued from Cingapura to Malaca Saquem Darsa then succeeding his father Paramisora who subiected himselfe as vassal to the King of Siam which assigned to his obedience all the Country from Cingapura on the East to Pulo Zambilan which is to the West of Malaca one hundred and twentie miles all which space of coast is two hundred seuentie miles by Sea The Monsons or winds in these parts continue West and Northwest from the end of August to the end of October Nouember begins Northerly winds and Northeasterly which blow till the beginning of April From May till the end of August the South and Southwest beare sway according to which the Mariner must direct his course and take his proper season The situation of Malaca is vnwholsome by reason of the marishes and neerenesse to the line little aboue two degrees to the North else it would haue bin the most populous Citie in the Indies The successors of Saquen Darsa by little and little eased their shoulders of the Siam subiection especially after the Moores Persians and Guzurats had conuerted them to Mahomets sect and at last vsurped absolute Souereigntie But the King of Siam nine yeeres before the Portugall conquest sent a Fleet of two hundred saile and therein sixe thousand men against Mahumet King of Malaca the General of which Fleet was Poioan his Vice-roy of Lugor to whom the Gouernours of Patane Calantan Pan and other Coast-cities were to pay their tributes for the King of Siam From Lugor to Malaca is six hundred miles saile alongst the coast much subiect to tempestuous weather which diuided this Fleet some of which fell into Mahumets hand by treachery to the ouerthrow of the rest The Siamite in reuenge prepared a great Armie by Land and Armada by Sea foure hundred Elephants and thirtie thousand men but without expected euent by the insolencie of some of his Souldiers in Rapes and Robberies which raised the Country against them whiles Poioan was in the siege of Pan or Pam another Citie in rebellion The King of Siam further enraged sent two Armadas one by the way of Calantan the other by the way of Tenaz-zary one on the East side the other on the West of this long tract of land but before Mahumet could be punished by the Siamite the Portugall had preuailed against him King Emanuel had sent Diego Lopes de Sequeira from Lisbone Anno 1508. who came the next yeere to Malaca and there vnder faire colours of traffique Himselfe and his whole Fleet were in danger of betraying and murthering by this perfidious King and his Bendara or chiefe Iustice This ruled all cases Ciuill the Lacsamaua or Admirall all Marine and the Tamungo or Treasurer all the Reuenue and these three the whole gouernment which treachery in the yeere 1511. was requited by Albuquerke who by his proper valour and wonted Fortunes with secret intelligence amongst the Malayans conquered the Citie expelled the King who in few dayes vomited His soule after this pill and built there a Fortresse and a Church establishing the Portugall Lawes but so as both the Ethnikes and the Moores had their owne Magistrates appeale reserued to the highest The most remarkable things in this exploit were the Chaine which one Naodobeguea one of the principall conspirers against Sequeira now encountred in a Sea-fight by Albuquerke in his voyage to Malaca ware on his arme with a bone of a Iauan beast called Cabal therein by vertue whereof notwithstanding many and wide wounds he lost not one drop of blood till that Chaine being taken off his veines suddenly and at once emptied themselues of blood and life the store of artillery of which they tooke three thousand Peeces of eight thousand which the Portugals affirmed had beene there their venomed Arrowes and Calthrops strowed in the way the poyson whereof once touching the blood made them mad with other symptomes as in the biting of a mad dog which they learned after to heale by chewing the leafe of a certaine hearbe growing in the Countrey the vndermining the street of the Citie to blow it vp together with the Portugals the disaduantage of the fight with Elephants which being here enraged with wounds would not be ruled but brake the ranks of their owne side the treacherie of this people first to the Portugals then to their King after that to the Portugals againe the prey and spolle besides all that the King and they which fled carried away and all the Gold Siluer prouision of warre and concealements excepted amounted to two hundred thousand duckets for the Kings due which was the fifth part Alodinus the sonne of King Mahomet busily bestirred himselfe but in vaine to recouer his lost Patrimonie neither the I le Bintam which he fortified as he did also Pagus nor force nor fraud being able to defend him from his fathers fates and fortunes The Moores haue enuyed this successe to the Portugals and often haue attempted to depriue them of Malaca The Hollanders also vnder Cornelius Mateliuius Anno 1608. laid siege thereto whiles the Portugall was seeking new conquests at Achen who in their returne might easily haue defeated them had they not beene unadvised in too long aduising When the Portugals went to Malaca the King of Pans marriage with the daughter of Mahomet was to bee solemnized a banquetting house of timber couered with silke sumptuously prepared to this purpose on thirtie wheeles to be drawne with Elephants the Principals of the Citie being therein But this Kings affection was soone cooled by these disasters From Cingapura to Pulo Cambilan there is no other habitation of any

inclosed Iewes THe Persian Gulfe hath left some remnants of Land extant the chiefe is Ormuz a famous Mart which the Moores there maintayned vnder the gouernment of a Moore after made tributarie to the Portugall which Nature hath made barren Industrie plentifull the more fertile Element yeelds barrennesse and sands the barrenner bringeth in a double wealth Pearles and Merchandise Iohn Newbury which sayled downe Euphrates to this Sea and so to Ormuz visiting Bagdet by the way which he saith is twentie or fiue and twentie miles Southward from old Babylon testifieth of the women in Ormuz that they slit the lower part of their eares more then two inches which hangeth downe to their chin This our Countrey-man dyed in this Trauels hauing trauelled to Constantinople into the blacke Sea and Danubius and through the Kingdomes of Poland and Persia the Indies and other parts of the World But for the description of the passage downe the Riuer Euphrates to the Persian Gulfe I know none which hath done it so exactly as Gasparo Balbi a Venetian which that way passed to Ormuz and India who relateth the same in the Diarie of his Trauels sometimes the Trunkes or Bodies of Trees vnder the water of this Riuer conspiring dangerous attempts sometimes Zelebe and other ouer-hanging Mountaynes threatning ruine and euen now seeming to swallow them in their darke-deuouring jawes sometimes the violence of some steeper Current as it were hurling them into a Whirle-poole alway the Arabians ready attending for prey and spoile One Citie or rather the carkasse of a Citie whereof onely the ruines are remayning stands on the left hand of this Riuer greater in his opinion then Cairo in Egypt the Mariners affirmed to him That by the report of the old men it had three hundred threescore and sixe gates from morning to noone with the helpe of the streame and foure Oares they could scarcely passe one side thereof This is called Elersi perhaps that which was anciently called Edessa Hee speakes of the Caraguoh inhabiting as they passed which agree neither with Turkes Moores nor Persians in their Sect but haue an Heresie by themselues Hee trauelled more then one whole day by one side of old Babylon from Felugia to Bagdad though the ground bee good yet saw hee neither Tree nor greene Herbe but all barren and seeming to retaine some markes of the Prophesies threatned by Esay against this place They which dwell heere and trauell from hence to Balsara carrie with them Pigeons whom they make their Letter-posts to Bagdad as they doe likewise betweene Ormuz and Balsara The coasts of Persia as they sayled in this Sea seemed as a parched Wildernesse without tree or grasse those few people which dwell there and in the Ilands of Lar and Cailon liue on flesh being in manner them selues transformed into the nature of Fishes so excellent swimmers are they that seeing a vessell in the Seas though stormie and tempestuous they will swimme to it fiue or sixe miles to begge almes They eate their fish with Rice hauing no Bread their Cats Hennes Dogges and other Creatures which they keepe haue no other dyet In the Iland of Bairen and those of Gonfiar they take the best Pearles in the world In Muscato threescore miles from Ormuz they dare not fish for them for Fishes which are as cruell to the Men as they to the innocent Oysters They hold that in Aprill the Oysters come to the top of the water and receiue the drops of Raine which then fall wherewith they returne to the bottome againe and therefore fish not till the end of Iuly because that substance is not before ripened and hard In sayling from Ormuz to Diu he saith they passed ouer a Bay of a hundred and thirtie leagues of water white like milke I haue seene an Extract of a Chronicle written by Pachaturunuras which raigned in Ormuz three hundred yeares agoe testifying that one Mahomet being King of Amen in Arabia Foelix pretending title to Persia built a Citie on the Continent of Hormuz which his posteritie held in succession of many generations It happened that King Cabadim flying from the King of Creman came to Iarum that is a Wood so they called this Iland which is almost all of Salt the Riuer being brackish from a salt Mountaine in the middest thereof and the sides of the Riuer white salt Yet there then grew thinne Woods Heere he built Ormuz which Albuquerk made tributarie to the Portugals being Lady of the Ilands thereabouts and principall Staple of Merchandize for those parts of the world Odoricus speaketh of the intollerable heate in those parts and Balby testifieth that neere Balsara many persons die of the extremitie of heat which happened to foure of their company which forced by heat and wearinesse sate downe and with a hot blast of winde were all smothered Ormuz is lately taken from the Portugals by the Persian In the Discourse of these Asian Seas and this Persian among the rest I thought it worthy relating which Luys de Vrreta in his Aetheopian Historie telleth of a certrine Iew though perhaps but a tale for a lyer such as hee hath beene euicted in his Aethiopian Storie loseth his credit where he speakes truth yet euen tales serue for mirth being intermixed with serious histories branded that they may be knowne for Rogues or Iesters Be it as it will he tels that this Iew trauelling alongst the shoare of this Persian Sea by some In-lets and Armes thereof which embay themselues within the Land saw the Sea loftie and swelling by force of the Windes and Tides seeming to threaten the higher Elements but euen now ready to swallow vp the Earth roaring out a loud defiance in such sort that the poore Iew was amazed and dreadfully feared therewith and this continued the space of some dayes whiles the Iew trauelled thereby But on the Saturday and Sabbath Superstition commanded the Iew and Nature the Hand-maid of Diuinitie enioyned the angrie Elements to rest a suddaine calme followed as if Waues and Windes would accompany the Iew in his deuotions and had forgotten their former furie and wonted nature to remember the sanctification of this Day The Iew hauing heard before that there was a Sabbaticall Riuer which some place in Aethiopia some in Phoenicia others they cannot tell where in a credulous fancie perswades himselfe that this Arme of the Sea was that Sabbaticall Streame and that he now saw the experiment of that relation with his eyes Fancie had no sooner affirmed but Superstition sware to the truth and Credulitie tickles him with gratulation of Diuine fauour to himselfe that had liued to see that blessed sight Rauished with this conceit hee fills his Budget full of the Sand which is of a more grosse and cleauing nature then in other places and carrieth it with him as a great treasure vnto the place of his habitation There hee tells his Countreymen that now the Messias would not be long before he came

much of it is exported to Mocha and Arrecan and not a little drunke amongst themselues It is but weake yet sure more care in curing and making it vp would helpe that fault they onely dry the leaues in the Sun and vse it so without further sophistication These are the generall Commodities of this Countrey which are dispersed in some measure through the World but are best knowne in Indian Traffique and produce constantly certaine profit in their exportation to other parts to which purpose they build great Ships and good ones too considered in their burthen and materials but not comparable to ours for beautie conueniencie or defence some of them not lesse then 600. tunnes substantially built of very good timber and Iron whereof we haue had vpon some occasion good experience in careening the Globe Salomon and Clawe in the Riuer of Narsoporpeta With these their Ships they traffique ordinarily to Mocha in the Red Sea to Achijne vpon Sumatra to Arrecan Pegu and Tannassery on the other side the Gulfe and to many Ports alongst their owne Coasts as farre as Zeloan and the Cape Comorijne To Mocha they set sayle in Ianuary and returne in September or October following and thither the King sends yeerely a proportion of Rice as an Almes to be distributed amongst the Pilgrimes which resort to Mecha and Medina where their Prophet Mahomets Shrine is visited with much deuotion He sendeth also an Aduenture the proceed whereof is inuested in Arabian Horses which are returned not aboue sixe or eight in a Shippe whereof they make great account For in this Countrey there is no Race of good Horses Tobasco they send in great quantities many small Rocans to make Launces certaine sorts of Calicoes proper for Turbants Iron Steele Indico Beniamin and Gumme Lacke For which they returne some few watered Chamblets but the most part ready money in Sultannees or Rials of eight In September the Ships for Achijne Arrecan Pegu and Tannassery set all sayie for it is to be vnderstood that alongst this and all other Coasts of India the windes blow constantly trade sixe moneths one way and sixe moneths another which they call the Monsons alternately succeeding each other not missing to alter in Aprill and October onely variable towards their end so that taking the last of a Monson they set sayles and with a fore-winde arriue at their desired Hauen and there negotiating their Affaires they set sayle from thence in February or March following and with the like fauourable gale returne in Aprill vnto their owne Ports To Acheene they export much Steele and some Iron diuers sorts of Calicoes both white and painted and of late times when the Myne was first discouered store of Diamonds which were sold to great benefit from whence they returne Beniamin and Camphora of Barouse Pepper of Priaman and Tecoo Brimstone and all sorts of Porcellane and China Commodities if to be had to sell againe to profit To Arrecan they send store of Tobacco some Iron and few sorts of painted clothes and returne from thence some Gold and Gumme Lacke but most part Rice which they sell about Pallecat and that Coast of Narsinga To Pegu they export much Siluer in Rials of eight Cotton yarne and Beethyles dyed red with seueral sorts of paintings bring from thence the perfect Rubies Saphires which are dispersed through the World much Gold the best Gum Lack with some Tin Quicksiluer To Tannassery they carry red Cotton yarne red and white Beethyles paintings of seuerall sorts befitting that Countries weare and landing them at Tannassery carry them from thence to Syam fourteene dayes iourney ouer Land from whence by the like conueyance they bring all sorts of China Commodities as Porcellane Sattins Damaskes Lankeene Silke Lignum Aloes Beniamin of Camboia and great store of Tinne and a wood to die withall called Sapan wood the same we heere call Brasill Alongst their owne Coast they trade with smaller shipping lading Rice and other graine where it is cheapest selling it againe on the Coast of Bisnagar to great benefit taking children in exchange which cost not them aboue three or foure shillings a childe and they sell againe in Musulipatnam and other places for forty shillings And thus much shal suffice to haue written of this Kingdom wherein I haue been the more prolixe because my own knowledge fortified with almost fiue yeeres experience assureth me of the truth of what I haue written Where this Country endeth the Kingdome of Bengala beginneth subsisting at this time vnder the Monarchy of the Great Mogull which he ruleth by his Gouernours disposed into seuerall Prouinces whose powerfull Neighbourhood causeth the King of Golchonda to keepe constant Garisons which with the aduantage of Riuers and Deserts secureth him on that side of his Kingdome In this Countrey we are meere strangers the Coast is too dangerous and our shipping too great to aduenture them amongst so many shelfes and sands yet are we enformed by such as comes from thence and confirmed by the price and abundance of such things as that Countrey produceth that it is the most plentifull of all the East For once a yeere there ariueth at Musulipatnam a Fleet of small Vessels from thence of burden about twenty tunnes the plankes onely sowne together with Cairo a kinde of Cord made of the rinds of Coconuts and no Iron in or about them In which Barkes they bring Rice Butter Sugar Waxe Honey Gumme Lacke Long Pepper Callico Lawnes and diuers sorts or Cotton-cloth Raw Silke and Moga which is made of the barke of a certaine tree and very curious Quilts and Carpets stitched with this Moga all which considering the plenty of the place whereunto they bring them should come hither as we say of Coales carried to New-castle yet here they sell them to contented profit Many Portugals decayed in their estates or questioned for their liues resort hither liue here plentifully yet as banished men or Out-lawes without gouernment practice or almost profession of Religion to conclude it may truly be spoken of this Countrey as it is abusiuely of another Bengala bona terra mala gons It is the best Countrey peopled with the worst Nation of whom this repute runnes currant in India the men are all Theeues and the women Whoores Here the famous Ganges disimboqueth into the Sea fructifying it seemes the Countrey but little sanctifying the Inhabitants whereof I can speake very little as hauing alwayes liued at great distance from it onely I haue heard it is full of Crocodiles and so are most Riuers within the Gulfe where I haue seene many of immense bignesse which the Ferrimen that passe men and cattle ouer those Riuers know how to charme and then with safety ferry ouer the Passengers in the bodies of one or two Palmito trees ioyned and swimme ouer the Cattle the order of which charming hauing once seene I thought good to insert Beeing at a Riuers side and ready to passe it we espied