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A05051	The description of a voyage made by certaine ships of Holland into the East Indies VVith their aduentures and successe: together with the description of the countries, townes, and inhabitantes of the same: who set forth on the second of Aprill 1595. and returned on the 14. of August. 1597. Translated out of Dutch into English by W.P.; Verhael vande reyse by de Hollandtsche schepen gedaen naer Oost Indien. English.	Phillip, William.; Houtman, Cornelis de, d. 1599, attributed name.; Langenes, Barent.	1598 (1598)	STC 15193; ESTC S109348	41,570	78

desirous to deale with vs for such wares as hee had and sent to know from whence we came and we saide wee came out of Holland The 29. and 30. there came more men aborde our shippes but as wee suspected that was not the right hauen for the people came rowing in great haste a far off and the man of Bengala could not tell what to say but the King was thereabout and euery day sent vs some fruit The first of February wee had two hogges brought aborde our shippes that wee bought for two Ryalles of eyght and we eate them very sauerly The 2. of Februarie we set saile that wee might get aboue the point where wee thought to finde a better place for freshe water but by reason the winde was contrary wee coulde not doe it but were forced to anker againe The 3. of February we set saile againe and then wee had a storme so that our saile blew euery way and because of the contrarie winde we could not reach aboue the point but were constrained to anker but the Mauritius and the Pinace got past it although thereby the Mauritius was in no little daunger but because the Pilot had laid a wager of 6. Rialles of 8. that hee woulde get aboue it hee would passe what daunger soeuer it might be and sayled close along by the cliffes whereby wee lay at anker without companie The 4. and 5. wee set saile once againe to get aboue the point but could not reach it The 6. we had a letter from Rodenburgh that certified vs how the Mauritius lay at anker at the least 7. or 8. miles beyond the point and he that brought the letter came with it ouer land and at the same time there was a man sent on lande with a small present for the King that we might winne his fauour The 7. our man came on borde againe and brought vs newes how Rodenburgh with one of the Portingalles slaues being on lande were against their willes led before the King but the saylors of the Mauritius had gotten men for pledges The 8. of Ianuarie the same man went on land out of our shippe with more presentes of veluet and a caliuer the better to get the Kinges fauour which liked him well and desired vs to bring the ship nearer to the towne saying he would send vs water and other things sufficient to supply our wants The 9. we sayled into the cheeke with our shippe ankered about a small halfe mile from the land being ankered there came at the least 70. boates of the Countrie to see our ship and the King sent vs word that hee was desirous to heare vs shoote off 5. or 6. of our great peeces wherevppon wee shot fiue of our greatest peeces and the King stoode vppon the shore to see them The 10. we had a letter from Cornelis Houtman to wil vs to come to them for that there they had founde a good place for water and of all other necessaries so that about euening wee set sayle leauing two of our men and a Portingall slaue among the Indians whome the King promised should come vnto vs ouer land yet that night wee could not reach aboue the point meane time we perceyued our Pinace that came to helpe vs. The 16. we got by the Mauritius that had already laden in her water and hooped her vessels wherevpon we began presently to do the like and to visite our vessels that were almost spoyled The 17. our men whome wee left with the King came ouer land vnto our shippes and then we bought great store of cattle and fruit The 18. 19. 20. and 21. wee imployed our time to lade water which wee had verie easily and refreshed our selues with Cattle Hogges fruit and Lemons sufficient There came one of the Kinges principall officers with our men ouer land to pleasure vs in all things we desired he was very desirous to haue some present of vs. The 22. of Ianuarie two of our men that sayled in the Mauritius stayed on lande but wee knewe not the cause it should seeme some great promises had beene made vnto them for as we vnderstoode the King was very desirous to haue all sortes of strange nations about him Two of our men stayed with the Indians but our people were therein much ouerseene for there they liued among heathens that neyther knewe God nor his commandementes it appeared that their youthes and wilde heades did not remember it one of their names was Emanuel Rodenburgh of Amsterdam the other Iacob Cuyper of Delft within a day or two they sent vnto vs for their clothes but wee sent them not The 23. 24. and 25. we made a voyage on land and fetcht as many Hogges abord our shippes as we could eate The 25. of Februarie we hoysed ankers minding to set saile so go homeward leauing our 2. men aforesaid on land but because it was calme weather we ankered and went once againe on lande and the 26. of the same Month wee set saile and helde our course West South west but we had a calme The situation of the Island of Baly THe Island of Baly lying at the East end of Iaua is a verie fruitfull Islande of Ryce Hennes Hogges that are verie good and great store of cattle but they are very drie and leane beastes They haue many horses the inhabitantes are heathens and haue no religion for some pray to Kine others to the Sunne and euerie man as hee thinketh good How 50. women burnt them selues with one man When a man dyeth his wife burneth her selfe with him there were some of their men aborde our shippes that told vs that when some man dyeth in that Countrey that sometimes there are at the least fifty women that will burne themselues with him and she that doth not so is accounted for a dishonest woman so that it is a common thing with them The apparel both of men and women is for the most part like those of Bantam nothing but a cloth about their middles Their weapons is each man a poinyarde at their backes and a trunke with an iron point like a speare about a fadom and a halfe long out of the which they blowe certaine arrowes whereof they haue a case full it is an euil weapon for naked men they are enemies to the Mores and Portingalles This Island yeeldeth no spice nor any other costly ware onely victuailes and clothes which they weare about their bodies and slaues that are there to be solde The King went with more state then the King of Bantam all his garde had pikes with heades of fine gold and he sate in a wagon that was drawen by 2. two white Buffles The first of March we had a calme The third we got a good wind that blew Southeast holding our course West South west The fourteenth the wind blew stil South east sometimes more Southwarde and sometimes Eastward being vnder 14. degrees and a good sharpe gale holding our course West Southwest

THE DESCRIPTION of a voyage made by certaine Ships of Holland into the East INDIES With their aduentures and successe Together With the description of the Countries Townes and inhabitantes of the same Who set forth on the second of Aprill 1595. and returned on the 14. of August 1597. Translated out of Dutch into English by W. P. LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe 1598. To the right worshipfull Sir James Scudamore Knight RIght worshipfull this small treatie written in Dutch shewing a late voyage performed by certain Hollanders to the Islandes of Iaua part of the East Indies falling into my handes and in my iudgement deseruing no lesse commendation then those of our Countrey men as Captaine Raimond in the Penelope Maister Foxcroft in the Marchant Royall and M. Iames Lancaster in the Edward Bonauenture vnto the said East Indies by the Cape de Bona Sperance in Anno 1591. as also M. Iohn Newbery and Raphael Fich ouer land through Siria from Aleppo vnto Ormus and Goa and by the said Raphael Fich himselfe to Bengala Malacca Pegu and other places in Anno 1583. as at large appeareth in a booke written by M. Richard Haclute a Gentleman very studious therein entituled the English voyages I thought it not vnconuenient to translate the same into our mother tongue thereby to procure more light and encouragement to such as are desirous to trauell those Countries for the common wealth and commoditie of this Realme and themselues And knowing that all men are not like affected I was so bold to shrowd it vnder your worships protection as being assured of your good disposition to the fauouring of trauell and trauellers and whereby it hath pleased God to aduance you to that honourable title which at this present you beare and so not fitter for the protection of any then your selfe and as a poore friend wishing all happines and prosperity in all your valiant actions Which if it please your worshippe to like and accept it may procure the proceeding in a more large and ample discourse of an East Indian voyage lately performed and set forth by one Iohn Hughen of Linschoten to your further delight Wherewith crauing your fauor beseeching God to blesse your worship with my good Ladie your wife I most humbly take my leaue This 16. of Ianuarie 1597. Your Worships to commaunde W. Phillip To the Bayliefes Burghemaisters Counsell of the Towne of Middelborgh in Zeelande IT may well bee thought Right worshipfull as many learned men are of opinion that the actions and aduentures of the ancients long since done performed haue beene set forth with more show of wonder and strangenesse then they in truth deserued the reason as I think was because that in those daies there were many learned and wise men who in their writings sought by all meanes they could to excell each other touching the description of Countries nations And againe to the contrarie for want of good Historiographers and writers many famous actes and trauels of diuers nations and Countries lie hidden and in a manner buried vnder ground as wholly forgotten and vnknowne vnlesse it were such as the Grecians and Romanes for their owne glories and aduantages thought good to declare But to come to the matter of voyages by sea it is euident to all the world what voyage Iason with certaine yong Grecian Princes made to Colchos in the Oriental Countries to winne the golden Fleece as also the trauels by Hercules performed into Libia in the West partes to winne the Aurea Mala or golden apples of Hesperides which notwithstanding neither for length daunger nor profite are any thing comparable to the nauigations and voyages that of late within the space of one hundreth years haue been performed made into the East West Indies whereby in a manner there is not one hauen on the sea coast nor any point of land in the whole world but hath in time beene sought and founde out I will not at this present dispute or make an argument whether the Countries and nations of late yeares found out and discouered were knowne to the auncients but this is most certaine that not any strange worke or aduenture was or euer shall be performed but by the speciall grace fauour and mightie hand of God and that such are worthy perpetual memory as with noble minds haue sought to effect and be the first enterprisers thereof and with most valiant courages and wisedomes haue performed such long dangerous voyages into the East and West Indies as also such Kinges and Princes as with their Princely liberalities haue imployed their treasures shippes men and munitions to the furtherance and performance of so worthy actes which notwithstanding in the end turned to their great aduancementes and inriching with great treasures which by those meanes they haue drawn caused in great aboundance to be brought from thence in such manner that the King of Spaine nowe liuing hauing both the Indies in his possession reaping the abundant treasures which yearly are brought out of those countries hath not only although couertly sought all the means he could to bring all Christendome vnder his dominion but also that which no King or country whatsoeuer although of greater might then he hath euer done hee is not ashamed to vse this posie Necspe nec metu And although the first founders and discouerers of those Countries haue alwayes sought to hinder and intercept other nations from hauing any part of their glorie yet hereby all nations indifferent persons may well know and perceiue the speciall policie and valour of these vnited Prouinces in trauelling into both the Indies in the faces to the great griefe of their many and mighty enemies Wherby it is to be hoped that if they continue in their enterprises begun they will not onely draw the most part of the Indian treasures into these Countries but thereby disinherite spoyle the Countrie of Spayne of her principall reuenewes and treasures of marchandises and trafiques which she continually vseth and receyueth out of these countries and out of Spayne are sent into the Indies and so put the King of Spaine himselfe in minde of his foolish deuise which hee vseth for a posie touching the new world which is Non sufficit orbis like a second Alexander magnus desiring to rule ouer all the world as it is manifestly knowne And because this discription is fallen into my handes wherein is contayned the first voyage of the Low-country men into the East Indies with the aduentures happened vnto them set downe and iustified by such as were present in the voyage I thought it good to put it in print with many pictures and cardes whereby the reader may the easilier perceyue and discerne the natures apparels and fashions of those Countries and people as also the manner of their shippes together with the fruitfulnesse and great aboundance of the same hoping that this my labour will not onely be acceptable vnto all Marchants and Saylers

one of his sonnes who wee likewise tooke and sent to lande The Bishoppe was of Meca and much esteemed of among them a great Clearke and Gouernour ouer all the rest of the Countrey There was a Iewell found about him which as yet is kept About euening we hoysed ankers set sayle the 11. of December we came to two small Islands where wee ankered there wee founde none but poore people and fishermen that brought vs fish Hens other fruit to sell How farre they were from Moluccas The 13. wee set sayle and the 14. wee had a West winde which they call the passage winde that would haue serued vs well to saile to Moluccas from whence wee were not distant aboue two hundred miles and as then it was a good yeare for Cloues which happeneth euery three yeares It was told vs that we might there haue a Cabbin laden full of Cloues wherevpon wee determined to sayle thither but because wee had already indured a long and troublesome voyage and but ill manned wee woulde not longing to bee at home This contrary wind holding vppon the foure and twentie of December wee came to an Islande where we had beene before The 25. of December Iohn Molenaer maister of the Mauritius dyed sodainely for an hower before hee was well and in good health The 28. 29. 30. and 31. of December wee were busied to take all the wares sayles and other thinges out of the Amsterdam her victuailes and furnitures seruing for our voyage homewarde lying vnder that Island we had victuailes brought vs euery day as much as wee needed both fish Hens venison and fruit and at reasonable price but there we could get no water The Amsterdam set on fire The 11. of Ianuary when we had vnladen the Amsterdam we set her on fier letting her burne taking her men into our shippes The 12. of Ianuarie we set sayle again some desiring to sayle Eastward others Westward but in fine wee set Westwarde to sayle once againe to Bantam wherewith the Mauritius sayled Southeastwarde to gette about the Island of Iaua and we followed her The 14. of Ianuary we once againe perceyued the East point of the Island of Madura and held our course Southward on that side of Madura there lyeth many small Islandes through which we sayled The Pinace on ground The 16. in the morning our Pinace fell on grounde vpon the coast of Iaua not far from Pannorocan where she shotte off three peeces at the which warning wee made thither with our boates and by the helpe of God got her off againe There we saw a high hil that burnt vnder and aboue the fire hauing a great smoake most strange to behold The 18. of Ianuary we entered into the straight that runneth betweene Iaua and Baly and by reason of the hard contrary streame that ran therin we were forced to anker vpon the coast of Iaua where wee found good anker ground The 19. wee set sayle and when wee came neere to the coast of Baly we entered into a rough streame and our shippes draue backeward as swiftly as an arrow out of a bow and there we found no anker ground nor any anker could haue holden vs but Molenaer got the coast of Iaua and ankered which in the ende wee likewise did and ankered at the least three miles from him and so much we had driuen backe in the space of halfe an houre The 20. of Ianuarie wee went and lay by our other ships The 21. of Ianuarie there came two barkes to the Mauritius wherein there was one that coulde speake good Portingall who tolde vs that the towne of Ballaboam was besieged by a strange King that had marryed the King of Ballaboams daughter and after he had laine with her he caused her to bee slaine and then came to besiege her father This towne of Ballaboam lyeth on the East end of the Island of Iaua and is the same towne where M. Candish was when hee passed that way and the old King wherof he writeth was as then yet liuing being at the least 160. years of age There we saw great numbers of Battes that flew ouer our shippes and were as bigge as Crowes which in that Countrey they vse to eat as they say About noone we came before the towne of Ballaboam so neare vnto it that we might easily see it and there we lay behind a high point of lande thinking to take in water The 22. of Ianuarie we tooke our Pinace and sayled about the shore as neere the land as possible we might to seeke for fresh water but we found none for the Riuer that ran through the towne was paled vp by them that lay before it so that no man might passe either out or in but onely on the lande side and that with great daunger The same day there came 2. or 3. men abord our shippe that stole out of the towne by night and came from the King to desire our help with our great shot which wee coulde not doe because that thereabouts it was very shallow and we might not go neere it with our shippes they tolde vs they had great want of victuailes within the towne whereby many of them were already deade for hunger and much desired our aide but it was not in vs to doe Those that besieged the towne were Mores but they in the towne were heathens and as yet had not receyued Mahomets lawe and that as wee heard after was the cause of their warre There wee sawe many Storkes flying and sitting in the fielde with vs we cannot imagaine where the Storkes remaine in winter time but here wee sawe them in the winter time The 24. of Ianuarie we sayled from thence perceyuing nothing for vs to get and tooke our course right ouer to the Island of Bally The 25. we came to Bally where one of their barks borded vs telling vs that there we should find a Riuer of fresh water and of all thinges els sufficient to serue our necessities wherevpon wee ankered The 26. of Ianuarie our Pinace sent her boat to land to see the Riuer and there one of our men was sent on shore but when he was on land he found nothing but an armie of ten thousand men that ment to relieue the towne of Ballaboam and the Riuer was nothing worth to lade water wherevpon our men came on borde againe Their Generall thought to haue gotten some great pray out of our shippes The 27. of Ianuarie we set sayle to finde a conuenient place to refresh vs with water and other prouision for wee were informed by a man of Bengala that of his owne will sayled with vs and that had beene in Bally that there wee should finde water and other thinges to serue our necessities so that by night wee ankered vnder a high pointe of lande on the South west ende of Bally The 28. of Ianuary one of their boates borded vs with sixe or seuen men saying that their King was