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A04899	Cochin-China containing many admirable rarities and singularities of that countrey / extracted out of an Italian relation, lately presented to the Pope, by Christophoro Borri, that liued certaine yeeres there ; and published by Robert Ashley.	Borri, Cristoforo, 1583-1632.; Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641.	1633 (1633)	STC 1504.5; ESTC S659	39,255	72

defensiue Armes they vse little Bucklers or Targets of an Ouall forme of such a length that they will commonly couer the whole Man being so light also that they are nothing cumbersome In their Townes in this Kingdome their Houses being built but of boards as I haue said and supported with Pillars of Wood they haue this aduantage that if the Enemie come with such Forces as they find themselues vnable to resist euery one taketh his houshold-stuffe and flieth to the Mountaines setting their Houses on fire and leauing nothing of value therein In such sort that the Enemy finding no place wherein hee may sortifie and maintaine himselfe is forced to retire out of the Countrey and they returning againe doe soone build themselues other Houses as good and restore their Townes in as good plight as they were before CHAP. VIII Of the Commerce Ports and Hauens of Cochin-China THe Realme of Cochin-China being so abundant in all sorts of Commodities as we haue said for the life of man the people are the lesse addicted to trauell abroad and to traffique elsewhere They doe neuer therefore make further Voyages by Sea then within the view of the Coasts and bankes of their welbeloued Countrey Yet are they neuerthelesse willing to giue all Strangers free accesse into their Ports and take a singular pleasure to see others come to Trade and traffique in their Countrey not onely out of their Neighbour Prouinces and Kingdomes but also from remote Countreyes To which end they neede not vse much Art seeing that Strangers are allured thither fast enough by the fruitfulnesse of the Countrey and the riches ouerflowing therein And therefore not onely those of Tunchim of Cambogia of Cinceos and others their Neighbours doe traffique there but euery day there arriue Merchants of Countreyes further distant and from China Macao Iapan Manilla and Malacca which bring Siluer into Cochin-China for the merchandize of the Countrey Which are not bought but exchanged with the same Siluer which is sold there as Merchandize the price thereof being raised or diminished according to the great or little plenty thereof euen like Silke and other Wares The Money with which all things are bought is of Letton of the like Value as a French Double or a Stiuer of the Netherlands This Money is exactly round Printed and marked with the Kings Armes euery Peece hauing a hole in the midst through which they are filed by thousands euery file or string of them worth about two crownes The Chinois and the Iaponois are they that make the chiefe negotiation of Cochin-China in a Faire which is yeerely held in one of their Ports for some foure moneths together the one bring on their Ionks the value of foure or fiue millions in siluer and the other vpon certaine vessells which they call Somes an infinite quantity of fine silke with other of their countrey merchandise The King receiueth a great reuenue out of this Faire by his duties and imposts and the Countrey an vnspeakeable gaine And as on the one side the Cochin-Chinois haue no wrought Stuffes nor Manufactures because they doe not apply themselues to Manuary trades by reason of that idlenesse into which their plenty hath plunged them and that on the other side they are easily inueigled with the curiosities comming from other places which they higly esteeme they will buy them at what price soeuer they be set and doe not spare for money to haue such things which of themselues are of little worth such as Combes Needles Bracelets Beades of glasse to hang in their eares and such other trifles and womanish curiosities And I remember that a Portugal hauing brought from Macao into Cochin-China a boxe full of Needles which could not cost him aboue thirty Ducats got aboue a thousand selling them for a Riall a piece in Cochin-China which had not cost him aboue pence a piece in Macao In conclusion they vie one with the other in buying whatsoeuer they see so it be new and brought from farre for which they disburse their siluer without difficulty They are very desirous of our Hatts our Caps Girdles Shirts and all our other garments because they differ from theirs But aboue all they make most esteeme of Corall Concerning their Ports It is certainely a thing worthy admiration that within the space of little more then an hundred leagues there are reckoned aboue threescore places fit and apt to land in which commeth of this that there are in that Coast many great Armes of the Sea The goodliest Port where all the strangers ariue and where that famous Faire is kept which we haue mentioned is that of the Prouince Cacciam Men doe enter thereinto by two mouthes of the Sea the one is called Puluciambello and the other Turon These mouthes are distant three or foure leagues asunder by which after that the Sea thus diuided in two Armes hath extended it selfe seuen or eight Leagues within the Land as two Riuers that are disioyned It reioyneth in the end and casteth it selfe into a great Riuer where the Vessels also meete that come in on either side The King of Cochin-China permitted the Iaponians and Chinois to make choyce of a commodious place to build them a Citie in for the more Commoditie of the Faire whereof wee haue spoken This Citie is called Faiso which is so great that one may well say that there are two Townes the one of the Chinois and the other of the Iaponois Each of them hauing his Quarter apart and their seuerall Gouernours and liuing after their owne manner That is the Chinois according to their owne particular Lawes and Customes of China and the Iaponians according to theirs And because as wee haue said the King of Cochin-China doth refuse no Nation to enter but leaueth it free for all sorts of Strangers the Hollanders came thither also as well as the rest with their Ships laden with diuers kindes of Merchandise Whereupon the Portugals of Macao designed to send an Ambassadour to the King to intreat him that the Hollanders as their sworne enemies might be excluded out of Cochin-China Wherein they imployed a braue Captaine called Ferdinand de Costa who effected it with good successe yet not without much difficulty preuailing so farre that the King by his Edict or Proclamation forbad the Hollanders to approach the Countreyes vnder his obedience or paine of their liues But those of Macao apprehending afterwards that the said Edict was not well obserued thought good to send a new Embassage into Cochin-China to obtaine a Confirmation thereof and charged their Deputies to make the King vnderstand that the affaire concerned his owne Interest and that if hee did not preuent it he might haue cause to feare that the Hollanders in time being so crafty and cunning as they are would assay to inuade some part of his Kingdome of Cochin-China as they had already some other places of the Indies But certaine Persons of good vnderstanding in that Countrey aduised them not to speake in that sort to the King because that would be the very way to make the Hollanders haue permission to come to Traffique in that Countrey and to inuite all Holland thither The Maxime of the Cochin-Chinois being not to acknowledge euer any the least apprehension of any Nation in the World Cleane contrary to the King of China who fearing all shutteth the Gate against Strangers permitting no traffique in his Kingdome This is that little which I haue thought good to relate concerning the Temporall estate of Cochin-China according to that knowledge I could get during the space of some yeeres whiles I remained there the Aire being so benigne that they neuer haue any Pestilence neither doe the people know what kind of thing it is or what it meaneth FINIS De beata vita De orbis conc lib. 3. cap. 25. Kekerm phys lib. 2. cap. 3.