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A05569	Iohn Huighen van Linschoten. his discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies Deuided into foure bookes.; Itinerario. English	Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611.; Phillip, William.; Rogers, William, b. ca. 1545, engraver.; Beckit, Robert, engraver.	1598 (1598)	STC 15691; ESTC S111823	767,464	523

greater commendation No doubt it is very troublesome and laborious to iourney by land for the attaining to this knowledge but to trauell by Sea is not onely most dangerous but also in a maner almost a desperate estate considering especially the great perils wherevnto it is hourely subiect as namely Rockes Flats Sandes Gulphes Stormes Tempests besides the continuall Watching and care in obseruing the Poles Arctike and Antarctike the Aequinoctiall Line the Altitude and Degrees of the Meridian the Circle of the Zodiake the Horizon the Tropikes the Longitude and Latitude of Heauen and earth the Paralleles the Hemisphere the Zenith the Centre and a Rablement of such curiosities that are able to breake the braines of the soundest man aliue To these if you will add the intollerable paines and infinite diseases that doo spend their bodies you must needs say that they are the most miserable Creatures of the worlde So that you cannot choose but bee of the opinion of Anacharsis that Noble Philosopher who beeing demaunded whether Number was the greater that of the dead or that of the Liuing did redemaund againe In which Number do you recken those that trauell on the Sea Signifiyng thereby that such as trauell vpon the Sea are in so great danger of death that they doo continually dye liuing and liue dying And therefore well sayd Bias one of the seuen Sages that Saylers vppon the Sea were alwayes within two ynches of their death true it is which the Latyn Lyrike Poet writeth That Man had a Hart of Oke and was fenced with a triple Corslet of Brasse that first aduentured to commit a slender Boat to the raging Sea A Type and Patterne of all which miseries together with the cunning and skilfull Art of Nauigation is comprised in this Volume which wee haue in hand being a most perfect description of the East and West Indies or as they are commonly called the Portugall and Spanish Indies A Worke assuredly very profitable and commodious for all such as are desirous curious louers of Nouelties Of these Indies though not in distinguished tearmes of East and West sundry Historiographers and Authors of the old World haue made an honourable Mention left an exceeding commendation thereof for the wonderfull and rare matters that were discouered by the seuerall Trauels Nauigation of diuers famous Captains as namely Alexander the great Seleucus Antiochus Patrocles and Onesicritus who had been all in the saide Indies insomuch as one of them held them to be the Third part of all the Land that is inhabited in regard of the great Prouinces puissant Cities and vnmeasurable Ilands that are found therein all very fruitfull and yeelding such treasure and rich Merchandize as none other place of the whole world can afford And althogh the curiosity and labour of these auncients was very great yet greater hath beene the trauell and industry of those which of late time and in our age hath beene imployed therein For the auncient Trauellers had in deede a certain kind of knowledge of this Countrey and People but it was very vncertaine and vnperfect Whereas we in our times are thoroughly learned and instructed by our owne experience in the Prouinces Cities Riuers Hauens and Trafficks of them all So that nowe it is become knowne to the whole world First the Portingalls being great Merchants by reason of their skil in Nauigation which in our dayes is growne to a more full perfection then euer it hath beene in times past they I say first discouered the Wast and Desert Part of the Indies caused their King to be entertayned honoured among the People encreased and enhaunsed their credit and Name exceedingly and the sundry commodities of their seuerall fruits and spices haue dispersed communicated not onely to their owne Countrymen but also to all Nations vnder the Sunne But here the Matter stayed not For then came the English a People that in the Art of Nauigation giueth place to none other and they were incited to take this Indian Voyage in hande and to make it generally knowne vnto their Island therevpon Syr Francis Drake Master Thomas Candish did not only sayle into the sayde Indies but also trauelled round about the world with a most happy and famous successe Whose examples diuers honourable Gentlemen and valiant Captaines of England haue followed to their vnspeakeable praise and commendation the exceeding glory of their Country as namely the Right Honourable Earle of Cumberland the Lord Thomas Howard Syr Francis Drake Syr Martin Frobisher Syr Richard Greenefield Syr Iohn Hawkins and Syr Walter Raleigh with diuers others named and mentioned in this Booke And last of all the People of the Lowe-Countreys beeing instructed by the diligent search and trauell of the English Nation fell to the like trafficke into ●he Indies and haue performed many Honourable and profitable Voyages Among whom the Author of this B●oke Iohn-Hugh Linschote of Harlem was one that continued in India for the most part of nine yeares and had good oportunity of sure and certaine intelligences by reason of his seruice vnder Vincentius da Fonseca a Fryer Dominican by K. Philip created Archbishop of all India This Man Hugh Linschote behaued himselfe so honestly and warily during the time of his abode there that he was not onely in high fauour of his Lord and Maister but he was also singularly and generally beloued of all the Inhabitants of the places where hee was most resiant He did most diligently and considerately obserue and collect together all occurrents and accidents that happened in his memory knowledge and the same hath committed to writing in the Dutch Tongue with all faithfulnes to his owne euerlasting praise and to the benefit of his Countrey together with the seuerall Mappes and descriptions of the Countreys Cities and Townes all the commodities therevnto belonging Which Booke being commended by Maister Richard Hackluyt a man that laboureth greatly to aduance our English Name and Nation the Printer thought good to cause the same to bee translated into the English Tongue The Volume conteyneth in it foure seuerall Treatises The First is The Voyage or Iourney by Sea of the sayde Hugh Linschote the Author into the East or Portingall Indies together with all the Sea-Coasts Hauens Riuers and Cre●kes of the same their Customes and Religion their Policie and Gouernement their Marchandises Drugges Spyces Hearbs Plants the vertues whereof are explaned by the Annotations of Doctor Paludanus the learned Phisitian of En●khuysen And last of all a Memoriall of such Accidents as fell out during the Authors aboade in India The Second Treatise is The Description of Guinea Manicongo Angola Monomotapa c. with a discouery of the great Island of Madagascar and all the Shallowes Cliffes and Islands of the Indian Seas The most part whereof was collected before by one Pigafetta from the mouth of Edward Lopez and published in English the last yeare The Third Treatise is The Nauigation

rich Gentleman in England and had great yearely reuenewes of his owne inheritance but he was a man very vnquiet in his minde and greatly affected to warre in so much as of his owne priuate motion hee offered his seruice to the Queene he had performed many valiant actes and was greatlie feared in these Islands and knowne of euery man but of nature very seuere so that his owne people hated him for his fiercenes and spake verie hardly of him for when they first entred into the Fleete or Armado they had their great sayle in a readinesse and might possiblie enough haue sayled away for it was one of the best ships for sayle in England and the Master perceiuing that the other shippes had left them and followed not after commāded the great sayle to be cut that they might make away but Sir Richard Greenefield threatned both him and all the rest that were in the ship that if any man laid hand vppon it he would cause him to be hanged and so by that occasion they were compelled to fight and in the end were taken He was of so hard a complection that as he continued among the Spanish Captaines while they were at dinner or supper with him he would carouse three or foure glasses of wine and in a brauerie take the glasses betweene his teeth and crash them in peeces and swallow them downe so that often times the blood ran out of his mouth without any harme at all vnto him and this was told me by diuers credible persons that many times stoode and behelde him The English men that were left in the ship as the captaine of the souldiers the Master and others were dispersed into diuers of the Spanish ships that had taken the where there had almost a new fight arisen betweene the Biscaines and the Portingales while ech of them would haue the honour to haue first borded her so that there grew a great noise and quarrell among them one taking the chiefe ancient the other the flagge and the Captaine and euerie one held his owne The ships that had borded her were altogether out of order and broken and many of their men hurt whereby they were compelled to come into the Island of Tercera there to repaire themselues where being ariued I my chāber fellow to heare some newes went abord on of the ships being a great at Biscaine and one of the twelue Apostles whose Captaine was called Bertandono that had bin Generall of the Biscaynes in the fleete that went for England Hee séeing vs called vs vp into the gallerie where with great curtesie hee receiued vs beeing as then set at dinner with the English Captaine that sate by him and had on a sute of blacke veluet but he could not tell vs any thing for that he could speake no other language but English and Latine which Ba●tandano also could a little speake The English Captaine got licence of the gouernour that hee might come on land with his weapon by his side and was in our lodging with the Englishman that was kept prisoner in the Iland being of that ship wherof the saylers got away as I said before The Gouernour of Tercera bad him to dinner shewed him great curtes●e The Master likewise with licence of Bartandano came on land and was in our lodging and had at the least ten or twelue woundes as well in his head as on his body whereof after that being at sea betwéene Lisbone the Ilands he died The Captaine wrote a letter wherein he declared all the manner of the fight and left it with the English Marchant that lay in our lodging to send it to the Lord Admiral of England This English Captaine comming vnto Lisbone was there well receiued and not any hurt done vnto him but with good conuoy sent to Sentinial from thence sayled into England with all the rest of the Englishmen that were taken prisoners The Spanish armie stated at the Island of 〈◊〉 til the last of September to assemble the rest of the fleet together which in the end were to the number of 14● saile of ships partly comming from India and partly of the Army being altogether ready vnto saile to 〈◊〉 in good company there sodainely rose so hard and cruell a storme that those of the Island did affirme that in mans memorie there was neuer any such seen or heard of before for it seemed the sea would haue swallowed vp the Islands the water mounting higher than the Cliffes which are so high that it amaseth a man to beholde them but the sea reached aboue them and liuing fishes were throwne vppon the land This storme continued not only a day or two with one wind but seauen or eight dayes continually the wind turning round about in all places of the compasse at the least twice or thrice during that time and all alike with a continuall storme and tempest most terrible to behold euen to vs that were on shore much more then to such as were at sea so that only on the coastes and Cliffes of the Iland of Tercera there were aboue twelue ships cast away and not only vppon the one side but round about it in euery corner wherby nothing els was heard but complayning crying lamenting and telling here is a shippe broken in peeces against the Cliffes there another and all the men drowned so that for the space of 20. dayes after the storme they did nothing els but fish for dead men that continually came driuing on the shore Among the rest was the English ship called the Reuenge that was cast away vpon a Cliffe nere to the Iland of Tercera where it brake in a hundred péeces and sunke to the ground hauing in her ●● men Gallegos Biscaines and others with some of the captiue Englishmen whereof but one was saued that got vp vpon the Cliffes aliue and had his body and head all wounded and hee being on shore brought vs the newes desiring to be shriuen thervpon presently died The Reuenge had in her diuers faire brasse péeces that were all sunke in the sea which they of the Island were in good hope to waigh vp againe The next summer after among these shippes that were cast away about Tercera was likewise a Flie boat one of those that had bin arested in Portugall to serue the king called the white Doue The Master of her was one Cornelius Martenson of Schiedam in Holland and there were in her one hundred souldiers as in euerie one of the rest there was He being ouer ruled by the Captaine that he could not be Master of his owne sayling here and there at the mercie of God as the storme droue him in the end came within the sight of the Island of Tercera which the Spaniards perceiuing thought al their safety only to consist in putting into the road compelling the Master and the Pilot to make towards the Island although the Master refused to doe it saying that they were most sure

hee shot her mast ouer boord and hauing wounded the maister with an arrowe the shippe presently yéelded which they tooke and sayled with her further into the Sea all that night and the next day and night making all the way they could The third day being out of sight of lande they began to search the shippes and to lade the goods out of her into their Shippe which was a thousand thrée hundred Bharres or peeces of siluer and foureteene chests with Ryals of eight and with golde but what quantity it was I knowe not onely that the passengers said that there was great store and that thrée hundred Bharres of the siluer belonged to the King the rest belonging to certaine Marchaunts that done they let the Shippe with the men sayle on their course putting the thrée Pilotes in her that they brought with them so that as then they had none but their owne men aboord being the sixt of March and from thence they helde their course towards the Lande of Nicaraga The thirtéenth of March either the day before or after in the morning they descried Land not being very high beeing a small Island two miles from the Firme land and there they found a small Baye wherein they ankered at fiue fadome déep close by the Lande and there they stayed till the second day Vpon the which day there passed a Frigate close by the Island which with their Pinnace they followed and taking her brought her to the English Shippe which Frigate was laden with Salsaperilla or Pocke-root and Bottigas or Pots with Butter and Honny and with other things The English Captaine went on boord and cast the Salsaperilla on the Lande leauing all the rest of the wares in the Frigate and then hee put all his Péeces into the Frigate that so he might lay his shippe on shore to new calke and trim her which continued till the thrée and twenty or foure and twenty of March which done and hauing made prouision of wood fresh water they helde on their course along by the coast sayling Westward taking the said Frigate and her menne with them and hauing sayled two daies they tooke their men out of her and set them in the Pinnace among the which were two Saylers that meant to sayle to Panama and from thence to China whereof one they tooke with the Letters and Sea-cardes that hee had about him among the which were the Letters of the King of Spaine sent to the Gouernour of China as also the Sea-cardes wherewith they should make their voyage and direct themselues in their course And so sailing on till the sixt of Aprill about euening they discouered a ship that held two miles to seaward from the land and before the next day in the morning they were hard by her and sodainely fell vpon her while her men slept presentlie made the mē enter into their ship among the which was one Don Francisco Caratte which done they followed on their course with the said ship out of the which they tooke certaine packes and other wares but I know not what it was They likewise tooke a Moore out of it and thrée dayes after they both let the Shippe and menne goe whether they would setting therein the two Saylers that should goe for China which they had taken in the Frigate kéeping onely one saylor to shew them where they should find fresh water to the which end they tooke the empty vessels with them to fill with water and so kept on their course to the hauen of Guatulco where they put in being vpon munday the thirtéenth of Aprill and hauing ankered they stayed there till the sixe and twenty of Aprill and being about thrée or foure houres in the night they set saile holding their course Westward and an houre or two before they let Nuno da Silua goe putting him into another shippe that lay in the Hauen of Guatulco From thence forward the Englishmen passed on their voyage to the Islands of Malucos and from thence they passed by the Cape De Bona Esperanza and so to England as it is well knowne so that this is only the description of the voyage that they made while the said Pilote Nuna da Silua was with them Hereafter followeth the Coppy of a Letter written by Sir Francis Drake beeing in the South Sea of newe Spaigne in his shippe called the golden Hart with the shippe of S. Iohn de Anton which hee had taken to his companions in the other shippes that were of his company and by foule weather seperated from him as I saied before The Contents whereof were these Maister Wouter if it pleaseth Godthat you should chance to méete with this shippe of S. Iohn de Anton I pray you vse him well according to my word and promise giuen vnto them and if you want any thing that is in this Shippe of S. Iohn de Anton I pray you pay them double the value for it which I wil satisfie again and command your men not to doe her any hurt and what composition or agréement wée haue made at my returne into England I will by Gods helpe performe although I am in doubt that this Letter will neuer come to your hands notwithstanding I am the man I haue promised to bee Beséeching God the Sauiour of all the world to haue vs in his kéeping to whome onely I giue all honour praise and glory This I haue written is not onely to you Maister Wouter but also to Maister Thomas Maister Charles Maister Caube and Maister Anthonie with all our other good friendes whome I commit to the tuition of him that with his bloud redéemed vs and am in good hope that wee shall bee in no more trouble but that hee will helpe vs in aduersitie desiring you for the Passion of Christ that if you fall into any danger that you will not despaire of Gods mercy for hee will defend you and preserue you from all daunger and bring vs to our desired Hauen to whom bee all honor glory and praise for euer and euer Amen Your sorrowfull captain whose heart is heauy for you Francis Drake An aduertisement to the Reader ALthough at the first it was my only intent to set downe the voyages and courses of the oriental coasts Islands and countries of the East parts with some other Nauigations of the places therabouts with the situations thereof as I haue already declared notwithstanding for that among other my Record I haue found the Nauigations of all the Hauens Riuers and Points of the coast of Brasilia and the voiages of the Portingales vnto the same together with the courses stretchings and situations of the Antillas or fore Islands of new Spaigne together with all the channels that runne betweene them and the Hauens as well of the aforesaid Islands as of the Firme Land of new Spaigne and likewise of the other side of the coast of Angola or Aethiopia I thought it not vnconuenient to set them downe in this place although it bee