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A69259 The last East-Indian voyage Containing much varietie of the state of the seuerall kingdomes where they haue traded: with the letters of three seuerall Kings to the Kings Maiestie of England, begun by one of the voyage: since continued out of the faithfull obseruations of them that are come home. Middleton, Henry, Sir, 1570-1613, attrib. name. 1606 (1606) STC 7456; ESTC S111992 42,695 86

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taking his leaue of the King and all his nobles for presently after dinner he minded to depart abord also the King promised if the Portingales would not trade with vs he would write his letter to the gouernor of Makeau to deale with vs for all the cloues in that I le And so the Generall and Maister Browne went to the Duch house to dinner which being done he came home with the Duch marchants in his company And so taking leaue of them and of vs departed abord The 27. day in the morning came abord 2. men sent by the King of Tarnat with aletter to the gouernor of Makeau to trade with vs. They were sent by the King to go along with vs thither for our better vsage So about 8. a cloke in the morning we weighed plyed it all day for the roade of Tidore and about sunne setting we came to an anchor in 32. fadomes sandy ground on the westerne side of the I le faire of by the shore Coming to an anchor there came a Caricole with two swift Cāoas to take vewe of our ship Our General Commanded one to weaffe them with a white flag and presently one of the small Prawes came faire by vs demaunding whence we were Our Generall caused our Portingall soldiar to will them to come aboord for we were English men and their friends And so there came aboord vs three Portingales which entred in to the gallery and went into the Generalls cabin where the Generall told them his comming thither was to seeke trade with them as friends for that the wars betweene our nations was done and a peace cōcluded The Queene of England being dead and the King of Scots King of England They made answer that they knew that the Queene was dead by way of the Phillipines and to heare of the long desired peace they were very glad and for trade with vs they said they could say nothing till that they had made the Captaine acquainted therewith and because it was night they were desirous to be gone promising the next day morning to returne So the Generall let them depart and our Portingall souldier with them with a letter to the Captaine of the fort wherin he did certifie him of the newes of Christiandome and the cause of our comming thither and so they departed The 28. day about 6 a clocke we weighed hauing very little wind at 8. a clocke came a Carticole 2. Prawes frō the Portingalls towne and in them fiue Portingalls and our aboue named souldier the Generall stood in the wast and entertained them our souldier telling the Generall the principal of them was called Thome Detoris Captaine of a Galeon and the rest married men of the towne Captaine Detoris deliuered our Generall a letter from the captaine of the Fort the effect was that he was welcome with all his company to him and all the rest of the Portingalls inhabiting in that place and whereas the King of Tarnata and the Hollanders their enemies had giuen bad reports of them saying there was nothing but villanie and treason to be had at their hands hee hoped our Generall did conceiue better of them and that their reports were of malice and not of trueth and no credit to be giuen to the report of their enimies But experience should proue them lyars and themselues no such bad minded people and therefore he willed the Generall to haue no doubt of good vsage at their hands and for trade which he desired with them hee would resolue him thereof the next day for as yet they had not called a councell concerning that matter without which councell he could not doe it but willed him to haue no doubt thereof So the generall tooke them downe to his Cabin to breakfast and the Carricole and the botes towed the ship to the townwards being very little wind About eleuenth a clock we came to an anchor a little to the northwards of the Fort and saluted the fort and towne with 7 peeces of Ordinance and from the fort answered with 3. peeces and presently vpon the same in a boat came the Captaine of the fort called Petro Alleneris Debbroo and the Captain of the other Galeon called Ferdinando Perrera de Sandy these Galeons that these Captaines did belong to did ride within a league of rockes very neere the shoare with their broad sides to seaward with Ordinance placed therein to shoote at their enemies which come rowing by thē sundry times The Generall brought the Captaine of the Fort and the other Captaine downe with the rest to breakfast the Captaine of the Fort making great hast to be gone After many cōplements passed betweene our General and them they tooke their leaue and departed promising the next day to come looke vpon our commodities and to agree vpon price for them About 3. a clocke our Generall sent his brother a shoare with presents to the 3. Captaines which they very kindly accepted The Captaine of the Fort returning the Generall a fat beefe The 29. day came Captaine Torris and other Portingalls aboard and the Generall caused our Marchants to bring a note of all such commodities as were in our ship into his Cabin where he shewed euery sort vnto them setting a price vpon them Captaine Torris and the rest of the Portingalls said they were too deare at such rates saying ptotesting they sold better cheape such like cōmodities one to the other and therefore desired the Generall to bee more reasonable and then he should haue all the Cloues in the Iland The Generall with-drew himselfe apart and in writing set downe his lowest prices how hee would sell willing them to go a land and consider of it returne with an answer if they could that night so they tooke their leaue and went a shore The 30. day Captaine Torris came aboard and would haue abatement of each sort of commodities which the General would not yeeld vnto telling him if he would not giue such prices he wold be gone for Makeau and vpon the same presented the two Tarnataes which the King sent to him for the same purpose So he seeing nothing would be abated of that price agreed with the General appointed his own dwelling house for our factory with many kinde proffers which he faithfully performed The 31. being Easter day Captaine Torris with diuers of the principall men of the towne dined aboard with our Generall Aprill the 1. in the morning the Generall sent his brother M. Woodnoth with marchandise a land to Captain Torris house within an houre after the General went a land himself where he was visited by the king the Captaine of the fort and all the principall men of the towne who intertained him most kindely They stayed some small time with him and departed all of them They being gone the Generall beganne to set his Marchants a worke to buy Cloues of the Portingalls hauing set them in a ready way how to deale with them he went
was likewise indebted vnto thē Out ran our men with weapons but she was gone before they came or else if they had not made the more hast they had not carried them away so easily as they did The marriners were hired by one of those factors whose head the Generall so lately had saued for a Royall of 8. a man to do this braue exploit at their comming aboard They told the Generall how the Holland factors vsed thē which hee tooke very euill The 29. day the Generall went to the towne with 20. armed men some shot and some pikes and Halberts and at his cōming he sent word to the Dutch-house they should restore the cloues they had taken away They told our Generall that the party had bin in their debt these two yeares and they could not get him to any paiment that the King had made proclamation that no man that was indebted vnto the Hollanders should sell him any cloues yet neuerthelesse they would not be their owne iudges but would stand to the iudgement of the King when he should come the cloues to remaine in the Sabendors hāds till the matter was tried So the General was pacified threatning to giue the bastinado to the factor which was the cause but after that time he durst not passe by our dores This breach betwixt vs and the Hollanders caused the king to make the more haste for that hee doubted we wold go by the eares with thē hauing very few men in the towne he doubted the worst for that the Hollanders are not beloued of the countrye people the cause is their manyfold disorder in their their drunkennes against men but principally against the women The first of Iune about 1. of the clock at night came a Caracole frō Tydore rowing by our ship calling to the watch The Generall hearing it knew it was the King that spake and rose out off his bed saluted him by his name the King did the like to him asked him how he knew him in the darke The Generall by his interpretor said that he knew him by his voice which caused him to laugh And so spending some little time in talking he willed our Generall to meete him at the towne in the morning The Generall gaue him 5. peeces of Ordinance at his departure which he tooke very kindely They delight much to heare ordinance to go off at pleasure so that they be not at the cost When it was day the General went to the towne had not staied in his house halfe an houre but the king came spent al the forenoone with him The Generall was desirous to know of him whether he should leaue a factory or no. He answered he could not tell for that it was to be determined by a counsell which he had not leasure to cal as yet by reason of much businesse He said the Hollanders did threaten him to forsake his coūtry to establish a factory at Tydore if he did let the English tarry in the country and establish a factory They saying we were theeues robbers and so if he did trust vs he should finde vs saying that Holland was able to set out 20. ships for Englands one and that the King of Holland was stronger by sea then all Christiandome besides with many vntrueths of their owne people Countries commendations the disparagement of our people and country and of al other Christian princes If this frothy nation may haue the trade of the Indiās to thmselues which is the thing they hope for their pride insolencie wil be intollerable The Generall answered what Hollander so euer hee were that had told his highnesse so he lied like a traytor said he would iustifie it to their faces and for their country if the Queenes maiesty of England had not pittied their ruine in sending her forces to withstand the Spaniards their country had bin ouer-run they marked in the faces for traitors and slaues many yeares ago And therfore desired the King to inquire of a Spanish Renegado which was in the towne he would certifie him of the trueth Then the Generall demanded whether he should haue those Cloues which the Flemings had carried away by force Hee answered we should haue so many of thē as should paie the debt the Hollāders should haue the rest which was in the afternoone performed The king told our General that the morrow he must returne for Tidore where he must spēd 3. or 4. daies before he could returne In the meane time he gaue him leaue to buy sell with his people And at his returne he should haue an answer whether he should leaue a factory or no. The general intreating him whilest he tarried in the country hee would let him haue a house to lodge in where hee might be nere his businesse and not be forced euery night to go aboard The king promised he should and so tooke his leaue departed An houre after he sent his Sabendor to the Generall who brought him to a faire chāber the king sending him a faire gilded bedsted a Turkie carpet to lie vpō so after that the Generall was not enforced euery night to go aboard as before time he had done The 2. day about 8. a clocke at night came a light prawe of Tydore aboard with a letter to out Generall the effect was that the king of Tydore found himselfe agreeued with the Hollanders for taking part with the King of Tarnata against him that vpon his sending away of the Portingales they had shot into his towne demanding Taffasoa to be surrendred to procure his peace The General answered he thought he needed not feare the Hollāders for that their shipping would shortly be disposed of to other places that at any time for that towne if so it need he might make his peace With which answer they returned making a bold attēpt to either come or go the sea being full of their enimies The 5. day the King of Tarnata the Hollanders admirall came frō Tarnata to cōclude of our banishmēt The 6. day the king sent our Generall word that both hee and the Dutch admirall should come face to face before him his coūsell to heare what either could say against other The Generall sent the king word he had nothing to say against the Dutch vnlesse he withstood his leauing of a factory there which if he did he desired his highnes that they might meete face to face before him to heare what either could say the king sēt word it should be so The Dutch admiral came to our generalls chāber to visit him Our Generall asked whether he came to procure his banishment He answered he was bound to do the best he could for his aduēturers The Generall told him the king was minded the next day to know why we should not haue a factory in the country as wel as they He said he would chalenge the kings owne writing and promise The