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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

company of men where we shewed him all our wares which liked him well desiring vs to come on land saying that we should be welcome promising vs much fauour wherewith he returned to the land with certaine rich presents that we gaue him The 26. Barent Heijn Factor of the ship called the Mauritius died very sodainly The 27. and 28. great numbers of people borded our shippes bringing all sortes of necessaries victuails to sell The Emperour came aborde and secretly conspired with the Portingals against them The 29. there came an Emperour abord our shippe whose father in time past had beene Emperour of all Iaua and commanded all the Kinges of Iaua but this man because of his badde life was not much accounted of he spake good Portingall for his mother was a Portingall woman borne in Malacca This Emperour had conspired against vs with the Portingalles but as then we knew it not The 30. of Iune Cornelis Houtman tooke a boate and went into the towne and there spake with the Gouernour about certaine affaires touching a contract to bee made with him A contract to buy sell in the towne The first of Iuly Houtman went again into the towne and when he returned he brought with him a certaine contract made signed by the Gouernor himself who most willingly consented therevnto saide vnto him Go now and buy what you will you haue free liberty which done the said Houtman with his men went to see the towne apparelled in the best manner they coulde in veluet Satin and silkes with rapiers by their sides The Captaine had a thing borne ouer his head to keep him from the Sun with a Trumpet before him which certaine times he caused to bee sounded There the Emperour bad them to a banket after the Indian manner From thence they went to the Portingalles that made much account of Houtman and made him a banket saying that they had seene him in Lisbone The 2. of Iuly many Marchants came abord profering vs Pepper verie good cheape but because we were vnskilfull in the waight and other thinges wee tooke respite to answere them The 3. of Iuly the Sabander came abord and he was our great friend for that after we found it so hee tolde vs what waight the sackes of Pepper were and what prises they bare counselling vs to buy The Emperour ment to fall vpon the ships to rob them The 7. of Iuly the Gouernour sent vs a man secretly by night willing vs to looke vnto our selues and not to trust the Emperour with whom all the Marchantes conspired and went to inuade our ships and that hee ment to rob vs as being very licentious and euill minded The 8. of Iuly the Emperour sent vnto our ships offered to make them a banket bidding all the Captaines maisters Pilots Gentlemen Officers Trumpets and Gunners to come into the towne to him and there he woulde make merrie with them This was done by the Portingalles aduise thereby to haue all the chiefe and principall men out of our ships but we perceiued their intent The 11. of Iuly the Emperour perceyuing that his deuise would not take place hee went from Bantam to Iacatra The 12. of Iuly wee had a house offered vs within the towne The 13. of the same month Reyner van hel with eyght Gentlemen went into the towne taking certaine wares with him of euery thing a little and laid it in the house appointed for the purpose there to keep a ware house and to sel our marchandise and presently both Gentlemen and Marchants came thither to buy and to sell vs Pepper The 15. and 16. many Gentlemen Marchants Chinars and Arabians came to our warehouse into our ships offering vs Pepper but our Factor offered them too little a price The 25. of Iuly the Gouernour came againe aborde our shippes and there looked vppon certaine of our wares whereof hee bought some and counselled vs to buy Pepper The hatred of the Portingalles against thē About the same time the Portingalles made great sute vnto the Gouernour promising him many guiftes to deny vs trafficke and to constraine vs to depart from thence saying we were no marchantes but that we came to spie the countrie for they said that they had seene many Fleminges in Lisbone but none like vs. Among the Portingalles there was one that was borne in Malacca of the Portingalles race his name was Pedro Truide a man well seene in trauayling and one that had beene in all places of the world He was our good friend euery day came to talke with our Captaines saying you do not well that you make no more haste to take in your lading you shall haue no better cheape wares withall shewed vs many other things wherevpon the Portingalles hated him and not long after he was murthered in his bed In August we did little and tooke no great store of lading in seeking to haue Pepper better cheape which the Portingalles liked not well of and saide vnto the Gouernour that we desired not to buy which the Gouernour began to hearken vnto for they offered him great summes of money that hee shoulde not permit vs traffique so that in the end hee commaunded that no man shoulde carrie any Ryce aborde our shippes whereby we were abashed and thereupon we sent vnto the Gouernour for our money which hee ought for the wares hee had bought which moued him The 26. of Iuly hee sent one of our Gentlemen with some of his men and nine slaues abord our ships The situation of the Towne of Bantam the principall towne of traffique in the Island of Iaua their strength manner of building with their traffique what people come thither what wares are there most desired what nations bring them thither or come to fetch them together with their religion customes manner of house keeping BAntam lyeth in the Islande of Iaua maior about 25. miles to sea ward within the Isle betweene Sumatra and Iaua On both sides of the Towne there runneth a Riuer about 3. foot and a half deep so tha● no shippes can enter into them The Towne is compassed about with a Riuer The towne is almost as great in compasse as the old towne of Amsterdam The wals are made with flankers They haue great numbers of Peeces therein but they knowe not how to vse them for they feare them much all their Peeces are of brasse they haue many brazen bases Their walles are not aboue two foote thicke made of brickes euery flanker hath diuers mastes and peeces of wood which they vse when they are besieged by their enemies The houses are made of straw and reedes standing vpon 4. woodden postes The rich haue their chambers all hanged with silken Curtins or els with cotton linnen Their houses are most placed vnder Cocus trees whereof the towne is full Without the walles are many houses wherein strangers for the most part haue their dwellinges The towne hath three great market