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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	east_n	north_n	sail_v	1,645	5	10.3744	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63407	A collection of several relations and treatises singular and curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne not printed among his first six voyages ... / published by Edmund Everard, Esquire ...	Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.; Everard, Edmund.	1680 (1680)	Wing T250; ESTC R35212	152,930	194

Governour of Dia's Passport who made it in the Name of the Viceroy that liv'd at Goa The Imposition which the Ships paid was sufficient to maintain the Fleet and Garrison and to enrich the Governour besides When the Rain-Seasons are over that the wind sits at North and north-North-east you may sail from Dia to Surat in three or four Tides with light Vessels but great Ships that are laden must fetch a compass about the Bank The City has no Land belonging to it but what it stands upon yet it would be no difficult thing to agree with the Raja or Govervour of the Province and to obtain as much as should be sufficient for the Inhabitants Neither is the Land about it very fertile and besides the people are the poorest in the whole Empire of the Mogul Nevertheless the Country is so well stor'd with Cattel that an Ox or a Bufalo will not cost above two Piasters The English and Hollanders make use of these Cattel to feed their People and to spare the Provisions of their Ships while they stay at Souali But it is observable that the Bufalo's flesh in those parts causes frequent Dysenteries which the Bullocks flesh or Beef never does The Raja that commands the Country has only the Title of Governour for life Which is common to most of the Raja's in the Mogul's Empire whose Ancestours were Lords of Provinces where now their Descendants only enjoy the Titles of Governours Having thus got possession of a good Post the next thing of Importance is to choose out two men considerable for their Honesty Prudence and Skill in Trade who are to be allow'd the full of their Expences These two persons are to serve the Company the one in the nature of a President with a Council consisting of a certain number of persons to assist him The other in the quality of a Broaker who must be an Idolater of the Country and not a Mahumetan in regard all the Workmen he has to deal with are Idolaters Civility and Faith of Promise are altogether requisit to gain Credit among strangers And these particular qualities are requir'd in the particular Broakers who are under the Broaker-General in the Provinces where the Factories are settl'd Good Intelligence is necessary for these two persons to understand the alteration of Manufactures This alteration happens either through the craft and subtilty of the Workmen and the Merchants themselves or by the correspondence of the Broakers and Workmen Which alteration may cause so much dammage to the Company that the Broakers shall gain ten and twelve i' the hundred by it If the President and Broaker-General combine with the particular Broakers and Merchants it will be a difficult thing for the Company to avoid being deceiv'd but if these two persons are but faithful and honest the fraud may be easily remedi'd by changing the particular Broakers The Officers of a Company may be unfaithful to their Trust in this respect When a Vessel arrives in Port the President for the Nation receives the Company 's Letters and the Bills of Lading upon which he calls his Council sends for the Broaker and gives him a Copy of the said Bills The Broaker shews them to three or four of the principal Merchants of the Country who are wont to buy by whole sale If the President and the Broaker hold together for their own profit the Broaker instead of facilitating the sale as he ought to do advises the Merchants to be shie and to offer only such a price Then the President sends for the Broaker and these two or three Merchants and in the presence of the Council he asks the Merchants what they will give for the Goods in the Bills of Lading mention'd If the Merchants are resolute to give no more then so much The President puts off the sale 15 days longer more or less as he pretends himself press'd to sell In the mean time he sends for the Merchants several times for a shew and at length to avoid suspicion and to discharge himself he asks the advice of the Council and as they approve orders the delivery of the Goods to the Merchant But though the Temptations be very great to which these two Officers are subject by reason of their pow'r their frequent opportunities and their distance from their Superiours the Company besides their being wary in their Election may remedy these disorders by depriving them of that pretence which the Dutch Commanders and Broakers have of being constrain'd to sell off presently to the Merchants in gross to avoid the expences of delay The Errour which the Hollanders commit in this respect is That their Officers bespeak every year upon Credit all the Goods which they have occasion for in the Empire of the Mogul according to the Orders which they receive from Batavia The credit of this Advance costs them sometimes twelve sometimes fifteen per Cent so that so soon as their laden Vessels are arriv'd in the the Port where they are to be sold they are oblig'd to sell them presently off at the Merchants rate first offer'd to their Broakers to make up a present stock to pay off their credit for the Goods bespoke for their Ships to carry back again and to get more credit for the next year This is that which cherishes that confederacy between the President the Broaker and the Merchant who makes advantage enough of this necessity of selling Whereas the better way were for them that carry the same Commodities which the Hollanders do to carry Money also to pay the Workmen for the Goods bespoken for the next year The Company making this advantage shall not be put to pay that great Interest of 12 and 15 per Cent. and besides they shall have better Goods and better cheap The Ships loading shall be ready before they arrive in Port and being quick laden they may return before the bad Season Neither shall the Company be put to sell their Goods at a low price because their Broakers will have time to stay for the coming of Merchants from other parts or else because they have time enough to send them to other places where they are sure of a quicker sale Observe also That it is far more profitable to carry to the Indies Gold and Silver in Ingots rather then ready coin'd for being coin'd the Money is valu'd only according to their Alloys and there is always a defalcation made for the charge of Coinage The Broaker also if he be dishonest may combine with the Master of the Mogul's Mint which is settl'd in several parts of the Empire and put a lower value upon the Gold and Silver then it deserves by telling the President and Council that upon the touch it appears to be no more worth But it is an easie thing to avoid this deceit provided the President be a person of credit and prudence by sending for one of the Refiners of Gold and Silver that live in the Country who perfectly understand the Touch of Metals

Souldiers expert Mariners and Provisions for two years with all other Necessaries and Instruments as well for delving as building One of the seven of the General 's Council was chos'n Supervisor of the Enterprize 'T is said that those two Vessels skirted all along the Coast of Japon from the East to the South and from the South to the North fetching a compass about the Islands to the 47 deg of Northern Latitude and that they discover'd one Island which they call'd The States Island and afterwards touch'd upon another Land which they nam'd The Company 's Land inhabited by White people with long Hair habited after the Japon fashion which they found to be a Continent adjoyning to Niulhan and Corea and that after they had wander'd a long time upon the Sea without any other design then to make new Discoveries they pass'd through the Streights of Sanguar which separates the Land of Yesso from Japon and kept along those Coasts of Japon to the East to observe the Bays of Aizu and Xendai where are the Gold Mines In that part a furious Tempest took them in sight of the Mountains where the Gold Mines lye which lasted four days together The second of these Vessels run full against a Rock and split her self with the total loss of every Mothers Son in the Vessel The Admiral held out a longer time but coasting the Land where the Mountains of Sataque appear the Tempest grew so violent that she also brake against the Rocks In this second Shipwrack only the Admiral and thirteen persons more escap'd partly by the help of the Planks and partly by Swiming The Japonners upon the Coast presently ran to view them and wonder'd to see people in those parts whose Language they did not understand Nevertheless they entertain'd them civilly enough but in regard they were Strangers and that there was a strict prohibition not to receive any Strangers among them upon any pretence whatsoever they were at a great loss what to do with ' em One wiser then the rest advis'd his Brethren to carry them to the Emperour whose counsel was follow'd and so they took their journey toward Yeddo which was above a hundred Leagues off The Emperour being inform'd of their arrival order'd that they should be civilly us'd and at the end of eight days sent for them and caus'd them to be ask'd of what Country they were and what Design brought them into his Seas The Admiral who was a person of a ready ingenuity answer'd That he was a Hollander who all his life time had serv'd his Country as a Souldier where he had the command of a thousand Horse and two thousand Foot at what time Fortune or rather the care of preserving his Honour forc'd him from his Native Soyl. I was said he one of the chief Commanders in the Army and though I say it my Service had gain'd me a fair reputation The Prince who commanded us had a great confidence in me which made one of his near Relations jealous of me so that he was not only content to do me all ill Offices with the General but sought all occasions to pick a quarrel with me I dare be bold to say that had he not been so nearly related to the Prince I should not have taken his affronts so long patiently But at length he provok'd that patience to such a degree and so deeply and openly affronted me that I was constrain'd to meet him with my Sword in my hand His misfortune and mine so order'd it that I kill'd him at the first push My Friends assisted me to make my escape and kept me hid for some days thinking to have appeas'd the Princes anger but it continu'd so violent that they advis'd me to absent my self for some years Therefore to render my Exile less tedious and that I might be still doing something for the Service of my Country I desir'd my Friends to furnish me with two Ships with a resolution to seek out and destroy all those Pirates that infested the Indian Seas I have been in chace of them for a whole year together and sometimes we met with Tempests so violent that drave us we know not whither our selves my Pilots not being experienc'd in the Eastern Seas Soon after meeting with another Tempest no less rude and boystrous we were forc'd to let our Ships drive as the Winds themselves were pleas'd to force them which at length drove us upon the Coasts of this Empire where we have suffer'd Shipwrack not having sav'd above fourteen of four hundred which I brought along with me Happy in such a misfortune to be cast upon the Territories of a Prince so potent and generous that no question will have compassion upon our miseries When the Interpreter had repeated this Relation to the Emperour the Prince and all the Lords of the Court were very much concern'd and admir'd both the Courage and Aspect of the Stranger The Emperour sent him very rich Presents and to all those of his Company and gave Order that he should be conducted to Kisma to the Holland Factory and that he should be well treated upon the way during the whole journey which was five and twenty or thirty days Travel There this famous Champion stay'd four Months in expectation of the Ships that come every year from Batavia to Japon so that he had time enough to make a full Relation of the Lands which he had observ'd and of all the particulars of the Shipwrack One day as he was telling how he had cajoll'd the Emperour and that the President was applauding the quickness of his wit for inventing such an imaginary piece of Knight-Errantry a Japonese Boy that serv'd the President heard all the discourse without being observ'd by his Master Some Months after the President had beaten this Boy which he as all the Japoneses are of a fiery and vindicative Nature resolving to revenge went to the Governour of Nangisaqui and repeated to him the whole Discourse between his Master and the Admiral The Governour finding it to be a business of importance sends advice thereof to the Court The Emperour was so enrag'd at the injury and affront put upon him that he commanded the Governour to stop the Admiral and his Train and to send him with a good Guard to Yeddo and not to let any Ship enter the Harbour 'till he had had a full Examination of the matter This Order was not so secret but that the Presidents Friends had notice thereof who presently gave him intelligence of it so seasonably that the Admiral was sent away before the Order came to the Governour Eight days after three Holland Vessels arriv'd at Kisma to whom the Governour sent express command to keep out at Sea and not to come ashore The President feigning to be surpriz'd at this Prohibition went to the Governour to know the reason who gave him this Answer The Emperour said he is acquainted with your tricks you shall have no more kindness from me I