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A00611	The voyage and trauaile of M. Cæsar Frederick, merchant of Venice, into the East India, the Indies, and beyond the Indies. Wherein are contained very pleasant and rare matters, with the customes and rites of those countries. Also, heerein are discovered the merchandises and commodities of those countreyes, aswell the aboundaunce of goulde and siluer, as spices, drugges, pearles, and other jewelles. Written at sea in the Hercules of London: comming from Turkie, the 25. of March. 1588. For the profitabvle instruction of merchants and all other trauellers for their better direction and knowledge of those countreyes. Out of Italian, by T H.; Viagge de M. Cesare de i Federici, nell' India Orientale, et oltra l'India. English	Federici, Cesare.; Hickock, Thomas.	1588 (1588)	STC 10746; ESTC S112444	73,405	88

yet standeth with the mountaine that is made of the substance that hath fallen from it maketh a greater shew then you shall finde comming neere to it Babilon and Basora FRom Babilon I departed for Basora shipping my selfe in one of the barks that vse to go in the riuer Tigris frō Babilon to Basora and from Basora to Babilon which barks are made after the manner of Fusts or Galliots with a Speron and a couered poope they haue no pumpe in thē because of the great aboundance of pitch which they haue to pitch them withall which pitch they haue in abundance two dayes iorney from Babilon neere vnto the riuer Euphrates there is a citie called Ayit néere vnto which citie there is a great plaine full of pitch very meruelous to beholde and a thing almost incredible that out of a hole in the earth which continually throweth out pitch into the ayre with continual smoake which pitch is throwne with such force that being hot it falleth like as it were sprinkled ouer all the plaine in such aboundance that the plaine is alwayes full of pitch the Mores and the Arabians of that place say that that hole is the mouth of hell and in truth it is a thing very notable to be marked and by this pitch the people haue great benefite to pitch their barks which barks they call Daneck and Saffin When the riuer of Tigris is well replenished with water you may passe from Babilon to Basora in 8. or 9. daies and sometimes more and somtimes lesse we were halfe so much more which is 14 or 15. daies because the waters were lowe they may sayle day and night and there is some places in this way where you pay so many Madiens on a ba●le if the waters be low it is 18. dayes iorney Basora BAsora is a Cittie of the Arabians which of osde time was gouerned by those Arabians called Zizarii but nowe it is gouerned by the great Turke where he keepeth an army to his great charges The Arabians called Zizarii haue the possession of a great Countrey and cannot be ouercome of the Turk because that the sea ●ath deuided their countrey into an Iland by channels with the ebbing flowing of the 〈…〉 for that cause the Turk cannot bring an army ag 〈…〉 neither by sea nor by land and another reason is the inhabitants of that Iland are verye strong and warlike men a daies iorney before you come to Basora you shall haue a little castel or fort which is set on that point of the land where the Riuers Euphrates and Tigris méete together and the castell is called Corna at this point the two riuers maketh a monsirous great riuer and runneth into the sea which is called the gulfe of Persia which is towards the South Basora is distant from the sea fiftéene miles and it is a cittie of great trade of Spices drugges which come from Ormus Also there is great store of corne Rice and Dates which the countrey dooth yéeld I shipped my selfe in Basora to go for Ormus and so we sailed through the Persian sea 600 miles which is the distance from Basora to Ormus and we sailed in small Ships made of boards bound together with small cords or ropes and in stéed of calking they lay betwéene euerie board certaine strawe which they haue and so they sowe board and board together with the strawe betwéene where through there commeth much water and they are very dangerous Departing from Basora we passed 200 miles with the sea on our right hand along the gulfe vntill at length we arriued at an Iland called Carichii from whence we sailed to Ormus in sight of the Persian shore on the left side and on the right side towards Arabia we discouered infinit Ilands Ormus ORmus is an Iland in circuit 25 or 30 miles and it is the most barrenest and most drie Iland in all the world because that in it there is nothing to be had but salt water and wood all other things necessarye for mans life is brought out of Persia 12 miles of and out of other Ilands néere therevnto adioining in such aboundance and quantitie that the citie is alwaies replenished with all manner of store there is standing néere vnto the waters side a verie faire castell in the which the captaine of the king of Portingale is alwaies resident with a good band of Portingales and before this castell is a verye fayre prospect in the citie dwelleth the married men Soldiers and Merchants of euery nation amongst whom there is Mores and Gentiles In this Citie there is verie great trade for all sorts of Spices drugs Silke cloth of Silke Brocardo and diuers other sorts of merchandize which come out of Persia and amongst all other trades and Merchandize the trade of Horsses is very great there which they carry from thence into the Indies This Iland hath a More king of the race of the Persians who is created and made king by the captaine of the castell in the name of the king of Portingale At the creation of this king I was there and saw the ceremonies that they vse in it which are as followeth The old King being dead the Captaine of the Portingales chooseth another of the blood Royall and maketh this election in the Castell with great ceremonies and when he is elected the Captaine sweareth him to be true and faithfull to the king of Portingale as his Lord and Gouernor and then he giueth him the Scepter Regall after this with great feasting and pompe with great company he is brought into the Roiall palace in the citie This king kéepeth a good traine and hath sufficient reuenues to maintaine himselfe without troubling of any bicause the Captaine of the Castell dooth maintaine and defend his right and when that the Captaine and he ride together he is honored as a King yet he cannot ride abroade with his traine without the consent of the captaine first had it behooueth them to doo this and it is necessarie bicause of the great trade that is in the citie their proper language is the Persian toong There I shipped my selfe to go for Goa a Cittie in the Indies in a Ship that had foure score horsses in hir this is to aduertise those Merchants that go from Ormus to Goa to ship themselues in those Ships that carrie Horsses because euery Ship that carrieth twentie Horsses or vpwards are priueleged that all the Merchandize whatsoeuer they carrie that they owe no custome whereas the Ships that carrieth not Horsses are bound to pa●● eight per cento of all the goods they bring Goa Dui and Cambaia GOa is the principallest Cittye that the Portingales haue in the Indies where is resident the Viceroy with his court and ministers of the king of Portingale frō Ormus to Goa is 990 miles distance in which passage the first Cittie that you come to in the Indies is called Dui and is scituate in

séeke me whereas I thought I should not haue found so much goodnes in them because they were paid their money afore hand as is the vse I had thought to haue seene them no more before their comming I was determined to pluck the Cane wherin my Jewels were bidden out of my cowtch and to haue made me a walking staffe to carry in my hand to Goa thinking that I should haue gone thether on foote but by the faithfulnesse of my Falchines I was rid of that trouble and so in fower dayes they carried me to Goa in which time I made hard fare for y e théeues left me neither money golde nor siluer that which I did eat was geuen me of my men for gods sake and after at my comming to Goa I payde them euery thing rially all that I had of them from Goa I departed for Cochin which is a voyage of 300. miles and betwéene these two Cties are many holds of the Portingales as Onor Mangalor Barzelor Cananor The holde or forte that you shall haue in going from Goa to Cochin that belongeth to the Portingales is called Onor which is in the kingdome of the Quéene of Battacella which is tributary to the king of Bezeneger there is no trade there but onely a charge with the Captaine and company he kéepeth there and passing this place you shall come to another small Castell of the Portingales called Mangalor and ther is a very small trade onely for a little Rice and from thence you go to a little fort called Barzelor there they haue good store of Rice which is carried for Goa and from thence you shall go to a cittie called Cananor which is a Hargabush shot distant from the chiefest citie that the king of Cananor hath in his kingdome being a king of the Gentiles and he and his are a very naughty and malicious people alwayes hauing delight to be in wars with the Portingales and when they are in peace it is for the intrest to let their marchādize passe there goeth out of this kingdome of Cananor all the Cardomomo great store of pepper Ginger Honey Ships laden with greate Nuttes greate quantity of Archa which is a fruict of the biggnes of Nutmegges which fruict they eat in all those parts of the Indies and beyonde the Indies with the leafe of an hearbe which they call Bettell the which is like vnto our Juye leafe but a little lesser and thinner they eate it made in Plaister● with the lime made of Oystershelles and thorowe the Indies they spend greate quantitie of money in this composition and is vsed dayly which thing I woulde not haue beléeued if I had not séene it The customers get greate profite by these Hearbes for that they haue custome for them when these people eate and chaw this in their mouthes it maketh theire Spittle to be redde like vnto blood and they saye that it maketh a man to haue a very good stomacke and a swéete breath but sure in my iudgement they eate it rather to fulfill theire filthy lustes and of a knauerye for this Hearbe is moyste and hote and maketh a very strong expultion From Cananor to Crangenor which is another small forte of the Portingales in the Land of the king of Crangenor which is another king of the Gentiles and a Countrey of small importaunce and of a hundreth and twenty miles full with theeeues being vnder the king of Callicut a king also of the Gentiles and a great enemie to the Portingales which when he is alwayes in warres he and his countrey is the Neast and resting for straunger théeues and these be called Moores of Carposa because they weare on theire heads long red Hattes and these théeues parte y e spoyles that they take on the sea with the king of Calicut for he geueth leaue vnto all that wil go a roauing liberally to go in such wise that all along that coast there is such a number of Théeues that there is no sayling in those Seas but with great Shippes and very well armed or elle they must goe in company with the army of the Portingales from Crangenor to Cochin is 15. miles Cochine COchine is next vnto Goa the chéefest place that the Portingales haue in the Indies and there is great trade of Spices drugs and all other sorts of Merchandize for the kingdome of Portingale and there with in the lād is the kingdom of Pepper which Pepper the Portingales lade in their ships by boulke and not in sacks the Pepper that goeth for Portingale is not so good as that which goeth for Meca bicause that in times passed the officers of the king of Portingale made a contract with the king of Cochine in the name of the king of Portingale for the prices of Pepper and by reason of that agréement betwéene them at that time made the prise can neither rise nor fall which is a verye lowe and base price and for this cause the Uillaines bring it to the Portingales gréene and full of filthe The Mores of Meca that giue a better price haue it cleane and drye and is better conditioned all the spices and drugs that is brought to Mecha is stolne from thence as Contrabanda Cochine is two cities one of the Portingales and another of the king of Cochines that of the Portingales is scituat néerest vnto the sea that of the kings of Cochin is a mile and a halfe vp higher in the land but they are both set on the banckes of one riuer which is very great and of a good depth of water which riuer commeth out of the mountains of the king of the Pepper which is a king of the Gentiles in whose kingdome are manye Christians of S. Thomas order the king of Cochine is also a king of the Gentiles and a great faithfull fréend to the king of Portingale and to those Portingales which are marryed and Cittizens in the Cittie Cochine of the Portingales and by this name of Portingales throughout all the Indies they call all the Christians that come out of the West whether they be Italians Frenchmen or Almaines and all they that mary in Cochine doo get an office according to the trade hee is of this they haue by the great priuilege the Cittizens haue of that City bicause there is two principall commodities that they deale withall in that place which are these the great store of silke that commeth from China and the great store of Sugar which commeth from Bengala the married Citizens paye not anye custome for these two commodities for all other commodities they pay foure per cento custum to the king of Cochine rating their goods at their owne pleasure those which are not married and strangers pay in Cochine to the king of Portingale eight per cento of all manner of merchandize I was in Cochine when the Uiceroye of the king of Portingale wrought what he could to breake the priuelege of the Citizens and

to make them to pay custome as other did at which time the citizens were glad to way their Pepper in the night that they laded the ships withall that went to Portingale and stole the custome in the night The king of Cochine hauing vnderstanding of this would not suffer any more Pepper to be wayed then presentlye after this the Merchants were licenced to doo as they did before and there was no more speach of this matter nor any more wrong doone This king of Cochine is of a small power in respect of the other kings of the Indies for he can make but seuentye thousand men of armes in his campe hee hath a great number of Gentlemen which he calleth Amochy and some are called Nayry these two sorts of men estéeme not their liues any thing so that it maye be for the honor of his king they will thrust themselues forward in euery danger although they knowe they shall dye These men goe naked from the girdell vpwards with a clothe rowled about their legs going bare footed and hauing theyr haire verye long and rolled vp together on the top of his head and alwayes they carrie their Bucklers or Targets with them and their Swords naked these Nayry haue their wiues common amongst themselues and when any of them go into the house of any of these women he leaueth his Sworde and Target at the dore and the time that he is there there dare not any be so hardy as to come into that house The kings children shall not inherit the kingdome after their Father bicause they holde this opinion that perchance they were not begotten of the king their Father but of some other man therefore they accept for their King one of the Sonnes of the kings Sisters or of some other woman of the bloud royall for that they be sure they are of the bloud royall The Nayri and their wiues vse for a brauerye to make great holes in their eares and so bigge and wide that it is incredible holding this opinion that the greater the holes be the more noble they estéeme themselues I had leaue of one of them to measure the circumference of one of them with a thred and within that circumference I put my arme vp to the shoulder clothed as it was so that in effect they are monstrous great Thus they doo make them when they be little for then they open the eare and hange a péece of golde or lead thereat and in the opening in the ●ole they put a certaine leafe that they haue for that purpose which maketh the hole so great They lade Ships in Cochine for Portingale and for Ormus but they that go for Ormus carrie no Pepper but by Contrabanda as for Sinamond they easilye get leaue to carrye that awaye for all other Spices and drugs they maye liberallye carrie them to Ormus or Cambaia and so all other merchandize which come from other places but out of the kingdome of Cochine proper they carry away from thence into Portingale great aboundance of Pepper great quantitie of Ginger dried and conserued wilde Sinamond good quantitie of Arecha great store of Cordage of Cayro made of the barke of the Trée of the great Nut and better then that of Hempe of which they carrie great store into Portingale The Shippes euerye yeare depart from Cochine to goe for Portingale in the fist of December or the fift of Januarie Nowe to followe my voyage for the Indies From Cochine I went to Coylane distant from Cochine seauentie and two miles which Coylan is a small Fort of the king of Portingales scituate in the kingdome of Coylane which is a King of the Gentiles and of small trade at that place they lade onlye halfe a Shippe of Pepper and then she goeth to Cochine to take in the rest and from thence to Cao Comeri is seauentie and two miles and there endeth the coast of the Indies and alongst this coast néere to the water side and also of Cao comery downe to the low land of Chialoa which is about two hundred miles The people there are as it were all returned to the Christian faith there are also Churches of the Friers of Saint Paules order which Friers doo very much good in those places to turne the people and in conuerting them and take great trouble in instructing them in the lawe of Christ The fishing for Pearles THe Sea that lieth betwéene the coast which discendeth from Cao Comery to the low land of Chialoa and the Iland Zeyland they call it the Fishing of Pearles which fishing they make euerye yeare beginning in Marche or Aprill and it lasteth 50 daies but they do not fish euery yeare in one place but one yeare in one place another yeare in another place of the same sea when the time of this fishing draweth néere then they send verye good Dyuers that goe to discouer where the greatest heapes of Dysters be vnder water and right against that place where the greatest store of Dysters be there they make or plant a village with houses and a Bazaro all of stone which standeth as long as the fishing time lasteth and it is furnished with all thing necessary now then it is néere vnto places that are inhabited and other times far of according to the place where they fish The fishermē are all Christians of the countrey and who that will may go to fishing paying a certaine dutie to the king of Portingale to the Churches of the friers of S. Paule which are in that coast all the while that they are fishing there is thrée or foure Fustes armed to defend the fishermen from Corsarios It was my chance to be there one time in my passage saw the order that they vsed in fishing which is this there are 3 or 4 barks y ● make cōsort together which are like to our little pilot boats a litle lesse there goeth 7. or 8. men in a Boate and I haue séene in a morning great number of them go out and anker in 15. or 18 fadomes of water which is the ordinarye depth of all that coast when they are at ankor they cast a rope into the Sea and at the end of the rope they make fast a great stone and then there is ready a man that hath his nose and his eares well stopped and annoynted with Oyle and a Basket about his neck or vnder his left arme then he goeth downe by the rope to the bottome of the sea and as fast as he can he filleth the basket and when it is full he shaketh the rope his fellowes that are in the Bark hale him vp with the basket and in such wise they go one by one vntill they haue laden their barke with Oysters and then at the euening they come to the village and then euery company maketh theire mountaine or heape of Oysters one distant from another in such wise that you shall sée a great

they trade with any but line onely of such fruites as those Ilands yeeldeth and if any Ship come néere vnto that place or coast as they paase y ● way as in my voiage it happened as I came from Malaca through the channell of Sombrero there came two of theyr barckes neere vnto our shippe laden with fruite as with Mouces which we call Adams apples with fresh nuttes and with a fruite called Inany which fruite is lyke to our Turnops but is verye sweete and good to eate they would not come into the shippe for any thing that we could doo neither would they take any mony for theyr fruite but they would trucke for olde shirtes or peeces of olde linnen breches these ragges they let downe with a rope into their barke vnto them and looke what they thought those things to be worth so much fruite they would make fast to the rope and let vs hale it in and it was tolde me that at sonetimes a man shall haue for an olde shirte a good péece of Ambar Sumatra THis Iland of Sumatra is a great Iland and deuyded and gouerned by many Kinges and deuided into many channels where through there is passage vpon the head land towards the West is the kingdome of Assi and gouerned by a Moore King this king is of great force and strength as he that beside his great kingdome hath many foists and Gallies In his kingdome groweth great store of Pepper Ginger Beniamin he is an vtter enemie to the Portingale and hath diuers times beene at Malacca to fight against it and hath doone great harme to the bowroughes thereof but the Cittie alwaie defended him valientlie and with theyr ordinaunce dyd great spoyle to hys Campe at length I came to the Cittie of Malacca The Cittie Malacca MAlacca is a Cittie of merueitous great trade of all kind of Merchanbize Which commeth from diuers parts bicause that all the Ships that saile in these seas both great and small are bound to touch at Malacca to paye their custome there although they vnlade nothing at all as we do at Elsinor and if by night they escape away and pay not their custome then they fall into a greater danger after for if they come into the Indies and haue not the seale of Malacca they paye double custome I haue not passed farther then Malacca towards the East but that which I will speake of here is by good information of them that haue béene there The sailing from Malacca towards the East is not common for all men as China and Giapan and so forwards to goe who will but onlye for the king of Portingale and his nobles with leaue granted vnto them of the king to make such voiages or to the iurisdiction of the captaine of Malacca where he expecteth to know what voiages they make from Malacca thether and these are the kings voiages that euery year ether departeth from Malacca two Galions of the kings one of them goeth to the Mulluccos to lade Cloues and the other goeth to Banda to lade Nutmegs and Maces These two Galians are laden for the king neither doo they carrye anye particular mans goods sauing the portage of the Marriners and Soldiors and for this cause they are not voiages for Merchants bicause that going thether he shall not haue where to lade his goods of returne and besides this the Captaine will not carrye anye Merchant for either of these two places There goeth small Ships of the Mores thether which come from the coast of Iaua and change or guild their commodities in the kingdom of Assa and these be the Maces Cloues and Nutmegs which go for the straights of Meca The voiages that the king of Portingale granteth to his nobles are these of China and Giapan from China to Giapan and from Giapan to China and from China to the Indies and the voiage of Bengaluco Sonda with the lading of fine cloth and euery sort of Bumbast cloth Sonda is an Iland of the Mores neere to the roast of Giaua and there they lade Pepper for China The ships that goeth euerye yeare from the Indies to China is called the Ship of Drugs because she carieth diuers drugs of Cambaya but the greatest part of hir lading is siluer From Malacca to China is 1800. miles and from China to Giapan goeth euery yeare a great ship of great importance laden with silke which for returne of their silke bring bars of Siluer which they truck in China that is distant betwéene China an● Giapan 2400 miles and in this waye there is diuers Ilands not very big in the which the Friers of S. Paule by the helpe of God make many Christians there like to themselues from these Ilands hether wards is not yet discouered for the great sholdnes of Sands that they find The Portingales haue made a small Citie neere vnto the coast of China called Macha whose church and houses are of wood and hath a Bishoprike but the customes are of the king of China and they go and pay it at a Cittie called Canton which is a Cittie of great importance and verye beautifull two dayes iorneye and a halfe from Macheo which people are Gentiles and are so iealious and fearefull that they would not haue a stranger to put his foote within their land so that when the Portingales goe thether to paye their custome and to buye their Merchandize they will not consent that they shall lye or lodge within the Cittie but sendeth them forth into the subburbs The countrie of China is in the kingdome of great Tartaria and is a very great countrye of the Gentiles and of great importance which may be iudged by the riche and precious merchandize that come from thence the which I beléeue are not better nor greater quantitie in the whole worlde then these are that come from thence First great store of gold which they carye to the Indies made in plates like to little Ships and in value 23 caracts a péece very great aboundance of fine Silke Cloth of Damaske and Taffitle great quantitie of Muske great quantity of Occom in bars great quantitie of Quicksiluer and of Cinaper great store of Camfora an infinite quantity of Procellane made in vessels of diuers sorts great quantitie of painted cloth and squares infinite store of the rootes of China euery yeare there commeth from China to the Indies two or three great Ships laden with most riche and precious Merchandize The Rubarbe commeth from thence ouer land by the waye of Percia because that euery yeare there goeth a great Carauan from Percia to China which is in going thether six moneths Carauan arriueth at a cittie called Lanchine the place where the king is resident with his court I spake with a Persian that was thrée yeares in that Cittie of Lanchine and he told me that it was a great Citie and of great importance The voiages of Malacca which are in the

the Indies often times there is not stormes as is in other countries but euerie ten or twelue yeeres there is such tempests and stormes that it is a thing incredible but to those that haue séene it neither doe they knowe certaine what yeere it will come Unfortunate are they that are at Sea in that yéere and time of Touffon because few there are that escape that daunger In this yéere it was our chance to bee at Sea with the like storme but it happened well vnto vs for that our Shippe was newly ouer-plancked and had not any thing in her saue victuall and balastes Siluer and Golde whiche from Pegu they carrie to Bengala and no other kinde of Merchandise This Touffon or cruell storme endured thrée dayes and thrée nightes In which time it caried away our sayles yardes and Rother and because the Shippe laboured in the Sea we cut our mast ouer bo●rd which when we had done she laboured a greate deale more then before for when our Mast was gone the Shippe laboured worse then before in such wise that the Shippe was almoste full with Water that came in ouer the highest and so went downe and for the space of three dayes and three nightes sixtie men did nothing but bale out Water out of her in this wise twentie men in one place and twentie men in another place and twentie in another place and for all this storme the Shippe was so good that shée tooke not one iot of Water alowe through the sides but all ranne downe through the hatches that those sixtie men did nothing but cast the Sea into the Sea And thus driuing two and fro as the winde and Sea woulde wée were driuen in a darke night about fowre of the clocke and cast on a Sholde yet when it was day we coulde neither sée land on one side nor other knew not where wee were And as it pleased the deuine power there came a great waue of the Sea and so driue vs beyond the Shold And when we felt the Ship a●lote wee rose vp as men reuiued because the Sea was calme and smoth water and then sounding we found twelue fadome Water and within a while after we had but ●i●e Fadom and then presently we came to anckor with a small anckor that was left vs with the sterne for all our other were lost in y ● storme by and by the Shippe was a ground and stroke and then wée did prop her that shee shoulde not ouerthrowe When it was day the ship was all a drye and found the Shippe a good mile from the sea on drie Lande This Toffon béeing ended we discouered an Ilande not farre from vs and we went from the ship on the Sandes to see what Ilande it was and we founde it a place inhabited and to my iudgement the firtelest Ilande in all the Worlde the which is deuided into two pars by a chanel which passeth be twéen it w t great trouble we brought our ship into y ● chanell which parteth the Ilande with a flowing Water and there we determined to stay fortie dayes to refresh vs and when the people of y e Iland saw the Ship and that we were comming a lande presently they made a place of Bazar or a market with Shops right ouer against the Ship with all manner of prouision of victualles to eat which they brought downe in great abundance and solde it so good cheape that we were amazed at the cheapenesse thereof I bought many salted kine there for the prouision of the Ship for halfe a Larine a peece which Larine may be twelue shillinges sixe pence and verie good and fat and fowre wilde hogges ready dressed for a Larine a great fat henne for a Bizze a peece which is at the most a pennie and the people tolde vs that we were deceiued the halfe of our monie because we bought thinges so déere Also a sacke of fine Ryce for a thing of nothing and consequently all other things for humaine sustenance were in such abundance that it is a thing incredible but to them that haue seene it This Ilande is called Sondiua belonging to the kingdom of Bengala distant 120 miles from Chitigan to which place we were bound The people are Moores and the King a verie good man of a Moore king for if he had béene a Tyrant as others bee hee might haue robbed vs of all because the Portugall Captaine of Chitigan was in armes against the Retor of that place and euerie day there were some slaine at which newes wee rested there with no small feare kéeping good watch ward abroad euerie night as the vse is but the gouernour of the Towne did cōfort vs and bad vs that we should feare nothing but that we should repose our selues securely without any danger although the Portugalles of Chitigan had slaine the Gouernour of that Citie and saide that wée were not culpable in that fact and more he did vs euerie day what pleasure he coulde which was a thing contrarie to our iudgementes considering that they and the people of Chitigan were both subiectes to one King We departed from Sondiua and came to Chitigan the great port of Bengala at the same time that the Portugalles had made peace and taken a truce with the gouernours of the Towne with this condition that the cheefe Captaine of the Portugalles with his Shippes shoulde depart without any lading for there were then at that time eightéene Shippes of Portugalles great and small This Captaine being a Gentleman and of good courage Yet for all this he was contented to depart to his greate hindrance rather then hee woulde séeke to hinder so manye of his freendes as were there as also because the time of the yéere was spent to goe to the Indies The night before he departed euerie Shippe that had any lading in them put it a boorde of the Captaine to helpe to ease his charge and to recompence his courtesies In this time there came a Messenger from the King of Rachim to this Portugall Captaine who saide in the behalfe of his King that hée had heard of the courage and valure of him desiring him gentlie that he woulde vouchsafe to come with this Shippe into his port and comming thither hee shoulde bee verie well entreated This Portugall went thether and verie well satisfied of this King This King of Rachim hath his seate in the middle coast betweene Bengala and Pegu and the greatest enemy hee hath is the King of Pegu which King of Pegu imagineth night and day to make this King of Rachim his subiect but by no meanes he is able to do it because the King of Pegu hath no power nor armie by sea And this King of Rachim may arme two hundreth Galleyes or Fusts by Sea and by Lande he hath certaine s●uses with the which when the king of Pegu pretendeth any harme towardes him hee may at his pleasure drowne a great part