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A19470	A true and almost incredible report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good ship called the Assention in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies) trauelled by land through many vnknowne kingdomes, and great cities VVith a particular description of all those kingdomes, cities, and people. As also a relation of their commodities and manner of traffique, and at what seasons of the yeere they are most in vse. Faithfully related. With a discouery of a great emperour called the Great Mogoll, a prince not till now knowne to our English nation. By Captaine Robert Couerte.	Coverte, Robert.	1612 (1612)	STC 5895; ESTC S105141	45,255	78

A TRVE AND ALMOST INCREdible report of an Englishman that being cast away in the good Ship call the Assention in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies Trauelled by Land through many vnkowne Kingdomes and great Cities VVith a particular Description of all those Kingdomes Cities and People As also A Relation of their commodities and manner of Traffique and at what season of the yeere they are most in vse Faithfully related WITH A DISCOVERY OF A GREAT Emperour called the Great Mogull a Prince not till now knowne to our English Nation By Captaine Robert Couerte LONDON Printed by WILLIAM HALL for Thomas Archer and Richard Redmer 1612. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE ROBERT EARLE OF SALISBVRY KNIGHT OF THE MOST HOnourable Order of the Garter Vicount Cranborne Lord CECIL of Essindon Lord high TREASVRER of England Chancellour of the Vniuersity of Cambridge and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell AS the most noble Maecenas of all good Arts the most worthy Patron of all such as can any way merit of their Countrey I haue elected you Right Honourable Lord to whom I haue presumed encouraged by your known grace and Clemency to Dedicate these my tedious and dangerous Trauels In which your Honour shall finde vndoubtedly all truth and some nouelty If after your more weighty and serious Considerations you will daine the perusall of this my rude and vnpolisht discourse For being shipwrackt in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies and not dispairing in the power of the Almighty of my safe returne to my Countrey Leauing the rest to the number of 75. that would not hazard so desperate and vnexpected an vndertaking I aduentured to passe thorow many vnknown Kingdomes and Cities ouer Land of all which I haue to my plain vnderstanding made a particular and ●aithfull discouery Protesting to your Honor that in all my trauels and almost incredible dangers I haue heere exprest no more then I haue directly seen and to my great sufferance and difficultie prooued Pardon I intreat your Lordship this my presumption in selecting you the noble and worthy Patron to so rude a discourse whose simplenesse is onely excused in the Truth That granted I shall thinke my selfe most comforted after al my precedent Hazards that your Honor will but daine to accept of this report Your Lordships Humbly deuoted Robert Couerte To the Reader REceiue Courteous Reader a true report of my dangerous Trauels which will I make no question be as pleasing to thee in reading as they were painefull to me in suffering Heere thou maiest safely and without danger see that which hath cost me many a tedious and weary step many a cold and comfortlesse lodging and many a thin and hungry meale I publish not these my Aduentures in any pride or Arrogancie But I thinke I should prooue ingratefull to my preseruer not to let the world know his miraculous power in safegarding me beyond mine owne hope or mans Imagination The report of these my perils are freely thine mine hath onely been the dangers and sufferance Bee thou as well pleased with my faithfull discouery as I am contented with my hard and paineful Pilgrimage Thine ROBERT COVER●● A TRVE AND ALmost incredible report of an Englishman that being cast away in the ship called the Assention in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies Trauelled by Land through many vnknown Kingdomes and great CITIES THe 14. day of March 1607. wée came into the Downes and there ancored against Deale about 3. miles from Sandwich where we staied vntill the 25. day of the same moneth being by computation the first day of the yéere 1608. vpon which day about foure of the clock in the morning we waighed ancor and past by Douer betwéene thrée and foure of the clocke in the afternoone without any staying but giuing them notice with 3. peeces of Ordinance of our passing by and so passed forwards some thrée leagues and then by a contrary winde we were driuen backe againe into Douer roade where we ancored and staied till fiue of the clocke in the morning being the twenty sixe day of March. and then weighing ancor we sailed some thrée leagues when the winde contrarying constrained vs againe to cast ancor vntill the 27. day in the morning about seuen or eight of the clocke and then hauing a faire gale of winde we sailed to Plimouth where we arriued the 29. day between tenne and eleuen of the clocke in the forenoone where we staied till the thirtie one day of March. And then hauing a faire gale of winde wee waighed ancor and sailed vntill wee came in sight of an Iland called the Saluages on Sunday being the tenth day of Aprill being about fiue hundred leagues from Plimouth and still sailed forwards vntill the next morning that we came within sight of the grand Canaries which belong to the Spaniard And vpon the twelfth day of Aprill about eight or nine of the clocke in the night we ancored and discharged a peece of Ordinance for a boat to come aboard but to no effect For before our ariuall in the road there was a rumor of twelue saile of Flemmings that were cōming that way to no good intent as the Spaniards afterward told vs to be some of those Flemmings that had ouerrunne the rest where upon they sent vp into the Countrey for one hundred and fifty horse and foot or more for their defence and safegard if néede should be nor would they be peswaded to the contrarie vntill two of our Factors went on shore and fully satisfied them in any thing they demanded or doubted and that our intent was only to make prouision for such things as we wanted and the next morning as the manner there is we discharged another péece of Ordinance And then the Gouernour of the Towne sent a boat to know what we craued whereupon we certified them of our wants and they told vs they would giue the Gouernour intelligence and returne vs an answere which was that vnlesse wee came into the road it was beyond his Commission to releeue vs yet hauing first sworne and examined our Factors and so knowing the truth of our intended voiage they gaue them a warrant to take a boat to come aboard at their pleasures with licence to supply our wants if they had any thing that might content vs. Yet one thing aboue the rest made vs much to maruell which was two English ships which wee perceiued and knew by their flagges being in the road who had not so much kindnesse in them as to giue vs notice of the custome or manners of these subtill and currish people And of this doubt wee were also resolued that no man whatsoeuer being once within their Dominions may come aboard any ship that shall arriue there and lie out of the roade although they be of their owne Nation without their Gouernors and Councels permittance or licence At our being there some of them came aboard of vs euery day

found the good ship the Great Exchange of London whereof Master Robert Bradshawe of Ratliffe was both Captaine and Master who not aboue ten daies before was in great danger of shipwrake breaking their Cables and Ancors so that the ship droue and was in great distresse So that they were faine to cut the maine Mast ouerbord being within twice the ships length of the rocks yet by Gods good prouidence one Cable and Ancor held and so both schip and men were saued all the men hauing stripped themselues to saue their lives by swimming or otherwise as it would please God to assist and permit them In this storme there was a great Venetian shippe of 1100. tun cast away yet the ship was so set amongst the Rocks that all her men were saued by the great and mercifull prouidence of almighty God Also there were Frenchmen in the Harbor that cut ther Masts ouerbord and were in great danger yet all escaped thankes be giuen to God Also afterwards by greawt good fortune the Excharges Mast was found by the company between two Rocks and was got on shore and hauing an excellent good Carpenter he did workemanlike and strongly scarse the same with a péece of an other Mast which the Master got from aboard a Flemming that it brough her well home into England God be praised At our comming to Tripolie we went to the English house where wée stayed two daies and were by him very knidly used and héere we ended our long and teious Land trauels The first day of Ianuary being New yéeres day we tooke our leaue of Master Lucas and went aboard my selfe and Richard Martin where Captaine Bradshawe also used us very kindly and in regard I was very weake with long and extreame trauell he allowed me a good Cabin and caused the Surgeon to deo mee what good he could Tripoly is a Towne of no great traffique but only a place whither ships doe come to take in such trading as is brought from other places and chiefly from Aleppo The cause I thinke is by reason of the dangerous harbour there For if there come Easterly windes that ouerblow there is no safe riding for ships in that harbour For that no reasonable ground takle will hold them The third day of Ianuary we set saile for England and the one and twentieth day following we came to the Iland of Zante where they tooke in thrèe months victuals which they left there when there were outward bound Also they tooke in Oiles and Currants being all the Commodities which the Iland affordes For of it self it is so poore and barren that it yèeldeth not victuals to maintaine it self but is for the most part maintained from the Maine The foure and twentieth day we set saile againe and about he foure and twentieth day of February the winde tooke us short and our Master thinking it not goo dto beat the ship at Sea with a contrary winde put into harbour at Malta where is a galland harbour and many gallies and pretty fine shipping belonging to the same which goe out upon seruice 200. against the Turke Malta is a goodly City of an inuincible strength with gallant wals being built vpon a maine Rocke And vpon the wals of the olde and new towne are péeces of excellent good brasse Ordinance And in this City the ancient order of the knights of Malta haue their continuall residence who are gallant souldiers haue faire houses not much vnlike to our Innes of Court they are all Christians and so are all the inhabitants viz. Armenians Spaniards Italians Dutchmen and verie many Frenchmen the Grand Master of the whole order being a Frenchman but I could not heare of any English amongst them yet doe they all shew themselues very kind and curteous to Englishmen All the knights doe weare white and blacke crosses on the shoulders of their cloakes And any gentleman that commeth thither doth put in a stocke of a 100. pound or thereabouts for his maintainance but is not allowed for a knight vntil by seruice against the Turke or else where he shall deserue the same and héere wée staied 5. daies The 10. day of March we set saile againe and about the 22. day we came to a watch house where was 2. péeces of Ordinance and came to an ancor but because we came not presently ashore with our boat they shot at vs whereupon our Captaine sent our boat on shore with our Boatswaine who was very kindly vsed when they knew what we were and the Captaine of the watch-house came aboard our ship gaue our captaine a liue hog for a present which he accepted very thankfully and requited him with other things of 3. times the value And so as we thought he rested very well contented Then our purser and my selfe with a knight of Malta being a passenger for France were by our Boatswaine and his gang set on shore together with the Captaine of the watch-house we thinking to goe to the Towne of Callar to buy such prouision as we wanted But the Captain tooke our Purser and the knight of Malta prisoners and kept them there So that our Master not knowing how to come by y e Purser waighed ancor and brought the shippe vp to Callar anwent himselfe and made complaint to the Grand Seniors who presently granted a discharge for them both and withall promised that the Captaine should be punished for so abusing of his place and so after foure daies imprisonment the Purser and knight were both set at liberty and came aborde Calarie is a great Towne where a number of Cauiliers doe liue and hath some small shipping belonging to it It standeth in the Iland of Sardinia which is a great and fruitfull Iland of corns and fruit where we lay some sixe daies and 5. or 6. daies more of and on about the Iland In which tune we discribed two small men of warre which we imagined to be some of Captaine Wards crew who at the first chased vs and then we had them in chase but whē they perceiued we were not for their turne they made away as fast as they could and so we left them Then it pleased God to send vs a wind that brought vs thorow the Leuant and put vs out to the mouth of the Straits of Gebraltar from whence we also had a faire winde that carried vs to the height of the Burlans which is off the Rocke going to Lisbone in Portugale where the winde tooke vs short So that our Captaine thought it best to put into Cast Cales for beating the ship in the sea which he did for 23. or 4 daies vntill it pleased God to send vs a faire winde and so putting to sea againe we arriued safe in England at the Town and port of Douer in Kent about the latter end of Aprill 1611. For which I gaue God thankes and setting my foot on English ground I thought all my miseries to be at an end For to mée all the Nations and kingdomes that in this my trauels I passed by and saw both by sea and land séemed nothing comparable to it But that in respect of them all it may be called the onely Paradize and blessed Countrey of the world And so desiring God of his mercy to blesse euery good man from so great miseries as wée indured by the follies and ouersight of a lewd and indiscreet Master being both vnfit and vnworthy to bee imploied in so great affaires and for so worshipfull and worthy men as were Masters Owners and Aduenturers therein For Phillip de Groue our Master being a Flemming and an Arch-villaine who was not onely accused but it was by the boy with whom he committed the fact confessed to my selfe that he was a detestable buggerer So that had not Gods mercy béene the greater it was a wonder that in regard thereof and of others being offenders in the like that ourship had not s●nck in the Ocean Lastly praying to the Almighty for the long and prosperous raigne of our most Gracious Soueraigne King IAMES with the health and prosperity of the Quéenes most Excellent Maiesty and all their Roiall Issue As also for the Lords of of his most Honourable Priuie Councell and for all the Honourable Worshipfull and others the Masters Owners and Aduenturers of the Company of the East Indian Merchants their Factors Freinds and Welwillers I cease and humbly commit my selfe and this small Relation of my Trauels to their kinde and fauourable Censures FINIS Printed at London for Thomas Archer and Richard Redmer 1612. 1607. 1608. The master of the Pinnace murdered Moha sixe leagues wihin the Straits Their abod at Moha The ship foundere● ●andeuee Riuer 16●9 The taruell to Agra Grees the first Towne of Persia. A Portugal Embassador Legier Iohn White sent into the East India ouer land Somewhat is wanting Calari a porte Towne in Sardinia Callari a Towne of Sardinia The Strait of Gibraltar Berelengas Douer 1611.