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A20049	The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage. Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.; De orbe novo. Decade 1-3. English	Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.; Willes, Richard, fl. 1558-1573.	1577 (1577)	STC 649; ESTC S122069	800,204	966

soules a fewe clothes serue the naked weightes and measures are not needeful to suche as can not skyl of craft and deceyte and haue not the vse of pestiferous money the seede of innumerable mischeeues so that yf we shall not be ashamed to confesse the trueth they seeme to liue in that golden worlde of the whiche olde wryters speake so muche wherein men lyued symplye and innocentlye without enforcement of lawes without quarrellyng iudges and libelles content only to satisfie nature without further vexation for knowledge of thynges to come Yet these naked people also are tormented with ambition for y e desire they haue to enlarge their dominions by reason wherof they kepe war and destroy one another from the whiche plague I suppose the golden worlde was not free For euen then also Cede non cedam that is geue place and I will not geue place had entred among men But nowe to returne to the matter from which we haue digressed The admiral desyrous to know further of y e death of his men sent for Guaccanerillus to come to him to his ship dissimulyng that he knewe any thyng of the matter After that he came aboord shyp saluting the Admiral and his company geuing also certayne golde to the captaynes and officers turned hym to the women captiues whiche not long before our men had delyuered from the Canibales and earnestly beholdyng one of them whom our men called Katherine he spake gentely vnto her And thus when he had seene and marueyled at the horses and such other thyngs as were in the shyppe vnknowen to them and had with a good grace and meryly asked leaue of the Admiral he departed Yet some there were whiche counsayled the Admirall to keepe hym styll that yf they myght by any meanes prooue that he was consentyng to the death of our men he myght be punyshed accordyngly But the Admiral consyderyng that it was yet no time to incense the inhabitantes mindes to wrath dismissed him The next day folowyng the kynges brother resortyng to the shyppes eyther in his owne name or in his brothers seduced the women For on the next nyght about mydnyght this Katherine aswell to recouer her owne libertie as also her felowes being suborned thereto either by the king or his brothers promises attempted a muche more difficult and daungerous aduenture then dyd Cloelia of Rome whiche beyng in hostage with other maydes to the king Porcena deceiued her keepers and rode ouer y e riuer Tiber with the other virgins which were pledges with her For whereas they swamme ouer the riuer on horsbacke this Katherine with seuen other women trustyng only to the strength of their owne armes swam aboue three long miles and that also at suche time as the sea was somewhat rough for euen so farre of from the shore lay the shyppes at rode as nygh as they coulde coniecture But our men folowing them with the shipboates by the same light seene on the shore whereby the women were ledde tooke three of them supposing that Katherine with the other foure went to Guaccanarillus for in the spryng of the morning certaine messengers being sent vnto him by the Admirall had intelligence that he was fledde with al his familie and stuffe and the women also whiche thyng ministred further suspection that he was consentyng to the death of our men Wherefore the Admirall sent foorth an armie of three hundred men ouer the which he appoynted one Melchior to be captaine wyllyng him to make diligent search to fynd out Guaccanarillus Melchior therefore with the smallest vesselles entryng into the countrey by the riuers and scouryng the shores chaunced into certaine crooked goulfes defended with fiue litle steepe hilles supposing that it had byn the mouth of some great ryuer He founde heare also a very commodious and safe hauen and therefore named it Portus Regalis They say that the enterance of this is so crooked and bending that after the shyps are once within the same whether they turne them to the left hand or to the right they can not perceyue where they came in vntyl they returne to the mouth of the ryuer although it be there so brode that three of the byggest vessels may sayle togeather on a froont The sharpe and high hylles on the one syde and on the other so brake the wynde that they were vncertaine how to rule theyr sayles In the myddle gulfe of the ryuer there is a promontorie or point of the land with a pleasant groue ful of Popingiayes and other byrdes which breede therin sing very sweetly They perceyued also that two ryuers of no smal largenesse fell into the hauen Whyle they thus searched the lande betwene both Melchior espied a high house a farre of where supposing that Guaccanarillus had lyen hyd he made towarde it and as he was goyng there met hym a man with a frownyng countenance and a grymme looke with a hundred men folowyng hym armed with bowes and arrowes and long and sharpe staues lyke iauelynnes made harde at the endes with fyre who approching towardes our men spake out aloud with a terrible voyce saying that they were Taini that is noble men and not Canibales but when our men had geuen them signes of peace they left both theyr weapons and fiercenesse Thus geuyng ech of them certayne haukes bels they tooke it for so great a rewarde that they desyred to enter bondes of neare frendshyp with vs and feared not immediatly to submit themselues vnder our power and resorted to our shyps with their presentes They that measured the house beyng made in round fourme found it to be from syde to syde .xxxii. great paces compassed about with xxx other vulgare houses hauyng in them many beames crosse ouer couered with reedes of sundry colours wrethed as it were weaued with marueilous art Whē our men asked some of them where they might find Guaccanarillus They answered that that region was none of his but theyr kynges beyng there present Yet they sayde they supposed that Guaccanarillus was gone from the playne to the mountaynes Makyng therefore a brotherly league with this Cacicus that is to say a kyng they returned to the Admiral to make relation what they had seene and hearde whereupon he sent foorth diuers other Centurians with theyr hundredes to searche the countrey yet further among whiche were Hoiedus and Gorualanus noble young gentlemen and of great courage And as they went towarde the mountaynes to seeke Guaccanerillus diuiding the mountaynes betweene them one of them founde on the one syde thereof foure ryuers fallyng from the same mountaynes and the other founde three on the other syde In the sandes of al these riuers is founde great plentie of golde whiche the inhabitauntes of the same ilande whiche were with vs geathered in this manner makyng holes in the sande with theyr handes a Cubite deepe and takyng

the hart A man worthy to serue any prynce and most vilely vsed And of seuenscore men came home to Plymmowth scarsely fourtie and of them many dyed And that no man shoulde suspect these wordes whiche I haue sayd in commendation of Pinteado to be spoken vppon fauour otherwyse then truth I haue thought good to ad hereunto the coppie of the letters which the kyng of Portugale and the infant his brother wrote vnto hym to reconcyle hym at suche tyme as vppon the kyng his maisters displeasure and not for any other cryme or offence as may appeare by the sayde letters he was only for pouertie inforced to come into Englande where he fyrst persuaded our merchauntes to attempt the sayde vyages to Guinea But as the kyng of Portugale to late repented hym that he had so punyshed Pinteado vppon malicious informations of suche as enuied the mans good fortune euen so may it hereby appeare that in some cases euen Lions them selues may either be hyndred by the contempt or ayded by the helpe of the poore myse accordyng vnto the fable of Esope The copie of Antoni Anes Pinteado his letters patentes wherby the king of Portugale made him knyght of his house after al his troubles and imprisonment which by wrong information made to the king he had susteined of long time being at the last deliuered his cause knowen and manifested to the kyng by a grey fryer the kynges confessour I The kyng do geue you to vnderstande lorde Frances Desseosa one of my counsaile and ouerseer of my house that in consideration of the good seruice which Antonie Anes Pinteado the sonne of Iohn Anes dwellyng in the towne called the porte hath done vnto me my wyl and pleasure is to make him knight of mi house alowing to him in pension seuē hundred reis monethly and euery day one alcayre of barly as long as he keepeth a horse and to be payde accordyng to the ordinaunce of my house Prouydyng alwayes that he shal receyue but one mariage gifte And this also in such condition that the tyme which is excepted in our ordinaunce forbiddyng such men to marry for gettyng suche chyldren as myght succeede them in this alowance which is syxe yeeres after the makyng of this patent shal be fyrst expired before he do mary I therfore commaund you to cause this to be entred in the booke called the Matricola of our housholde vnder the title of knyghtes And when it is so entred let the clarke of y e Matricola for the certaintie thereof wryte on the backsyde of this Aluala or patent the number of the leafe wherin this our graunt is entered Which doone let him returne this writing vnto the said Anthonie Anes Pinteado for his warrant I Diego Henriques haue wrytten this in Almarin the twenty and two day of September in the yeere of our Lorde .1551 And this beneuolence the kyng gaue vnto Anthonie Anes Pinteado the twentie and fyue day of Iuly this present yeere Rey. The secretaries declaration written vnder the kynges graunt YOur Maiestie hath vouchsafed in respect consideration of the good seruice of Anthonie Anes Pinteado dwellyng in the port and sonne of Iohn Anes to make hym knyght of your house with ordinarie allowance of seuen hundred Reys pension by the moneth and one Alcayr of Barley by the day as long as he kepeth a Horse and to be payde accordyng to the ordinance of your house with condition that he shall haue but one mariage gyft and that not within the space of .vi. yeeres after the makyng of these letters patentes The secretaries note Entered in the booke of the Matricola Fol. 683. Francisco de Siquera The coppie of the letter of Don Lewes the infant and brother to the kyng of Portugale sent into England to Anthonie Anes Pinteado ANthonie Anes Pinteado I the infant brother to the kyng haue me hartely commended vnto you Peter Gonsalues is gone to seeke you desiring to bryng you home againe into your countrey And for that purpose hath with hym a safe conduct for you graunted by the kyng that thereby you maye freelye and without all feare come home And allthough the weather be foule and stormye yet fayle not to come For in the tyme that his Maiestie hath geuen you you maye do many thynges to your contentation and gratyfiyng the king whereof I woulde be ryght glad and to bryng the same to passe wyll do all that lyeth in me for your profite But forasmuche as Peter Gonsalues wyl make further declaration hereof vnto you I say no more at this present Wrytten in Luxburne the eyght day of December Anno. M.D.LII. The infant Don Lewes AL these forsayde wrytynges I sawe vnder seale in the house of my frende Nicholas Liese with whom Pinteado left them at his vnfortunate departyng to Guinea But notwithstandyng all these freendly letters and fayre promises Pinteado durst not attempt to goe home neyther to keepe company with the Portugales his countrey men without the presence of other forasmuch as he had secrete admonitions that they entended to sley hym yf tyme and place myght haue serued theyr wicked entent The second viage to Guinea AS in the fyrst viage I haue declared rather the order of the historie then the course of the nauigation wherof at that time I could haue no perfect information so in the discription of this seconde viage my cheefe intent hath been to 〈◊〉 the course of the same accordyng to the obseruation and ordinary custome of the maryners and as I receyued it at the handes of an expert Pilot beyng one of the cheefe in this viage who also with his owne handes wrote a briefe declaration of the same as he founde and tryed al thynges not by coniecture but by the art of saylyng and instrumentes parteynyng to the mariners facultie Not therefore assumyng to my selfe the commendations due vnto other neyther so bolde as in any part to change or otherwyse dispose the order of this viage so well obserued by arte and experyence I haue thought good to set foorth the same in suche sort and phrase of speache as is commonly vsed among them and as I receyued it of the sayd pilot as I haue said Take it therefore as foloweth In the yeere of our lorde .1554 the .11 daye of October we departed the ryuer of Temmes with three goodly shyppes the one called the Trinitie a ship of the burden of seuenscore tun the other called y e Barthelmew a shyppe of the burden of lxxxx the thyrd was the Iohn Euangelist a shyp of seuenscore tunne With the sayde shyppes and two pynnesses whereof the one was drowned in the coast of Englande we went forwarde on our vyage and stayed at Douer .xiiii. dayes We stayed also at Rye three or foure dayes Moreouer last of all we touched at Darthmouth The fyrst day of Nouember at .ix of the clocke at nyght departyng from the coaste of Englande we sette of the stert bearyng southwest al that nyght in the

slender lyke a fawne or hynde the hoofes of the fore feete are diuided in two much like the feete of a Goat the outwarde part of the hynder feete is very full of heare This beast doubtlesse seemeth wylde and fierce yet tempereth that fiercenesse with a certaine comelinesse These Unicornes one gaue to the Soltan of Mecha â–ª as a most precious and rare gyfte They were sent hym out of Ethiope by a kyng of that countrey who desired by that present to gratifie the Soltan of Mecha Of diuers thynges which chaunced to me in Mecha And of Zida a port of Mecha Cap. 20. IT may seeme good here to make mention of certayne thynges in the which is seene sharpenesse of witte in case of vrgent necessitie which hath no lawe as sayeth the prouerbe for I was dryuen to the poynt howe I myght priuely escape from Mecha Therefore whereas my Captayne gaue me charge to buy certaine thyngs as I was in the market place a certayne Mamaluke knewe me to be a Christian. And therefore in his owne language spake vnto me these woordes Inte mename That is whence arte thou To whom I answered that I was a Mahumetan But he sayde Thou sayest not truely I sayde agayne By the head of Mahumet I am a Mahumetan Then he sayde agayne Come home to my house I folowed him willingly When we were there he began to speake to me in the Italian tongue and asked me agayne from whence I was affyrmyng that he knewe me and that I was no Mahumetan Also that he had been sometyme in Genua and Venice And that his woordes myght be the better beleeued rehearsed many thinges whiche testified that he sayde trueth When I vnderstoode this I confessed freely that I was a Romane but professed to the fayth of Mahumet in the citie of Babylon and there made one of the Mamalukes Whereof he seemed greatly to reioyce and therefore vsed me honourably But because my desyre was yet to goe further I asked the Mahumetan whether that citie of Mecha was so famous as all the world spake of it and inquired of him where was the great aboundaunce of pearles precious stones spices and other rich merchandies that the bruite went of to be in that citie And all my talke was to the ende to grope the mynde of the Mahumetan that I might know the cause why such thinges were not brought thyther as in tyme paste But to auoyde all suspition I durst here make no mention of the dominion which the Kyng of Portugale had in the most parte of that Ocean and of the gulfes of the redde sea and Persia. Then he began with more attentyue mynde in order to declare vnto me the cause why that marte was not so greatly frequented as it had been before and layde the only faulte therof in the kyng of Portugale But when he had made mention of the Kyng I began of purpose to detracte his fame least the Mahumetan might thinke that I reioyced that the Christians came thyther for merchandies When he perceyued that I was of profession an enemy to the Christians he had me yet in greater estimation and proceeded to tell me many thynges more When I was well instructed in all thinges I spake vnto him friendly these woordes in the Mahumets language Menaha Menalhabi That is to say I pray you assist mee He asked me wherein To helpe me sayde I howe I may secretly departe hence Confirmyng by great othes that I would goe to those Kinges that were most enemies to the Christians Affirmyng furthermore that I knewe certayne secretes greatly to be esteemed whiche if they were knowen to the sayde kynges I doubted not but that in shorte tyme I shoulde bee sent for from Mecha Astonyshed at these woordes he sayde vnto mee I pray you what arte or secrete doe you knowe I answered that I would gyue place to no man in makyng of all maner of Gunnes and artillerie Then sayde hee Praysed be Mahumet who sent thee hyther to do him and his Saintes good seruice and willed me to remayne secretly in his house with his wyfe and requyred me earnestly to obtayne leaue of our Captayne that vnder his name he myght leade from Mecha fiftiene Camelles laden with spices without paying any custome for they ordinarily paye to the Soltan thirtie Saraphes of golde for transportyng of such merchandies for the charge of so many Camelles I put him in good hope of his request although he would aske for a hundred affyrmyng that that myght easily be obteyned by the priuileges of the Mamalukes and therefore desired him that I myght safely remayne in his house Then nothyng doubtyng to obtayne his request he greatly reioyced and talkyng with me yet more freely gaue me further instructions and counsayled me to repayre to a certayne Kyng of the greater India in the kyngdome and realme of Decham whereof we will speake hereafter Therfore the day before the Carauana departed from Mecha he willed me to lye hydde in the most secrete parte of his house The day folowyng early in the mornyng the trumpetter of the Carauana gaue warning to all the Mamalukes to make readie their horses to directe their iourney toward Syria with proclamation of death to all that shoulde refuse so to doe When I hearde the sounde of the Trumpet and was aduertised of the streight commaundement I was marueylously troubled in mynde and with heauy countenaunce desired the Mahumetans wyfe not to bewraye me and with earnest prayer committed myselfe to the mercie of God On the Tuesday folowyng our Carauana departed from Mecha and I remayned in the Mahumetans house with his wyfe but he folowed the Carauana Yet before he departed he gaue commaundement to his wyfe to bryng me to the Carauana which should departe from Zida the porte of Mecha to goe into India This porte is distant from Mecha .xl miles Whilest I laye thus hyd in the Mahumetans house I can not expresse how friendly his wife vsed me This also furthered my good interteynement that there was in the house a fayre young mayde the Niese of the Mahumetan who was greatly in loue with me But at that tyme in the myddest of those troubles and feare the fyre of Uenus was almost extincte in mee and therefore with daliaunce of fayre woordes and promises I styll kepte my selfe in her fauour Therefore the Fryday folowyng about noone tyde I departed folowyng the Carauana of India And about mydnyght we came to a certayne village of the Arabians and there remayned the rest of that nyght and the nexte day tyll noone From hence we went forwarde on our iourney towarde Zida and came thyther in the silence of the nyght This citie hath no walles yet fayre houses somewhat after the buyldyng of Italie Heere is great aboundaunce of all kynde of merchandies by reason of resorte in maner of all nations thyther excepte Iewes and Christians to whom it is not lawfull to come thyther Assoone as