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TO THE 
 
 Right Noble Lord, and worthy of all Honour, 
 
 William? Earl of Strafford? 
 
 Vifcount Wentworth, Baron Wentworth of 
 Wmtworth, Woodhoufe , «A (ewmarfh, 
 
 Overjley , and c Rab- 
 
 \^My Lord, ■ ' 
 
 < Vrcbas , a Writer of good credit here in jEwe- 
 land, gives this teftimony of my Authour,- that 
 no man before him, to his knowledge,hath fpo- 
 kenfo much, and fo truly, of thofe Oriental parts of the 
 World, which arefo little known to us, as he hath done: 
 And that too, not upon hear-fay and report, but for the 
 rnoft part as an ocular Wunefs, and perfonal A<5tor, of> 
 and in all that he hath related, which is fb full of Variety, 
 and ftrange Occurrences, that, as another Writer af¬ 
 firms, the like will hardly be met withal elfewhere: So 
 that the moft curious Wits which delight in reading of 
 rare Books, will, I believe, find all the fatisfadtion they 
 can defire, in this fame of hisjwhere, without fo much as 
 ftirring out of their Studies, or running the danger of 
 Shipwrack,they may traverfe’the Seas,view the goodlieft 
 P rovinces of the World, entertain themfelves with ftu- 
 
 fa) pendious 
 
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 \The Epijlle Dedicatory. 
 
 pendious and unheard-of things • confider in the manner 
 of thofe peoples living, whom we term barbarians, 
 their Laws, their Riches, their Government in time of 
 Peace and War; and, in a word, reprefent unto them- 
 felves, as in a Picture, all that is moft exquifite, and of 
 greateftmarvel,in the extent of Europe, Africa } and Afia. 
 Thefe, together with many other remarkable matters,are 
 contained in this Work, which i have taken the pre- 
 fumption to prefent unto your Honour, being invited 
 thereunto by the Example of two Tranflators of it into 
 the Spani/h a.nd French Tongues, whereof the one dedica¬ 
 ted it to the Archbifhop of‘ Toledo in Spain, and the other 
 to the Cardinal ' 'Richelieu of France , both of them, the 
 moft eminent perfons of their time, in thofe Kingdoms: 
 And with whom your Honour may juftly.be ranked, 
 efpecially in refpe<5t of the Nobility of your Birth, as 
 well as for the great Hope which your prefent Vcrtues, 
 and Abilities, do give unto the World of your future 
 Worth and Eftimation. Be pleafed then, my Lord, 
 to receive it Favourably, as a Tender of the great defire 
 I have to appear, on all Occafions,* 
 
 Four Honours moft humble , 
 
 and denoted Servant, 
 
 HENRY COGAN. 
 
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 A N 
 
O F 
 
 FERpIJ^J^Cp ME^CPEZ TI^(JO 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 Fit be true that Authours do render themfelves commendable by tbeh 
 Works , there is no doubt, but that Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, hath by 
 this fame of his juflly acquired fuch reputation, as void make h:m be 
 efleemed for ever. He was a man of a flrongwit, and fouvd judge- 
 went, and indued with a moll rare , and extraordinary memory as ap¬ 
 pears in the Relation of his Voyages and Adventures, which fuffictently tepfie horv 
 far he excelled therein, retaining in his remembrance an trinity of fuch flrangc and 
 wonderful things^ (whereof to his soft be was for the molt part an eye witnefs) as 
 many great Perfonages of Alia and Europe took no little delight in hearing him re¬ 
 count them 5 efpecialty Philip the fecond , King of Spain, who at feveral times jfent 
 many houres in difcourfmgrvith him thereabout , which queflionlefs he would never 
 have done,beinga Prince in the opinion of all the world , of a moil ex all and profound 
 judgement , had he not been verily per [waded that what he delivered was true . Never- 
 tbelefs, ftnce there may be fotne who in regard of the flupendiotss things which he deli¬ 
 vers y will feem to give no credit thereunto ; 1 have held it very neceflary to citt here 
 many feveral authcntick Authours ^ that in their writings have confirmed the verK 
 ty of his Narrations , as follcweth. 
 
 Of the Riches and Grandeurs of thefe Oriental Countries, and particularly of the 
 Kingdome of China, Nicholas Trigaulr, the fefuite treats diffufedly in his book, 
 intituled,De Chiftiana expeditione apudSinas, in the fir& part thereof , prin° 
 tipally, in the fixth Chapter. Gafper de la Cruz, in his book 0 / China, the third\ 
 
 fourth 5 
 
An Apologetical Defence. 
 
 fourth .fifths and nineteenth, Chapters,] ohn deLucen^,inthe life of Fc.ncls Xavier 
 the fejuitC) in the io book) from the ('seventeenth to the twenty fourth Chapter. An¬ 
 thony Galuan, in his Trearife of the Difcovery of thofe Parcs, fol. 39. And in his 
 Hiftory of Florida. Mendoza,*# his Hiftory of China, the fecond chapter of the 
 third book. Trigauit,/# his fir(l book^the feventh chapter , Palatii Regis. Dottor 
 Bahtin the third part of his Pontifical Hiftory, the 18. chapter fin the life of Six¬ 
 tus Quintus. Boterus , in hu relations. John de San&is, in his Ori ntal iEthio- 
 pian Hiftory, chapter 8. and in the Ecclefiaftical Hiftory 0/" Rebullofa. Ribade- 
 neyra, Mathew, and Lewes Gufman findiverfe chapters of the Oriental Hifto- 
 ries. Jofephus de Acofta, Peter of Leon, Zarate, Michael Vazquez de Padilla, 
 Peter Martyr, Cefas Bijhop of Chiapa, Francefco Lopez de Gomorra, Hierofme 
 duPre, Ferdinand de Cordoua, Hierofme Romain,Iilefcas, Antonio de Herre¬ 
 ra, Pineda, Prudentiusde Sandobal, and Garcilaftb in divers places of his royal 
 Commentaries, and in the 20 chapter of his third Book. 
 
 Touching that which Fe nand Mendez writes of the Governours of thofe King- 
 domes , of the flriff obfervation offuflice y of the Names of the fudges , Vice- Royes, 
 Magfiftrates, Captains ^Governours, and Nlinifters of the Staie y Boterus, in his Q- 
 niverfal Relations,/*^ the fame, Trigauk , in divers places $ particularly in the 
 fi<th chapter of the fir fl book) De Senenfis Reipublicte adminiltiaiione. Gafparde 
 la Cruz, in the 16.17, 1 9.chapters .Babia 5 i» the thirdpageof his P ntiftcal 
 BooV 9 w the Life of Sixtus Quintus. Lucena, in the Life of Francis Xavier, the 
 tenth Book. Mendoza, 9.and 10. chapters of his third Book) and in many 
 other chapters of his New World. Mafeus,*# ^Oriental Hiftory 5 and in the 
 Letters of China written by Guerrier the fcfuite. Concerning the great number 
 ofprifonS) and oth r particularities) the fame may be feen at large y in the Hiftory of 
 China. Mendoza,*# the twelfth chapter cf his fir ft Book, Gafpa: de la Cruz, 
 chapter ninth , and twenty fecond. Trigauit,*# divers places of his Hiftory. Lucena, 
 in the twenty firfi chapter of his tenth Book 5 and Alexander Valignario, in his Let¬ 
 ters mifsive • 
 
 That which he [peaks of the great multitudes of people that are in thofe countries , 
 4 vadein Lucent, thenineteenth chapter of his tenth book. Trigauk, in fundry 
 places , chiefly in the fecond chapter , De nomine, fitu, & magnitudine Regni 
 Sinai um. 
 
 Ferdinand Mendez in the 89 chapter , writes of a Temple built upon a great com¬ 
 pany of pillars 5 Reade De la Cruz, the 7. chapter. Mendoza,*/*? third chapter of 
 his fir ft Book, Mafeus; Anthony de St.Romain 5 and George Bruno, in his book 
 of the City of the World. 
 
 In this Hiftory art fit forth huge Statues of bra ft and Iron, See the firfi y third . 
 fourth , fifth chapters of the fir ft book 0/Gafper de la Cruz. Mendoza, the ninth 
 and tenth chapters of his firfi book. The fecond book of Botet\i*,in his Relation of 
 Siam. RvbuUoia, in his Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, fol. 117. and 118. John de San* 
 <ftis, in his ^Ethiopian Hiftory, the 7 and twelf th Chapters. Lucena in the , 1 . 6 , 8 . 
 and 9. Chapters of his 7. book, Trigault, inthe 9. and 18. chapters of his firfi book. 
 Mateus, and St Romain, inthe90. Chapter. Mendoza, *'0 the 7 .Chapter of his 
 firfl book, and in the 14. Chapter of his 2 party as alfo in divers places of his Iti¬ 
 nerary, Luceaa , in the nineteenth Chapter of his nineteenth booke^ and many other 
 A ut hours. 
 
 Touching the manner of breeding and keeping of wilde Ducks in River!) men • 
 tionedin the 97, Chapter . SreDela Cruz, they, and 8. Chapters. Mendoza, 
 
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 An Apologetical Defence, 
 
 the one and twenty Chapter. T rigaulr, the fecond Chapter of his fi,fi hoik $ and divers 
 others. 
 
 As for that which he writes of the Towns that are made on Rivers and the Ses^ with 
 an infinite company of/hips fin the 9 8 . Chapter 5 read Lucena,*# the 19, chapter of his 
 
 10. book: Mendoza, in his Itineraries the 17. chapter De ia Cruz, in the 3 . and 
 
 11. chapters, Trigaulr, in the third chapter of his firfl book , Navium Capia. Lu¬ 
 cena, in his fir-ft book^the \9.chapter. 
 
 Forfo much as is fpoken of the Wall which (eparates Tarraria from China, See 
 Lucena, inthe 21, chapter of his tenth book. Gafper delaCruz, the jecond and 
 fourth chapters >. T rigaulr,*# the fecond chapter of bis fir ft book, and tn the twelfth 
 chapter of his fifth book. Galvan, in his Commentaries, fol. 70. Mendoza, 
 
 1. part) in the $. chapter of his 1. book , and in the 17. chapter of the i.part. Babia, 
 in the 1 .pdrt of his Pontifical! Hiftory* chapter 18. and generally all that write of 
 thefe parts of China. 
 
 Concerning that which Ferdinand /ayes of the T reafure of the deidjead Luceart 
 in the 8. c.ofthe 7 .hook.De la Cruz, and Mendoza.PaulusJovius,/# his Hiftory of 
 theTurkl^r that which JPaflavinus delivers in the defeription of the Perfians,*#^ 
 Belorus,/# hisC hronology of the Kings of Perfia/r a great marvel,The like de 
 CeliusW AuguftinusCorionrmV* of the V^arre of the Cimbrianf, wherein 
 fttch an infinite number of Saracens were fiain , near so Marfeiiies, as they made 
 up the Fences of their Fields with the bones of them. Anthony Boudin,*# his Deca¬ 
 des of Hungary, ~ 
 
 Our Author imployes many Chapters in the Vefcripthn of the /lately Edifices of 
 thofe Eaftern Countries * The fame may be feen in all the other Writers, that intreat 
 oftbofe (arts of Ada, who fet them forth firangely rich and great, Lucena in the J 0 
 hook of the Life of Francis Xavier* F other Lewis in his Letters. The fame Lu¬ 
 cena, in the 8. chapter. 
 
 For the innumerable company of religious men and women (as they term tbem)wbicl? 
 Jervefor the worfhip of their falfe Gods^it jhall fuffice to reads De la Gruz, in his 
 firfi chapter. 
 
 And for a full clearing thereof , read Damien de Gois, in the Hiftory of King 
 Don Emanuel, Mafeus,i#£tf ii* and 14 . hooks. S^Romain, and Trigaulr. 
 As al(o for the removing of all doubt in the reading of thofe things as incredible,look on 
 the 16. Chapter oiihe book oi Prefterjohn, written by Fiantifco Alvarez. John 
 deSan&is, in his Ethiopian Hiftory, the 17 chapter. Levis de Parama, De 
 Origine Inquificionis, the 19, chapter of his 1, book, entituled , In fexta a^ate 
 Mundi Razb, in his Chronicle Sandti Dominici, folio 199. Galvan, in his Dif- 
 coveries, folio 70. Lucena, in divers places of his book. Mendoza, in the 
 eighteenth , nineteenth 3 twenty and twenty third chapters , and throughout his 
 firsl and fecond books. Gafpar de la Cruz, the fifth, fiventh , and ninth 
 chapters .• Boterus, in his Relations of China,Na'fingua, Japon, and Siam. Re- 
 bullofa, folio 141, Leonard Abel in his Relations. Paul Maria, in bis Journey 
 into Egypt > and many others. 
 
 Concerning the fitting forth , fumptuoufnefi, and magnificence of thofe peoples 
 Banquets. 5 Their Comedies, Feafts, Dances, MufickjWdiverfity t of Inftru- 
 mentsi fee Lucena, i» the 13'. chapter of his 10. book. Mendoza, inthetwen - 
 tie fourth and twentie eighth Chapters of his firfl book i as alfo inthe fourteenth 
 and eighteenth Chapters of his thirdbook. Trigaulr, in the feventh Chapter of 
 bis firfi book,Conrini 3 . Touching their Feafis, reads Mafeus, in thefixth book. 
 
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An Apologetical Defence. 
 
 of his Hiftory, St Romain in fits, and generally Trigault, de expeditione apud 
 Chinas. 
 
 For the manner of their facrificing , fee de San&is, in the eighth Chapter of his 
 jEthiopa. Damien de Gois, in the Hiftory of King Emanuel Mendoza, in the 
 2 6 chapter of his Itenerary. Trigault, 'throughout the whole tenth Chapter of his 
 fir(l Book. Luceaa, in [everalplaces ofhisfeventh book. De la Cruz, the 13 chap¬ 
 ter. Boterns, in his Relations. TheMaps of Japan, and China. MathewRicio, 
 Sr Romain, Mafeus. 
 
 In the 11 6. and 117. Chapters of the prefent Book , the Author treats of the 
 Cafileof Nixancoi), for which perufe Trigault, de Chriftiana expeditione, the 
 11 chapter of his 4 Book. Polenus, in his book of Stratagems.Me getius,de re milF 
 tari 5 Vanitiu-;, ana Valionzelos. 
 
 Touching that which Ferdinand [peaks of the Chinefes, their Penances and 
 Mortifications in the Temple of Tinagoogoo* as aljo of their Procefsions^and 
 the facrificing of tbemjelves there 5 Reade John de Sari&is, in the eighth Chap¬ 
 ter of bis .Ethiopian Wiltor y, Mendoza, in the twenty eighth Chapter of his 
 Icine.'ary. f rigmlt, in the tenth chapter of his firft Book > and in the fecond part 
 of the Hiftory of Ctuna. Galvan, in his Difcoveries , fol. 5 6. Mafeus, Saint 
 Romain, Boterus, and Anthony de Govea, in the Arcbbtjhop of Goa his 
 Voyage. 
 
 of that which is Jaid concerning the great number of idols and Statues , Mendoza 
 [peaks amply in the 9. Chapter of his firft book, in the 7. Chapter of his fecond book , 
 and in many other places 5 deSan&is, in the fecond part of his Ethiopian Hifto- 
 r h t ^ e f ev cnth Chapter , Lucena, throughout his whole 7, book . Trigault, in the 10. 
 Chapter of his firft book> Se<ft. Idolorum multitude. Rebullofa, frpm folio 
 116. to folio 120. Dela Cruz, in many places of his book . Damien de Gois; 
 Boterus, in his Relations of Pegu : Ba 3 i 1 in the third part of bis Pontifical Hiftory , 
 the eighteenth Chapter , In vitaSexri Quintk 
 
 Ferdinand makes a Narration of certain men 3 whom he calls Caloges, andUltx- 
 gaos, which have their feet roundfttke umothoje of Cows , and hands all over hairy% 
 for the clearing of the truth whereof reade Gal van, in his Difcoveries , folio 32. and 
 72. Gafpar de la Cruz, the 7. Chapter. 
 
 Touching the triumphant Arches which they have in their ftreets, together with 
 their manner of accommodating,and inriching them , when us they folemni\ed certain 
 Feaftsi reade de la Cruz, the 7. Chapter. 
 
 Of the Unive>fittes which they have in China 5 /^Trigaulr, in the 3. and 5. 
 Chaptersef hisfirfi Book^De Artibusapud Sinasliberalibus,acSdeaths,&c. And 
 in another, emituled^ De Artibusapud Sinas mechanics. 
 
 For a Confirmation of that which our Author [ayes of the ft range Ceremonies and 
 Complements , uftdbj them at their fluting one another , when they meet together by 
 chance in tbe ftreets^ andm their vtfits 5 Read Mafeus, in the 6. book of his Indian 
 History^ olio 1 34. beginning mth the/e words, Sa'urandi ritus inter plebeios,&c. 
 And Mendoza, in divers places ofhis book d( dares the fame. Trigault, in they, 
 chapter of his 1. book, at the Titlt, De Sinarum/ritibus nonnullis, dejeribes their 
 manner of Salutations . Babia, in the 3. part of bis Pontifical Hiftory. in the Life of 
 Gregory the 13. J J 
 
 i he Htft ory of the A ing of Bramaa, together with his 
 be found in the Relations of Boteru?, Dela Cruz, in 
 feus, and St Romain. 
 
 Victories and Gonquefts pm ay 
 the 2, and 4, C hapters , Ma« 
 
 Of 
 
An Apologetical Defence. 
 
 Of the entrance of the Tartars into China, and their be figging of Pequin : B6- 
 terus/tf his Relations $ De la Cruz, the fourth chapter 5 Paulus Jovius, Antomus ? 
 Arroenius, and Mathias de Micuy, difiourfe at large . 
 
 That which is written of the fubverfion of the Provinces of Cuy, and Saofii, and 
 of the doleful and dreadful events tnfuing thereupon, Gafpar de la Cruz hath Jpoken 
 (uffcientlj in the 29 Chapter of his Book # 
 
 As for that which Ferdinand fays of their Gods, Fatoquis, Amida, Xaca, Gizon., 
 and Canom $ us alfo of the fooleries, dreams ^and leafwgs , which they recount of them% 
 and of their Original , and the refpeffs and reverences they hear unto them $ it may be 
 all fen in the 12 Book of Mafeus his Indian Hiflory $ and in the firfi; and fourth 
 Chapters of bis Epiftles* T rigault fin his fir If and fecond book m BoteruSj in his Re - 
 Utions . Sc. Romain, and many others 4 
 
 By all this now is my Authour throughly vindicated from all afperfiont of faljhood, 
 that may becaft upon this his Work$ which were it otberwi[e y and merely devifed 0 yet is 
 it fo full of variety, and offuch firange , both Comtek and Tragi ck Events , as can¬ 
 not chufe but delight far more then any Romance* or other of that kind* But being 
 accompanied with the Truth, as I have fuffidently proved, it will ( no doubt) give ali 
 the [at is faff ion and content a that can be de fired of the Reader . 
 
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 A % The 
 
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The Contents. 
 
 CHAP. i. 
 
 * • 
 
 I N what manner l pafl my youth in the Kingdome of Portugal, until my going to the Indies. 
 
 J Fol. i. 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 MyVeparture from Portugal for the Eaft-Indies’j and my imbarquing there for the Sfreight of 
 
 Mecqua. 5 
 
 ^ C H A P. 111 . 
 
 Our travelling from Mazua by Land to the Mother of? refter John ; at alfo ourn-imbarqiting at 
 the Fort of Arquicoi and that which befel us by the encounter of three Turkilh Veffels. 5 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 A mutiny happening in the Town of Mocaa j the octafron thereof ; that which befel thereupon, and 
 by what means I was carried to Ormuz • as alfo my failing from thence to Goa 5 and what fuc- 
 cefs lhad in that Voyage. C H A P. V. ' 8 
 
 Gonfalo vas Cotinhoes treaty with the Queen of Onor • his ajfaulting of a Turkifh Galley ■ and 
 that which happened unto us as we were upon our return to Goa. 11 
 
 C H A P. V I. 
 
 What paffed till fitch time as Pedro de Faria arrived at Malaca , his receiving an Embajfadcur 
 from the King of Batas, with his fending me to that King, and that which arrived unto me 
 
 in that Voyage . H 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 What happened to me at Panaiu, with the King of Batas expedition againd the Tyrant of Achem, 
 and what he did after Ins Victory over him. ‘ 28 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 That which paji between the King c/Batas and me,untilJuch time as l imb trqued for Malaca ; my 
 arrival in the Kingdom of Queda, and my return from thence to Malaca. 21 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 The arrival of an Lmbajfadour at the Fortrejs of Malaca, from the King of Aaru, to the Captain 
 thereof »,his fending me tothe faid King, my coming to Aaru, and that which happened unto me 
 after my departure from thence . 2 ^ 
 
 iCt H AP. 
 
 F>y what means Iwas carried to the town of Siaca, and that which befell me there 5 my going to 
 Malaca with a Mahometan iJMerchant ‘ and the tyrant of Achems army marching again(l the. 
 King of Aaru. • 2 9 
 
 CHAP. XI. . . 
 
 The death of the King of Aaru ,and the cruel Jufrice that was executed on him by his Faiemies the 
 going of his Queen to Malaca, and her reception there. . 35 
 
 CHAP. XII. 
 
 The Queen of Aarifr departure from Malaca, her going to the King of Jantana, his fummoning 
 the Lyrant of Achem to ref ore the Kingdome of Aaru 5 and that which pafr between them 
 .thereupon, ■ 3 ^ 
 
 CHAP. XIII. 
 
 My departure to go to Pan $tbat which fortuned after my arrival there, with the murther of the 
 King of Pan, and the caufe thereof. 3? 
 
 CHAP. *X IV. 
 
 The misfortum that befel us at our entry into the Fiver of Lfjgor ; our hiding our felves in a Wwd, 
 with that which happened unto us afterwards ; and our return unto Malaca. 42 
 
 CHAP. 
 
The Contentsi 
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 
 Antonio de Faria hisfettingforth for the I(le of Anyan, big arrival at the River o/Tinacoreu- and 
 that which hefel us in this Voyage, ° ^ 
 
 CHAP. XVI. 
 
 Antonio de Faria’ s arrival at the bay of Camoy, where was thefijhing of Pearls for the King of 
 China • the relation made to him of the Ifle of Aynan ; with that which happened to him by the 
 means of a Renegado Pirate ^and other wayes, ' 
 
 CHAP. XVII, 
 
 The information that Antonio de Faria had of the Country • fome p a ff a ^s betwixt him and the 
 Nautarel of the town • his going to the River of Madel, with his encountring a Pyrat there^and 
 that which paffed between them, " ^8 
 
 CHAP. XVIII. 
 
 What Antonio de Faria did with the Captain of the Pyrates Junck^ that which pa(l between him 
 and jhe peopl e of the Country 9 with our cajiing away upon the Jfland ofLhieves, 61 
 
 CHAP. XIX. 
 
 In what fort we efcaped miraculoufly out of this Jfland- ourpajfage from thence to the River of 
 Xingrau ; our encountring with a Chinefe Pirate y and the agreement we made with him, 
 
 • ! CHAP. XX. 
 
 Our encounter at Sea with eight Portugals very forely hurt 5 and Antonio de Faria’/ meeting and 
 fighting with Cola Accm the pirate, ] 1 ' .< . / 6<y 
 
 CHAP. XXI. n. 
 
 What Antonio de Faria did after his Vifiory , bis departure from the Rivtr of TinlaUj with his 
 iUfuccefs thereupon 3 and the jitccour we met with au. ns 
 
 CHAP. XXII. 
 
 Antonio de Faria hath news of the five Portugals that were made Captives- his Letter tv the 
 Mandarin o/Nouday about them 5 and his affdulting the faid town. 76 
 
 ■ _ GHAiP. XXIII. X 
 
 Aritonio de Faria’/ Navigation till he came to the ‘Port of Liampoo ; his arrival and gallant re - 
 ception there by the Portugals. d IX F j 
 
 ; ! CHAP. XXIV. 
 
 Antonio de Faria departs from Liampoo for to go and feel^ mt the Jfland of Calempluy j the 
 'Jirange things that weJaw^and the hazard we ran in our Voyage thither. 87 
 
 CHAP. - XXV. 
 
 Our arrival at the Jfland of Calempluy , with the defcription thereof - what happened to Antonj.0 
 de Faria in one of the Hermitages there, and how we were discover ed. 9 2 
 
 CHAP. XXVl. 
 
 Our caJUng > aw ay in the gulphof Nanquin, withal that befel us after this lamentable jbip- 
 wrackj / * ' . 'n 97 
 
 CHAP. -XXVII. 
 
 Our arrival at the 7 own of Tay por, where we were made prifoners^ and fo feftt to the City of. 
 Nanquin. - 103 
 
 CHAP. XXVIII. 
 
 Lhe Marvels of the City of Nanquin • our departure from thence towards Pequin, and that which 
 happened unto us till we arrived at the town fl/Sempitay.' ' 107 
 
 CHAP. XXIX. 
 
 Our arrival at Sempitay, our encounter there with a Chrifiun woman 5 together with the original 
 
 . and foundation of the Empire of China, and who they were that firli peopled it. j 12 
 
 CHAP, XXX. 
 
 "The foundation of the four chief Cities of China$ together with which of the Kings of China it was 
 that built the wall betwixt China ^w^Tartaria- and many things that we faw as we pajl 
 along, 116 
 
 CHAP. XXXI. 
 
 Ihe Order which is objerved in the niching towns , that are made upon the Rivers 5 and that which 
 further befell us, 122 
 
 -'CHAP. XXXII. 
 
 Ottr arrival at the City 0/Pequin 5 with our imprijonment 0 and that which moreover happened 
 
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The Contents. 
 
 unto its there ; as alfo the great Majefly of the Officers ef their Court of Jujlice. 125 
 
 CHAP. XXXIII. 
 
 IVbat pall between ns and the Tanigores of Mercy 5 with the great favour they did us 5 and a 
 brief Relation of the City of Pequin 5 where the King of China keeps his Court. 131 
 
 CHAP. XXXIV. 
 
 The Order which is cbferved in the Feajis that are made in certain Inns y atid the Jlate which the 
 Cheams of the two and thirty TJtiiv erf ties kgep y with certain remarkable things in the City of 
 Pequin. 134 
 
 CHAP. XXXV; 
 
 The frifon of Ximanguibaleu^fom'tt thofe are kept which have been condemned toferveat the Re¬ 
 parations of the wall o/Tartaria , and another Inclofure , called the Treafure of the dead y with the 
 Revenues whereof this Prifon is maintained. ' v 137 
 
 CHAP. XXXVI. 
 
 Of an Edifice feituated in the midjl of the River ^wherein were the hundred and thirteen Chappels 
 of the Kings o/China,W the publique Granaries eflablifhed for the relief of the poor. 142 
 
 CHAP. XXXVII. 
 
 The great number of Officers and other people^ which are in the Kings of China’/ ‘pa lace • with 
 our going to Quincay to accomplijh the time of our Exile y and what'befel us there. 144 
 
 CHAP. XXXVIII. 
 
 A Tagtar Commander enters with his Army into the Town 'of Quincay, and that which fol¬ 
 lowed thereupon ; with the NauticorS befieging the Caftle of Nixiamcooj and the taking of it 
 by the means of fame of us Portugals. 149 
 
 CHAP. XXXIX, 
 
 The Mitaqucr departs from the C ajtte op IMixituncuuj unit vf TimirlsPs Camp 
 
 before Pequin j with that which we faw till we arrived there 5 and the Mitaqucrs prefenting 
 us unto the King. 
 
 ' CHAP. XL. 54 
 
 The King 0/TartariaV raifng hisjiege frombeforeVccpnm y for to return into his Countries and 
 that which paffed until his arrival there. 1 
 
 CHAP. XLI. 
 
 Jn what manner we were brought again before the King o/Tartaria 5 with our departure from 
 that Kingdom ; and all that we faw and befel us in our Voyage y till our arrival at the Court of 
 the King o/Chauchinchina. 
 
 CHAP. XLII. 
 
 The reception of the Tartarian Embajfadour by the King of Chauchinchina, with the faid Kings 
 going to the Citie o/Uzanguea 3 and his triumphal entry thereinto. 167 
 
 CHAP. XLIII. 
 
 Our departure from the City of Uzanguea, and our adventures till our arrival at the JJle of Ta- 
 
 v nixumaa, with our going a Jhore there. 170 
 
 CHAP. XLIV. 
 
 The great Honour which the Nautaquin, Lord of the Jfe y did to one of us for having feen hint 
 jhoot with an Harquebufe j and his fending me to the King of Bungo^ with that which paffed till 
 my arrival at this Court. ’ 17a 
 
 . CHAP. xlv. 
 
 The great mifhap which befell the King o/’Bungo’s fon y with the extream danger that I was in for 
 the fame y and what followed thereupon. 176 
 
 __ . . CHAP. X LVI. 
 
 My curing the young Yrince of Bungo $ with my return to Tanixumaa, and imbarquing therefor 
 Liampoo; and alfo that which happened to US on land after the Jhipwrack^ we fujfered by the 
 way thither. ' 178 
 
 CHAP. XL VII. 
 
 The carrying of us to the Town o/Pungor, and prefenting tts to the Broquen, Governour of the 
 Kingdom , with that which enfued upon it. 181 
 
 . , CHAP. XLVIII. 
 
 i )e ing of ■ Lequ'ios fending a cruel Sentence againjl us to the Broquen of the Town where we 
 werefp t ifonersjo the end be Jhould put it in execution - and that which further happened unto 
 us till our arrival at Liampoo. ' 184 
 
 CHAP 
 
The Contents. 
 
 . . CHAP. XLIX. 
 
 cA/j* failing from Liampoo to Malaca, i vith the fending me by the Captain ofthe Fortrefs there to 
 the Chaubairthaa at Martibano ; and aJJ that befel us in our Voyage thither . 189 
 
 CHAP. L. 
 
 The continuance of our Voyage to the Bar of Martibzno,and certain memorable particularities hap¬ 
 pening there. / ■ ' - '' ' j qC 
 
 CHAP. LL. ” 
 
 In what manner the Chaubinhaa rendred himfelf to the King of Bfamaa ; and the cruel'proceed¬ 
 ing againfi the Queen 0/Martabano, and the Ladies her attendants 20j 
 
 CHAP. LII. . . 
 
 In rvhat manner the fentence of death was executed on the perjon of the Chaubinhaa, King 0/Mar- 
 tabano, Nhay Canatoo bps wife^and an hundred and fourty women-fwith that which the King 
 
 * 0/Bramaa did after his return to Pegu! 205 
 
 CHAP. Lilt 
 
 That which pajfed between the Queen of Prom and the King of Bramaa, together with the firji 
 ajfaulttbat was given to the City 0 and the fuccefs thereof. 209 
 
 CHAP. LIV. 
 
 The Kina 0/Bramaa his be fleeing the Fortrefs of MeleVtay, with his going from thence to A- 
 vaa, and that whichpajfed there 282 
 
 CHAP. LV* 
 
 Our going with the iCittg'o/Bramaa’s Emhajfadour to the Calaminham ; with the courfe which 
 we held until we arrived at the Temple , or Fagode of Tinagoogoo ; and a Defer iption 
 thereof. 21 5 
 
 CHAP. LVI. 
 
 The great and fumptuous ProceJJion made in this Fagode 5 together with their Sacrifices , and other 
 particularities . 218 
 
 CHAP. LVII. 
 
 tv hat we faw in the continuing of our Voyage , until we arrived at the City 0/Timplan. 223 
 
 CHAP. LVIII. 
 
 The Magnificent Reception of the King of Bramaa his Emhajfadour at the City 0/Timplan ; and 
 that which pajfed betwixt the Calaminham, and him. 22 6 
 
 CHAP. LIX. 
 
 An example Relation of the Empire 0/Galaminham,tf»^ of the Kingdoms of Pegu >and Bramaa ; 
 with the continuanee of our Voyage , and what we faw during the fame . 24* 
 
 CHAP. LX. 
 
 Our arrival at Pegu, with the death of the Roolim of Mounay. 245. 
 
 CHAP. LXI. 
 
 The Eleftion of the new Roolim 0/Mounay,^e grand Talagrepo of thefe Gentiles of the King¬ 
 dom 0/Pegu. 2 4§ 
 
 CHAP. LXI I.. 
 
 In what manner the Roolim -of Mounay was conducted to the I(le of Mounay^w^ put into pojfejjion 
 of his Dignity. 252 
 
 CHAP. LXIII. 
 
 A continuation of the fuccefs which we had in this Voyage ; with my departure from Goa to Zunda, 
 and whatpajfed during my abode there. 255 
 
 CHAP. LXI V. 
 
 The expedition of the Pangueyram Emperour of Jaoa, and King 0/Demaa, againfi the King of 
 Paflervan • and'all that which pajfed in this fVar. 25S 
 
 CHAP. LX V. 
 
 The death of the King of Demaa by a very firange accident^and that which arrived thereupon. 2 63 
 
 C H AP. LX VI. 
 
 That which befell us until our departure towards the Fort 0/Zunda, from whence we fet fail for 
 China, and what afterwards happened unto us. 2 66 
 
 CHAP. L X V 1 1. 
 
 My pajfrngfrom Zunda toSnm^where in the company of Portugals I went to the iVar of Chya- 
 may • and that which the King 0/Siam did until he returned into his Kingdom , where his 
 Queenpoyjoned him. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
The Contents. 
 
 i C» '• >»>. * ■ • j • 
 
 CHAP. LXVII>I. 
 
 The lamentable death of the King of Siatri • Tenth certain illujlnons and memorable thmgs don 
 by Vim during his life • and many other accidents , which arrived in that Kingdom. 275 
 
 CHAP. L XIX. 
 
 T he King of Bramaa’s enterprize againjl the Kingdome of Siam, and that which pafl until 
 his arrival at the City of Odiaa, with his beftegingof it .and all that infited thereupon 278 
 
 CHAP. L XX. 7 
 
 Jhc Kingof Bramaa’s raifing hisfiege from before tbje City of Odiaa, with a Vefcription of the 
 Kingdom o/Siam, and the fertility thereof. 28 ^ 
 
 CH AP. LXXI. ' * 
 
 A continuation ofjhaf which happened in the Kingdom of Pegu, as well during the Ufe 3 as after 
 the death of the King o/Bramaa, 2 %6 
 
 CHAP. LXX 11 . 
 
 7 hat which arrived in the time o/Xemiq de Satan, and an abominable cafe that happened to 
 Diego Suarez, together with the Xemrndooes expedition againjl Xemin de Satan, and tha 
 which infued thereupon. 
 
 CHAP. LXXIII. , 
 
 7 hat which the Xemindoo did., after he was crowned King of Pegu ; with the Chamnigrems, 
 tl*e King of Bramaa’s F ojler-brokers marching againjl him with a great Army - and divers 
 other memorable things . 295 
 
 v CH AP. ■ LXXI V. 
 
 7 he finding of the Xemindoo, bringing him to the King o/Bramaa- with the manner of his 
 
 execution and death 9 atid other particularities concerning the fame. 201 
 
 CHAP. JL X X V. 
 
 My imbarquing in the Kingdom of Pegu to go to Malaca, and from theme to Japon 5 with ajhange 
 accident which arrived there. 3 
 
 CHAP. L XXVI. 3 5 
 
 Our pafjingfrom the 7 own o/Fucheo to the Port oj Hiamangoo, and that which bcfdus there to- 
 
 > getbe.r with my departure from Malaca, and arrival at Goa. i IO 
 
 CJdA*P. LXX VII.* 6 
 
 Father Belquiors and my departure from the Indies to go to Japon ; and that which kefel ns till 
 my arrival at the If and of Champeiloo. 212 
 
 , CHAP. 1 LXXVltl. * . 
 
 Our departure from theJ/land of Champeiloo, and our arrival at that </Lampacati 5 with a 
 relation of two great difajiers which happened in China unto two Portugal Colonies * and of a 
 jirange accident befides that fell out in the Country. 7 
 
 CHAP. LXXIX. * * 
 
 Our arrival in the Kingdom o/Bungo, and that which pafl thereupon . g 
 
 CHAP. L X XX. 4 
 
 My reception by the K ing of Bungo, as Embaffadour from the Vice-Roy of the Indies. zi 1 
 
 rfrr / CHAP. LXXXI. 5 
 
 w hat pafl after our departure fr. m Zequa, till my arrival in the Indies, and from thence into the 
 
 Kingdom of Portugal. 
 
 32 $ 
 
 The 
 
CHAP. I. 
 
 After what manner If aft my Youth in the Kingdom 0/Portugal? 
 
 untill my going to the Indies. 
 
 . ■ • - .. \ ' • y&fl .... 
 
 iO often as I reprefent unto my (elf the great and continual Travels that have Se&xj 
 accompanied me from my Birth, and amidft the which I have fpent my 
 firft years,I find that l have a great deal of realbn to complain of Fortune, 
 for that (he (eemeth to have taken a particular care to perlecute me,and to 
 make me feel that which is moft infupportable in her, as if her glory had 
 no other foundation then her cruelty.For not content to have made me be 
 born, and to live milerably in my Country during my Youth, (he con¬ 
 duced me, notwithftanding the fear I had of the dangers that menaced me, to the Eafi- 
 Indies , where in (lead of the relief which I went thither to feek,(he made me find an increafe 
 of my pains, according to the incrcafe of my age. Since then it hath pleafed God to deliver 
 me from fo many dangers, and to protect me from the fury of that adverfe Fortune, for to 
 bring me into a Port of (afety and a durance ; I (ee that I have not (o much caufe to complain 
 of my Travels paft, as I have to render him thanks for the benefits which untill now I have 
 received of him • feeing that by his Divine bounty he hath preferved my life, to the end I 
 might have means to leave this rude and unpolifhed Difcourfe unto my Children for a me¬ 
 morial and an inheritance. For my intention is no other, but to write it for them, that they 
 may behold what ft range fortunes I have run for the (pace of one and twenty years,during the 
 which I was thirteen times a captive, and (eventeen times (old in the Indies , in TEthiopia^ in 
 Arabia , in China , in Tart aria , in Madagascar , in Sumatra , and in divers other Kingdoms and 
 Provinces of that Oriental Archipelage upon the Confines of 'Afia 9 which the Chinefes , Siames , 
 Gueos, and Lecquios name, and that with reafon,in their Geography ,the ey-lids of the world, 
 whereof I hope to entreat more particularly, and largely, hereafter. Whereby men, for the 
 time to come, may take example, and a refolution not to be difcouraged for any croffes that 
 may arrive unto them in the courfe of their lives. For no difgrace of Fortune ought to efloigrn 
 us never (b little from the duty which we are bound to render unto God; becaule there is no 
 *dverfity,how great foever, but the nature of man may well undergo it,being favoured with 
 
 B ^ “ the 
 
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 The Travels , Voyages, and /idventures 
 
 the afliftance of Heaven. Now, that others may help me to praife the Lord Almighty for the 
 infinite mercy he hath (hewed me, without any regard to my fins, which 1 confefs were the 
 caufe and original of all my misfortunes, and that from the fame Divine Power I received 
 ftrength and courage to refill them, efcaping out of fo many dangers, with my life laved, I 
 take from the beginning of my Voyage the time which I fpent in this Kingdom otFortugal^ 
 and fay,That after 1 had lived there till I was about eleven or twelve years old, in the mifery 
 and poverty of my Fathers houfe within the Town of Monte-morOvelho , an Uncle of mine, 
 defirous to advance me to a better fortune then that whereunto I was reduced at that time 
 and to take me from the carefles and cockerings of my Mother^ brought me to this City of 
 Lisbon, where he put me into the lervice of a very honourable Lady : the which he was car¬ 
 ried out of the hope he had,that by the favour of her felf and her friends he might attain to 
 his defire for my^dvancementjand this was in the fame year that the funeral pomp of the de- 
 cealed King E manttel of happy memory was celebrated at Lisbon , namely St. Lucies day, the 
 13. o$D ec ember,i%2\. which is the furthell thing I can remember. In the mean time my Un¬ 
 cles defign had a fuccefs clean contrary to that which he hath promifed to himfelf in favour 
 of me: For having been fervant of this Lady; about a year and a half, an accident befel me, 
 that call me into manifell peril of Life, lo that to lave my felf I was conllrained to abandon 
 her houfe with all the Ipeed that poflibly I could. Flying away then in very great fear, I ar¬ 
 rived before I was aware at the Ford of which is a fmall Port fo called; There i’ found 
 a Carvel of ^//^m^that was laden with the horfesand Huff of a Lord, who was going toSe- 
 tuval, whore at that inllant King Joana the Third kept his Court, by realbn of a gteat plague 
 that reigned in divers parts of the Kingdom. 
 
 , P erce i v i n g then that this Carvel was ready to put to Sea, Iimbarqued my felfin her, and 
 oeparted the next day. But alas! a little after we had let fail,having gotten to a place named 
 Cezmibra,vjc were let upon by a French Pirate,who having boarded us, caufed fifteen or fix- 
 teen of his men to leap into our Veflel, who finding no refinance made themfelves Mailers of 
 her : now after they had pillaged every one of us, they emptied all the Merchandife where¬ 
 withal ours was laden,which amounted to above fix thoufand Duckats, into their fiiip and 
 then funk her; fo that of feventeen of us that remained alive,not fo much as one could elcape 
 flavery ,for they clap’d us up all bound hand and foot under hatches,with an intent to go and 
 fell us at La Kache in Barbara whither alfo,as we fonnd by being among!! them,they carried 
 Arms td the Mahometans in way ofTrade/or this purpofe they kept us thirteen dayes toge¬ 
 ther,continually whipping us ; but at the end thereof it fortuned that about Sun fet they difl 
 covered a lhip,unto which they gave chafe all the night, following her clofe, like old Pirates 
 long ufed to fuch Thieveries; having fetcht her up by break of day,they gave her a volley of 
 three pieces of Ordnance,and prefently inverted her with a great deal of courage;Now though 
 at firft they found lome refiftance,yet they quickly rendred themfelves Matters of her, killing 
 F^*f^b,and ten or eleven flaves. This was a goodly Veflel, and belonged to a Fortupal 
 Mei chant of the Town ofConde, named S ilvejire Godinbo, which divers other Merchants of 
 Lisbon had laden at Saint Tome with great ftore of Sugar and Slaves;in fuch fort that thofe 
 poor people feeing themfelves thus taken and robbed fell to lament their lofs,which they efti- 
 mated to be fey thoufand Duckats. Whereupon thefe Pirates having gotten fo rich a booty, 
 anged their defign for going to la Rache, and bent their courfe for theCoaft of Fnz/2<f^car¬ 
 rying with them fuch of ours for fiaves,as they judged fit for the fervice of their Navigation* 
 
 I e remainder of us they left at night in the Road, at a place called Melides, where we were 
 
 a " T na H our bodies covered with nothing but with the ftripes of the forties 
 
 w ich o cruelly we had received the dayes before.In this pitiful cafe we arrived the next mor- 
 mng at bt.y jgo dc Caten^ wheee we were relieved by the inhabitants of the place, efpecially 
 y a ady that was there at that time, named Donna Beatrix , daughter to the Earl of Villa- 
 TfS r 1' r ? ^ 07J J° ^ e ' rez Fantoia 0 Commander and grand Provoft of the Town. Now 
 a u 11 a Z°™ C ? Were rec overed,each of us departed, and got him where he hoped 
 11M; ”.} ie be: ft afiiftancedbr my felf,poor wretch,I went with 6 .or 7. that accompanied me in 
 e *r* V j lj bltber ^ was no fooner come, but my good fortune placed me in the 
 - « rana fa a f f ana,z Gentleman belonging to the great Commander of S. 7 ^,who 
 
 I • . P e ” ee ® our years fervice that I did him, put me to the laid Commander to wait 
 Z C ? , er > which 1 performed for an year and an half after. But in regard the 
 
 cnteitainment which was given at that time in Noble-mens houfes was fo fmall as I was not 
 
 * able 
 
. Of Ferdinand. sSWende^ TintOi * 
 
 able to live on it, neceflity conftrairied me to quit my Matter, with a defign to Imbarque my 
 felf by his favour to go to the Indies ; for that I thought'was thebett way I could take to free 
 me ofmy poverty. So albeit I were but meanly accommodated, I imbarqued my felf not- 
 withttanding, fubmitting my felf to whatfoever fortune fhould arrive un.o me in thofe far 
 Countries, either good or bad. 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 My departure from Portugal for the Indies, and my imharquing there fir the 
 
 Str eight of Mecqua, 
 
 I T was in the year 1537. and the eleventh of March J that I parted from this Kingdom in a Se&ii 
 Fleet o! five fhips, whereof there was no General * for each of thofe Veflels was com¬ 
 manded by a particular Captain: For example, in the fhip named the Queen, commanded 
 Don Pedro de Silva y furnamed the Cock, foil to the Admiral Don Vafco de Gama, In the fhip 
 called S.Rock,commandedP<?« Fernando deLima , Ion to Diego Lopez de Lima , grand Pro- 
 voft of the Town of Guimaranes , who died valiantly in defence of the Fortrefsof Ormuz , 
 whereof he was Captain the year following,! 538. In the S.Bar ha, commanded Don Fernando 
 de Lima y who was the Governour of the Town of Chaul- Of that, which was called the 
 Flower of the Sea, Lope V%z Vagado was Captain; And in the fifth and laft fhip,named Gale- 
 ga y comitjanded Martin de Freitas , born in the Iflc of Madera, who the fame year was flairt 
 at Damao, together with five and thirty men that followed him.Thefe Veflels failing different 
 wayes,arrived at length at a great Port called ^Mozambique • There we met with the Saint 
 Afichaefth&t wintered there,and was commanded by Duart Lrijiao, who parted thence rich¬ 
 ly laden for to return into ^Portugal 5 Howbeit I believe the was taken,or fuffered fhipwrack, 
 as it happens but too often in this Voyage to the Indies, for he was never heard of fince. 
 
 After our five Veffels were equipped with all that was neceffary for them, and ready to (et 
 tail from Mozambique , the Lieutenant of the Fortrefs, called Vincent Tegado, fhewed the 
 Captains of the {aid five fhips a Mandate from the Governour, named Nunho de Cunha, 
 Whereby he exprefly commanded that all iPortugal fhips, which did arrive in that Port this 
 year fhould go to Diu, and leave their men there for the guard of the Fortrefs,becaufe of the 
 . fear they were in of the ‘Iurkjfi Army,which was every hour expe&ed in the Indies Joy reafbn 
 of the death of Sultan Bandur King of Cambaya, whom the laid Governour had put to death 
 the Summer before. In regard this affair was of great importance, it was the caufe that all the 
 Captains aflembled together to deliberate thereupon: At length, to meet with the prefent 
 neceflity they concluded, that three of thofe five fhips ,appertaining to the King, fhould go to 
 Diu, conformable to the contents of the faid Mandate,and that the other two,which belong¬ 
 ed to particular Merchants, fhould purfue their courfe to Goa : The Kings three fhips failing 
 to Diu y and the other tWo Merchants towards Goa, it pleafed God to conduft them fafe thi¬ 
 ther. Now as foon as the Kings three fhips came to the mouth of the River of the Port of Diu, 
 
 Which fell on the fifth of September thefame year,1538 .Antonio de Silvera,the brother of Louys 
 Silvera, Earl of Sortelha , who was Captain there at that time, gave them all the teftimony 
 that poltibly he could of the joy he took at this their arrival; for proof whereof he beftowed 
 liberally on every one, keeping afet table for above 7 hundred perfons which they brought 
 along with them,befides his fecret rewards,and extraordinary gifts, whereby he fupplied the 
 neceflities they had fuffered during their Voyage. Whereupon theSouldiers.confidering how 
 this Captain entreated them very royally,that he payed them before-hand, diftributed their 
 pay and munition unto them with his own hand$,caufed the fick to be carefully tended, and 
 fhewed himfelf moft ready to aflift every one, it fo wrought upon them, that of their Own ac¬ 
 cord they offered to flay there for to ferve him, being no way conftrained thereunto, as they 
 ufe to be(in thofe Countries)in all the Fortreffes which expeft a fiege.This done,as foon as the 
 three fhips had fold the Merchandife they had brought, they fet fail for Goa, carrying none 
 with them but the Officers of the Veffels, and fome Sea-men to conduft them; where they a- 
 bode till fuch time as the Governonr had given them difpatches for to go to Cochin , where 
 being arrived they took in their lading,and returned all five fafe into Portugal 
 
 Seventeen dayes after we were arrived at the Fortrefs of Diu, where at that time two Foifts SC&.2, 
 were ready prepared to go to the Streight of Mecqua, for to difoover, and find out the deiign 
 of the Turkjjb Army, whofe coming was greatly feared in the Indies, becaufe one of thofe 
 
 B a Foifts 
 
7 be 'Travels , Voyages »4»</ Jdventiires 
 
 Foifts was commanded by a Captain that was a great friend ofmine,who gave me good hope 
 of the Voyage he was bound for, I imbarqued.my felfwith him; Relying then on the promi- 
 fes which the Captain made me,that by his favor and means I foould quickly be rich, the only 
 thing in the world that I moft defired,and fuffered my felf to be deceived by my hopes,! ima¬ 
 gined that l was already Matter of great wealth,never confidering how vain and uncertain the 
 promifes pf men are,and that I could not reap much benefit by the Voyage I was going to un¬ 
 dertake, by reafon it Was dangerous, and unfeafoiiable for Navigation in that Country. Now 
 being departed from Pi#, we failed in a time full of ftorms, becaufe it Was about the end of 
 Winter, which feemed to begin anew, (o impetuous were the winds,and fo great was the rain: 
 hJeverthelefs,how violent foever the Tempeft was,and dark the weather,we letted not to dis¬ 
 cover the Tile of Curia , Muria , and Avedtthuria, at the-fight whereof We thought our felves 
 quite loft,and w'thout hope of life. Whereupon,to decline the danger, we turned the prow df 
 our Vefifel to the Sou h-Eaft, khowing no other mean then that to avoid fhipwrack: But by 
 good fortune for us, it pleafed God that we let fall an Anchor at the point of the 1(1 and of 
 Sflto/o/vt-there we prefently Anchored, a League below the place, where Von Frandjco d 1 Al - 
 mejda caufed a Fortrefs to be built in the year i ^oy.when he came from Portugal, as the firft 
 Vice-roy that ever Was in the Indies. In the laid place we took in Frefo water, and fome pro¬ 
 vision of Victuals, that we bought of the Chriftiaris of the Country, which are the defend¬ 
 ants of thofe whom the Apoftle S'. Thomas converted in thofe parts. Being refrefhed thus, we 
 parted from thence With a ptirpofe to enter the Str eights fo that after we had failed fiine dayes 
 With a favourable wind, we found our felves right againft Mazua - There about Sun-fet we 
 deferied a Sail at Sea, whereunto we gave fo hard chace, that before the firft watch of the 
 night we came up elote to her; and then to (atisfie the defire we had for to learn fomthing ot 
 the Captain by gentlenefs touching the T*rkijh Army, we demanded of him whether it was 
 parted from Sues, or whether he had not met with it in any place; and that we might be the 
 better informed, we fpake aloud to all thofe that were in the foip. But in ftead ofanfwer, 
 Without fpeaking a word,and in contempt of us,they gave us 12. pieces of Ordnance, whereof 
 five were fmall, and the other feven field Pieces*, together with good ftore of Mufquet foot; 
 And withal], in a kind of jollity, and as it were believing that we were already theirs, they 
 made all the ayr about refound again With their confufed cries: After this,to brave and terrifie 
 us the more,they flourifoed a many flags and ftreamers up and down,and from the top of their 
 | poop they btfandifoed a number of naked Scymitars,commanding us with great threatning to 
 come aboard and yield our felves unto them. At the firft view of fo many Rhodomontados and 
 bravings we were infome doubt and amaze,which caufed the Captains of our Foifts to call the 
 Souldiers to Counce], for to know what they foould do;and the conclusion was,to continue 
 (hooting at them till the next morning, that fo by day-light they might be the better fought 
 withal and invefted,it being agreed upon of all (ides that they were not to be let go unpunifo- 
 ed for their prefumption; which accordingly was performed, and all the reft of the night we 
 i gave them chafe,plying them with our Ordnance.So morning come 8 their foip being foot tho- 
 row and thoroW in many places,and cruelly battered all over,they render tbemfelves into our 
 I hands. In the encounter there were 6q.of their men killed, and of 8a« that remained, the moft 
 I P ai t !) feeing themfelves reduced to extremity, call themfelves into the Sea, choofing rather 
 there to be drowned, then to be burnt in their foip with the artificial fires that we had hur¬ 
 led into her; fo that of all the fburfeore there efeaped but five, very fore hurt, whereof one 
 i was the Captain. This feme,by force of torture, whereunto he was expofed by the Command 
 of our two Captains, confefled that he came from Judea , and that the Turkjjh Army was al¬ 
 ready departed from Sues , with a defign to take in Adem , and then to build a Fortrefi there 
 before they attempted any thing in the foxier,according to an exprefs charge fent by the great 
 7 from Conftantinople to the Bajfa of grand Cairo, who was going to be General of the 
 Army : Befides this, he confefled many other things conformable to our defire; amongft the 
 which he feid,that he was a renegado Chriftian, a Maliorquin by Nation, born at Cerdenha , 
 and fon to one named Taul Andrez , a Merchant ofthat Ifland, and that about four years be¬ 
 fore growing enamoured of a very fair Greekjjh Mahumetan , that was then his wife, for the 
 love of her he had abjured Chriftianity, and embraced the Law of Mahomet. Our Captains 
 !ni UC *n.^ maZe ^ ^ ereat 5 ? entl y perfwaded him to acquit this abominable belief, and become a 
 Clinician again; whereunto the wicked Caydff made anfwer with a brutifo obftinacy, that 
 at no hand he would yield to torfeke his Law, foewing himfelffo hardened in the refolution 
 
 to 
 
* r ' v - • . , * 
 
 Of Ferdinand <£\4 ende ^ Pinto. V -j 
 
 continue therein, as if he had been born in it, and never had profeft any other. By theft 
 fpeeches ofhis,the Captains,perceiving there was no hope of recalling him from his damnable 
 error, caufed him to be bound hand and foot, and lo with a great ftone tyed about his neck 
 robe call alive into the Sea, fending him to participate with the torments of this Mahomet y and 
 to be his companion in the other world, as he had been his confident in this. This Infidel be¬ 
 ing executed in this fort,we put the ether priioners into one of our Foifts, and then funk their 
 Veflfel, with .all the goods that were in her,which confided moft in packs of ftained Cloths, 
 
 whereof we h&d tio ufe,atld afeW pieces of Chamlet that the foldiersgot to rrtake them appa- 
 tel. : 
 
 Chap. III. 
 
 Our travelling from Mazua by land to the Mother o/Prefter Johrt; M alfo our reim°° 
 bar citing at the "port of Arquico, and that which befel Hi by the 
 encounter of three Turkifil Vejfels. 
 
 W E departed from this place with an intent to go to Arquico , the Territory of Prefer Sc&.i 
 Jobhj Emperour of JEthiopia ; for we had a Letter to deliver, which Antonio de Syl- 
 vera lent to a Faftor of his, named Aurique Barbofa y who had been three years refidentin 
 that Country, by the Commandment of the Governour Nuno de Cunha. When we Were arri¬ 
 ved at Gottor , a League lower then the Port of Mazua y we were all received there very cour- 
 teoufly,as well by the Inhabitants,as by a Portugal called Vafco Martin deSeixaf y borninthe 
 Town of Obiads y who Was conle thither by Henrico Barbofa's order, and had beeri there a 
 moneth attending the arrival of fome Portugal (hips. The caufe of that abode wds to deliver 
 a Letter from the (aid Henrico y as accordingly he did to the Captains of our Foifts; by this 
 Letter he certified the eftate of the Army, and befought them at aily hand to (end 
 
 him (ome Portugals ; to induce them whereunto,he remonftrated unto them how it much im¬ 
 ported the fervice both of God and the King, and that for his own pdrt he could not come 
 unto them ,becaufe he was employed with forty other Portugals , in the Fort of Gileyt or for the 
 guard of the perfon of the Princefs of T igrmahon y Mother to Pref er John. The two Captains 
 having perufed this Letter, communicated it to the chiefeft of the Soiildiers,and fat in Coun- 
 cel upon it,where it was determined that four of them (hould go dlong with Vafco Martins to 
 Barbofa y and that they (hould carry the Letter which Antonib de Sylvera had lent him: This was 
 no (eoner refolved then executed-for the next day three other P ortuoals y and my felf,departed 
 accordingly,and we Went by Land mounted upon good Mules, which the Ciquaxy , Captain 
 of the Town, ftnt us by the command of the Princefs, the Emperours Mother, together with 
 fix A biffins to accompany us. The firft night we lay at a very fair Monaftery, call&d Satilgam 
 ch ; The next day before the Sun roft We travelled along by a River,and by that time we had 
 rode five Leagues we arrived at a place named Bitonte, where We fpent that night.in a Convent 
 of religious perfons,dedicated toS. Michael - therewe Were very well entertained both by the 
 Prior,and the Friers: A little after our arrival, the fon of BernagaU y Governour of that Em¬ 
 pire of JEthiopia y a very proper and courteous Gentleman, about ftventeen years old, came 
 to fee us, accompanied with thirty men, all Mounted upon Mules,and himfelr on a Horfe fur* 
 nifhed after the Portugal manner; the furniture was of Purple Velvet trimmed with Gold 
 fringe, which two years before the Governour Nuno de Cunha lent him from the Indies y by 
 one Lopez Cbanoco 9 who was afterwards made a (lave at Grand Cairo- whereoi this young 
 Prince being advertifed, he preftntly dilpatched away a Jemjh Merchant o (Azabiba to re¬ 
 deem himjbut as ill fortune would,he died before the Jew could get thither, which fo griev¬ 
 ed this Prince when he underftood of it, as the (aid Vafco Martins allured us that ; the ' 
 Monaftery o'tS.Michaely he cauftd the moft honourable funerals to be celebrated for. him that 
 ever he (aw,wherein aflifted above four thoufarid Priefts,befides a greater number of Jovices, 
 which in their language are called Santilcos : Nor was this all, for this Prince h~ ing that 
 the deceaftd had been married at Goa y and likewife that he had left three dauglu rs there 
 behind h*m,which were very young and poor, he beftowed on them three handred Oqueat of 
 Gold, that are worth twelve Crufadoes of our money apiece; a liberality truly royal, and 
 which I relate here, as well to amplifie the noblenefs of this Prince, as that it may ferve for an 
 example to others,and render them more charitable upon like occafions. 
 
 The next morning we continued our journey, making all the hafte that poflibly we could.* 
 o which end we got upon good Horfts, that were given us by this Prince; and withal he ap¬ 
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 pointed four of his tervants to accompany us, who during our Voyage entertained us every 
 where very fumptuofly. That day our lodging was at a goodly place, called Betenigus, 
 which fignifies a royai houte; and in truth it was not without reafon fo named, for on what- 
 foever part one caft an eye, it was invironed with great high Trees for three Leagues about ; 
 nor is it to be credited how plealing this Wood was,for that it was compoted all of Cedars, 
 Gyprefs,Palm,Date-Trees,and Cocos,like to thole in the Indies^ Here we paft the night with 
 all kind of contentment: In the morning we proceeded on our journey, and travelling after 
 five Leagues a day, we paft over a great Plain, all full of goodly Corn; Then we arrived at a 
 Mountain, nzmed,Vangaleu, inhabited by Jews, which was very white and handfome $ Two 
 dayes and an half after we came to a good Town, called Fumbau , not above twelve Leagues 
 diftant from the Fort of Gyleytqr , there We found Barbofa , and the forty Fortugals aforefaid, 
 who received us with great Demonftration of joy, but not without Ihedding offome tears, 
 for though they lived there at their eafe, and were abfolute Matters of all the Country, as they 
 faid, yet the consideration how they were as men banifhed from their Country into this place, 
 did very much trouble them. 
 
 Now becaute it was night when we arrived, and that we had all need of reft, Barbofa was 
 of the opinion that we Ihould not fee the Emperours Mother till the next morning, which was 
 on Sunday,the fourth of Oftober-, that come,and we well refrelhed,we went accompanied with 
 Barbofa , and his forty Fortugals , to the Princels Palace, where we found her at Mafs m her 
 Chappel: A while after, being advertifed of our arrival, (he cauted us to be admitted into 
 her pretence ; Whereupon we fell on our knees before her,and with all kind of humility kifled 
 the Ventilow that fhe held in her hand ; To thetefubmiffions we ad joyned many other Ce¬ 
 remonies according to their fafhion, conformable to the inftruftions we had taken from the 
 Fortugals that conduced us thither.She received us with a finiling countenance; and to tefti- 
 fie how much (he was pleated with our coming ; Verily, laid fhe, you cannot imagine hove glad 
 l am to fee you , that are right Chrijiians ♦ for it hath been a thing which 1 have alwayes as much 
 defred, as a fair garden enammelled with flowers doth the morning dew • wherefore you are moil 
 welcome ; come, and may your entrance into my houfe be as propitious as that of the Vertuout Queen 
 Helena*/ was into blefled Jerufaletn, Herewith fhe made us to fit down upon Mats, riot above 
 five or fix paces diftant from herThen fhewingher telf exceedingly contented, fhequefti- 
 oned us about certain matters, of which fhe allured us, that fhe very much longed to be 
 fatisfied: Firft, fhe asked us the name of our holy Father the Pope, alfo how many Kings 
 there were in Chriftendome,and whether any of us had ever been in the holy Land 5 where¬ 
 upon (he much condemned theChriftian Princes, for their negleft and want of care in teeking 
 to ruine the power of the Turk b who, fhe faid, was the common enemy of them all. Likewite 
 fhe would know of us, whether the King of Portugal was great in the Indies, what Forts he 
 had there, in what places they wereteated, and thow defended. She made us many other 
 like demands,to the which we anfwered the beft we could for to content her; whereupon fhe 
 difmifled us,and we returning to our lodging, continued there nine dayes, which we (pent in 
 waiting on this Princefs,with whom we had much diteourte on feveral fubjefts: That Term 
 expired, we went to take our leaves of her; and in killing of her hands fhe teemed to be fom- 
 wnat troubled at our departure. Truly, faid fhe, It grieves me that you will be gone fo foon ; 
 but fince there is no remedy, I wijhyour Voyage may be fo profperous, that at your arrival in the 
 Indies, you may be as well received by yours, as the Queen of Sheba was heretofore by King So¬ 
 lomon in the admirable 'palace of his greatnefs. Now before we departed fhe beftowed on us 
 twenty four Oqueas of Gold, which make two hundred forty Duckats of our money; She 
 cauted us alfb to be conduced by a Naique,^ and twenty Abiffins ; as well toterveus for 
 Guides, and guard us from Robbers, whereof that Countrey was full, as to furnifh us with 
 Victuals and Hortes,untilfuchtime as we got to Arquicojnhtix our Foifts attended for us.Th : s 
 Princefs alfo tent a rich prefent of divers Jewels of Gold and Stones by Vafco Martins de Seix - , 
 as unto the Governour of the Indies , which by ill fortune was loft in this Voyage, as fhall be 
 declared hereafter. 
 
 2, After we were returned to the Port of Arquico,vjhere we found our companions caulking of 
 our Foifts,and furnifhing them with all that was neceflary for our Voyage, we fell to work 
 with them for the fpace of nine dayes. At length,all things being ready ,we fet fail, and parted 
 from thence on 1 uefday, the fixth of November, 15 38- We carried with us both Vafco Mar¬ 
 tins de Seixai, that had the Pretent, and a Letter from the Princels to the Governour of the 
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Of Ferdinand •FM ende'i £ Tint6. 
 
 Indies , as alfo an A hi fin Bifhcp, who was bound for Portugal , wit h an intent to go from 
 thence to Galicia , Rome and Venice , and afterwards to travel to Jerusalem , which efpecially 
 he defired to fee in regard of the holinefs of the plaee. An hour before day we left the Port, 
 and failed along the coaft before the wind,until fuch time as about noon we reached the point 
 of the Cape of Cocam-, and before we arrived at the llland of Rocks, we difcerned three Vef- 
 (els on the other fide, that feemed to us to be Gelvas or Tcrrades, which are the names of the 
 Veffels of that Country-Whereupon we gave them chafe, and with the ftrength of our oars, 
 becaufe the wind was then (omwhat down, we purified them in fuch (ort,that in lefs then two 
 hours,having gotten up to them,we might eafily perceieve them to be Turkjjh Gallies, where¬ 
 of we were no (ooner allured, but that we prefently be took our felves to flight, and made 
 towards the Land with all the hafte that might be, (o (if it were poflible) to efeape the danger 
 that inevitably threatned us: But whether the Turks (iflpe&ed our delign, or knew it, in lefs 
 then a quarter of an hour they hoifted up all their fails, and having the wind favourable they 
 followed us very hard, fo as in a little while getting within a finall Faulcon (hot ofus, they 
 difeharged all their Ordnance upon us, wherewith they not only killed nine of our men, and 
 iturt fix and twenty, but fo battered our Foifts, that we were fain to caft a great part of our 
 goods into the Sea • Mean while the Turks loft no time, but joyned us (o clofe, that from their 
 poop they hurt us eafily with their pikes: Now there were four and fourty good Souldiers 
 remaining yet unhurt in our Foifts,who knowing that upon their valour 3 and the force of their 
 Arms depended the lives both of themfelves, and all the reft,they determined to fight it ouri 
 With this refolution they fet couragioufly upon the Admiral of three Gallies, wherein was 
 SolymanVragut, General of the Fleet; Their onfet was (o furious, as they invefted her froni 
 poop to prow, and killed (even and twenty Janizaries 5 neverthelefs (he being inftantly fuc- 
 coured with frefti men by the other two Gallies^which had flayed a little behind, we were fo 
 wearied and opprefled with numbers,that we were not able to make any further refiftance 5 for 
 of four and fifty that we were at firft, there was but eleven left alive, whereof two alfo died 
 the next day, whom the Turks caufed to be cut in quarters, which they hung at the end of 
 their main yard for a fign of their Vi&ory,and in that mariner carried them to the Town of 
 Mocaa,v?hereo( the father-in-la tv of the faid Solyman Vragus,that had taken us,was Governor; 
 who with all the Inhabitants waited the coming of his Son-in-law at the entry into the Portj 
 to receive and welcome him for his Vi&ory.In his company he had a certain Cacti, Who was 
 Montana, the chiefeft Sacerdotal dignity^and becaufe he had been a little before in Pilgrimage 
 at the Temple of their Prophet Mahomet in Mecca,he was held by sty the people for a very ho¬ 
 ly mamThis Impofter rode up and down the Town in a triumphant Charret,covered all over 
 with Silk Tapiftry,and with a deal of Ceremony blefled the people as he went along, exhort¬ 
 ing them to tender all poflible thanks unto their Prophet for the Vi Rory which S olyman Vra - 
 gut had obtained over us. As (oon as they arrived at this place.* we nine that remained alive 
 were fet on fhore ,tied altogether with a great chain,and amongft us was the Abifiin Biftiop, 
 To pitifully wounded, that he died the next day, and in his end (hewed the repentance of a 
 true Chriftian,which very much encouraged and comforted us. In the mean time all the Inha¬ 
 bitants that were aflembled about us, hearing that we were the Ghriftians which were taken 
 Captives, being exceedingly tranfported with choler, fell to beating of us in that cruel man* 
 
 . ner,as for my own patt I never thought to haveefeaped alive out of their hands, whereunto 
 they were efpecially incited by the wicked Cads , who made them believe they (hould obtain 
 the more favour and mercy from their Mahomet , the worfe they entreated us. Thus chained 
 all together, and perfecuted by every one,we were led in triumph over all the Town, where 
 nothing was heard but acclamations and (houts,intermingled with a world of mufick,as well 
 of inftruments, as voyces. Moreover,there was not a woman,were (he never fo retired, that 
 came not forth then to fee us,and to do us(bme outrage ; for from the very lead Children to 
 the oldeft men,all that beheld us pals by caft out of the windows and balcons upon us pots of 
 pits,and other filth,in contempt and derifion of the name of Chriftian,wherein every one dri¬ 
 ved to be moftforward,in regard their curfed Prieft continued ftill preaching unto them,that 
 they (hould gain remiflion of their fins by abufing us. Having been tormented in this fort 
 until theeveninsf,they went and laidus(bound as we were) in a dark Dungeon,where we re¬ 
 mained i7.daye’,expofed to all kind ofmifery, having no other vi&ual all that time, but a 
 little oatmeal, which was diftributed to us every morning to ferve us all the day : Somtimes 
 they gave us the fame meafure in dry Peafon a little forked in watered this was all the meat 
 we had. Chap. 
 
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 Chap. IV. 
 
 A Mutiny happening in the Town of Mocaa, the oceafton thereof, j that which hefel thereupon, 
 and by what means 1 was carried to Ormuz; as alfo my failing from thence 
 to Goa, and what fucccfs I had in that Voyage. 
 
 T 'He next day, in regard that we had been fo miferably moiled, and our hurts that wertf 
 great but ill looked unto, of us nine there died two; whereof one was named Nuno 
 Delgado , and the other Andre Borges , both of them men of courage, and of good Families. 
 The jay lor, which in their language is called Mocadan , repairing in the morning to us, and 
 finding our two companions dead, goes away in all hafte therewith to acquaint the Gauzil y 
 which is as the Judge with us, who came in perfon to the Prifon,attended by a great many of 
 Officers and other people; Where having caufod their irons to be ftricken off, and their feet 
 to be tyed together with a rope, he commanded them foto be dragged from thence clean 
 through the Town, where the whole multitude, to the very Children, purfued and palted 
 them with ftaves and {tones, untill fuch time as being wearied with hurrying thofe poor bo¬ 
 dies in fuch faffiion,they call: them all battered to pieces into the Sea. At laft we feven, that 
 were left alive, were chained altogether,and brought forth into the publique place of the town, 
 to be fold to them that would give moft : There all the people being met together, I was the 
 firfl that was put to fale 5 whereupon juft as the Cryer was offering to deliver me unto whom- 
 foever w r ould buy me, in comes the very Cads Moulatia , whom they held for a Saint, with 
 ten or eleven other Cacti 3 his Inferiours,all Priefts, like himfelf, of their wicked Seft, and ad- 
 brefiing his fpeech to Heredrin Sofo 3 the Governour of the Town,who fate as Prefident of the 
 Portlale,he required him to fend us,as an alm<;, unto the Temple of Mecqua faying, that he 
 was upon returning thither, and having refolved to make that Pilgrimage in the name of all 
 the people,it were not fit to go thither without carrying forae offering totheProphet Nobyffo 
 they termed th ir Mahomet ,) a thing,faid he,that would utterly dflpleafe ftazaadat Moulana 
 the chief'Prieft of Medina falnal who without that would grant no kind of grace or pardon 
 to the Inhabitants of this Town, which by reafon of their great offences flood in extream 
 need of the favour of God, and his Prophet. 
 
 The Governour having heard the Cads (peak thus, declared unto him that, for his particu* 
 Iar,he had no power todifpofe of any part of the booty, and that therefore he fliould apply 
 himfelf to Solymam DragM* his Son-in-law, who had made us flaves; fo that in right it apper¬ 
 tained only unto him to 80 with us as he pleafed ; and I do not think, added he, that he will 
 contradict fo holy an intention as this is. Thou haft reafon for it,anfwered the Cacfr,but with 
 all thou mull know,that the things of God, and the alms that are done in his Name, lofe their 
 value and force,when they are lifted through fo many hands, & turmoiled with fuch humane 
 opinions*for which very caufofoldom doth any divine refolution follow thereupon, efpecially 
 in a fubjeft Inch as this is,which thou mayft abfolutely difpofo of, as thou artfovereign Com¬ 
 mander of this people:.Moreover,as there is no body can be difplcafed therewith, fb I do not 
 foe how it can bring thee any difeontenr. For betides that this demand is very juft • it is alfo 
 mofl agreeable to our Prophet Nobj, who is the abfolute Lord of this prize, in regard the Vi- 
 ftcry came folely from his holy hand, though with as much fallhood as malice thou goeft a- 
 bout to attribute the glory of it to the valor of thy (on in law,and the courage of his foldiers. 
 At this inftant a Janizary was prefenr,Captain of one of the three Gallies that took us,a man 
 that for h s exceeding valour was in great efteem amongft them,called Copa Geynaf who net- 
 led with that which he heard the Cads fpeak,fo much in contempt both of himfelf and the 
 l eft of the SouldierSjthat had carried themfolves very valiantly in the fight with us, returned 
 him this anfwer. Certainly you might do better, for the falvation of your Soul,to diftribute 
 fome part ot the excefllve riches you poflefs among thefo poor Souldiers,then foek with feign’d 
 ipecches,*ull of hypocrifie and deceit, to rob them of thefe flaves,which have coft the lives of 
 o many prave men, their fellows inarms, and have been dearly bought by us that lurvive, 
 even v 'in our deareft blood,as the wounds we have upon us can but too well witnefs 5 fb can 
 it not be laid ot your Cabayage ( a Sacerdotal Robe after their faffiion,) which for all it fits 
 o n im and neat upon you,covers a pernicious habit you have of purloyning other mens eftates 
 herefore I would wilh you to defift from the damnable plot you have la'd a- 
 gtm.t the aofolute Matters of this Prize, whereof you thall not have fo much as a token, and 
 
 feek 
 
Of Ferdinand SSdende^ Pinto. a 
 
 &ek out forth other Prefefit for the Cacit of Mecqua , to the end he may conceal your theeV- 
 ries,and impiety, provided it be not done with the expence of our lives and blood, but ra¬ 
 ther with the goods you have fo lewdly gotten by your wicked and cunning devices. 
 
 This Cacis Montana having received fo bold an anfwer from this Captain, found it very 
 rude,and hard of digeft ion, which made him in bitter term$,and void of all relpe&s, exceed¬ 
 ingly to blame the Captain, and the Souldiers that were there prefent,who, as well Turks as 
 Saracens, being much offended with his ill language, combined together and mutined againft 
 him,and the reft of the people, in whofe favour he had fpoken fo infolently 5 nor could this 
 mutiny be appeafed by any kind of means,though the Governor of the Town,Father-in-law 
 to the faid Solyman Vragut , together with the Officers of Juftice, did all that pollibly they 
 could. In a word, that I may not ftand longer upon the particulars of this affair, I fay,that from 
 this finall mutiny did arile fo cruel and enraged a contention, as it ended not but with the 
 death of 600 perfons, of the one,and the other fide: But at length the Souldiers party prevail¬ 
 ing,they pillaged the moft part of the Town,efpecially the faid C >.cis Montana's houfe,killing 
 7 wives and 9 children that he had, whole bodies together with his own were difmembred, 
 and caft into the Sea with a great deal of cruelty. In the lame manner they entreated all that 
 belonged unto him, not fo much as giving life to one that was known to be his. As for us 7 
 Portngals , which wereexpoled to lale in thepublique place, we could find out no better ex¬ 
 pedient to fave our lives, then to return into the fame hole, from whence we came, and that 
 too without any Officer of Juftice to carry us thither; neither did we take it for a Irnall fa¬ 
 vour that the Jaylour would receive us into prilbn. Now this mutiny had not cealed but by 
 the authority of Solyman Vragut , General of the Gallies aforefaid For this man with very 
 gentle words gave an end to the (edition of the people, and pacified the Mutiners,which Ihews 
 of what power coiirtefie Is, even with fuch as are altogether ignorant of it. In the mean time 
 Heredrin Sopbo, Governour of the Town, come off but ill from this hurly burly, by reafon 
 that in the very firft encounter he had one of his arms almoft cut off.Three days after this dif* 
 order was quieted, we were led all 7 again to the Market place, there to be fold with the reft 
 of the booty, which confifted of our Stuff, and Ordnance, that they had taken in our Foifts,. 
 and were fold at a very eafie rate: For my felf,miferable that I was,and the moft wretched of 
 them all; Fortune,my fworrl enemy,made me fall into the hands of a Greek renegado,whom 
 I (hall deteft as long as I have a day to live, becaufe that in the fpace of 3 Moneths I was with 
 him; he ufed me fo cruelly, that becoming even defperate, for that I was not able to endure 
 the evil he did me, l was (even or eight times upon the point to have poyfoned my felf, which 
 queftionlefs I had done,if God of his infinite mercy and goodnefs had not delivered me from 
 it,whereunto I was the rather induced to make him lofe the money .he paid for me, becaufe 
 he was the moft covetous man in the world, and the moft inhumane, and cruelleft enemy to 
 the name of a Chriftian. But at the end of three moneths it pleafed the Almighty to deliver 
 me out of the hands of this Tyrant, who for fear of lofing the mony I coft him 5 If I fhould 
 chance to make my felf away, as one of his neighbours perfwaded him I would, telling him 
 that he had difcovered fo much by my countenance, and manner of behaviour, wherefore in 
 pity of me he counfelled him to fell me away, as he did not long after unto a jew,named A- 
 brabam Muca, Native of a Town called in thole quarters Toro, not above a League and an 
 half diftant from Mount Sinay: This man gave for me the value of 300 Reals in Dates,which 
 was the Merchandize that this Jew did ordinarily trade in with my late Mafter; and fo I par¬ 
 ted with him in the company of divers Merchants for to go from Babylon to Cayxem , whence 
 he carried me to Ormuz , and there prefented me to Von Fernand de Lima , who was at that 
 time Captain of the Fort,and to Von Pedro Fernandez,Comm\CCavy General of the Indies,that 
 was then refiding at Ormuz,Cov the fervice of the King by order from the Governour Nnnho ' 
 de Cunba . Thefe two, namely Fernandez and de Lima , gave the Jew in recompence for me 
 200 Pardaos, which are worth three (hillings and nine pence a piece of our coyn,whereof part 
 was their own mony, and the reft was railed of the alms which they caufed to be gathered 
 for me in the Town,fo we both remained contented, the Jew for the fatisfaftion her had re¬ 
 ceived from them,and I to find my felf at full liberty as before. 
 
 Seeing my felf by Gods mercy delivered from the mileriesl had endured; after I had been Sc&2> 
 feventeen days at Ormuz, I imbarqued my felf for the Indies in a fhip that belonged to one 
 Jorge Ferna?idez Taborda , who was to carry Horles to Goa. In the courfe that we held we fail¬ 
 ed with fo profoerous a gale, that in 17 dayes we arrived in the view of the Fort of Viu- 
 
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 There bv the advice of the Captains, coafting along by the Land for to learn fome ncw‘ we 
 Tr'-J 1 2reat number offires all that night,alfo at times we heard disersPieces of Ordnanc. 
 difchareed which very much troubled us, by reafon we could not imagine what thole hi es,oi 
 ftE fo the night (hould mean; in fo much that we were divided into fevera opini- 
 1ns ^ng this incertainty our bell advice was,'to fail the reft of the night with as little cloth 
 is n'v'ht be until that on the next morning by favour of day light we perceived a great many 
 fad which invironed the Fort on all fidel Some affirmed that it was the Governour newly 
 
 Inmefrom to makepeace for the death o(Sultan Bandur King oFC*mbaya,th*t was flam 
 
 a little before.’Othersfaid that it was the Infant, Brother to the King Javan lately 
 
 rived there from Tartu**!, becaufe he was every day expected m the Indies .Some tlioug h e 
 
 it was the Vatemarca, with the King of Calkuts hundred Foifts of C matin. And the laft af- 
 fo ed us how they could juftifie with good and fufficient reafons that they were the Turly • 
 A we were in this dverfity of minds, and terrified with that which we dtfeerned before our 
 fve fivevery great Gallies c .me forth of the midft of this Fleet, with a many of Banners, 
 Fh vs and ftreamers,which we faw on the tops of their Malls, and 'he ends of then Sat -yai , 
 whereof fome were fo long, that they touched even the very water. Thefe Gallies being come 
 forth fo this fort .turned their prows towards us in fuch a couragiotts and confident manner, 
 tha^bv’thek failingwe prefently judged them to be lurks; Which we no fooner knew tobe 
 fo indeed but we clapton alt our cloth for to avoid them, and to get into the mam Sea, not 
 wiZut exc’ effing &"left for our fins we (hould fall into the like eftate from whence I 
 wasfo* lately cfcaped. Thefe five Gallies having obferved our flight,took a refolution to pur- 
 fue us and chafed us till night,at which time it pleafed God that they tacked about, an i 
 turned to the Army from whence they came. Seeing our (elves freed from fo great a anger 
 turned tp they and two d / aftel . arl ; v ed at the Town of Chau!, where our Captain 
 
 ZdTe Mewhants'Zly landed for to vifit the Captain of the Fort named Simon Guedez, unto, 
 whom they reported that which had befallen them. Affiiredly, fatd he, you are very much 
 boimd to give' God thanks for delivering you from one of the greateft penis that ever you 
 wire in for without his affiftance it had been impoffible for you ever to have declined ,r,or to 
 11 ^ " > r\(it with fuch iov as now you do : Thereupon he declared unto them,that the Army 
 thevTad encZui^d wafthe vcry &me,which had'held Antonio ieSilveyr* .twentydayesto- 
 geffier befieged, befog compofed of a great number of Turks, whereof the 84*. 
 
 Vice-Roy of inert, was General,and that thofe Sails they had feen,were sS.Galhes »eat and 
 fmall each of which carried five Piecesof Ordnance in her prow, and fome;of them were 
 Pieces’ of Battery ,befides eight other great vcffels full of Tar^, that were kept m referveto 
 
 fuccour the Army, and fupply the places offuch as (hould be killed: Morcover,hta e , that 
 
 thev had great abundance of Viftuals, amongft the which there was 12. Bafilisks. This news 
 
 havfog much amazed us, we rendred infinite praife to the Lord for (hewing us fuch grace, as 
 
 River of Carapjt.m, we met with Fernand de Marais, Captain of till c- 1 oifts, w 10 y le 
 command of the Vice-Roy, Vom Garcia de Noranba viv going to DM, to he end he m ght 
 fee whether he could takeorburn aT»rf# Veffel which was in the Port 
 by order from the Bajfar This Fernand de Marais hadnofooner gotten 1 a W* lnt ^ , T 
 flip.but he defired our Captain to lend him 15 men, of twenty that he had, for to iupply the 
 great neceffity he wasin that way, by reafon oftheVice-Royes haftning himaway™ he 
 fudden ; ,which,faidhe, would much advance the fervice both of God, and his Bighnef 
 After many contdlations of either part upon this occafion, andwhic , toma e 01 , 1 
 
 m afs under filence •, at length they were agreed,that our Captain Ihould^Irt n ^‘ } ' e 
 
 have 12 of 15 men that he requefted, wherewithal he was very well fatisfie . t is nu r 
 I was one, as being alwayes of the leaft relpe&ed. The flip departing foi Crop ernan e c- 
 rais with his three Foift?,ccntinued his Voyage towardsthe Port of Vabul , w leie we am» 
 ved the next day about nine of the clock in the morning, and prefently. took a 1 ata o a» 
 labar , which laden with Cotton Wool and Pepper,rodeat anchor in the nudit ot the ). ort. 
 Having taken it we put the Captain and Pilot to torture, who inftantly conidled that a ew 
 dayes before the [hip came into that Port exprefly from the fiaffa to lade Victuals, an t at 
 there was in her an Embafladour, who had brought Hid ale an a very rich Cabayaphpx 1?, a 
 garment worn by the Gentlemen of that Countrey, which he ^yould not accept of, 1 
 
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 thereby he would not acknowledge himfolf fubje& to the Fur!^ y it being a cudom among the - 
 Mahumetansf or the Lord to do that honour to his Yaffol-and further, that this refufol had fo 
 much vexed the Embaffodor, as he returned without taking any kind of provision of victuals, 
 and that Hi dale an had anfwered,he made much more efteem ot the K.of Portugal amity, then 
 of his, which was nodiing but deceit, as having ufurped the Town of Goa upon him, after he 
 had offered <:o aid him with his favour and forces to regain it. Moreover, they faid, that it 
 Was not above two dayes lince the (hip they fpoke of parted from the Port,and that the Cap« 
 tain of her, named Cide Ale ,had denounced Waragaind Hidalcanyw owing that as (oon as the 
 Fortdf T>iu was taken, which could not holdout above eight dayes, according to theeftate 
 wherein he had left it, Hid dean J (hould lofo his Kingdom, or life, and that then he (hould (to 
 his cod ) know how that the Portugals , in whom he put his confidence,could not avail him. 
 
 With thefo news Captain Morals turned towards Goa y where he arrived two dayes after, and 
 gave account to the Vice-Roy of that which had pad. There we found Goncallo vaz Coutinho, 
 who was going with five Foids to Onor, to demand of the Queen thereof one of the Gallies of 
 Solymans Army,which by a contrary wind had been driven into her Ports : Now one ofthe 
 Captains of thofo Foifts,my (pedal Friend, feeing me poor and neceffitous, perfwaded me to 
 accompany him in this Voyage,and to that end got me five Ducates pay, which I very gladly 
 accepted of, out of the hope 1 had,' that God would thereby open me a way to a better for¬ 
 tune. Being imbarqued then, the Captain and Souldiers, pitying the cafe I was in, bedowed 
 fuch fpare clothes as they had upon me,by which means being reafbnably well-pieced up a- 
 gain, we parted the next morning from the Road of Bar decs, and the Monday following we 
 caft anchor in the Port of Ow^;where,diat the inhabitants of the place might know how lit¬ 
 tle account we made of that mighty Army, we gave them a great peal of Ordnance, putting 
 forth all oyrfifel, beating our Drums, and founding our Trumpets, to the end that by thefe 
 exterior demondrations they might conclude We regarded not the Furky awhit. 
 
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 Goncallo vaz Coutinho’s Fuatyiwith the Queen ofOnov * his, affdulting of' a Turkifli 
 Galley^ and that which hapnedunto us as we were Upon onr [return to Goa. 
 
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 O Ur Fleet making a ftand upon the d'foharging of our peal of Ordnance, the General Se&.ii 
 Goncallo vaz Coutinho font Bento Caftanho , a very diforeet and eloquent man, to the 
 Queen of Onor ,to prefont her with a Letter from the Vice-Roy, and to tell her that he was 
 come to complain of her, fur that (he had (worn a peace and amity with our King of Portugal, 
 and yet differed the Furky, mortal Enemies to the Portugals, to abide in her Ports. Hereunto 
 (he returned this anfwer 5 Float both himfelf and his company were very welcome , that jhegreatly 
 efieemed of them, becaufe they were Vaffals to the King of Portugal ,and as touching that 1 he faid of 
 the Peace Jhe had with the King, and his Governours, it was mo ft true, and that (he defired 
 to maintain it as long as (he lived: For that which he faid of the Turks, foe toother God to 
 witnefs ,bow much againfi her will Jhe had received and buffered them infer ‘Torts • but that 
 finding her felf'too weak for to refill fuch powerful Enemies, Jhe was enframed to dijfem - 
 ble, which Jhe would never have do?ie had (he been furnifhed with fujjtcicnt Forces: Further - 
 mire, to clear her felf the better unto them, Jhe offered both her power and people, for to repcb 
 them out of her Ports : and whereas he had brought Men enough to chacc them thence , (he requejU 
 ed him to do it, wherein Jht would ajftfi him all that poflibly Jhe could, which (he confirmed with 
 Oaths , [wearingby the Golden Sandals of the Sovereign God whom’Jhe adored: To this (peech 
 (he added, that Jhe Jhould be as well pleafedif God would give him the ''ViFory over them , 0i if 
 the Kinj of Nar lingua, whofe Slave Jhe was , jhould Jet her at the Fable with his Wife. Goncallo] 
 vaz Coutinho having received this Embalfoge, and other Complements from the Queen , 1 
 though he had little hope of any performance on her part,yet did he w foly diffemble it. Af¬ 
 terwards being fully informed by the people of the Country of the Furky intention, of the 
 place where they were,and what they aid at that indant, he called a Gouncel thereupon,and 
 having througiy debated and confidered all things, it was unanfoioufly concluded, that both 
 for the King of Portugal their Maders honour, and his own, it was expedient tofet upon this 
 Galley, either for to take, or fire it, wherein it was hoped that God, for whofo Glory we 
 fought,would be alliding to us againfi thofo Enemies of the holy Faith. This refolution being 
 made,and figned by us all, he entred fome two faulcons (hot within the River, where he had 
 
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 farce anchored, when as a little Boat, which they call an Almadia , came aboard u', with a 
 v. hman that foake very good fortugkez: This man delivered a rneflfage from the Queen 
 ? r f ZTczmln whereby Iheeameftly defired him.that for the Vice-Royes fake he would 
 S fronUhe EntCue he had undertaken, and ’not to affault the 1ur K s any manner of 
 wav which (aid the, could not be done without great difadvantage, for that (he had been 
 advertifcd by her Spies,that they had fortified themfelves with a good Trench, which they had 
 caft up near the place where they had moored their Galley-in regard whereof it feemed to her 
 almofi impoflible for him with no more Forces then he had to be able to prevail in fo great 
 an attempt-wherefore ihe took her God to witnefs how much (he was troubled with the fear 
 A e left feme mif-fortune Oiould betide him. Hereunto our Captain returned an an- 
 
 fwer full of wifdomj and courtefie, faying that he kiffed herHighnefs hands for the extra¬ 
 ordinary favour (he did him,in giving him fo good advice: but for his combat with the Turfy 
 he could not follow her counfel,and therefore would proceed in his determination, it being 
 always the cuftom of the Fortugals, not to inquire whether their Enemies were few or many 
 fince the more they were,the more fliould be their lofs, and the greater his profit and honoui. 
 Thus was the B rachman difmifled, our Captain bellowing on him a piece of green Ghamlet, 
 and an Hat lined with red Sattin, wherewith he returned very well contented. 
 
 > * - The Bracbman difmi AfioncaVo vaz Coutinho refolved to fight with the Turks, but be.oie 
 * ' he proceeded any further, he was advertifed by Spies what ftratagems the Enemy would ule 
 againft us,and that the precedent night, by the favour of the Queen, they had moored up the 
 Gal lev and bv it raifed up a platform,whereupon they had flanked 25. Pieces of Ordnance ; 
 but all that flayed him not from advancing towards the Enemy * Seeing himfelf then within 
 a Cannon (hot of them, he went out of his Foift, and with 80. men onely landed, the reft 
 -„L- ir u Up u a d brought with him from Coa for this enterprize,being but an hundred more, he 
 kft for the^fuard of the Foifts. So after he had fet his men in Battel array,he marched coura- 
 ciouflv againft hisadverfaries,who perceiving us making towards them valiantly refolved to 
 defend themfelves to which end they fallied fome five and twenty or thirty paces out of their 
 Trenches where the fight began on either fide with fuch fury, that in lefs then a quarter of an 
 hour five and forty lay dead in the place, amongft the which,there was not above 8.of ours: 
 Hereupon our General not contented with the firft Charge gave them a fecond, by means 
 whereof it pleafed God to make them turn their backs, m fuch fort that they retired pell-mel, 
 as men routed,and in fear of death:Mean while we purfued them to their veryTrenches,where 
 they turned upon us,and made head anew, in the heat hereof we were fo far engaged and in- 
 tangled together, that we knocked one another with the pummels of our fwords: Mean while 
 our Foifts arrived, which were come along by the (hore to fuccour us, and accordingly they 
 difeharged all their Ordnance upon our Enemies, to fuch good purpofe, as they killed 11. or 
 12. of the vaiianteft Janizaries , which wore green Turbants as a mark of their Nobility. 
 The death of thefe fo terrified the reft,that they prefently forfook the F ield,by means where¬ 
 of we had leafure to fet the Galley on fire upon the exprefs command of our General Concal- 
 /o,fothat having Gift into her five pots of Powder, the fire took hold on her with hjch vio¬ 
 lence^ it was apparant it could not be long before (he were utterly confumed 5 loathe Malt 
 and Sail-yards were all of a flame, had not the Turks y knowing the dangei (he was in, mo 
 couragioufly quenched the fire 5 but we laboured all that poftibly we could to hinder them 
 from it, a dto make good that we hadfo bravely begun, which the enemies perceiving, as 
 their laft refuge they gave fire to a great Piece of Ordnance, which charged [with (tones, and 
 Other (hot, killed fix ofours, whereof the principal was Diego vas Coutinho , the Generals ion, 
 befides a dozen others were hurt, that put us quite in diforder; whereupon the Enemies find¬ 
 ing how they had fpoyled us,fell to (houting in fign of Victory, and t o rend ring 01 thanks to 
 their Mahomet: at the naming of this their fal(e Prophet, whom they invoked, our General, 
 the better to encourage his Souldiers, Fellows in arms , faid he, feeing theje Dogs call upon the 
 Devil to aid them Jet us pray unto our Saviour Jefus Chrifl to ajjtji us. This (aid, we once more 
 afiaulted the Trench,which the enemies no (ooner perceived, but they craftily turned their 
 backs, and took their flight towards the Galley, but they were inftantly followed by (ome 
 ofours, who within a while made themfelves Mafters of all their Trenches ; in the mean 
 , time the* Infidels tgave fire to a fecret Myne, which they had made a little within their 
 i Trenches, and blew up fix of our ‘Tortugals 5 and eight Slaves, maiming many others befides; 
 \ Now the fmoak was fuch and fo thick, as we could hardly difeern one another, in regard 
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 whereof our General, fearing left fbme greater loft then the former ftiould befal him, re¬ 
 treated to the water fide, carrying along with him both the dead bodies,and all the hurt 
 men,and fo went where hisFoiftslay, into the which every one being inibarqued,we return¬ 
 ed with ftrength of rowing to the place from whence we came, where wi^ extream lorrow 
 he caufed the (lain to be interred,and all that were hurt to be dreft, which were a very great 
 number. 
 
 The fame day that was lo fatal to m,a Lift being taken of all the furviving fouldi^rs, that Sc 
 fo it might be known how many had been loft in the laft fight upon aflaulting of the Trench, 
 we found that of fourfcore which we were,there was fifteen (lain,fifty four hurt,and nine quite 
 maimed for ever: The reft of the day,and the night following, we kept very good watch to 
 avoid all furprizes of the enemy. As foon as the next morning appeared,there came dn Embaft 
 fadour from the Queen of Onor to the General Goncallo , with a Prefelit of Hens,Chickens,dnd 
 new layd Eggs* for the reliefofour lick men^Now though we had great need of tKofe things, 
 yet in ftead of receiving our General utterly refufed them ; and fhewlng himfelf very much 
 difpleafed with the Queen, he could not forbear lafhing out fome Words that were a little 
 more harfher then was requilite; faying,that the Vice-Roy ftiould ere long be advertlfed of 
 the bad offices fhe had rendred the King of Portugal , and how much he was obliged to pay 
 her that debt, when occafion ftiould ferve: Further, he bid him tell her, that for an affurance 
 of that which he faid*he had left his fon dead and buried in her Land,together with the other 
 TPortugals^ who had been miferably flaughtered through her practices, by afflfting the Turks 
 againft them : and in a word, that he would thank her more fully another time for the Prefetft 
 (he had fent, the better to difiemble what (he had executed againft him, for which hd would 
 one day return her a recompence according to her merit. 
 
 The Embaftadour, very much terrified with this fpeech,departed; and being come to the 
 Queen his Miftreft, he fo throughly reprefented Goncallo's anfwer unto her, as fhe greatly 
 doubted that this Galley would be an occafion of the loft of her Kingdom; wherefore to de* 
 dine fo great a mifchief, fhe thought it neceffary to feek by all means poffible to maintain the * 
 league with ourGeneral,to whic l end fhe aflembled herGouncel,by whofe advice fhe difpatch- 
 ed another Embaftadour unto him,who was a Bracbman , a grave and reverend perfonage, and 
 her neareft kinfman. At his arrival where our Foifts lay, our General gave him very good 
 entertainment- and after the ordinary Ceremonies and Complements,the Bracbman , having 
 demanded permiffion to deliver his Embafiage; Seignior fold he,to otir Governour- Ifyou mil 
 give me audience , I will declare the caufeof my coming hither from the Queen of Onor my Mi- 
 Jlrefi. Hereunto Goncallo replied. That Embaffadours had alwayes affurance for their perfons y 
 a?id permiffion freely to deliver the particulars of their EmbaJJy^fo that he might boldly fay what he 
 would. The Bracbman having thanked him. Verily continued he, I am not able to expreffunto 
 you , how jenfible the Gfteenmy ATiffrtfi vs of the death of your Son , and of thofe other Portugal?, 
 that were yejlerday flam in the fight ; And without lyings IJwear unto you by her life , and by 
 this firing of a Bracbman that I wear , the marl ^ of my Trieftly Dignity , and only proper to 
 thofe which are of that Profeffion , wherein I have been exercifed from my youth , that fhe was 
 fo exceedingly afjlitted at the notice of your difajler , and the unluckie fuccef! of your conflict , as 
 jhe could not have been more vexed if fhe had been made to eat Cows flcfh ( wbicb is the greatejl 
 fin committed amongfi us ) at the principal gate of the Temple , where her Father is interred: 
 
 • IVhereby you may fudge Signior , what a Jhare fhe bears of your forrow. But fmee there is no 
 remedy for'things done , (he defireth^ and very infiantly befeechethyou to confirm the Peace unto 
 her aneWj which other Governours have alwayes granted her heretofore: Jvhereunto fhe the ra¬ 
 ther intreatsyou, becaufe Jhe knows of what power you are with the Vice*Koy: Now that con¬ 
 firmed unto her y fhe affures you , and faithfully promifeth, within four dayes to burn the Galley 9 
 that hath put you to fo much pain , and turn the Turks out of the Limits of her Kingdome , 
 which is all that fhe can do , and which you may he mojl confident Jhe will not fail to execute ac¬ 
 cordingly. * .w , 
 
 Our General knowing of what importance this affair was,prefently accepted of the Brach- i>ca 4 -' 
 mans offer,and told him that he was contented that the League ftiould be renewed betwixt 
 them,accordins: whereunto it Was inftantly publiftied on either part with all the Ceremonies 
 accuftomed in flich cafcs^Thei upon the Bracbman returned to the Queen, who afterwards la¬ 
 boured all fhe could to make good her word^But becaufe Goncallo could not ftay the four days 
 which he had demanded, in regard of the extream danger he ftiould thereby have expofed 
 
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 our hurt men unto,he refolved to begone, and fo the fame day after dinner we departed- 
 Howbei hefirftleft one, named Georgia Neogueyra, there, with exprefs order exactly to ob- 
 ferve all that was done concerning that affair, and thereof to give certain intelligence to the 
 Vice-Roy, as the Queen her felf had requeued. 
 
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 What pajfed tillfuch time of Pedro de Faria arrived at Malaca; his receivings 
 Embajfadour from the King of Batas; with his fending me to that King, 
 and that which arrived to me in that Voyage. 
 
 ftt. ^T^He next day our General Gone alio vaz Coutinho arrived atGoa, with fo many of us as 
 1 remained alive : There he was exceedingly welcomed by the Vice-Roy, unto whom he 
 rendred an account of his Voyage, as alfo of that which he had concluded with the Queen of 
 Onor, who had promifed to burn the Galley within four dayes, and to chafe the Turks out of 
 all the Confines of her Kingdom,wherewith the Vice-Roy was very well fatisfied.In the mean 
 time,after I had remained three and twenty dayes in the faid Town of Gw, where I was cured 
 of two hurts which I had received in fight at th eTurky Trenches, the necelfity whereunto I 
 faw my felf reduced, and the counfel of a Frier,my Friend,perfwaded me to offer my fervice 
 unto a Gentleman, named Pedro de Faria, that was then newly preferred to the charge of 
 Captain of Malaca, who upon the firft motion was very willing to entertain me for a fouldier, 
 and promifed me withal to give me fomthing over and above the reft of his Company during 
 the Voyage which he was going to make with the Vice-Roy. For it was at that very time 
 when as the Vice-R.oy Vom Garcia de Noronha was preparing to go to the fuccour of the For- 
 trefs of Viu, which he certainly knew was befieged,and in great danger to be taken,by reafbn 
 of the great*Forces wherewithal it was inverted by the Turkj and to relieve it the Vice-Roy 
 had affembled a mighty Fleet at G^coniifting of about 225. Veffels, whereof fourfeore and 
 three- were great ones ; namely, Ships, Galleons, Carvels, and the reft Brigantines,Foifts, 
 and Galleys, wherein it was faid there were ten thoufand Land-men, and thirty thoufand 
 Mariners, befides a great number of Oaves. The time offetting fail being come,and the Foifts 
 provided of all things neceffary, the Vice-Roy imbarqued himfelf on Saturday, the 14. of 
 November , i538.Howbeit five dayes paft away before he put out of the Haven, in regard he 
 ftayed for his men, that were not all ready to imbarque • the mean wh le a Catur arrived 
 from the Town of Viu,vj\th. a Letter from Antonio de Silveyra, Captain of the Fortrefi,where- 
 by he advertifed the Vice-Roy, that the Turf had railed the fiege, and were retired. Now 
 though thefe were good news, yet was the whole Fleet grieved thereat, for the great defire 
 every one had to fight with the Enemies of our Faith. Hereupon the Vice-Roy abode there 
 five dayes longer,during the which he took order for all things neceflary to the conlervation 
 ofhis Government of the Indies, and then commanding to hoift fail, he departed from Goa on 
 a ThurfHay morning, the 1 6. of December: The fourteenth of his Navigation he went and 
 caft Anchor at Chaul, where he remained 3.dayes,during the which heentred into conference 
 with Inezamuluco, a Mahometan Prince, and took order for certain affairs very much import¬ 
 ing the furety of the Fortrefs: After that he caufed fbme of the Veflelsof the Fleet to be rig- 
 ged,which he furnifhed with Souldiers and Victuals,and then departed for to go to Viu-, But 
 it was his illfortune,as he was croffing the Gulpfftobe (iiddenly overtaken by fuch a furious 
 Tempeft,that it not only feparated his Fleet, but was the lofs of many Veffels, chiefly of the 
 baftard Galley which was caft away at the mouth of the River Vabul , whereof Vom Alvaro 
 de Noronha, the Vice-Roy esfon, and General of the Sea-forces, was Captain; In the fame 
 Gulph alfo perifhed the Galley named Ejpinbero, commanded by Jovan de Soufa- howbeit 
 themoft part of their men were faved by Chrijlopbilo de Gama, who came moft opportunely 
 to their fuccour. During this Tempeft there were feven other fhips likewife caft away, the 
 names of which 1 have forgotten, in fo much that it was a moneth before the Vice-Roy could 
 recover himfelt of the lofs he had fuftain’d, and re-affetnble his Fleet again, which this ftorni 
 had fcattered in divers places : At length the 16. of January, 1 ^39. he arrived at the Town ot 
 Viu, where he caufed the Fortrefs,to be rc-built,ihe greater part whereof had been demolifhed 
 by theTzn^x, foasit feemed that it had been defended by the befieged, rather by miracle : 
 then force : Now toeffett it t he better, he made Proclamation, that all the Captains with 
 their fouldiers fhouid each of them take in charge to re-byild that quarter which fhould be 
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 allotted them and becaufe never a Commander there had more then Tedro de Faria' he 
 thought fit to appoint him the Bulwark, which looked to the Sea, for his quarter, together 
 with the out-wall that was on the Lands fide • wherein he bellowed fuch care and diligence 
 that in fix and twenty days fpace, both the one and the other were reftored to a better ftate 
 then before, by the means of 300 Souldiers that were employed about it. This done, for 
 that it was the 14 of March , and a fit time for Navigation to Malaca , Pedro de Faria fet fail 
 for Goa, where by vertue of a Patent granted him by the Vice-Roy ,he furnilhed himfeif with 
 all things neceflfary for his Voyage; Departing then from Goa on the 13 of April, with a Fleet 
 of eight Ships, four Foifts, and one Galley, wherein there were five hundred men, he 
 had fo favourable a wind, that he arrived at Malaca , the fifth day of June, in the fame 
 year, 1539. 
 
 Pedro de Faria fucceeding Dorn Ejlevano de Gama in the charge of the Captain oF Malaca, 
 arrived there fafely with his Fleet, nothing hapning in his Voyage worthy of writing. Now 
 becaufe at his arrival, Efievan de Gama had not yet ended the time of his Commitfion, he was 
 not put into the polTdlion of that Government until the day that he was to enter upon his 
 Charge. Howbeit, in regard Pedro de Faria, waserelongto be Governour of the FortreF, 
 the neighbouring Kings Lent their Embaifadours to congratulate with him,and to make a ten¬ 
 der of their amity,and of a mutual confervation of Peace with the King of Portugal. Amongft 
 thefe Embafiadours there was one from the King of Bat,as, who raigned in the file of Sumatra, 
 where it is held for a lurety that the Illand of Gold is,which the King of Portugal J)om.Joana 
 the Third,had relolved Ihould have been dilcovered,by the advice of certain Captains of the 
 Country. This Embafladour, that was brother-in-Law to the King of Bat at, named Aqua- 
 remDabolay, brought him a rich prefent of Wood of Aloes, Calambaa, and five quintals of 
 Benjamon in flower?, with a Letter written on the Bark of a Palm-tree, where thefe words 
 were inferted. 
 
 More ambitious then all men of tbefervice of the Crowned Lyon,feated in the dreadful Throne 
 of the S ea, the rich and mightyVrince of Portugal, thy Mafler and mine, to whom, in thee, Pe¬ 
 dro de Faria, I do now render obedience with a fine ere and true amity • to the end l may become 
 bis Subjeft with all the puritie and affeUion which a Voffal is obliged to carry unto his (JlFafler 5 
 l Angeefliry Timorraia, King of Batas, defiring toinfinuate my fclfinto thy friendjhip , that thy 
 Sub jells may he inrich ed w'th the fruits of this my Country, I do offer by a new Treaty to re- 
 plenijh the Magazines of thy King,who is alfo mine, with Gold,Pepper, Camphire, Benfmon, and 
 Aloes , upon condition that with an entire confidence thou (halt fend me a fafe conduct, written and 
 affignedwitb thine awn hand, by means whereof all my Lanchares Jurupanges may Navigate 
 in fafety. Furthermore , in favour of this new Amity, l do again befeech thee to fuccour me with 
 feme powder and great Jhot, whereof thou hajl but too much in thy Store-boufes, and therefore 
 mayeji well fpare them - for I had never fo great need of all kjnde ofiVarlikg munition as at 
 this prefent. This granted , I Jhall be much indebted to thee, if by thy means l may once cha- 
 ftife tbofe perjured Achems, the mortal and emment Enemies of thy Malaca, with whom, I 
 (wear to thee, I will never have peace as long as l live, until fuch time as I have had fatisfa&i - 
 on for the blood of my three Children, which call upon me for vengeance , and that therewith I 
 may affwage the forrow of their Noble Mother, who having given them fuckand brought them 
 up, hath feen them fmcc mijerably butchered by that cruel Tyrant of Achem in the Town of Ja- 
 curand Lingua, as thou jhaltbemore particularly informed by Aquarem Dabolay, the Brother 
 of tbofe Childrens defolate Mother, whom J have fent unto thee for a confirmation of our new 
 Amity , to the end, Siqnior, ihat he may treat with thee about fuch things as Jhall Jeem good unto 
 thee, as well for the fervice of God, as for the good of thy people. From Paniau, the fifth day of 
 the eighth Moon. 
 
 This Embafladour received from Pedro de Faria all the honour that he could do him after 
 their manner, and as loon as he had delivered him the Letter,it was tranfiated into the Portu¬ 
 gal out of the Malayan Tongue, wherein it was written. Whereupon the Embafladour by his 
 Interpreter declared the occafion of the dilcord which was between the Tyrant of Achem and 
 the King o {Batas, proceeding from this,that the Tyrant had not long before propounded 
 unto this King of Batas,who was a Gentile,the imbracing oFMahomets law,conditionally that 
 he would wed him to a Sifter of his, for which purpofe he fhould quit his wife, that was alfo 
 a Gentile, and married to him fix and twenty years ;■ Now becaufe the King of Batas would 
 by no means condescend thereunto, the Tyrant, incited by a CaeisoF his, immediately 
 
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 denounced War again# him: So each of them having raifed a mighty Army, they fought a 
 moft bloody Battel,that continued three houresand better,during the which the Tyrant per¬ 
 ceiving the advantage the Bataes had ofhim,after he had loft a great number of his people,he 
 made his retreat into a Mountain, called Cagerrendan , where the Bataes held him befieged by 
 thefpace of three and twenty dayes; but becaufe that time many of the Kings men fell lick, 
 and that alio the Tyrants Camp began to want Victuals 5 they concluded a Peace, upon con¬ 
 dition that the Tyrant (hould give the King five bars of Gold (which are in value two hun¬ 
 dred thousand Crowns of our mony)for to pay hisSouldiers, and that the King Ihould mar¬ 
 ry his eldeft fon to that filter of the Tyrant,who had been the caufe of making that War. This 
 accordingly being figned by either part,the King returned into his Country,where he was no 
 fooner arrived, but relying on this Treaty of Peace, he difmift his Army,and difcharged all 
 his Forces. The tranquillity of this Peace lafted not above two moneths and an half, in which 
 time there came to the Tyrant 300 Turks, whom had long expected from the Streight of 
 Mecqua , and for them had fent four Velfels laden with Pepper, wherein alio were brought a 
 great many Cafes of Muskets and Hargebules, together with divers Pieces both of Brafs and 
 Iron Ordnance; whereupon the firft thing the Tyrant did,was to joyn 300. Turks to lome 
 Forces he had ftill afoot;then making as though he would go to Pacem, for to take in a Cap¬ 
 tain that was revolted againft him, he cunningly fell upon two places, named Jacur and 
 Linguajfoax. appertained to the King of Batas, which he fuddenly furprized when they within 
 them leaft thought of it, for the Peace newly made between them took away all the miftruft 
 of fuch an attempt,#) as by that means it was eafie for the Tyrant to render himfelf Mafter of 
 thofe Fortreflfes.Having taken them, he put three of the Kings Ions to death, and 70c Ourc - 
 ballonesfoare thenobleft arid the valianteft of the Kingdom called. This while the King of 
 Bat as, much refenting,and that with good caufe lb great a Treachery, fware by the head of 
 his god Quia Jiocombinor , the principal Idol of the Gentiles feft,who hold him for their god 
 of Juftice,never to eat either Fruit, Salt, or any other thing that might bring the leaft guft 
 to his palate, before he had revenged the death of his Children, and drawn realon fromthe 
 Tyrant for this lofi;protefting further, that he was refolved to dye in the maintenance of fo 
 juft a War. To which end, and the better to bring it to pals, the King of Batas ftraight way 
 aflembled an Army of 1500 men, as well Natives, as Strangers; wherewithal he was aflifted 
 by dome Princes his Friends: and to the fame effeft he implored 1 the Forces of us Ghriftians, 
 which was the realon why he fought to contract that new amity we have fpoken of before, 
 with Pedro de Faria , who was very well contented with it, in regard he knew that it great¬ 
 ly imported, both the fervice of the King of Portugal, and the conlervation of the Fortrels,be- 
 fides that by this means he hoped very much to augment the Revenue of the Cuftomes, to¬ 
 gether with his own particular, and all the reft of the Vortugals profippn regard of the great 
 Trade they had in thofe Countries of the South. 
 
 After that the King of Batas Embalfadour had been leventeen dayes with us, Pedro de Fa¬ 
 ria difmilTed him, having firft granted whatfoever the King his Mafter had demanded, and 
 fbrathing over and above, as Fire-pots, Darts, and murdering Pieces wherewith the EmbaC 
 (adour departed from the Fortrefs lo contented, that he Ihed tears for joy ; nay, it was ob- 
 ferved, that palling by the great door of the Church, he turned himfelf towards it, with his 
 hands and eyes lift up to Heaven,and then as it were praying to God; Almighty Lord,(aid 
 he openly, that in rcfr and great joy lived there above feated.on the Treafure of thy Riches , which 
 are the fpirits formed by thy Will, here I promife thee , if it may be thy goodpie afure to give us the 
 vitiory againji this Tyrant of Achem, and to permit us to regain that from him which with fuch 
 notable Treachery he hath takgn from us in thofe places' of Jacur and Lingua, we will alwayes 
 mofi faithfully and fmcerely acknowledge thee according to the Law of the Portugals, and ac¬ 
 cording to that holy Verity wherein confifts the Salvation of all that are born in the World . Fur¬ 
 thermore, incur Countrey we will build fair Temples unto thee, perfumed with fweet Odours, 
 where all living Souls (hall on their bended knees adore thee as it hath been alwayes ufedto be 
 done unto this prefent in the Lord of Portugal. And hear what befrdes I promife, and 
 (wear uvto thee with ajfurednefs of a good and faithfull Servant, that the King my Ma¬ 
 iler, (hall never ackfiowledge any other King then the great Portugal, who is now Lord of 
 Malaca. 
 
 Having made this Proteftation,he prelently imbarqued himfelf in the lame Lanchara , 
 Wherein he came thither, being accompanied with eleven or twelve Batons , which are fmall 
 
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 Barques, and fo went to the Me of Vpa, diftant not above half a league from the Port. There 
 the Bandar a op Malaca (who is as it were chief Jufticer amongft the Mahometans) was pre¬ 
 lent in perlon,by the exprels commandment of Pedro de Faria for to entertain him ; And ac- 
 cordingly he made him a great Feaft, which was celebrated with Hoboys, Drum-?, Trumpets, 
 and Cymbals,together with an excellent confortof voices framed to the Tune ofHarp^Lute^ 
 and Viols after the Portugal manner. Whereat this Embalfador did fo wonder, that he would 
 often p it h ; s finger on his mouth, an ufual attion with thole of that Country when they mar¬ 
 vel at any thing. About twenty dayes after the departure of this Embalfador, Pedro de Faria , 
 being informed that if he would fend fome Commodities from the Indies to the Kingdom of 
 Batas, he might make great profit thereof, and much more of thofe which fhould be returned 
 from thence,he to that effeft fet forth a j fttrupango, of the bignelfe of a finall Carvel, wherein 
 he ventured a matter of fome ten thouland ducates; In this Velfel he Cent,as his Faftor,a cer¬ 
 tain Mahometan , born at Malaca , and wasdefirous to have me to accompany him, telling me, 
 that thereby I Ihould not only much oblige him, but that allb under pretext of being fent as 
 Embalfador t other,I might both fee the King of Batatt^md going along with him in his jour¬ 
 ney againft the Tyrant of Acbemywhlch lome way or other would queliionlefs redound to my 
 benefit. Now to the end that upon my return out of thole Countries I might make him a true 
 relation of all that l had feen, he prayed me carefully to obferve whatloever Ihould pafs there, 
 and efpecially to learn whether the llle of Gold, Fo much talked of, was in thole parts; for 
 that he was minded,if any difcovery of it fhould be made, to write unto the King of Portugal 
 about it. To fpeak the truth, I would fain have excufed my felf from this Voyage, by reafon 
 thole Countries were unknown to me,and for that the inhabitants were by every one account¬ 
 ed faithlels and treacherous,having finall hope befides to make any gain by k,in regard that all 
 lily ftock amounted not to above an hundred ducates^But becanfe I durft not oppole the Cap¬ 
 tains defire I imbarqued myfelf,though very unwillingly,with thatlnfidel who had the charge 
 of the Merchandile. Our Pilot fleered his courfe from Malaca to the Port of Sorotilau 3 which 
 is in the Kingdom of Aru 3 alwayes coafting the llle of Samatra towards the Mediterranean 
 Sea, till at length we arrived at a certain River, called Hicandure ; After we had continued 
 five dayes failing in this manner we came to an Harbour, named Minhatoley , diftant lome ten 
 leagues from the Kingdom otPeedir.ln the end finding our felves on the other fide of theOcean 
 we failed on four days together,& then call anchor in a little viweiycAledGaateamgimfod.t was 
 Hot above (even fathom deep, up the which, we paft lome 7 or 8 leagues. Now all the while 
 we failed in thisRiver with a fair wind, we faw athwart a Wood, which grew on the bank of 
 it,fuch a many Adders, & other crawling creatures, no lefs prodigious for their length,then for 
 the ftrangenels of their form?,that I lhall not marvel if they that read this Hiftory will not be¬ 
 leeve my report of them • efpecially fuchas have not travelled; for they that have feen little 
 beleeve not much, whereas they that have feen much beleeve the more. All along this River, 
 that was not very broad,there were a number ofLizards,which might more properly be called 
 Serpents, becanfe fome of them were as big as an Almadia , with Icales upon their backs, and 
 mouths two foot wide. Thofe of the Country allured us, that thefe creatures are fo hardy, 
 as there be of them that fometinies will fet upon an Almadia , chiefly when they perceive there 
 is not above four or five perlons in her, and overturn it with their tailes, (wallowing up the 
 men whole, without difinembring of them. In this place alfo we faw flrange kind of crea¬ 
 tures , which they otU Caquefeitan ; They are of the bignelfe of a great Goofe, very blacke 
 and fcaly on their backs, with a row of fharp pricks on their chins, as long as a writing pen : 
 Moreover, they have wings like unto thofe of Bats, long necks, and a little bone growing on 
 their heads relembling aCocks fpur,with a very long tail fpotted black and green,like unto the 
 jLizards of that Country; Thele creatures hop and fly together, like Gralhopers; and in that 
 manner they hunt Apes,and fuch other beafts,whom they purliie even to the tops of the higheft 
 Trees. Allb we faw Adders, that were copped on the crowns of their heads, as big as a mans 
 thigh, and lo venomous, as the Negroes of the Country informed us, that if any living thing 
 came within the reach oftheir breath, it dyed prefently, there being no remedy nor antidote 
 againft it. We likewTe faw others, that were not copped on their crowns, no fo venomous 
 as the former, but far greater and longer, with an head as big as a Calves. We were told that 
 they hunt their prey in this manner: They get up into a Tree, and winding their tails about 
 fome branch of it, let their bodies hang down to the foot of the tree, and then laying one of 
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 ftilnefs of tke night, fo that if an Ox, a Boar, or any other beaft doth chance to pafs by, they 
 presently feize on it, and fo carries it up into the tree, where he devours it. In like fort we de- 
 fcrycd l number of Baboons, both grey and black, as big as a great MaftifF, of whom the Nc- 
 groes ofthe Country are more afraid, then of all the other beafts, becaufe they will fet upon 
 them with that hardinefs, as they have much ado to refill them. 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 What harried to me at Penaiu, with the King of Batas expedition againjl the Tyrant 
 of Achem ; and what he did after his Vittory over him. 
 
 B Y that time we had failed feven or eight leagues up the River, at the end we arrived at a 
 little Town, named Botterendan , not above a quarter of a mile diftant from Panaiu , 
 where the King of Batas was at that time making preparation for the War he had undertaken 
 againft the Tyrant of Achem. This King underftanding that I had brought him a Letter and a 
 Prefent from the Captain of Malaca , cauled me to be entertained by the Xabandar,* who is he 
 that with abfolute power governs all the affairs of the Army.'This General,accompanied with 
 five Lanchares , and twelve Ballons , came to me to the Port where I rode at Anchor ; 1 hen 
 with a great noife of Drums, Bells, and popular acclamations, he brought me to a certain Key 
 of the Town, called Campalator • There the Bandara, Governour ofthe Kingdom, Hayed for 
 me in great fblemnity, attended by many Ourohalons and Amhorraias , which are the nobleft 
 p.rfons of his Court,the moll part of whom,for all that,were but poor and bafe,both in their 
 habit, and manner of living, whereby I knew that the Country was not fo rich as it was 
 thought to be in Malaca. When I was come to the Kings Palace, and had paft through the 
 firft Court, at the entrance of the fecond I found an old woman, accompanied with other per- 
 fons far nobler, and better apparelled then thofe that marched before me, who beckening me 
 with her hand, as if Ihe had commanded me to enter : 
 
 Man of Malaca , faid Ihe unto me, Thy arrival in the King my Maflers Land is as 
 agreeable unto him , as afhowre of rain is to a crop of Kice in dry and hot weather ; Wherefore 
 enter boldly, and be afraid of nothing, for the people, which by the goodnefs of God thou feefi 
 here, are no other then thofe of thine own Country , fmce the hope which we have in the fame 
 God makes us believe that he will maintain us all together unto the end of the world. Having 
 faid fo,(he carried me where the King was,unto whom I did obeyfance according to the man¬ 
 ner of the Country; then I delivered him the Letter and the Prefent I had brought him,which 
 he gracioufly accepted of,and asked me what occaficn drew me thither.Whereunto I anfwer- 
 ed >as I had in commifiion ,that I was come to ferve his Highnefs in the Wars, where I hoped to 
 have the honour to attend on him,8c not to leave him till fuchtimeaswe returned Conquered 
 of his Enemies: Hereunto I likewife added, that Ideliredto fee the City of Achem, as alio 
 the fcituation and fortifications of it,and what depth the River was of,whereby I might know 
 whether it would bear great Veflels and Gallions,becaufe the Captain of Malaca had a defigrt 
 to come and fuccorhis Highnefle, as foonas his men were returned from the Indies, and to 
 deliver his mortal Enemy, the Tyrant of Achem, into his hands. This poor King prefently 
 believed all that I faid to be true, and fo much the rather, for that it was conformable to his 
 defire, in fuch fort, that rifing out of his Throne where he was fet, I faw him go and fall pn 
 his knees before the carcafs of a Cows Head, fet up againft the wall, whole Homs were gilt, 
 and crowned with flowers; Then lifting up his Hands and Eyes, 0 thou , faid he, that not con- 
 framed by any material love , \teberunto Nature hath obliged thee , doji continually malf 
 glad all thofe that defire thy mil1^, as the own mother doth him whom Jhe hath brought into 
 the world, without participating either of the miferies, or paines , which ordinarily Jhe frffers 
 from whom we take our Being, be favorable unto the prayer which now with all my heart I 
 offer up unto thee: and it is no other but this that in the meadows of the Sun , where with 
 the payment and recompence which thou receive /?, thou art contented with the good that thou 
 dqf} here below, thou wilt be pleajed to confer ve me in the new amity of this good Captain, to 
 the end he may put in execution all that this man here hath told me. At thefe words all the 
 Cottiers, which were likewife on their knees, faid three times, as it were in anfwer , How 
 happy were, he that could fee that, and then dye incontinently ? Wherupon the King arofe, 
 St wiping his eye 0 , which were all beblubbered with the tears that proceeded from the zeal of 
 the prayer he had made, he queftioned me about many particular things of the Indies, and 
 
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 Malaca. Having (pent Lome time therein, he very courteouffy difmifled me,'with a promi/e 
 to caufe the Merchandife which the Mahometan had brought in the Captain of Malaca s 
 name, to be well and profitably put off, which indeed was the thing I moft defired* Now 
 for as much as the King at my arrival was making his preparations for to march againftthe 
 Tyrant of Achem^nd had taken order for all things neceflary for that Voyage, after I had 
 remained nine dayes in Panaiu , the Capital City of the Kingdom of Batas y he departed with 
 fome T roops towards a place, named ‘Iurban fame five Leagues off,w here he arrived an hour 
 before Sun-fet,withoiit arty manner ofreception,or {hew of joy, in regard of the grief he was 
 in for the death of his children, which was fuch as he never appeared in publique; but with 
 great demonftration of forroW. , . : 
 
 The next morning the King of Batas marched from T urban towards the Kingdome of A- Sc Qbil 
 chem ^being 18 Leagues thither: He carried with him fifteen thoufand men of War, whereof 
 eight thoufand were Bataes , and the reft Menancabes^Lufons , Andraguires , Jambes , and Bour• 
 fiees ^ whom the Princes his neighbours had aflifted him with, as alfo fourty Elephants, and 
 twelve Carts with finall Ordnance,namely, Faulcohs, Bafes and other field Pieces, amongft 
 the which there were three that had the Arms oftF rance y and were taken in the year 1526, 
 at fuch time as Lopo Vaz de Samp ay 0 governed the State of the Indies. Now the King of Batas y 
 marching five Leagues a day came to a River, called Ghtilem - There by fonle of the 
 Tyrants Spies, which he had taken,he learnt that his Enemy waited for him at Tondacur , two 
 Leagues from Achem^mth a purpofe to fight with him, and that he had great ftore of Gran¬ 
 gers in his Army, namely 7 urksfiambayans^ and Malabars : Whereupon the King of Batas 9 
 a{Lemhiing his Courtcel of War, and falling into confiiltation of this affair, it was concluded, 
 as moft expedient, to fet upon the Enemy before he grew more ftrong. With this refolution 
 having quit the River, he marched/or»iwhai-i-her» ordinary, and arrived about ten of 
 the clock in the night at the foot of a Mountain,half a League from the Enemies Camp,where 
 after he had repoled himfelf a matter of 3 hours,he marched on in very good order-for which 
 effeft having divided his Army into four Squadrons, and palling along by a little hill, when 
 he came to the end thereof, he difcovered a great Plain Lowed with Rice, where the Enemy 
 ftood ranged in two Battalions. As fbon as the two Armies deferied one another, and that at 
 the (bund of their Trumpets, Drums, and Bells, the Souldiers had fet up a terrible cry, they 
 encourttred very valiantly together; and after the difeharge of their (hot on both (ides, they 
 Came to fight hand to hand with fuch courage, that I trembled for fear to behold their fury; 
 
 The battel continued in this manner above an hour,and yet could it not polfibly be difcerned 
 which party had the better. At laft the Tyrant foreseeing, that if he perfifted in the fight, he 
 (hould lofe the day,becaufehe perceived his men to grow faint and weary, he retreated to a 
 riling ground,that lay South to the Bataes , and about a Faulcons Ihot diftant from them. 
 
 There his intention was to fortifie himfelf in certain Trenches which before he had'caufed to 
 be call: up igainft a Rock in form of a garden, or tilth of Rice; but a brother to the K. of An- 
 drapuire interrupted his delign, for ftepping before him with 2000 men, he cutoffhis way, 
 and ftopthim from palling further,in fo much that the medly grew to be the (ante it was be- 
 fore,and the fight was renewed between them with fuch fury, as cruelly wounding one ano- 
 ther,they teftified fufticiently how they came but little ftiort of other Nationsin courage. By 
 this means the Tyrant, before he could recover his Trenches, loft 150 oJms men, of which, 
 number were 30c and 6 oTurkj^ that a little before were come to him from the Streight of 
 Mecqua , with two hundred Saracens , Malabars , and (bme Abiffins , which were the beft 
 men he had ; Now becaufe it was about mid-day, and therefore very hot; the King of 
 Batas retired towards the Mountain, where he fpentthe reft of the day in cauling thole that 
 Were wounded to be looked unto, and the dead to be buried. Hereupon not being well re- 
 folved what to do,in regard he was altogether ignorant of the Enemies delign, he took care 
 to have good watch kept all that night in every part. The next morning no (boner began the 
 Sun to appear,but he perceived the valley,wherein the Achems had been the day before, to be 
 quite abandoned, and not one of them to be feen there,which made him think the Enemy was 
 defeated; In this opinion,the better to purfue the firft point of his Viftory, he difmffed all 
 the hurt men,as being unfit for fervice, and followed the Tyrant to the City, where arriving 
 two hours before fun-let,to lhew that he had ftrength and courage enough to combat his ene- 
 mies,he refolved to give them proof of it by Lome remarkable aftion before .he would encamp 
 himfelf; To which effett he fired two of the Suburbs of,the Town, as alfo four Ships, and 
 
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 two Galleon', which were drawn on Land, and were thofe that had brought the Turks from 
 the Stf eight ofMecqUd : And indeed the fire took with fuch' violence on thofe fix Veftels, as 
 they were quite confuted in a little time,the Enemy not daring to iflue forth for to quench 
 it. After this, the King of BAai , feeing himfelf favoured by Fortune, to lofe no opportunity 
 began to alfault a Fort, called Penacao , which with twelve Pieces of Ordnance defended the 
 entry of the River; to the Scalado of this he went in perfon, his whole Army looking on, and 
 having caufed fome 70 or So ladders to be planted, he behaved himfelf Co well, that with the 
 lofs only of 37 men he entred the place, and put all to the fword that he found in it, to the 
 number of 700 perfons,without fparing fo much as one of them.Thus he did on the day of his 
 arrival perform three memorable things, whereby his Souldiers were fo heartned, as they 
 would fain have affaulted the City the very fame night,ifhe would have permitted them;but 
 in regard it was very dark,and his men weary, he gave thanks to God, and contented him¬ 
 felf with that which he had d one. 
 
 a.j. The King of Patau held the City befieged by the fpace of 23 dayes, during the which two 
 fallies were made,wherein nothing paftof any reckoning, for there were but ten qien flam 
 on either part: Now as victories and good fuccefs in VVar do ordinarily encourage the vi¬ 
 ctorious ; fo often it happens that the weak become ftrong, and cowards fo hardy, as laying 
 afide allfear, they dare undertake nioft difficile and dangerous things, whence alfo it as often 
 fallsout, that the one profpers, and the other is ruined; which appeared but too evidently in 
 that which I oblerved ofthelenvo Princes; For the King of Batas , feeing that the Tyrant 
 had /hut him/elf up in his City, thereby as it were confeffing that he was vanquifhed, grew to 
 fiich an height of confidence, that both he and his people believing it was impoffible for 
 them to be refilled, and trufting in this vain opinion that blinded them, were twice in hazard 
 
 tO be loft by the rafh incdwiliderate aAinm wfciich they entred into. In the third /ally, made by 
 
 the inhabitants/ the King-of Batas people encountred them very luftily in two places, which 
 thofe of Acbem perceiving, they made as though they were the weaker, and fo retreated to 
 the lame Fort that was taken from;them by the Bataes the firft day of their arrival, being 
 clofely followed by one of the Kings Captains, who taking hold of the opportunity, entred 
 pell-mell With the Acbems 0 being perfwaded that the viftory was fure his own; But when 
 they were altogether in the Trenches, th z Achems turned about,and making head affelh de¬ 
 fended themlelves very couragioufly c At length in the heat of their medley, the one fide in- 
 deavouring to goon, and the other to withftand them, thole of Acbetn gave fire to a My ne 
 they had made,which wrought fo effectually, as it blew up the Captain of the Batqes, and a- 
 bove 300 of his Souldiers, with fo great a noife, and fo thick a fmoak, as the place feemed to 
 be the very portrayture ofHell.In the meantime the enemies giving a great lhout,the Tyrant 
 fallied forth in perlbn c accompanied with 3000 relblute men, and charged the Bataes very fu- 
 rioufly;Now for that neither of them could lee one another by reafon of the fmoak proceed¬ 
 ing from the Myne,there was a moft confuted and cruel conflict between them; but to fpeak 
 the truth,I am not able to deliver the manner of it; it fufficeth,that in a quarter of an hours 
 Ipaee, the time this fight endured 4000 were flain in the place on both fides,whereof the King 
 of Batas loft the better parr, which made him retire with the remainder of his Army, to a 
 Rock, called Minacaleu , where cauling his hurt men to be dreft, he found them to be two 
 thonfand in number,belides thofe that were killed; which becaule they could not be lb fiid- 
 denly buried were thrown into the current of the River. Hereupon the two Kings continued 
 quiet for four dayes after, at the end whereof one morning,when nothing was left thought of, 
 there appeared in the midft of the River,on Penaticans fide, a Fleet of fourlcore and fix Sails, 
 with a great noite of Mufick,and acclammations of joy; At firft this ObjeCt much amazed the 
 Bataes^ becaule they knew not what it was, howbeit the night before their Scouts had taken 
 five filher-mcn, who put to torture confdfed, that this was the Army which the Tyrant had 
 lent fome two months before to TevaJJerj^in regard he had war with the Sor?w#,King of Siam* 
 and it was laid that this Army was compoted of 5000 Lujfons and Somes , all choice men, 
 having to General a named Hametecam^ Nephew to the BaJJa of Cairo, Whereupon 
 
 the King of Batas making' ufe of thefe fifher-mens confeffion, refolved to retire himtelf in 
 any fort whatfoever. Well ccnfidering that the time would not permit him to make an 
 hours iray, as well becaufe his Enemies Forces were far greater then his, as for that every 
 •minute they expefted luocours from Pedir and Pazen s whence it was reported for cer¬ 
 tain, there were twelve Ships full of Strangers coming. No fooner was the King fortified 
 
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 in this -resolution, but the night enfuing he departed very fad, and ill contented for the bad 
 luccefsofhis enterprise, wherein he had loll: above thi;Ce thousand and five hundred men, not. 
 comprizing the wounded, which were more in number, nor thofe that were burnt with the 
 fire of the Mvne Five 'dayes after his departure he mived at Panaiu , where he difiniiFed all 
 hi Force*,both his own liibjects and ftrangers ; That done,he imbarqued himfelf in a final! * 
 Lancbaru^nd went up the River without any other Company then two or three othU Favo¬ 
 rites :With this fmall retinue he be too.k himfelf to a place, called Pachiffaru, where he Ihut 
 himfelf up for fourteen dayes, by Way of penance,in,a Pagode of an Idol, named Ginnajfereo, 
 which fignifie^ the God ofSadnefs, At llis return to Pmaiu , he lent forme, and the Mahome¬ 
 tan that brought Peilrn.de Farias Merehandile; The firft thing that he did,was to enquire par¬ 
 ticularly of him whether he made a good file of it,, adding withal, that if any thing were lliii 
 owing to him he wowld cbt#nand.it to be prefently fati^fied 5 hereunto the Mahometan and 
 I anfwered,that through his Highnels favour all our buiinefs had r eceived a very good dife 
 patch 3 and that we tvere paid for that we had fold* in regard whereof the Captain of Malaca 
 would not fa' l to acknowledge that courtefie, by fending him luccour for to be revenged on 
 his Eneitty the Tyearn'. of Achem , whom he would jnforce to reftore all the places, which he 
 had unjuftly ufurped' upon him. The King hearing me Ipeak in this manner ftood a while 
 muling with himfelf,antd then in answer to my fpeech;d/>Portugal, laid h t,fince thou conflratn- 
 tfrme to tell thee freely what hthink^ believe me not hereafter to be fo ignorant as that thou mayfr 
 be able to' per (wade me, or that l can be. capable to imagine, that hewhich in thirty years 
 jpace coni ft not revenge himfelf is of power to fuccour me at this prefent in fo Jhort a time ■ 
 or if jet thou tlrinkrii I deceive my felf tell me, I pray thee now, whence comes it that thy King 
 and hh Governours could not hinder this cruel King of Achem from gaining from you the Fort 
 if Pazemt, and the Gtilley rv-biah tn the Mr»1urqiMPs 7 as a-lfa three JhipS in Queda, and 
 
 the Galleon of Mikes, at fitch time as Garcia mas Captain there, hefides the four foi(ls that 
 weretdk$n fwce ^ Salengar, with the typo (hips that ca'tne^from Bzngafo', or Lopo ChanocaV 
 Jun\^ndShip, as- likemife m my other Veffels, which I cannot now remember, in the which, its 
 I have been ajjhrcd, this Inhumane hath put to death above a thoufand Portugalsy and gotten 
 an extredm rich booty. Where fay e if this ’Tyrant Jhouldhappen to come mce more agamjl me, how 
 canjl tbott have me ttly upon their word which have been fo often overcome f I mu(l of necejjtty 
 then continue as I am with three of my Children murdered,and the greatefl part of my Kingdom de¬ 
 frayed, feeing you your fives are not much more ajfured inyour Fortrefs of Malaca. I mull needs 
 confcfs that this anfwer,made with lo much refentfflent, rendred me fo alhamed, knowing 
 he fpakefiothing but truth,that I durft not talk to him afterwards of any fuccour, nor for our 
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 What Pafr between the King of Batas and me, until fitch time as \ imbarqued 
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 my return from thence to Malaca. 
 
 T He Mahometan and I returning to our Iodging,departed in four dayes after, imploying Scft.i 
 that time in flipping an hundred bars of Tin, and thirty of Benjamin,which were Hill 
 on Land. Then being fully fatisfied by our Merchants,and ready to go, I went to wait upon 
 the King at his Pajfeiran, which was a great place before the Palace,where thofe of the Coun¬ 
 try kept their moft folemn Fairs; there I gave hina to underftand, that now we had nothing 
 more to do but to depart if it would pleale his Majefty to permit U3: The entertainment that 
 he gave me then was very gracious;and for anlwer he faid to me,I am very glad for that Her¬ 
 man Xahandar, (who was chief General of the Wars) allured me yefterday that your Cap¬ 
 tains commodities were well lbld;but it may be that that which he told me was not fo, and 
 that he delivered not the truth for to pleale me, and to accommodate himfelf to the defire he 
 knew I had to have it fo*.wherefore,continued he, I pray thee declare unto me freely whether 
 lie dealt truly with me,and whet her the Mahometan that brought them be fully finished; for I 
 would not that,to my difhonour, thole of Malaca Ihou'd have caufe to complain of the Mer¬ 
 chants of Panaiu , fiiyin?, that they are not men of their word/ and that there is not a King 
 there who can conftrain them to pay their debts; and I (wear to thee by the faith of a Pagan, 
 
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 that this affront would be no lefs infupportable to rtiy Condition, then if I fhould chance to 
 make peace with that Tyrant, and perjured Enemy ofmine,the King of Acbem. Whereunto 
 having replyed,that we had difpatched all our affairs, and that there was nothing due to us in 
 his Country: Verily, faid he, I am very^well pleafed to hear that it is fo^wherefore fince thou 
 haft nothing elfe to do here,I hold it requifite, that Without any further delay thou Ihouldft 
 go,for the time is now fit to fet fail, and to avoid the great heats that ordinarily are endured 
 In pa fling the Gulph, which is the caufe that (hips are many times caft upon pazem by foul 
 weather at Sea, -from which I pray God deliver thee; for I affure thee that if thy ill fortune 
 fhould carry thee thither, the men of Achem would eat thee alive, and the Tyrant himfelf 
 Would have the firft bite at thee, there being nothing in the world thefe Inhumanes fo much 
 vaunt of,as to carry on the creft of their arms the device of Drinkers of the troubled flood of 
 miferable Cajfers, who (they fay ) are come from the end ofthew#ld, calling them Tyrannical 
 men, and Vj'urpers in a fupreme degree of other metis Kingdoms in the Indies, and Ifles of the 
 Sea . This is the Title wherein they glory*moft, and which they attribute particularly to 
 themfelves, as being font them from Mecqua in recompence of the golden Lamps which they 
 offered to the Alcoran of their Mahomet , as they ufe to do evei yyear. Furthermore, although 
 heretofore I have often advifed thy Captain of Malaca, to take careful heed of this Tyrant of 
 Achem, yet do not thou omit to advertife him of it once^more from me $ for know that he 
 never had,norfhall have other thoughts, then to labour by all means to expel him out of the 
 Indies,and make the Twr^Mafter of them, who to that end promifeth to fend him great fic- 
 cours; but I hope that God will fo order it,as all the malice and cunning ofthisdifloyal 
 wretch (hall have a contrary fuccefs to his intentions. After he had ufed this language to me 
 he gave me a Leter in anfwer to my Embaflage, together with a Prefent, which he ddired me 
 
 to deliver from him to Captain de Farr *- this was fix final! Javelins headed with Gold, 12 
 Cates of Calambuca Wood, every one of them weighing 20 Ounces, and a box of exceeding 
 value,made of a Tor toife fhell, beautified with Gold, and full of great feed Pearl, amongft 
 the which there were 16 fair Pearls of rich account: For my felf, he gave me two Cates of 
 Gold,and a little Courtelace garnifhed with the fame; Then he difmifled me with as much 
 demonftration ofhpnour as he had alwayes ufed to me before, proteftlng to me in particular, 
 that the amity which he had contrafted with our Nation fhould ever continue inviolable on 
 his part. Thus 1 imbarqued my felf with Aquarius Dabolay , his Brother-in-law, who was the 
 fame he had lent Embalfadour to Malaca , as I hav^related before. Being departed from the 
 Port of Yanaiu, we arrived about two hours in the night at a little Ifland, called Apofingtta , 
 diftantfome League and an half from the mouth ofthe River, and inhabited by poor people, 
 who lived by fifhing of Shads. 
 
 The next morning, ' javing that Ifland of Apofngua , we ran along by the coaft of the 
 Ocean Sea for the fpa^eof 25 League$,until fuch time as at length we entred into the Straight 
 of Minbagaruu, by vhich we came ; then palling by the contrary coaft of this other Mediterra¬ 
 nean Sea, we continued our courfe along by it, and at laft arrived near to <P uUo Bugay : There 
 we croft over to the firm Land,and pafting by the Port of Junculan , we failed two dayesand 
 an half with a favourable wind,by means whereof we got to the River of ‘Paries in the King¬ 
 dom of Qieda^ there we rode five dayes at anchor in expectation of a fit wind to carry us on. 
 During that time, the Mahometan, and my felf, by the counfcl of certain Merchants of the 
 Country, went to vifit the King with an Odiaa , or Prefent, of divers things that we thought 
 were convenient for our defign, which was received with much demonftration of being 
 very well pleafed therewith. When we came to his Court we found,that with a great deal of 
 pomp,excellent mufick,dancing,andlargcfsxo the poor, he was fblemnizing the funeral of his 
 Father,whom he himfelf had poyniarded, ofpurpofefor to marry his own Mother, after he 
 Siad gotten her with child: Wherewithal, not being contented to decline the murther which 
 fo wicked and horrible an aft might provok unto, he had made Proclamation, that on pain of 
 a moft rigorous death no perfbu whatfbever fhould be fo daring, astofpeak a word of that 
 which had paft^and it was told us there,how for that caufe he had moft tyrannically put the 
 principalPerfbnages ofhisKingdom,and a number ofMerchants,already to death,whofe goods 
 he had confifcated to his own ufe,*and thereby enriched his Coffers with 2 millions of Gold . 
 So that upon our arrival we perceived fuch a general fear to be amongft the people, as not 
 the moft hardy of them all durft fb much as make the leaft mention in the world of it. Now 
 tn regard the Mahometan , my companion, named Coin Ale , was a man liberal of his tongue^ 
 
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 and that would fay any thing which came into his head, he perfwaded himfelf, in regard he 
 was a ftranger,and the Captain of Malaca's Fattor,that he might with more liberty then thofe 
 of the Country talk what he Hided, and the King not punifh him for it, as he did his Subjects; 
 But he found himfelf far Ihort of his account,and this prefumption coft him his life: For being 
 invited to a Feaftby another Mahometan like himfelf, k Merchant ftranger, born at Pat na± 
 when as they were both of them high with wine and meat, as I learned iince, they began to 
 talk boldly,and without any refpeft,of the Kings Brutality and Parracide*, whereof the King, 
 being incontinently advertifed by Spie c , which he had in every corner for that purpofe, he 
 caufed the honfe to be prefently inverted, and all the guefts to be apprehended, to the number 
 of 17 perfons; Thefe poor wretches were no fooner brought bound before him, but imme¬ 
 diately,without obferving any form of Juftice,or hearing what they could fay for themfelves, 
 either good or bad,he commanded them to be put to a moft cruel kind of death, called by 
 them Gregoge, which is,tofaw off the feet,handstand heads of them that are condemned to it, 
 as I beheld afterwards myfelf. This execution done, the King, fearing left the Captain of 
 Mai aca fhould be offended for that he had executed his Faftor thus with the reft, and there¬ 
 fore mHht arreft feme goods that he had at Malaca , fent the night following for me to the 
 Jurupango^ where I was fleeping, and altogether ignorant of that which had paft: underftand- 
 ing the Kings pleafure away I went,and coming about midnight to the Palace, I perceived i n 
 the outward Court a great many men in Amis-the fight whereof(I muft confefs)put me into a 
 mighty amazement and miftruft, becaufe I could not imagine what fhould be the caufe of it; 
 and doubting left it might be fome fuch Treafon as at other times they had pra&ifed againft 
 us, I would fain have returned*,but they that accompanied me,judgmg that my fear proceed¬ 
 ed from the Souldiers Which I beheld there,bid me be afraid of nothing,for thefe men were 
 only going forth to apprehend an offendor by the Kings command men: Having (aid thus with 
 an in tent to confirm me,l could not for all that be fatisfied, but was feized with fo terrible a 
 fear,as I was not able to utter a word; howbeit at length recolle&ing my felf a little, l figni- 
 fied to them the beft I could, how if they would permit me to return to my Skiff for to fetch a 
 thing which I had forgotten,I Would give them 40 crowns in gold;whereunto they anfwered, 
 that if I wotild give them all the filler in Malaca , they would not let me go; for if they fhould, 
 they were fare to lofe their heads :T his fpeecli of theirs redoubled my fear,which yet increafed 
 when I law my felf invironed with 20 more of thofe armed men, who guarded me all that 
 night.The next morning, the King being advertifed that I was there, commanded me to be 
 brought unto him,into the next Court, where I found him mounted on an Elephant, and ac-* 
 companied with 100. perfons, befides thofe of his guard, which were far more in number; 
 When he faw me coming towards him,much troubled, and indeed more dead then alive. He 
 faid twice to me, Be not afraid^but come nearer to we, and thou jhalt know the caufe why l fent for 
 thee. Thereupon having made a fign to me with his hand that 1 fhould look that wayhe 
 pointed me to • I turned me about, and beheld a (great many bodies extended on the place, 
 and weltring in their own blood, amongft the which I prefently knew the Mahometan , Caia 
 Ale , with whom I came, which I no fooner perceived, but like a man diftraught of his wits I 
 caft my felf at the feet of the Elephant whereupon the King rode, and with tears in my eyes 
 cried out, O Sir,have pity on me,and take me for thy {lave,rather then caufe me to end my 
 dayes with the torments whch have taken thofe out of the world whom 1 fee here; I fw ear 
 unto thee by the faith of a Chriftian,that I have not deferved death,as having no way offend¬ 
 ed thee,; Confider 1 kewife, 1 befeech thee, that I am Nephew to the Captain of Malaca , who 
 will give thee any ranfom for me thou wilft defire,as alfo that thou haft the Jurupanzo, where¬ 
 in I came,in thy Port, full o r goods, all which thou raaift take it if thou pleafeft. Hearing me 
 fpeak in this fort, God forbid^ faid he, that ever I Jhould do any fuch ihijig ; wo, wo, be not afraid , 
 but fiandupy and recoiled thy felf ,j for Ifee well thou art much troubled^ and when thou art inbtt~ 
 tir cafe to hear wr, I will tell thee wherefdre I caufed the Moor that came with thee to be ex~> 
 cxeuted • and in rood faith , if he had been e ther a Portugal, or a Cbrifian , I would not 
 have put him to death , no though he had killed mine own Jon. Howbeit perceiving, that all 
 which he could fay would not rid me of my fear ; He commanded a pot of frefti water to' 
 be brought me, whereof l drunk a pretty quantity, and withal made one ofh's followers to 
 fan me with a Ventilow for to refrefh me: A quarter of an hour, or thereabout^, was (pent in 
 this attion; at the end thereof finding that I was fo well recovered, as I was able with good 
 fence to anfwer unto the queftions he fhould ask me; Fortugal , (aid he unto me 3 I know that 
 
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 thou haft been told fmce thy coming hither, how I killed my Father, as indeed I did, becaufe 
 I was furc he would have killed me, incited thereunto by the falfe reports offbme of his flaves, 
 who would have made him believe that I had gotten my mother with child, ivhereof I had 
 never fo much as the leaft thought;whereby thou maift fee what ill tongues can do.Indeed it is 
 true that being moft allured he had without all reafon given fuch credit to thole flanderous 
 reports,as he was fully relolved to have taken away my life, to decline that imminent peril, I 
 prevented him,and caught him in the fame lhare he had laid tor me ; But God knows how 
 much again# my mind this fell out, and how 1 alwayes made it my chiefeft glory to render 
 him the dutiful offices of a moft obedient Son,as it may well appear at this prefent:for to keep 
 my mother from being a fad and defo ate widow, as many others are/eeing my felf to be the 
 caufe of her mifery, and obliged to comfort her, I have taken her to Wifegudg then whether l 
 have been wrongfully blamed,or no, fince that for her I have refilled many great parties, that 
 have been propounded unto me from P atacia,Perdio, c I anaucrin, Siaca,Jamba, and Andragia , 
 who were no lefsthen Sifters and Daughters of Kings, and offered unto me with very rich 
 Dowries.Now being informed that fuch falfe reports had been difperfed abroad of me, for to 
 erreft the tongues of Detra<ftors,( which are fo audacious as to talk of any thing comes in their 
 heads;) caufed it robe proclaimed,that none fhould dare to fpeak of that affair; But for as 
 much as without any regard at all of this Injunction, this fellow of thine, which lies there in 
 the company of other Dogs, like unto himfelf, fpoke yefterday of me moft reproachfully in 
 publique,faying,I was an Hog,or worfe then a very Hog, and my mother a fait Biteh ; as well 
 to punifh his flanders,as to preferve my honor,I was conftrained to put him to death,together 
 with thofe other Dogs,who were no lefs flanderous then he: Wherefore I am to defire thee, 
 that as my friend thou wilt not think this procedure of mine any way ftrange. Now if thou 
 fhouldft happen to think,that I have done it on purpofe to feize upon the Captain of Malaca's 
 goods,be confident that I never meant it, and thou maift truly certifie him fo much ; For I 
 fwear\mto thee by my Law,that I have ever been a great friend to the Portugal*, and fb will 
 continue all my life.Hereupon being fomwhat recovered from the fear I was in a little before; 
 I anfwered him,How his Highnefs had much obliged his very good friend, and brother, the 
 Captain of Malaca, by the execution of that Mahometan who had imbezelled away a great 
 part of the goods committed to his charge^and underftanding that I had difcovered his kna¬ 
 very,he had twice gone about to poyfon me;whereunto alfo I added, how this Dog when he 
 was drunk would bark at every one,and fpeak his pleafure at large.This anfwer made upon the 
 fudden,and not knowing well what I faid,very much pleafed the King,who commanding me 
 to come nearer to him; Verily, continued he : by this fpeech of thine I perceive thou art an 
 honeft man,and my friend.; and being fo, I doubt not but thou wilt give a good interpreta¬ 
 tion to my aftions,contrary to thofe maftiff Dogs that lie there weltering in their own blood. 
 Having faid fo, he took a purfe from his girdle trimmed with gold,and gave it me, as alfo a 
 Letter dire&edto Pedro de Faria, whereupon I took my leave of him, with a promife that I 
 would ftay there a weak longer;howbeit getting fpeedily aboard my Jurupango, I made not a 
 minutes ftay,butinftantly caufed the Mariners to hoift fail,andaway,ftill imaginingthatfome 
 were following to apprehend me,by reafon of the extream fear I was in, having fo lately efca- 
 ped,as I thought,the danger of a moft cruel death, 
 ft.3. Being departed from the River of Paries, on a Saturday about Sun-fet,I made all die fpeed 
 
 that poflibly I could,and continued my courfe until theTuefday following ; when it pleafed 
 God that I reached to thelflesof Pullo Sambalin, thefirft Land on the Goaft of MaVayo. There 
 by good fortune I met with 3 Portugal {hips ( whereof 2 came from Bcngala, and the other 
 from 'Pegu ) commanded by T rijlen de Gaa , who had fomtinies been Governour of the per- 
 fon o (Don Lorenzo,, (on to the Vice-Roy, T>on Francefio d 5 Almeda , that was afterward put 
 to death by Miroocem in Chaul Roade, as is at large delivered in the Hiftory of the Difcovery 
 of the indies. This fame Lrijlan fumifhed me with many things that I had great need of, as 
 Tackle, and Mariners, together with two Souldiers, and a Pilot; moreover, both himfelf 
 and the other two (hips had alwayes a care of me until our arrival at Malaca ; where dif-im~ 
 barquing my felf, the firft thing I did was to go to the Fortrefs for to falute the Captain, and 
 to render him an account of the whole fuccefs of my Voyage, where I difcourled unto him at 
 large what Paver*, Ports, and Havens,! had newly difcovered in the Ifle ofS^w^r*, as w^ll 
 on the Mediterranean, as on the Ocean Seas fide, as alfo what commerce the inhabitants of 
 the Counrry ufed; Then I declared unto him the maimer of all that Goaft, of all thofe Ports 
 
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 and of all thofe Rivers; whereunto I added die fcituation's,the heights,the degrees,the names 2 
 and the depths of the Ports,according to the dire&ion he had given me at my departure.There- 
 withall I made him a defcription of the Roade wherein Kojado , die Captain of a French (hip, 
 was loft, and another, named Matelote de Brigas, a« alfo the Commander of another (hip,who 
 by a ftorm at Sea was caft into the Port of 1>iu, in the year 1529. during the reign of Sultan 
 Bandar y King of Cambay a. This Prince having taken them all,made fourfcore and two of them 
 abjure their faith, who ferved him in his Wars againft the great Mogor , and where every one 
 of them miferably (lain in that expedition. Moreover 1 brought him he defcription of a place 
 fit for anchorage in Pullo Botum Roade, where the Eifquayn (hip differed (hipwrack, which 
 was Paid to be the very fame, wherein Magellan compaffed the world, and was called the 
 Vittoria, which traveling the Ille of Jooa was caft away at the mouth of the River of Sonda. 
 I made him a recital lik'ewife of many differentNation',which inhabit all along thisOcean,and 
 the River of Lampon^ from whence the Gold of Menancabo is'tranfported to the Kingdom of 
 Campar , upon the waters of Jamba and Broteo. For the inhabitantsaffirm, out of their Chro- 
 nicles,how in this very Town of Lampon there was anciently a Faiftory of Merchants, efta- 
 b'ifhed by the Queen of Sheba^ whereof one, named Naufcmj Pent her a great quantity of 
 Gold, which (he carried to the Temple of Jerusalem , at fiich time as fhe went to vilit the wife 
 King Solomon ; From whence, Pome Pay, (he returned with child of a fon, that afterwards 
 fucceeded to the Empire of JEtbiopia , whom now we call PreJter-Jobn 6 of whole race the 
 Abijfns vaunt they are dePcended. Further, l told him what courPe was ufually held for the 
 fiftiing of Peed pearl betwixt Pullo Fiquos and pullo Quenim, which in times paft were car¬ 
 ried by the Batdes to Fazem and Pedir , and exchanged with the Turks of the Streight of 
 Mecqua , and the Ships of Judxa^ for Puch Merchandife as they brought Prom Grand Cairo , 
 and the Ports of Arabia Fcelix . Divers other things I recounted unto him, having learnt them 
 of the King of BatM, and of the Merchants of P attain: And for conclulion, 1 gave him an in¬ 
 formation in writing, as he had formerly defired me, concerning the lfland of Gold .• I told 
 him, how this Ulaud is beyond the River Calandor five degrees to the Southward, inviron- 
 ed with many fhelfsof fand, and currents of water, as alfo that it was diftant Pome hundred 
 and threefcore leagues from the point of the Ifle of Samatra. With all which reports Pedro de 
 Faria remained Po well Patisfied, that he made prefent relation thereof to the King Vomjovan 
 the Third of happy memory, who the year after ordained Francefco d? Almeida for Captain to 
 difcover the Hie of Gold, a Gentleman of merit, and very capable of that charge, who indeed 
 had long before petitioned the King for it in recompence of the fervices by him performed in 
 the Iflands of Banda , of the Molucques , of Pernate y and Geilolo : But by ill fortune this' 
 Francefco <P Almeida , being gon from the Indies to difcover that place, dyed of a feaver in 
 the Ifles of Nicubar 5 Whereof the King of Portugl being advertifed, he honored one Diego 
 Cabral , born at the Maderaes^ with that Command ; but the Court of Juftice deprived him 
 of it by exprefs order from Martinez Alphonjo de Soufa , who was at that time Governor, 
 which partly proceeded, according to report, for that he had murmured againft him; Where¬ 
 upon he gave it to Jeronymo Figuereydo, , a Gentleman belonging to the Duke of Braganca x 
 who in the year 1542. departed from Goa with two Foifts, and one Carvel, wherein there 
 were fourfcore men^ as well-SouldierSjas Mariners; But it u laid, that his oyage was without 
 effeft,for that, according to the apparances that he gave of it afterward, it feemed that he de¬ 
 fired to enrich himfelf too fuddenly: To which end he paffed to the Coaft of Panajfery } where 
 he took certain Ships that came from 'Mecqua , Adem , Alcojfer , Judaa , and other places upon 
 die Coaft of Per fa. And verily this booty was the occafion of his undoing, for upon an unequal 
 partition thereof falling at difference with hi? Souldier?,they mutined in Puch Port againft him, 
 as after many affronts done him they bound him hand and Poor,and Po carried him to the Ille 
 of Ceilan , where they-^et him on Land; and the Carvel, with the two Foifts, they returned to 
 the Governor Von Joano de Cajlra , who in regard of the neceflity of the time pardoned them 
 the fault, and took them along with him in the Army , which he led to Viufo r the fuccour of 
 Von Joana Ma carenhas , that was then ftraitly belieged by the King of Cambayad s Forces. 
 Since that time there hath been no talk of the difeovery of this lfland of Gold , although it 
 feemes very much to import the common good of our Kingdom of Portugal , if it would pleafe 
 God it might be brought topafle. 
 
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 CHAP. IX. 
 
 ‘Ihe Arrival of an Embaffador at Malaca from the King of Aaru to the Captain 
 thereof • his fending me to the Jaid King , my coming to Aaru, and 
 that which happened to me after my departing from thence . 
 
 1 ">lve and twenty dayes after my coming to Malaca , Vom Stephanodc Gama ,being ftil Cap- 
 H ta j n 0 f the Fortrefs, an Embaffador arrived there from the King of Aaru, for to demand 
 fuccor of men from him, and feme munitions of War, as Powder, and Bullets, lot to defend 
 himfelf from a great Fleet that the King of Achem was letting foith againft him, witn an in¬ 
 tention to deprive him of his Kingdom, and to be a nearer neighbour unto us, to the end that 
 having rained that pafiage,he might afterwards feno his foicesthv mote eafily againft ouiFoi- 
 ireft of Malaca : whereol Pedro de Faria was no fooner advertiled, but i eprefenting unto 
 himfelf how important this affair was for the fervice of the King, and prefervation of the Foi- 
 trefs he acquainted Vom Stephana de Gama with it, in regard his Command of the place was 
 to corttiuud yet fix weeks longer ; howbeit he excufed himfelf from giving the fuccor which 
 was required, faying, that the time of his Government was now expiring , and that his being 
 fhortly to come in, the duty of his charge did oblige him to take care of this bufinefie, and to 
 think of the danger that menaced him. Hereunto Pedro de h aria made anfwer,that if he woiud 
 I’dinquifhhis Government for the time he had yet to come in it,or give him full power to dif- 
 pofe of the publique Magazins, he would provide for the iuccor that he thought was necefiaxy. 
 In a word, and not to ftand long on that which paft betwixt them, it fhall fuftice to fay, th«t 
 this Embaffador was utterly denied his demand by thefe two Captains^ whereof the one alleg¬ 
 ed for excufe, that he was not yetentred upon his charge ; and the other, that he was upon the 
 finifhing of his: whereupon he returned very ill fatisfied with this refufal,and fofar refented the 
 in juftice which he thought was done unto his King,as the very rporping wherein he imbarqued 
 himfelf having met by chance with the two Captains at the gate of the Fortref, hefaid aloud 
 before ’them publiquely, with the tears in his eyes * 0 God ! fat with a fveraign Fewer and 
 Majejiy raignefi in ihe hhhefl of the Heavens , even with deep ftghs fetch'd from the bottom 
 of'my heart, I take thee for Judge of my canfe , and for witnefi of the jufioccafionl have to 
 maty this requefi to thefe Captains here, and that in the name of my King, the faithful Vajfql 
 of the great King of Portugal, upon homage [worn by his Ancejrorj to the famous Albu¬ 
 querque, who promised us , that if the Kings of our Kingdom did alwayes continue true and 
 loyal -Subjects unto his Majier , that then both he and his fucceffors would oblige.themfelves to 
 defend them againfi all their enemies, as belonged to their Soveraign Lord to do • therefore 
 fince we have continued fill loyal to this day, what rtafon have you, my Majier s, not to ac- 
 complijb this obligation , wherein your■ King and you are Jo deeply ingaged , efpeciajly feeing 
 yen know that only in'rejpett of you this perfidious Tyrant of Achem tatys our Country from 
 us •: For there is nothing he Jo much reproached us withall, as that my King is as good a Por¬ 
 tugal, and Chriftian, as if he had been bornin Portugal • and yet noty that he de fires you tofuc- 
 cor Mm in has needf^'allies and true friends ought to do , you excufe your felves with reafons 
 that are of no validity. The fuccour we require of you for to jecure us , andtotyep this faithlejfe 
 wretch, from feizing on our Kingdom, is a very final l matter , namely, forty or fif ty Portugal?^ 
 that may infirucl US in the military art, together with, four barrels of Powder, and iwo hun¬ 
 dred Bullets -for field. ■ Pieces 5 a:poor thing in comparifon of that you have. Now ij you can 
 Jet be perfwaded to grant us this little aid, you fhall thereby fo much oblige our Kmg, as he 
 will ever remain a faithful flave to the- mighty prince of Portugal, your Majier and ours, in 
 whofe. name I befecoh you, once, twice, nay a hundred times , that you will perform that up¬ 
 per taincs unto .yaw .? duty to do - for this which 1 t hus publiotyly Remand of you is of 
 Js "great • importance i that therein confifis, .not fo mti&h the prefervation of the Kingdom of 
 Aaru , W the'jdfety of this your fortrefs of Malaca, which that Tyrant of: Achem-, our enemy, 
 fo exneamly defires: to poffeffe, and to that pur pofe he hath gotten the qfftftance of divers firange 
 Nations• but jbecaufi he ‘ finds that our Kingdom is a let to the execution of his defign, he en¬ 
 deavours to ufmp il upon us, and then he intends Jo guard this $ freight in fuch fort, as he will 
 quite exclude you from all Commerce with the Spices of Panda and f&f JMoJtjcquef , qntffrom 
 all the Trade and Navigation of the Seas of China, Sunda, Borneo, Timor, and japan 5 and 
 this his own people fiicl^ not to boafi of even already, being alfo further manifeded by the accord 
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 ivbieb he hath lately made with tbeTur 1 ^ through the interpofttrc of the Bajfz of grand Cairo^ 
 who in confideration thereof hathpromifed to aid him with great Forces: Wherefore at length 
 give ear unto the requefl which 1 have made unto you in the name of my King-, and that ft 
 much conctrnes the fervice of yours ; for fmce you may yet give a remedy to the mifchief , which 
 you fee is ready to fall , l def re you to doit fpeedily • And let not ofie of you excufe himfelf by a 
 alledging that this time of his government is almoji at an end , nor the other , that he is not as 
 yet entred upon his Charge, for it is fuffciem that yoU know you are both of you equally obliged 
 thereunto. 
 
 Having finifhed this fpeech in form of arequeft, which availed him nothing, he ftooped 
 down to the ground, from whence taking up two ftones, he knocked with them upon a piece 
 of Ordnance, and then the tears handing in his eyes, he faid, FheLord^ who hath created us % 
 •will defend us if hepleafe • and fo imbarquing himfelf he departed greatly difcontented for the 
 bad anfwer he carried back. Five days after his departure Pedro de Faria was told how all the 
 Town murmured at the fmall refpeft that both he and Von Stephano had carried to that poor 
 King, who had ever been a friend both to them, and the whole Portugal Nation, and conti¬ 
 nually done very good offices to the Fort, for which caufe his Kingdom was now like to be ta¬ 
 ken from him: This advice caurnghim to fee his fault, and to be afhamed of his proceeding, 
 he labored to have palliated it with certain excufe?,but at laft he fertt thisKing byway of fuccor 
 fifteen quuintals of Powderr, an hundred pots of Wild-fire, an hundred and fifty Bullets for 
 great Ordnance , twelve Harquebuzes, forty facks of ftones, threefcore head-pieces, and a 
 Coat of gilt Mail, lined with Crimfbn Sattin,forhisown perfon, together with many other 
 garments of divers forts, asalfb twenty pieces of Caracas , which are ftained linnen, or Cotters 
 Tapeftry, that come from the Indies , and cloth of Malaya , wherewith they ufually apparel 
 themtelves in that Country,as well for his Wife 3 as his Daughters. All thefe things being laden 
 aboard a Lvnchara with oars, "he defired me conduft and prefent them from him to the King 
 of Aaru y adding withall, that this bufinefs greatly concerned the King of Portugals fervice, 
 and that at my return,belides the recompence I fhould receive from him,he would give me an 
 extraordinary pay, and upon all occafions employ me infuch Voyages, as might redound to 
 my profit; whereupon I undertook it, in an ill hour as I may fay,and for a puniftiment of my 
 (ins, in regatd ofwhat arrived unto me thereupon, as fhall be feen hereafter. So then I im- 
 barqned my felf oh Tuefday morning, the fifth of October^ 1539. and ufed fuch (peed, that on 
 Sunday following I arrived at the River o (Panetican , upon which the City of A am is Situ¬ 
 ated. 
 
 I no fooner got to the River of Panmcan, bnt prefently landing I tvent direftly to a Trench, Sc 
 which the King in perfon was cauftng to be made at the mouth of theRiver for to impeach the 
 Enemies difjmbarquing ; Prefenting my felf unto him,he received me with great demonftra- 
 tion of joy,whereupon I delivered him Pedro de Faria' s Letter, which gave him (ome hope of 
 his coming in perfon to fuccor him, ifneed required, with many other complements, that coft 
 little the faying,wherewith the King was wonderfully contented, becaufe he already imagined 
 that the effcft thereof would infallibly enfiie * But after he faw the Prefent I brought hi m,con- 
 (lfting of Powder and Ammunitions, he was fo glad, that taking me in his arms, My good 
 friend, faid he unto me, I affure thee that the laft night I dreamt how all thefe things, which I 
 behold here before me, came unto me from the King of Portugal , my Matters fortrefs, by 
 means whereof, with Gods affiftance, I hope to defend my Kingdom, and to ferve him, in 
 the manner I have always hitherto done, that is, moft faithfully, as all the Captains can Very 
 well teftitie, which have heretofore commanded in Malaca. Hereupon queftioning me about 
 certain matters, that he defired to know, as well concerning the Indies, as the Kingdom of 
 Portugal , he recommended thefinifhing of the Trench to his people, who wrought very ear- 
 neftly and chearfully in it^and taking me by the hand,on foot as he was,attended only by five 
 or fix Gentlemen,he led me dire&ly to theCity,that was about fome quarter of a league from 
 theTrench,where in his Palace he entertained me moft magnificently ..yea and made me to fa- 
 lute his Wife,a matter very rarely pra&ifed in that Country ,& held for a fpecial honor,which 
 when I had done, with abundance of tears he faid unto me, Portugal , here is the caufe that 
 makes me fo much to redoubt the coming of myEnemies^for were I not withheld by my Wife, 
 
 I fwear unto thee by the Law of a good and trueMoore,thatI would prevent them in their de- 
 figm, without any other aid then of my own Subjects ^ for it is not now that I begin to know 
 what manner of man the perfidious Achem is, or how far his power extends j Alas ! it is the 
 
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 great {lore of Gold, which he poflefleth, that covers his weakneffe, and by means thereof he 
 wagethfuch forces offlxangers, wherewith he is continually ferved: But now that thoumaift 
 on the other fide underhand how vile and odious poverty is, and how hurtful to a poor King, 
 fuch as I may be,come thee along with me,and by that little which I will prefently let thee fee 
 thou (halt perceive, whether it be not too true, that fortune hath been lo exceeding niggardly 
 to me of her goods; Saying fo, he carried me to his Arfenal, which was covered wkh thatch, 
 and fhewed me all that he had within it, whereof he might fay with reafon, that it was no¬ 
 thing in comparifon of what he needed for to withftand the attempts of two hundred & thir¬ 
 ty Veflels, replentffled with fuch warlike people, as the Achems and Malabar Turks were 5 
 Moreover,with a fad countenance,and as one that defined to difeharge his mind of the grief he 
 Was in for the danger was threatned him,he recounted unto me,that he had in all but fix thou- 
 fand men Aaruns^ without any forraign fuccOr, forty Pieces of fmall Ordnance, as Fal¬ 
 conets, and Bales, and one call: Piece, which he had formerly bought of a Portugal , named 
 Antonio de Garcia 5 fometimes a Receiver of the Toll and Guftoms of the Ports of the Fortrefs 
 of Pacem , whom Georgio de Albucjurque cauled fince to be hanged and quartered at Malaca^ 
 for that he treated by Letters with the King of B intham about a plot of Trealbn, which they 
 had contrived together; He told me befides, that he had allb forty Muskets, fix and twenty 
 Elephants,fiftyHorfemen for the guard of the place,eleven or twelve thoufand Haves hardened 
 in the fire, called S aligner, whofe points were poyfoned, and for the defence of the Trench 
 fifty Lances, good ftore of Targets,a thouland pots ofunflack’d Lime made into Powder,and 
 to be uled inftead of pots of Wild-fire,8c three or four Barques full laden with great flints ; In 
 a word,by the view of thefe,and fuch other of his mileries,! eafily perceived he was fo unpro¬ 
 vided of things neceflary for his defence,that I prefently concluded the Enemy would have no 
 great a do to feize on this Kingdom: Neverthelefs he having demanded of me what I thought 
 of all this Ammunition in his Magazin, and whether there were not enough to receive the 
 guefts he expected, I anfwered him, that it would lerve to entertain theifl ; but he undemand¬ 
 ing my meaning flood muling a pretty while, and then lhaking his head. Verily,faid he unto 
 me, if your King of Portugal did but know what a lofs it would be to him, that the Tyrant 
 of Achem fiiould take my Kingdom from me, doubtlefs he Would chaftife the little care of his 
 Captain^, who, blinded as they are, and wallowing in their avarice, have luffered my Enemy 
 to grow lo firong, that 1 am much afraid they fhall not be able to reftrain him when they 
 would,or if they could,that then it mull be an infinite expence.I labored to anfwer this which 
 he had faid unto me with much relentmentjbuthe confuted all my reafons with fo much truth, 
 as I had hot the heart to make any farther reply •, withal he reprefented divers foul and enor¬ 
 mous aftions unto me, wherewithall he charged lome in particular among!! us,which I am con¬ 
 tented to pals in fiIence,both in regard they are nothing pertinent to my dilcourle, and that I 
 defire not to dilcover other mens faults • For a conclufion of his fpeech, he related unto me the 
 little punifhment which was ordained for liich as were culpable of thele matters,and the great 
 rewards that he had feen conferred on thofe which had not deferved them; whereupon he ad- 
 ded,tnat if the King defired throughly to perform the duty of his charge ,and by Arms to con¬ 
 quer people fo far diftant from his Kingdom, and to preferve them,it was as neceflary for him 
 to punilh the wicked, as to recompence the good. This faid, he fent me to lodge in a Merchants 
 hou e,who for 5.days together,that I remained there,entertained me bravely; though to (peak 
 truth 1 had rather have been at that time in fome other place with any poor victuals, for here 
 I was always in fear,by reafon of the enemies continual alarms,and the certain news that came 
 to the King the next day after my arrival,how theAcbemswere already marching towards^* 
 rUy and would be there within eight dayes at the fartheft,which made him in all hafte to give 
 directions for fuch things as he had not taken order forbefore,and to fend the women,and all 
 that were unfit for War, out of the City five or fix leagues into the Wood, among!! the which 
 the Queen her felt made one, mounted on an Elephant. Five dayes after my arrival,the King 
 fent lor me,and asked me when I would be gone,whereunto I replied,at liich time as it would 
 pleafe his GreatnelFe to command me, though I Ihould be glad it might be with thefoon- 
 efl, for that I was to be employed by my Captain with his Merchandile to China : Thou haff 
 reafon, anfwered he ; then taking two bracelets of maffiy Gold off from his wrifts, worth 
 fome thirty Crowns, I pre-thee now, faid he, giving them to me, do not impute it to mifer- 
 ablenefs that 1 bellow lb little on thee, for thou may!! be affined, that it hath been always my 
 defire for to have much for to give niuch; withall I muff defire thee to prelent this Letter, and 
 
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 this Diamond from me to thy Captain, to whom thou (halt fay, that whatfoever I am further 
 engaged to him for the pleafurehe hath done me by fuccouritig me with thole Aiftmunitions 
 he hath fent me by thee, I will bring it to him my felf hereafter, when I (hall be at more li¬ 
 berty then now I am. 
 
 Having taken leave of the King of Aarufi prefently imbarqned my felf, and departed about $■&. 
 Sun-fet, rowing down the River to an Hamlet, that is at the entrance thereof, compofed of 
 ten or eleven houfes covered with ftraw: ThRplace is inhabited with very poor people, that 
 get their living by killing of Lizards , of whole liver, they make poyfon, wherewith they 
 anoint the heads of their arrows 5 For the poyfon of this place, chiefly that which is called 
 Tocaujilim, is held by them the belt of thole Countries, becaufe there is no remedy for him that 
 is hurt with it. The next day, having left this Ifnall Village, we failed along the coaft with a 
 land wind until evening,that we doubled the Illands of Ancbepifan ; then the day and part of 
 the night following we put forth fbmewhat larthe to Sea; But about the firft Watch the wind 
 changed to the North-eaft,for fuch winds are ordinary about thelfl^of Sumatra , and grew 
 to be lo tempeftuous, that it blew our mail over board,tore our fails in pieces,and fo lhattered 
 our Veil'd,that the water came in that abundance into her at twofeveral places, as (he funk in- 
 vontinently to the bottom, fo that of eight and twenty perlons, which were in her, three and 
 twenty were drowned in lels then a quarter of an hour: For us five(that efcaped by the mercy 
 of God ) we pafled the reft of the night upon a Rock, where the waves of the Sea had call: us. 
 There all that we could do was with tears to lament our lad fortune, not knowing what coun- 
 fel orcourle to take,by realbn the Country was lo moorilh,& invironed with lb thick a Wood, 
 that a bird,were Ihe never fo little,could hardly make way through the branches of it,for that e 
 the trees grew fo dole together 5 We fat crouching for the fpace of three whole days upon this 
 Rock, where for all our luftenance we had nothing but Snail?,and luch filth,as the foam of the 
 Sea produceth there. After this time, which we fpent in great milery and pain, we walked a 
 whole day along by the Ifle of Sumatra, in the owze up to the girdle-ftead,and about Sun-fet 
 we came to a mouth of a little River, fome Croftbow-lhot broad, which we durft not un« 
 dertake to fwim over, for that it was deep , and we very weak and weary; lb that we were 
 forced to pafs all that night, handing up to the chin in water. To this milery was there 
 adjoyned the great affliftion which the Flies and Gnats brought us, that coming twt of the 
 neighbouring Woods, bit and ftung us in luch Ibrt, as not one of us but was gore blood. The 
 next morning as foon as we perceived day,which we much delired to fee,though we had little 
 hope of life, I demanded of my four companions, all Mariners, whether they knew the 
 Country, or whether there was any habitation thereabout; Whereupon the eldeft of them, 
 who had a Wife at Malaca } not able to contain his tears, Alas / anfwered he, the place that 
 iiow is moft proper for you, and me, is the houle of death, where ere it belong we muft give 
 an account of our fins; it therefore behoves to prepare our Tel ves for-it without any further 
 dehy, and patiently to attend that which is lent us from the hand ofGod:For my part,let me 
 intreat thee to be of a gpod courage whatlbever thou leeft,and not to be terrified with the fear 
 of dying,fince,every thing well confidered, it matters not whether it be to day,or to morrow. 
 
 This fpoken, he embraced me,and with tears in his eyes delired me to make him a Chriftian, 
 becaufe he beleeved, as he laid, that to be lo was fufticient to lave his Soul, which could not 
 otherwile be done in the curled left of Mahomet ^wherein he had lived till then, and for which 
 he craved pardon of God. Having finilhed thefe laft words, he remained dead in my arms, 
 for he was fo weak, as he was notable to fublift any longer, as well for that he had not eaten 
 ought in three or four days before, as in regard or a great wound the wrack of the Lancbara 
 had given him in his head,through which one might fee his brains all putrefied and Corrupted, 
 occafioncd both for want of looking unto, as by fait water and flies that were gotten into it. 
 Verily this accident grieved me very much,but for my felf I was in little better cafe,for I was 
 likewife fo weak, that every ftep 1 made in the water I was ready to fwoon, by reafbn of cer¬ 
 tain hurts on my head and body, out of which 1 had loft a great deal of blood. Having buried 
 him !n the owze the beft we could, the other three Mariners and my felf refolved to croft the 
 River, for to go and fleep on certain great Trees, that we law on the other fide, for fear of the 
 Tygersand Crocodiles, whereof that Country is full,befides many other venemous creatures, 
 as an infinite of thole copped Adders 1 have-fpoken of before in the fixth Chapter, and divers 
 forts of Serpents with black and green fcales, whole venom is fo contagious, as they kill men 
 
 with their very breath. This refolution being thus taken by us, I defirei two of them to fwim 
 
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 over firft and the other to ftay with me for to hold me,up in the water, for that in regard of 
 my great weaknefs I could hardly hand upon my legs; whereupon they two caffe themfelves 
 n efentl/into the water, exhorting us to follow them, and not be afraid • Butalafs/ they 
 were fcarceinthemidft of this River,wh“n as wefaw them caught by two great Lezardsf hat 
 were before our faces, and in an inftant tearing them in pieces, dragged them to the bottom, 
 leaving the water all bloody, which was fo dreadful a fpe&acle to us,as we had not the power 
 to cry out- and for my felf, Iknew not who drew me out of the water, nor how l efcaped 
 thence • for I was gone before into the River as deep as my wafte, with that other Mariner 
 which held me by the hand. 
 
 CHAP. X. ' 
 
 By what means 1 was carried to the Town of Giaca, and that which befell me there • 
 my going to Malaca with a Mahometan Merchant • and the Tyrant of 
 , Achems Army marching againjl the King of Aaru» 
 
 F inding my felf reduced to that extremity I have (poken of, I was above three hours fo be¬ 
 tides my felf, as I could neither {peak, nor weep; At length the other Mariner and I went 
 into the Sea again, where we continued the reft of that day. The next morning having difco- 
 vereda Barque, that was feeking the mouth the River, as (con as it was near we got out of 
 the water,and falling on our knees with our hands lift up wedefired them to come and take us 
 up ; whereupon they gave over rowing, and confidering the miferable ftate we were in they 
 judged immediately that we had fuffered fhipwrack , lo that coming fomewhat nearer they 
 asked us what we defired of them ; we anfwered, that we were Chriftians, dwelling at Ma¬ 
 laca, and that in cur return from Aaru we were caft away by a ftorm about nine days before, 
 & therefore prated them for Gods fake to take us away with them whitherfoever they pleafed. 
 Thereupon one amongft them, whom we gueffed to be the chiefeft of them, fpake to us thus. 
 By that which I fee, you are not in cafe to do us any fervice, and gain your meat, if we fhould 
 receive you into our barque,wherefore if you have any mony hidden,you (hall do well to give 
 it us aforehand,and then we will ufe towards you that charity you require of us, for otherwife 
 it is in vain for you to hope for any help from us: Saying fo, they made (hew as though they 
 would be gone • whereupon we befought them again weeping, that they would take us for 
 (laves, and go fell us where they pleafed • hereunto I added, how they might have any ran- 
 fom for me they would require,as having the honor to appertain very nearly unto the Captain 
 of Malaca. Well, anfwered he then, we are contented to accept of thy offer, upon condition, 
 that if that which thou faieft be not true,we will caft thee,bound hand and foot,alive into the 
 Sea. Having replied, that they might do fo if they found it otherwife, four of them got pre- 
 fently to us, and carried us into their Barque, for we were fo weak at that time, as we were 
 not able to ftirofour (elves.When they had us aboard,imagining that bywhipping they might 
 make us confefs where we had hid our mony,for ftill they were perfwaded that we had (ome, 
 they tyed us both to the foot of the Maft, and then with two double Coards they whipped us 
 till we were nothing but blood all over. Now becaufe that with this beating I was almojft 
 dead , they gave not to me, as they did to my companion, a certain drink,made of a kind of 
 Lime,fteeped in Urine, which he having taken it, made him fall intofuch a furious vomiting, 
 as he caft up both his lungs and his liver,(o as he dyed within an hour after. And for that they 
 found no gold come up in his vomit, as they hoped, it pleafed God that that was the caufc 
 why they dealt not fo with me, but only they wafhed the ftripes they had given me with the 
 faid liquor, to keep them from feftering, which notwitftanding put me to fuch pain, as 1 was 
 even at the point or death. Being departed from this River, which was called Arijfumhea, 
 we went the nextdayafter dinner afhore,at a place where the houfes were covered with ftraw, 
 named Ciaca , in the Kingdom < f Jambes , there they kept me (even and twenty days,in which 
 time by the alliftance of Heaven 1 got my (elf throughly cured of all my hurts. Then they that 
 had a (hare in my perfon, who were feven in number, feeing me unfit for their Trade, which 
 was fifhing, expofed me to fale three feveral times, and yet could meet with|no body that 
 would buy me; whereupon being out of hope of felling me,they turned me out of doores,be¬ 
 caufe they would not be at the charge of feeding me.l had been fix and thirty days thus aban¬ 
 doned by thefe Inhumane?, and put a grating like a caft Horfe, having no other means to live 
 but what 1 got by begging from door to door, which God knows was very little, in regard 
 
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 thote of,the Country were extream poor, when as one day, a^ I was lying in the Sun upon the 
 Sand by the Sea fide, and lamenting my ill fortune with my felf, it pleated God that a Maho¬ 
 metan, born in the file of Palimban , came accidentally by : This man, having been fomstimes 
 at Mai ca in the company f Yorttigals , beholding me lie naked on the ground, asked me if l 
 were not a Portugal, and willed me to tell him the truth; whereupon I anfwered, that indeed 
 1 was one, and defended of very rich parents,who would give him for my rantem whatfoever 
 he would demand, if he would carry me to Malaca , where 1 was Nev hew to the Captain of 
 the Fortrefs, as being the ten of his lifter* The c Mahometan hearing me lay thus, If it be true, 
 replyed he, that thoti art tech as thou delivered thy felf to be, what fo great fin haft thou com¬ 
 mitted that co Id reduce thee to this miterable eftate wherein I now tee thee > .Then I recount¬ 
 ed to him from point to point how I was caft away, and by what fort the fiffiermen had firft 
 brought me thither in their Barque, and afterwards had turned me out of the wide world, be- 
 caufe they could not find any body that would buy me. Hereat he teemed to be much aftoniffi- 
 ed, fo that muling a pretty while by himfelf; Know ftranger, faid he unto me, that I am b 't a 
 poor Merchant, all whole wealth amounts not to above an hundred Pardains( which are worth 
 two (hillings a piece of our mcny) with which I trade for the rows of Shads, thereby hoping 
 to get my living; Now I am allured that I might gain fomething at Malaca s if fo be the Cap¬ 
 tain, and the Officers of the Guftom-houfe there, would not do me the wrong which I have 
 heard lay they do to many Merchants that come thither totraffique; wherefore if thou thinkft 
 that for thy fake I ffiould be well uted there, I could be contented to redeem thee from the 
 filhermen, and go thither with thee. Thereunto I anfwered him, with tears in mine eyes, 
 that confidering the ftate I was in at the pretent, it was not likly he could give credit to any 
 thing I laid, becaufe it was probable that to free my felf out of my miterable captivity I would 
 prize my perfon at a far higher value then it would be efteemed for at Malaca • howbeit if he 
 would lend any belief to my oath", fince I had no other alTurance to give him, I woted fwear 
 to him, and alfo let it under my hand, that if he would carry me to Malaca,thc Captain 
 Ihould do him a great deal of honor for my fake, and befides the exempting of his Merchandite 
 from paying ofCuftome,he Ihould receive ten times as much as he ffiould disburfe for me,Well, 
 replied the Mahometan, I am contented to redeem, and reconduft thee to Malaca , but thou 
 mnft take heed that thou fpeakeft ndt a word of that we have concluded on, for fear thy Ma¬ 
 ilers hold thee at fo dear a rate, as I ffiall not be able to draw thee out of their hands though I 
 would never 1 o fain; whereupon I gave him my faith to do nothing but what he would have 
 me to do, efpecially in that particular, which I held to be moft neceffary for the better effeft- 
 ing of our defire. 
 
 Four dayes after this agreement, the Mahometan Merchant, that he might the more eafily : 
 redeem me, ufed the interpofore of a man born in the Country, who under hand went to the 
 fiffiermen, and carried the bufinefs fo cunningly with them, as they quickly contented to my 
 redemption, for they were already very weary of me, as well in regard that I was fickly, as 
 for that I could no way Hand them in any Head, and therefore, as I delivered before,they had 
 turned me out of doores, where I had continued a month and better; fo by the means of this 
 third perfon, whom the Mahometan had emploied, the fiffiermen fold me to the Merchant for 
 the tern of (even mazes of gold, which amounts inourmony to teventeen (hillings and fix 
 pence. The Mahometan as foon as he had redeemed me, brought me to hisheute, where I 
 was five dayes out of the tyranny of thefe fiffiermen, and in a far better captivity then the 
 former; At the end whereof my new Mafter went five'leagues off to a place, named Sorobaya , 
 where he got his Mechandite aboard, which, as I faid before, was nothing but the rows of 
 Shads; For there is tech great abundance of them in that River, as the Inhabitants do there¬ 
 with every year lade above two thcufand Veffels, which carry at lead a hundred and fifty, or 
 twoffiiifidred Barrels, whereof each one contains a thoufand rows, the reft of the fiffi net yield¬ 
 ing them a peny. After that the Mahometan had laden a Lanckara with this commodity, he 
 pretegtly tet filter Malaca, whe r e Within awhile he (afely arrived, and carrying me to the 
 Fortrefs pretented me'to theCaptainyelatirlg unto him what agreement we had made together, 
 Pedro dc Fan » wa fo amaze 1 to tee me in tech a lamentable plight, as the tears ftood in his 
 eyes, .whereupon he bad mi (beak out aloud, .that he might know whether it was I that he 
 beheld ,. f r that! did not f em to be my felf, in regard of the ftrange deformity of my face. 
 NpWjhycaiite that in thre: months Tpaqe there had been no news of me, and that every one 
 thpukhtitne to be dead, there came fo many folks toTee me, as the Fortrefs could fcarce hold 
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 them: Here being demanded the occafion of ray mis-fortune, and who had brought me inro 
 that miferable cafe,! recounted the adventures of my Voyage, juft in the fame manner as I have 
 jteady delivered them, whereat the whole company were lb aftonilhed , that I fawfome go a- 
 way without (peaking a word, and others Ihrinkup their (houlders, and blefs themfelves in 
 admiration of that which they had heard from me ; but in conclufion their compaffion towards 
 me was foch, that with the very alms they bellowed on me I became far richer then I was be¬ 
 fore! undertook that unlucky Voyage. As for Pedro deFeria, he ca ufed threefcore ducates 
 to be given to the Mahometan Merchant that brought me , belides two pieces of good China 
 Damask; moreover he freed me of all the duties he was to pay for the cuftom of his Merchan- 
 dife,which amounted to very near a like liim,lb as he remained exceeding well fati c fied of the 
 bargain he had made with me. After this, to the end I might be the better ufed and looked 
 unto,the Captain commanded me to be lodged in the Regifters houfeof the Kings Cuftom«, 
 where for that he was married there he thought I might be better accommodated then in any 
 other place, as indeed I was very well entreated by him and his wife; fo tint having kept 
 my bed about the fpace of a month, it pleafed God to reftore me unto my perfeft 
 health. 
 
 , When I had recovered my health, Pedro de Faria lent for me to the Fort refs, where he 
 queftioned me about that which had pall: betwixt me and the King of A am , as alfohowand 
 in what place I was call away, whereupon I made him an ample relation thereof. But before 
 I proceed any further, it is requisite I fhould here report what was the fuccefsof the v/ar be¬ 
 tween the Kings of A am and Achem , to the end, that the defolation, which I have fo often 
 foretold, of our Fortrels or Malaca, may. the more evidently appear,it being a matter of too 
 much importance for to be Co neglected as it is by thole w r ho ought to have more care cf it. 
 For this is certain, that either the power of the King o C Achem is utterly to be ruined, or by it 
 we lhall be miferably expelled out of the Countries we have conquered all along the South¬ 
 ern Coaft, as Malaca , Bauda i Maluco , Sunday Borneo , and Timor , and Northwards 
 Chin , Japan, and the Lequios , as alfo many other parts and Ports, where the Portugal* 
 are very much intereffed by reafon of the Traffique which they daily ufe there,and where they 
 reap more profit then in any other place that isyet difeovered,beyond the Cape of good hope 3 
 the extent thereof being fo great,that it contains along the Coaft above three thouland leagues, 
 as may eafily be feen by the cards and globes of the world, if fo be their graduation be true. 
 Befides, if this lofs fhould happen, which God of his infinite mercy forbid, though we have 
 but too much deferved it for our careleffnels and fins, we are in danger in like manner to lole 
 the Guftomes of Mandorim of the City of Goa , which is the beft thing the King of Portugal 
 hath in the Indies , for they are Ports and Iflands, mentioned heretofore, whereon depends 
 the greateft part of his Revenue,not comprehending the Spices, namely, the Nutmegs,Cloves, 
 and Maces, which are brought into this Kingdom from thofe Countries. Now to return to 
 my difeourfe, I fey. that the Tyrant of Achem was advifed by his Councel how there was no 
 way in the world to take Malaca, if lie fhould afluiil it by Sea, as he had divers times be¬ 
 fore, when as Dorn Stephano de Gama and his Predeceflors were Captains of the Fortrels, but 
 lirft to make himfolf Mailer of the Kingdom of Aar a, to the end he might afterwards fortifie 
 himfed on the River of Panctican , where his Forces might more commodioully and neatly 
 maintain the War he intended to make : for then he might have means with lels charge tolhut 
 up the Sfreights of Cincapura, and Sahaon , and Co ftop our Ships from palling to the Seas of 
 Chins , Sunda , Banda , and the Molucques , whereby he might have the profit ofall the Drugs 
 wh ch came from that great Archipe'age ; And verily this counfel was lo approved by the Ty¬ 
 rant, that he prepared a Navy of an hundred and threefcore Sails, whereof the rnoft part were 
 Lanchares with Oars, Galiots, Calahuzes of Jaoa , and fifteen Ships high built, furnilhed 
 with Munition and Vittual. In thefe VelTels he imbarqued twenty thouland men, namely 
 twelve thouland Soldiers, the reft Sailers and Pioners. Amongft thefc were four thouland 
 Strangers, lurks , Abiffins , Mdabarcs, Gufurates , an d Lufons of the I He of Borneo. Their 
 General was one named Here din Mahomet, Brother-in-law to the Tyrant, by marriage with 
 a Sifter of his, and Governour of the Kingdom of Baarros. This Fleet arrived lafely at the Ra¬ 
 ver of Panctican , where the King oCAaru attended them with fix thoufand of his own natural 
 Subjects,and not a forraigner amongft them, both in regard he wanted rnony for to entertain 
 Souldiers,and that alio he had a Country unprovided of visual to feed them. At their arrival 
 the enemies found them fortifying of the Trench whereof I fpake heretofore; Whereupon 
 
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 without any furher delay they began to play with their Ordnance; and to batter the Town 
 on the Sea fide with great fury,which lafted fix whole dayes together. In the mean time the 
 belieged defended themfelves very valiantly, fo as there was much blood fpilt on either fide ; 
 The General Of the Acbemr, perceiving he advanced but little,caufed his Forces to Land, and 
 mounting twelve great Pieces he renewed the battery three feveral times with fuch impetu- ,t 
 ofity,that it demolifhed one of the two Forts that commanded the River ; by means whereof 
 and under the fhelter of certain packs of Cotton, which the Acbems carried before them, they 
 one morning affaulted the principal Fortrefs: In this aflault an Abijjin commanded, called 
 Mamedecan^ who a moneth (or thereabout) before was come from Juda, to confirm the new 
 League made by the Bafla of Caire 9 on the behalf of the grand Signior , with the Tyrant of 
 Achem , whereby he granted him a Guftom houfe in the Port of Pazem. This Abijjin rendred 
 himfelf Mafter of the Bulwark, with 60 Eurks^ .fourty Janizaries , and fome Malabar Moors, 
 who inftantly planted five Eniignson the walls ;Jn the mean time the King of Aaru encoura¬ 
 ging his people with promifes, and fuch words as the timt required, wrought fo effe&ually, 
 that with a valourous refolution they fet upon the Enemy ,and recovered the Bulwark which 
 they had fb lately loft; fb as the Abijjin Captain was (lain on the place,and all thofe that were 
 there with him. The King following his good fortune, at the lame inftant caufed the Gates 
 of the Trench to be opened,and fiillying out with a good part of his Forces, he combated his 
 Enemies fb valiantly, as he quite routed them : In like manner he took 8 of their i2> Pieces. 
 bfOrdnancc,and fo retreating in fafety he fortified himfelf the beft he could, for to fuftain his 
 Enemies future aflfaults. * ' ' 
 
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 The Death of the King «/'Aam, and the cruel Jujlice that teas executed on him by 
 his Enemies ; the going of his Queen to Malaca, and her reception there ♦ 
 
 T He General of Achem, feeing the bad fuccefs which he received in this encounter, was 
 more grieved for the death of the Abijjin Captain, and the lofs of thofe eight Pieces of 
 Ordnance,then for all them that were flam befides; whereupon he affembledhisCouncelof 
 War,who were all of opinion that the commenced fiege was to be continued, and the Trench 
 affailed on every fide,which was fb fpeedily put in execution,that in 17 dayes it was aflault- 
 ed nine feveral times; in fb much as by divers forts of fire-works, continually invented by a 
 “Jurklfh Engineer that was in their Camp, they demolifhed the greater part of the Trench 5 
 Moreover,they overthtew two of the principal Forts on the South-fide, together with a great 
 Platform, which in the manner of a falf-bray defended the entry of the River, notwithftand- 
 ang all the refiftance the King of Aaru could make with his people, though they behaved 
 themfelves fb valiantly,as the Acherrts loft above two thoufand and five hundred men, befides 
 thofe that were hurt, which were far more then the flain, whereof the moft part died fhortly 
 after for want of looking to. As for the King of Aaru-Jy\z loft not above 400 men; howbeit for 
 that his people were but few,and his Enemies many,as alfo better ordered,and better armed, 
 in the laft affault,that was given on the 13 day of the moon, the bufinefs ended unfortunately 
 by*the utter defeat of the King of Aarn's Forces; For it was his ill hap, that having made a 
 (alley forth by the advice of a ^Cacis of his, whom he greatly trufted, it fell out that this Tray- 
 tour fuffered himfelf to be corrupted with a bar of Gold , weighing about fourty thoufand 
 Ducates,which the Arhcm gave him, whereof the King of Aaru being ignorant, fet couragi- 
 oufiy on his Enemies,and fought a bloody battel with them,wherein the advantage remained 
 on his fide in all mens }udgement;but that Dog, the perfidious C^c*r,whom he had left Com¬ 
 mander of the Trench, fallied forth widi $00 men, under colour of feconding the King in his 
 purfuitof fo profperous a beginning, and left the Trench without any manner of defence, 
 which perceived by one of the Enemies Captains, a Mahometan Malabar , named Cutiale Mar~ 
 heprefently with GxhundredGufarates and Malabars , whom he had led thther for that 
 purpofe, made himfelf Mafter of the Trench which the Trayterous Cads , for the bar of Gold 
 he had received had left unguarded,and forthwith put all the fick and hurt men that he found 
 there to thefivord, amounting to the number of about fifteen hundred, whereof he would 
 not (pare fb much as one. In the mean time the unhappy King of Aaru, who thought of 
 nothing left then the treachery of his Cacis, feeing his Trench taken,'ran to the fuccouring ol 
 3 ft,being a matter that moft imported him:But finding himfelf the weaker, he was conftrained 
 
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 to quit the place,'*fo that as he was making his retreat to the Town ditch,it was his ill fortune 
 to be killed by a (hot of an Harquebufe from a Turfrhh Enemy.Upon this death of his enfued 
 the lofs of all the reft,by reafon of rhe great difbrder it brought amongft them. Whereat the 
 Enemies exceedingly rejoycing, took up the Corps of that wretched King, whfch they found 
 amongft the othe dead bodies, and having imbowelled and faked him they put him up in a 
 Cafe, and fo fen him as a prefent to the Tyrant, who after many Ceremonies of Juft ice, cau- 
 fed him to be publiquely fawed into fundry pieces, and then boiled in a Cauldron full of Oyl 
 and Pitch,with a dreadful Publication, the tenour whereofwas this; 
 
 See here the Jnfliie which Sultan Laradin, King of the Land of the two Seas, hath caufed to 
 le executed , whofe will and pleafure it is , that as the body of this miferable cJAlahomctan 
 hath been fawed in funder , and boyledherc on Earthy fo his Soul Jhall fuffer worfe torments in 
 Hel !, and that moil worthily , for K his tranfgr. effing oft he Law of Mahomet, and of the perfett 
 belief of the Muflelmans of the Houfe of Mecqua; for this execution is very juft , and conforma 
 able to the holy DoVtrine of the Boolgof Flowers , in regard this Mifcreant h ithjhcwed himjelf 
 in allhisworkgs to be fo far without the fear of God^ as he hath inceffantly from time to time 
 betrayed the mofl fecret and important affairs ofthis Kingdome to tbofe accurfed Dogs of the other 
 end of the world , who for our frns , and through our negligence , have with notorious Tyranny 
 made tbemfelves Lords of Malaca. This Publication ended, a fearful noife arofe amongft the 
 * people, who cryed out, This punifoment is but too little for fo execrable a Crime . Behold 
 truly the manner of this paflage, and how the lofs of the Kingdome of Aaru was. joyned 
 with the death of that poor King, who lived in fitch good correfpondence with us, and that 
 in my opinion might have been fuccoured by us with very {mall charge and pains, if at the 
 beginning of the War he had beenaflifted with that little he demanded by his Embafladour; 
 Now who was in the fault hereof, I will leave to the judgement of them which inoft it con¬ 
 cerns to know it. 
 
 Scfr*. After that this infortunate King of Aaru had miferably ended his dayes, as I have before 
 related,and that this whole Army Was utterly defeated, both the Town, and the reft of the 
 Kingdom were eafily and quickly taken in. Thereupon the General of the Acbems repaired 
 the Trenches, 6 and fortified them in fuch manner*as he thought requifite for the confervation 
 and fecurity of all that he had gaineckwhich done, he left there a Garifbn of 800 of the moft 
 couragious men of his Army, who were commanded by a Lufan Mahometan , named Sapc k 
 deRaia, and incontinently after departed with the reft of-his Forces. The common repc 
 was that he went to the Tyrant of Achem , who received him with very much honour for 
 the good fuccefs of this Enterprize ; For, as I have already delivered, being before but 
 Governour and Mandara of the Kingdom of Baarros, he gave him the title of King, fo that 
 ever after he was called Sultan of Baarros, which is the proper denomination of fuch as are 
 Kings amongft the Mahometans. Now whileft things palled in this fort, the defolate Queen 
 remained fome feven Leagues from Aaru> where being advertifed and allured of the death 
 • of the King her husband,and of the lamentable ifliie of the War,? fhe prefently refolved to call 
 
 her felf into the fire; for fhe had promifed her husband in his life time, confirming it with 
 ‘many and great Oaths; Buther friends and fervants, to divert her from putting fo defpe- 
 rate a defign in execution, ufed many reafons unto her, fo that at length, overcome by their 
 perfwafions. Verily ^ faid fhe unto them^Although 1 .'-yield to your requelf yet l would have you 
 kgmiy that neither the c onf derations ym have propounded , nor the zeal you feem to Jhew of 
 good and faithful Subjeffs^ were cfpowertoiurnme from fo generous a Determination , as that 
 is which I promifed to my King^ my Husband , and my Majter y if God had not infpired me with 
 this thought , that living I may better revenge his death , as by his dear blood I vow unto you to 
 labour as long as I live to do , and to that end Twill undergo any extremity whatfoever • nay y if need 
 hc ? turn Chriflian a tboufand times over^ if by that means I may be able to compafs this my 
 tujire. Saying fo, flie immediately got upon an Elephant, and accompanied with a mat¬ 
 ter of feven hundred men, fhe marched towards the Town with a purpofe to fet it on fire, 
 where incountring fome four hundred Acbems , that were bufie about pillaging of fuch goods 
 as were yet remain ng, fhe fo encouraged her people with her words and tears, that they cut 
 them a 1 ! prefently in pieces;This execution done^knowing her felf too weak for to hold the 
 Town-fhe returned into the Wood-where fhe fojourned twenty days,during which time fhe 
 made War upon the Townfmen, furprifing and pillaging them as often as they iffued forth 
 to get water^weod, or other neceflaries, fo as they durft not ftir out of the Town to provide 
 
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 themfelves fitch things as they needed,in which regard if (he could poflibly have continued 
 this War other twenty days longer, (he had fo famUhed them, as they would have been con- 
 drain’d to render the Town ; Butbecaufe at that time it rain’d continually by reafon or the 
 Climate,and that the place was boggy and full ot bufties, as alfo the fruits, wherewithal they 
 nourifhed themfelves in the wood wer& all rotten,fo that the moft part of our people fell lick, 
 and no mea^s there to relieve them, the Queen was conftrained to depart to a River, 
 named Minhacumbaa , (bme 5 Leagues trom thence, where (he imbarcjued herfelfinifi 
 Ve(fels,fuch as (he could get, which were Filhermens Paroos ^and in -henl (he Went to Malaca 
 with a belief that at her Arrival there (he (hould not be denied any thing (he would ask, 
 Pedro de Faria , being adverffod of the Queens coming, font Alvaro de Faria 0 his (on, and 
 General of the Sea-forces, to receive her with a Galley, five Foifis, two Gature% 20 Balons, 
 and 300 men,befides diners perfons of the Country.So (he was brought to the Fortref, where 
 (he was faluted with an honourable peal of Ordnance, which lafted the fjrace of a good hour. 
 Being landed, and having foen certain things which Pedrp de Faria defired to (hew her , as 
 the Cuftom-houfo, the River, the Army, the Manufa&ures, (lores of Powder, and other 
 particulars prepared before for that purpdfe; (he was lodged in a fair houfe, and her people, 
 to the number of fix hundred, in a field, called liber , in Tents and Cabbirr >where they were 
 accommodated the beft that might be. During all the time of her abode, which was about 
 a matter of five moneths, (he continued folliciting for fuccour, and means to revenge the death 
 of her Husband. But at lerigth perceiving he (mall alliftance (he was like to have from us, 
 and that all we did was but a meer entertainment of good words, (he determined to fpeak 
 freely unto Pedro de Faria , that fo (he might know how far (he might truft to his promifos $ 
 To which end, attending him one Sunday at the Gate of the Fortrefo, at fuch time as the 
 place was full of people, and that he was going forth to hear Mafs; (he went to him, and af¬ 
 ter many Complements between them, (he raid unto him 5 Noble and valiant Captain, 
 I befeechyoubythe genercfty of your race, to give me the hearing in few things I have to re- 
 prefent unto you. Confder,Ipray you, that albeit I am a Mahometan , and tbatjor-tkegreatnefs of 
 my fins I am altogether ignorant in the knowledge of your holy Law,yet in regard 1 am a woman , 
 and have been a Qjjeen, you ought to carry fome rejpett to we, and to behold my mijery with the 
 eyes of a Cbrijlian. Hereunto at firft Pedro de Faria knew not what to anfwer - in the end 
 , itting.offhiscap, he made her a low reverence, and after they had both continued a 
 rK >od while without (peaking, the Queen bowed to the Church gate, that was juft before 
 taem, and then (pake again to Pedro de Faria . T ruly, faid (he, the defire I have alwayes had 
 ■a revenge the death of my Husband, hath been, and fill is Jo great, that I have rej'olved to feel ^ 
 ut all the means that poflibly I may to ejfeti if, fince by reafon of the weaknefs of my Sex fortune 
 will not permit me to bear arms • Being perfwaded then that this here, which is the firfl I have 
 irved, was the moft ajfured , and that I more relyed upon then any other, as trujiing in the ancient 
 amity which hath alwayes been betwixt us and you Portugals , and the Obligation wherein this 
 P ortrefs is engaged to us, pajjing by many other confiderations well known to you • 1 am 
 
 ow to defire you with tears in mine eyes, that for the Honour of the high and mighty King of 
 Portugal, myfovereign Lord , and unto whom my husband was ever a loyal Subjeft and Vajfafyou 
 will ayd and fuccour me in this my great adverfitie, which in the prefence of many noble Perfonagcs 
 you have promifed me to do - Howbeitnow I fee that in Jlead of performing the promifes which 
 you have fo often made we, you alledge for anexcufe that you have written unto tbeVicc-Roy, 
 about it, whereas I have no need of fuch great Forces as you Jpeaf of\ for that with an hun¬ 
 dred men only, and fuch of my own people as are flying up and down in hope and expeUation of 
 my return ; l Jhould be able enough, though I be but a woman , in a (hort Jpace to recover my C oun- 
 try ? and revenge the death of my husband, through the help of Almighty God, in whofe Name I 
 befeech and require you,that for the ferviceof the King of Portugal, my Mafler,and the, only refuge 
 of my widow-hood -you will ,fince you can , affijl me Jpeedily,bee aufe expedition is that which in this 
 affair imports the mofl- and fo doing youJhall prevent the plot which the wicked enemy hath upon 
 this F ortrefs, as too well you may perceive by the means he hath ufed to ejfeff it. Ifyou will be plea- 
 fed to five me the fuccour I demand of you, fay fo 5 if not, deal clearly with we, for that you will 
 prejudice me as much in making me lofe the time , as if you refufed me that which fo earneftly 1 de - 
 /ire, and which as a Chrijlian you are obliged to grant we, as the Almighty Lord of Heaven and 
 Earth doth well Ignow, whom 1 take to witnefs of this my requejl. 
 
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 Chap. XII. 
 
 7 ‘kt "Queen of AaruV departure from Malaca ; her going to the King of Jantana; 
 bis fummoning the Tyrant of Achem to ref ore the Kingdom of Aaru, 
 and that whichpail between them thereupon. 
 
 Seft. if T ~\Edro de Faria, having heard what this defolate Queen faid openly unto him,convinced by. 
 
 1 his own Confidence, and even afhamed of having delayed her in that fafhion,. anfwered 
 her, that in truth, and by the faith of a Chriftian, he had recommended this affair unto the 
 Vice-roy, and that doubtlefs there would fome fuccour come for her ere it were long, it fobe 
 there were no trouble in the Indies that might hinder it- wherefore he advifed and prayed her 
 to ftay (fill at Malaca , and that (hortly fhe fliould fee the verity of his fpeeches. Thereunto this 
 Princefs having replyed upon the uncertainty offuch fuccout,Fedro de Faria grew into cholei, 
 becaufe he thought Ihe did not believe him, fo that in the heat of his paffion he lafhed out 
 fome words that were more rude then was fit. Whereupon the defblate Queen with tears in 
 her eyes, and beholding the Church gate, which was juft againft her, and fobbing in fuch 
 manner as (he could fcarcely (peak • The clear Fountainjaid fhe, is the God which is adored in 
 that h .ufe out ofwhofe mouth proceeds all truth , but the men of the Earth are finks of troubled wa -« 
 ter , wherein change and faults are by nature continually remaining.- t wherefore accurfedis he that 
 truftfto the opening of their Ups 5 For I affure you, Captain, that ever fined Jkjiew my felf to this 
 prefent , I have neither heard nor feen ought, but that the more fuch unhappy wretches , as my late 
 husband was, and my felf now am, do for you Portugals, the lefsyou regard them ; and the more 
 you are obliged the lefsyou acknowledge * whence I may well conclude that the recompenceofthet 
 Portugal Nation confifis more in favour, then in the merits vfperfons : And would to God, my 
 deceased husband had nine and twenty years ago but known , what now for my fins l perceive too. 
 well • for then he had not been fo deceived by you as he was: But finceit is fo, I have this onely, 
 left to comfort me in my mifery ; that I fee many others fcandalized with your amity as well as my ^ 
 felf: For if you had neither the power nor the will to fuccour me , why would you fo far engage 
 your felf to me, a poor defolate widow , concerning that which I hopedtoobtain fromyou and Jo 
 beguile me with your large promifes ? Having fpokenthus, fhe turned her back tothe Captain^ 
 and without harkning to what he might (ay, fhe inftantly returned to her lodging; then cat; 
 fed her Veffels, wherein (he came thither, to be made ready,and the next day let fail for Bin- 
 tan, where the King of Jantana was at that time, who, according to the report was made of 
 it to us afterward, received her with great honour at her arrival. To him (he recounted alT 
 that had paft betwixt her and Fedro de Faria, and how (he had loft all hope of our friendftiip^ 
 Unto whom, it is faid, the King made this anfwer. That he did not marvel at the little faith 
 fhe had found in us, for that we had fhewed it hut too much upon fundry occafions unto all the 
 world.. Now the better to confirm his faying, he recited fome particular examples of mat-’ 
 ters,which he faid had befaln us conformable to his purpofe; and like a Mahometan , and our 
 enemy,he made them appear more enormous then they were.fo after he had recounted many 
 things of us very ill done, amongft the which he interlaced divers Treacheries, Robberies* 
 and Tyrannies,at length he told her,that as a good King, and a good Mahometan , he would 
 promifeher, that ere it were long (he fhculd fee her (elf by his means reftored again to every 
 foot of her Kingdom; and to the end (he might be the more allured of his promile he told 
 her that he was content to take her for his wife, if (o (he pleated, for that thereby he fhould 
 have the greater cau(e to become the King of Achems Enemy, upon whom,for her lake, he 
 fhould beccnftrained to make War, if he would not by fair means be perfwaded to aban¬ 
 don that which he had unjuftly taken ftom her. Whereunto (he made anfwer, that albeit 
 the honour he did her was very great, yet (he (hould never accept of it, unlefs he would firft 
 promile, as in way of a Dowry, to revenge the death of her former Husband; faying,it was 
 a thing (heft) much delired, as without it fhe would not accept of the Sovereignty of the 
 whole world. The King condelcended to her requeft, and by a folemn Oath taken on a Book 
 of their Se& confirmed the promife which to that' effeft he made her. 
 
 S &. 2 . After that the King of Jantana had taken that Oath before a great Cads of his,called Fain 
 
 Moul an a, upon a feftival day when as they (olemnized their Ramadan , he went to the Ifle of 
 C^mpar, where immediately upon the celebration of their Nuptials he called a Councel for to 
 
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 advife of the courfe he was to hold for the performance of that whereunto he had engaged 
 him!elf,for he knew it was a matter of great difficulty .,and wherein he ffiould he forced to ha¬ 
 zard much of his Eftate. The refoiution that he took hereupon was,before he enterprized any 
 thing, to fend to fummon the Tyrant of Achem to furrender the Kingdom of Aaru , which in 
 the right of his new wife belonged now unto him, and then according to the anfwer he ffiould 
 receive to govern himfelf. This Counfel feemed fo good to the King, that he prefent.y dis¬ 
 patched an EmbalTadour to the Tyrant, with a rich prefent of Jewels and Silks, together 
 ivith a Letter containing thefe words. Sibri Layo quendou,pracama de Rain, lawful Kin g, by 
 a longfuccejjhn fl/Malaca, which by flrong band , and the in)ujlice of the faithlefs . Kings 0/Jan- 
 tana and Bintan hath been ujurped from me • To thee Siry Sultan Aradin, King of Achem, and 
 of all the Land of the two Seas, my true Brother by the ancient Amity of our fore-fathers. I thine 
 Ally in flejh and blood, do give thee to underfund by my Embajjadour, that about the feventk 
 Moon of this prefent year the noble Widow Anchefiny Qjeen <;/Aaru, came to me full of rrief 
 and tears , and projlrating her jelf on the ground before me, Jhe told me that thy Captains had 
 taken her Kingdome fr.om her, as alfo the two Rivers of Lava and Panetican, andflain Alibon- 
 car her Husband , together with five thoufand Amborraias and Ouroballon 0 , all men of mar\, 
 that were with him, and made three thoufmd Children flaves, which had never offended , tying 
 their hands behind them , and Jcourging them continually without pity, as if they had been the 
 Jons of unbelieving Mothers. Wherefore being moved with companion, I have received her under 
 the protection of my Faith, to the e?id that l might with more cert tinty inform my felf of the rea - 
 Jon and right thouhadfi fo to do^and perceiving by her Oaths that thou hadjl none, I have fallen 
 her to my wife, that I might the more freely before God demand that which is hers. I defire thee 
 then, as being thj true Brother, that thou wilt render th t thou bafl taken from her, and there¬ 
 fore make her a good and full Reflitution j And touching the proceeding that is to be held in. 
 this Reflitution which I demand of thee, it is to be done according to the manner that Syi’i- 
 
 bican my Embajfadour will Jhew thee „ And not doing thus conformable to what in juflice I 
 require of thee ; I declare my ft if thine Enemy in tqe behilf of this Lady, uuto whom 1 am 
 obliged by a folemn Oath to defend her in her affliction. This Embaffadour being come to A - 
 cbem , the Tyrant received him very honourably, and took his Letter • But after he had open¬ 
 ed it, and read the Contents, he would prefently have put him to death, had he not been di¬ 
 verted by his Councel, who told him, that in fb doing he would incur great infamy: W here¬ 
 upon he inftantly di miffed the Embaffadour with his Prefent, which in contempt of him he 
 would not ccept of; and inanfwer of that he brought him, he returned him a Letrer,whtre- 
 in it was thus written: ISultan Aaradin, King of Achem, Baarros, Pedir, Paacem, and 
 of the Signiories of Dayaa, nnd Batas, Prince of all the Land of the two Seas, both Mediter¬ 
 ranean and Ocean , and of the Mynes of Menencabo, and of the Kingdome of Aaru, newly con¬ 
 quered upon juficaufe • To thee King, repleuijhed with joy, and defiroUi of a doubtful heritage : 
 
 I have jeen thy Letter,written at the Table of thy Nuptials, and by the inconfidtrate words there¬ 
 of have difeerned the drunkgnnejs of thy C mncellours and Secretaries, whereunto I would not 
 have vouchfafed an anfwer , had it not been fir the humble prayers of my fervants . As 
 touching the Kingdom of Aaru, do not thou dare to fpea'tg of it, if thou defireji to live 5 fuffi- 
 ceth it that I have caufed it to be taken in, and that it is mine, as thine alfo (hall be ere 
 long, if thou bafl married Anchefiny with a purpofe upon that occafion to make claim to a 
 Kingdome that now is none of hers • wherefore live with her as other Husbands do with their 
 Wives, that tilling the ground are contented with the labour of their hands. Recover firfi thy 
 Malaca, finee it was once thine, and then thou mayefl thinly of that which never belonged to thee. 
 
 I will favour thee as a Vajfal, and not as a Brother, as thou qualifiejl thy felf From my great 
 and Royal Houfe of rich Achem, the very day of this thy Embajfadours arrival, whom I have 
 prefently fent away without further feeing or hearing oj him, as he may tell thee upon hit return 
 to thy prefence. 
 
 The King of Jatana 3 s Embaffadour being difm’fled with this Anfwer the very fame day Se&.j, 
 that he arrived,which amongft them they hold for a mighty affront,carried back the Prefent, 
 which theTyraut Would not accept of, in the greater contempt both ofhim that lent, and he 
 that brought it, and arrived at Compar, where the King of Jantana was at that Jnftant, who 
 upon the underftanding of all that had part, grew by report fo fad and vext, that his fervants 
 have vowed they have divers times feen him weep for very grief that theTyrant ffiould make 
 fo little reckoning of him-Howbeit he held a Councel there upon the fecond time,where it was 
 
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 Concluded,that at any hand he {hould make War upon him,as on his mortal Enemy,and that 
 the firft thing he (hould undertake (hould be the recovery of the Kingdom of Aunt and the 
 Fort of before it was further fortified.The King accordingly fet forth a Fleet,of 200 
 
 SailsjWhereof the moft part were Lanchansfialalufis ,and 15 tall Juncks,furnifhed with Mu¬ 
 nition neceflary for the enterprize; And of this Navy he made General the great Larue Xeme - 
 na^hh Admiral, of whofe valour theHftoryof the Indies hath fpoken in divers places. To 
 him he gave 2000 Souldiers, as alfo 4000 Mariners and Gaily (laves, all choice and trained 
 men. This General departed immediately with his Fleet, and arrived at the Pvivcr of Pane- 
 tican, clofe by the Enemies Fort, which he afiaulted five feveral times, both with fealing lad¬ 
 ders, and divers artificial fires ; but perceiving he could not prevail that way he began to 
 batter it with 400 great Pieces of Ordnance, which (hot continually for the fpace of 7 whole 
 dayes together, at the end whereof the moft part of the Fort was ruined, and overthrown 
 to the ground; whereupon he prefently caufed his men to give an aflault to it,who performed 
 it io valiantly, that they entred it, and (lew 140 Achenis , the moft of which came thither but' 
 ^ ie da ^ bet0ret he Fleet arrived under the conduft of a Turkifh Captain, Nephew to the 
 bajja of Caire, named Mora do Arraiz, who was alfo (lain there with 400 Turkj he had 
 1 ? n him, whereof Xemena would not fparefomuch as one. After this 
 
 lie uled fuch diligence in repairing that which was fallen, wherein moft of the Souldiers la¬ 
 boured, that in twelve dayes the Fort was rebuilt, and made as ftrong as before with the 
 augmentation of two Bulwarks. The news of this Fleet, which the King o fjantana prepa- 
 rc , .T i tfle . , ts °£Bi nt an and Compar , came to the Tyrants ears, who fearing tololethat 
 which he had gotten, put inftantly to Sea another Fleet of 140 and twenty Sails, FoiftsJLan- 
 ^C-hots, and 15 Galleys,of 25 banks of Oars a piece, wherein he caufed fifteen 
 thouland men to be imbarqued 5 namely, twelve thoufand Souldiers, and the reft Mariners 
 and Inch as were tor the (ervice of the Sea 5 Of this Army he made thefame Hcredin Maho 
 met General,who had before (as I have already declared) conquered the Kingdom of A am 
 in regard he knew him to be a man of a great (pirit, and fortunate in War, who departing 
 with his Army arrived at a place called AupjjJumbee, within four Leagues of the River of 
 Lanetican , where he learnt of certain Firfiermen, whom he took and put to torture all that 
 had paft concerning the Fort and the Kingdom, and how Laque Xemena had made himfelf 
 Mafter both of the Land and Sea in expectation of him. At this news, it isfaid, that Hercain 
 Mahomet was much perplexed, becaufe intruth he did not believe the Enemy could do Co much 
 in fo little time : By reafon whereof he aflembled his Councel, where it was concluded that 
 fince both the Fort and Kingdom were regained, all the men he had left there cut in pieces 
 as hkewife for that the Enemy was very ftrong, bothat Sea and Land, and the feafon very 
 un,it tor their defign, therefore they were to return back; Nevertheles Here din Mahomet 
 was of a contrary opinion, faying,that he would rather dye like a man of courage, then live 
 in dimonour * and that feeing the King had made choice of him for that purpofe, by the 
 heio of God be would not lofeone jot of the reputation he had gotten ; wherefore he vowed 
 and (wore by the bones of Mahomet, afid all the Lamps that perpetually burn in his Chappel 
 to put al! rhofe to death as Tray tours that (hould go about to oppofe this intent of his and 
 that they (hould be boyled ahve in a Cauldron of Pitch, in fuch manner as he meant to deal 
 wira Laque Xemena hirmelfgmd with this boyling refolution he parted from the place where he 
 10 e at aiic ior,with great cries, and noife of Druifis,and Bells, as they are accuftomed to do 
 upon like occafiom.In this fort,by force of oars and fails,they got into the entry of the River- 
 and coming in fight of Larue Xemena*s Navy, who was ready waiting for him, and well rein- 
 ui ced with a great number of Sould ers, that were newly come to him from Per a Bint an 
 \ T S an d nlan y odier places thereabout, he made towards him ; and after the difeharging of 
 their v. rdnance afar off,they joyned together with as much violence as might be. The fight 
 war-uch,that during the fpace of an hour and a half there could no advantage be dilcern’d on 
 cither part,until fuch time as Heredin Mahomet,Ge neral of the Achems, was flain with a great 
 not, that hit him juft in the breft, and battered him to pieces. The death of this Chieftain 
 o i com aged his people m ftich manners labouring to return unto a point,named Baroqumn , 
 wr lapirpofe there to unite and fortifie themfelves until night, and then by the favour 
 t iet eo to fly away ; they could not execute their defign, in regard of the great currant of the 
 wate! ,which -eparated and difperfed them fundry ways,by which means the Tyrants Army 
 Kilintothe power of Laque Xemena, who defeated it, fo that but fourteen Sails of them 
 
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 efcaped, and the other 1 66 were taken, and in them were 13000 and 500 men killed, be- 
 fidej the fourteen hundred that were tlain in the Trench. Thefe fourteen Sail? tha<-fbefca- 
 ped returned to ' Achem, where they gave the Tyrant to underhand how all had pail, at 
 which, it is reported he took fuch grief, th^t he fnut up himfelf for twenty dayes without 
 feeing any body-at the end whereof, heftruck off the heads of all the Captains of the 14 
 Sails, and commanded all the Souldiers beards that were in them to be ihaved off, enjoyn- 
 ingthem exprefly upon pain of being fawed afunder alive, to go ever after attired in womens 
 apparel, playing on Timbrels in all places where they went; and that whenfoever they made 
 any proteftation, it fliould be in faying, So may God bring me bac ^ to my husband again, as this 
 is true or, So may I have joy of the Children I have brought into the world, Moft of thefe men 
 feeing themfelves inforced to undergo a chaftifement fb fcandalotis to them, fled their Coun¬ 
 try, and many made themfelves away; fome with poyfbn, fome with halters, and fome with 
 the fword. A relation altogether true,without any addition of mine. Thus was the Kingdom 
 of A am recovered from the Tyrant of Achem, and remained in the hands ofthe King of Jan - 
 tana ^until the year 1574. At which time, the laid Tyrant with a Fleet of two hundred Sails, 
 feigning as though he would go to take iii Patava , fell cunningly one night on Jantarayx here 
 the King was at that time, whom together wirh his Wife, Children, and many other?, he 
 took prifoners, and carried into his Country, where heput them all to moll cruel death ,and 
 for the King himfelf, he caufed his brains to be beaten riut of his head with a great, club. After 
 thefe bloody executions he pofleft the Kingdom of Aaru, whereof he prefently made his eldeft 
 fon King,the fame that was afterwards flain at Malaca , coming to befiege it in the time of 
 T>onLionis Pereyra , (on to the Earl of Feyra , Captain ofthe Fortrefs, who defended it fb 
 valiantly,that it feemed to be rather a miracle then any natural work, by reafon the power 
 of that Enemy great, and ours fb little in companion of theirs, as it may be truly fpo- 
 
 ken how they were two hundred Mahometans againft one ChrijUan. 
 
 
 Chap. XIII. 
 
 My departure from Malaca to go to Pan; what fortuned after my arrival there 3 
 with the murther of the King of Pan, and the caufe thereof. 
 
 T O return unto the Difcourfe where 1 left, I fay, that when I was recovered of the ficknefs St6 t.il 
 which I got in my captivity at Siaca, Pedro de Faria, defiring to find out fome occafion 
 to advance and benefit me, lent me in a Lanchara to the Kingdom of Pan with goods of his, 
 to the value of ten thoufand Ducates,for to confign them into the hands of a Factor ot his,that 
 refided there, named Fome Lobo , and from thence to go to Patava, which is 100 Leagues be¬ 
 yond that. To that purpofe he gave me a Letter and a Prefent for the King, and an ample 
 Commiffion to treat with him about the redemption of five Portugals, who in the Kingdom of 
 Siam were flaves to Monteo de Bancha his Brother-in-law. I parted then from Malaca upon 
 this employment, and the feventh day of our Voyage, juft as we were oppofite to the Ifland 
 of Pullo Jim mo, which may bediftant from Malaca fome ninety Leagues, and ten or twelve 
 from the mouth of the River of Pan ♦ a little before day we heard at two feveral times great 
 lamentations atSea^and being not able in regard of the darknefs of the night to know what 
 it was, we were all fufpended into divers Opinions, for that we cofyld not imagine what it 
 be 5 in fornuch that to learn the certainty thereof, I caufed them to hoift up fail, and row to¬ 
 wards that part where we heard the 1 mentation, every one looking down round about dole 
 to the Water ,the better to difcern and hear that of which we were in fuch doubt. After we had 
 continued a pretty while in this manner, we perceived far from 11s a black thing that floated 
 on the Sea, and unable at firft to difcover what it was, we advifed together about it. Now 
 there being but four Portugals of us in the Lanchara, we were all of dfferent minds, fo that l 
 Was told how 1 was to go direftlytOthe place whither Pedro de Faria had lent me,that lofing 
 but an hours time 1 might endanger the Voyge,and hazard the goods,and fb for want of per¬ 
 forming the duty of my charge I might very much wrong him. Whereunto I anfwered, that 
 happen what might,l would not leave offlabouring to know what it was- and that if in fb 
 doing T committed any fault, the Latichara appertained to none but Pedro de Faria, unto 
 whom my felfwas to render an account of the goods in it, and not they, that had nothing 
 elfein the Yeflel but their perfons, which were in no more danger then mine: During this 
 debate, it pleafed God that the day appeared, by the light whereof we perceived people that 
 
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 were call away,who floated pell-mell together upon planks,and other pieces of wood;VVhere- 
 upon without further fear we turned our prow towards them, with force of Sails and Oars 
 ive made to them, hearing them cry fix or feven times, without ufing any other fpeech,Lor^ 
 have mercy upon to. At the fight of this ftrange and pitiful fpeftacle we remained fo amazed, 
 that we were almoft befides our feives; and caufing fome ofthe Mariners to get with all fpeed 
 into the Cock-boat, they fetcht 23 perfons of them into the Lanchara, namely 14 Portugal r, 
 and 9 Slaves, which were alio dift figured in the face, as they made us afraid to look on them, 
 and fo weak as they Could neither fpeak nor Hand. After they had been thus taken up by us, 
 and entreated in the belt manner we could, we demanded of them the caufe of their mifi- 
 fortune*, whereunto one of the company weeping anfwered • My Mailers, I am named Fernand. 
 Gil Torcalho , and the eye,'which you behold I want was ilrucken out by the A cherts at the 
 fiege of Malaca , when as the fecond time they came to furprize Vom Ejlevano de Gama , who 
 defiring to do fomthing for me, becatife he faw me poor,as I was at that time, gave me leave 
 to go to the Molucques , where I would to God I had never been, fince my voyage was to have 
 lo bad a fticceis: for after I departed from the Port of Talagame, which is the Roade of our 
 Fort at Temate , having failed 23 dayes with a favourable Gale in a Junckthat carried 1000 
 bars of Cloves, worth above an hundred thoufand Ducates, my ill fortune would,that at the 
 point of Surabay in the Ifle of Jaoa, there arofe fo impetuous a North-wind, that our Junck 
 brake in the prow T , which conftrained us to lighten the hatches; Sowepafled that night by 
 the ihoar, without bearing fo much as a rag of fail,by reafon the Sea was exceedingly moved, 
 and the Waves moil infiipportable. The next day we perceived that our Junck lank; fo that 
 of an hundred fourty and (even perions that were in her there were faved but fix and twenty; 
 and now it is 14 dayes that we have been upon thefe planks, having during all that time eaten 
 nothing but a flave of mine that dyed, with whom we have fiiftained ourj^ves eight dayes; 
 and the very laft night two c Portugals more died, on whom we would not feed, although we 
 were very much preft to it by our hunger, becaufe we hoped that this or the next day would 
 give an end both to our lives and mifery. 
 
 S:&.2. The relation which this man made us having rendred us all very penfive,and full ofamaze- 
 ment to lee him and his companions reduced to lo deplorable an eftate, we greatly wondred 
 
 , at the means whereby God had lo miraculoufly delivered them;wherefore we gave h ; m mod 
 humble thanks for it,and comforted our new gucfts,fo reprefenting unto them all thofe things 
 which the duty of true Chriftians and our poor captivity obliged us to tell them. After that 
 we bellowed part of our clothes on them; and laid them in our ordinary bedsjthen we apply- 
 ed thofe remedies to them', which we thought neceflary for their recovery; for not having 
 flept of a long time,they were fo exceeding dizzy fin the head, that they would fall down 
 ftunned in luch fort,as they continued without any knowledge for an hour together. • This 
 done,we went to leek out the Port of Paii , where we arrived near about midnight,cafling an¬ 
 chor in the Roade, juft againft a little inhabited place,called Campalaru. The next morning 
 by break of day we rowed up the River about Ibme League to the Town, where we found 
 Tome Lobo , who as I have already declared,refided there as Faftor for the Captain of Malaca* 
 into whofe hands I configned all the Merchandile that I brought along with me.The lame day 
 3 ofthe 14 Portugal which we took up at Sea,dyed,whereof the afore-named Fernando Gil 
 porcalho was one, as alfo five young men that were Chriftians,whom we call all into the Sea, 
 with great Hones tyed to their feet and about their necks for to make them fink to the bottom, 
 in regard we could not be permitted to bury them in Town,although Tome Lobo offered them 
 fourty Ducates for that pur pole, the reafon they alleaged was, that if they Ihould fuffer it, 
 their Country would remain accurfod, and incapable of nourilhing any thing, becaule the de- 
 ceafed were not purged from the Hogs-flefh they had eaten,it being the moll deteftable and 
 enormous fin of all others; As for thole which relied alive,Tome Lobo gave them very good 
 entertainment, and furnilhed them with all things that they wanted, until fuch time as they 
 recovered and returned to MalacaT&ot fong after,preparing my felf for my Voyage to Patana y 
 Tome Lobo very earneftly defired me not to go thither, and told me that he held not himfolf 
 lafe in that Town, by reafon he was advertiled that one Taan Nerrafa $ a man of reputation, 
 and of the chiefeft of the Town,had fworn to burn him in his houfe, with all the goods that 
 were in it, faying, that at Malaca , the Captains Factour had taken from him the aluecsf 
 five thoufand Ducates in Benjamin, Silk, and Wood of Aloes, at a far lower rate then it 
 was worth, and that he had paid him at his own pleafure, and therewith not contented ha-d 
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 in part of payment given him rotten fluffs, which he could make nothing of; moreover, that 
 for all his five thoufand Ducates worth *of Commodities, that in Malaca would have 
 yielded him ten thoufand, and by exchange of vendib/e wares he might eafily have returned. 
 Would have made him ten thoufand more, he never could get above 700 Ducates ; and there¬ 
 fore to be revenged of this wrong, he had picked quarrels on purpofe to toll him forth to kill 
 him; in regard whereof he inftantly defired me to flay, and not abandon him and the Cap¬ 
 tains flock to fiich apparent danger : Whereupon having ufed all the reafons I could to facili¬ 
 tate my voyage; he would by no means approve of them, but contradicted me in all myipro- 
 pofitions.For conclusion, I remonftrated unto him, that if it were his ill fortune, as he fa d he 
 fear’d to be kill’d for that which he had,l Should be in no better cafe,and therefore I marvell’d 
 why he would let thofe 11 Portugals go, with whom rather he Should have imbarqued himfelf 
 for Malaca. Hereunto after a little paute he made anfwer, that he was very forry he had not 
 done fo,but Since it was now too late,he intreated me not to forfake him in this extremity,and 
 that for the Captains fake, who he knew would not take it well I fhould leave him Co alone 
 with his goods,which were no lefs Worth then 30000 ducates,befides thofe belonging to him¬ 
 felf, that amounted to almoft as much more. This requeft of his made to me with fiich inftance 
 on the one fide, fomwhat perplexed me, and on the other considering the extream hazard I 
 ran if I flay’d, I knew not what to refolve; At length after I had well thought of the matter, I 
 was conftrained to come to this accord with him, that in [cafe he did not within fifteen days 
 imbarque himfelf with me in my Lancbara for Patana^vJith all his Commodities reduced into 
 goldorftones, whereof there was great plenty in the Town, that then I might go where I 
 pleafed without him; an offer that he was forced to accept of, and Co we remained agreed. 
 
 The fear Tome Loho was in, left that wherewithal he was threatned fhould befal him,made 
 him ufe fiich diligence in felling away his Commodities, that by means of the good peny- 
 worths he afforded them at, in lets then ci^he days he cleared his Warehoule,and the other 
 places wherein they lay; fothat utterly refufmg Pepper,Cloves,and fuch other Drugs, which 
 took up too much room, he trucked all away for gold of Menenchabo , for Diamonds of Lavo 
 and Tancampur-a^ and Pearls of Borneo. Now having made a full difpatch of all, and that we 
 were refolved to imbarque the next day, by ill fortune a moft terrible accident hapned the 
 night enfuing, which was, that one named Cota Gemot, the King of Borneo's Embaflador, who 
 had been three or four years refident in the King of Pan's Court, and a marvellous rich man, 
 killed the King upon finding him in bed with his wife, which caufed fuch a commotion in the 
 Town,that it feemed to be a Tumult of Hell, rather then auy humane bufinefs; Whereupon 
 certain rogues and vagabonds,that wiShed for nothing more then fuch like occafions, to the 
 end they might do what before for fear of the King they durft not enterprize,made a Troop of 
 Jfive or fix hundred, which feparated into three bands, went dire&ly to the houfe,where Tome 
 hobo dwelt. Having aflaulted it in fix or feven places, they entred by force, notwithftanding 
 all the refiftance we could make, and that in defending it we loft 11 men,whereof the >Portu* 
 gals ,which came with me from Malaca, were three. During this violence, all that TomeLobn 
 could do, was to efcape away with fix great blows of a fword, one of the which had cut his 
 right cheek almoft away, (o as he was like to do of that hurt. We were both of us then con¬ 
 ftrained to abandon the houle to them, together with all the goods that were in it, and retire 
 to the Lancbara , where we remained with five boyes and eight Mariners,not having lo much 
 as the worth of a peny left of all our Merchandize, which amounted to fifty thoufand crowns 
 in gold and ftone only. In this Lancbara we part away all the night very much affli&ed, and 
 ftill hearkning what might be the end of this mutiny, which was rifen among the people, as 
 I have before related. At length perceiving the matters grew worfe and worfe,and that there 
 was no hope for us to recover any part of our goods, we thought it afarfafer courfetogo 
 away to Paiana,x hen by flaying to run a hazard of being kUled, as above four thoufand per- 
 Cons were.With this resolution we parted from this place,and in fix days arrived at Patana, 
 where we were very well received by the Portugals which were in that Country, unto whom 
 we recounted all that had paft at Pan , and the pitious eftate wherein we left that miferable 
 Town.This accident very much afflicted them; (o that defiring to give fome remedy thereun- 
 to,with a true affeftion of charitable Chriftians, they went all to the Palace of the King, and 
 complained to him of the wrong that had been done to the Captain of Malaoa, befeeching 
 him thereupon they might be permitted to recover,if it were poflible,the lofs they had fuftain- 
 ed, and ha leave granted to right themfelves upon any Merchants goods belonging to the 
 
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 Kingdom of pan, to the value of the fum they had been defpoylcd of.The King haying heard 
 their complaint,and prefently granting what they demanded * K is reasonable, (aid he, that 
 vodfhould do as you have been done unto, and that iyou fhould fpoil them that hi It have 
 fpoyled you efpecially in a matter that concerns the Captain of Malaca , unto whom all of you 
 are fo much obliged.The Portugals , having rendred him very humble thanks for this grace,re- 
 tumed to their houfes, where they concluded to feize upon all the goods they could meet 
 with belonging to the Kingdom of Pan, until fuch time as they had fully recovered their 
 lofs It hapned then about nine days after they being advertifed, that feme ten Leagues off, in 
 the river of CalamanfNzez three Junks of China , very rich, and appertaining to Mahometan 
 Merchants Natives of the Kingdom of Pan, that by foul weather at Sea were conftramed to 
 put in there our people refolved to fall upon them : To which effeft, out of 300 Portugals, 
 that were in the Country, we chofe out fourfeore, with whom we imbarqued our felves in a 
 Foifts and one round (hip, well provided of all things we thought to be neceffary for this en¬ 
 terprise So we departed three days after with all fpeed, for fear left the Mahometans ot the 
 Country having difeovered our defign, ftiould advertife them of it whom we went to feek ; 
 Of thefe three Veffels one Joano Fernandez Vabrea , born in the Ifle of Madera , was General, 
 who with fourty Souldiers went in the round fhip,and the other two Foyfts were commanded 
 by Laurenco deGoes, and Vafco Strmento, both of them efthe City ot Pragma m Portugal , and 
 very well experienced in Sea-(ervice. The next day we arrived at the Rivet of alentan, 
 where as foon as we deferied the three Junks riding at Anchor,which we had been told of,we 
 let very valiantly uponthemj and albeit thole that were in them did at nrft do then belt en¬ 
 deavour to defend themfelves, yet at length all their refiftanee was in vain 5 for in lets then an 
 hour we reduced them all under our P ower,fo as feventy and four of theirs were llain,and but 
 three of ours,though we had many men hurt. I will not hold you here with any particular 
 difeourfe of what was done on either fidedet it fuffice, that after the three Junks had rendred 
 themfelves we prefently fet fail,and carried them away with us m all halte, becaufe the whole 
 Country thereabouts was in an uproar, direfting our courfc towards Parana, where by the 
 favour of a fair wind we arrived the next day in the afternoon: Having then caft Anchor, we 
 fainted the Town with a piece ofOrdnance in fign of ;oy,which put the Mahometans of the 
 country out of al patienceffor though we ftood m the terms of good friends with them,yet they 
 left not to ufe all ooffible means, both of Prefents which they gave to the Governors and the 
 Kings Favorites.and otherwife, for to make our prizes void,and that the King would expel us 
 out of his Dominions,whereunto he would at no hand confent, faying, that he would not for 
 any thing in the world break the peace which his anceftors had made with the Chriftians of 
 Malaca and that all that he could do therein was to become a third between them: Whereup- 
 on he defired us that the 3 Necodas of the Junks, (o are the Commanders of them called in 
 that Country/coloring unto us what had been taken from the Captain of Malaga, we would 
 likewife render unto them as well their Veffels free,as theoverplus,a matter which Joano Per - 
 nandez Vabrea, and the reft of the Portugals very willingly agreed unto, to teftifie the defire 
 they had to content him-As indeed he was exceedingly well pleafed with them for it, which 
 he expreffed both in courteous Language, and many promifes of his future favour. Thus were 
 the fifty thoufand Ducates recovered, that Pedro de Faria and ‘Tome Lobo had loft, and the 
 Portugals were in great efteem over all that Country; io that their valour rendred them very 
 formidable to the Mahometans . A little after the Souldiers affured us, that in the three 
 Junks we had taken, there was (onely in lingots of filver, befides the other Merchandize 
 wherewithal they were ladenJ to the value of two hundred Taieis, which in our money 
 amounts to an hundred thoufand Ducates. 
 
 C H A ?. XI V. 
 
 The Misfortune that befell us at the entry into the Fiver of Lugor; our hiding our 
 felves in a Wood , with that which happened unto US afterwards 5 
 and our return unto Malaca. 
 
 2e$. 1. TTAving fojourned dayes at Pat ana for to fell away fome few Commodities of China 
 £l that I had, there arrived a Foyft from Malaca, commanded tby one Antonio de Fa - 
 ria, who came thither by the exprefs commandment of Pedro de Faria to treat with the King 
 
 about fome accord, as alfo to confirm the ancient League anew which he had with c Ma¬ 
 laca, 
 
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 laca y and wi/.hal to give him thanks for the good entertainment he gave in his Kingdom 
 to thofe of the Portugal Nation. This bufinefs was carried with a fair [hew of an Embattle [ac¬ 
 companied with a Letter and a prefent of Jewels,fent in the name of the King of Portugal 
 our Maher,and taken out of his CofFers,as all the Captains of that place ufed to do. Now for 
 as much a ( 3 ’ the faid Antonio de Faria had brought along with him ten or twelve thoufand 
 Crowns worth of Indian woolen and linnen cloth, which he had taken up on his credit at 
 Malaca^ and that he faw there was fo little utterance of that commodity,as he could not meet 
 with any Merchant that would deal for it,he was fain to refolve for to fpend the winter there 
 until fuch time as he might meet with fome opportunity to put it off- Howbeit he was advi- 
 fed by fome of the bell: experienced of the Country to fend it unto Lugor, which is a great 
 Town in the Kingdom of Siam fioo Leagues lower towards the North;for they alledged that 
 this Port was very rich, and of great venr,by reafbn of a world of Junks that arrived there 
 dayly from the Ifle of Jaoa , from Lavaflaniampura , J afar a , Demaa , Pananica Sydayo , paf- 
 farV'an,Solor, and Borneo, whofe Merchauts were ufed to give a good rate for fuch like tom~ 
 modifies,in exchange of Gold or Stone. This advice was well approved of by Antonio de Fa~ 
 rly who inftantly went about to put it in execution; To which end he took order for the 
 providing of a VefTeJ, by reafbn the Foyft wherein he came wasjaltogether unfit for a fur¬ 
 ther Voyage : Matters thus difpofed of he deputed one named Chrijiovano Borhalho , for his 
 Fa&or, a man exceeding well vers’d in bufinefs of Traffique, with whom there imbarqued 
 fome fixteen men,as well Souldiers as Merchants, with a hope that one Crown, would yield 
 them 6 or 7,what in the Commodities they fhould carry,as in thofe they fhould return.Here- 
 upon wretched I,being one of the 16, we’parted from the Port on a Saturday, and failed 
 with a favourable wind all along the Coaft till Thurfday next in the moniing,that we arrived 
 at Lugor Road, and anchored at the mouth of the River -There it was thought fit to pafs the 
 reft of the day,to the end we might inform our felves of what was behoveful for us to do, as 
 well for the fale of our commodities, as for thrfafoty df our perfons.-^nd to fay truth, we 
 learnt foch good news, that we were confident of gaining alcove 6 times double,and to be hire 
 of freedom and liberty during all the month of September , according to the Ordinance of the 
 King of Siam , becaufe it was the month of the Kings Sumbajas. Now the better to clear this 
 you muft know,that all along this Coaft of Malaya, and within the Land , a great King com¬ 
 mands, who for a more famous and recommendable Title above all other Kings, caufeth 
 himfelf to be called Prechau S aleu, Eniperour of all S ornau^ which is a Country wherein 
 there are 13 Kingdoms,by us commonly called Si^w,to the which 14 petty Kings are fubjefr, 
 and yield homage, that were anciently obliged to make their perfonal repair unto Odtaa , the 
 Capital City of this Empire, as well to bring their Tribute thither, as to do the Sumbaya to 
 their Emperor,which was indeed to kifs theCourtelas that he ware by his fide ; Now beeaufe 
 this City was feated 50 Leagues within the Land,and the Currents of the Rivers fo ftrong, as 
 thefe Kings were oftentimes forced to abide the whole winter there to their great charge, they 
 petitioned the Precbau^iS Ing of Siam , that the place of doing this their homage might be 
 altered ; whereupon he was pleafed to ordain, that for the future there fhould be a Vice-Roy 
 refident in the Town of Lngo^ which in their Language is called Poybo y unto whom every three 
 years thofe 14 Kings fhould render that duty and obedience they were accuftomed to do unto 
 himfe!f,and that during that time they (pent there in performing the fame, being the whole 
 month of September, both their own Merchandize^ that of all others, as well natives as ftran- 
 gers, that either came in, or went out of the Country, fhould be free from all manner of im¬ 
 ports whatfoever: So that we arriving in the time of this freedom, there was fuch a multitude 
 of Merchants that flocked thither from all parts,as we were allured there was no left then 15c 
 Veflels in the Port,all laden with an infinity of Commodities of very great value: And this 
 was the good news we learnt at fuch time as we arrived at the mouth of the River;wherewith 
 we were fo well pleafed, that we ptefently refolvedtoput in as foon as the wind would per¬ 
 mit us. But alas! we were fo unfortuna e, that we could never come to fee what we fo much 
 defired ; for about ten of the Clock, juft as we had dined, and were preparing to let fail; 
 we faw a great Junk coming upon 11s, which perceiving us to be Portngals , few in number, 
 and our Veftel {mall, fell dole with our prow on the larboard fide, and then thofe that were 
 in her threw into us great Cramp-irons, fattened unto two long chains, wherewithall they 
 grappled us faft :into them; wlvch they had no fooner done, but ftraightway fome feventy 
 or eighty Mahometans came flying out from under their hatches,’that till then had lien lurking 
 
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 there who with a mighty cry C3.it Co many ilones, darts, and Lances, which fell as thick as ho.il 
 upon us, that of us fifteen Portugals twelve refted dead in the place, together with fix and 
 thirty others,as well Boys as Mariners. Now for us four remaining Portugals , after we had ef- 
 caped lo dreadful an incounter, we leapt all of us into the Sea, w T here one was drowned, and 
 we three that were left getting to Land as well as we could-.being dangeroufly hurt, and wa¬ 
 ding up to the wafte in mud,went and hid our felves in the next ad joyning wood.In the mean 
 time the Mahometans of the junk entring into our Frigot, .not contented with the daughter 
 they had made of our men,like mad Dogs they killed fix or feven Boys out-right, whom they 
 found wounded on the Deck,not fparing fo much as one of them: That done, they imbarqued 
 all the goods of our VefTel into their ]unk,then made a great hole in her, and fo funk her : Im¬ 
 mediately whereupon,leaving their Anchor in the Sea,and the Cramp-irons wherewithal they 
 had grappled us unto them • they fet fail,and made away as faft as ever they could for fear of 
 being difeovered. 
 
 After tins our efcape, feeing our felves all fore hurt, and without any hope of help, we did 
 nothing but weep and complain ; for in this difafterwe knew not what to refolve on,fo much 
 were we amazed with that which had befaln us within the fpace of half an hour. In this De- 
 fblatiOn wefpent the reft of that (ad day 5 but considering with our felves, that the place was 
 moorifh,and full of Adders and Lizards p We thought it our fafelt courfe to continue there all 
 the night too,as accordingly we aid,ftanding up to the middle in the Owze: T he next morn¬ 
 ing as'Toon asjt was day we went along by the Rivers fide, until we came unto a, little chan¬ 
 nel which we durft not pafs, as well for that it was very deep, as for fear of a great number of 
 Lizards that we faw in it,fo that in great pain we ftayd nototly that night there, but 5 days 
 afrer,being not able either to go forward,or turn afide by reafon of the bogs round about us, 
 all covered over with rufhes:In the mean time one of our companions dyed,whofe name was 
 Bajlian Antiques^ a rich man, and that had loft eight thoufand Crowns in the Lanchara , in 
 fo much that of all the company we were before there rem lined none but Chrijlovano BonaU 
 ho and myfelf, that with tears fat lamenting over the poor dead mans body, which we had 
 covered with a little earth as well as wecould,for we were thenfo weak,that we could hard¬ 
 ly ftir, or almoft fpeak, fo as we had fet up our reft to make an end of thofe few hours we 
 hoped to live in that place. The next day,being the feventh of our difafter, about Sun-fet,we 
 efpied a great Barque coming rowing up the River, whereupon as foon as it was near us, we 
 proftrated cur felves on the ground, befeeching thofe that were aboard her to take us in. 1 hey 
 wondering at u?,prefently made a ftand, Teeming much amazed to fee tisfo on our knees, and 
 our hands lift up to Heaven,as though we were at our prayers; neverthelefs, without fpeaking 
 at all to u?,they made as if they would go on,which conftrainecf us afrefh to cry aloud to them, 
 with tears,that they would not fiifter us for want offuccour to dye miferably there.Upon thofe 
 our cries and lamentations,an ancient woman came forth from under the Hatches, whole grave 
 countenance reprefented her to be fuch as afterwards we found her to be; ftie feeing us in fo 
 pitiful a plight moved with our misfortune, and our wounds that we fhewed her , fhe took up 
 aftick, and therewith ftruck three or four of the Mariners becaufe they would not take us in^ 
 whereupon approaching to the bank five or fix of them lept on fhore, and by her command¬ 
 ment took us upon their fhoulders,and carried us into the Barque. This honourable Woman . 
 much grieved to behold us fo hurt,an<J our fhirrs and Linnen drawers all bloody and mired, 
 caufed them ftraightway to be waftied, and having given each of us a Linnen cloth to cover us 
 withal,fhe would needs have us to fit down by her,where commanding meat to be brought us 
 fhe her (elf prefenting it to us with her own hand• Eat , eat^ laid fhe, poor Jlr angers , and he not 
 afflitted to fee jour felves reduced unto the fate you are in • for I, whom now you look^upon , and that 
 am hut a woman , not having as yet attained to the age of fifty years , have Jeen my Jelf a Jlave 5 
 and defpoyled of above an hundred thoufand Educates worth of goods : Nor is that all , for to this 
 misfortune was the death of three of my fans adjoyned , and that of my husband , wlmn 1 held far 
 more dcare then thefe eyes of mine ; theje eyes , alas ! wherewith I beheld both the father and the 
 Jons tom in pieces by the King of Siams Elephants , together with two Brothers , and a Son~ 
 in-Law I had • Ever fnce I have had a languijh’wg life 3 and to all theje miferies have many 
 ethers far greater fucceeded $ for fo implacable bath fortune been unto me , that I have 
 fecn three daughters of mine ready to be married , as alfo myfather , mother , and two t nd 
 thirty of my kin l men ^nephews and coufns^ thrown into burning furnaces^ where their cries and 
 lamentations could not chuje but reach unto Heaven^ for God to fucscur them in the violence of that 
 
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 infupportable torment: but altt! the cnormitie of my fins no doubt fo flopped the e -rs of the cte~ 
 mency of the Lord ofLor (fa , that he would not hear our requeft , whichjeemed very juft to me • nc^ 
 vertbelefs , I deceived myfelf fmee nothing is jufl but what it pleafeth his •divine Majefly to or¬ 
 dain. Hereunto we anfwered, that the lins which wealfo had committed againft him were 
 the caufe of our calamities. Seeing it isfo, replyed fhe, mingling her tears with ours, ir is al- 
 wayes good in your adverfities to acknowledge, that the touches of the hand God are ever¬ 
 more righteous; for both in that, as alfb in a Confelfion of the mouth, in aforrow for ha¬ 
 ving offended, and in a firm refolution to do fo no more, Confilleth all the remedy of your 
 fufferingsand mine.Having entertained us thus with the difeourfe of her misfortune, (he en¬ 
 quired of us the occafion of ours, and by what means we came to be in that mifemble eftate • 
 whereupon we recounted unto her all that had pad, and that we neither knew who it was 
 that had fo ill entreate j us,nor wherefore he did it; Her people, hearing us,{aid,that the great 
 Junk,whereof we fpake, belonged to a Mahometan , a Guzarat by Nation, named Coin Acem y 
 who the fame morning went out of the River laden with Brazil, and was bound for the file 
 o fAinan : Hereat the good woman fmote her bred, and (eeming to be much moved, Let me 
 not live , (aid fhe, if it be not fo^for I have heard that Mahometan, of whom you floak^ vaunt pub~ 
 liquely before all that would five tar unto him y that he hadJluin a great number of the race 
 of thofe of Ma\aca 0 and that he hated them in fuch fort , as he had promifed to his Mahomet fo 
 kill more of them in time. Being amazed hereat, we defired her to declare unto us who that 
 man was, and why he was fo much our enemy > Whereunto fhe anfwered, that fhe knew no 
 other reafbn^ but for that a great Captain of our Nation, named Hettor de Sylveirn , had killed 
 his father and two of his brothers in a fhip, which he took from them in the (freight of Mec - 
 qua, that was going from Judea to Vabul. Thus much did this good Matron tell us, and ; 
 many other things afterwards concerning the great hatred this Mahometan bore us, as alfo 
 what lies he deviled to render us infamous. 
 
 This honourable womaq,departing from the place where fhe found us, went fome two Scd - 2 ’ 
 Leagues up the River, till fhe came to a Village where fhe lay that night t The next morning 
 parting from thence, fhe madedireftly to the Town of Lugor , which w T as above five Leagues 
 further. Arriving there about noon, (lie landed, and went to her houfe, whither fhe carried us 
 with her,and kept us there 23 days,during which time we were very well looked unto, and 
 plentifully accommodated with all that was neceffary for us. This woman was a Widow,and 
 of an honourable Family, as aft erward we learnt, and that had been married to the Cap¬ 
 tain General, which they call Xabandar of Prevedim , whom the Pata of Lafapara King of 
 Gptaijuan had put to death in thelfleof Jaoa y the year 1538. At the time fhe met with us, 
 as 1 have related, fhe came from a Junk of hers, that lay at the Road laden with Salt 5 aad 
 becaufe it was great, and could notpafs up byreafon of the (helves, fhe had caufed it to be 
 unladen by little and little with that Barque. By that time the 23 dayes, I fpake of, were 
 expired, it pleafed God toreftore us to our perfeft health, fo that this virtuous Dame feeipg 
 us able to travel, recommended us to a Merchant, her Kinfman, that was bound for Patana , 
 with whom,after we had taken our leave of that noble Matron, unto whom we were fb much 
 obliged,we imbarqued our (elves in a Cataluz with Oars, and failing on a River called Sum - 
 hechitano, we arrived feven dayes after at Patana. Now for as much as Antonio de Faria looked 
 every day for our return, with a hope of good fuccefs in hisbufinefi,as foon as hefaw us, and 
 underftood what had paft, he remained fo fad and difeontented, that he continued above ail 
 hour wirhout fpeaking a word ; in the mean time fuch a number of Portugals came in , as 
 the houfe was fc arce able to contain them, by reafon the greateft part of them had ventured 
 goods in the Lancbara, whofe lading in that regard amounted to feveuty thoufand Ducates 
 and better, the moft of it being in filver coyn, of purpofe with it to return Gold. Antonio 
 de Faria feeing himfelf dripped of the twelve thoufand Ducates he had borrowed at Mala - 
 cj, refolved not to return thither, becaufe he had no means to pay his Creditor*, but rarher 
 thought it fitter to purfue thofe that had robbed him of his goods; fb that he took a folemn 
 Oath upon the holy Evangelifts to part incontinently from that place for to go in queft of 
 thofe Pyrates, for to tevenge upon them the death of thofe fourteen Portugals , and thirty 
 fix Chriflians , Boyes and MaViners, killed by them as aforefaid ; Adding withal, that if 
 fuch a courfe were not taken, they fhould every day be ufed fo, nay far worfe. All the Affi- 
 ftants very much commended his valorous refolution- and for the execution thereof there 
 were many young Soldiers amongft them that offered to accompany him in that voyage;'fome 
 
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 like wife prefented him with mony, and others fumifhed him with divers neceflfarie.. Hav mg 
 accepted thefe offers and prefents of his friends, he ufedfuch diligence, that within 18 dayes 
 he made all his preparations, and got thither 55 Souldiers, amongft whom poor unfoi tunate 
 I was fain to be one; for I faw my felf in that cafe, as I had not fo much as a lingle token, nor 
 knew any one that would eirher give or lend me one,being indebted befides at Malaca above 
 K 00 Ducates,that I had borrowed there of fome of my friends, which wit h as much more,t hat 
 Doe had robbed me off amongft others, as 1 have related before, having been ab e to fave no¬ 
 thing but my miferable carcafs wounded in 3 places with a Javelin, and my skull crackt with 
 a ftone,whereby I Was three or four times at the point of death; But my companion Cbnftc- 
 van Borralbo was yet far worfe entreated then my felf, and that with more hurts which he re¬ 
 ceived in fatisfaftion of five and twenty hundred Ducates that he was robbed of, as the reit. 
 
 C H A 1?. XVe 
 
 Antonio de Faria’s J fitting forth for the Jfie of Ainan, his arrival at the River 
 of Tinacorem ; and that which hefel as in this Voyage. 
 
 . , AS foon as Antonio de Faria was ready, he departed from Palana on a Saturday the 9 of 
 left- 1 . May. 1^40. and fteered North North-Weft,towards the Kingdom of Champaa, with 
 
 an ntent to difcover the Ports and Havens thereof, as alfo by the means of fome good booty 
 to furnifh himfelf with fuch things as he wanted; for his hafte to part fi om c Paiana was uc , 
 
 as he had not time to furnifh himfelf with that which was neceffary for turn, no not wit vi¬ 
 sual and warlike ammu'ition enough. After we had failed three dayes, we had hg t o an 
 Ifland, called T.ullo Cond r, at the height of eight degree? and three quarters on ore North 
 Coaft,and almoft North-Weft towards the mouth of the River of Camhoia^ fo that having 
 rounded all the Coaft,we difeovered a good Haven Eaftward,where m the Ifland of Cambcia y 
 diftant fome fix Leagues from the firm Land,we met with a Junk of Lequtos that was going to 
 the Kingdom of Siam, w'th an Embaffadour from the NautauquimotLwdaujVjhowasPnncz 
 of the Ifl and ofTokand that had no fooner difeovered us, but he fent a meffage by a Chwefe 
 Pilot to Antonio de Faria, full of Complements, whereunto was added thefe words from them 
 all: That the time would come when as they Jhould communicate with us in the true love of the 
 Law of God. and of his infinite clemency • who by his death had given life to all men and a P er P e ~ 
 tual inheritance in the honfe of the good ^and that they believed this Jhould be Jo after the half of 
 the half time was pafi. With this Complement they fent him a Courtelas of great vajue,whofe 
 handle and fcabbard was of Gold, as alfo fix and twenty Pearls in a little box likewifeot 
 Gold,made after thefuftiion of a Salt-feller, whereat Antonio de Faria was very much grie¬ 
 ved, by reafon he was notable to render the like unto this Prince as he was obliged to do, 
 for when the Chinefe arrived with this meffage, they were diftant above a League at Sea from 
 u c . Hereupon we went afhore, where we fpent 3 dayes in taking in frefh water, and fifhing. 
 Then we put to Sea again,labouring to get to the firm Land,the r e to leek out a Rivei named 
 Tullo Cambin, which divides the State of Camboia from the Kingdom of Champaa • m the 
 height of nine Degrees, where arriving on a Sunday the ’aft ofM^,we went up three Leagues 
 in this River, and anchored uft againft a great Town called Catimparu, there we remained 
 12 days in peace, during the which we made our provifion of all things neceffary. Now be- 
 caufe Antonio de F ari was naturally curious, he endeavoured to underftand from the people 
 of the Country whai Nation inhabited beyond them, and whence that mighty Rivei took its 
 fource; whereunto he was anfwered,that it was derived from a Lake, named P inator^ diftant 
 from them Eaftward two hundred and fixty Leagues in the Kingdom ox Quit irvan ^ and that 
 it was invironed with high mountains,at the foot whereof,upon the brink ot the water, were 
 eight and thirty Villages, of which thirteen were very great, and the reft final, and that only 
 in one of the great ones, called Xincaleu , there was Rich a huge myne of Gold, as by the re¬ 
 port of thofe that lived thereabout, there was every day a Bar and a half drawn out of it, 
 which according to ffie value of our mony,makes two and twenty Millions in a year;and that 
 four Lords had fhare in it, who continually were in war together, each one ftriving to make 
 himfelf Mafter of it; I, and that one of them,named Raiahitau , had in an inner yard e f his 
 houle in pots under ground,that weie full to the very brims, above fix hundred Bars of Gold 
 in Powder like to that of Menancabo of the Ifland of Samatray And that if three hundred 
 
 Harqiiebufier* 
 
»S\4ende^ ‘Pinto. 
 
 Harquebufiers of our Nation Ihould go and'affault it, without doubt they would carry it; 
 Moreover, that in another of thefe Villages, called Buaquirim , there was a quarry, where out 
 of an old Rock they digged a great quantity of Diamonds,that were very fine, and ofgreater 
 value then thole of Lava and T dniampura in the Ifle of Jaoa. Whereupon Antonio de Faria 
 having queftioned them about many other particularities, they made him a relation of the 
 fertility of the Country which was further up this River, no lefs fit to be delired, then eafie 
 to be conquered,and that with little charge. 
 
 Being departed from this River of Pullo Cambim^we (ailed along the Coaft of the Kingdom St&.x' 
 of ( hampaa , till weeame to an Haven, called Saleyzacau , 17 Leagues farther on towards the 
 North, whercinto we entred. Now becaufe there was nothing to be gotten there, we went 
 out of thi- place about Sun-letting, and the next morning we came to a River named Tooba - 
 foy , without the which Antonio dc Faria call anchor, becaufe the Pilot would not venture to 
 enter into it, for that he had never been there before, and therefore knew not the depth of 
 it. As we were contefting hereabout, (ome for to enter, and others gainlaying it, we difeer- 
 ned a great fail making toward; the Port from the main Sea. Hereupon without (fit-ring from 
 the place where we were, we prepared to receive them in a peaceable manner; fo that as (oon 
 as they came near us, we faluted them, and hung up the flag of the Country, called Cbaracbu 
 na , which is a (ign of friend (hip, u(ed among them in fuch like occafions. They of the (hip, in 
 (lead of anfwering us in the fame manner,as in reafon it feemed they (hould; have done, and 
 knowing that we were Portugal*, to whom they wilhed not well, gave us very vile and bafe 
 words, and from the top of their poup made a capher (lave hold up his arfe bare to us,with 
 a mighty nolle and din of Trumpets, Drums, and Bells, by way of (corn and derilion ofus. 
 Whereat Antunio d.e Faria was fo offended, that he gave them a whole broad fide, toleeif 
 that would make them more courteous; To this (hot of ours they returned us an anfwer of 
 five pieces of Ordnance, namely three Faulcons,and two little Field-pieces; whereupon con- 
 (ulting together what we (honld do,we refblved to abide where we were,for we held it not fit 
 to undertake fo doubtful an enrerprize, until fuch time as the next.days light might difeover 
 the forces of this Veffel unto u c ,that (o we might afterwards either (et upon her with the more 
 (ecurity,orlet her pafs by : This Counfel was approved both by Antonio de Faria } and us all; 
 fothat keeping good watch,and giving order for all that was neeeffary, we continued in that 
 place expe&ing day; now about 2 of the clock in the morning we perceived 3 black things 
 clofe to the water coming towards us, which we could not well difeern, whereupon we wak- 
 ned Antonio de Faria^ who was then afleep on the hatches, and (hewed him what we had dif. 
 covered, being by that time not far from us: He fearing, as we did, left they were Enemies, 
 cried out prefently, Amiy Army Arm , wherein he was ftraightway obeyed; for now plain¬ 
 ly perceiving that they were Veffels rowing towards us, we betook us to our Arms, and were 
 beftowed by our Captain in places moft neeeffary to defend our felves. We* conceived by 
 their (ilent approaching to us, that they were the Enemies we had leen over night, fo that 
 Antonio de Faria faid unto us. My mafters , This is fome Pyrate coming to fet upon us y who 
 think* wc are not above fix or J even at the moft , as the manner U in fuch kind of Veffels ; where¬ 
 fore let every man ftoop down , fo as they may not fee any of M, and then wephall [oon know 
 their Uefign* in the mean time let the pots of powder be made ready , with which , and our 
 fwords , I hope we jhall give a good end to this Adventure : Let every one alfo hide his match 
 in fuch forty as they may not be difeoveredy whereby they may be perfwaded that we are afleep: 
 
 All which, as he had prudently ordained, was incontinently executed. Thele 3 Veffels,be- 
 ing within a flight (hot of ours, went round about her, and after they had viewed her well, 
 they joyned all clofe together, as if they had entred into fome new Confutation, continuing 
 fo about a quarter of an hour • hat done, hey feparated themfelves into two parts, namely 
 the two lefler went together to our poup, and the third that was greater, and better armed, 
 made to the (larboard of us $ Hereupon they entred our Lorch where moft conveniently 
 they could, fo that in left then half a quarter of an hour above forty men were gotten in, 
 ivhicb feen by Antonio de Farijy he iffued out from under the hatches with fome forty Soul- 
 diers,and invoking Saint J imeso ur Patron,he fell fo couragioufly upon them,that in a Ihort 
 time he killed them almoft al! ; Then with aid of the pots of powder,that he caufed to be caft 
 in amongft thole that were remaining in the 3 Veflels, which he prefently took, he made 
 an end ofdefeating them,the moft of them being conftraindto leap into the Sea,where they 
 
 were all drowned but five, whom we took up alive, whereof one was the chaper (lave that 
 
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 ftiewed us his tail, and the other four were,one Turk, two Achems, and the Captain of the 
 Tank named Similau, a notorious Pyrat,and our mortal Enemy. Antonio de Faria comman¬ 
 ded them inftantly to be put to torture/or to draw out of them who they were, from whence 
 they came,and what they would have had of us, whereunto the two Achems anfwered molt 
 bruitilhly 3 * and when as we were going about to torment the Have in like manner, he began 
 With tears to befeech us to (pare him, for that he was a Chriftian as we were, and that with¬ 
 out torture he would anfwer truly to all our demands * whereupon Antonio de h ariac aufed 
 him to be unbound, and fetting him by him, gave him a piece ot Bisket, and a gkfs of wine, 
 then with fair words he perfwaded him to declare the ttuth of every thing to him, fince he 
 was a Chriftian, as he affirmed ; To which he replyed in this fort, If I do not freaffhe truth 
 unto you, then take me not for juch Of I am•, my name is Sebaftian, and I was flave to Gafpar de 
 Melo, whom this dog Similau, here prefe?it,flew about two years ago in Liampao, with five 
 and twenty other Portugals that were in bis Jhip. Antonio de Faria hearing this,cryed out, like 
 a man amazed, and laid. Nay now I care not for knowing any more^ is this then that Dog 
 §imilauyha.t ffew thy Mafter Tes, anfwered he, it is he, and that meant likewife to have done 
 as much to you, thinking that ye were not above fix or [even , for which effect he oame away 
 in bafte with a purpofe , as he faid, to takg you alive, for to makg your brains flye out of your 
 beads with a frontal of cord, as he did to my mailers ; but God 1 hope will pay him for all the 
 mifehief he hath committed. Antonio de Faria being alfo advertifed by this flave, that, this 
 Dog Similau\ia.d. brought all his men of War along with him, and left none in his Junk,^ but 
 fome Chinefe Mariners; he refolved to make ufe of this good fortune, alter he had^ put S tmi “ 
 lau and his companions to death, by making their brains flye out of their heads with a cord, 
 as Similau had done to Gafrar de Mello,znd the other Portugals \n.Liampao . Wheiefore he 
 prefetitly imbarqued himfelf with thirty Souldiers in his Boat, and the three Machnas 
 wherein the Enemies came, and by means of the flood and a favourable wind, he arrived 
 within lefs then an hour,where the funk rode at Anchour within the River, about a League 
 ftomus whereupon he prefently boarded her, and made himfelf mafter of the poup, from 
 whence 5 with only four pots of powder, which he caft in ’among the Rafcals that were afleep 
 upon the hatches,he made them all leap into the Sea, where 9 or 10 of them were drowned, 
 the reft crying out for help were taken up and faved,becaufe we flood in need of them for the 
 Navigation of the Junk, that was a great tall Vefffel.Thus you fee how it pleafed God out of 
 his Divine juftice to make the arrogant confidence of this curled Dog a means tochaftife him 
 for his cruelties and to give him by the hands of Portugals a juft-puniftiment for that which 
 he had done unto him. The next morning taking an Inventory of this Prize, we found fix 
 and thirty thoufimd Tads in filverof Japan , which amounts in our mony to fifty four thou- 
 fand Ducatesyibefides divers othereood Commodities, that were not then praifed for want of 
 time,becaufe the Country was all in an. uproar, and fires every where kindled, whereby they 
 ufe to give warning one to another upon any alarm or doubt of Enemies,which conftrained 
 us to make away with all fpeed. 
 
 • Antonio de Faria parted from this River of Toobafoy , on a wedtiefday morning, being Cor¬ 
 pus C.hrifti Eve, in the year 1540 and failed along by the Coaft of the Kingdom of Champ aa, 
 fearing to abandon it,the\v'nd being Eafterly, which in that place is oftentimes very impe¬ 
 tuous,efpecially in the conjun&ion of the new. and full Moons. The Friday following we 
 found our felves juft againft a River, calledjby the Inhabitants of the Country, T'macoreu, and 
 by us Varella , whereinto we thought fit to enter, as well to be informed of certain things 
 Antonio deF aria de fired to know, as alfo to fee whether he could learn any news cfiCoia 
 Acem whom he fought for, in regard that all the Junks of Siam, arjd of all the Coaft of 
 Malar a, that fail to China , ufe to trade in this River, ■where many times they fell their com¬ 
 modities well in exchange of Gold, Calembouc Wood,and ivory,whereof there is abundance 
 in that Kingdom; and having caft Anchor a little within the mouth of the River,over againft 
 a Village, named Taquilleu, there came a number of Paroos, and many other (mall Boats with 
 Fishermen, full of refrefhments,who having never feen men made like untous,faid one to 
 another 5 Lo, this is afiramge noveltic wherewithal 1 God doth vifit US, let us befeech him he will be 
 pleafed, that thefe bearded men may not be fuel? as for their particular profit do frit countries 
 like Merchants, and afterwards rob them like Thieves. Let US get to the Woods, for fear 
 left the frarky of thefe fire brands do not burn up our houfes, and reduce the fields cf ourla- 
 lours into Afhes , as they ufe to doe unto the Lands of other Men . Whereunto fomeefthem 
 
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 made anfwer , God forbid it fliould be (o; but if by misfortune they fhould come arrbngft 
 u ? , let us carry our felves in fuch fort, as they may not perceive we fear them as Enemies for 
 fo they would fet upon us with the more confidence; wherefore the beft courfe for us will be; 
 in a fair way,and with gentle words, to endeavour to learn of them what they would have of 
 us, that upon knowledge thereof we may certifie it unto *Hoya* Paquir, who is now at Congrau . 
 Antonio de Faria, making as though he did not underftand them, although all theyfaid 
 was delivered to him by an Interpreter, received them very courteoufly , and bcurht there- 
 frefhments which they brought of them at their own price, wherewithal! they were very 
 well fatisfied ; And they demanding of hiiai from whence he came, and what he would have, 
 he anfwered them, that he was of the Kingdom of Siam , and as a Merchant was going to traf- 
 fique in thelfle of Lequios , being come in that place only to l arn (ome news of a friend of 
 his named Coia Acem , that was al(o bound thither: whereupon he enquired of them whether 
 he were paft lay, or no 5 however he intended to depart thence fuddenly, both for tolofe no 
 time, as for that he knew he could not fell his commodities there. To which they replied,You 
 fay true, for in this village of ours there is nothing but nets and filher Boats, wherewith we 
 get our living, and that poorly enough God knows. Howbeif, added they, if thou wilt go 
 up the R ; ver to the Town of Pilaucacem , where the King is, thou wilt fell net only the com¬ 
 modities which are in thy (hips, be they never fo rich, but likewife more then ten fuch Ihips as 
 thine could carry,by reafon that there areMerchants in that place fo wealthy,and that drive fo 
 great a trade, as they go with whole Troops of Elephants, Oxen, and Camels, whom they 
 (end laden with goods to the Lands of the Lauhos , Pafuadt r, and Gueol, which are inhabited 
 by very rich people. Antonio de Faria feeing a good occafionoffered to inform himfelfof that 
 he defired to know, queftioned them at large concerning many things , wbereunro feme of 
 them, that (eemed to be of more authority then the reft, anfwered very aptly, how the River, 
 where we rode at anchor, was called Finacoreu, and that it extended to Mon a lor , a moun¬ 
 tain diftantfrom thence (bme fourfeore leagues, and that further u wards it wa ? far broader, 
 but not fo deep, wherein many places there were great (helves of fand, and a world of land 
 overflown with water, in the which were (uch a multitude of fowh, as they covered all the 
 Country thereabout 5 And how beyond that it was all mountainous and rocky, and (o full 
 of Elephants, Rhinocerotes, Lions, wild Boars, Buffles, and fuch other wild beafts, ^ a men 
 could not poflibly live there for them; And moreover, how ih the midft of that continent 
 there was a great Lake, which the Inhabitdnts thereof called Cunelietea , and others r hiammay , 
 from whence thisRiver took its beginning,as alfb three other,that watered a sood part of this 
 Country • And that the faid Lake,according to the report of thole who have written of it,was 
 threefcore Jaos about/ach Jao containing three Leagues,all along the which there were many 
 Mynesof Silver, Copper, Tin, and Lead, from whence great quantities thereof were conti¬ 
 nually drawn,which the Merchants carried aWay wirhTroops of Elephants and Rhinocerotes, 
 for to tranfport it into the Kingdoms of Sornau , by us called Siam , affiloco , Sarady , Fangu, 
 From, Calaminbam , and other Provinces, that are very far within land, and diftantfrom 
 thefe Coafts two or three months journey. Further they told us, that thefe Countries were 
 divided into Kingdoms,and Region 0 inhabited with people,that were white,tawny,and others 
 fomewhat blacker • and that in exchange of thofe commodities they returned Gold,Diamonds, 
 and Rubies. Having thereupon demanded of them whether thole people had Arms, they an¬ 
 fwered none, butftaves hardened in the fire, and daggers with blades two (pans long 5 They 
 alio aflured us that from hence one could not go thither by the River in lefle then half two 
 months, or two months and half, by realon of the impetuofity of the waters defending 
 with a great and ftrong current the moft part of the year,and that one might return in eight or 
 ten dayes at the moft. After thefe demands Antonio de Faria made them divers others,wherein 
 they alio gave him good (atisfa&icn, and reported many other particulars unto him, whereby 
 it may be gathered,that if the Country could be taken,it would, without fo much labour and 
 lofs of blood, be of greater profit, and lefle charge, then the Indies. 
 
 The Friday following we left this River of ‘Iinacoreu, and by our Pilots advice we went scfl.4. 
 to find out Pullo Cbampeiho , which is an inhabited Aland, feituate in the entrance to the Bay 
 of Caucbencbina in forty degree 0 , and a third to the Northward 5 Being come to it, we caft 
 anchor in an Haven,where there was good and fafe riding,and there we remained three dayes, 
 accommodating our artillery in the beft manner we could 5 That done, we fet fail towards the 
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 riving at Fullo Capas , which was the firft land that we (aw of it, we failed clofe to thi {hoar, 
 the better to difcover the Ports and Rivers on thatfide,and the entries into them.Now becaufe 
 the Lorch, wherei n Antonio de Faria came from Pat ana, leaked very much, he commanded 
 all his Souldiers to pals into another better Ve(fel,whkh was immediately performed,and ar¬ 
 riving at a River, that about evening we found towards the Eaft, he call anchor a league out 
 at Sea, by reafon his Junk wa~ great, and drew much water, fo that fearing the lands s which 
 he had often met withall in this Voyage, he fent Cbriftovano Borralho with fourteen Souldiers 
 in the Lorch up the River to difcover what fires thofe might be that he faw. Being gone then 
 about a league in the River,he incountred a Fleet of forty very great Junks, whereupon fearing 
 left it was th tMandarims army, whereof we had heard much talk,he kept aloof offfrom them, 
 and anchored clofe by the Ihoar ; now about midnight the tyde began tp come in, which Bor¬ 
 ralho no (boner perceived, but he prefently without nolle weighed Anchor, and declining the 
 Junks he went on to that part where he had feen the fires,that by this time w;ere almoft all out, 
 there being not above two or three that gave any light, and which ferved to guide him. So 
 continuing his courfe very difcreetly,he came to a place where he beheld a mighty company of 
 great and fmall Ships, to the number, as he guefled, of thoufand Sails, palling through the 
 which very ftilly he arrived at aTown of above ten thoufand hou(holds,enclofed with a ftrong 
 wall of Brick, with Towers and Bulwarks after our manner, and with Curtains full of water. 
 Here five of the fourteen Souldiers, that were in the Lorch, went on fhoar with two of thole 
 Cbinefefes , that were faved out of Similaus Junk, who had left their wives as hoftages with 
 us for their return; Thefe having fpent three hours in viewing and Purveying the Town on the 
 oti tiide,reimbarqued themfelves without any notice taken of them at all,and fo went back very 
 quietly as they came to the mouth of the River,where they found a Junk riding at anchor, that 
 was come thither fince their departure in the evening. Being returned to Antonio de Faria^ 
 they related unto him what they had feen, particularly the great Army that Jay up in the Ri¬ 
 ver, as alio the Junck, which they had left riding at Anchor at the entrance into it,telling him 
 that it might well be the Dog Coia Accm whom he fought for. Thefe news fo rejoyced him, 
 that inftantly he weighed anchor, and fet fail,faying,his mind gave him that it was undoubt¬ 
 edly he ; and if it proved lo, he alfured us all that he was contented to lofe his life in fighting 
 with him, for to be revenged of fuch a Rogue as had done him fo much wrong. Approaching 
 within light of the Junk, he commanded the Lorch to palfe unto the other fide of her, to the 
 end they might board her both together at once, and charged that not a Piece (hould be Ihot 
 off, for fear they (hould be heard of the Army that lay up in theRiver,who might thereupon 
 come to difcover them. As (oon as we were come to the Junk, Ihe was prefently invefted by 
 us,and twenty of our Souldiers leaping in made themfelves Matters of her without any refin¬ 
 ance, for the rnoft of her men threw themfelves into the Sea, the reft that were more couragi- 
 cusva'iantly made head againft our people • but Antonio de Faria prefently getting in with 
 twenty Souldiers more made an end of defeating them, killing above thirty of theirs, Co as 
 there remained none alive but thofe which voluntarily caft themfelves into the Sea, whom he 
 caufed to be drawn up to ferve for the Navigation of his Veffels, and for to learn who they 
 were, and from whence they came, to which purpofe he commanded four of them to be put to 
 torture, whereof two chofe rather to dye then confefs any thing; and as they were about to do 
 the like to a little boy,an old man. his father,that was laid on the deck,cryed out with tears in 
 his eyes for to give him the hearing before they did any hurt to the child ; Antonio de Faria 
 made the Executioner ftay,and bad the old man (ay what he would, provided he (pake truth, 
 for otherwife he vowed,that both he and the boy (hould be thrown alive into the Sea; whereas 
 cr. the contrary, if he dealt truly, lie promifed to fet them both at liberty on (hoar, and reftore 
 unto him whatfoeverhe would take his oath did appertain unto him: Whereunto the old Ma¬ 
 hometan an(wtr:d , I accept of the promife which thou makgfl me, and I very much thank, thee 
 for {paring the life of this child , for as for mine, as a thing unprofitable, I make no reckoning of it, 
 and l will rely on thy word, although the courfe thou holdeft may well divert me from it, in regard it 
 is no way conformable to the Cbrijlian Law, which thou hajiprofefl in thy Baptifm : An anfwer, 
 that rendred Antonio de Faria Co confounded and amazed,as he knew not what to reply; How- 
 beit he caufed him to come nearer unto him, and queftioned him gently without any further 
 threatening. 
 
 This oid man then fat him down by Antonio de Faria , who feeing him white like unro us, 
 asked him whether lie Were a or a Perfian ? whereunto he anfwered, that he was nei¬ 
 
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Of Ferdinand £M endez Pinto. 
 
 ther, but •‘hat he was a Chriftian, born at Mount Sinai. Antonio de Faria thereupon r£plyed 
 how he wondred much, being a Chriftian, as he laid, that he lived not amongft Chriftians! 
 To which the old man anfwered, that he was a Merchant of a good family, named Tome Mol 
 ft anguo , and th.it riding one day at anchor in a Ship of his in the Port of Judaafm the year one 
 thou an.I five hundred thirty and eight, Solirtian the Baffa, Vice roy of Cairo , took his, and 
 fevers other Ships, to carry Victual and Munition for his Army of threefcore Callies, where- 
 wr h he went by the Command of the grand Seignior to reftore Sultan Bandur to his Kingdom 
 of C u ibaya , which the great Mo< ul had deprived him of; And that at the end of the Voyage 
 go ; ng to demand the freight which they had promifed him, the Turks , that were ever cruel 
 and faithlefs, took his W ife, and a young Daughter he had,and forced them before his face,and 
 beca ufe hisfon wq t at the fight of this injury, they threw h : m bound hand and foot into the 
 Sea ; as for himfelf, they laid him in Irons, and continually {courging him they ftript him of 
 all his goods, to the value of fix thoufand ducates and better, faying, that it was not lawful 
 for any to enjoy the bleflings of God, but the holv and juft Moujjelimans , fuch as they were.’ 
 And that his Wife and Daughter dying not long after,he found means one night to caft himfelf 
 into the Sea with that little boy, which was his Son, at the mouth of the River of!)/#, from 
 whence he went by land to Sun at , and (o to Malaca in a (hip o {Carciade Saas , Captain of 
 Bacaim-y then how by the commandment of EJlevanode Gama , going to China with Chri - 
 ftovano Sardinha , which had been Fa&or at the Molucques^ one right as they rode at anchor 
 in Cincaapura, G)uiay Tai)ano , Mafter of the Junk, furprized them, and killed the laid Sar¬ 
 dinha together with fix and twenty Fortugals more; as for him, becaufe he was a Gunner, 
 they faved his life. At this report Antonio de Faria {hiking himfelf on the breaft, as a man 
 amazed at thi ? difeourfe, Lord , Lord 0 laid he, this feems to be a dream that T hear$ then 
 turning himfelf to hisSouldiers that flood about him, he related the life of this Qui y unto 
 them, and further affrmed, that he had {lain at times in ftrayed Veflfels above an hundred For- 
 tuorals^ and difpoiled them of an hundred thoufand ducates at leaft j And though his name Was 
 (uch as this Armenian delivered, to wit, ^ day Taijano , yet after he had killed Chrijhvano 
 Sardinha in Cincaapura , in a vain glory of that which he had done he caufed himfelf to be 
 called Captain S ardinbaftNhereupon having demanded of the Armenian where hewas,hetold 
 us, that he was very fore hurt, and hidden in the hold of the Junk amongft the Cables, with 
 five or fix othersi Hereat Antonio de Fariaarofe , and went dire&ly to the place where this Dog 
 was hidden, followed by thegreateft part of his Souldiers, which opened the fcuttle where the 
 Cables lay,to fee whether the Arm man fpake true or no; in the mean time the Dog, and the 
 fix others that were with him., got out at another fcuttle, andmoft defperately fell upon our 
 men, who were above thirty in number, befides fourteen boys. Then began there fo furious 
 and bloody a fight, that in lefs then a quarter of an hour we made a clean difpatch of them all • 
 but in the mean while two d’ortugals , and feven boys were {lain, befides 1 know not how 
 many hurt,whereof Antonio de Faria received two downright blowes on his head,* and one on 
 his arm, which put him to very much pain. After this defeat,and that the wounded men were 
 dreft, he fet fail, for fear of the Junks that were in the River: So getting far from Land, 
 about evening we went and anchored on ^he other fide of Caucbenchina , where Antonio de 
 Faria caufingan Inventory to be taken of all that was in the Pyrats Junk, there was found in 
 her five hundred Bars of Pepper, after twenty quintals to the Bar, forty of Nutmegs and Mace, 
 fourfeore of Tin, thirty of Ivory, twelve of Wax, and five of Wood of fine Aloes,which might 
 be worth,according to the rate of the Country, feventy thoufand Ducates; befides a little field- 
 Piece, four Falcons, and thirty Bales of Brafi, the greateft part of which Artillery had been 
 ours, for this Mahometan had taken them in the Ships of Sardinha^ Oliveyra^zhd Bartbole* 
 mew de Matos : There was alfo found three Coffers covered with Leather, full of Silk quilts, 
 and the apparel of Yortugals , with a great Bafon and Ewer filver and gilt, and a Salt-feller of 
 the fame, two and twenty Spoones, three Candlefticks, five gilt Cups, eight and fifty Har- 
 quebuzes, twelve hundred twenty and two pieces of Bengala Cloth , all which were Portu- 
 gals goods, eighteen quintals of Powder, and nine Children about feven or eight years of age, 
 chained together by the hands and the feet, moft lamentable to behold, for that they were fo 
 weak and lean, that one might eafily through their skins have counted all the bones in their 
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 Chap. XVI. 
 
 Antonio de Faria’/ Antral at the Bay of Camoy, where was thefjhing of Vearhkfor 
 ' t fj e Ki n{ r of China • the Relation made to him of the Jfle of Ainan ; with that 
 
 which happened to him by the means of a renegado fyrat , and othermfe. 
 
 T Hc next day,after noon, Antonio de t aria parted from the place where he rode at anchor, 
 and returned towards the Coaft of Ainan , by the which he kept ah the reft of that day, 
 and the next night with five and twenty or thirty ftthem water. In the morning he came to a 
 Bay, where there were many great Boats fifhing for Pearles,and being unrefolved what courfe 
 to take, he beftowed all the forenoon in counfel with his company thereabout, whereof feme 
 were of the opinion that he fhould feizeupen the Boats that were fifhing for Pearly and others 
 oppofed it, faying, it was a fafer way to treat with them as Merchants, for that in ex change 
 of the great ftore of Pearles,which were in that place, they might eafily put off the moft pait 
 of their Commodities.This appearing to be the beft and fafeft advic c^Antcnio de Faria caufed 
 the Flag of Trade to be hung out, according to the Cuftcm of China • fo that inftantly there 
 came two Lanteaas from Land to us, which are Vefiels like to Foifts,with great abundance of 
 refrelhments, and thofe that were in ihem having faluted us after their manner, went abroad 
 the great Junk, wherein Antonio de Faria was 5 but when they beheld men, fuch as we were, 
 having never feen the like before, they were much amazed, and demanded whatpeop’ewe 
 were, and wherefore we came into their Country. Wherunto we anfwered by an Interpre¬ 
 ter, that we were Merchants born in the Kingdom of Siam^ and weie come thither to feller 
 barter our Commodities with them, if fo be they would permit us. 1 o this, an old man, 
 much refpefted of all the reft, replyed, that here was no Traffique ufed, but in another place 
 further forward, called Guamboy , where all ft rangers that came from Cant an 9 Chincheo , La- 
 man Comb ay , Sttmbor , Li amp an 9 and other Sea-coaft Towns, did ordinarily trade: 
 Wheforc he counfelled him to get him fuddenly from thence, in regard this was a place de- 
 ftined only to the fifhing of Pearles for the Treafure c f the houfe of the fon of the Sun, to the 
 which, by the Ordinance of the Tut an of Cor- hay , who was the fovereign Governor of all 
 the Country of Caucbencbina, noVeflel was permitted tocome , but only fuch as were ap¬ 
 pointed for that fervice, and that all other Chips, which were found there were t by the Law to 
 be burnt, and all that were in them ^ but hnce he, as a ftranger, and ignorant of the Laws of 
 the Country, had tran fgrefled the fame, not out of contempt, but want of knowledge, he 
 thought fit to advert ife him of it,to the end he might be gone fror thence before the arrival of 
 the Mandarim of the Army,which we call General, to whom the Government of that fifhing 
 appertained,and that would be within three or four dayes at the moft, being gone not above 
 fix or feven leagues from thence to a Village, named Bubaqumm , for to take in Visual. 
 Antonio de Faria thanking him for his good advice, asked him how many Sails, and what 
 Forces the Man iarim had with him: Whereunto the old man anfwered, that he was accom¬ 
 panied with forty great Junks, and twenty five Vancans with oars, wherein there were feven 
 thoufand men, namely, five thoufand Souldiers, and the reft Slaves and Mariners 5 and that he 
 was there every year fix months, during the which time was the fifhing for Pearles, that is to 
 fay, from the firft of March to the laft of Augujh Our Captain defiring to know what du¬ 
 ties were paid out of this fifhing,and what revenue it yielded in thofe fix months,the old man 
 told him, that of Peals which weighed above five Carats they gave two thirds, of the worfer 
 fort half lefs, and of feed Pearl the third • and that this revenue was not afwayes alike, be- 
 caufe the fifhing was fometimes better in one year,then in another, but that one with another 
 he thought it might yield annually four hundred thoufand Taeis. Antonio de taria made very 
 much of the old man,and gave him two cakes of Wax, a bag of Pepper, and a tooth of Ivory, 
 wherewith both he and the reft were exceedingly well pleafed. He alfo demanded of them, of 
 whatbignefie this Ifle of Ainan might be, whereof Co many wonders were fpoken. Tell us 
 firft, replyed they, who you are, and wherefore you are come hither, then will we fatisfie you 
 in that yen defire of 11s 5 for we vow unto you, that in all our lives we never faw Fo many 
 young fellows together in any-Merchants (h ps, as we now fee in this of yours, norfofpruce 
 and neat- and it feems that in their Country China Silks are fo cheap as they are of no efteem, 
 or elfe that they have had them at fo eafie a rate, as they have given nothing near the worth 
 for them, for we fee them play away a piece of Damask at one caft at Dice,as thofe that come 
 
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 lightly by them: Afpeech that made Antonio de Faria fecretly to fmile 5 for that thereby he 
 well perceived how thefe fidiermen had a fhrewd guefs that the lame were ftollen,which made 
 him tell them, that they did this like young men, who were the Tons of very rich Merchants, 
 and in that regard valued things far under that they were worth, and had coft their fathers 5 
 diffembling then what they thought,they anfwered in this manner,It may very well be as you 
 fay. Whereupon Antonio de Faria gave a fign to theSouldiers to leave off their play,and to hide 
 the pieces of Silk that they were playing for, to the end they might not be fufpefted for Rob¬ 
 bers by thefe folk 5 , which immediately they did, and the better to affure thefe Cbinefes that 
 we were honeft men, and Merchants, our Captain commanded the fcuttle 5 of the Junk to be 
 opened, that we had taken the night before from Captain Sardinba , which was laden with 
 Pepper, whereby they were fomewhat reftored to a better opinion then they had of us be¬ 
 fore, faying one to another, Since now we find they are Merchants indeed, let us freely anfwer 
 to their demand,fo as they may not think,though we be rude,that we know nothing but how 
 to catch fifh and oyfters* 
 
 The old man defiring to fatisfie Antonio de Farid’s demand. Sir, faid he, fmce non • I kporv 
 what you are , and that only out of curio fit) -you fairly require to learn this particular of we, I 
 will clearly tell you all that l know thereof, and what I have heard others deliver concerningit, 
 that have been elder then my Jelf, and which have a Iona time governed this Archipelage - 
 They faid then , that this Ifland was an abfolute State under a very rich and mighty King, 
 who, for an higher and more tranfcendent title then other Monarchs his Contemporaries car¬ 
 ried ', can fed himfelf to he filed Prechau Gamuu; He dying without heirs , jo great a difcord 
 arofe amongfl the people about the fuccejfion to the Crown, as encreafmg by little and little it 
 caufed fuel effufon of blood , that the Chronicles of thofe times affirm , how only in four yeares 
 and an balffixtecn Lacazaas of men were flam , every Lacazaa containing an hundred thoufand, 
 by means whereof the Country remained fo deferted of people , that unable to defend it felf 
 the King of Cauchin conquered it, only with f even thoufand Mogores, which the King of 
 Tartarie fent him from the City o/Tuymican, that then was Metropolitan of all his Empires. 
 This If and of Ainan being conquered , the King of Cauchin returned into his Country , and for 
 Governour thereof left behind him a Commander of bis, named Hoyha Paguarol , who revolted 
 from him for certain juft caufes, as he pretended , that invited him thereunto. Now to have 
 the affiftanee and fupport of the King of China , he became his Tributary for four hundred 
 thoufand Taeis by the 'year , which amount to fix hundred thoufand ducates, in confideration 
 whereof theKing of China obliged himfelf to defend him againft all his enemies , whenfoever 
 be Jhould have need: This accord continued between them the fpace of thirteen yeares, during 
 the which the King of Cauchin was five feveral times defeated in open Battel - At length this 
 Hoyha Paguarol coming to dye without iffue, in regard of the good offices that in his life time 
 he had received from the King of China, beby his teji rnent "declared him for his Succejfor 
 and lawful Heir - fo that ever fmce, being now two hundred thirty and five yeares ago , to this 
 prefent, this Ifte of Ainan hath remained annexed to the Scepter of the great Chinefe. And 
 touching that you have further demanded of me concerning the Treasures , aud Revenue of this 
 IJland *1 amiable to fay no more then what I have learnt of fome ancient P erfonages, who, as 
 I have related before , have governed it in quality of Teutons, and Chaems; and I remember 
 they faid, that all the Revenues thereof, as well in Mynes of Silver, Cuflomes, and otherwayes, 
 amounted unto two Millions and an half of Taeis yearly - And perceiving that our Captain was 
 amazed to hear him fpeak offo mighty a riches, continuing his difconrfe. Truly, my Mafters 
 laid he laughing, if you make fuch matter of that little I have fpoken of, what Voouldyou do 
 if you Jaw the great City of Pcquin , where the (on of the Sun fthe name they give to their 
 KingJ with his Court is alwayes refident, and where the Revenues of two and thirty Kingdomes, 
 that'depend On this Monarchy , are received, of which out of fourfeore and fix Mynes of Gold 
 and Silver only is annually drawn above fifteen thoufand Pico?, which according to our weight 
 comes to twenty thoujand Quintals ? After Antonio de Faria had given him many thankes for 
 fatisfying him fo fully in his demands,he defired him to tell him in whatPort he would advife 
 him to go and fell his Commodities, feeing the feafon was not proper to fet fail for Liampov. 
 Whereunto he anfwered, that we were not to go into any Port of that Country, nor to put 
 truftin any Chinefe whatfbever 5 fori affure you ; faid he, there is not one of them will fpeak 
 truth in any thing he (ayes to you, and believe me, for I am rich,and will not lye to you like 
 a poor manxbefide?,! would wifh you to go in this Srreight always with the plummet 
 
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 hand for to found your way, becaufe there are very many dangerous (helves all along till you 
 come to a River called Tanaquir, and there is a Port where is very good anchoring, and where 
 you may be as fafe as you can delire; as alfo you may there, in lefs then two dayes, put off all 
 vour Commodities, and much more if you had them. Neverthelefs I will not counfel you to 
 difimbarque your goods on land, but to fell them in your Veffels, in regard that many t imes 
 the fwht caufeth delire,and delire difbrder amongft peaceable perforis, much more with them 
 that are mutinous and ofan evil confcience, whofe wicked inclination carries them rather to 
 take away another mans goods from him, then give of their own to the needy for Gods hike. 
 This (aid,both he that fpake,and thofe that accompanied him,took leave of our Gaptain,and 
 us,with many complements and promifes,whereof they are not ordinarily veryfparing in thofe 
 parts,bellowing on Antonio de Faria, in return of that he had given them, a little Box made 
 ofaTortoife fhell,full of feed-pearl, and twelve pearles of a pretty bignefs, craving his par- 
 do n for that they durft not traffique with him in this place, for fear left if they Ihould do (o,to 
 be all put to death,conformable to the Law of the rigorous juftice of the Country; an they 
 ag ain intreated him to make hafte away before the Mandarims arrival with his Army • for if 
 he found him there, he would burn both his Veffel, and him and all his company. Antonio de 
 Faria unwilling to negleft the counfel of this man , left that which he told him Ihould prove 
 true, he fet fail immediately, and pafled to the other fide towards the South, and in two 
 days with a W efterly Wind he arrived at the River of Tanauquir , where juft over againft a 
 little village, called Neytor , he call anchor. 
 
 We remained all that day, and the next night, at the mouth ofthe River of T anauquir^ in¬ 
 tending the next morning to fet fail up to the Town, which was fome five leagues from thence 
 in the River,to fee if by anymeans we might put off our commodities there,for our veffels were 
 fo heavy laden with them,as there was fearce a day wherein we ran not twice or thrice on (ome 
 (helve or other, which in divers places were four or five leagues long; wherefore it was con¬ 
 cluded that before we did any thing elfe wc were to fell away our commodities, Co that we la¬ 
 bored with all our might to get into the River, whofe current was fo ftrong, that though we 
 had all our fails up, yet could w r e prevail but very little againft it * As we were in this pain we 
 perceived two great funks in warlike manner come out of the River upon us, which chaining 
 themfelves together for the more ftrength, attaqued us fo lively, as we had fcarce the leafure to 
 defend our felves, fo that we were conftrained to throw into the Sea all that flood in our way 
 to make room for our artillery, being that we had then moft need of: The firft falutation we 
 had from them was a peal of fix and twenty pieces of Ordnance,whereof nine were Faulconets, 
 and field-pieces: Antonio de Faria , as a man verft in fiich affairs, feeing them chained one to 
 another, perceived their drift, and therefore made as though he fled , as well to win time to 
 prepare himfelf, as to make them believe that they Were no Ghriftians; whereupon they, like 
 cunning thieve'', defiring that the prey, which they held to be furely their own, ftiould not 
 efcape out of their hands, loofed themfelves the one from the other the better to fet upon us, 
 and approaching very near to us,they fhot fo many arrows and darts into our Junk, as no man 
 was able to appear upon the deck : Antonio de Faria , to avoid this ftorm, retired under the 
 half deck,with five and twenty Souldiers,and fome ten or twelve others,Slaves,and Mariners; 
 there he entertained the Enemy with Harquebufe (hot the fpace of half an hour, in which 
 time,having ufed all their Munitions of War, fome forty of them, that feemed to be more va¬ 
 liant then the reft, longing to finifh their enterprize, leaped into our Junk, with a purpofe to 
 make themfel ves mafters of the prew; but to hinder them from it,our Captain was conftrained 
 to go and receive themjo that there began a moft bloody fight,wherein it pleafed God with¬ 
 in an hour to give us the upper hand by the (laughter of four and twenty of their forty in the 
 place: Thereupon twenty of ours, purfiiing this good fucccfle, boarded the Enemies Junk, 
 where finding but fmall refiftance, by reafon the principals were already (lain, all that were in 
 her quickly rendred themfelves unto Us. That done, Antonio de Faria went with all fpeed to 
 fuccour Cbriflovano Borallbo , who was boarded by the other Junk, and very doubtful of the 
 vi&ory, in regard the greateft part of his men were hurti; but at our approach the Enemies 
 threw themfelves all into the Sea, where moft of them were drowned, and fo both the Junks ; 
 remained in our power. After this we took a furvey of our company, the better to underftand 
 what this viftory had coft us • and we found there was one Portugal , five Boyes, and nine 
 Mariners killed,be(ides thofe that were hurtrand on the Enemies part fourfeore were (lain,and 
 almoft as many taken. Having given order then for the drefling and accommodating ofour 
 
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 Wounded nlen in the beft manner that could be, Antonio de Faria caufed as many Mariners to 
 be taken up as could be laved,and commanding them to be brought into the great Junk where 
 he was,he demanded of them what thofe Junks were,how the Captain of them was named and 
 whether he were alive or dead- whereunto not one of them would make any anfwer but chofe 
 rather to dye in torments like mad dogs, when as Cbrifiovano Borralho cryed out from the Junk 
 where he was. Signing Signior, come hither quickly, for we have more to do tbe?i we thinf of* 
 whereat Antonio de Faria, accompanied with fifteen or fixteen of his men, leapt into his Junk’ 
 asking what the matter was > l hear am ny talking together , faid he, towards the prow, which I 
 doubt are hidden there ■ hereupon opening the fcuttle, they heard divers cry out. Lord Jefus 
 have mercy upon to* and that in fueh a woful manner , as ftruck us all with pity 3 : Antonio de 
 Faria approaching to the fcuttle, and looking down, could perceive fome perfons there fliuc 
 up, but not able to difeern what they might be, he made two of his boys to go down, who a 
 little after brought up feventeen Chriftians, namely, two Portugals, five final! children two 
 girls, and eight boys, which were in fuch a lamentable cafe, as would have gr e ved any heart 
 to have beheld them; The firft thing he did was to caufe their Irons to be ftrucken off,and then 
 he enquired of one of the Portugals (for the other was like a man deadj unto whom thofe 
 children appertained, and how they tell into the hands of this Pyrat, as alfo what his name 
 was* Whereunto he anfwered , that the Pyrat had two names, the one Chriftian, the other 
 Pagan, and that his Pagan name, wherewith he ufed to be called of late, was Necoda Nicau - 
 /ok, arid his Chriftian mme. Francifco de Saa, being Chriftned at Malaca , at fuch time as 
 Garcia de Saa was Captain of the Fortrefs, and for that he was his God-father, and had caufed 
 him to be baptized,he gave him that name,and married him to an orphan maid,a very hand* 
 fom wench, the Daughter of an honourable Portugal , to oblige him the more to our Religion 
 and Country ; but in the year 1534. fitting fail for China in a great Junk of his, wherein 
 there accompanied him twenty of the wealthieft Portugals of Malaca, as alfo his Wife and 
 arriving at the Ifland of Pullo Catan , they ftaid two days to take in frefh water, during which 
 time he and his company, who were all Chinefes like himfHf, and no better Chriftians, con- 
 fpired the death of the poor Portugals for to defpoil them of their goods, fo that one night 
 whifft the Portugals were afleep, and little d ream’d of fuch Trea on, they killed them'all 
 with their hatchets, and their fervants lkewife , not fparing the life of any one that bore 
 the name of a Chriftian ; after which, he perfwaded with his Wife, to turn Pagan, and adore 
 an Idol, that Lucan, Captain of the Junk, had concealed in his cheft, and that then being free 
 from the Chriftian Relieion he would marry her to Lucan , who in exchange would give him 
 a fifter of his to W ife, that was a Chinefe , and there with him. But in regard fhe would nei¬ 
 ther adore the Idol, nor confent to the reft, the Dog ftruck her over the head with a hatchet 
 till her brains flew out, and then departing from thence went to the Port of Liampoo, where 
 the fame year before he had traded ; and not daring to goto Pat ana, for fear of the Portugals 
 that refided there, hewintred set Siam, and the year following he returned to the Port of 
 Chincheo, where * he took a little Junk that came from Sunda, with ten Portugals in her, all 
 which he flew ; And becaufe.the wickednefs that he had done us was known over all the Coun¬ 
 try, doubting to encounter fome Portugal forces, he had retired himfelf into this ftreightof 
 Caucbencbina,vj\\tre as a Merchant he traded,and as a Pyrat robbed thofe he met with all that 
 were weaker then himfelf. It being now three years fince he had taken this River for a refuge 
 of his Robberies, thinking himfelf here fecure from us Portugals , by reafon we have not ufed 
 to traffiqtie in the Ports of this ftreight, and Ifland of Ainan. Antonio de Faria asked of him 
 whethef thofe children belonged to the *Portugals he had mentioned before ; whereunto he 
 anfwered, that they did not, but that both they, and the boys and girls, were the children of 
 NunoPreto , Gian de Diaz, and of Pero Borges, whom he had killed at Mompollacota, near 
 the mouth of the River of Siam in Joano Oliveyras Junk , where he alfo put fixteen Portu - 
 gals more to death, 6nly he faved their two lives, becaufe one was a fhipwright, and the other 
 a Caulker, and had can icd them along with him in this manner, continually whipping, and 
 almoft famifhingof them ; further he faid, that when he fet upon us,he did not think we had 
 been Portugals, but fome Chinefe . Merchant, like fuch as he had accttftomed torobwhenhe 
 found them at advantage, as he thought to have found us. Antonio deFaria demanded of 
 him,whether he could know the Pyrat amongft thofe other dead bodies 1 Having replved that 
 he could, the Captain prefenrly aro(e,& taking him by the hand, went with him into the other 
 Junk, that was faftned to hP,and having made him view all that lay dead upon the hatcheshe. 
 
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 raid it was none of them. Whereupon he commanded a Manchuas, which is a little boat, 
 to be made ready, wherein he and this man went and fought for him amongft the other dead 
 bodies that floated on the water, where they found him with a great cut over his head , and 
 tjiruft quite through the body; fo caufing him to be taken up, and laid upon the hatches, he 
 demanded of that man again, if he were fure that this was lie, who anfwered, how without 
 doubt it was he. Whereunto Antonio de Faria gave the morexredir, by reafon of a great chain 
 of gold he had about his neck, to which was faftned an Idol of gold with two heads, made in 
 the form of a Lizard, having the tail and paws enamelled with green and black • and com¬ 
 manding him to be drawn towards the prow, he caufed his head to be chopt off, and the reft 
 of the body to be cut in pieces, which were caft into the Sea. 
 
 Having obtained this vittory in the manner I have before declared,and caufed our hurt men 
 Se&-4. to be dreft, and provided for the guard of our Captains, we took an Inventory of the goods 
 that were in thefe two Junks, and found that our prize was worth forty thoufand Jacif 9 
 which was immediately committed to the charge of Antonio Forges ^ who was Faftor for the 
 Prizes. Both the Junks were great and good, yet were we conftrained to burn one of them 
 for want of Mariners to man it: There was in them befides feventeen pieces of brafs Ordnance, 
 namely, four Faulconets,and thirteen fmall pieces,the moll part whereof had the Royal Arms 
 of Portugal upon them,for thePyrat had taken them in the three fhips where he killed the forty 
 Tjwtugals. The next day Antonio de Faria went about once more to get into the River, but 
 he was advifed by Fifher-men, which he took a little before, that he (hould beware of going to 
 theTown,becaufe they were advifed there of all that had paffed betwixt him and the renegade 
 Pyrat, for whofe death the people were in an uproar ; in fo much that it he would let them 
 have his commodities for nothing, yet Would they not take them, in regard that C bileu , the 
 Governor of that Province, had contra&ed with him, to give him the third part of all the 
 prizes he took, in lieu whereof he would render him a fafe retreat in his Country; fo that his 
 lofs now being great by the death of the Pyrat, he fhould be but badly welcomed by him,ahd 
 to that purpofe had already commanded two great Rafts, covered with dry wood, barrels, of 
 pitch, and other combuftible fluff, to be placed at the entring into the Port, that were to be 
 kindled and fent down upon us, as foon as we had caft anchor, for to fire us, befides two hun¬ 
 dred P raos , full of fhot, and men of war were alfo in readinefs to affault us. Thefe news 
 made Antonio de Faria conclude to make away unto another Port named Mutipinan , diftant 
 from thence above forty leagues towards the Eaft, for that there were many rich Merchants,as 
 well Natives as Strangers,which came in great Troops from the Countries of Lauhos^Pafuaas y 
 and Gueos ^ with great Aims of mony. So we fet fail with the three Junks, and theLorch, 
 wherein we came from Patana , coafting the Land from one fide to the other, by reafon of a 
 contrary wind, until we arrived at a place called Tilaumera , where we anchored, for that the 
 current of the water ran very ftrong againft us. After we had continued fo three dayes together, 
 with a contrary wind, and in great want of visual, our good fortune about Evening brought 
 four Lanteaas unto us, that are like unto Foyfts, in one of the which was a Bj;ide, that was go¬ 
 ing to a Village, named Pandurea : Now becaufe they were all in jollity, they had fb many 
 Drums beating aboard them, as it was almoft impoflible to hear one another for the noife they 
 made. Whereupon we were in great doubt whgt this might be, and wherefore there was fuch 
 triumphing; fome thought that they were (pies lent from the Captain of T anauquiVs Army, 
 who infulting, for that we were already in their power, gave this teftimony thereof. Antonio 
 de Faria left his anchors in the Sea,and preparing himfelf to fuftain all that might happen unto 
 him,he difplayed all his Banners and Flags, and with demonftration cf joy attended the arri¬ 
 val ot thefe Lanteaas y who when they perceived us to be all together, imagining it was the 
 Bridegroom that flay'd to receive them, they came joyfully towards us. So after we had falu- 
 ted one another after the manner of the Country, they went and anchored by the fhore. And 
 becaufe we could not comprehend the myftery of this affair, all our Captains concluded that 
 they were fpies from the Enemies Army, which forbore affaulting us in expectation of fome 
 other Veffels that were alfo to come • In this fiifpicion we fpent the little remainder of thgt 
 Evening, and almoft two hours of the night: But when the Bride, feeing that her Spoufe fent 
 no* to vifit her, as was his part to dp, to fhew the love (he bore him, fhe fent her Uncle in one 
 of the Lanteaas with a Letter to him, containing thefe words. If the feeble Jex of a Woman 
 would permit me to go from the place where I am for to fee thy face , without reproach to mine 
 honour , ajfure thy felf that-to kifs thy tardy feet my body would fly as doth the hungry Faitlcon 
 
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 after the fearful Heron: But fince I am parted from my Fathers houfe for to feel^thee out here 9 
 come thy felf hitherto me , where indeed I am not, for l cannot fee my felf., but in feeing thee- 
 Now if thou doji not come to fee me in th e obfcnritie of this night, making it bright for me , I fear 
 that to morrow morning when thou arrivejl here, thou Jhalt not find me living. My Vncle Li- 
 corpinau wiU more particularly acquaint thee with what I keep concealed in my heart 5 for I 
 am not able to fay any more, fuchismy grief to be fo long deprived of thy fo much deftredfight: 
 Wherefore I pray thee come unto me, or permit me to come unto thee, as the great?iefs of my love to 
 thee doth deferve, a?id\as thou drt obliged to do unto her, whom now thou art to poffefs in mar¬ 
 riage until death, from which Almighty God]of his infinite goodnefs keep thee as many years , 
 as *the Sunne and CMoon have made turns about the World, fince the beginning of their 
 birtf This Lanteaa being arrived with the Brides Uncle and Letter, Antonio de 
 Faria caufed all the Portugal* to hide themfelves, fuffering none to appear but ^our Chi* 
 nefe Mariner, to the. end" .they, might not be afraid of us; Toour Junk then. they ap¬ 
 proached with confidence, and tnree of them coming aboard us, asked where the Bridegroom 
 was > All the anfwer we made them was to lay hold of them, and clap them prefently under 
 hatches 5 now becaufe the moft part-of them were drunk, thofe that were in the Lanteaa ne¬ 
 ver heard our bufiling with them, nor if they had, could they have had time to efcape, for 
 fuddenly from the ton of our poop we faftned a Cable to their Mafi, whereby they were lb 
 arrefted, as it was impollible for them to get loofe of us; whereupon calling in fome pots of 
 powder amonL r fi them, the moft of them leapt into the Sea, by which time fix or feven of our 
 SouIdiers,and as many Mariners, got into the Lanteaa , and ftraight rendred themfelves Ma¬ 
 tters of her, where the next thing they did was to take up the poor wretches, who cried out 
 that they drowned ; Having made them fur t,Antonio de Faria went towards the other three 
 Lanteaas, that anchored loine quarter of a League from thence^and coming to the firft,whei e« 
 in was the Bride, he entered her without any reliftance, in regard there were none other in 
 her but a few Mariners, and fix or (even men that feemed to be of good reckoning^ all of kin 
 to the Bride,being there only to accompany her, together With two little boyesher brothers, 
 that were very white,and certain ancient Won^en, offiiclias in China are hired for mony to 
 dance,fing,and play of Inftruments upon like feftival occafions. The other two Lanteaas be¬ 
 holding this bad fuccefs, left their Anchors in the Sea, and fled in fuch hafte, as if the Devil 
 had been in them ; but for all that we took one of them, fo that we had three of the four * 
 This done,we returned aboard our Junk,and by reafon it was now midnight,we did nothing 
 for the prelent but take our prifoners,and Ihut them up under the hatches where they remain¬ 
 ed until Day that Antonio de Faria came to view them, and feeing they were rnoft them 
 aged,full of forrow,andfit for nothing, he caufed them to be feton Uhore,retaining only the 
 Bride and her 2 Brothers, becaufe they were young, white, and well-favoured, and fome 20 
 Mariners,which afterwards were of great ufe to us for the Navigation of our Junks. This 
 Bride as fince we learn*d,was Daughter to the Anchary of Colem (which fignifies Governour) 
 and betrothed to a Youth, the fon of Chifuu , Captain of Ldandurea, who had written unto her 
 that he would attend her in this place withi 3 or 4 Junks of his F athers, who was vei7 rich ; 
 but alas I We fhamefully cozened him. After dinner, being departed from thence,the Bt ide- 
 groom arrived feeking for his Bride,with five fail full of flags,Streamers,and Banners > Palling 
 by us, he faluted us with great llore of Mufick and fhews of gladnefs, ignorant of his misior- 
 tune, and that we carried away his Wife. In this jollity he doubled the Cape oflilaumera , 
 where the day before we took this Prize,and there anchored attending his Bride, according as 
 lie had written to her, vvhileft vve failing on arrived three days after atthe Port o\ Mutipiman, 
 which was the place vve aymed at, in regard of the advice that Antonio de F aria had, that 
 there they might fell off Ins-Commodities* 
 
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 CHAP. XVII. 
 
 Antonio de Faria’/ Arrival at the Port: The Information that Antonio de Faria had 
 of the (fountry • fame fajfages between him arid the Nautarel of the T.own* y 
 his going to the River of Madel ; with his incountring a Vyrat 
 there , and that which pajfed betwixt them. 
 
 ^* I; T^EingarrbcdatihhPortwe^chorcdinaRode, w hkh the Land makes near to a little 
 J_y Illand on the South fide of the mouth of the River, at the entry whereinto we remained 
 without filming the Port, or making any noife, intending as (bon as it was night to (end for 
 to found the River, and to be informed of that we den red to know. Upon the appearing 
 ofthe Moon, which was about 11 of the Clock, Antonio de Raria&nt away one of his Lautea- 
 aSy well furnifhed,and 12 Souldiers in her,bcfides the Captain named Valentino Martins D al- 
 foem ? a difcreet man, and of great courage, that at other times had given good proof of him- 
 felf in like occasions, who departing went alwayes founding the depth of the River until he 
 arrived where divers Vefiels* rode at anchor'; There he took two men that were (leeping in a 
 Barque laden with earthen ware,and returning aboard unditeovered, he rendred Antonio dt 
 l aria an aceompt of w r hat he had found touching the greatne(s of the place, and the fewnels 
 of the (hips that were in the Port, wherefore hr, opinion was, that he might boldly enter into 
 it, and it it happened he could not trade there as hedefired,no body could jhinder him from 
 ifluing forth whenfoever he pleated, by reafon the River was very large, clean, and without 
 any (helves, lands or other things that might endanger him. Having confulted then with his 
 Company, he concluded by their advice, not to put the two Mahometans , that were taken, 
 to torture as was before ordained,becaute there was no need of it; Day being Come, Antonio 
 de Faria , defiring before he dirred to be informed from thole two Mahometans of (ome par¬ 
 ticulars he would fain know, and thinking he might (ooner prevail with them by fair means* 
 then by menaces and torment, he made very much of them, and then declared his mind; 
 Whereupon both of them with one accord faid, that touching the entrance of the River there 
 was nothing to be feared, in regard it was one of the bed in all that Bay, and that ordinarily 
 far greater Vefiels then his went in and out there, for that the (hallowed place was 15 fathom 
 at the lead; and as for the people of the Country he was not to dand in any doubt of them* 
 by reafon they were naturally weak, and without arms; And that the drangers which were 
 at that indant there,arrived fome 9 days before from the Kingdom of Benan in 2 Companies 
 of fifty Oxen a piece, laden with dore of Silver, Wood of Aloes, Cloth,Silk, Linnen, Ivory* 
 Wax, Lacre,Benjamin, Camphire, and Gold in Powder, like to that of the Ifland of Santa, 
 tra^ who were come with this Merchandife to buy Pepper, Drugs,and Pearls of the Kleof Ai- 
 nan. Being demanded whether there was any Army in thofe parts,they anfwered No,becau(e 
 mod efthe Wars, which the Trechau , that is,the Emperour of the Cauchins ,made, or were 
 made againd him, were by Land; and that when any was made upon the Rivers, it was ah 
 way^ with little Vefiels, and not with fuch great (hips as his, for that they were not deep e- 
 nough fot them : Further being asked, whether the Prechau was near to that place, they re¬ 
 ply ed, that he was 12 days journey from thence, at the City of Ghtangepaaru, where mod 
 commonly he with his Court refided, governing the Kingdom in Peace and Judice, and that 
 the Mynes, referved for his Grown,rendred him in yearly rent fifteen thoufand Vicos of Silver, 
 every Pico weighing five quintals,the moyety whereof by the Divine Law, inviolably obferved 
 in his Countries, was for the poor Labourers, that tilled the ground, to fodain their Families 
 Withai; but that all his people by a general content had freely relinquidied that right unto 
 him, upon condition that from thence-forward hediould not coudrain them to pay Tribute, 
 or any other thing that might concern them, and that the ancient Vrechaus had proteded to 
 accompJilhitas long as the Sun (hould give light to the Earth. Antonio de Faria further de¬ 
 manded of them, what belief they were of;whereunto they anfwered, that they held the very 
 verity of all verities,and that they believed there was but one God Almighty, who as he had 
 cieated alI,(o he preterved a!l;howbeit if at any time ourunderdandings were intangled with 
 the (liforder and diteord of our delire?,' that no way proceeded from the (overeign Creator 
 in whom was no imperfeftion, but only from the (inner himfelf, that out of his impatience 
 judged according to the wicked inclination of his heart. Moreover, asking of them, whether 
 in their Law they believed, that the great God, which governeth this All, came at any time 
 
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 into the world,clothed with a humane form, they faid No, becaufe there could b£ nothing 
 that might oblige him to fo great an extremity,in regard he was through the excellency of the 
 Divine Nature deliv.red from our miferies,and farelloigned fronvthe Treafuresofthe Earth, 
 all things being more then bafe in the prefence of his fplendor.By thefe anfwers of theirs, we 
 perceived that thefe people had never attained to any knowledge ofour truth, more then their 
 eyes made them to fee in the pi&ure of Heaven,and in the beauty of the day 5 for continually 
 in their Combayes 0 which are their prayers, lifting up their hands they fay,By thy works 0 Lord^ 
 we confefs tby greatnefs ♦ After this Antonio de Faria fet them at liberty, and having given them 
 certain prefents,wherewith they were very well pleafed, he caufed them to be conveyed to 
 Land^that done,the wind beginning a little to rile he fet fail, having all his Veffels adorned 
 with divers coloured Silks, their Banners, Flags and Streamers, difplayed, and a Standard of 
 Trade hung out after the manner of the Country, to the end they might be taken for Merch* 
 ants,and not for Pyrats,and fo an hour after he anchored juft againft the Key of the Town, 
 which he faluted with a little peal of Ordnance, whereupon ten or eleven Almadiaes came 
 prefently to us with good ftore of refrefhments- Howbeit finding us to be ftrangers, anddif- 
 cerning by our habits that we were neither Siams^Jaos^nor Malayos^ nor yet of any other Na¬ 
 tion that ever they had feen,they faid one to another fleafe Heaven^ that the dew of the frejh 
 morning may be 'as profitable to us all , as this evening fe ms fair with'the prefence of theje whom 
 our eyes behold . Having faid thus, one of the Almadiaes asked leave to come aboard us, 
 which they were told they might do, becaufe we were all their brothers; fo that three of nine, 
 which were in that Almadia^ entred into our Junk, whom Antonio de Faria received very 
 kindly-and caufing them to lit down upon a Turky Carpet by him, he told them, that he 
 was a Merchant of the Kindom of Siam , and going with his goods towards the Tile of Ainan y 
 he had been advertifed, that he might better and more fecurely fellofflvs Commodities in 
 this Town, then'in any other place, becaufe the Merchants thereof were jufter and truer of 
 their word, then the Cbinefes of the Coaft of Ainan 5 W hereunto they thus anfweted , 7 hou 
 art not deceived in that which thou fayeji , for if thou be a Merchant , as thou affirmeft, believe it , 
 that in every thing and every where tboujhalt be honoured in this place ^wherefore thou mayeji feep 
 without fear. ■ 
 
 Antonio de Faria miftrufting fome intelligence might come over Land concerning that 
 which he had done to the Pyrat upon the River of Tamuquir , and fo might work him fome 
 prejudice, would not dif-imbarque his goods, as the Officers of the Cuftom-houfe would 
 have had, which was the caufe of much difpleafure and vexation to him afterward, fo that 
 his bufinefs was twice interrupted by that means, ivherefore perceiving that good words 
 would notferve to make them content to his Propofitions, he lent them word by a Merchant, 
 who dealt between them,that he knew well enough they had a great deal of reafon tore- 
 quire the landing of his goods, becaufe it was the ufual courtefor every one fo to do; But he 
 affured them that he could not poflibly do it>in regard the teafon was almoft paft, and there¬ 
 fore he was ofneceffity to haften his departure as foon as might be, the rather too for the ac¬ 
 commodating of the Junk wherein he came,for as much as fhe took in fo much water ,that 6o 
 Mariners were alwayes labouring at three pumps to clear her, whereby he ran a great hazard 
 of loling all his goods; And that touching the Kings Cuftoms, he was contented to pay t 
 them,not after thirty in the hundred, as they demanded, but after ten,as they did in other 
 Kingdoms,and fo much he would pay pretenely and willingly. To this offer they rendred no 
 anfwer,but detained him that carried the meffage prifoner S Antonio deFaria feeing that his 
 meffenger returned not,fet fail immediately,hanging forth a number of flags,as one that cared 
 not whether he fold or no ; Whereupon the Merchants ftrangers that were come thither to 
 trade, perceiving the Commodities,of which they hoped to make fome profit,to be going out 
 oft he Port, through the perverfnefs and obftinacy of the Nautarel of the Town, they went all 
 to him,and defired him to recal Antonio deffaria , otherwife they protefted to complain to the 
 King of the injuftice he did them, in being the caufe ofhindering theirTraffique. The Nauta~ 
 rel , that is,the Governour, with all the Officers of the Cuftom-houfe, 'fearing left they might 
 upon this occafton be turned out of their places,condefcended to their requeft,upon condition 
 flnee we would pay but ten in the hundred, that they fhould pay five ni( re, whereunto they 
 agreed t and inftantly fent away the Merchant .whom they had detained prifoner,with a letter 
 full of Complements, wherein they declared the agreement they had made. Antonio deb aria 
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 by reafon he had not leafure to make any flay ; howbeit if they would buy his Comm odities 
 in grof?-.bringing lingots of filver with them for that purpofe, he would fell them to them,and 
 in no ot her manner would deal, for he was muchdiftafted with the little refpett the Nauterel 
 of the Town had carried towards him,by defpifing his meflages ; and if they were contented 
 to accept thereof,that then they fhoula let him know fo much within an hour at the fartheft, 
 otherwife he would fail away to Ainan , where he might put off his Commodities far better 
 then there. They finding him fo refolved,and doubting to lofe fo fair an occafion,as this was, 
 for them to return into their Country,embarqued themfelves in five great Lighter with forty 
 Chefts full of lingots of filver, and a many facks to bring away the Pepper; and'arriving at 
 Antonio de Faria's Junk,they were very well received by him, unto whom they reprelented, 
 anew, the agreement they had made with the Nautarel oftheTown, greatly complaining of 
 his ill Government.and of fome wrongs, which without all reafon he had done them ; but 
 fince they had pacified him by confenting to give him 15 in the hundred,whereof they would 
 pay five; they defired him to pay the ten, as he had promifed, for otherways they could not 
 buy his Commodities. Whereunto Antonio dc Faria anfwered, that he was contented (b to 
 do,more for the love of them, then for any profit he hoped to reap thereby, for which they 
 gave him many thanks, and fo being on all fides ageeed,they ufed fuch diligence in difcharg- 
 ing the goods,as in 3 days the moft of it was weighed and configned into the hands of the 
 owners thereof ;~whereupon the accompts were made up, and the lingots of filver received, 
 amounting in all to an hundred and thirty thoufand Taeis, after the rate of 7 (hillings and fix 
 pence the Taei, as I have (aid elfewhere. And though all poflible fpeed was ufed herein, yet 
 before all was fiwi(hed, news came of that which we had done to the Pyrat in the River of 
 Tanauquir^ in fo much that not one of the inhabitants would come near us afterward, by rea- 
 fon whereof Antonio de Faria was conftrained to fet fail in all hafte. 
 
 Se&.j* After we had quit the River of Mutepinan, directing our courfe Northward, Antonio d # 
 Faria thought good to make to the Coaft of the Ifland of A man, for to feek out a River 
 named Madel, with a purpofe there to accommodate the great Junk,wherein he was, becaufe 
 it took in much water,or provide himlelf of abetter in exchange upon any tearms whatfoe- 
 ver;fo having faild for the fpace of 12 days, with a contrary wind, at length he arrived at the 
 Cape of PulloHinho , which is the Ifland of Cocos; There hearing no news of the Pyrat he 
 fought for,he returned towards the South Coaft, where he took certain Prizes, which were 
 of good value,and well gotten as we thought. For it was the main intention of this Captain 
 to deal with the Pyrats" which frequented this Coaft of Ainan, as they before had done with 
 divers Ghriftians, in depriving them of their live' and goods; For as God doth ordinarily 
 draw good out of evil,fo it pleafed him out of his divine Juft ice to permit, that Antonio de 
 Faria ,in revenge of the Robbery committed by Coia Acem upon upon us in the Port of Lugor 
 ftiould in the purfiiit of him chaftife other thieves that deferved to be puniftied by the hands 
 of the Portugals . Now having for certain days together with much labour continued our 
 Navigation within this Bay of Cauchencbina , as we were newly entred into a Port,called Ma- 
 «/e/,upon the day of the Nativity of our Lady.being the 8 of Septem.for the fear that we were 
 in of the new Moon,during the which there oftentimes happens in this Climate fuch a terri¬ 
 ble ftorm of wind and rain,as it is not poftible for (hips to withftand it,which by the Chinefes 
 is named Tufan,znd that the Sky charged full with Clouds had 4 days together threatned 
 that which we feared, it pleated God amongft many other Junks that fled into this Port 
 for (helter,there came in one belonging to a notorious Chinefe Pyrat,named Hini mil au,who 
 ofa Gentile, .that he had been, was not long before become a Mahometan , induced thereunto 
 (as it was faid) by a C cis of that accurfed Se&, who had made him fuch an Enemy to the 
 Chriftian name, as he vaunted publiquely, that God did owe Heaven unto him for the great 
 ferv : ce he had done him upon Earth,in depopulating it by lit le and.little of the Portugal Na¬ 
 tion,,who from their mothers wombs delighted in their offences, as the very Inhabitants of 
 the fmoaky Houfe,a name which they give to Hell S And thus did he with fuch fayings, and 
 orher like bla(phemies,(peak as villanoufly and abominably of us as could be imagined. This 
 Py rat,entring into the River in a very great and tall Jtjnk, came up to us where we rode at 
 anchor, and faluted us after the cuftom of the Country, whereunto we returned the like, as it. 
 is the manner there to do at the entry into any of the Ports, they neither knowing us to be 
 Portugals, nor we what they were; for we thought they had been Chinefes , and that they 
 came into the Port to (hroud themfelves from the ftorms as others did, whereupon, behold, 
 
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 five young men, that were Chriftians, whomthis Robber held a? Slaves in his Junk, guefllng 
 us to be Tortugals, fell a crying out three or four times together. Lord, h:.ve mercy upon us. At 
 thefe words we all flood up to fee who they were, and perceiving them to be Chriftians, we 
 called aloud to the Mariners for to flay their courfo,which they would not do, but contrarily 
 beating up a Drum, as it were in conremptof us, they gave three great faouts, and withal 
 brandiihed their naked Scymitars in the ayr in a way of threatning us, and then cafl anchor 
 fome quarter of a League beyond us. Antonio de Faria defiring to learn the reafon hereof, font 
 a Balon to them,which no (boner arrived near them, but the barbarous Rogues pelted them 
 with fo many ftones,that the Veflel was almoft overwhelmed, Co that they were glad to re¬ 
 turn, both Mariners and Souldiers being very fore hurt; Antonio de Fain feeing them come 
 back all bloody, demanded the caufo of it: Sir , anfwered they,n?e are not able to tell you, only 
 you behold in what plight we are ; faying fo, and Shewing him the hurts on theit heads, they 
 declared unto him in what manner they had been entertained. At firft this accident much 
 troubled Antonio de Faria, Co that he flood mufing a good while upon it, but at length turn¬ 
 ing himfelftothem that were prefont, Let every one here , laid he> prepare hhnfelf, for I cannot 
 be perjwaded but this is that Dog Coia Acem, who I hope this day Jhall pay for all the wrong he 
 hath done us. Whereupon he commanded prefently to weigh anchor, and with all the fpeed 
 that might be he fet fail with the three Junks and Lanteas. Being come within a Musket 
 (not of them, hefaluted them with fix and thirty pieces of Ordnance, whereof twelve were 
 Faulconers, and other Field-pieces, amongft the which was one of Battery, that carried cafl 
 Bullets,wherewith the Enemies were Co amazed, as all the refolutien they could take for the 
 inftant was to leave their anchors in the Sea, not having leafure to weigh them, and to make 
 to the fhoar,wherein alfo they failed of their defire-, for Anto?iio de Farit perceivingtheir de- 
 fign got before them and boarded their Junk with all the Focres of his Veifels; hereupon be¬ 
 gan a moft furious combat both with Pikes,Darts,and pots full of Powder thrown from either 
 fide,fo that for half an hour it could not be difcemed who had the better: But at length it 
 pleafedGod to favour us fo much, that the Enemies finding themfelve* weary,wounded,and 
 hurt,threw themfelves into the Sea. Antonio de Faria, feeing thefe wretches ready to fink, 
 by reafon oftheimpetuoufhefsand ftrength of the Current, he imbarqued himfolf with fome 
 Souldiers in two Balons, and with much adofaved \ C\ men-, whereuuto he was induced by 
 the great need he flood in of them for the manning of his Lanteas, becaufo he had loft a great 
 many of his people in the former fights. 
 
 Chap. XVIII. 
 
 Antonio de Faria did w ith the Captain of the Pyrats Junl ^ s that which paji be - 
 tween him and the people of the Country* with our cafting away 
 
 upon the l(land of Thieves. 
 
 A Ntonio de Faria having obtained this Viftory in the manner I have related, the firft thing Sed.i. 
 
 he did was to foe his hurt men dreft, as that which chiefly imoorted him; then being 
 given to underftand that the Pyrat Hinimilau, the Captain of the Junk he had taken, was one 
 of the fixteen he had foved, he commanded him to be brought before him, and after he had 
 caufod him to be dreft of two wounds that he had received, he demanded of him what was 
 become ofthe young Portugals which he held as Slaves? Whereunto the Pyrat, being mad 
 with rage,having anfwered that he could not tell, upon the focond demand that was made 
 him. With menaces,he faid, that if firft they would give him a little water, in regard he was 
 fo dry as he was not able to fpeak,that then he would confider what anfwer to make. There¬ 
 upon having water brought h m, which he drunk fo greedily as he fpilt the moft part of it 
 without quenching his thirft, he defired to have fome more given him, protefting that if they 
 would let him drink his fill,they would oblige him by theLaw of Mahomets Alcoran volunta¬ 
 rily to confefs all that they defire to know of him. Antonio de Faria,having given him as much 
 as he would drink,queftioned him again about the young Chriftians^whereto he replyed,that 
 he fhould find them in the chamber of the prow^thereupon he commanded 3 Souldiers to go 
 thither and fetch them,who had no fooner opened the fcuttle to bid them come up, but they 
 faw them lie dead in the place, with their throats cut^which made them cry out, Jefus, Jefus , 
 come hither we befeech you. Sir, and behold a mojl lamentable fpettacle • hereat Antonio de 
 Faria,and thofo that were with him, ran thither, and beholding thofe youths lying fo one 
 
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 upon another he cuild notforb ear fhedding of tears; haying caufed them then to be brought 
 upon the deck together with a woman and two pretty children, a hout 7 or 8 years old, that 
 had their throats alfo cut; he demanded of the by rat why he ufedhich cruelty to thole poor 
 Innocents: Whereunto he anfwered, that it was becaufe they were Traytours, m dilcovei mg 
 themfelves to thofe, which were fuch great Enemies to him as the Portugal were, and alio 
 for that having heard them call upon their Chrift for help,he deiired to fee whether he would 
 deliver them fas for the two infants, there was caufe enough to kill them, for that they were 
 
 the children of Portugals, whom he ever hated: with the hke extravagancy he anfwered to 
 
 many other queftions which were propounded to him, and that with fo much obftinacy as if 
 he had been a very Devil. Afterwards being asked whether he were a Ghnftian,he anfwered, 
 no-but that he had been one atfuch timers Von Taulo was Captain of Malaca. 
 
 Whereunto Antonio de demanded of him, what moved him hncehe had been a Chn- 
 
 ftian, to forfake the Law of Jefus Chrift, wherein he was affured of his falvation, forto em- 
 brace that of the falfe Prophet Mahomet, from whence he could hope for nothing but the 
 lofs of his Soul. Thereunto he anfwered, that he was induced fo to do, for that fo Ion 
 as he was a Chriftian, the portugals had alwayes contemned him, whereas, before 
 when he was a Gentile, they called him Quiay Necoda, that is to fay, Senior C-aptain^ but 
 that refpeft immediately upon his BaptifmTorfook him, which he verily believed did ai- 
 rive to him by Mahomets exprefs permiffion, to the end it fhoiud open his eyes to turn 
 c Mahometan, as after he did at Bintan, where the King of Jantana was in perfon preient 
 at the Ceremony, and that ever fince he had much honoured him, and that all ™tMai- 
 darins called him brother, in regard of the vow he had made upon the Holy Boo o o 
 ers. that as long a* he lived he would be a fworn Enemy to the portugals, and of all 
 others that profeft the Name of Chrift, for which both the Ring and th eCacu MouUm 
 had exceedingly commended him,promiiing that his foul (hould be moft bleffed if he perfor¬ 
 med that vow.Beinglikewife demanded how long ago it was fince he revo 1 ted,what Portugal 
 Veffels he had taken, how many men he had put to death, and what Merchandize he had de- 
 fpoyled them of> He anfwered,that it was 7 years fince he became a Mahometan, that the hrit 
 Veifel he took was Luifo de Pavia s Junk, which he ffurprized in the River:of Liampoo with 
 400 Bar? of Pepper only, and no other fpice, whereof having made himfelf Matter, that he 
 had put to death 18 Portugals, befides their flaves,of whom he made no reckoning, becaufe 
 they were not fuch as could fatisfie the Oath he made • That after thi s Prize he had taken 
 our fhips.and in them had put to death above iooperfons, amongft whom there was lome 
 70 Portmals, and that he thought the Merchandize in them amounted to fifteen or lixteen 
 hundred Bars of Pepper, whereof the King of Pan had the better .moyjty for to give him a 
 fafe retreat in his Ports, and to fecure him from th c Portugal*, giving him to that purpole 1 00 
 men, with commandment to obey him as their King. Being further demanded, whether he 
 had not killed any Portugals, or lent an hand for the doing thereof, he faid no, but that 
 fome two years before, being in the River of Choahoquec on the Coaft.of China a great 
 Tunk arrived there with a great many Portugals in her, whereof an intimate friend or nis 
 named Kuy Lobo , was Captain, whom Von Ejlcvan de Cama, then Governour ofther orti eis 
 of Malaca, had fent thither in the way of Commerce, and that upon the fale of his Commo¬ 
 dities going out of the Port, his Junk about five dayes after took fo great a leak, as not 
 being able to clear her, he was conftrained to return towards the fame Port from whence he 
 parted; but that by ill fortune clapping on all his fails to get the fooner to Land was oveilet 
 by the violence of the wind,fo as all were caft away, faving Kuy Lobo , 17 Portugals, and 
 fome (laves, who in their skiff made for the Ifland of Lamau, without fail, without water, or 
 any manner of viffuai; That in this extremity Kuy Lobo, relying on the ancient friendfhip that 
 wa^ between them,came with tears in his eyes, and praid him on his knees to receive him and 
 his into his Junk, which was then ready to let fail for Patana, whereunto he agreed,upon con¬ 
 dition that therefore he ihould give him two thoufand ducates, for the performance whereof 
 he bound himfelf by his oath of a Chriftian.But that after he had taken them in,he was coun- 
 felled by the Mahometans not to truft unto the friendfhip of Chriftians, left he might endan¬ 
 ger his own life^for when they had recovered ftrength, they would without doubt feize upon 
 his Junk,and all the goods that were in her, it being their ufual cufto n fo to do in all places 
 where they found themfelves the ftrongeft : wherefore fearing left that which the Mahome¬ 
 tans fliggefted ftiould befall him,he flew them all on a night as they flept, for the which not- 
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 withflanding he was lorry afterwards. This Declaration fo much incenfed Antonio de Faria 
 and all that were about him, as indeed the Enormity of fo wicked a fad did require,that pre¬ 
 fen tly, without queftioning or hearing of him further,he commanded him to be put’to death 
 with four more of his company-and lb they were all thrown into the Sea. 
 
 This juftice being executed on the Pyrat and his four companions, Antonio de Faria caufed Sc&2 
 an Inventory to be taken of all that was in the Junk, which was adjudged to mount unto 
 forty thoufand Tads in raw and twilled Silk, pieces of Sattin,Damask,Mu'k,fine i'ourcelain' 
 and other lefs valuable Commodities, which with the Junk we were conftrained to burn’ 
 becaufe we wanted Mariners for our Navigation. With thole valorous exploits the Chine fes 
 werefo amazed, as they (food in dread ol the very meution of the name of the Portuoals in 
 lo much that the Necodaes,or Mailers of the Junks that were in the Port,fearing the like might 
 be done to them affembled all together in Conncel; and there making Eledion of two of the 
 principal among!! them, whom they held moll capable of performing their charge, they fent 
 them as Embaffadours unto Antonio de Faria , defiring him, that as King of the Sea’ he would 
 proteft them, upon the alfurance of his word, fo as they might pafs Yafely out of the place 
 where they were for to make their Voyage whil’fj the feafbn lervedjn confideration whereof^ 
 as his Tributary Subjeas and (laves,they would give him twenty thoufand Tads in Ingots of 
 Silver, whereof payment (hould be made out ofhand, by way of acknowledging him to be 
 their Lord. Antonio de Faria received them very courteoufly, and granting their requell, 
 pt otefted and (ware to perform the lame,and upon his word to protea them for the future, 
 from having any of their goods taken from them by any Pyrat; Whereupon one of the Em¬ 
 bafladours remained as (urety for the twenty thouland Tads , and the other went to fetch the 
 Ingots which he brought an hour after, together with a rich prelent of many leveral things 
 lent him oyer and above by the FPecodaes. This done, 'Antdnio de Faria defiring to advance 
 alervant ot his, named Cofla , made him Clark of the Patents that were to be granted to the 
 Necodaes, whereof he prelently fet a rate, namely five Tads for a Junk, and two Tads fora 
 Vanco^Lantea, and finall Barque, which proved fo beneficial to him, that in the (p ace of thir¬ 
 teen days, wherein thefe Patents were difpatched, he got(according to the report of thofe that 
 envyed him) above four thoufand Tads in filver, befides many good gratuities that were gi¬ 
 ven him for expedition : The form of thefe Patents was thus: 1 give affurance upon my word 
 to Necoda fucb a one , that he flail fail fafely all about the Coaji of China without any dijiur- 
 bance , of any that belongs to me, upon condition that wherefoever he meets with any Portugal? he 
 flail entreat them as bre hren • and underneath he figned, Antonio de Faria : All which Patents 
 ivere moll exa&ly obferved,and by that means he was redoubted all along this Coall, as the 
 Chaem himfelf of the Ifland of Ainan^ who ss the Vice-Roy thereof, upon the report which 
 he heard of him, fent to vifit him by his Embaffadour, with a rich prefent of Pearls and 
 Jewels; as alfo a Letter, whereby he delired him to take entertainment from the fdn of the 
 Sun, a name which they give to the Emperour of this Monarchy for to ferve him as Com¬ 
 mander General of all the Goad from Lamau to Liampoo , with ten thoufand T^cis Penfion 
 yearly, and that if he carried himfelf well, according to the renown went of h m, he allured 
 hm that upon the expiration of his three years charge, he fhould be advanced into the rank of 
 the Chaems of the State, and that fuch men as he if they were faithful, might attain to be 
 one of the twelve Tutoens of the Empire, whom the fovefeign fon of the Sun, being the Lion 
 crowned on the Throne of the world, admitted to his bed and board, as members united 
 to his perfon by means of the honour, power, and commahd that he gave them with an an¬ 
 nual Penfion ot an hundred thoufand Tads. Antonio de Faria gave him many thanks for this 
 offer, and excufed himfelf with Complements, after their mapner; fayin , that he was not 
 capable of fo great favour as he would honour him withal, but that without any regard at all 
 ofmony he would be ready to fervehim as often as the Tutoens of Pequin would be pleafed to 
 command him. After this going out of the Port of Madel , where he had been fourteen days, 
 he ran all along the Coaft of that Country for to find out Coia Acem , it being the main de- 
 fign of all his Voyage, as I have declared before:Imagining then that he might meet with him 
 in fbme of thefe places, he ftayed there above fix months, with much pain and hazard ofhis 
 perfon: At length he arrived at a very fair Town, named Quangiparu^ wherein were good¬ 
 ly buildings and Temples: In this Port he abode all that day and the night following, 
 under colour of being a Merchant, peaceably buying that which was brought him abroad; 
 
 And becaufe it was a Town of fifteen hundred fires, as we gueffed,the next morning by break 
 
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 rj a,»r»f fail without any great notice taken of us.So returning to Sea,alt hough it were 
 wifhLontrarvwrndJnia days with a troublefome Navigation^ vifited the (hores both 
 of the South and North Coafts, without incountring any thing worthy the ohittvation, a - 
 thoueh they were replenifhed with a many of little Villages whereof divers were inclof d 
 with walls of Brick, but not ftreng enough to withftand the force of thirty good Souldiers, 
 die people of themfelves being very weak, and having no other A, ms but Saves hardned in the 
 fire P howfoever the feituation of this Country was under one of the beft and fertdeft Climates 
 on the Earth,abounding with great ftore of cartel, and many goodly large fidds, fowed with 
 
 Wheat Rice Barly,MiUet,andfundry other kinds of grain; asalfo repleniftied with many 
 
 Zl *Gro«sofKnd Angel,ne trees, as in the Mrr,ab!e tofumilh a world of (hipping.• 
 Moreover,by the relation of certain Merchants Antonio de farwwas informed, that m this 
 
 1 Land there Were many MynesofCopper,Silver,Tin, Saltpeter, Sulphur, and an infinite deal 
 
 of untilled, ! but excellently good ground, altogether neglefted by this weak Nation, w c 
 were it in our power, we might in all probability be more advanced in the Indus, then now 
 
 s<a. r We After wehfd''beTy momfc mda.i half in this Country, fomtimes on the one fide/fonv 
 times on ihe other from River to River.and on both Coafts, North and South ; as a fo m the 
 Ifleof A'man without hearing any news of Cola Acem , the Souldiers weary of (o long an 
 tedioiistravd''alfembled altogether, and defired l Antonio de Faria tc.make a = o 
 
 that which had been gotten, according to a protmfe before made to .ufcSy rtouglu 
 
 hand faying, that thereupon they would return unto the Indies , or where elie they tn ° n ?rt 
 good’whereby a great deal of dir arofe amongd us: At length it was agreed that wejhouh 
 % and winter in Siam, where all the goods which were in the told b e fold and 
 reduced into fold divifion (hould be made of it, aswas defired. With this accord, fworn 
 and fined anchored in an Ifland,called the Ifland of Thieves, m regard 
 it was 8 the outeraiod Ifland of all that Bay, to the end that from thence we might make our 
 voyage with the firft fair wind that (hould blow. So having continued there twelve dayes 
 wifh an earned defire to effeft the agreement we hadmadetogether;.t fortuned that by the 
 conjunction of the new Moon in October, which we had alwayes feared, there aiofefucha 
 temped of rain and wind, as feemed to be no natural thing, m fo much that lying open to the 
 South wind, as we traverft the Goad,-the waves went fo high, that though we ufed all means 
 poflible to lave our felves,cutting down our Mads,and all the dead works from poup to prow, 
 as alfo cading into theSea even the mod part of our Merchandize reducing our greatOi dnance 
 into their places again out of which they had beeiv tofs d,« and drengthmng oui Cables that 
 were half rotten with ropes 5 But all this was not able to preferve us for the night was fo 
 dark,the weather fo cold, the Sea fo rough, the wind fo high, and the dorm fo hoi i lble, that 
 in thefe extremities nothing could deliver us but the meer mercy of God, whom with conti¬ 
 nual cries and tears we called upon for help: But for as much as in regard of our hns we did 
 not deferve to receive this grace at his hands, his Divine Tudice ordained, that about 2 hours 
 after midnight there came fuch a fearful gud of wind,as drove our 4 veflels fouhof one another 
 upon the (hore,where they were all broken to pieccs,fo that 400 and 80 men were drowned, 
 amongd which were eight Portugal!, and it pleafed God that the remainder being 53 perfons 
 were (aved, whereof 23 were Fortugals , the red Slaves and Mariners. After this lamen¬ 
 table Shipwrack, we got half naked, and mod of us hurt into a Marifh hard by, where 
 we (ilayed till the next morning; and asfoon as it was day we returned to the Seaside, 
 which we found all drewed with dead bodies, a (peaacle of that dread and horrour as fcarce 
 any one of us could forbear fwooningto behold it: over them we dood lamenting a great 
 while, till (iich time as Antonio de Faria , who by the mercy of God was one 01 tno e that 
 remained alive, whereof we were all very glad, concealing the grief which we could not 
 diffemble, came where we were, having on a Scarlet Coat that he had taken irom one ot 
 the dead, and with a joyful Countenance, his eyes dry and void of tears, he made a fliort 
 fpeech unto us, wherein he remondrated how variable and uncertain the things 01 this world 
 were,and therefore he defired us,as Brethren, that we would endeavour to forget them, fee¬ 
 ing the remembrance of them was but a means to grieve us; for considering t he time and mi- 
 ferable edate whereunto we were reduced, we (aw how neceflary his counlel-was. And now 
 he hoped that God would in this delolate place prefent us with fome good opportunity to 
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 good ; moreover how he firmly believed,that though we had now loft five hundred thoufand 
 Crown 5 ,we fliould ere it were long get above fix hundred thoufand for them. This brief ex¬ 
 hortation was heard by us all with tears and difcomfort enough; fo we fpent two days and 
 an half there in burying the dead;during which time we recovered fome wet vittuals,and pro- 
 vjlions to fuftain us withal; but they lafted not above five dayes of fifteen that we ftayed there, 
 for by reafon of their wetnefs they corrupted prefontly,and did us little good. After thefe 15 
 days it pleafed God, who never forfakes them that truly put their truft in him, miraculoufiy 
 to Tend us a remedy, whereby we efcaped out of that mifery we were in, as I will declare 
 hereafter. 
 
 Chap. XIX. 
 
 In what fort we efcaped miraculoufiy out of this If and ; our pajfage from thence to the 
 River of Xingrau ; our incountring with a Chinefe Pyrat, and 
 the agreement we made with him . 
 
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 B Eing efcaped from this miferable fhipWrack, it was a lamentable thing to fee howwe Sed 
 walked up and down almoft naked, endnringfuch cruel cold and hunger, that many of 
 us talking one to another,felldown fuddenly dead with very weaknefs,which proceeded not fo 
 much from want of victuals, as from the eating of fuch things as were hurtful to i s, by reafon 
 they were all rotten,and flunk fo vilely, that no man could endure the tafte of them in his 
 mouth : But as our God is an infinite good, there is no place fo remote, for defert, where the 
 mifery of finnerscan be hid from the aftiftance of his infinite mercy, which I lpeak, in regard 
 that on the day, when asthefeaftof S.Michael is celebrated, as we were drowned in tears, 
 and without hope of any humane help, according as it feemed to the weaknefsof ourlitrle 
 faith, a Kite came imexpe&edly flying over our heads frombehinde a point which the Ifland 
 made towards the South,and by chance let fall a fifti called a Mullet, about a foot long. This 
 filh falling elofe by Antonio de Faria , it fomwhat amazed him, till he perceived what it was^fo 
 that having confidered a little he fell on his knees, and with tears pronounced thefe words 
 from the bottom of his heart; 0 Lord Jefus Chrift, the eternal Son ofGod,l humbly befeech thee 
 by the forrows of thy faered Paffion, that thou wilt not fuffer us to be overwhelmed with the un¬ 
 belief, whereunto the mifery of our weakpefs hath caft us ; for I hope, and am almoft ajfured,that 
 the fame fuccout which thou didft fend unto Daniel in the Lions T)en by the hand of thy Prophet 
 Abacuc, thou wilt grant us at this prefent out of thy infinite goodnefs ; and not only here , but in 
 every other place, where a finner Jhallmvokg thy aid with a firm and true Faith : TVherefore 
 my Lord , and my God, l pray thee , not for mine , but for thine own fake, that thou wilt not 
 caft thine eyes on that we have merited from thee , but on that then haft minted for us, to the end it 
 maypleafe thee to accord us the fuccour which we hope to receive? from thee, and out of thy bleffed 
 mercy to fend us the means whereby we may get from hence into fome Chriflian County , where 
 fill perfevering in the Holy Worfhip of thee, we may for ever continue thy faithful fer- 
 vants. This faid, he tcok the Mullet and caufed it to be broyled upon coals , and 
 given to fuch of the fick as had moft need of it; Then looking towards the point cf the 
 Ifland from whence the Kite came, we perceived divers others that in their flying made 
 many ftoopings, whence we concluded that there was fome kind of prey there whereon thefe 
 fowls fed ; nowall of us being moft defirous of relief, we went thither in all hafte, and com¬ 
 ing to the top of the higher ground,we difcovered a low vally full of divers fruit trees,and in 
 the middle a river of frefh water, whereupon by good fortune before we went down we law 
 a Stag newly killed,and a Tyger beginning to eat him, therewith we made a great cry which 
 frighted him away into the wood, leaving us the Stag as he was; Then defended we to the 
 River,and by the bank of it ftaid all that night,making a feaft,as well with the Stag, as with 
 divers Mullets that we took therefor there were a great number of Kites,that from the water 
 catched a many of thofe fifties,and oftentimes let them fall being feared with our crie 5 .' Thus 
 contiuued we by the Rivers till Saturday following,when about the break of day we difem- 
 ed a Sail making as we thought towards the Ifland where we were 5 the better to be afliired 
 whereof we returned to the fhoar where we were wracked, and there ftaying about half an 
 hour,we found it to be fo indeed,in which regard we got 11s prelently into the Wood to de¬ 
 cline difco very from thoe in the Veflel; which arriving in the Port we perceived it to be a 
 Lantea, and that thofe that wefe in her faftned her to the fhoar with 2 cables, at the beak and 
 
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 the ftem the better to accommodate a plank for to pafs in and out of her. Being all dif-im- 
 barqued out of her to about the number of thirty perfons, more or lefs, they went prefently, 
 fbme to making provifion of water and wood, (ome to waffling of their linnen,and drefling of 
 meat,and others to wraftling,and fuch like paftimes, little thinking to find any body in that 
 'place which could any way annoy them. Antonio de Fari t feeing them altogether without 
 fear and order, and that there was none remaining in the Veflel able to refill: us* My Maficrs y 
 faid he unto us, you heboid the wretched eflate wkereinto our misfortune bath reduced us , whercl, 
 cfJ cortfefs my {ins are thecaufe* but the mercy of God is fo infinite , as l am verily perfwaded be 
 will not fuffer US to perijh thus miferably here , and therefore bath as it were miraculoufly fait this 
 Vejfel hither , by feizing whereupon we may efcapefroYn bertceywhicb before to humane reafon fecmed 
 almofl impoffible • •wherefore l exhort you all to joyn with me in making our felves Majlersfied - 
 denly of her ere ever we be heard or feen^ and having fo done , let our onely care be to pojfefscur 
 felves of the Arms we jhall find in her 0 that therewith we may defend our felves , and makegood 
 our poffeffion y upon which , next under God , our fafety depends S and as foon as you jhall hear me 
 fay three times , Jefus Mo as you jhall fee me do : Whereunto we anftvered, that we would 
 diligently perform what he had enjoyned us; fo that we Handing all prepared to execute 
 < his defign, Antonio de Faria gave the fignal which he had fpoken of, and withall ran as 
 faft as ever he could, and we along with him, till he arrived at the Lantea , whereinto we 
 fuddenly entered without any contradi&ion • then unloofing the two Cables with which 
 (he was faftned, we put out to Sea about a Crofs-bow (hot from Land* The Cbmeftsfur- 
 prized in this manner, ran all to the Sea fide, upon the noife that they heard 5 and feeing their 
 Veflel taken, were much amazed, but knew not how to help it; for we fhot at them wi th an 
 Iron Bafe that was in the Lantea , which made them fly into the Wood,where no doubt they 
 pafled the reft of that day in lamenting the fad fiiccefs of their ill fortune, as we had dene ours 
 before. 
 
 After We Were gotten into the Lantea , and that we were Cure the deceived Chinefescould 
 no way hurt us,we fat us down to eat that at leafiire,which they had caufixl to be made ready 
 for their dinner by an old man, that we found there, and it was a great Skillet full of Rice 
 with hached Lara,whereunto we fell with good ftomacks, as being not a little hungry * Din¬ 
 ner done, and thanks rendred to God for his gracious mercy to us, an Inventory tvas taken 
 of the goods that were in the Lantea 0 which was raw Silks, Damasks, Sattins,togetherwith 
 three great pots of Musk,amounting in all to the value of four thoufand Crowns,befides good 
 ftore of Rice,Sugar, Gammons ofBacon,and two Coups full of Poultry, whereof we had 
 more need then of all the reft,for the recovery of our fick men, which were not a few amongft 
 us. Hereupon we all began without fear to cut out pieces ofSilk, therewith to accommodate 
 every Gne with clothes. Antonio de Faria^ having found a prety boy in the Lantea , about 
 fbme twelve or thirteen years old, demanded of him from whence (he came, and what fhe 
 did in this placets alfo to whom (he belonged,and whither fhe was bound. Alas ! anfwered 
 the boy. She not long fince belonged to my unfortunate Father , whofe ill hap it is to have that 
 taken from him by you in lefs then an hour , which he hath been above thirty years in getting : He 
 came from a place called Quoaman, wherein exchange of lingots of Silver he bought all theft 
 Commodities that you have^ with a purpofe to have gone and fold them to the Junks of Siam, 
 which are in the Port of Comhay; and wanting frejh water , it was his ill hap to come hither for 
 to takg in fome , where you have robbed him of all that he hath ^without any fear at all of the divine 
 JujHce . Whereupon Antonio de Faria bade him leave weeping, and making much of hint, 
 promiled to ufe him as his own (on, and that he would alwayes account him fo^ Hereat 
 fmiling as it were in difdain, he anfwered. Thinly not though I am but a Childe , that lamfo 
 foolijh to helieve y that having robbed my Father^ tbou canfl ever ufe me like thy Jon'. But if than 
 wilt do as thou fayefi , Ibefeech thee f or the Love of thy God fuffer me to Jwim unto that fad 
 Land , where he remains that begot me 0 who indeed is my true father , with whom I bad r**® 
 t her dye where I fee him lamenting^ then live with fuch wicked people as you are, Thenfbmc 
 of them that were prefent, reprehending and telling him that it was not well fpoken 5 
 Would you kriow replyed he, why l faid fo ? It was becaufe 1 faw you after you had filled 
 your. bellies , praife God with lifted up hands , and yet for all that like Hypocrites never care for 
 making rejlitution of that you have jlollen • but be affured , that after death you Jhall feel the ii» 
 goroUS chajUfement of the Lord Almighty for founjuftly taking mens goods from them. Artiomo 
 de Faria 3 admiring the Childs Speech, asked him whether he would become a Chriftian? 
 
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Of Ferdinand CAi etide^ Pinto. 
 
 Whereunto, ; eameftly beholding him, he anfwered, I underhand not what you jay, nor that 
 you propounded - declare it firji unto me, and then you Jhall hporv my mind further. Then Anto¬ 
 nio de Faria began to inftruft him thereinafter the belt manner he could,but the boy would 
 not anfwer him a word; only lifting up his hands and eyes to Heaven,he faid,we£pin gfBleffed 
 be thy Power , 0 Lord , that permits fucb people to live on the earthy that jpea^Jo Well of thee, and 
 yet fo ill obferve thy Law, as ihefe blinded mifereants do, ovho thinly that robbing and preach¬ 
 ing are things acceptable to thee. Having faid fo, he got him into a corner, and there re¬ 
 mained weeping for three dayes together, without eating any thing that was prefented un¬ 
 to him. Hereupon falling to confult whether it were the beft courfe for us to hold from 
 this place, either Northward, or Southward, much difputearofe thereabout, at length it 
 was concluded that w§ would go to Liampoo, a Port diftant from thepce Northwards two 
 hundred and threefcore leagues; for we hoped that along this Coaft we might happen to in- 
 counter and feize on (ome other greater and more commodious Veil'd then that we 
 had, which was too little for fo long a Voyage, in regard of the dangerous ftorms that are 
 ordinarily caufed by the new Moons on the Coaft of China , where dayly many (hips are call 
 away. With this delign we put to Sea about Sun-fet,and fo went on this night with a South- 
 Weft wind;and before day we dilcovered a little Ifland,named Gtuintoo, where vve forprized 
 a filher-boat full of frelh filh,of which vve took as much as vve had need of, as alfo 8. of 12. 
 men that were in herfor the fervice of our Lantea, by reafon our own were fo feeble as they 
 were not able to hold out any longer. Thefe 8.fifhermen,being demanded what Ports there 
 were on this Coaft to Chincheo, where vve thought vve might meet with fome Ship of Ma- 
 /^Cc2,anfvvered,that about 18.leagues from thence there was a good River and a good R.ode 
 called Xingrau , much frequented with Junks, where vve might be eafily and throughly ac¬ 
 commodated with all that vve ftand in need of; that at the entring into it, there was a lit¬ 
 tle Village named Xamoy, inhabited with poor filhermen, and 3. Leagues beyond that, the 
 Town where was great ftore of Silks, Musk, Pourcelains, and many other forts of Com¬ 
 modities, which were tranfported into divers parts. Upon this advice vve fleered our 
 courfe towards that River,where vve arrived the next day immediately after dinner, and 
 caft anchor juft againft it about a League in tlia Sea,for fear left our ill fortune Ihould run us 
 into the fame mifehief vve were in before. The night following vve took a far 00 offifher- 
 men, of whom we demanded what Junks there were in this River, and how they were 
 man’d,with divers other queftions proper for our delign. Whereunto theyanlwered, that at 
 the Town up the River there was not above 200. Junks, by reafon the greateft part were a’» 
 veady gone to Ainan, Sumbor , Lailoo, and other Ports of Cauchcnchina ; moreover, that we 
 might ride in fafety at Xamoy, and that there we might buy any thing we wanted; Whereupon 
 we entred into the River,and anchored clofe to the Village, where we continued the fpace of 
 half an hour,being much about midnight.But Antonio de Faria feeing that the Lantea where¬ 
 in we failed could not carry us to Liampoo , where we purpoled to lie all the Winter, he con¬ 
 cluded by the advice of his company to furnilh himlelf with a better Velld;and although jve 
 were not then in C2fe to enterprile any thing, yet riecefTity conftrained us to undertake more 
 then our Forces would permit; Now there being at that inftant a little Junk riding at an¬ 
 chor fall by us alone,and no other near her,havmg but few men in her,and thole afleep, An¬ 
 tonio de Faria thought he had a good opportunity to efteft his purpofo; wherefore leaving his 
 anchor in the Sea,he got up dole to this Junk,and with 27. Souldiers and 8. Boyes boarded 
 her on aludden unefpied,where finding 7. or 8. Cbinefe Mariners fall afleep, he caufed them 
 to be taken,and bound hand and foot ,threa tin ug if they cryed out never fo little to kill them 
 all,which put them infuch a fear, as they durft not fo much as quetch. ,Then cutting her ca- 
 ble?,he got him ftraight into the River, and fayled away with all the fpeed he could; The 
 next day we arrived at an Ifland^ named Pulio fgharim , diftant from Xamoy not above nine 
 Leagues;there meeting with a favourable gale within 3 dayes we went and anchored,at ano¬ 
 ther Ifland,called Luxitay , where in regard the Ayr.was wholfom, and the water good, we 
 thought fit to flay fome 15. days for the recovery of our lick men: In this place we vftited 
 the Junk, but found no other Commodity in her then Pvice,the greateft part whereof we caft 
 into the Sea, to make her the lighter and fecurer for our'Voyage; Then we unladed all her 
 furniture into the Lantea , and fet her,on ground for to caulk her, fo that in doing thereof,and 
 making our provifion of water, we fpent (a? I faid’before) fifteen days in this Ifland,by-winch 
 time our lick men fully recovered .their health; thereupon wc departed for Liampoo, being 
 
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 given to underhand, that many Portugal* were come thither from Malaca , Sunda,$iam, and 
 Patana , as they ufed ordinarily to do about that time for to winter there. 
 
 Sc&j, We had (ailed two days together along the Coaft of Lamau with a favourable wind,when 
 i it pleated God to make us encounter with a Junk of Pat ana, that came from Lequio, which 
 was commanded by a Chinefe Pyrat, named Gffay panian, a great friend of the Portugal 
 Nation, and much addiftedto our faftiions and manner of life, with him there were thirty 
 Portugal* , choice and proper men,whom he kept in pay, and advantaged more then the reft 
 with gifts and pretents,fo that they were all very rich. This Pyrat had no (boner diteovered 
 us but he refolved to attaque us, thinking nothing lefs then that we were Portugal*, fothat 
 endeavouring to inveft us, like an old Souldier as he was, and verft in the trade of Pyrat, he 
 got the wind of us ^ that done,falling down within a Musket (hot of u$ he faluted us with 15. 
 Pieces of Ordnance, wherewith we were much affrighted, becaufe frie mod of them were 
 Faulconets- but Antonio de Faria encouraging his men, like a valiant Captain, and a good 
 Chriftian,di(poted them bn the hatches in places mod: convenient, [as well in the Prow as the 
 Poop, reserving (ome to be afterwards fitted as need fhould require. Being thus refolved to 
 * fee the end of that which Fortune fhould prefent us,it pleated God that we deteried a Crop in 
 our Enemies Flag,and on the fore-deck a number of red Cap?,which our men were wont to / 
 wear at Sea in thofe times, whereby we were perfwaded that they might be Portugal* that 
 were going from Liampoo to Malaca • whereupon we made them a fign for to. make our felves 
 known to them,who no fooner perceived that we were 'Portugal*, but in token of joy they 
 gave a great fhout,and withal vailing their two top fails In (hewofobedience,they tent their 
 long boat,called a Balon,with i.Portugals in her,for to learh what we were,and from, whence 
 we came: Ac length having well obterved and confidered us,they approached with feme more 
 confidence to our Junk ; and having faluted us, and we them, they came aboard her, where 
 Antonio de Faria received them very courteoufly; Arid for that they were known to (ome of 
 our Souldiers,they continued there a good while, during the which they recounted divers 
 particulars unto us neceffary for our defign. That done, Antonio de Faria fent Cbriftovano B'or- 
 rdlho to accompany them back,and to vifit gffay Panian from him, asalfo to deliver him a 
 Letter full of Complements, and many other offers of friend (hip, wherewith this Pyrat Pa¬ 
 rian was (o contented and proud, that he teeirftd not to be himtelf (filch was his vanity) and 
 parting clofe by our Junk, he took in all his fails; then accompanied with 20. Portugal * # he 
 cante and vifited Antonio'] de Faria with a goodly rich Pretent, worth above two thou* 
 fondDiicates, as well in Ambergreece and Pearls, as Jewels of Gold and Silver. Antonio 
 de Faria, and the reft of us, received him with great Demonftraticns of love and honour: 
 After that he and all his Company were tet, Antonio de Faria fell to difeourte with them of 
 divers things according to the time and occafion, and then recked unto them his unhappy 
 Voyage, and the lofs he had fuftained • and acquainting them with his Determination to go 
 unto Li amp oo, for to re-inforce himfelf with men, and make provifion of Veffels with 
 Oars, to the end he might return again to pa(s once more into the Streight of Cartcbcnchina , 
 and ft> get to the Mynes of gheoaniaparu, where he had been told there were fix large houfes 
 full of Lingots of Silver, befides a far greater quantity that was continually melted all 
 along the River, and that without any peril one might be 'wonderfully enriched. YVhere- 
 unto the Pyrat Panian made this anfwer. For mine oven part, Signior Captain, lam not fo rich 
 as many thinly, though it is true I have been fo heretofore ; but having been beaten with the fame 
 misfortune,which thou fayeji hath befallen thee, my Riches have been takgn from me : Now to re¬ 
 turn to Patana,^£rr I have a wife and children, I dare not,by reafon J am affured that the Kina 
 will dejpoil me of all that I Jhoitld bring thithcr,becaufe I departed from thence without his pgnniffi- 
 cn, which he would make, a mofl hainous crime , to the end he might feize upon my eftate, as he 
 hath done to others for far Icjfer occafion* tbentbat wherewith he may charge me.Wherefore if thou 
 canfl be contented that If all accompany thee in the Voyage thou meancf to undertake, with an 
 hundred men that I have in my Jun\• fifteen piece* of Ordnance,thirty Muskets, and 'fourty Htr r 
 quebufes,which thefe Signiorsyhe Portugals that are with me do carry, I (hall mod willingly do 
 it,upon condition that thou wil t impart unto me a thirdpart of that whichJhdll be gotten, and to 
 that ejfett I defire thee to give me an afifurance under thy hand, as alfo to fwear unto me-by thy Law 
 to perform it accordingly. Antonio de Faria accepted of this offer very gladly, and after he had 
 rendred him many thanks for it,he (wore unto him upon the holy Evangelifts fully and \yit fl¬ 
 out all fail to eccomplifh what he required, and thereof likewite made him a prornltefinder 
 
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 his hand, to which divers of their company fubfcribed their names as witnefles. This accord 
 paft between them, they went both together into a Puver,called Anayffo me 5.Leagues from 
 thence, where they furniflied themfelves w^th all that they flood in need of,by means of a 
 Prefent of an hundred Ducates, which they gave to the CMandarin, Captain of the Town* 
 
 Chap. XX. 
 
 Our Encounter at Sea with a little Fijher-boat, wherein were eight Portugals very 
 . 1 fore hurt • and Antonio de Faria’s meeting and fighting with 
 
 CoiaAcem the Pyrat. 
 
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 B Eing parted from this Puver of Anay , and well provided of all things neceffary for the Seft. 
 
 Voyage we had undertaken, Antonio de Faria refolved by the advice and councel of 
 Quiay panian , whom he much refpe&ed, to go and anchor in the Port of Chincbeo , there to 
 be informed by fuch Portugals. as were come from S unda, Malaca, Timor, and Patana , of 
 certain matters requiiite for his defign, and whether they had any news from Liampoo , in re¬ 
 gard the report went in the Country, that the King of China had lent thither a Fleet of 400. 
 Junks,wherein there were an hundred thoufa'td men, for to take the Portugals that reiided 
 there,andfo burn their houfes, for that he would not endure them to be any longer in his do¬ 
 min'ons, becaufe he had been lately advertised, that they were not a people fo faithful and 
 peaceable as he had been formerly given to underftand. Arriving then in the T ort of Chin- 
 eheo , we found five Portugal (hips, that were come thither about a month before,from the 
 places above mentioned. Thefe (hips received us with great joy, and [after they had given us 
 intelligence of the Country, Trafiique, and ,Tranquillity of the Ports, > they told us they had 
 no other news from Liampoo , but that it was faid a great number of Portugals were come 
 thither from many parts to winter there; and how that great Army, which we fo much fear¬ 
 ed, was not thereabout but that it was fufpe&ed to be gone for the I(lands of Goto, to the 
 fuccour of Sucan de Pontir , from whom the brute went aBrother-in-la^ ofhis had taken his 
 Kingdom, and that in regard 'Sucan had lately made himfelffubjeft to the King of China , 
 and, his Tributary for an hundred thoufand Fads by the year, he had in compensation there¬ 
 of given him this great Army of 40O. Junks, with the forces aforefaid, for to reftore him to 
 his Crown and Signiories, whereof he had been defpqyled. Being very glad of this news, a£° 
 ter we had remained in this Port of Chincbeo the fpace of 9. days, we departed from thence 
 for Liampoo , taking along with us five and thirty Souldiers more out of the five (hips we 
 found there, to whom Antonio de Faria gave very good pay • and after we had failed five days 
 with a contrary wind,coafting from one fide to another,without-advt n ftng any whit at all,it 
 happened that one night about the firft watch,we met with a little Fifher-boat, or Taroo, 
 wherein there were eight ‘Portugals , very fore hurt, two of the which were named Mem Fa- 
 borda , and Antonio Aunques, men of honour, and very much renowned in ’thofe quarters, 
 the caufe why in’particular I name them; Thefe and the other fix were in fuch a pitiful e- 
 ftate, and fo hideous to fee to, as they moved every one to companion. This Parso coming 
 clofe to Antonio de Faria , he caufed them to be taken up into his Junk, where they prefently 
 call themfelves at his feet, from whence he raifed them up, weeping for pity to behold* them 
 fo naked, and al! bathed in their own blood with the wounds they had received, and then 
 demanded of them the occafion of their misfortune-: Whereunto one of the two m&Jean- 
 fwer, that about 17. days before they fet fail from Liampoo for Malaca , and that being ad¬ 
 vanced as far as the Ifle of Sumbor , they had been fet upon byi a Pyrat, a Guzarat by Na¬ 
 tion, called Coia Acem, who had three Junks, and four Lanteaas , wherein were fifteen hun¬ 
 dred men, namely an hundred and fifty Mahometans, jthe reft Luzzons , Jaoas , and Champa~ 
 as, people of the other fideof Malaya, and that after they had fought with them from one 
 to four in the afternoon, they had been taken with the death of fourfeore and two men, 
 whereof 18. were Portugals, and as many made flaves • And that in their Junk, what ofhis 
 and of others, there was loft in Merchandize above an hundred thoufand Fads. Antonio de 
 Faria remaining a good while penfive at that which thefe men related unto Him, at length 
 (aid unto diem ; I pray tell me how was it poffible for you to efcape more than the reft, the 
 fight palling as you deliver? After we had been fought withal about an hour uhd an half, the 
 three great Junks boarded us five times, an -d with the force of their fhot they fo tore the 
 Prow of ourVcffd, that we were ready to fink^ wherefore to keep out the water, arid lighten 
 
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 our (hif> } we were contained to cafl the mofi part of our goods into the Sea • and whiFfi our 
 men were laboring to do ft) our 'Enemies layed fo clofe at us , as every one was fain to leave that 
 he was about) for to defend himfelfe on the hatches : But whil'Jl we were thus troubled , mofi of 
 our company being hurt ^and many [lain fit pie a fed God that one of the Enemies Junky came to be jo 
 furioufly fired , as it caught hold likgwife of another that was fafined unto it) which made the 
 Pyrats fouldiers leave the fight for to go and fave their Vejfels• yet that they could not do fo 
 jpeedil)') but that one of them was burnt down even to the very IVater) fo that they ef the Junk L 
 were compelled to leap into the Sea to fave themfelves from burning , where mofi of them were 
 drowned: In the mean time we made Jhift to get our Junk . Aofe to a fiock^of PileS) which Fijh- 
 ermenhad planted there againfi a Rockhard by the mouth of the River) wheu at this prejent 
 is the Temple of the Siams ; but the Dog Coia Acem was infiantly with us y and having 
 faflgrapled US)be leapt into our Vejfel) .being followed by a great number of Mahometans, all 
 armed with Coats of M lily and Buff JerkjnS) who (Iraight way If lied above an hundred and 
 fifty of ours) whereof eighteen were Portugals; which wc no fooner perceived^ but all wounded as 
 we were , and Jpoy led with the fire^s you fee) we fought for fame way to fave our [elves , and 
 to that end we jped w into a Manchua, that was fa-fined to the fiern of our funwherein 
 it plcaf e d God that fifteen of us efcaped) whereof two dyed yefierdayl• and of the thirteen that 
 remain yet miraculoufiy alive , there are eight Portugal?, and five fervants . In tms fort we 
 got Usfiyj.tr) all Jpeed between this Pallifado and the Land amongfi the Rocks 9 the better to pre¬ 
 fer ve us from being boarded by their Junkbut they were otherwife employed in feelfing to 
 fai'c the men of their burnt Vejfel • and afterwards they entered into our Junk, where they 
 were fo carried away with the booth) as they never thought of purjuing us ; fo that the Sun 
 being .almofi fet , and they wonderful glad of their Vittorie over us , they retired into the Ri¬ 
 ver with great * Acclamations. Antonio deFarh) very joyful of til is News, though he was 
 fad again on the other fide,for the bad luccels of thole that had made him this Relation, 
 rendred thanks unto God for that he had found his Enemy, it being a matter fo much defired 
 of him and his; Certainly, faid he unto them then, by your report they muft needs be 
 now in great diforder, and much fpoyled in the River where .they are • for I am perlwa- 
 ded that neither your Junk, nor that of theirs, which was faftned to the burnt one, -carti 
 do thehi any longer fervice, and that in the great Junk which aflaulted you, it is not pofli- 
 ble but that you have hurt and killed a good many. Whereunto they anfwered,that with¬ 
 out doubt they had killed and hurt a great number. Then Antonio de Faria 3 putting off his 
 Gap, fell down on his knee?, and with his hands and eyes lifted up to Heaven, he laid 
 weeping, 0 Lord Jefus Chnfi , my God and Saviour , even as thou art the true hope of thoje 
 that put their trufi in ihee ‘ Z, that am the greatefi [inner of all men^ do mofi humbly befeeeh 
 thee) in the name of thyjcrvants that are here prefent , whofe Souls thou hafi bought with thy pre¬ 
 cious blood) that thou wilt give us (trength and viftory againfi this jzruel Enemy') the mimherer of 
 fomany Portugal?, whom with thy favour and aid)and for the honour of Ihy hfiy Name , I have 
 refolved to feek,out , as hitherto I have done 0 to the end he may pay to thy fouldiers and faithful 
 fervants what he hath Jo long owed them. Whereunto all that were by anfwered with one cry. 
 Tv theni) to- them , in the Name of Jefus Chrifi , that this Dog may now render us that , which for Jo 
 long togctherhe hath takefi) as well from US) as from our poor miferable companions. Hereup¬ 
 on with marvellous ardor and great acclamations, we fet fail for the Poi t of Lailoo which 
 we had left eight leagues behind us, whither by the advice of fome of his Company Antonio 
 de Earia went to furnilh himfelf with all that was neceffary for the fight he hoped to make 
 with the Pyrat, in the quell: of whom (as I have already delivered) He had fpent fo much 
 time, and yet could never till then hear any News of him in all the Ports and places where 
 hehgdbeen. 
 
 'Scft.i* The.qext morning we arrived at the Port of Lailoo , where Jfifray Banian had much kin¬ 
 dred and many friends,fo that he wanted no credit in that place • wherefore he intreated the 
 Mandanfr (who is the Captain of the Town) to permit us to buy for our mony fuch things 
 as we flood in need of^which he inftantly grantea,as well for fear left lome dilplealure might 
 be done hini,asfor the.fum of iooo.duckets,prefented unto him by Antonio de Faria) where¬ 
 with Jie refted very well fatisfied.Hereupon lome of our Company went alhore, who with 
 all diligence bought whatloever we wanted,as Saltpeter, & Sulphur to make powder. Lead, 
 Bullets,Viftual, Cordage, Oyl, Pitch, Pvolin, Ockam, 1 Timber, Planks, Arms, Darts, Staves 
 hardened in the fire,Mafts 3 Sails,Sail-yards,Target? 3 Flint?,Pullies,and Anchorsjthat done,we 
 
 took 
 
took infrefh water, and furnifhed our Veflels with Mariners 0 Now although that this place 
 Gonta'nednot above three or four hundred houfes,yet was there both there, and in the Villa¬ 
 ges adjoyning, fuch a quantity of the aforefaid things, that in truth it were hard ho exprefs 
 it; for China is excellent in this, that it may vaunt to be the Country in the world moft a- 
 bounding in all things that may be defired. Befides for that Antonio de Faria was exceeding 
 liberal,in regard he fpent out of the general booty, before the partitions were made, he paid 
 for all that he bought at the price the fellers, would fet, by means whereof he had more 
 brought him by far then he had ufe for; fb that within 13 dayes he went out of this Port 
 wonderfully well accommodated, with two other new great Junks,which he had exchanged 
 for two little ones that he had, and 2 Lanteaas with Oars,as alfo 160 Mariners,both for row- 
 ing,and for governing the fails. After all thefe preparations were made, and we ready to 
 weigh anchor, a general mufter was taken of all that were in our Army, which in number 
 was found to be 500 perfons,as well for fight, as for the fervice and Navigation of our Vef- 
 fels, amongft whom were fourfcorc and fifteen Portugals, young and refolute, the reft were 
 Boys, and Mariners, and men of the other Coaft, which guia Panian kept in pay, and w^re 
 well pra&ifed to Sea-fight, as they that had been five years Pyrats. Moreover, we had 160, 
 Harquebufes, forty pieces of brafs Ordnance, whereof twenty were field-pieces ,that carried 
 ftone-bullets,threefcore quintals ofpowder; namely, fifty four for the great Ordnance, and 
 fix for the Harquebufes, befides what the Harquebufiers had already delivered to them, nine 
 hundred pots of artificial fire, whereof four hundred were of Powder, and five hundred of 
 unflaked Lime after the Chinefe manner, a great number of Stones, r Arrows, Half-pikes, 
 four thoufand fmall Javelings, ftore of Hatchets to ferve at boarding, fix Boats full of Flints, 
 wherewith the Sai ers fought; twelve Cramp-irons with their hooks faftned to great iron 
 chasns for to grapple Veflels together, and many forts of fire-works, which an Engineer of 
 the Levant made for us. With all this Equipage we departed from this Port of Lailoo and 
 within 3 days after it pleafed God that we arrived at the fifhing place, where Coia *Acem 
 took the Portugals Junk : There as footi as it was night, Antonio de Faria fent fpies into the 
 the River, for to learn whereabout he was, we took a Paroo, with fix Fiftiermen in her,that 
 gave us to underftand how thisPirat was fome 2 Leagues from thence in a River called 
 liulau, and that he was accommodating the Junk he had taken from the Portugals , for to 
 go in her, with two others that he had, unto Siam, where he was born, and that he was 
 to depart within 2 days. Upon this news Antonio de Faria called fome of his company to 
 councel, where it was concluded that firft ofall the places and forces of cur Enemy was to be 
 vifited and feen, becaufe in a matter of fo much hazard, it was not fafe to run as it were 
 blindfold, unto it,but to advife on it well beforehand; and that upon the certainty of that 
 which fliould be known, fuch refolution might afterwards be taken, as fliould feem good to 
 all; Then drawing the fiftiermen out of the Paroo , he put fome of Famans Mariners into 
 
 her,and fending her away only with the two of thofe fiftiermen, keeping the reft as hoftages, 
 he committed the charge of her to a valiant Souldier, named Vincentic Morofa , attired after 
 the Chinefe fafhion, for fear of difeovery; who arriving at the place where the Enemy rode, 
 made (hew of fiftiing, as others did ; and by that means efpied all that he came for, whereupon 
 returning,he gave an account of what he had feen, and aflured us that the Enemies were fb 
 weak,as upon boarding of them they might eafily be taken. Antonio de Faria caufed the moft 
 experienced men of his company to be aflembled,to advife thereon, and that : n Quiay pani- 
 ans Junk,to honor him the more,as alfo to maintain his friendftiip,which he much efteem’d: 
 At this meeting it was refblved, that as foon as it was night,they fhOuld go and anchor at the 
 mouth of the River where the Enemy lay, for to fet upon him the next morning before day. 
 This agreed unto by all,Antonio de Faria let down what order and courfe (hould he held at 
 the entring into the River,and how the Enemy fliould be aflaulted: Then dividing his men, 
 he placed thirty Portugals in Qitiay Fanians Junk, iuch as he pleafed to choofe, becaufe he 
 would be fure to give him no dittafte; Likewife he difpofed fix ‘portugals into each of the 
 Lanteaas, and into CbrijlovanoBorralbo 3 VJunk twenty ; the reft of the Portugals , being 33. he 
 retained with himfelf, befides flaves and divers Chriftians, all valiant and trufty men. Thus 
 accommodated and ordered for the execution of his enterprize, he fet fail towards the Ri¬ 
 ver of linlau, where he arrived about Sun-fet; and there keeping good watch he paft the 
 night till three of the Clock in the morning, at which time he made to the Enemy, who rode 
 fome half a League up in the River, 
 
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 It pleafed God that the Sea was calm,and the wind fo favourable, as our Fleet failing up 
 the River ? arrived in lefs then an hour dofe to the Enemy, unperceived of any ; But becaule 
 they were Thieves, and feared the people of the Country ,in regard of the great mifchiefs and 
 robberies which they dayly committed,they ftood fo upon their guard, and fo good watch, 
 that as foon as they difcerned us, in all hafte they rung an alarum with a Bell, the found 
 whereof caufed foch a rumor and diforder, as well amongft them that wereafhore, as thole 
 aboard,that one could hardly her one aother,by reafon of the great noife they made.Where- 
 upon Antonio deFaria, feeing we were difoovered,cried out to his company, To them , my wa¬ 
 fers 0 to them in the Name of God , before they be fuccoured by their Lorches• wherewith dis¬ 
 charging all his Ordnance, it pleafed Heaven, that the (hot light to fuch purpofe, as itover- 
 thrtwand tore in pieces the raoft part of the valianteft that then,were mounted and appear¬ 
 ed on the deck, even right as we could have wilhed: In the neck hereof our Harquebuliers, 
 wlfch might be fome hundred and threefcore, failed not to Ihoot upon the fignal that had 
 formerly been ordained for it,fo that the hatches of the Junk were cleared of all thofe that 
 were upon them, and that with fuch a (laughter, as not an Enemy durft appear there after¬ 
 wards ; At which very inftan our two Junks boarded their two in the cafe they were in, 
 where the fight grew fo hot on either fide, as I confels I am not able to relate in particular, 
 what pafled therein,though I was prefent at it; for when it began it was foarce day.Now that 
 which rendred the conflitt betwixt us and our enemies mod dreadful was the noile of Drums, 
 Bafins and Bells,accompanied with the report of the great Ordnance, wherewith the Valleys 
 and Rociks thereabouts refounded again. This fight continuing in this manner fome quarter 
 of an hour,their Lonhes and Lanteas came forth from the Ihore to aflift them withfrelh men, 
 wh'ch one named Diego Meyrelez, m guiay Panians Junk, perceiving, and that a Gunner 
 employed not his (hot to any purpole, in regard he was lb befide himfelf with fear, that|hc 
 knew not wha-t he did,as he was ready to give fire to a Piece, he ihruft him away fo rudely, 
 as he threw him down into the fcuttle,faying to him. Away villain jhou canji do > nothing , this 
 bnfncfi belongs to men, fuch as I am, not to thee: whereuporcpointing the Gun with its wedges 
 of level, as he knew very well how to do, he gave fire to the Piece which was charged with 
 bullets and ftones,and hitting the Lorch that came foremoft, carried away the Uf per part of 
 her from Poup to Prow,fo that (he prefently fank, and all that were in her, not a man faved ; 
 The (hot then having pad fo through the firft torch , fell on the hatches of another Lorch that 
 came a little behind, and killed the Captain of her, with fix or feven more that were by 
 him, wherewith the two other Lorches were fo terrified, that going about to fly back to 
 Land, they fell foul one of another, fo as they could not clear themfelves, but remained en¬ 
 tangled together, and not able to go forward or backward, which perceived by the Cap¬ 
 tains of our two Lorches^ called Gajparo d* Oliveyra, and Vincentio Morofa, they prelently let 
 upon them,cafting a great many artificial pots into them,wherewith they were lb fired, that 
 they burnt down to the very water, which made the molt of thole that were in them to leap 
 , into theSea,whereour men killed them all with their Pikes, lb that in thofe three Lorches 
 alone; theredycd above two hundred perfons ; and in the other, whereof the Captain was 
 (lain,there was notone elcaped, for §>uiay Panian purified them in a Champana , which was 
 the Boat of his Junk,and dilpatched moft of them as they were getting to Land, the reft were 
 all battered againft the Rocks that were by the Ihore-r which the Enemies in the Junks per¬ 
 ceiving, being fome hundred and fifty Mahometans } Luzzons y Borneos, and Jaos, they began 
 to be fodilcouraged,that many of them threw themlelves into the Sea; whereupon the dog 
 Coia Acem , who yet was not known,ran to this diforder, for to animate his men. He had on 
 a Coat of Mail lined with Crimfon Sattin, edged with gold fringe, that had formerly be¬ 
 longed to fome Portugal ; and crying out with a loud voyce, that every one might her him, 
 he laid 3 times, Lah hilah , hilah la Mahumedyocol halah^Maffulmens , and true believers in the 
 holy Law of Mahomet , will you fuffer your felves to be vanquished by fuch feeble (laves as 
 thefe Chrijlian Dogs , who have no more heart then white Pullets , or bearded women ? To tbem 9 
 to them y for we are affured by the Book^ of Flowers , wherein the Prophet Noby doth promije 
 eternal delights to the Daroezes of the houfe of Mecqua, that he will kgep his word both with you 
 and me • provided , that we bathe our felves in the blood of thefe Dogs without Law: With 
 thefe curled words the Devil fo incouraged them, that rallying all into one body, they re¬ 
 inforced the fight, andfo valiantly made head againft us, as it was a dreadful thing to 
 fee how delperately they ran amongft our weapons. In the mean time Antonio dc Faria thus 
 
 exhorted 
 
Of Ferdinand tSMendes^ Pinto. 
 
 T- 
 
 exhorted his -men : Courage valiant Chrifiians, and whilejl tbefe wicked Mifcre ants fortifie 
 tbetnfelves in their devilijh Sect, let its trujhin our Lord Jefus Chriji nailed on the Crofs for us ' 
 who will never forfapg us, how great fmners Jcever we be • for after all we are his , which the]e 
 Dogs here are wt.VVith this fervour and zeal of faith flying upon Coia Acem, to whom he had 
 moft fpleen, he difcharged fo great a blow on his head with a two-handed fword, that cut¬ 
 ting through a Cap of Mail he wore, he laid him at his feet;then redoubling with another re- 
 verfe ftroke he lamed him of both his legs,as he could not rife,which his followers beholding 
 they gave a mighty cry, and aflaulted Antonio de Faria with fuch fury and hardinef, as they 
 made no reckning ofa many of Portugal*,by whom they were invironed, but gave him divers 
 blows that had almoft overthrown him to the ground ; Our men feeing this ran prefen tly 
 to his aid, and behaved themfelves fo well, that in half a quarter of an hour fourty eight of 
 our enemies, lay flaughteredl on the dead body of CoiaAcem, and but fourteen of ours,, 
 whereof there were not above five Portugals, the reft were fervants and (laves, good and 
 faithfuEChriftians. The remainder of them, beginning to faint, retired in diforder towards 
 the foredeck,with an intent to fortifie themfelves there/or prevention whereof 20. Souldiers 
 of thirty that were in &)uiay Panians Junk, ran inftantly and got before them; fo that ere they 
 could render themfelves Matters of what they pretended unto, they were inforced to leap 
 into the Sea,where they fell one upon another, and were by our men quite made an end of, 
 fo that of all their number they remained but only five, whom they took alive, and caft into 
 the Hold bound hand and foot, to the end they might afterwards be forced by torments to 
 confefs certain matters that fhould be demanded of them; but they fairly tore out one ano= 
 thers throats with their teeth,for fear of the death they expefted, which yet could not keep 
 them from being difmembred by our fervants,and after thrown into the Sea, in the company 
 of the Dog; CoiaAcem their Captain, great Cacis of the King o fflintan, the Shedder and 
 Drinker of the blood of Portugals ; Titles which he ordinarily gave himfelf in his Letters, 
 and which he publifhed openly to all Mahometans, by reafbn whereof, and for the fuperfti- 
 tion of his curfed Se&, he was greatly honoured by them. 
 
 Chap. XXI. 
 
 ' What Antonio de Faria did after his Vittory ; his departure from the River rfTinalu, 
 with his ill fuccefs thereupon , and the fuccour we met with all. 
 
 T His bloody Battel finifhed with the honour of the Vi&ory, before mentioned, in thede- S eS. 
 
 fcription whereof I have not ufed many words; for if I fhould undertake to recount the 
 particulars of it, and fet forth all that was performed by ours, as alfo the valour where with 
 the Enemies defended themfelves, befides that I am not able to do it,I fhould then be forced 
 to make a far larger difcoufre,and more ample Hiftory then this is: but it being my intention 
 to declare things en pajfa?tt,l have laboured to (peak fiiccin&ly in divers places,where poflibly ' 
 better wits then mine would amplifie matters in a more accompliftied manner; and this is the 
 reafbn that I have now delivered nothing but what was needful to be written. Returning 
 then to my former difcourfe, I fay, that the firft thing Antonio de Faria did after this Victory 
 was to fee his hurt men looked unto, whereof there were about fourfcore and twelve, the 
 moft part Portugals, our fervants being included ; As for the number of the dead, there were 
 on our fide forty two, amongft which eight were Portugals, the lofs of whom affli&ed Anto¬ 
 nio de Faria more then all the reft, and of the enemies three hundred and twenty, whereof an 
 hundred and fifty fell by fire and (word ,the remainder were drowned. Now albeit this Vi¬ 
 ctory brought a great deal of content to us all, yet were there many tears fhed, both , in gene¬ 
 ral and particular for the (laughter of our companions, the moft part of whofe heads were 
 cleft afunder with the Enemies hatchets. After this Antonio de Faria, noiwithftanding he was 
 hurt in two or three places, went prefently afhoar with thofe that were in cafe to accompany 
 him, where the firft thing he did was to give order for the burial of the dead; ther eupon he 
 (unrounded the Ifland for to fee what he could difcover: Conypaflmg of it then in this fort he 
 lighted upon a very plcafant Valley, wherein were many gardens, replenifhed with fiindry 
 kinds of fruitS;there alfo was a Village of about forty of fifty very low houfes, which the in¬ 
 famous Cola Acem had lacked, aud in them (lain many of the inhabitants, that had net the 
 means to eficape his hands* Further, in the (aid Valley,and by a delicate River of frefh water, 
 wherein were a number of Mullets and Trouts, he met with a very fair houfe, which teemed. 
 
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 to be the Pagode of the Village, that was full of fick and hurt p erfons, whom Ccia Acn whad 
 put there to be cured;amongft thefe were divers Mahometans of his kindred, and others of his 
 foeft Souldiers, to the number of ninety fix, who as focn as they perceived Antonio de Faria 
 afar off cried out to him for mercy and forgivenefi, but he Would by no means hearken unto 
 them, alledging that he could not fpare thofe that had killed fo many Chriftians ; *Saying fb, 
 hecaufed the houfe to be fired in fix or feven places, which in regard it was of wood, be- 
 pitched,and covered with dry Palm-tree leaves, burned in {uch fort as it was dreadful to be¬ 
 hold * 1 In the mean time it would have moved any man to pity, to hear the lamentable cries 
 made by thefe wretches within,2nd to fee them caft themfelves headlong out of the windows j 
 where our men provoked w' th a defire of revenge, received them upon their Pikes and Hal- 
 berds.This cruelty performed, Antonio de Faria returned to the Sea fide, where the Junk lay 
 that Coia Acem had taken amonth before from the Portugals of Liampoo jk caufed it tobelan- 
 ched into the Sea,having been formerly repaired and caulked,which being done,& he aboard 
 again,he reftored it to Mem Taborda, and Antonio Anriquesj.0 whom it belonged, as I have 
 already declared : But firft, caufing them to lay their hands on the Book of Prayers; Worthy 
 friend laid he unto them, for all thofe my companions Jahgs^as well living as dead , who for your 
 Juukhere have loft jo much bloody arid fo many lives ; I prejent you with her , and all the goods 
 that were in her, as a free gift , to the end that thereby our Lord may receive us into his 
 everlafiing Kingdome • and befides , be pleafed to grant us an abolition of all our fns in this 
 World , and in the other'everlafiing Life^ as 1 trufl he hath given to our Brethren , that this day 
 day dyedlikg good Chriftians^ for the Holy Catholique Faith • Howbeit, I pray and expn fly en- 
 joyn yon q Nay , I conjure you by the Oath you are now to make, that you take no other goods , 
 -but fitch onely as appertain unto you, and that you brought from Liampoo, both for your Jilves, 
 and thofe other Merchants that were Venturers with you: For more I did not give you, nor were 
 itreafonable l Jbould, in regard it would be much againjl the duty of either of cur Confidences, 
 for me to give , and you to receive it . Having Ipoken in this manner, Mem Taborda , and An¬ 
 tonio Antiques, who little looked for any fuch favour, fell down at his feet, and with tears of 
 joy rendred him a world of thanks, and then prefently >went afhoar for to feek out their 
 goods,taking with them about 50. or 6o.Servants, whom their Mafters had lent them for to 
 help gather up the Silks that Were wet, and hanged up by the Enemies on Tree^ a drying, 
 befides 2 .great rooms foil of fuch as had never been wet,all which amounted,as it was (aid,to 
 an hundred thouland Tatis, wherein above an hundred Merchants had a ftiare, as well of 
 them that dwelt at Liampoo , as at Malaca, to whom they were configned ; The reft of their 
 Commodities, being a third part thereof, were loft, and could never be heard o£ The next 
 morning asfoon as it was light, he went to the great Junk that he had taken which was foil 
 of the bodies of them that were iu her the day before, whom without further ado he caufed 
 to be thrown, into the Sea; howbeit for Coia Acem, in regard he was of a more eminent con¬ 
 dition then the reft, and confequently deferving a greater honour in his funerals,he comman¬ 
 ded him clothed and armed as he was to be cut into ^quarters,and lb caft alfo into the Sea, 
 where for the merit of his wor^ his body was intombed in the bellies of the hungry Lizards, 
 whereof there was a great comr any all about our Junk,that Ihewed themfelves above water, 
 allured by the appaft of thofe formerly thrown over-board ; and in precipitating him fo difo 
 membred into the Stz,Antonio de Faria in ftead of a Prayer,Go wicked wretch , (aid h e,to the 
 bottom of Hell,where thy damned Soul doth now enjoy the premijed delights of tby Mahomet , as 
 thou didjlycjlerday publijh to thefe other Dogs fuch as thy (elf Thereupon he commanded all 
 the Slaves and Captives of his Company,together with their Mafters before him,unto whom 
 he made a Speech like a true Chriftian, as indeed he was, whereby he prayed them in the 
 Name of God to manumit thefe Slaves, according to the promife he had made them before 
 the fight,ingaging himfelfto fatisfie them for it out of his own Eftate; Whereunto they an- 
 fwered all with one confent, that fince it was his defire they were well contented, and that 
 they did even then fet them at full liberty, whereof he caufed a writing to be prefently made 
 with all their hands unto it, being as much as could be done for the inftanr, but afterwards 
 each ot them had in particular letters of manumiflion granted unto them.This done,an Inven¬ 
 tory was taken of foch Commodities aswere found to be good and Merchantable,over and a- 
 bove thofe which were given to the Portugals, and all was prafed at ioo.and 30000. Tacis in 
 Silver Lingots o£J apatt,coi\(ifting ofSattin,Damask, raw Silk,Taffaty, Musk, and very fine 
 Pourcelain; for as touching the reft.they were not put in writing; And all thefe Robberies, 
 
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 the Pyrats had cc emitted cn the Ccafts bet ween Sumter and Fucbec, w here for above a 
 ye&r together they had courfed up and down. 
 
 After that Annmode Faria had remained four and twenty days in thisRiverof 7 inlau, 
 during which time allhis hurt men werecured,be let fail direftly tor Licmpoc, where her u r I 
 pofed to pafs the Winter,to the end that with the beginning of the Spring he might fetforth 
 on his Voyage to the Mynesof Quoamaraw, as he had refolved with guiay Panian , the Cbimfe 
 Pyrat that was in his company,but being advanced even to the point tfMicuy, which was at the 
 height of fix and twenty degrees, fo great a Temped arofe towards the North-weft, that we 
 were fain toftrikeour .tcp-laile, for fear weftiotild be forced back aeain from ourcourfe • 
 but after dinner it increafed with fuch a terrible ftorm of rain, and the" Sea went fo highghat 
 the two Lantm were not able to brcok it,(b that about Evening they made to Land, with 
 an intent to recover the River of A'i/cW^which was about a league and an halffrcm thence* 
 Whereupon Antonio'de Faria doubting feme mkfertme, carried as little fail as pcflibly he 
 cou!d;as well for that he would not outgo the Lantcas, as in regard of the violence cl the 
 Wind which was fuch, as they durft not carry more : Now by reafon the night was fo dark^ 
 and the billows lb great^they could hot difeern a Ihelf of (and,that lay betwixt anlfland and 
 the point of a Rock pfb that palling over it our Junk ftruck herfelffo rudely on it,as her up¬ 
 per keel cleft in 2. or 3. places, and her under-keel a little; whereupon our Gunner would 
 have given fire to a Fa!conet,forto have warned the other Junks to come in tofuccour us in 
 thh extremity;but Antonio de Faria would by no means permit him,(aying,that lince it plea- 
 fed God he (hould be caft away in that place, there was no reafon that others fticuld be loft 
 there alfo for his caufe ; But he defired every one to allift him, both with mutual labour, and 
 fecret prayers unto God to pardon their fins: Having faid lo, he caufed the mainMaft to be 
 cut down, 'whereby the Juhk came to be in fomwhat a better cafe then Ihe was before; but 
 alas ! the fall of it coft 3. Mariners, and 1. of our (ervants their lives,who chancing to be un¬ 
 der it when it fell, were battered all to pieces: In like manner, he made all other Mails from 
 poop to /prow to be hew’d down,together with all the dead Work?,as the Cabbins and Galle¬ 
 ries withour,fo that all was taken away clofe to the hatches. And though all this was done with 
 incredible diligence, yet it flood us in little Head ; for that the weather wasfo foul, the Sea 
 fo fwolnjthe night fo dark,the waves fo furious,the rain fo great,and the violence of the ftorm 
 fo intolerable, that no man was able to with Hand it': In the mean time the other 4. Junks 
 tnade a fign to us,as if they alfo were caft away ; Whereupon Antonio de Faria lifting up his 
 eyes and hands to Heaven, Lord , faid he before them all, as through; thy infinite mercy thou 
 wajifajtned upon the [Croft for 1 be Redemption of fwners, fo I befeecb thee, who art all triercy' 
 that for tbe jatiifaction of thy Jujlice, I alone may fufferfor the offences winch tbefe men have coml 
 mined, fnce I am the principal c a fife of their treffafing againf thy (Divine gondnejs ; permit not 
 then, 0 Lord, that in this woful night, they may fall into that danger wherein I fee myfelfat 
 this prejent,by reafon ef my. Jins • but with a repentant Soul 1 mojl humbly befeesh thee, and that < 
 in ihe name of all the reft, though I am mojl unworthy to be heard, that injlead of having regard to 
 ourfws , thou wilt behold us with the eyes of that pity and infinite■ clemency wherewith thou an 
 replenished. Upon thefe words we all fell out a crying out fo lamentably. Lord have mercy 
 upon «*,that it would have grieved any heart in the world to have heard us: And as all men 
 that find themfelves in the like 1 extremi ty, are naturally carried to the prefervation of their 
 lives,without any regard at all of ought elle,there was not one amongft us that fought not the 
 means to fafe his life; (o that all of us together ifriployed our felvesin difcharging our Veflel, 
 by caftmg our goods into the Sea: To which, effeft about ioo.of us,as well Fortugals, as (laves 
 and Mariners, leapt down into the Ship, and inlets then an hour heav’d alIover-board,with- 
 out any refpeft in fo eminent a danger of that which we did; for amongft the reft we threw 
 twele great Chefts full ofLingots of Silver into the Sea, which in the laft encounter we had 
 taken from Coia y/cm,befides many other thircgsof great value, whereby our Junk was fom- 
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 Having paft the night in that miferable ftate we were in, at length, as the day began to ^a 
 break,it pleafed God that the wind alfo began to flack, whereby our <funk remained k little S 
 more at reft,though Ihe wasftill in great peril, by reafon of the water (he had taken in,it be¬ 
 ing almoft four yards deep in her, fb that to avbid the eminent danger we were thredrned 
 with,we all of us got forth, and catching hold by the tacl^e, we hung on the oiit-lide of the 
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 or caft againft the Rocks, which had already happened to ii. or 12. of our Company for 
 want of taking heed: Now when the day began perfe&ly to appear,it pleafed God that Mem 
 Tabor da's and Antonio Antique* Jenks difcovered up, and p>refently coming up clofotous, 
 they that were in her threw us a great many (laves tied to cords, to the end we might faften 
 our felves to them, as we prtfently did, and therein an hour was fpent with much ado, by 
 realbn of the extreem diforder amongft us* every man defiling and driving to be firft (aVed; 
 by which occafion 2©.mdn were drowned, whereof 5. were Portugal? , for whom Antonio de 
 paria was more grieved, then for the lofs of the Junk, and all the goods that were in her, 
 although the value thereof was not fo fmall*but that it amounted to above an hundred thou- 
 fand 7 <zw,aftd that in Silver alone; for the greated part of the booty, taken from Coia A- 
 cem^ had been put into Antonio de F<*m’sjunk.a$ that vvhich was held to be freer from danger 
 then all the reft : Thus after we had with much peril and pain gotten into Taboida*? Junk, we 
 paft all that day in continual lamentation for our ill fuccefs, without hearing any news of 
 our contorts: Neverthelefs, it pleafed God that about Evening we difcovered two Sails,which 
 made fo many fhort turnings from one fide to another, that one might well guefs they did it 
 ofptirpofe to fpend time,whereby we were perfwadbd that they were of our Company. Now 
 becaufe it was almoft night, we thought it fit to go to them for foifte reafons given thereup¬ 
 on 5 but having made them a fign, they anfwered us ptelently with the like, according to our 
 defire 5 and about the end of the laft watch they approached fo neer unto us, that after they 
 had falu ed us,they demanded how the Captain General and the reft did ; whereunto were* 
 plyed, that as foon as it was day we would tell them ; and that in the mean time they (hould 
 retire from thence till the next morning that it was light, for that the waves then went fo 
 high ,as (bme difafter might otherwife enlue thereupon. The next day,as foon as the Sun began 
 to appear, two Portugals came to us from Quiay Pantans Junk, who feeing Antonio de Faria 
 in the Cafe he was in aboard Mem Tabordd* s Junk $ and underftanding the bad (iiccefs of his 
 Fortune, they recounted t heirs unto us, which teemed to be little better then ours $ for they 
 declared that a guft of Wind had caught up, and thrown 3. of thdr men a ftones caft from 
 the Veflel into the Sea, a thing never teen nor heard of before: Withall they delivered, how 
 the littleJunk was caft away with 15. men in her, almoft all Chriftians, amongft the which 
 were 7/ Portugal? 9 and the Captain, named Nuno Petro , an honourable man, arid of great 
 courage and wifdorh, whereof he had given good proof in the former adverfities: At this re¬ 
 lation Antonio de Faria was very much grieved, but much more when a little after one of the 
 two Lanteas, of whom no news had been heard of till then, arriving, told us what dangers 
 they had ran, and that the other having broken thdr Cables, and left their Anchors in the 
 Sea, was in their fight battered all to pieces on the Sea (hoar, all that were in her being 
 drowned,faving 13.per(ons,whereof there were 5. Portugal /, and 3. tervants,Chriftians*whom 
 thote of the Country had made Slaves,and carried to a place called Noudayfo that by this 
 unlucky Tempeft two Junks, and one Larttea , or Torch , were caft away, wherein above an 
 hundred men were loft; befides Slaves, Apparel, Commodities, Silver, Jewels, Ordnance, 
 Arms, Vi&ual, and Munition, worth in all above two hundred thouland Ducates;in (b much 
 that both our General, and every one of us Souldiers,found our felves deftitute of all manner 
 of reliefj having nothing left us but what was upon our backs. VVe learnt afterwards that 
 fuch like fortunes at Sea do ordinarily happen on this Coaft of China , more then in any other 
 part • (b that it is impoffible to (ail there a whole year together without (hipwrack,unlefs up¬ 
 on' the Conjun&ioh of the new Moons one fly into the Ports for (helter, which- are there fo 
 many andfo good,'that without fear of any thing one may enter them eafily, becaufe they 
 are all very clear, except thole of Lamau and Sumbor , which have certain Rocks lying (bme 
 half a League Southward from the mouth of the River. 
 
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 Antonio de Faria hath new? of the five Portugals that were made Captive ?; 
 hi? Letter to the Mandarin o/Nouday about them\ and 
 • hi? ajfaulting the Jaid Town. 
 
 Scft.r* A F ter this furious Tempeft was wholly aflwaged, Antonio de Faria incontinently imbar- 
 _F\_ qued himfelf in the other g$eat Junk, that he had taken from Coia Acem 9 whereof 
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 cohfifted of 3. Jurik? 5 and i . Lorcb or Lantea ; as the Chinefe* terni them. The firft thing 
 he did then, was to go and Anchor in the Haven of Nmday, to the end, he might learn forhe 
 news of the 13. Captives that were carried thither * being arrived there about night he fent 
 two fmall Barques, called Baloes, well man’d, tofpy the Port, and found the depth of the 
 River; as alfo to obferve the fcituaticn of the Cbuntry, and to learn by foinenns what Ships 
 were riding there * together with divers other matters anfwerable tohisdefign* For which 
 effeft he commanded the Mariners to endeavour all they could for to furprize fome cf the In¬ 
 habitants of the Towh, that by them he might be truly informed what was become of the 
 Portugal*, by realbn he was afraid they were already carried further up into the Country* 
 Thefe Baloes went away about two hours after midnight, and arrived at a little Village feat= 
 ed at the mouth of the River on a little ftream of water, called Nipaphau: There it pleafed 
 God that they behaved themfelvesfo well, as they returned before day aboard our Junk 
 bringing along with them a Barque laded with earthen Veflels,and Sugar Canes, which they 
 had found lying at Anchor in the midft of the River Mn this Barque there wereeight men, 
 and two women,t'ogether with a little child fome 6 . br 7, years old, who feeing themfelves 
 thus in ouf power, became fo tranfported with the fear of death* that they w ere in a manner 
 belides themfelve c » which Antonio de Faria pehceivirig laboured all he could to comfort them, 
 and began to fpeak them very fair* >but to ill? his.. queftions he could draw no other anfwer 
 from them then thefe words following, Do not kjllus Without caufe, for God will require an 
 account of our blood from you, becaufewe are poor folky , and faying thus, they wept and trem¬ 
 bled in fitch fort, as they could fcarce pronounce a Word * whereupon Antonio de Faria, pit- 
 tying their mifery and fimplicity, would importune them no further : Howbeit, the better 
 to compafs his intent* he intreat ed a Chinefe woman', that was a Ghriftian,and came along 
 with the Pilot, tomake much ofthem,and to affure them they fhould have no hurt, to the 
 end,that being more confirmed by this means they might anfwer to that fhould be demanded 
 of them; Wherein the Chinefe fo well acquitted herjfelf,and made them fo tradable, as about 
 an hour after they told her, that if the Captain would let them freely return in their boat to 
 the placeTrom whence they were taken, they would willingly confef all that either they had 
 heard or feen. Antonio de Faria having promifed them to do fo, and that with many words 
 and proteftation?,one amongft them* that was ancierrter,and that feemed to be of more author 
 rity then the reft, addrefling himfelf to him: Truly, faid he* l do not rely mneb on thy words, 
 fiecaufe that by amplifying of them in fuch manner thou tnakejl me afraid, that the effecl will not 
 be conformable to thy jfreech : IVherefore l :bejeech thee to fwear unto Me by this Element that 
 bears thee, that thou wilt not fail to perform that which thou ha(l promifed unto me: for other « 
 wife perjuring thy felf., be affured that the Lord, whofe hand is Almighty, will be incenfed againfi: 
 thee with fuch indignation, as the winds from above, and the Seas from below, will never ceafe 
 to oppofe thy defires during thy Voyages• fori vow unto thee by the beauty of thefe Stars, that 
 lying is nolefs odious and abominable in the fight of that Sovereign Lord, then the pride of thofe 
 Judges on Earth, that with from and contempt do anfwer thofe which demand Jufiice of them, 
 Antonia de Faria obliging himfelf by Oath, as the old man required, to perform his word, 
 the Chinefe laid he was fatisfied, and then he continued in this fort : About two dayes fimce 
 l faw thofe Men whom thou enquirefi after, laid in Prifonat Nouday, with great Irons <,n their 
 Legs, becaufe it was believed they were notorious Thieves, that made Trade of robbing fuch of 
 they met upon the Seas, This relation very much in raged and difquieted Antonio de Faria, 
 who was perfwaded that it might well be as the old Man delivered* fo that defiring to 
 take fome courfe for their deliverance as foon as might be, he fent them a Letter by one of 
 the Chinefe*, retaining all the reft in Hoftage for him, who departed the next morning’by 
 break of day * and becaufe it much imported the Chinefes to be delivered out of Captivity, 
 he that carried the Letter, and that was husband to one of the two women, which had been 
 taken in the boat of earthen Veflel$,and were now aboard in our Junk,made fuch fpeed,thac 
 he returned about noon with an anfwer,endorfed on the Letter we fent,and figned by all the 
 five Portugal* ; ‘Thereby they gave Antonio de Faria to underftand, that they were cruelly 
 detained in Prifon, out of which they did not think they fhould ever get, unlefs it were to 
 go to execution * and therefore they befought him for the Paflion of our Lord Jefus Chrift, 
 that he would not fuffer them to perifh there for want of fuccour, according as he had pro¬ 
 mifed them in their fetting forth in that Voyage* and the rather in regard it was only for his 
 fake that they were reduced to that miferable eftate * Hereunto they added many other very 
 
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 pitiful intreaties, as niight well come from fuch p oor wretches that were Captives uuder the 
 Tyranny of fuch tell and cruel people, as the C hinejes were. Antonio cle Far L?,having received 
 thL Letter, read it in the prefence ofall his Company, of whom he asked Counfel thereupon * 
 but-as.they were many, fo were their Opinions many and different, which was the occalion 
 of much contention among ft them; whereby perceiving that nothing would be concluded 
 concerning this affair, he (aid to them as it were in choler;My Majlers and Fr'unds,!have prr- 
 mijed \to> Gad -by a jolcrnn Oath that I have taken, never to fart from hence, till by Come means 
 or other J haite recovered tlujefoor Stuldnrs,my Companions, though / fhmld therefore venture 
 my life atioouf^nd times,ye a and all my Ejl ate, which I make little reckoning of in regard of thtm: 
 If hecefore my Mailers, I earnejily defre you, that no man go about to oppoje this Refolution of 
 mine, upon the execution whereof mine Honour wholly depends, for whofbeverjhall contrary me 
 therein , 1 mull take him for mine Enemy i, Of one that would jeef the prejudice of my Soul . To 
 thisfpeech all made anfwer, that he was in the right, and for the difenargeof his Confidence 
 nothing fhould ftay him from performing the fame;adding moreover, that all of them would 
 Hand to him in that behalf to the death. The Captain hereupon giving them many thanks, 
 and with tears in his eyes, and his hat in his hand, imbracing them, protefted that he would 
 when time fhould ferve acknowledge this good-will of theirs in fuch real manner as it defer- 
 ved,wherewith they all remained very well fatisfied. 
 
 Se£t.a* This refolution being taken,they fell to councel concerning the carriage of this affair,where¬ 
 upon they concluded to treat with the Mandarin in a gentle manner,and for that end to fend 
 unto him to demand thefe Priloners,* with promife to give him for their ranfom whatfoever 
 fhould be thought reafonable, ; and that according to his anfwer fuch further courfes fhould be 
 taken therein as fhould feetn requilite.’A Petition then was prefently drawn anfwerable to the 
 form that' was ufually prefented to the Judges, which Antonio de Faria fent to the Mandarin 
 by 2; of the chiefeft of the Chinefes he had taken, who alfb carried him a prefent worth 200. 
 Ducate<, whereby he hoped to induce him to reftorethe poor prifoners^ut it fell out faro- 1 
 therwife then he expefrea: For as foon as the Chinefes had delivered the Petition and the Pre- 
 fent,they returned the next day with an anfwer written on the back of the Petition, the tenor 
 whereof was this; Let thy mouth come and prefent itfelfat my feet, and after! have heard thee, I 
 will do thee juflice. Antonio de Faria feeing what high Words the Mandarin gave, was exceed¬ 
 ingly troubled,becaufe he well perceiv’d by this beginning that he fhould have much ado to 
 deliver his companions;wherefore having communicated this affair in particular to fbme few, 
 whom for that end he had called unto him,they were offeveral opinions; neverthelefs after 
 good deliberation, it was at length concluded to fend another Meffenger, that fhould more 
 effectually demand the Prisoners of him,and for their ranfom offer the film of 2000. Faeis in 
 Lingots of filver and commodities,declaring unto him,that he would.not part from that place 
 till he had return'd them ; for he made account that it might be this refolution would oblige 
 him to do that which he had refufed him another way, or that he would be carried to it by 
 the coniideration of his own gain and intereft.So the 2. Chinefes went again the fecond time 
 with a Letter feal’d up,as from one perfon to another,without any kind of ceremony or com¬ 
 plement which thefe Gehtiles fo much ufe amongft themfelves; And this Antonio de Faria 
 did of purpofe,to the end, that by the fharpnefs of this Letter the Mandarin might know he 
 was difpleafed; and refolved to execute what he had written. But before I proceed any fur¬ 
 ther,! will only relate the two main points of the Contents of the Letter, which were thecaufe 
 of the utter mine of this bufinefs.The firft was,when Antonio de Faria faid,that he was a Mer¬ 
 chant ftranger, a Portugal by Nation, that was going by way of Traffique towards the Port 
 of Liampoo, where there were alfo many other Merchants ftrarigers like himfelf, who duly 
 paid the ufual Cuftoms,without committing any manner of ill,or in juftice. The fecond point 
 was, where hefaid,rha*the King of Portugal his Mafter was allyed in a brotherly amity with 
 the King of Cbina,by reafon whereof they traded in hi? Country, as the Chinefes ufed to do 
 at Malaca, where they were entertained with all favour and juftice duly miniftred unto them. 
 Now though both thefe points were diftafteful to the Mandarin , yet tHe laft wherein he 
 mentioned the King of Portugal to be brother to the King of China, was that which put him 
 foout of patience, that without any regard at all he commanded them that brought the 
 Letter, not only to be cruelly fcourged, but to have their Ncfescut off,and in that pickle he 
 fent them back to Antonio de Faria, with an anfwer written on a fcurv»e piece of tom pa¬ 
 per; where thefe words, were written Stinking Carrion, begotten of viie Flies in the flthieft 
 
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 finkjbat ever veto in any dungeon of a lothfome prifon, hath made thy bafenefr fo boldy as 
 
 that thou dareff undertake to meddle with Heavenly things ? Having caufed thy Petition to be 
 read , whereby like a Lord, as I am, thou prayeft me to have pity on thee, which art but a poor 
 wretch, my geatnefs, out of its grenerofty, was even deigning to accept of that little thou prejenu 
 edft me withal, and was alfo inclining to grant thy requejl, when as my ears were touched with 
 thehcrrible blafthemy of thy Arrogance, which made thee term thy King Brother to the Son of 
 the Sun, the Lion frowned by an incredible 'Power in the Throne of the Worlds under whoje 
 feet all the Diadems of ihofe that govern the Vniverfe are fubjetfed, nay all Scepters do J'erve 
 but as Latches to his moft rich Sandals, as the Writers of the Golden Tmple do certife under the 
 Law of their Verities, and that through the whole habitable Earth : Know then, that for the 
 great Herefie thou haft tittered, I have caufed thy Paper to be burnt, thereby reprejenting the 
 vile Effigies of thy perfon, which I defre to ufe in like manner for the enormous Grime thou baft 
 commuted: Wherefore I commahd thee to he Jpeedily packing, that the Kivcr which bears thee 
 may not be accurfed. So (ooii as the Interpreter had read the Letter, and expounded the 
 Contents thereof; all that heard it were much vexed therewith, but no man was fo (enfi- 
 bleof it as Antonio de Faria, who was exceedingly grieved to fee himfelf thus whblly de- 
 prived of all hope of recovering his Prifoners • wherefore after they had well cohfidered 
 the infolent words of the Mandarins Letter, and his great difcourtefie, they in the end con¬ 
 cluded to go afhoar, and attaque the Town, in hope that God would affift them, feeing 
 their intentions were good; For this effeft they inftantly prepared Veffels to land with, 
 which were the four Fifhermens great Barques that they had taken the night be fore: Where¬ 
 upon taking a mufter of the Forces he could make for this enterprize, he found the iiu mber to 
 be joc.whereof 4Q.were Portugals,the reft were Slaves aud Mariners, befides ghtiay Panians 
 Men, amongft whom were an hundred and threefcore Harquebufiers, the other were arm¬ 
 ed with Pikes and Lances; he/iad alfo (ome Pieces of Ordnarfce, aitd other things nece£ 
 
 (ary for his defign. • 
 
 T he next morning a little before day, Antonio de Faria (ailed up the River with 3 Junks, Se<a ' 
 the Lorehes, and four Barqu es he had taken, and fo went and anchored at fix fathom and 
 an half of water dole by the walls of the Town ; Then caufing the fails to be taken down 
 without any noife, or difeharge of Ordnance, he difplayed the Banner of Trade according 
 to the fafhion of China, to the end that by this Demohftration of Peace, no Complement 
 ftiould reft unperformed, although he was perfwaded that nothing would prevail with the 
 Mandarin: Hereupon he Cent another Meflenger unto him, never making (hew that he had 
 received any ill ufage from him,by whom with a great deal of Complement he demanded 
 the Prifoners,and offered him a round fum of mony for their ranfom, with a promife of per¬ 
 petual correfpondence and amity ; But (o far was this Dog the Mandarin from hearkning 
 thereunto, that contrariwife he made the poor Chinefe, that carried the Letter, to be hewed 
 in pieces,and fo (hewed him from the top of the wall to the whole Fleet,the more to defpight 
 us.This tragical Aft wholly deprived Antonio de Faria of that little hope which (ome had gi¬ 
 ven him for the deliverance of the Prifoners;hereupon the Soldiers, being more incerifed then 
 before,faid unto him,that fince he had refolved to land,he (houldno longer defer it,becaufe 
 further delay would but give his Enemies leilure to j^ither more ftrength: This counfel feem- 
 ing good to him, he prefently imbarqued with them he had chofen for the aftion, having 
 firft given order to (hoot continually at the Town,and the Enemy,where(oever they perceivd 
 any (lore of people affembled;howbeit,with this caution, to forbear till they faw them toge¬ 
 ther by the ears with them. Having landed them about a Faulcon (hot below the Rode, he 
 marched withounany let along the (hoars fide direftly to the Towmin the mean time a num¬ 
 ber of people appeared upon the walls, with divers Enfigns of different colours, where thefe 
 barbarians made a mighty noi^w'-th Fifes,Drums,and Bells,and witharhooting at us,made us 
 figns with their taps to approach,thereby intimating the little reckning they made of u?:Now 
 by that time we were come within a Musket (hot of the walls,we dilcerned iooo.or 120.men, 
 as we gue(fed,(ally out at 2.feveral gates,of which (bme 120. were mounted on horfes, or to 
 fay better, on lean carrion Tits that were nothing but skin and bone, wherewith they began 
 to courfe up and down the fidd in a skirmifhing manner, wherein they (hewed themfelves fo 
 untoward,as they often ran one upon another, and tumbled down together; which when 
 Antonio de Faria faw he was exceeding glad, and encouraged his men to fight, He (food 
 firmattending the Enemy, who continued’dill wheeling about us,being perfwaded itfeems^ 
 
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 that that would fuffice to skare us, and make us retire to our Veflels; But when they per¬ 
 ceived us remain unmoved, without turning our backs, as they believed, and as it may be, 
 they defired we would do, they clofed themfelves into one body, and fo in very ill order 
 they made a Hand without advancing on. But then our Captain, feeing them in this po¬ 
 llute. caufed all his Musketeers to difcharge at one inftant, who till that time had not (bir¬ 
 red, which fucli effect, as it pleated God that the molt part of this goodly Cavalry fell to 
 the ground with fear; we taking this for a good prelage ran and luftily purliied 
 them, invoking the name of Jefus,! whofe good pleafure it was, through his Divine 
 mercy, to make our Enemies Bye before us fo amazed, and in (itch diforder, as they tum¬ 
 bled pell-mell one upon another, in which manner arriving at a Bridge that croft the 
 Town Ditch, they were o peftered together, as they could neither go forward nor back¬ 
 ward : in the mean time our Forces coming up to them, difcharged their ftiotto fuchpur- 
 \pole amongft them, that we laid three hundred of them on the Earth, which in truth was a 
 pitiful light to behold, becaule there was not one of them that had the heart lb much as to 
 draw a fword: whereupon hotly purfuing the lirft point of this Vi&ory, we ran to the gate, 
 where we found the (Mandarin in the Front of fix hundred men, mounted upon a good 
 Horfe, having on a Cuirafs lined with purple Velvet, which had belonged, as. we knew af¬ 
 terwards to a Portugal , named Tome Perez , whom King Pon Erqanoel 9 of glorious memory 
 had lent as Ambaffadour to China ^ in Fernando Perez , his Sffip, at fuch time as Lopo Suarez 
 eP Albergaria governed the Indies . At the entrance into the Gate, the Mandarin and his 
 people made head againft us, lo that there was a Ihrewd bickering between us, this Enemy 
 (hewing another manner of courage then we had met with on the Bridge; but by good 
 hap it fortuned that one of our Servants hit the Mandarin juft in the breaft with anHar- 
 quebufs (hot, and Overthrew him dead from his Horfe, wherewith’ all the Chineses 
 were lo terrified, as they prelently turned their backs, and in great diforder retired with¬ 
 in the Gate, not one of them having the wit to Ihut it after them, fo that we chafed 
 them before us with our Lances, as if they had been a Drove of Cattel : In this fort 
 they fled pell mell together quite through a great Street, and iflued out at another 
 Gate, which was on the Lands, from whence they got all away, not lo much as one re¬ 
 maining behinde. Thereupon Antonio de Faria , aflembling his Men into one body, for 
 fear of fome diforder, marched with them direftly to the Prifon where our Companions 
 lay, who feeing us coming, gave a great Cry; laying. Lord have mercy upon ftraight- 
 way the Doors and Iron-Grates were broken up, and our poor fellows Irons knocked off 
 their Legs; which being done, and they fet at Liberty, all our Company had leave to 
 make what purchafe they could, to the end that without Ipeaking afterwards of partition, 
 every one might be Mailer of what he had gotten. Howbeit Antonio de Faria delired them 
 to perform it liiddenly, and therefore he gave them but half an hours time for it* where- 
 unto they all condefcended very willingly, and fo fell to ranlacking the Houles. In the 
 meen fpace Antonio de Faria went to that of the Mandarin , which he took for bis part, 
 where he met with eight thoufand Taeii in Silver, together with eight great Veflels full of 
 Musk, and that he cauled to be referved for himlelf; the reft he left to tk$ Servants that 
 were with him, who moreover founef^there a great deal of raw Silk, Sattin, Damask, 
 and fine Pourcelain, whereof every one took as much as he could carry 5 fo as the four 
 Barques, and the three Champanaes, that brought our men on fhore, were four leveral 
 times laden and unladen aboard the junks; infomuch that the meaneft Mariner amongft 
 us fpake not of this booty, but by whole Cafes, befides what each one concealed in his par¬ 
 ticular. 
 
 But when Am onto de Faria perceived that an hour and an half had been Ipent in p 51 — 
 laging, he command^! a furceafe thereof, but his Company were fo hot upon the fpoil, 
 that by no means they would be drawn from it, wherein theperfons of Quality were mod 
 faulty; in which regard our Captain, fearing leaft fome difafter might happen by realbn the 
 night approached, he cauled the Town to be let on fire in eleven or twelve places ; Now 
 for that moll of it was built of Firr, and other wood, it was inliich a flame within a 
 quarter of an hour, as to fee it burn fo • one would have taken it for a pourtraiture of Hell, 
 fhis done, land all our Company retired, Antonio d Faria embarqued without any im¬ 
 pediment, every man being well latisfied and contented, only it was great pity to behold 
 a number of handlbme Maids led away, tyed four and four, and five [and five together, 
 
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 with the Matches of their Muskets, weeping and lamenting, whileft our people did no. 
 thing but laugh and ling. 
 
 C H AP. XXII. 
 
 Antonio de Faria’/ Navigation till he came to the Port of Liampoo 5 his 
 Arrival and gallant Reception there by the Portugal^. 
 
 A Frer that oAntonio de Faria had embarqued his ir.eni firft thing he did was 
 to give order tor the drefting of thofe that were hurt, which were m number fifty, 
 whereof eight of them were 7 ortagals , and the reft Slaves and Mariners : He alfo cook 
 care for the burial of the dead, that were not above nine, of which oneiyonewas 
 a Portugal. All that night we kept good watch, and placed Sentinels in fundry parts, 
 for fear of the Junks that were upon the River ,* The next morning affoon as it was day, 
 our Captain went to a little Town that was on the ether fide of the water, where he met 
 not with any Inhabitant,they being all fled, howbeit he found a great deal of Merchan- 
 diie^in rheir hoUies, together with good ftoreof Victuals, wherewith he had laded the 
 Junks, fearing left that Wnich he had done in this place, fhould be the occafton of barring 
 him from being furnifhed with any in the Ports where he fhould happen to arrive. Fur¬ 
 thermore, by the advice of his company, he refolved to go and winter, during the three 
 monechs he had yet to make bis Voyage in,at a cercain defer Iftand,diftanc fome fifteen 
 leagues from the Sea of Liampoo, called Pullo Hinhor , where there was a good Road, and 
 good water; whereunto he.was chiefly induced, became he thought that going diredMy 
 to Liampoo, his Voyage thither might bring fome prejudice to the Traffique of the 
 Portugal*, vj ho wintered there peaceably with their Goods: And indeed this advice was fo 
 approved of every one,as it was generally applauded. Being departed then from Nonday , 
 after vve had failed five days between the Ifles of Comolem , and chdContinenr, we were 
 fet npon on Saturday about noone by a Pirate, named ‘Premata Gundel , a fworn Enemy 
 to the Portugal*, unto whom he had oftentimes done much damage^ as well at Pat ana, 
 as at Sun da, Siam, and many other places,when he found himfelf the ftronger. This Ro¬ 
 ver believing that we Were Chinefe * came and affailed us with 2 great Junks, wherein 
 there were two rundred fighting men, befides Mariners; One of them being grappled 
 "to Afem Tabor da's Junk had almoft made hex fell Matter of it, which Quiay Panian per- 
 c«Wing,who was a liccie before,he turned upon her,and with full Sails running her cua the 
 Starboard fide gave her fo tefrible a ftiock, that they Tank born together, whereby Mem 
 Tabor da was delivered from the danger he was in/ howbeit Quiay Panian was inftantiy 
 and opportunely fuccoured by three Lorcbes, which Antonio de Faria -had taken a lit¬ 
 tle before at TS(pudap, that all his men in a mannerwere faved, but every one of the Ene¬ 
 mies were drowned: In the mean time the Pirate Premata Gundel fetting upon tfie 
 great Junk, wherein Antonio de Faria was, the firft thing be did was to grapple her 
 Poop to Prow wicn two great Cramp-irons, fattened to long Chains, whereupon began 
 luch a Fight betwixt them, as deferved to be feen* which for half an hour was fo coura- 
 gioufly maintained by the Enemy, char Antonio de Faria andmoft of his men were hurt, 
 and himfelf befides in danger twice to have been taken ; neverthelefs it was his good 
 hap to be relieved in time by three Lorcbes, and a imall Junk, commanded by Pedro de 
 Sylva, by which means it pleafed God that ours not onely recovered what they had 
 loft,bur prefled the Enemy in lucb fore, as the Fight ended withcbe death of fourfeore 
 and li t Mahometans, which were in Antonio de Farits Junk, and had held him up to 
 ftraic, that our men had nothing left them but the fore-deck in her: Afcer this we entr.ed 
 into the Pirate’s Junk, and put all thofe to the edge of the Sword that we found thef^j 
 not {paring fo much as one, all the Mariners hiving,catt tnemfelves before into the Se& 
 Howbeit we set not this Vi^ory fo cheap, bur that'it.coft Seventeen mens lives, where¬ 
 of five were Portugal*, ana of the bett Soulaiers we had, befides three and forty were 
 huzz^ Antonio de Faria being one of them,who had one Wound with a Darf/md two Yvi:g 
 a Sword. The Fight being ended in this fort, an Inventory was raken of all that vvasdn 
 the Enemies Junk, and this Prize was eftimated at fourfeore thoufaod Tatis, tbebeaet 
 pare whereof confided in Lingots of Si.ver of J*pa*j which the Pirate had laken in tfirea 
 Merchants Ships, that from Firando were bound tor Chincheo, fo iha: the Pirate,had : n 
 
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 this oncly Vetfel to the value of fixfcore thoufand Crowns, and it -was thought that the 
 O’her Tank which was funk was worth as much, to the e.xtreme grief of all our compa¬ 
 ny With this Prize %Antonio de Faria retired to a little Ifland, called Buncahu y which 
 was a or 4 leagues Weltward from thence, and much commended forgood Water, and 
 fafe Ridings Having landed in this place, we fpent J 8 days there, lodging in Cabbms, 
 that were made for the accommodation of our hurt men. From this Ifland we iailed to¬ 
 wards that part, whither we had refolved before to go, namely, tAntoniode Fan am the 
 great Junk, CMtm Tabor da, and t Antonio Anr iqnez. in theirs, T edrode Sylya mthe 
 little )unk, that was taken at Btyuday, and Quiay Panian with all his followers in the Pi- 
 rats left taken, which was given him in recompence of his that be had loft, together 
 with 2cooo Tdels out of the general Booty, wherewith he refled very well contented, 
 bein» done with confent of the whole company at the requeftof yAntomode Faria. 
 Sailing in this manner we arrived 6 days after at the Ports of Liampooy which are 2 
 
 1 (lands, one jufl againll another, diflant 3 leagues from the place, where at that time the 
 Portugal* ufe'd their Commerce ; there they had built above a thoufand houfes,that were 
 governed by Sheriffs, Auditors, Confuls, Judges, and 6 or 7 other kindeof Officers, 
 where the Notaries underneath the publick Adis, which they made, wrote thus, I,Jhcii 
 publlck^Motary of this Town of Liampoo for the King our Sovereign Lord. And this 
 they did with as much confidence and aflurance, as if this place had been fcituated bw 
 tween Santarcm and Lisbon , fo that there were houfes there which coft three or four 
 thoufand Ducates the building, but both they and all the reft were afterwards demolifti- 
 ed for our fins by the {JkineftSy as I hope to relate more amply hereafter: Whereby one 
 may fee how uncertain our affairs are in China, whereof the Portugal* difeourfe with 10 
 much curiofity, and abufed ith appearances make luch account, never confldering what 
 hazard they hourly run, and how they are expofed to infinite Difafters. 
 
 v Between thefe 2 Iflands, which the Inhabitants of the Country, and they that fail in 
 thofe Seas, call the Ports of Liampoo, there is a Channel fome 2 Harquebufe-fhot over, 
 and five and twenty fathom deep, where in certain places is very good Anchoring, as alfc 
 a pleafanc River of frefh water, which takes his beginning from the top of a mountain, 
 andpaflethby thick woods of Gedar,Oak,and Fir-trees,whereof many Ships make their 
 provifion for Sail-yards, Mafts and Planks, never cofling them a penny. At thefe Jdlands 
 Antonio de Faria caft Anchor on Wcdnefday morning, and there Mem Tabor da, and An¬ 
 tonioAntique*, defired him to give them leave to go and advertife the Town of his Arri¬ 
 vals likewife to underftand the news of the Country, and whether there was any fpeecb 
 of that which he had done at Nouday 5 For in cafe his coming fbould prove never fo 
 
 . little prejudicial to them, he was refolved (as I have formerly related) to winter in the 
 Hie of Pullo Hinhor, concerning the which they promifed with all diligence to adver¬ 
 tife him fo much as they could learn: To this Requeft of theirs, Antonio de Faria con- 
 defeended very willingly, and withall fent certain Letters by them, dire&cd to the prin¬ 
 cipal Governours of the Town, whereby he made them a brief Recital of the (uccefs of 
 his Voyage, and inftantly defired them to advife him what they would have him.to do, 
 being ready to obey them accordingly, with many other Complements of kindnefs, 
 from whence oftentimes much profit arifes, without any charge at all. %Antonio Anri- 
 qnez,md (JMem Taborda departed about evening, and within 2 hours of night, they 
 arrived at the Town; where alfoon as the Inhabitants heard the effc& of their Mefbge, 
 they prefently aflembled upon the ringing of a Bell, at the Church of the Conception of 
 our Ladv, being the Cathedral of 6 ot 7 others in the Town, there they deliberated up¬ 
 on the Letters which tAntonio Anriqucz, and <JMem Taborda had delivered, and in the 
 end having coniideredithe great liberality that Antonio de Faria had uled, as well to them 
 as to all the reft that had part in the J unk, they concluded to acknowledge ic unto him 
 by all demonflrations of affedfcion; For which purpofe they returned him a Letter, fign- 
 ed by them all, as the Refolution of a General Affembly, and fent uS him together with 
 
 2 Lanteaas full of diversrefrefhments, and that by an ancient Gentleman>named Jero¬ 
 nimo de Rego, a Perfonagc of great wifdom and authority amongft them; In this Lerctr 
 they gave him thanks in very courteous terms, both for the exceeding favour he had done 
 them by refcuing their Goods out of the Enemies hands, and for the noble Teftimo- 
 ny he had given them of his affe&ion by his extraordinary liberality towards them, for 
 
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 which they hoped that God would throughly requite him : As for the fear he was in touch- 
 ing his wintering there, by reafon of what hadpaft at Noudy , he mighr be confident 
 that way, becaufe the Country was fo full of trouble , by reafon of a mighty » .-ore that 
 was then amongft the people thereof, as if he had rarrd the very City of LL it feif, 
 they would not much regard it; wherefore hd might well think they would care much 
 lefs for that which he had done at Nouday , which in a^compared' whb many others) 
 was no greater then Otyrasia Portugalis, being equall with Lisbon : And concerning 
 
 h s ha u u th r m j^ bls arrivallin their Port, they earneflly dcfired him tS 
 continue ftill at Anchor there fix dayes longer, that they might in the mean while make 
 forrK fit preparanon for his entertainment, feeing that thereby only they Ihould be able 
 to tertihe t eir good wifi unto him , having not the power otherwayes coacquic fomany 
 obligations wherein they flood ingaged unto him. Thefe words of kindnefs were accom¬ 
 panied with many other complements • whereto Antonio de Faria returned them amoR 
 courteous Anlwer, and condefcer ding to their defire, be fenc all his lick men on fhore in the 
 two Lanteaas which brought the refrelhments, whom thole of LUmpoo received with 
 great Ihew of affe&ion and charity; for preiently they were lodged in the richefi houfes 
 of the Town, and plentifully accommodated with all things necefiary for them, waniin^ 
 nothing. Now during the fix dayes Antonio de Faria remained in that place, there was no? 
 a man of any quality in ah the Town, but came and vifited him with many prefents, and di« 
 
 ?eis forts of provisions, refrefhments, and fruits, and that in fuch abundance, that we were 
 atnaZv. to betiold them; the more too, for the good order and magnificence wherewith 
 every thing was accompanied. 
 
 During the fix dayes that Ammo do Farl* continued in the Port according to his pro. c.ft 
 mifc to them of Lmmfoo, he neve; budg’d from his Ships. At length on Sunday inotnin«, "" 
 
 cTtT' wb u ch T a ! the time limited forourgo'mg to the Town, an excellent conlorc 
 cfMufick was heard, bothof Inflrumemsand Voyces, the harmony whereof was won- 
 cierful y plealmg, and after that a Triumph of Drums and Trumpets together, according 
 to the manner of out own Country : Then fome two hours before Sun-riling, the night be°- 
 ing very quiet, and the Moon exceeding bright, oAmomo do FarU fet fail with his whole 
 
 j 1 > bav ' n § al| nis Ships decked with Silken Flaggs, and Streamers of fundry Colour', 
 and every Scuttle both of the greater and leffer Matts hung round about with doth of Silver, 
 and many brave Standards of the fame: After thele Veffels followed a number of row- 
 Birges , wherein were a great many of Trumpets, Hoboyes, Flutes, Fifes, Drums, and other 
 tuch Infiruments, each one of a feveral Invention: 
 
 When it was broad day the winde began to calm, as we were within half a League cf 
 r C u j ’ w ™~ reu P on c fi cre came preiently to us fome twenty Lanteaas , very well fee 
 forth, and full of Mufitians, that played on divers Infiruments; So in lefs then an hour 
 we arrived at the Road ; but firfi there came aboard ssAntomo de Faria about thrcefcore 
 Boats and Mancbaas , adorned with Pavilions aaduBmners of Silk; as alfo with Turkie 
 Carpets of great value; In thefe Boats were about! three hundred mch, all richlyr apparel¬ 
 led , with chains of Gold, and gilt Swords, hanging in Belts after the fafhion of Africk ^5 
 every thing fo well accommodated, that we which beheld this Equipage were no lefs con¬ 
 tented then afioniftied therewith. With this train Antonio de Faria came to the Town, 
 where there flood ranged in excellent order twenty fix Ships, and fourfeore Junks, befiaes 
 a great fort of Vancons and Barcajfes , all in File one after another, fo making as it were a 
 fair long fiieet, every where beautified with Pines, Laurels, and green Canes, with many 
 Triumphal Arches, befec with Cherries, Pears,Lemons, Oranges, and 1 fundry odoriferous 
 green Herbs, wherewith the Mails and Cordage were covered all over* Afioon as Anto¬ 
 nio de Faria c ame neer the place which was prepared for his landing, he faluted the Town 
 With a great peal of Ordnance, which was inftantly anfWered with the like by all the Ships, 
 Junks and Barques before mentioned, in order, a matter very pleafing, and wherewith the 
 Chinefe Merchants were fo rakcn,as they demanded of us, Whether this man unto whom we 
 did fo much honour, was either the brother or kinfman ©four King ? vvhercunto certain chief 
 men of the Town anfwered , That his Father jhod the Horfes whereon the King of Portugal 
 rode 0 and that in that regard all this. honour was done him ; adding' wkhall, That they thought 
 t hemfelves fear ce worth) to be his fldves, much lefs his [ervants 5 The Chwefes believing all 
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 in the world, whereof our ancient Hifiorians for voant of knowledge of them, have made no men- 
 tion in their Writings ; and it feems that above them all , the King of thefe Portugal is to be 
 mofi efteemed ; for b) that which is delivered to us of his greatnefs , he tnufl needs be richer , 
 more mighty , and greater then either the Tartar, or the Cauchin, as is mojl apparent ; fmce 
 he that (hooes his Horfes , which is bat an'ordinary and contemptible trade m every Country, 
 ufo refpefted by thofe of his Nation ; Whereupon another chac heard his Companion lay 
 thus ; Certainly, faid he , this Prince is fogreat, that if it were not a blafphemy, one might 
 almofl compare him to the Son of the Sun ; The reft that were about him added, It well ap- 
 peares to be fo by the great riches which this bearded Nation get in every place where they 
 come by the power of their armes, wherewith they affront all the People of the world. This 
 falutarion being ended on either pare, a Lanteaa came aboard Antonio de Faria*s Junk, 
 gallantly equipped, and covered all over with boughs of Chefnut trees, full of their briftled 
 fruit juft as they grew, and intermingled with delicate fmall green trees, which thole of the 
 Country call Lee bias, ftuck every where with moft fragrant Rofes and Violets , all plaftied 
 fo dole together, that we could not fee the Rowers J now upon the upper end of the Deck 
 of thisVelfel there was akindeof State fet up, made of Tynfell, under the which ftood 
 a filver Chair, and about it fix girles of about fome ten or eleven years of age apiece, 
 wonderfully beautiful, and that very harmonioufly accorded their voyces to certain Inftru- 
 ments of Muiick whereon they playd i In this Lanteaa then lAntomo de Faria embar- 
 qued himfelf, and fo arrived at the Key with a great noyfe of Hoboys, Trumpets, Drums, 
 Fifes, and other fuch like, after the manner of the Chinefes, Malayoes , Champaas,Siamites , 
 Bomeos, Lequios, and ocher people, that were then in the Hiven under the protection of 
 the ‘Portugals , for fear of the Pirates, which in great numbers overran all that Sea. Being 
 landed he found a chair of State provided for him , like unto one of thofe wherein the 
 principall Chaems of the Empire are ufually carried ; In this, but with much refufail firft 
 on his ftde, was he placed, and it being fupporced by eight filver pillars, it was taken up 
 by eight of the chiefeft perfons amongft them, apparelled in gowns of cloth of Gold 
 richly imbroidered, and fo was he carried on their fhouldcrs into the Town, environed with 
 threefcore Halberdiers, bravely fet forth, and their Halberds Damasked with Gold and 
 Silver ; before him alfo marched eight Sergeants at Armes, carrying great gilt Maces, clo¬ 
 thed in Hongarlines of Crimfon-Velvet embroidered with Gold ; In the head of them 
 rode eight Knights mounted on gallant white Steeds., and attired in Sattin of the fame 
 colour, with white Damask Enfigns, and brave plumes of white Feathers, and fore- 
 moft of all were eight other men likewife on Horfeback, wearing Crimfon and green 
 Velvet Caps, which ever and anon cryed out, after the manner of China, for people to make 
 way. In this fort was Antonio de Faria carried along, till alighting out of his Chair he 
 went to vifit the Governours of the Town, who in way of Complement proftrated them* 
 felves at his feet, wherein fome fmall time being fpent, two ancient Gentlemen, who had 
 lived long in that place, the one namedHZ zrifian de Gaa , and the other Jeronimo de Rego , 
 made an eloquent Oration in the commendation of him: That done, he was led from 
 thence to the Church through a long ftreet, adorned on both Tides with Laurel and Fitr 
 Trees, below flrewed with Rufhes, and above hung with Sattin and Damask ; amongft. the 
 which divers Court.cupboards were placed, whereon ftood very curious perfuming pans 
 of Silver, from whence moft pleafing and delicious odours breathed forth: Ncer to the 
 end of this ftreet was a Tower of Deal Boards ere&ed, painted all over, as if it had been 
 ftone ; on the top whereof, under a Banner of white Damask, the Royal Arms of Tortu- 
 gal were limned in Gold ; and in a window of the fame Tower, certain little Boyes were 
 drawn, attired after the Portugal fafhiony as alfo an old Woman, that feemed to weep,and 
 hold a man lying dif-membred at her feet , whom fome eleven or twelve armed Caflilians 
 were akiHing, having their Halberds and Partizans dyed with his blood ; All which Fi¬ 
 gures were done fo to the life, that one would have thought them to have been the very 
 perfons they prefented. Now this was to fignifie how Nimo Goncalles de Faria , chief 
 of that Noble Family, gave for his armes his own body, at fuch time as he was {lain in 
 the Wars that had been anciently between Caftile and Portugal . Prefently hereupon, 
 as foon as a clock, that was on the top of the faid Tower, had ftruck thrice* and that the peo¬ 
 ple upon this fignal were allftlent, there came a venerable old man out of the principall 
 gate, apparelled in a robe of Crimfon Damask, accompanied with four Beadles > which 
 
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 carried iilver Maces before him : Having madp , , 
 
 told hint, in terms full of rcfpea hoTmudift 1 r i°r u raK '° m * , ° **»>*>)*■ 
 
 as well for the greac liberality he had ufed toward* rh n ^^ :unt , s W ‘ K obliged unto him, 
 
 them, by having been the ^^5'^ tt'Zt" H Y d ,T 
 ment whereof they all fft red rhemf#»fw^ ,aK«. u- v ^ Ct t " e!r &°°a s > in acknowledge. 
 
 him the Homage of Tributaries a tai« - t,me t0 come > and t° d <> 
 
 upon that Table before him h a fhoul ? h -hold V ' C ' An -^ ^ urc k er > ^ he pleafed to caft his eye 
 delity his Anceilors tad »aTned the hon^ r h M d ““'**“•*«Mirror, with how muchl 
 the people of Sp2, w&rebv heS » n* Dame o( £' s «it was manifelf to all 
 
 he had performed fucb oeneroos " ' h ? W Tu “ Was for his honour thac 
 
 him, and that in the Name of them HI rh!r fn p d '"■ eK °£ 1" I” 0 / 1 Mrnefl .'y brought 
 ferea to him by way of Vaffalla®*’ he" would (Cb | e “ ln ’ lln 3 °f the Tribute, which they of- 
 
 fMuheynowo&red^unt^him^exSf^himfelf ftom rece^i n <^°f^^ 
 
 much importuned thereunto eiyingofic, though he were very 
 
 «sstx^5?as?asrs «.... *«. 
 
 Lutmfoo were there ready with for him !,«. ,, u Ce and honourable!! Inhabitants of 
 
 that he was not born w h«e fo m , S ’h™ d b Z"° accept of it, telling them 
 
 ceeded on without ocher po™ then ordinarv h? they " ou,dd ? h ! m; and fo he P ro ' 
 pie, as well Portugals as others of divers Nations ‘“ n h ac £ om P amed With a world of peo- 
 that Port, as the bell and richeft thac was th-n in rh,/n f ° r co P lm ‘f rcc fa *t e w 're come ro 
 ever he caft his eye, he fa" noS but K? KrJ : In ‘ h L e “a 1 ? <P a “, wherefo- 
 
 Masks, and playes of feverall kindel, invented by thofe of ihe'ccunr^ 0 'h^ r ”!t daunces » 
 us; all which became more fplendidious bv rh#* Tmm Countr y that bved amongft 
 
 Viols, Fifes, and that ?<*$'> FluteSjHarps, 
 
 Labyrinth of Voyces after the manner of China d confounded together in a 
 
 not whether it were a dream °* C *^wj}ich fo amazed thefenfe, that one knew 
 
 Church door, ei°ht Priefts came forth m eXtraor ^? ar y lc kerned : Being arrived at the 
 with Gold and Silver, who going in Pro^^ aUem ^oidered 
 
 many excellent vovees tuned ro rh?nervn«,. r. j . • , 11B a le Deum\ whereunto 
 Tick as could be heard in the Chappel o & f any'° r^at Prince "r as , harmonious Mu “ 
 
 to the High Altar, where there was a Star l In , thls forc he Was carricd up 
 
 Carnation Velvet, and at the foot of it a r..fh; c K u ^l amas ^> aod under it a Chair of 
 
 dwo uid fc,rd Midi, -vhkh ms ^ hint 
 
 ^“2!SXt"SS % m’s 
 
 tofpeak the truth through diCconnn^f* an ancie ntman, and Curate of the place, who, 
 pit matters, and illiterate withall • ho' IW 0 ,P reac ^ In o> was but little vers'd in Pul- 
 man in fo remarkable a fopmnitv h' e labn* V rin & to ^ evv himfelf that day a learned 
 torick; fo which efFea he oround^ M to ^ ake demonfiration of his beft Rhe- 
 and that in words fpflfpface^and 6 fo^r^fv Seri ^. 01 ? on the Praifes of Antonio dc Faria, 
 med at it; whereupon fome of his friends n! k** ^ XC * as f our p a P ta in was much afha- 
 
 to make him give ove?, wTer/wkh S ^ three °i k fourb y Surplice, for 
 
 have had him ieave^off; I» //» fl^he ; U nth m ' , urned b«" ^out to thole that would 
 t« t U which i. T‘> ^ 
 
 have made a vow to God defer to deM from commendlnatlf u V ^ 1 ? r */?°“ J f or 1 
 deferves at my hands ; for/avid? me [even thoufand D & tk be Ca P t f n > ^ he more then 
 
 tf ns ff *”/ L XnL S !% *iZht,t Yt 
 
 of fo cur fed a rogue and wicked Devi It be tormented in h.u f ’ j 79btcb . let the f°»l 
 
 *H»hh me . Amen. This Conclufion provbkedHI thffi&toZZfi "”"*?**• M 
 not hear one another in the Church ^ 7? C ° M 
 
 there came our of the Veftry fix lide Boy.*,, ,rtired like Angels, wSunSme^S 
 
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 fickin their hands gilt all over, and then the fame Prieft falling on his kmes before the Al¬ 
 tar of our Lady, and lifting up his hands, began to fing aloud thefe words , Virgin,yon are a 
 Rofe • whereunto the little'Boyes anfwered very melodioufly with their Inftruments, all 
 being’ performed with fuch harmony and devotion, as it drew tears ifrom molt of the Af- 
 
 ^Mafs being finifhed, the four principal Governours of the Town, namely, CMateu) de 
 BrltOi Lancarote Tereyra, Jeronimo de Rego, and Trifian de Gaa , came unto Antotno de Fa- 
 ria, and being accompanied with all the Portugals, which were above a thoufand in num¬ 
 ber,- they conduced him into a greac place before the Town Hall, that was compared a- 
 bout with a fmall thick wood of Chefnut Trees , all full of Fruit juft as they grew, ador¬ 
 ned above with Standards and Banners of Silk, and ftrewed below with Flower de luces , 
 and Red and White Robes, whereof there is great abundance in China. In this Wood 
 were three long Tables fet, under a goodly fpacious Arbor, that was covered over with 
 Myrtle, and round about were divers Conduits of Water, which ran from one to the other 
 by certain Inventions of the Chinefes , that were fo fubtile, as one could not poflibly difeern 
 the fecrec ; For by the means of a kinde of Bellows, like unto that of an Organ, that was 
 joyned to the principall Conduit, the water rebounded up fo high, that when it came to 
 defeend again it fell as fmall as dew; fo that with one only pot full of water they could 
 gently moiften that great place j before thefe three Fables were three Courc-cup-boards 
 placed, upon the which was a great deal of very fine Pourcelain, and fix huge VefTels of 
 Gold, that the Chine fe Merchants had borrowed of the Mandarins of the Town of Liam- 
 tee-. For in that Country Perfons of quality are ferved all in Gold, Silver being for thofe 
 of meaner condition: They brought like wife divers other pieces all of Gold, as great Ba- 
 fons, Salt-fellers and Cups. After they were difmiffed which were not for the Banquet, 
 there only remained thole that were invited, being fourfeore in number, befides fifty of 
 Antonio de Faria's Souldiers: Thefe being fet at Table were ferved by young Wenches, 
 very beautiful, and finely apparrelied, according to the manner of the Mandarins ; At eve¬ 
 ry courfe that was ferved up they fung very melodioufly, to the tune of certain Instrument* 
 whereon fome of their companions played : As for Antonio de Faria , he was ferved by eight 
 Mfideas, the Daughters of worthy Merchants, exceeding fair and comely, whom their Fa¬ 
 thers had brought thither for thaft? jpurpofe, at the requeft of Matetu de Brito, and Trifian 
 de Gaa I they were attired like Mermaids, and carried the meat to the Table, dancing to 
 the found of divers Instruments* a marvellous thing to behold, and Wherewithal the Bor - 
 tugah were fo mightily taken, as they could not Sufficiently commend the excellent Order 
 andOenti'cnefs of thefe Magnificencies, by which their eyes and cares were fo charmed 5 
 Remarkable it was alfo, that at every .health, the Trumpets, Hoboys, and Drums plaid 
 their parts. In this fore the Banquet continued two hours, during which there was aN 
 wayes one device or other after the Portugal oi Chine fe fafliion. I will not ftand here 
 to recount the delicacy or abundance of the meats that were Served up in it, for it would 
 be a matter not onlytSuperfluous, but even infinite, to recite every gifting in particular. Af¬ 
 ter they were rifen from Table they went all to another great place, that was invironed 
 with Scaffolds, all hung with Silk, and full of People, where ten Bul ls , and five wild Hor- 
 fes were baited, being accompanied with the found of Trumpets, Fifes, and Drums; in Se¬ 
 quel wheieof, divers Mummeries of Several Inventions were represented. Now becaufe 
 it was late, Antonio de-Faria would have imbarqued bimfelf again for to have returned 
 unto his Ships, but they of the Town would by no means Suffer him; for they bad-iprepa- 
 red the Houfes of Trifian de Gaa, and Matem de Brito , for his lodging, having caufed a 
 Gallerry to be built from the one to the other, for that purpofe ; There was he lodged ve¬ 
 ry coftimodiouflyyduring the Spacer Of five MonethS that he abode in that place, alwayes en¬ 
 tertained with new Sports and delights of Fifhin^j, Hunting, Hawing, Comedies*, and 
 Mafques ; as-alfo with Sumptuous Feafts, as well on Sundayes afid holy Dayevas other 
 Dayesof the week ; fo that we pafled thefe fiveMoneths in fudh pleifurc, as at our depar¬ 
 ture we did not think we had been there five dayes. This ter ill expired, Ahtonip de Faria 
 made preparation of VefTels and Men,for his Vpvagc to the Mines of Quoamafaru;, for m re¬ 
 gard the feafon was then proper for k,he refolvea to be gone as Soon as poflibly he couldjbut 
 in the mean time, it happened that Quia) Taman fell into a dangerous ficknefs, whereof not 
 long after he died, td the extream grief otjintonitfdt Faria , who exceedingly affected him 
 
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 for many good qualities that were in him, worthy of his fnendfhip, and therefore he 
 caufed him to be honourably buried,as the laft duty that he could do for his Friend. After 
 the death of j Quiay Panlan he was counselled not to hazard himfelf ia that Voyage, be- 
 caufe ic was reported for a certainty, how all that Countrey was up in Arms by reafon of 
 the Wars which the Frechatt Muan had with the King of C'hamay, and fhampaa 5 And 
 withall he had information given him of a famous Pirate,named Slmilau 3 v/hom he went 
 prefently to feek out,and having found him,the faid Similar related ftrange wonders un¬ 
 to him of an Ifland,called Calempluy, where he allured him there were 17 Kings of Chin* 
 interred in Tombs of Gold, as alfoagreat numberof Idols of the fame me a if, and fuch 
 other immenfe Treafures, as I dare not deliver, for fear of not being crediced. Now 
 Antonio de Faria, being naturally curious, and carried with that ambition, whereunto 
 Souldiers are for the mod part inclined, lent fo good car to this Chinefe's report, as look 
 ing for no other aflurance of it then what he gave him, he prefently refolved to under¬ 
 take this Voyage, and expofe himfelf to danger, without taking further counfel of any 
 man, whereat many cf his Friends were wich reafon offended. 
 
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 Antonio de Faria departs from Liampoo for to feekjut the Jfland of Caletnpluy, the 
 firange things that we Jaw, and the hazard we ran In our Voyage thither. 
 
 T He fcafon being now fit for Navigation, and Antonio de Faria furnifhed with all that 
 was neceflary for this new Voyage,which he had undertaken to make on Mund&y the 
 fourteenth of May, in the yeare one thousand five hundred forty & two,he departed from 
 this Port to go to the Ifland of Calempluy 5 For which purpofe he imbarqu^d in two Pa- 
 »0«m.rcf«mbling fmall G*llies,buc that they were a lit.de higher,by reafon he was coun- 
 felled not to ufe Janks,as welt to avoiddifcovery,ts in regard of the great currents of wa¬ 
 ter thatdefeended from the Bay of tymqttin, which great Veffels with all their Sails were 
 not able to item, efpedall-y at the time wherein he fet forth, for then the Snows of Tar - 
 tana and Tf^xihumflao diffolving ran all the months of Mayfjuntty. July, into thefe Seas 
 with a moft violent impetuofity. In thefe two Veffels were fifty Portugals, one Pried to 
 fay Mafs,and forty eight Mariners,all Natives of Patana , as alfo two and forty Slaves, fo 
 that the whole number of our company amounted to an hundred forty & one perfons,fot 
 the Pirate StmlUu, who was our Pilot, would have no more men,nor Veffels, for fear of 
 being’knpwn,becaufe he was to traverfe the {freight of Nanquin, and to enter inco Rivers 
 that were much frequented,whereby we might probably be lubjed to great haiard. That 
 day&ill the night following we itnployed in getting out from amongd thelflmds oiAn- 
 gitur,& purfued our courfe through theSeas,wbicb xht Portugals had neither feen nor fail*, 
 cd on till then. The fidf five days we bad the winde favourable enough, being dill within 
 fight of land till we came to the mouth of the River of theFifliings of Nanqum^ There we 
 croft over aGulf of forty leagues,and difcovered a very highMountain,called Nangofo y xo- 
 wardsthe which bending Northwardly, we failed fifty days 5 at length the winde abated 
 lbmevvhat,and becaufe in that place cheTides were very great,.J/»«Ai#put,into a IittleRu 
 ver,' where was good anchoring and riding, inhabited by men that were white and hand- 
 fome, having vecy little eyes, like to the Chlnefes , but much different from chem,boch in' 
 language and attire. Now during the fpace of 5 days, that we continued there,the Inha¬ 
 bitants would have no manner of communication with us, but coni ran wife they came in 
 troops to the fliore,by which we anchored,and running up and down like mad-men they 
 howled in a moft hideous fafhion,and (hot at us with flings and crofs-bows. Afloon as the 
 weather and the Sea would permit us, Similau % by whom all was then governed,began to 
 fee fail, dire&ing his courfc Eaft Norrh-Eaft, and fo proceeded 7 days in light of 12nd 5. 
 then fraverling another Gulf, and turning more dire&ly to the Eaft, he paft through a 
 ftreighr, 10 leagues over,called Sileupaquin * There he failed 5 days mo^re. Bill in view of 
 many goodly Cities and Towns, this River being frequented with an infinite company of 
 Veffels; whereupon Antonio de Faria, knowing that if he hapned to be dilcovered be 
 (hould never efcape with life, refolved to get from thence, and continue rh ; s courfe no 
 longer,which Similau perceiving,and oppofing the advice that every one gave him; S igni- 
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 m duty hitherto, you know how at Liampoo I told you. publickj? in the General Council that 
 was held in the Church before an hundred Portugals at the leaft , that we were toexpofeour 
 [elves to great dangers, and chiefly my felf, becaufe 1 was a Chincfe and a Pilot, for all you 
 could be made to endure but one death, whereas I fhould be made to endure two thouf tnd if it 
 were pnffible,whereby you may well conclude,that fctting apart all Treafon,/ muft ofneceffity 
 be faithful unto you, as 1 am, and ever will be,not onely in this V yage, but in all other Enter- 
 ■prices,in deffight of thofe that murmur,and makjefalfe report f unto you of mefawbeit ifyou 
 fear the danger fo much as you fay, and are therefore f leafed that we fhould take fome other 
 way lefs frequented with men and vefjels, and where we may fail without dread of any thing, 
 then you muft be contented to be flow afar longer time in this Voyage, wherefore refolve with 
 pur company upon it without any further delay, or let us return back, for lo l etm ready to do 
 whatfoever you will . ^Antonio de Faria, embracing, and giving him many thank*, fell to 
 difeourfe with him about that-other fafer way of which hefpake: Whereupon Similau 
 told him, that fome hundred and forty leagues further forwards to the North, there was 
 a River fomewhat larger by half a league, called S umhepadano, where he fhould meet with 
 no obllacle, for that it was nor peopled like the ftreight of Nanquin, wherein they now 
 were, but that then they fhould be retarded a moneth longer, by the exceeding much 
 wynding of this River. Antonio de Faria thinking it far better to expofe himfclf to a 
 length of time, then to hazard his life for abridgement of way, followed the counfel 
 that Similau gave him 5 fo that going out of the (freight of Nanquin, he coafted the land 
 5 days, at the end whereof we difeovered a very high Mountain towards the Eaft, which 
 Similau told us was called Fanius, approaching fomewhat near unto it we entred into a 
 vary fair Port, 40 fathom deep, that extending it felf in the form of a Crefcent was fliel- 
 tred from all forts of windes, fo fpacious withaif,« 2000 Veffels how'grcat foever might 
 ride there at eafe. Antonio de Faria went afhore with fome 10 or i 1 Souidiers,and round¬ 
 ed this Haven, but could not meet with any one body, that could inftruft him in the way 
 he pretended to make, whereat he was very much vext,and greatly repented him for that 
 wirhouc any kinde of confederation, or taking advice of any one, he had rafhly, and out 
 of a capacfous humour* undertaken this Voyage: Howbeit he diffcmbled this difpleafure 
 of his the beft he could for fear left his company fhould tax him with want of courage. 
 In this Haven he difeourfed again with Similau before every one concerning this our Na¬ 
 vigation, which he told him was made but by ghefs 5 whereuntothe (fhinefe anfwered, 
 S ignior Captain, If I had any thingl could engage to you of more value then my head, /pro- 
 tefl unto you I would mofl willingly do it,for / amfofureoftbe courfe I hold,that I would not 
 fear to give you my very Children in Hoftage of the promife I made you at \J&m\sco:Never- 
 the left I advert ife you again,that if repenting the undertaking of this enterprise you fear to 
 proceed any further, in regard of the tales your people are ever tat ling iu your ear, as l have 
 often obferved,do but command,and you (hall finde how ready I am to obey your pleafure: And 
 whereas they would make you believe that I fjyin out this Voyage longer then I promifedyou 
 at L iampoo, the rea fon thereof you know well enough, which feemed not amif r when I pro¬ 
 pounded it unto you, f eeing then you once allowed of it, let me intreat you to fet your heart at 
 reft for that matter, and no t tobreak^off this Deftgn by returning back, whereby at length you 
 [hall finde how profitable this patience of yours will prove. This fpeech fomewhat quieted 
 Antonio de Faria*& minde, fo chat he bid him go on as he thought beft, and never trouble 
 himfelf with the murmuring of the Souldiers, whereof he complained, faying, chat it was 
 ever th; manner of fuch as were idle, to finde fault with other mens a&ions, but if they 
 did not mend their err our the fooner, he would take a courfe with them to make them to 
 do ic; wherewith Similau refted very well fatisfied and contented. 
 
 After we were gone from this Haven, we failed along the Coaft above thirteen days 
 together,al, ays in fight of land, and at length arrived at a Port,called Buxipalem, in the 
 height of forty nine Degrees.We found this Climate fomewhat colder then the reft,here 
 we faw an infinite company of Fifties and Serpents, of fuch ft range - for ms, as I cannoc 
 fpeak of them without fear; Similau to d Antonio de Faria incrediole things concerning 
 themes well of what he had feen himfelf,having been tliere s before,as of that had pecnje-< 
 ported unco him, elpecially in the full Moons of the moneth? of November,‘V.eeew.bif, 
 and January", when the ftorms reign there moft, as indeed this Chinefe . made-dr. 
 appear to our own eyes, whereby he juftified unt© us the moft of that which hafad af¬ 
 firmed. 
 
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 firmed. For in this place we faw Fifhes, in the fhape of Tnotnbacks, that were four 
 fathoms about, and had a Muzzle like an Ox; likewifewe faw others refembling great 
 Lizards, fpotced all over with green and black, having three rows of prickles on their backs 
 that were very (harp, and of the bignefs of an arrow; their bodies all'o were full of the 
 dke, but they were neither fo long, nor fo great as the others: Thefe Fifties woold ever 
 and anon brittle up themfelves like Porcupines, which made them very dreadful to be¬ 
 hold; they had Snouts that were very (harp and black, with two crooked teeth out of each 
 jaw-bone, two fpans long, like the tusks of a wild Boar. We alfo faw Fifties whofe bo¬ 
 dies were exceeding black, fo prodigious and grear, that their heads onely were above fix 
 fpans broad. I will pafs over in filence many other Fifties of fundry forts, which we be¬ 
 held in this place, becaufe I hold it not fit toftand upon things that are out of my difcourfe» 
 let it fuffice me to fay, that during two nights we Hayed here vve did not think our felves 
 fafe, by reafonof Lizards, Whales, Fifties and Serpents, which in great numbers flievv«= 
 ed themfelves to us. Having left this Haven of Buxipalem , by us called the River of Ser¬ 
 pents, which in grett numbers (hewed themfelves to us, Similar failed fifteen leagues fur¬ 
 ther to another Bay named Callndano^ which was in form of a Crefcent, fix leagues in cir¬ 
 cuit, and invironed with high Mountains, and very thick woods, in the midft whereof divers 
 Brooks ot frefh waters defeended, which made up four great Rivers thac fell all into this 
 Bay. There Similan told us, that all thofe prodigious creatures we had both feen and heard 
 of, as well in this Bay , as in that where we were before, came thither to feed upon.fuch 
 Ordure and Carrion, as the overflowing of thefe Rivers brought to this place. Antonio dt 
 Faria demanding of him,thereupon, whence thofe Rivers (hould proceed, he anfwered 
 that he knew not, but it was faid that the Annals of Chin* affirmed , how two of thofe Ri¬ 
 vers took their beginnings from a greaLLake, called C Mofcombia , and the other two from a 
 Province, named jUimani * 9 where there are high Mountains, thac all the year lon^ are co¬ 
 vered with Snow, fo that the Snow coming to diffolve, thefe Rivers [welled in that°manncr 
 as we then beheld them, for now they were bigger then at zny other time of the year 
 Hereunto be added r that entring into the mouth of the ftiver, before the which we rode ac 
 anchor, we (hould continue our courfe, fleering Eaftward, for to find out the Pore of Nan- 
 quin again, which we had left two hundred and threefcore leagues behind us, by reafon 
 that in all this diftance we had multiplied a greater height then that of the Ifland was, 
 which we were in queft of. Now although this was exceeding grievous unto us, yet Simi- 
 Uh defired Antonio de Faria to think the time we had p ft well fpenc, becaufe it was done 
 for the beft, and for the better fecuring of our lives 5 being asked then by Antonio do Faria 
 how long we (hould be in patting through this River , he anfwered that we (hould be out 
 of !t in fourteen or fifteen days, and that in five days after he would promife to land him 
 and his Souldiers in the Iftand of Calemfltty 9 where he hoped fully to concent his defire , and 
 to make him think his pains well beftowed, whereof he now fo complained Antonio dc 
 Fana, having embraced him very lovingly thereupon , vowed to be his friend for ever, and 
 reconciled him to his Souldiers, who were very much our with him before. Being thus 
 reconfirmed by SimiUtts fpeecbes, and certified of this new courfe we were to take, he in- 
 couraged bis company, and put all things in order convenient for his defign, to that end pre¬ 
 paring his Ordnance which till then had never been charged $ he caufed alfo his Arms to be 
 made ready, ordained Captains, and Sentinels to keep good watch, together with all be¬ 
 sides chat he thought neceflary for our defence, in cafe of any attempt upon us. Thai done, 
 he fpake unto Dtogo Lobato , who was the Prieft thac We carried along with us, and one 
 thac we much refpedfed, as a man of the Church, to make a Sermon unco his company for 
 to animate them againft all dangers that might happen, which he worthily performed , and 
 by the efficacy of his words, full of fweetnefs, and excellent examples, he fo revived our 
 fpirits, thac before were much dejedted through the apprehenfion of the dangers chat me¬ 
 naced us; as there was not one amongft us buc prefendy took frefh heart, boldly to execute 
 the enterprife we had undertaken: Whereupon with great devotion and zeal we fun* a 
 Salvo > before an Image of our Lady, every man promifing without any future fear^to 
 finifh the: Voyage we had begun. That done, we joyfully Jhoyfed fail, and entring into the 
 mouth of the River, fleering diredtly Eaft, and with tears in our eyes, invoked from the boc* 
 tome of our hearts, the afliftance of that Sovereign Lord which fits ac the riyht hand of the 
 Father everlafting, to preferye us by his Almighty power, 
 
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 S«&3. Continuing on our courfe with the force of Oars and Sails , and fleering divers ways, 
 by reafon of the many turnings of the River, the next day wc arrived at a very high moun¬ 
 tain called Botinafauj whence fundry Rivers of frefh water ran doVvn. In this mountain 
 were a number Tygers, Rhinocerots , Lyons , Ounces , and fuch other creatures of feveral 
 kinds, which running and roaring in their wilde manner, made cruel war upon other weaker, 
 Beafls, as Stags, Boars, Apes, Monkeys, Baboons, Wolves, and Foxes,wherein we 
 took much delight, fpending a great deal of time in beholding them; and ever and anon we 
 cryed out from our Ships to fright them, but they were little moved with it, in regard they 
 were not ufed to be hunted: We were about fix days in palling this Mountain, ic being 
 fome forty or fifty leagues long. Within a pretty while after vve had lefc this Mountain 
 we came to another, named Gangitanon , no lefs wilde then the former, beyond the which 
 all the Country vvas very flony , and almoft inacceflible ; moreover it was full of fuch thick 
 Woods, as th: Sun could not poffibly pierce them with his beams: Similau cold us, that 
 in this mountain there were ninety leagues of defart land, altogether unfit for Tillage, 
 and the boctome thereof onelyvvas inhabited by certain moft deformed men , called Gi- 
 ganhos, who lived after a moft brutifh falhion , and fed on nothing but what chey got in 
 hunting, or fome Rice, that the Merchants of China brought them to Catan in exchange of 
 Furs ; which the Laid Merchants carried from thence to Pecajfor and Lantau 9 amounting 
 yearly as by the Books of the Cuftoms thereof appeared, to the number of twenty thoufand 
 Cates, each Cate, or pack, containing threcfcore skins, wherewith the people ufed in win¬ 
 ter to line their Gowns, hang their houfes, and make coverings for tfieirBeds, to vvithfland 
 the cold of the Climate, which is great there. Antonio de Faria vvondring at the relation 
 this Chinefc made of the deformity of thefe Glganbos , defired him if ic were poflible to 
 let him fee one of them, whereby he faid he fhould more content him then if he {hould 
 give him the treafures of China ; whereunto Similau made him this Anfvver, Signior Cap- 
 tain , fines it fio much imports me , as well to maintain my credit with yeu 9 as to flop their 
 monthss that murmur againfi me , and that jogging one another feoff at me when I recount 
 thefe things unto joh , which they account as fo many Fables , and to the end that by the truth 
 of the one , they may be afeertained of the other , / will promife before Sun-Jetting yet to {hew you 
 a couple of thefe people, and that you {hall alfo fpeak. with them y upon condition you do not go a- 
 {hore , as you have fill ufed to do hitherto, for fear fome mifchance {hould happen to you , as ma¬ 
 ny times>it doth to Merchants in like cafes s For I ajfure you , that the Giganhos are % of fo fa- 
 vage and brutifh a nature , as they feed on nothing commonly but rase fiejh and blood , like the 
 wilde Beajls that live in this For ref. So continuing our courfe all along the fide of this 
 Mountain, at length behind a little point of land, vve difeovered a young youth, with¬ 
 out ere an hair on his face, driving fix or feven Cows before him, that paftured there by. Si¬ 
 milau making a fign to him with a napkin, he prcfently flayed, whereupon coming a little 
 neerertohim, Similau Chewed him a piece of green Taffeta, which he told us was a fluff 
 very acceptable to thefe brutifh men > and withal by figns demanded of him whether he 
 would buy it; this drew him to the bank of the River, were he anfvvered, with an hoarfe 
 voice, fome words that vve could not comprehend, bccaufe there vvas not one in all our Vef- 
 fels that underflood this barbarous language, fo char of neceffity this commerce was to be 
 made by figns: Antonio de Faria commanded three or four yards of the faid piece of 
 Taffeta to be given him, as alfo fix Pourcelains, wherewith this Salvage feemed to be ve¬ 
 ry well pleafed, for taking bom the one and the other, tranfported with joy he faidfome- 
 thing to us, which vve could underftand no better then the former, then making a fign with 
 his hand towards the place of his abode, he left his Cows, and ran away to the wood,clothed 
 as he vvas with a Tigers skin, his arms and legs naked, bare-headed, and a ftaff hardned at one 
 end with the fire in his hand. For his perfon, he vvas well proportioned of his limbs, his hair 
 red and curled hanging down on his fhoulders; his flature by conjc&tire was above ten foot 
 high, but vve were amaz.d to fee him return about a quarter of an hour to the very fame 
 place again, carrying alive Stag on his back, and having thirteen perfons in his company, 
 namely eight men and five vvomen , leading three Cows tycd together, and dancing as they 
 went at the found of a kind of Tabor, upon the which they beat five flroaks at a time, 
 and as often clapped their hands together finging to it, with a very hoarfe voice in their 
 language. Hereupon Antonio de Faria caufed five or fix pieces of filk fluff, and a greac 
 many of Pourcelains cobefhevved them, for to make them believe that we were Mer- 
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 chants, at the fight whereof they very much rejoyced. Thefe perfons, both men and wo¬ 
 men , were apparelled all after one and the fame fafhion , without any kind of difference, 
 faving that the women wore great tinnen Bracelets about the middle of their arms, and 
 their hair a great deal longer then the mens, ftuck all about with Bowers, refembling our 
 Flowerde luces5 they had chains alfo of red Cockles about their necks, almoft as big as 
 Oyfter-fhels ; as for the men,they carried great Haves in their hands, covered to the midft 
 with the fame skins wherewith they were clothed; moreover they had all of them fierce 
 looks, great lips, fhcnofes, widenoftrils, and were of ftature very tall, but yet not fo 
 high as we thought they had been ; for A monte de Faria having caufed them to be meafured, 
 he found that the tailed of them exceeded not ten fpans and an half, except one old man that 
 reached to eleven. The womens fiature was not fully ten fpans: Their very countenances 
 fbewedthem to be very rude and blockifh , and lefs rational then all the other people 
 which we had feen in our Conquefts. Now Antonio de Faria being glad that we had noc 
 altogether loft our labour, beftowed on them threefcore Pourcelains, a piece of °reen 
 Taffety, and a pannier full of Pepper, wherewith they feemed to be fo contented , & thac 
 profiting themfelves bn the ground, and lifting up their hands to heaven, they fell to faying 
 certain words which we took fora chankfgiving after their manner, becaufe they fell down 
 three fevcral times on the earth, and gave us the three Cows and the Scag, as alfo a great ma¬ 
 ny of Herbs .* Having been talking about cwo hours with them by ligns, and no lefs wondring 
 at us , then we at chem , they returned into the wood from whence they came, and we pur- 
 fued our courte up the River by the fpace of five days, during the which we faw more of 
 them along by the water fide ; after we had paft all this diftance of land, which might be 
 fome forty leagues, or thereabouts, we navigated fixteen days more with the force of Oars 
 and Sails, without feeing any perfon in that defart place, only for two nights together we bif- 
 cerned certain fires a good way off at land: In the end, it pleafed God that we arrived at the 
 Gulf of Nanquin, as Similar had told us, with a hope in five or fix days to fee bur defires ae- 
 compfifhed. 
 
 Being come into the gulf of Nanquin > Similau counfelled Antonio de Faria t that at any 
 hand he fhould not fuffer any Portugal to be feen , becaufe if fuch a thing fhould happen he 
 feareQ Come uproar would follow amongft the Chmefes , in regard no ftrangers had ever 
 thofe quarters 5 adding withal, that it would be fafer for them to keep 
 ftill in the middle of the gulf, then by the fhore, by reafon of the great number of Lorches 
 and Lanteaas , that inceftantly failed up and dovvn 5 this advice Was approved of by every one; 
 fo that having continued our courfe fome fix days Eaft and kaft North-eaft, we difeovered 
 a great Town, called Sileupamor, whither vve dire&ly went, and entred the Haven about 
 two hours within night, where we found an infinite company of Veftcls riding at anchor, 
 to the number , according to our chinking, of three choufand at the ieaft, which gave us fuch 
 an alarum, as not daring fcarce to wag vve got out again with all the fecrecy chat might be $ 
 crofting over the whole breadth of the River then , which was fome fix or feven leagues, 
 vve profecuced our courfe all the reft of that day, and coafted along by a great plain, vvich 
 a refolution to accommodate our felves with Vi&uals vvherefoever vve could firft meet 
 with any; for we were in fuch fcarcicy, as for thirteen days together, no man had more 
 then three mouthfuils of boyled Rice allowance. Being in this extremity vve arrived clofe 
 to certain old buildings; there we went afliore one morning before day,and fell upon a houfe, 
 that flood a little way off from the reft, where vve found a great quantity of Rice, fome 
 Beans, divers pots full of Honey, poudred Geefe, Onions,Garlick, and Sugar Caries,vvhefe- 
 with vve throughly furnifhed our fclyes: Certa n Chinefes told us afterwards, that this 
 was the ftore-houfe of anHofpical, which was foriae tvvoleagues off, where fuch vvere en* 
 certained, as paft that way in Pilgrimage to the Sepulchres of the Kings of China ; Being 
 re-imbarqued, and well provided of Victual, vve continued on our voyage feven days more, 
 which made up two moneths and an half, fince vve put out of Liampoo ; Then Antorio dc 
 Faria began to miftruft the tiath of^vvhat Similau had faid, fo that he repented the under¬ 
 taking of this voyage, as he confefied publiquely before us all; newrchelefs in regard there 
 was no other remedy for it but to recommend himfelf to God, and wifely to prepare for 
 all that might happen, he couragioufly performed ir. Hereupon it fell out that Antonio de 
 Faria having one morning demanded of Similau in whac part be thought they were, he 
 
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 anfwered him fo far from the purpofe, and like a man that had loft his judgement, or tbit 
 knew not which way he had gone, as *put Antonio de Faria into fuch choler, chat he 
 was going to flab him with a Ponyard that he wore, which without doubt he bad done, 
 had he not been diverted from it by fome, that counfelled him to forbear, left ir fhould be 
 thecaufeof his utter ruine, whereupon moderating his anger he yielded to the advice of 
 his friends; neverthelefs he was not for all that fo contained, but that taking him by 
 the Beard he fwore, that if within three days at the fartheft, he did not let him fee, either the 
 truth or the falfhood of whac he had told him , he would Ponyard him infallibly ; where¬ 
 with Similar was fo exceedingly terrified, that the nighc following as we were abiding 
 by the fhore he (lid down from the Vdfel into the River, and that fo clofely, as he was 
 never difcovercd by the Sentinels or any other until the end of the firrt Watch, when as 
 Antonio de Faria was thereof advercifed: This news put him fo farbcfidcs himfelf, as he 
 loft all patience, the rather for that he feared fome revolt upon it from his Souldiers, who 
 he faw were too much difpofed thereunto. But he prefently went afhore with a great ma¬ 
 ny of his company, and fpent the moft pare of the night in feeking of Strnilau ,without meet- 
 ingdiim, or any ocher living foul that was able to tell any news of him, but the worftof 
 it yet was , that upon his return into his Junk, of forty fix Chwefc Mariners,that he had 
 aboard him, he found fix and thirty fled away to prevent the danger they were afraid of, 
 whereat Antonio de Faria and all his company were fo amazed, that^ lifting up their 
 bands and eyes to heaven, they flood a long time mute, their tears fupplying the defe6fc of 
 their fpeech, thereby certifying the fecrec forrow of their hearts, for confidering well what 
 had hapned unto them, and the great peril they were in, the leaft that they could do in this 
 confufion was to lofe their courage and judgement, much more their fpeech. Howbeit falling 
 at length to confulc what we fhould do for the future, after much diverfity of opinion, it was 
 in the end concluded, that we fhould purfue our defign, and labour to take fome body 
 that might inform us how far it was from thence tochelfland of CaUmplny> and this .to be 
 done as fecredy as poflible might be for fear the Country fhould rife s likewife that if upon 
 the report fhould be made us we found it would be etfily taken, as Similatt had aflured us, 
 we fhould then proceed on, otherwife, that we fhould return with the current of the water, 
 which would bring us dire&ly to the Sea with its ordinary courfe.This refolurion taken and ap. 
 proved of every one, we went on with no lefs confufion then fear, for in fo manifeft a danger 
 we could not chufe but be very much perplexed ; the nighc following about break of day we 
 difeovered a little Barque a head of us riding at anchor in the midft of the River 5 her we board¬ 
 ed with as little noife as might be, and took five men afleep in her, whom Antonio de Faria 
 qu.rtioned each one apart by himfelf, to fee how they would agree in that they faid: To his 
 demands they anlwered all of them, that the Country wherein we were , was called Temqui- 
 lem > from whence the Ifland of Calemplay was diftant but ten leagues, and to many other que* 
 ftions propounded to them for our common fecurity, they anfwered likewife feparately one 
 from the other to very good purpofe, wherewith Antoniode Faria and his whole company, were 
 exceedingly well fatisfied, but yet it grieved us not a little, to think what an inconvenience 
 the lack of Similau would prove to us in this attempt 5 however Antonio de Faria caufing the 
 five Chinefes to be arrefted, and chained to oars, continued his courfe two days and an half 
 more, at the end whereof it pleafed God that doubling a cape of land, called Gnimai Tarao % 
 we difeovered this Ifiind of Calempluj, which we had been fourfeore and three days feeking 
 for,with extream confufion of pains and labour, as I have before related. 
 
 CHAP. XXV. 
 
 * Our Arrival at Caiempluy, and the deferiptron thereof; what hapned to Antonio de Faria 
 in one of the Hermitages thereof) and how we were difeovered . 
 
 1. T TAving doubled the Cape of Guimai Tarao , two leagues beyond it , we difeove’ed a 
 J 71 goodly level of ground, feiruated in the midft of a River, which to our Teeming was 
 not above a league in circuit, whereunto Antonio de Fana approached with exceeding 
 great joy, which yet was intermingled with much fear, becaufc he knew not to whae 
 danger he and his were expofed , about twelve of the clock at night he anchored with¬ 
 in a Cannon {hoc of this Ifland, and ihenexc morning as foon as it was he face in Couti- 
 
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 cel with fuch of his company as he bad called to ic, there it was concluded chat ic was not 
 partible fo great and magnificent a thing fhould be without fome kind of guard , and there¬ 
 fore it was refolved that with the greatefi filcnce that might be, ic (hould be round¬ 
 ed all about, (or to fee what advenues ic had, or what Obfiacles we mi°ht meet with 
 when there was quefhon of landing, to the end that accordingly vve might deliberate more 
 amply on chat we had to do: With this Refolution, which was approved by every on- 
 Antonio de Faria weighed anchor, and without any noife goc clofe to the Ifland and 
 comparting it about exa&ly oblerved every particular thac prefented it felf to his Wt. 
 This Ifland was ail mclofed with a platform of Jafpcr, fk and twenty fpans hi°h, °che 
 ffones whereof ware fo neatly vvroughc, and joyned together, that the vvallfeemed to be 
 all of one piece, at vvhich every one greatly marvelled, as having never feen any thing till 
 then, either in the Indiaes, or elfevvhere, that merited compari on with it; this Wall was 
 fix and twenty fpans deep from the bottom of the River to the Superficies 9 of the water, 
 fo that the full height of ic vvas two and fifcy fpans. Furthermore the top of the Plat¬ 
 form was bordered vvichche fame (lone, cut into great Tower-work; Upon this wall, 
 which invironed the whole Ifland, vvas a Gallery of Baliftersof turn’d Copper, thac from 
 fix to fix fathom joyned to certain Pillars of the fame Metal, upon each of the vvhich 
 was the figure of a Womsn holding a bowl in her hand; within this gallery were di¬ 
 vers Monfiers cat! in metal, (landing all in a row, vvhich holding one another by the hand 
 in manner of a dance incompaffed the whole Ifland, being as I have faid, a league about« 
 Amidff thefe monftrous Idols there vvas likevvife another row of very rich Arches, made 
 of fundry coloured pieces; a fumptuous work , and wherewith the eye might well be en¬ 
 tertained and contented; Within was a little wood of Orange Trees, without any mix¬ 
 ture of other plants, and in the midfi an hundred and chreefcore Hermitages dedicated to 
 the gods of the year, of whom thefe Gentiles recount many plcafanc Fables in their Chro¬ 
 nicles for the defence of their blindnefs in their falfe belief: A quarter of a league beyond 
 thefe Hermitages, towards the Eart, divers goodly great Edifices were feen, feparated the 
 one from the other with feven fore-fronts of Houfes, built after the manner of our Churches, 
 from the top to the bottom as far as could be difeerned, thefe buildings were gilt all 
 over, and annexed to very high Towers, which in all likelihood were Steeples; their E*» 
 dihees were invironed with two great lireets arched all along, like unto the Frontifpieces of 
 the Houfes ; thefe Arches were fupported by very huge Pillars, on the top whereof, and be¬ 
 tween every arch was a dainty Profpeftive; now in regard thefe buildings, towers, pillars 
 and their chapiters, were fo exceedingly gilt all over, as one could difeern nothing but 
 gold, it perfwaded us thac this Temple mull needs be wonderful fumpeuous and rich, 
 fince fuch cod had been beftowed on the very Walls. After we hid furroinded this whole 
 Ifland, and oblerved the advenues and entries thereof, noewithfianding ic was fomewhat 
 late, yet would Antonio de Faria needs go afhore to fee if he could get any Intelligence 
 in one of thofe Hermitages, to the end he might thereupon refoive, either to proiecute 
 hi* defign, or recurn back: So having left a guard fufficienc for his two Vefleis, and Diego Lo - 
 vato, his Chaplain, Captain of them, he landed with fourty Souldiers, and twenty (laves, 
 as well Pikes, as Harquebufes ; He alfo carried with him four of rhe C'hwfts > which we 
 took a while before, both for that they knew the place well, as having been there at ether 
 times, and likewile that they might ferve us for tfuchmen and guides: Being got to the 
 «fhore unefpied of any one , and without noife, we entred the Ifland by one of the eight 
 Advenues that it had, and marching through the midd of the litcie wood of Orange-trees 
 we arrived at the gate of the firft Hermitage, which might be fome two Muskec-fhoc 
 
 from the place we dif-imbarqued, where that hapned unto us which I will deliver here¬ 
 after. 
 
 great- Seft.2, 
 
 Antonio de Faria went dire&Iy to the next Hermitage he faiv before him wiih rhe scal¬ 
 ed hLnce thaq might be, and with no little fear, for thac he knew not into what danger he 
 was going to ingage himielf ; which he found fhut on the inlide > he commanded one of 
 the Chmefes to knock at ic, as he did two or three times, when at laft he heard one lpeak in 
 this manner, Pray fed be the Creator, who hath enamelled the beauty of the skies , let him that 
 kpockj at the gate go about , and he fball find it open on the other fide , where let me know what 
 hedeCires. The Chine fe went prefemly about, and entring into the Hermitage by a back 
 door, he opened the foregate to Antonio de Faria, and let him in wicb all his followers • 
 
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 There he found an old man, that feemed to be an hundred years old; he was apparelled in i 
 Ion? violet coloured damask gown , and by his countenance appeared to be a man of quality, 
 as we underflood afterwards:Being amazed to fee fo many men he fell to the ground, where he 
 lay a pood while wit bout fpeaking a word, howbeit at length he began to be better confirmed, 
 and beho'ding us with a ferious look, he gravely demanded of us what we were, aiad what we 
 would have ; D whereunto the Interpreter aofwered bytheexprefs commandment of Antonio 
 de Faria , that he was a Captain {hanger , a native of the Kingdom of Siam , and that fa 
 li»g in a Junk of his, laden with merchandife, and bound for Liampoo , he had fullered (hip- 
 wrack , whence he had miraculoully efcaped with all his company ; and for that he had vow¬ 
 ed to make a pilgrimage to this holy place, to praife God for preferving him from fo greats 
 peril, he was now come to perform his vow 5 alfo to crave fomewhat of him by way of alms, 
 whereby his poverty might be relieved, protefting within three years to render him twice as 
 much as he fhould then take from him : whereupon the Hermit, named Hiticon , having mu-, 
 fed a little on the matter, and fixing his eye on Antonio de Faria : Whoever thou art , laid he 
 unto him, knove that l throughly underftand what thou fayeft , and that I perceive but too well thy 
 damnable intention, wherewith out of the obfeurity of thy blindnefs , like an infernal pilot , thou 
 carrieft both thy (elf and thefe others , into the profound abyfs of the lake of night: for wftead of 
 rendring thankj to God for fo great a favour as thou conftffeft he hath fhewed thety thou come ft 
 hither to rob this holy houfe : But let me ask L thee , if thou txecuteft thy mifehievous defign, 
 what will the divine Juft ice, thinkeft thou , do with thee at the laft gafp of thy life ? change 
 then thy perverfe inclination , and never (after the imagination of fo great a Jin to eni ff 
 thoughts ; give credit unto me that tells thee nothing but the very truth , even as J hope to 
 thrive by it all the reft of my life. Antonio de Faria feemiog to approve of the counfel which 
 the old Hermic gave him, earneflly defred him not to be difpleaied, a (Turing him that he had 
 no other means or way left to relieve him and his, hue what he could find in that place • To 
 which the Hermic,wringing his hands* and lifting up his eyes, faid weeping. Fratfed be thouy 
 O Lord , that per mitt eft men to live on the earth , who offend thee under pretext of feeding means 
 to live , and that vouchfafe not to ferve tbee one hour , although they k»o*> how ajfared thy glory 
 is. Afcer he had uttered thefe words, he remained very penfive and much troubled to fee the 
 great diforder we ufed in breaking up the coffins, and flinging them out of their P^ c *-? 5 
 length looking upon Antouio de Faria 9 who flood leaning upon his fword, he intreated him to 
 fit down by him, which he did with a great deal of complement,not defifling for all that from 
 making figns to his fouldiers to perfift as they had begun, that ws,to;ake the filver which vitas 
 mingled amongfl the bones of the dead in the tombs that they brake up y whereat the Hermic 
 was io grieved as he fell down twice in a fwoon from his feat; but being come to himfelf, he 
 fpake thus to Antonio de Faria ; 1 will declare unto theeids to antan that feems difereetythe means 
 whereby thou may ft obtain pardon for the Jin which thou and thy people noft commit , 
 end that thy foul may not perijh eternally, when as the laft breath of thy mouth {ballgo out of thy 
 body •* Seeing then , as thou fayeft , that it is necefftty conftraihs thee to offend m this grievous 
 manner , and that thou haft apurpofe to make reftitution before thou dieft , of that thou takejt 
 away from hence y if thou haft time and power , thou muft do thefe three things : Ftrfti thou 
 muft render again what thou now carne(l away, that the Sovereign Lord may not turn his 
 mercy from thee : Secondly , thou muft with tears ask him forgivenefs for thy faulty which 
 is fo odious unto him , never ceafwg to chaftife thy fiejh both day and night -’ And thirdly , 
 thou mnft dijlribute thy goods to the poor , as liberally as to thy / elf , giving them alms with 
 prudence and diferetion , to the end the f ervant of the night may have nothing to accufe thee 
 of at the laft day. Now, for recompence of this counfel , I defire thee to command thy follow¬ 
 ers to gather toother the bones of the Saints , that they may not be dijperfed on the earth. An¬ 
 tonio de Faria proroifed him very courbeoufly to perform his requefl, wherewith tnc Hermic 
 was a little better ac quiet then before, but yet not fully fatisfied ; howbeit he fpake him very 
 fiir, and aflured him that after he had once feen him, he very much repented the under¬ 
 taking of thisenterprife, but his fouldiers had thre 3 tned to kill him, if be returned with¬ 
 out executing of it, and this he told him as a very great lecret; God grant it be fo , replyed 
 the Hermic , for that thou/halt not be fo blame worthy as thefe other monfters of the night , which 
 are fo greedy , like tofamifhed dogs , that it feems all the fiver in the world is not able to fat i ate 
 
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 7 After we had gathered all the filver together that was in the graves amongfl the dead mens 
 
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 bones, and carried it aboard our (hips, we were all of opinion not to go any farther to the reft 
 of ‘he Hermitages, as well becaufe we knew not the Countrey, as for chat it was almoft nighta 
 upon hope that the next day we might continue our enterprife more at leifure. Now before be 
 re-imbarqued himfelf, Antonio do Farm took leave of the Hermit, and giving him very good 
 words, hedefired him for Gods fake not to be offended with that his followers bad done, 
 being conftramed thereunto by meet necefficy: for as for his particular he exceedingly abhor¬ 
 red fuch like aftions, adding withall, that at the firft fight of him be would have returned back, 
 out of the temorfe of conference, and true repentance j but that his company hadhindred 
 him, faying, that if he did fo, they would furely kill him; fo that for to fave his life he waa 
 compelled to yield and confent chereunto, though he plainly law that it was a very »rcat fin 
 in regard whereof he was refoIved,as loon as he could rid bis hands of them,to go up and down 
 the world to perform fuch penance as was requifite for the purging of him from fo enormous 
 * crime. Hereunto the Hermic anfwered, •Pleafotb the Lord , who livin', rcirmth abovo 
 tht bent} of the ftps , that the knowledge which , by this difconrfe , then jheweft to 
 hove, be not prejudicial unto thee-, For I be affured, that he who knows thefe thinos, 
 and doth them not, runs a for greater danger, then he that fins throngb ignorance. Then one 
 of ours, named Nmo Cotlho , who would needs have an oar in our talk, told him, that he 
 was not to be angry for a matter of fo fmall importance; whereunco the Hermic beholding 
 him with foftern a countenance, anfwered. Certainly, the fear which then haft of death Z 
 yet lefts, face thou tmployeft thy ftelf in aliens at infamous and black at the font that is in thy 
 body, and for my fart, I cannot bat be perfwaded, that all thy ambition is wholly placed up¬ 
 on money , at but too well appears by the thirft of thy infatiable avarice , whereby thou 
 wt-t make an end of heapsng up the meafture of thine infernal appetite : Continue then thy 
 theeverte,, for fee,ng then thou muft go ,o hell for that which thou haft already taken out of 
 thw holy houfte , thou {hah alfo go tfather for thofte things which thou {halt fteal otherwifte, ft, 
 the beavter the burden (hall be that thou beareft, the ftmmr {halt thou be precipitated into 
 the bottom of hell , where already th, wicked works have prepared thee aneverlaftingab.de. 
 Hereupon Nuno de Coelh. prayed him to take all things patiently, affirming that the Law 
 of God commanded him fo to do. Then the Hermit lift up his hand, by way of admiration; 
 and as it were finding at what the fouldier bad faid, Truly, anfwered he, / am come to fee that 
 I never thought to fte, or hear, namely evil aOions difguifed with a ft.ci.us pretextof ver- 
 tue. which makes me behove that thy bhndnef, is exceeding great, finee. trufting to good 
 wards, thou ftpendeft thy hfe fo wickedly , wherefore it is not pof,bit thou (houldcft ever come 
 to Heaven, or give any account to God at the laft day, at of ntceftty thou muft do. Saying fo, 
 he turned him to Antonio de Faria, without attending further anfwerfrom him, andearneftly 
 defired him not to fuffer his company to fpic upon and prophane the altar, which he vowed 
 was more grievous to him, then the inducing of a thoufand deaths; whereupon to fatisfie him. 
 he presently commanded the forbearance of it* wherewith the Hermic was fomewhat com¬ 
 forted; Now becaufe it grew lace, Antonio de Farid refolvedto leave the place, butbe*fore 
 he departed he held it neccfiaty to inform himfelf of certain other particulars, whereof he 
 flood m fome doubt, fo that he inquired of the Hermic how many perfons there might be in all 
 thole Hermitages: whereunto Hiticon anfwered, that there were about three hundred snd 
 three (core Talagrepos t befidcs forty Aienigrepos y appointed tofurnifh them with things requi- 
 lite for their maintenance, and to attend them when they were fick .* moreover he asked him* 
 whether the King of Qhsna c ame not fometimes thither; he told him. No, for, faid he, the 
 ^ 5D ur C ^ nn0t: coa d e njned by any body, he is the fon of the Sun, but contrarily be had power 
 to ablolve every one.Then he enquired of him if there were any arms in their Hermitages ? O 
 no, anfwered the Hermic, for all fuch at pretend to go to heaven have mare need of patience to 
 induce injuries , then of arms to revenge themfelves : Being alfo delirous to know of him the 
 caufe why fo much filver was mingled with the bones of the dead. This fiver , replied the Her¬ 
 mit, comes of the alms that the deceafed carry with them out of this into the other life , for 
 to ferve them at their need in the heaven of the lM, on > where they live eternally. In con - 
 clufion , having demanded of him whether they had any women, he faid. That they which 
 would maintain the life of their fouls , ought not to tafte the pleafnres of the fiefh , feeing ex¬ 
 perience made it apparent , that the Bee which nowijheth her felf in an hoxy-comb, doth of 
 ten/hngfuch asofer to meddle with that fwtetntfs . After Antonio dt Faria had propounded 
 a cncfe qu^flions, he took his leave of him. and fo went directly to his fhip?, with an intend- 
 
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 on to return a^ain the next d*y, for to fee upon the other Hermitages, where, as he had been 
 told, was ® rear abundance of filver, and certain Idols of gold ; but our fins would not permit 
 us to fee the eflfca of a bufmeft which we had been two monechs and an half a purchafing 
 with fo much labour and danger of our lives, as I will deliver hereafter. 
 
 Sed.4. At the clearing up of the day, Antonio Ac Faria, and all of us, being embarqued , wc went 
 and anchored on the ocher fide of the Ifland, about a faulcon {hoc from it, with an intent, as 
 I have before declared, to go afliore again the next morning,and fet upon the Chappels where 
 the Kings of Chin* were interred, that fo we might the more commodioufly Ude our two vef- 
 fels with fuch treafures 5 which peradventure might have fuccecded according to our defires, 
 if the bufinefs had been well carried , and that Antonio Ac Faria had followed the counfcl was 
 given* him, which was, that fince we had not been as yec difeoyered, that he {hould have 
 carried the Hermit away with him, to the end he might not acquaint the Houfe of the Bottles 
 with what we had done; howbeit he would never hearken to it, faying, that we were to fear 
 nothing that way* by reafon the Hermit was fo old, and his legs fo fwoln with the gout, as 
 he was not able to fland, much lefs to go: But it fell out clean contrary to his expectation^ for 
 the Hermic no fooner faw us imbarqued,as we underflood afterwards, but he prefently crawled 
 as well as he could to the next Hermitage, which was not above a flight (hoot from his; and 
 giving intelligence of all that had part, he bad his companion , becaufe himfelf was not a 
 to go away with all fpecd to th cBomcoes houfe to acquaint them with it,which the ocher inftant- 
 Iy performed 5 fo that about midnight we faw a great many of fires lighted on the top of the 
 wall of the Temple, where the Kings were buried, being kindled to ferve for a figna! to the 
 Countrey abour, of fome extraordinary danger towards : This made us ask of our Cbmcfes, 
 what they might mean 5 who anfwered, that affuredly we were difeovered, m regard where¬ 
 of they advifed us without any longer flay to fet fail immediately; Herewith they ac¬ 
 quainted Antonio Ac Faria , who was fad afleepibut he ftraigbtway arofe, and leaving his anchor 
 m the fea, rowed dire&ly, afraid as he was* to the Ifland, for to learn what was done there i 
 Being arrived near to the Key, he heard many bells ringing in each Hermitage,together with a 
 noife of men talking; whereupon the Chincfcs that accompanied him,faid, Sir, never fund to 
 hear or fee more, but retire, we befeech you, as faft as you may, and caufe us not to be all mi- 
 ferably flain with your further flay; Howbeit little regarding, or afraid of their words,be went 
 afliore onely with fix fouldiers,having no other arms butfwordsand targets, and going up 
 the flairs of che Key, whether it were that he was vexc for having loft fo fair an occalion, or 
 carried thereunto by his courage, he entred into the gallery, that invironed the Ifland, and ran 
 up and down in it like a mad man, without meeting any body ; That done, and being returned 
 aboard his veffel, much grieved andafhamed,he confultedwitb his company about what they 
 {hould do, who were of opinion that the beft courfe we could take, was to depart, and there¬ 
 fore they required him to put it accordingly in execution ; Seeing them all fo refolved, and 
 fearing fome tumults among the fouldiers,he was fain to anfwer,that he was alfo of their mindj 
 but Urfl he thought it fit to know for what caufe they {hould fly away in that manner, and 
 therefore he defired them to flay for him a little in that place, becaufe he would try whether he 
 could learn by fome means or ocher the truth of the matter, whereof they had but a bare 
 fufpition; for which,he told them,he would ask but half an hour at the moli,fo that there would 
 be time enough to cake order for any thing before day ; fome would have alledged rcafons a- 
 gainft this 3 but he would not hear them; wherefore haying caufed them all to cake their 
 oaths upon the holy Evangelifts, that they would flay for him, he returned to land with the 
 fame fouldiers that had accompanied him before, and entering into the little wood he heard 
 the found of a bell, which addreffed him to another Hertnitagc,far richer then that wherein we 
 were the day before; There he met with two men, apparelled like Monks,with large hoods, 
 which made him think they were Hermits, of whom he prefently laid hold; wherewith one 
 of them was fo terrified, as he was not able to fpeak a good while after : Hereupon four of the 
 fix fouldiers part into the Hermitage, and took an Idol of filver from the altar, having a crown 
 of gold on its head, and a wheel in its band; they alfo brought away three candlefiicks of 
 filver, with long chains of the fame belonging to them: This performed, Antonio de F aria 
 carrying the two Hermits along with him,went aboard again,and failing away, ne propounded 
 divers queflions to him, of the two, that was leaft afraid, threatning to ufe him in a flrange 
 fafhion if he did not tell che truth. This Hermic feeing himfelf fo menaced, anfwered, That 
 an holy man, named PiUn Angiroo came about midnight to the houfe of the Kings Sepultures, 
 
 where 
 
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 where knocking in hafte at the gate, he crycd our, laying ; O miferable men , burled in the 
 drmkennefs of carnal fleep, who by a folemn vow h«vc profcfi your [elves to the honour of the 
 Goddefs Amida, the rich reward of our labours, hear hear , hear, O the mofi wretched men 
 that ever were born ; There are fir angers come into our //land, from the funhefi end of the 
 World, which have long beards, and bodies of Iron • thefe wicked creatui es have enred into 
 the Holy Houfe of the (even and twenty pillars, of whofe facred Temple an holy man n keeper, 
 that hath told me, where after they had ranfackjd the rich treafures of the Saints, they con¬ 
 tempt uouflythrew their bones to the ground, which they prophaned with their fink lag and in¬ 
 fections fpitting, and made a mockery of them like Devils , obfiinate and hardned m their 
 wretched fins ; wherefore / adyifeyou to lookjwell to your /elves ; for it is fold, that they have 
 [worn to k/ll ns all as foon as it is day : Fly away then, or call fome people to your fuccour, 
 fince being Religious men you are not permitted to meddle with any thing that may /hed the 
 blood of man. Herewith they prefenriy arofe and ran to the gate , where they found the 
 Hermice laid on the ground, and half dead with grief and wearinds through the imbecilli- 
 cy of his age; whereupon the Grepos and Menigrepos made thofe fires that you faw, and 
 wit hall fent in all hafie to the Towns of Corpilem , and Fohbana, for to fuccour them fpee- 
 dily with the Forces of the Country ; fo chac you may be allured it will not be long before 
 they fall upon this place with all the fury that may be. Now this is all that lam able to 
 fay concerning the truth of this affair ; wherefore I defire you to return us both unto our Her¬ 
 mitage with our lives faved ; for if you do not fo you will commit a greater fin , then you did 
 yefierday l Remember alfo that God, in regard of the continual/ penance we perform, hath ta~ 
 ken usfo far into his protection , as he doth vi/it us almofl every hour of the day; wherefore la¬ 
 bour to fave your /elves as much as you will , yet fit all you hardly do it • For be fure , that the 
 earth, the air, the winds, the waters, the beafis, the fi/bes, the fowls, the trees, the plants, and 
 all things createdy will purfue and torment you fo cruelly, as none but he that lives in heaven 
 will be able to help you. Antonio de Faria being hereby certainly informed of rhe truth 
 of the buhnefs failed inftantly away, tearing his hair and beard for very r^ge, to fee that 
 through his negligence and in-diferetion he had loll the fairefi occafion that ever he fhould 
 be able to meet wichall. 
 
 CHAP. XXVI. 
 
 Our cafiing away in the Gulf of Nanquin, with all that befell us after 
 
 this lamentable Shipwracks 
 
 W E had already lailed feven dayes in the Gulf of Nanquin , to the end that the force - „ - 
 of the Current might carry us the more fwiftly away, as men whofe fafety confifl- Ssa,1 ‘ 
 ed wholly in flight; for we were fo defolate and fad , r.hac vve fcarce fpake one to another; 
 
 In the mean time we arrived at a Village, called Sufequerim, where no news being come 
 either of us, or what we had done, we fumiftied our ielves with fome Viftual, and get¬ 
 ting Information very covertly of the courfe we were to hold, we departed within two 
 hours after, andthen,with thegreareft fpeed we could make, weentred into a flreight, na¬ 
 med Xalwgau, much lefs frequented then the Gulf that we had pafl; hsre vve naviga¬ 
 ted nine dayes more, in which time we ran an hundred and forty leagues, then encring a- 
 gain into the faid Guif ol Nanquin, which in that place was not above ten or eleven leagues 
 broad, we failed for the fpace of thirteen dayes from one fide to another with a Wefterly 
 winde, exceedingly affli&ed, both with the great labour we were fain to endure, and the 
 cruel fear we were in, beiidesche want we began to feel ofViftuals : In this cafe being 
 come within fight of the mountains of Conxinacau , which are in the height of forty and 
 one degrees, there arofe fo terrible a South winde, called by the Chinefes, Tufaon. as it could 
 not pofljbly be thought a natural thing; fo that our Veflels being low built, weak’ and with¬ 
 out Mariners, we were reduced to fuch extremity , that out of all hope to efhpe we fuffer- 
 ed our felves to be driven along the Coafl, as the current of the water would carry us ; for 
 vve held it more fafe to venture our felves amongfi the Rocks, then to let us be fwallowed 
 up in the midft of the Sea; and though vve had chofen this defign , as the better and 
 iels painful, yet did it not fucceed ; for after dinner the winde turned to the North-weft, 
 whereby the Waves became fo high, that it was moft dreadful to behold • Our fear then 
 was fo extream, as we began to cafi all than we had into the Sea, even to the Chefis foil of 
 
 O ' Silver: 
 
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 Silver : That done, we cut down our two Mails, and fo without Marts and Sails wefloa- 
 ed along ail the reft of the day ; at length about midnight we heatd them in Antonio de 
 Faria's Vcffel cry, Lord have mercy upon «#, which perfwadedus that they were carta¬ 
 way • the apprehcnrton whereof put us in fuch a fright, as for an hour together no man fpake 
 a word. Having part all this fad night in fo miferable a plight, about an hour before day 
 our Vcflcl opened about the Keel, fo that it was inftantly full of water eight fpans high, 
 whereupon perceiving our felves to fink, we verily believed, it was the good pleafure of 
 God that in this place we fhould finifli both our lives and labours: As foon then as it was 
 day we looked out to Sea, as far as poflibly we could difcern, but could no way difcover 
 Antonio de Faria , which put us quite out of heart; and fo continuing in this great affliction 
 till about ten of the clock, with fo much terror and amazement, as words are not able to 
 cxprefs; at laft we ran againft the Coaft, and even drowned as we were, the Waves rolled 
 us coward a point of Rocks that flood out into the Sea, where we were no fooner arrived 
 but that all went to pieces, infomuch that of five and twenty Portugals , which we were, 
 there were buc fourteen faved,the ocher eleven being drowned, together with eighteen Chri- 
 flian Servants, and feven Chinefe Mariners. This miferable difarter hapned on a Munday, 
 the fifth of Augufi, in the year one thoufand five hundred forty and two, for which the 
 Lord be praifed everlaflingly. 
 
 Sc5 t,i] We fourteen Tortugals , having efcaped out of this fhipwrack by the meer mercy of 
 God, fpent all that day, and the night following, in bewailing our mif-fortune, and the 
 wretched ertate whereunto we were reduced; but in the end conflicting together, what 
 courfe co take for to give fome remedy thereunto; we concluded to enter into the Country, 
 hoping that far or neer we fhould not fail to meet with fome body, that taking us for flaves 
 would relieve us with meat, till fuch time as it fhould pleafe Heaven to terminate our 
 travels with the end of our lives. With this refolution we went fome fix or feven leagues 
 over rocks and hills, and on the other fide difeovered a great Marlh, fo large and void, as it 
 part the reach of our fight, there being no appearance of any land beyond it; which made 
 us turn back again, towards the fame place where we were caft away ; being arrived there 
 the day after abouc Sun-fee, we found upon the fhore the bodies of our men, which the Set 
 had cart up, over whom we commenced our forrow and lamentations, and the next day wc 
 buried them in the fand, to keep them from being devoured bytheTygers, whereof that 
 Country k full, which we performed with much labour and pain, in regard we had no o- 
 ther tools for that purpofe buc our hands and nails; After thele poor bodies were interred 
 we got us into aMarfh, where we fpent all the night, as the fafeft place we could chufe 
 to preferve us from the Tygers: From thence we continuedour journey towards the Norch, 
 and that by fuch Precipices and thick Woods, as we had much ado to pafs through them; 
 Having travelled in this manner three dayes, at length we arrived at a little (freight, with¬ 
 out meeting any body, over the which refolving to fwim, by ill fortune the four firft that 
 entred into it, being three Tortugals and a young youth, were mifet.bly drowned; for being 
 very feeble, and the (freight fome what broad, and the current of the water very ftrong, they 
 were not able to hold out any longer when they came to the midfl; fo we eleven,with three 
 fervants that remained, feejng the inforcunate fuccefs of our companions, could do nothing 
 buc weep and lament, as men that hourly expe&ed fuch or a worfe end* Having fpent all 
 that dark nighr, expofed to the winde, cold,and rain, it pleated our Lord that the next morn¬ 
 ing before day we difeovered a great fire towards the Eaft * whereupon as foon as the day 
 broke, we marched fair and fofely that way, recommending our felves to that Almighty Gcd 
 from whom alone we could hope for a remedy to our miferies; and fo continuing our jour¬ 
 ney all along the River, the moft part of that day, at laft we came to a little wood, where 
 we found five men making of coals, whom on our knees we befought for Gods fake to 
 diredt us to fome place where we might get fome relief • 7 would, faid one of them 
 beholding us with an eye of pitie, it lay in our fewer to help you, but alas l all the comfort 
 we can give you is to beflow fome part of our Supper on you , which is a little rice, where¬ 
 with you may pafs this night here with its if you will > though 1 hold it better for you to pro- 
 ceed on your way , and recover the place you fee a little below , where you Jballfinde an Hof - 
 pital that ferves to lodge fuch Pilgrims as chance to come tnto thefe quarters. Having thank¬ 
 ed him fo^ his gooo aijdrefs, we fell to the Rice they gave us, which came buc to two 
 mouthfuls ?piece , *nd fo took our leaves of them,going diredUy to the place they had (hew¬ 
 ed us, as well as our weaknefs would permit. Abouc 
 
About an hour within night,wc arrived at the Hofpital, where we filet with four men, that 
 had the charge of it, who received us very charitably The next morning as foon as it ms 
 day, they demanded of us, what we were, and from whence we came ? Thereunto we anfw^. 
 red, that we were Grangers, natives of the Kingdom otSiam, and that comin^ from the Pore 
 of Liampoo to go to the fifliing of Nanquin, we were caG away at Sea by the violence of a 
 Gorm, having faved nothing out of this (hipwrack, but thofe our miferable and naked bodies 0 
 Whereupon demanding of us again, what we intended to do, and whither vve would °o • we 
 replyed, that we purpoied to go to the City of Naquin, there to imbarque our felve* as row¬ 
 ers in the nrG Lanteua that Gaould put to Sea, for to pafs unto (fantan, where our Country¬ 
 men,by the permiflion of the Aito of Panquin , exercifed their traffique under the protection 
 of the fon of the Sun, and Lyon crowned in the throne of the world 5 wherefore we defired 
 them for Gods caufe to let us Gay in that Hofpital, until we had recovered our bealthvnd to 
 beGow any poor clothes on us to cover our nakednefs. After they had given good ear unto 
 us • Ic were reafon,*nfwered they, to grant you that which you require with fo much earnefi* 
 nefs,and tearsjbutin regard the Houfeis now very poor,we cannot fo eafily difeharge our du¬ 
 ties unto you as we fhould, howoeit, we will do what we may with a very good will 5 Then 
 quite nakcd,aswe were,they lead us all about the Village,containing fome forty or fifty fires, 
 more or lefs 5 the inhabitants whereof were exceeding poor, having no other living but what 
 they got by the labour of their hands, from whom they drew by way of alms fome two Tatis 
 in money, half a fack office, a little meal, aricot beans,onions,and a few old rags, wherewith 
 We made the befi fhife we could 5 over and above this they bellowed two Tatis more on us out 
 of the Stock of the Hofpital.But whereas we delired that vve might be permitted to Gay there, 
 they excufed themfelves, faying,that no poor might remain there above three days, or five at 
 the moll, unlefsit were lick people, or women with child, of whom fpecial care was to be 
 had, becaufe in their extremities they could nor travel without endangering their Iives,where* 
 fore they could for no other perfons whatfoever tranfgrefs that Ordnance, D which had of anci¬ 
 ent time been inftituted by the advice of very learned and religious men ; nev:rcbelefs, that, 
 three leagues from thence,we fhould in a great Town, called Sileytacatt, find \ very rich liofpi- 
 tal,where ail forts of poor people were encertained,& that there we fhould be far better look¬ 
 ed unto then in their houfe, which was poor, and agreeable to the place of its feituation ; to 
 which end chey would give us a letter of recommendation, by means whereof we fhould in¬ 
 continently be received. For thefe good offices we rendred them infinite thanks,# told them 
 chat God would reward them for it,fince they did it for his fake ; whereupon an old man,one 
 of thofe four , caking the Speech upon him, It is for that eonfideration alone we do it , anfwe- 
 red he, and Mot in regard of the world; for God and the world are greatly different in Matters 
 of workj , and of the intention which one may have in the doing of them ; Tor the world being 
 poor and miferable as it is t can give nothing that it good ; whereas God is infinitely rich , and 
 a friend to the poor 3 that in the heighth of their afflittions praife him with patience and humi¬ 
 lity \ The world is revengeful, but God is fuffering ; the world is wicked, God is allgoodnefs ; 
 the world is gluttonous , God is a lover of abflinence ; the world is mutinous and turbulent ,* 
 God is quiet and peaceable ; the world is a lyar and full of diffimaUtion to them that belong to 
 it , God is always trucj free , and merciful to them that invoke him by prayer ; the world is fen» 
 ftsal and covetous, God is liberal, and purer then tbs light of the Sun, or ftars, or then thofe 
 other lamps which are far more excellent then they that appear to our eye*, and are always prc~ 
 fent before bis mofirefplendent face y the world is full of irrefolusion and faljhood, wherewith 
 it entertains it felf in the fmoak^of its vam-glory , whereas God is confiant in his truth, to the 
 end that thereby the humble may pofefs glory in all fincerity of heart ; In award , the world 
 is full of folly and ignorance ; contrarily,God is the fountain ofwifdom ; wherefore , my friends 
 although you be reduced to fo pitiful an e/late, do you not for all that dlftrufi his promifes » 
 for be affured hi will not fail you , if you do not render your felves unworthy of his favours, 
 in regard it was never found that he was at any time wanting to his ; albeit, they that are 
 blinded by t he world are of another opinion , when as they fee themfelves ’opprejfed with pover¬ 
 ty, and dtfpifed of everybody . Having ufed this Speech to us,he give us a letter of recommen- 
 dition to the Brotherhood of the other Hofpital, whither vve were to go, and fo we departed 
 about noon, and arrived at the Town an hour or two before Sun-fer. Thefirft thing vve did, 
 was to go to the houfe of the repofe of the poor; for fo the Chineses call the HofpitalsjThere 
 fve delivered our letters to the Mailers of chat Society, which they term Tdnigories , whom 
 
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 we found altogether in a Chamber,where they Were affem'oled about the affairs of the poor ; 
 After they had received the letter with a kind of complement, that feemed very flrange to us^ 
 they commanded the Regtfter to read if 5 whereupon he flood up and read thus to them that 
 were fitting at the Table: We thepooreft of the poor y unworthy to ferve that Sovereign Lord % 
 whofe works are fo admirable , as the Sun , and the flats that twine kje in the skje , during the 
 darknefi of the night do teftifie : Having been cletted to the fucccjfton of this his houfe of 
 Buatcndoo, feituated in this flilUge c/Catihorau , with all manner of refpefi and honour , do 
 befecchyour humble perfons, admitted to the fervice of the Lord , that out of a z,eal of chari¬ 
 ty, you will lodge and favour thefe fourteen ft r anger s y whereof three are tawny, the other eleven 
 fame what whiter* whofe poverty will manifeftly appear to your eyes , whereby\yo t u may judge 
 how muchyeafon we have to prefent this requeft unto you ; for that they have been caft away, 
 with all their merchandifefin the impetuous waters of the Sea , that with their accufiomedfury 
 have laid the execution of the ^Almighty hand upon them , which for a juft punifhment doth 
 often permit fuch like things to happen 5 for to jhew us how dreadful his judgements are , from 
 which may it pie aft him to deliver us all at the day of death , to the end we may not fee the in¬ 
 dignation of his face. This letter being read,they caufed us prefently to be lodged in a very neat 
 Chamber,accommodated with a Tableland divers Chairs,where after we had been ferved with 
 good meat, we refted our felves that night .- The next morning the Regifter came along with 
 the refl of the Officers, and demanded of us who we were , of what Nation, and where¬ 
 about we had fuffered fhipwrack ; whercunto we anfwered,as we had done before, to thofe 
 of the Village from whence we came, that we might not be found in. two tales,and convinced 
 of lying ; whereupon having further enquired of us what we meant to do; we to d them that 
 our intention was to gee our felves cured in that houfe,if it pleafed fchem to permit us,in regard 
 we were fo weak and lickly as we could fcarce Hand upon our legs ; To which they replyed 
 that they would very willingly fee/.hat performed for us,as a thing that was ordinarily done 
 there for the fervice of God; for the which we thanked them weeping , with fo much ac¬ 
 knowledgement of their goodnefs and charity, as the tears flood in their eyes 5 fo that pre- 
 fently fending for a Phyfician,they bid him look carefully to us, for that we were poor flocks, 
 and had no other means but what we had from the houfe ; That done, he took our names in 
 writing, and fet them down in a great book ; whereunto we all of us fee our hands, faying, 
 it was ncceffary it fhould be fo, that an account might be rendred of the expence was to be 
 made for us. ' 
 
 Sea.4. Haying fpent eighteen days in this Hofpital, where we were fufficiently providedfor with 
 all things neceffary, it pleafed God that we throughly recovered our healths; fo that feeling 
 our felves ftrong enough to travel,we departed from thence for to go to 2 place,called Zuz,o* 
 angances, fome'ftve leagues from that Hofpital, where we arrived about Sun-fet; Now in re¬ 
 gard we were very weary, we fat us down upon the fide of a fountain, that flood at the en¬ 
 trance of that Village, being much perplexed and unrefolved what way to take : In the mean 
 time, they which came to fetch water feeing us fit there in fo fad an equipage, returned with 
 their pitchers empty, and advertising the inhabitants of it , the moft of them came prefently 
 forth to us: Then wondring much,becaufe they had never feen men like unto us, they gathe¬ 
 red altogether,as if they would confult thereupon ; and after they had a good while debated 
 one with another, they fent an old woman to demand of us what people we were, and why 
 we fat fo about that fountain,from whence they drew all the water they ufed : Hereunto we 
 anlvvered,that we were poor flrangers, natives of the Kingdom of Siam , who by a ftorm ac 
 Sea were cafl upon their Country, in that miferable plight wherein they beheld us. Tell me, 
 replyed fhe, what courfe would you have us to take for you, and what refolve you to do, foe 
 here is no houfe for the repofe of the poor whereinto you may be received ? To thefe words 
 one of our company anfwered with tears in his eyes,and a geflure conformable to our defign, 
 that God, being that which he was , would never abandon us with his Almighcy hand, but 
 would touch their hearts to take compaffion of us,and our poverty ; and furthcr,that we were 
 tefolved to travel in that miferable cafe vve were in till we had the good fortune to arrive ac 
 the City o(Nanguin y where we defired to put our felves into the Lanteaas , there to ferve for 
 rowers to the Merchants that ordinarily went from thence to Cantano , and fo to get to Com- 
 hay, where great flore of our Country Junks ufually lay, in which vve would imbarque our 
 felves. Thereupon having fomewhat a better opinion of us then before ; Seeing you are, faid 
 flxc, fuch as you deliver, have a little patience till I come again, and cell you what thefe folks 
 
 refoive 
 

 
 fome hundred perihns, whom fhe em^/inro ^°re«°comT(h“ 0 v’ •J'*" ifn"' 
 
 of corn in his hand s Then haw commanded us ro^l ? T" f ° ^ *“ * handful1 <* earf 
 him with all kind of refpea 5 but he little re°ard-d ir^Ui ^ ' :R -'° blVn> ' vc P relt = ntl V obeyed 
 had thrown the ear. of corn into the fountain 0 Ik wi M S P °°l ; 7 hereu P on *»« he 
 we accordingly having done ! TwS^, ^tZ° 0 £“ Zth^A 
 
 CnZrlfVtht " m l f r f ‘ K 7 ft ’V‘ tm fuhJimc ' s *” d »*k *hf°h7h' itoh 
 
 ,Tl 1 ,llh ‘"S s ., h *‘bmadcbyhts holy mil ,0 fuflain and murilh all that is IJiltft 
 Twjd, dnrm S t^c fUmmagt of this r,f ei whether that which you told thisWoman bu nhJka 
 true ; for upon that condition we will give you lodvinv in tkis vitH*** c r ” d . w • 
 
 ties tee are bound to exercife towards Gods poor people • whereas contrarilr”'f’'tJ s’* chart- 
 
 the teeth of,he gluttonous Serpent,,hat make* his abode in the bottom of ZhcJicflmil 
 
 Pridt ] rem^ C * D ^ C - r lf , i^ 1 r We ^ a ^^ not: ^” 1 ? butvvbac was moft true • wherewith the 
 
 for us/.nd had two maf/^enu^?o P lie SS^ ed WU f h a " that was needful 
 vv^nt uo anrl ^nw#r* rh* u u «pon. Ine next morning as foon as it was day* we 
 
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 nbrp rtfllt-ri Yieoil r L gening neceiimes. After this vve went away ro anorher 
 
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 dow of a «reat tree that BnJJhnr l • § ’ V^ere we fate us down ™der the flia- 
 
 tr) 3 .c nwd from rhcnij they mauld us cruel!v with * r ^ 
 
 ail of us orievouHv h«.rr MW.oii,, «c , It0nes , and " a ves, in fuch manner as we were 
 I l° W u- tCr ’• ^*5 reac ^ U P t° our waftes ) wherein were a great number of hor*e- 
 
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 forfook rheir W nrk ln k am . vVere P lU °S F1 * x , who as foon as they faw us 
 
 to thol that pTff d bvtotake T 7 T \ W j ° d ° f Fi " CKeS 5 there ‘ h 'V crjed out 
 incur rK^ c^Jl j'* ^ l a ^ e “ eec ^ us ior that we were thieves ; whereupon fearifi ^ co 
 
 we lay thj,reft of the night upon a little heap of dung; the nexc morning asfoon as 
 
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 it was day vv* zoc a<>ain into the way which vve had left, and not: long after vve difeovered 
 from the top^of a little hill a great plain full of trees, and in the midft thereof a very fair 
 Houfehard by a River, whither forthwith vve went, and fate us down by a fountain that 
 was before the outer gate, where yve remained two or three hours without feeing any bo¬ 
 dy • at len^th,a young Gentleman about fixteen or fevenceen years of age came riding upon 
 a very *ood Horfe, accompanied with four men on foot, whereof one carried two Hares, 
 and another five Nivatores, which are Fowls refemblmg our Phefants, vvith a Gof-Hawk 
 on his lift, andchreeo: four couple of Spaniels at his heels ; when this Gentleman came 
 at us he ftaid his Horfe , to ask us who vve were, and whither vve would have any thing 
 with him. Hereunto we anfwered as well as we could, and made him an ample Relati¬ 
 on of the whole event of our fhipwrack ; whereat he feemed to be very forry, as we could 
 «ather by his countenance, fo that ere he went, Stay there, faid he unto us, for by and by I 
 will fend you what you hive need of, and that for his fake that with a glory of great riches 
 lives rci°nin CT in the higheft of all the Heavens. A litrle after he fent an old woman for 
 usVvyhichvva? apparelled in a long garment, with a Chaplet hanging down on her neck. 
 The good Dame coming to u$,Tbc,fon of him, faid fhe, whom we hold for Mailer in this 
 houfe, and vvhofe Rice we cic, him fent for you, follow me then with all humility, to the 
 end you may nor feem idle fellows to thofe that fhill fee you, and fijeh as, b^g only to 
 be exempted from getting your living by the labour of your hands ; This W, we entred 
 vvith her into an outward Court, all about invironed with Gilleries, as if it had been fome 
 Cloifler of Religious perfons; on the walls whereof Were painted divers women on Horfe- 
 back going on hunting with Hawks on their fills ; over the gate of this Court was a 
 <*reac arch very richly engraven, in the midll whereof hung a Scutcheon of Arms, in the 
 fafhion of a Shield, fallned to a filverChain ; within itwas a man painted almofl in the 
 form of a Toneis, with the feet up, and the head downwards ; and round about it thefe 
 words were read for a device , Ingualec finguau, potim aquarau , that is to fay. So u it with 
 all that appertains tome. We learnt afeerwards, that by this Monller the Figure of th.. 
 world was represented, which the Chmefes depaint in this manner, to demonllrate that th-r» 
 is nothin 0 in it but falfhood, andfo to dif-abufe all them that make fuch account of it, by 
 making them to fee how all things in ic are turned upfidedoivn. Out of this Court we 
 went up a broad pair of flairs, made of fair hewed ftone, and entred into a great Ha I, 
 where a woman of about fifty years of age, was fet upon a Tapeflry Cirpet, having two 
 young Gentlewomen by her fide, that were exceeding fair, and richly apparelled, with 
 chains of Pearl about their necks, and hard by them was a reverend old man laid upon a 
 f little bed, whom one of the two Gentlewomen fanned with a Ventfoe ; at his B-ds head 
 
 flood the young Gentleman that had fent for us, and a little further off upon another Car¬ 
 pet nine young maids, clothed in Crimfon and white Damask, late fi-wing ; as foon 83 
 we came before the old man we fell on our knees, and asked an alms of him , beginning 
 our fpeech with tears, and in the heft terms chat the time and our nrcefhties coula infpire us 
 with; whereupon the old Lady beckning to us with her hand, CW, weep no more , faid (he, 
 for it rrieves me much to fee you weep fo many tears, it is fnffic lent that 1 know you defire 
 an alms of w then the old man that lay in the bed fpake unco us, and demanded whe¬ 
 ther any of us knew what was good for aFever?Whereat the young Gentlewoman that fan¬ 
 ned him, not able to forbear folding: Sir, faid fhe, they have more need that you would be 
 f leafed to give order for the fatisfying of their hunger , then to be quejhoned about a matter 
 which it is likely they are ignorant of ; wherefore me thinkj it were better firft to give them 
 what they want, and afterwards to talkwith them about that which concerns them left ; For 
 thefe words the Mother reprehending her. Go to, faid fhe, you will ever be prating when you 
 > jhould not ; but furely I Jball make you leave this cujlom ; whercunto the daughter fmding, 
 replied, That you [hall when you pleafe , but in the mean time l befeech you , let thefe poor 
 flrangers have fomethmg to eat t For all this the old man would not give over quefhoning 
 us j for he demanded of us who we were, of what Country, and whither we were going; be- 
 fides many other fuch like things? To which we anfwercd asoccafion require J, and re¬ 
 counted unto him, how, when, and in what place we had fuffeted fhipwrack ; as aKo 
 how many of our company were drowned, and thac thus wandring we travelled up and 
 down not knowing whither to addrefs our lelves. This aafwer rendred the o ci man pen- 
 five for a while, until at length turning him to bis fon, Well now, fa;d he tiuto him, wbac 
 
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 tbinktft thou of that which thou haft heard thele fttangew deliver ? It were good for thee 
 to imprint it well in thy memory, to the end it may teach thee r 0 know Cod bettu 
 and give him thanks for that he hath given thee a Father, who to exempt thee from -be 'ia- 
 bours and neceffities of this life, hath parted with three of the gnodlieft things in this Gun- 
 try , whereof the leaft is worth above a hundred thoufand Tuit , and heftowed them on 
 
 of a humour more inclined to hunt a Hare, then to retain this which 
 “f e S Thc y? u »g Gentlemann made no reply, but fmiling looked upo , his Sifters. 
 Then the old man cauied meat to be brought unto us before him, and commanded us to fall 
 to it, as we moft willingly did; whereat he took great pleafure, in regard his tiomack w'as 
 quite gone with his ficknets, but his young daughters much more, who with their brother 
 did nothing but laugh to fee us feed our felves with our hands; for that is contrary to the cu- 
 llom which u obferved throughout the whole Empire of China, where the Inhabitants ac 
 their meat carry it to their momhes with two little iticks made like a pair of Cizers > After 
 we had given God thanks, the old man that had well obferved us,lifting up his hands’to hea* 
 ven with tears in his eyes, W, faid he, that livefi reigning in the tranquility of thy high 
 Wifdome, I laud thee in all humility 9 fgr that thou permittefi men that are fir angers, come from 
 the farthefi end of the world, and without the knowledge of thy do&rine, to render thee thanks, 
 and give thee praife according to their weak^capacity ; which makes me believe that thou wilt 
 accept of them with as good a will , as if it were fome great offering of melodious muficl^ agree¬ 
 able to thine cares Then he caufed three pieces of linnen cloth, and four Tatis of Silver to 
 be given us , willing us withall to pafs that night in his houfe, becaufe it w*j fomewhac too 
 late for us to proceed on our journey; This offer we moft gladly accepted, and with com- 
 plements, after the manner of the Country, we teftified our thankfulnefs to him, wherewith 
 himfelf, his wife, and his fon refted very well fatisfied. 
 
 CHAP. XXVII. 
 
 Our arrival at the Town of Taypor , where we were made Prifimers, 
 s and fo fent to the Gity of Nanquin, 
 
 T He next morning by break of day parting from that place; we went to a Village cal¬ 
 led Fmgimlau , which was tome four leagues from the old Gentlemans houfe, where 
 fmm v'l^ thr ^ * ad then continuing travelling from one place to another, and 
 
 rnLY £ gC u V / llg< ? ever dec ! iaia S ^ great Towns, for fear left the Juftice of the 
 ntry mould call us in queftion mregard we were ftrangers 5 in this manner wefpent al- 
 moft two moncths without receiving the leaft damage from any body. Now there is no doubc 
 but we might eafily have got to the City of Nanquin in that time if we had had a guide * 
 but for want of knowing the way we wandred we knew not whither, fuffering much; and 
 running many hazards At length we arrived at a Village, named Chaucer , at fuch a time 
 as they were a folemmzing a fumptuous Funeral of 5. very rich woman, that had dulnhe- 
 nted her kindred and left her eftate to the Pagode of this Village, where toe was buried, 
 as we underftood by the Inhabitants ; We were invited then to this Funeral, as other 
 poor people were, and according tothecuftOm of the Country we did eat on the grave 
 ff the deccafed: At the end of three dayes that we ftayed there, which was the time the 
 uneral lafted, we had fa Tacts given us for an Alms, conditionally that in all ourOtai- 
 fons we mould pray unto God for the foul of the departed* Being gone from this place 
 ive continued on our journey to another Village, called Guinapalir , from whence we were 
 almoft two moncths travelling from Country to Country,until! ac laft our ill fortune brought 
 uS c r ° * Town, named Taypor, where by chance there was at that time a Chumbrin, that is 
 to fay, one of thoie Superintendents of Juftice, that every three years are lent throughout 
 the Provinces for to make report unto the King of all that paffeth there : This naughty 
 man feeing us n° begging from door to door, called to us from a window where he was, 
 and would know of us vyho we were, and of what Nation; as alfo what obliged us to run 
 up and down the World in that manner ? Having asked us thefe queftions in the prefence of 
 three Kegmers, and of many other perfons, that were gathered together to behoid 11s * we 
 antwered him, that we were ftrangers, Nativesofthe Kingdom of Siam, ♦tyho being caft 
 away by a ftorm at Sea went thus travelling and begging our living, to the end we might fu- 
 lialn 0ur Wlth ™ rarity of good people , until! fuch time as we could arrive at Nan- 
 
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 •„ - _i-; thpr we W ere going with an intent to imbarque our felves there in fome of the 
 Merchants Lam eatu for Canton, where the (hipping of our Nation lay. This anfwer we made 
 unto the who queftionlefs had been well enough contented with it,aud would have 
 
 w° „ 0 had it not been for one of his Clerksyfor he told them t hat we were .die vagabonds, 
 h,r ta our time in begging f tom door to door, and abufmg the alms that were given us, 
 and therefore hewasat no hand to let us go free, (or feat of incurring the punifhmenr ordai¬ 
 ned for fuch as offend in that fort, as is fet forrh in the fevemh of the twelve books ot the Sta¬ 
 tutes of the Realm; wherefore as his faithful fervant he counfelled him to lay us in good and 
 fnre hold that we might be forth-coming to anfwer the Law : Thea«t»^/»prefent y fol¬ 
 lowed his Clerks advice, and carried himfelf toward us with as much barbarous cruelty, as 
 could be expeaed from a Pagan, fuch as he was, that lived without God or Religion; 1 o 
 which effea after he had heard a number of falfe witneffes, who charged us with many fowl 
 crimes, whereof we never fo much as dream’d, he caufed us to be put into a deep dungeon, 
 with irons on our hands and feet, and great iron collars about our necks -, In this miferable 
 place we endured fuch hunger, and were fo fearfully whipped, that we were in perpetual pain 
 for fix and twenty days together, at the end whereof we were by the lentence of the fame 
 Cbumhim fent to the Parliament of the Chtam ofNanqum, becaufe the Jurndumon of this 
 
 extended not to the condemnation of any ptiloner to death. , T 
 
 Jta.i. We remained fix and twenty days in that cruel prlfon, whereof I fpake before ; and I vow 
 we thoughc we had been fix and twenty thoufand years there,in regard of the great inufery-we 
 fuffered in it, which was fuch, as one of our companions called Joano kmmgui*. 
 in our arms, bein'* eaten up with lice, we being no way able to help him ; and it Was almolt 
 a miracle,that the°relf of us efcaped alive from thac filthy vermine ; At length,one morning, 
 when we thought of nothing lefs, loaden with irons as we were, and fo weak that we could 
 hardly fpeak, we wete drawn out of that ptifon, and then being chained one to another 
 were inibarqued with many otheis, to the number Of thirty ot lorry .that having been con- 
 rifted for fundry hainous ctimes.were alfo fent to the Parliament of iVii» ? i«»,where,as I haw. 
 alreadv declared, is always redding a Chaim of Jufiice, which is like to the Sovereign I it e 
 of the Vice-toy of (hint : There is likewife a Parliament of feme five and twenty 
 mot anti Fermuas, wh.ch are as thole we call Judges withus, and that determine all caules 
 as well civil as cr.minaliSo as there is no appeal from the.* fentence.unlefs it be untoano h,t 
 Court which huh pot ter even over the King himfelf ; whereunto if one app-al, it is as if he 
 appealed to h -aven :To underfiand this the better, you mull know i hat although .this 1 ar.ia- 
 ment,& orhers fuch like,which are in the principal Cities of the Realm,have an abfo.ute power 
 fromthe King.bot h over all criminal 8 t civil caules,without any oppoficion ot appeal whatloe- 
 verytet there fs another Court of Jufiice, which is called the Court of the Creator of all things, 
 where unto it is permitted to appeal in weighty & important matterstln this Court are ordina¬ 
 rily a (Tilling 24 Memtnpos, which are certain religious men, very auftere in their manner of li- 
 ring,fuch as the CafuJns are amongtt the Pa P ifc,&verily if they were Chnfl.ans, one might 
 hop- for great matters from them in regard of their marvellousabfimenre,& lincemy : There 
 are none admitted into this rank of Judges under jo years of age & arc ticked 'hereunto by 
 the fuffraees of their chiefeftPrelates.mofl incorruptible men,> fojuft in all the caules where¬ 
 of there are appeals before them, as it is not poflible to meet with more uptight; for were it a- 
 gainfl the King himfelf,& againfi all the powers that may be imagined in toe world, no confi- 
 ceration.how great foever,is able tomake them fwetve never to little from that they t hink to be 
 juHice.Hving been imbarqued in the manner I fpake ofythe fame day at tngu vv > - n t a / ac 
 
 a great tower,called 3 W«nin one of theprifons whereof we temamed nine days, by tea on 
 of the much tain that fell then upon the conjunftion of the New-iiioomTnere ,we h append to 
 meet with a Ruffian prifoner.that received us very charitably, of whom demanding m the C/u- 
 nefe tongue, which he underftood as well as we, wbflt Country* man a, was, and wnar orcune 
 had brought him thither,he told ur,that he was of Mofcovy, born in a tovvn,naine ihyutgens, 
 and that fome five years pad, being accufed for the death of a man.he had been condemned to 
 a perpetual prifon, but as a (iranger he appealed from that fentence to the tno na o t .k /• 
 uh of Bat Ampin* t in the City c XTetptin , who was the higheft of the two and thirty Admirals, 
 eftablifheo m -his Empire,that is,for every Kingdom one;Hc added further,that this A imirai, 
 by a partiSula-J urifdi&ion>d abfoiutepower over all Grangers ; whereupon he hoped to hnd 
 fome relief from him,intending to go & die a Chriftian auiog the Chnftias,if he might have^e 
 
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 good hap to fas fet it liberty. After *ve had paflhd t'uofe nine days in this prifon, bs 
 barqued, we failed up a great river feven days together, at the end whereof we arrived at 
 NaKefHm. As thts C.ty is the fecond of all cheEmpire.fo is ic alfo theCmita! of the three 
 Kingdoms of Liumpoo.Fumut, mASumfor: Here we lay fix weeks in prifon, and fuffered fa 
 much pain and mifery, as reduced to the laft extreamities, we died infenfibly for want of fuc- 
 cour, not able to do any thing, but look up to heaven with a pitiful eye; for it was our ill for¬ 
 tune to have all that we had (loin from us the fir ft night we came thither: This prifon was fo 
 
 fJrro'rh” tfae fn, We U ^i' h ? U j Dd pr . Ilonirs m 1C K thlt 'toe, as we were credibly inform- 
 ed, fo that on- fhould hardly fit down in any place without being robbed, and filled full of 
 
 ice: having layn there a month and an half, as Ifaid,the Anchacy, who was one of ch* Tud»es 
 before whom our came was to be pleaded,pronounced our fentence at the Suit of the Attorney 
 eneral, the tenor whereof was. That having feen and confidered our procefs, which the 
 thumb, not laypor had fenthim.it appeared by the accufations laid to our charge that we were 
 very hamous malefaftors.and though we denied many things,yet in julfice no credit was to be 
 given unto us ,U therfore that we were to be publickly whipped,for to reach us to live better in 
 time to come,and that withal our two thumbs Ihould be cut off, wherewith ic was evident by 
 manned fufpictons.that we ufed to commit robberies,&other vile c imes ; & furthermore, that 
 ior the remainder of the pimifhmenc we deferved,he referred us to the Ay tan of Bataupint, un- 
 to whom ic appertained to take cognifance of fuch caufes,in regard of the Jurildiaion that he 
 had pf life & deatb.This Sentence was pronounced in the prifon,where it had been better for us 
 ™ “* erad death * c , hso 'he flnpes that we received,for all the ground round about us ran 
 with blood upon our whiping.fo that it was almoft a miracle.thas of the eleven which we were, 
 nine efcaped alive,for two of our company died three days after, befides one of our fetvants. 
 
 After we had been whipped in that manner, I have declared, we were carried into a great ScS*! 
 Cnamber, that was in the prifon, where were a number of lick, and difeafed perfons, loin" 
 upon beds, and other ways; There we had prefently our ftripes wafhed, and thin-s applyed 
 unto them, whereby we were fomewhac eafed of our pain, and that by men, much like unto 
 the fraternKy of mercy among the Papifis, which onely out of charity, and for the honor of 
 God,do tend thofe that arefick, and liberally furnilh them with all thingsneceffar . Hereafter 
 fome eleven or twelve days,we began to be prettily recovered,& as we were lamenting our ill 
 
 fortune, for being fongorquOy condemned to lofe our thumbs, it pleafed God one morning, 
 
 when as we little dreamt of ir.that we efpied two men come into the chamber,of a good afpedt, 
 clothed in long gowns of violet coloured fattin,& carrying white rods in their hands; As oon 
 as they arrived, all the fick perfons in the Chamber cried out, B/effedbe the Mirifitrs of the 
 worksofGtd; whereunco they anfwered.holding up their to ds,Muy it pleaft Godioetve you p»- 
 ttcnce ,n your udverfity : whereupon having difiributed clothes and money to thole that w re 
 next to them, they came unto us, and after they had faluced us very courceoufly wirh demon- 
 ftraaonof being moved at our tears, they asked us who we were, and of what countrey, as 
 alfo why we were impnfoned there: vvhereunto we anfvvered weeping, that we were {(ran- 
 gers,natives of the Kingdom o£ Siam, and of a country called Malaca ; chat being Merchant 
 and well to live, we had imbarqued our felves with our goods, and being bound for Liam- 
 vve had beencaft away jult againft the Ifles of Lamm, having loll all that we had 
 and no ^ hln g u * but our miferable bodies in the cafe they now faw us ; moreover vve ad- 
 ded , that being thus evil intreated by fortune, arriving at the City of Taylor, the 
 of Jullice had cauled us to be apprehended without any caufe, laying to our charge, that we 
 were thieves and vagabonds, vvho to avoid pains-taking went begging from door to door, 
 entertaining our lok laztnefs yvrh the alms that were given us unjultly, whereof the Chambln 
 having made informations at his pieafure-, as being both Judge and party, he had laid us in irons 
 in the prifon, where for two and forty days fpace,we had indured incredible pain and hunger, 
 and no man wouMhear us in our julhfkations, as well becaufe we had not wherewuha? to 
 give prefencs for tb maintain our right, as for that we wanted the language of the Country. 
 
 In conclufion, we told them, how in the mean time, without any cognifance of the caufe , we 
 had been condemned to be whipped, as alfo to have our thumbs cut off, like thieves; fo that 
 vve had already fuffered the firft puniflimenc, with fo much rigour and cruelty, chat the marks 
 thereof remained but two vihbly upon our wretched bodies, and therefore we conjured them 
 by the charge they had to ferve God in affifting the affixed, than they would not abandon us 
 m this need, chc rather for thac our extream poverty rendred as odious to all the world, & ex- 
 
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 pofedustothe induring of all aftroncs. Thefe two men having heard us attentively, re¬ 
 mained very penfive and amazed at our fpeech; at length lifting up their eyes, all bathed 
 with tea s, to heaven , and kneeling down on the ground, O Almighty Lord, faid they, that, 
 gov erne ft in the hsgheft places, and whofe patience is incomprehenftble , he thou evermore bleffed, 
 for that thou art p/eafed to hearken unto the complaints of neceffttous and mlferable men , to 
 the end that the great offences committed againft thy divine goodnefs by the UMinifters of Ju¬ 
 ft-ice may not reft mpunifhed, as we hope that by thy holy Lav? they will be chaftifed at one 
 time or other. Whereupon they informed themfelves more amply by thole who were 
 about us, of what we had told them, and prefencly fending for the Regilier, in whofe hands 
 our lentence was,they Ifraicly commanded him, that upon pain of grievous puniihment he * 
 fhould forthwith bring them all the proceedings which had bcenufed againft us, as icfhnc- 
 iy he did; now the two Officers, feeing there was no remedy for the whipping that we 
 had fuifered, prefented a Petition in our behalf unto the Chaem, whereunto this Anfwer 
 was returned by the Court; tMercy hath no place, where Juftice lofeth her name, in regard 
 whereof your rcqtteft cannot be granted. This Anfwer was fubferibed by the Chaem, and 
 eight Conchacis, chat are like criminal Judges. This hard proceeding much aftoniftied thefe 
 two Pro&ors for the poor, fo named from their office; wherefore, carried with an extream 
 defire to draw us out of this mifery, they prefently preferred another Petition to the Sove¬ 
 reign Court of Juftice, of which I fpake in the precedent Chapter, where the eJMemgrtpos 
 and Talegrepos were Judges, an Affembly which in their language is called , The breath of 
 the Creator of all things . In this Petition, as finners, confeffing all that we were accufed of, 
 we had recourfe to mercy, which forced well for us; for as foon as the Petition was pre- 
 fented unto them, they read the Procefs quite through, and finding that our rigHI was o- 
 ver-born for want of fuccour,they inftamly difpacched away two of their Court, who with 
 an exprefs Mandate under their hands and Seals , went and prohibited the Chaems Court 
 from intermedling with this caufe, which they commanded away before them. In obedi¬ 
 ence to this Prohibition the Court made this Decree, We, that are ajfembled in this 
 
 Court of Juftice of the Lyon crowned in the throne eft he world,having perufedtbe ‘Petition pre - 
 fented to the four and twenty fudges of the auftere life, do confent, that thofe nine ft rangers be 
 fent by way of appeal to the Court of the 'Ay tau of Ay taus in the Qity of Pequin, to the end that 
 m mercy the fenteric e pronounced againft them may be favourably moderated : Given the feventh 
 day of the fourth Moon , in the three and twentieth year of the reign of the Son of the Sun. 
 This D icree, being figned by the Chaem y and the eight Conchacis, was pfefendy brought os 
 by the two Proctors forthe poor; upon the Receit whereof we told them, that we could 
 but pray unto God to reward them for the good they had done us for his fake; whereunto 
 beholding us wi h an eye of pity , they anfwered, Aiay his Celeftial goodnefs dire ft you in 
 the knowledge of his works , that thereby you may with patience gather the fruit of your labours , 
 as they which fear to offend his holy Name. 
 
 $e& 4 . After we had pah all theadverftties and miferies, whereof I have fpoken before, we 
 were imbarqued in the company of fome other thirty or forty Prifoners, that were fent, as 
 we were,from this Court of Juftice co that other Sovereign one by way of appeal, there 
 to be either acquitted or condemned, according to the crimes they had committed, and 
 the punifhmenc they had deferved. Now a day before our departure, being imbarqued in 
 a Lanteaa, and chained three and three together, the two Prohors for the poor came to us, 
 and firft of all furnifhing us with all things needful, as cloches, and Victuals, they asked us 
 whether we wanted any thing elfe for our Voyage? Whereunto we anfwered, that all we 
 could defire of them was, that they would be pleafed to convert that further good they in¬ 
 tended to us into a Letter of Recommendation unto the Officers of that holy Fraternicy of 
 the City of Pequin, thereby to oblige them to maintain the right of our caufe, in regard ( as 
 they very well knew ) they fhould otherwise be fure co be utterly abandoned of every one, 
 bvreafon they were ftrangers and altogether unknown. The Pro&ors hearing ui fpeakin 
 this manner: Say not fo, replyed they, for though your ignorance difeharges you before God y 
 yet have you committed a great ftn,becaufe the more you ate abafed m the world through pover¬ 
 ty, the more fhall you be exalted before the eyes of his divine Majefty, if you patiently bear your 
 croffes, whereunto the fiefh indeed doth always oppofe it fclf , being evermore rebellious againft 
 the Spirit, but as a Bird canot fly without her wings , no more can the foul meditate without 
 worlds • ais for the Letter you require of us; we will give it you moft willingly , Rowing it will 
 
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 be very neceffaryfor you,to the end that the favour of good people be not warning to yon in your 
 need. This faid,they gave us a fack full of Rice, together with four Tatis in filver, and a 
 Coverlet to lay upon us; Then having very much recommended us unto the Chi fan , who 
 was the Ofhcer of juftice that condu&ed us, they took their leaves of us in moft courteous 
 manner; The next morning as foon as it was day they fenc us the Letter, fealed with three 
 Seals in green Wax* the Contents whereof were thefe; Te fervants of that high Lord , the 
 refplendent rmrrour of an uncreated light, before whom our merits are nothing in comparison of 
 hts ? we the leaf fervants of that holy houfe o/Tauhinarel, that was founded in favour of the fifth 
 pnfon 0 / Nanquin, with true words of refpetl , which we owe unto you, we give jour moft humble 
 perfons to under ft and, that thefe nine ft rangers, the bearers of this Letter, are men of afar coun 
 try, whofe bodies and goods have been fo cruelly intreatedby the fury of the fea , that according to 
 their report, of ninety and five that they were, they one ly have efcaped fhipwracl^, being call by 
 the tempeft on the jhore of the Jfles of Tautaa, upon the coaft of the Bay of Sumbor : In which 
 pit ions and lamentable cafe, as we have feenthem with our own eyes, begging their living from 
 place to place of fuch as charity obliged to give them fomething after the manner of goodfolks , 
 it was their ill-fortune,without all reafon or juftice,to be apprehended by the Chumbin o/Taypor* 
 and fent to this fifth prifon o/Faniau, where they were condemned to be whipped, which was im¬ 
 mediately executed upon them by the UMinifters of the difpleafed arm, as by their Procefs better 
 appeareth : But afterwards, when as through too much cruelty their thumbs were to be cutoff, 
 they with tears befmght us, for that Sovereign Lords fake, in whofe fervice we are imployed, to 
 be ajfifting. unto them, which prefently undertaken by us we preferred a Petition in their behalf * 
 where unto this Anfwer was made by the Court of the crowned Lyon, That mercy had no place 
 where juftice loft her name ; whereupon provoked by a true z,cal to Gods honour , we addreffed our 
 felves to the Court ofthofe four and twenty of the aufterc life, who carried by a blejfed devotion 
 inftantly affembled in the Holy Houfe of the remedy for the poor, and of an ext ream deftre they 
 had to fuccour thefe miferable creatures, they interditted that great Court from proceeding any 
 further againft them-, and accordingly the fuceefs was agreeable to the mercy of fo great aGodi 
 for thefe laftJudges revoking theothersfir ft Sentence, fent the caufe by way of Appeal to your 
 City of P equin Vfith amendment ofthefecond punifoment, as you may fee more at large by the pro* 
 ceedings ; In regard whereof, moft reverend and humble Brethren, We befeech you all, in the 
 Name of God,to be favourable unto them, and to ajfift them withwhatfoever you fhall thinks ne* 
 cejfaryfor them, that they may not be ofpreffed in their right, which is a very great fin , and an 
 eternal infamy to us, who again intreat you to /apply them with your Alms, and beftow $n them 
 means to cover tbeir nakednefs, to the end they may not perift? for want of help; which if you do 
 there is no doubt but that fo pious a workjvill be moft acceptable to that Lord above, to whom the 
 poor of the earth do continually pray, and are heard in theHigheft of Hea vens, as we hold for an 
 Article of Faith 5 On which earth may it pleafe that divine Majefty, for whofe fake we do this, 
 to preferve us till death, and to render us worthy of his prefence in the houfe of the Sun, where he 
 is feated with all his . Written in the Chamber of the zeal of (Sods honour* the ninth day of the 
 feventh Moon, and the three and twentieth year of the Reign of the Lyon crowned in the 
 Throne of the World. 
 
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 The Marvels of the City o/Nanquin, our departure from thence towards Pcquin , and 
 that whicb bapned unto us, till we arrived at the Town of Sempitay. 
 
 /T*His Letter being brought to us very early the next morning, we departed in the man- Se&a 
 * A ner before declared, and continued our voyage till Sun-fct,when as we anchored at a 
 little yillage*named Mmhacutem , where the Chifuu, chat conducted us, was born, and where 
 his Wife and Children were at that time, which was the occafion that he remained there 
 three days; ac the end whereof he imbarqued himfclf with his family, and fo we paffed 
 on in the company of divers ocher Veffels, that went upon this River unto divers parts of 
 this Empire: Now chough we were all eyed together to the back of the Lanteaa, where wc 
 rowed, yet did we not for all that lofcthe view of many Towns and Villages that were 
 fcituatedaJcng this River, whereof I hold it not amifs to makq fojne defcripcionsj To 
 which efte&, I will begin with the City of NanquinAsom whence we laft parted ; • This 
 
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The TravehyVo^ages^and zA dventares 
 
 City is under the North in nine and thirty degrees, and three quarters, fcicuated upon the ri¬ 
 ver of Bat ampin*, which fignifies, The flower of fijh. This river, as we were told then , and 
 as I have feen fmee, comes from Tartaria, out of a lake, called Faniftor , nine leagues from 
 the Citv of Lancaina y where Tamberlain ^King of the Tartarian *kept his Court*Out of 
 the fame lake, which’is eight and twenty leagues longjtwelve broad, and of a mighty depth,the 
 oreateft rivers that ever I faw take their fource ; The firft is the fame Batampina, that pafling 
 through the midtt of this Empire of China three hundred and threefcore leagues in length, dif- 
 imboques into the fea at the bay of Nanquin in thirty fix degrces;The fccond,named Lcchttna, 
 runs with great fwiftnefs all along by the mountains of Pancrmm, which feparate the Coun¬ 
 try of C auchim, and the Sate of C< xtebenan, in the height of fixteen degrees 5 The third is 
 called Tauqmda , fignifying the Mother of waters, that going North-weft, traverfeth the 
 Kingdom of Nacataas, a Country where China was anciently feated, as I will declare here-' 
 after, and inters into the fea in the Empire of Sornatt, vulgarly ftiled Silam, by the mouth 
 of C tty, one hundred and thirty leagues below *Pata»a 5 The fourth, named Batebafoy, de¬ 
 fends out of the Province of Sanfim ,which is the very fame that was quite overwhelmed by the 
 fea in the year 15 56,as I purpofe to (hew elfwhere,and renders it felf into the fea at the mouth 
 of Cofmim , in the Kingdom of ; The fifth and laft, called Leyfacotay , croffeth the 
 Country by Eaft as far as to the Archipelago of Xinxipott ., that borders upon Cfrfocovye t and 
 falls, as is thought, into a fea that is not navigable, by reafon the clymate there is in the heighc 
 of feventy degrees.’ Now to return to my difeourfe, the City of Nanqmn , as I faid before, 
 is feated by this river of Batampina , upon a reafonable high hill, fo as it commands all the 
 plains about it; The climate thereof is fomewhatcold,but very healthy, and it is eight leagues 
 abour, which way foever it is considered, three leagues broad, and one long ; The houfes in it 
 are not above two ftorics high, and all built of wood; onely thofe of the Mandarins are made 
 of hewed ftone, and alfo invironed with walls and ditches,over which are ftone bridges,where¬ 
 on they pafs to the gates, that have rich and coftly arches, with divers forts of inventions up¬ 
 on the towers 5 all which put together make a pleafing object to the eye, and reprefent a cer¬ 
 tain kind of I knowrnot what Majetty. The houfes of the C haems, Anchacys,AytausfTntons, 
 tnd Chttmbims, which are all (Sovernours of Provinces or Kingdoms, have ftately towers, 
 fix or feven itories highland gilt all over, wherein they have their magazines for arms, their 
 Wardrobes, their treafuries, and a world of rich houftioldftuff, as alfo many other things of 
 great value, together with an infinite of delicate'and mqft fine porcelain, which amongft them 
 is prifed and eftcemed as much as precious ftone; for this fort of proceiain never goes out of 
 the Kingdom, it being exprefly forbidden by the laws of the Country, to be fold, upon pain 
 of death, to any ftranger, unlefstothe Xatamaat y thic is, the Sophyes of the Perjians, who 
 by a particular permiflion buy of it at a very dear rate. The Chinefes aCircd us, that in this 
 City there are eight hundred thoufand fires, fourfeore tboufand Mandarins houfes, threefcore 
 and two great market-places, an hundred and thirty butchers (hambles, each of them con¬ 
 taining fourfeore (bops, and eight thoufand ftreets, whereof fix hundred that are fairer and 
 larger then the reft, are compared about with btllifters of copper; we were further aflured, 
 that there are likewife two thoufand and three hundred Pagodes , a thoufand of which were 
 Movafteries of religious perfons,profelfed in their accurfcdSe&,whofc buildings were exceed¬ 
 ing rich and fumptuous,with very high fteeples,wherein there were between fixty and feventy 
 fuch mighty huge belis,that it was a dreadful thing to hear them rung; There are,moreover,in 
 this City thirty great ftrong prifons,each whereof hath three or four thoufand prifoners; and 
 a charitable Ho^itaJ, exprefly eftabliftiedco fupply the necelfities of the poor, with Prohors 
 ordained for their defence, both in civil and criminal caufes, as is before related; Ac the en¬ 
 trance into every principal ftreet, there are arches and great gates, which for each mans fe- 
 curity are fliut every night, and in moftof the ftreets are goodly fountains whofe water is 
 excellent to drink; Befidfes, at every full and new moon, open fairs are kept in feveral places, 
 whither Merchants refdrt from all parts,and where there is fuch abundance of all kind of visu¬ 
 al 1 as cannot well be expreft,cfpecially of flelb and fruit; It is not pofiible to deliver the great 
 (fore of fi(h that is taken in this river,chiefly Soles and Mallcts,which arc all fold alive, befides 
 a World of fea-fifti, both frefh, faked, and dried; we were told by cercain Chinefes , that 
 in this City there are ten thoufand trades for the working of filks, which from thence are fenc 
 all over the Kingdom; The City it felf is invironed with a very ftrong wall, made of fair hew¬ 
 ed ftone; The gates of are an hundred and thirty, at each of which there is Porter, and 
 
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 wo Halberdiers, who are bound to give an account every day of all that paO'es in and out • 
 
 There arc alfo twelve Forts or Citadels , lijce unto ours,with bulwarks and very hi°h towers 
 but without any Ordnance at all, The fame Chwcfcs alfo affimed unto «, that the City yield-’ 
 ed the King daily two thoufand Tmu of filver, which amount to three thoufand ducates as 
 1 h rl C d ' l,v f cd l 1 ’ er " r ° fo ; c ; Iwllnotfpeakof the Palace royal, becaufe I faw it but on the 
 outfide.howbetc the Cbmefcs tell fuch wonders of it, as would amaze a man, for it is mv intent 
 to relate nothing fave what we beheld here with our own eyes, and that was fo much as I am 
 afraid co wrtte tt 5 not thac it would feem flrange to chofe that have feen and read the marvels 
 ot the Kingdom of China; but becaufe I doubt thac they, which would compare cbofe won¬ 
 drous things that are 10 the country*,they have not feen.with thac lictle they have feen in their 
 own,will make fome queftion of ic,or,ic may be,give no credit at all to thefe ttuthes becaufe 
 they are not conformable to their undemanding, and fmall experience. 
 
 Continuing our courfe upthisriver, the firft two days we faw not any remarkable town S&a! 
 or place,but onely a great number of Villages,and little hamlets of two or three hundred fires 
 apiece, which by their buildings feemed to be houfes of fiftier-men, and poor people, that live 
 by the labour of their hands; For thtreft, all that was within view in the countrey was 
 great woods of Fir, Groves, Forcftf, and Orange-trees,as alfo plains full of wheat,rice,beans 
 peafe,millet,pamck, barley,rye,flax,cotton-wool, with great inclofures of gardens, and 
 goodly houfes of pleafure belonging to the Mandarins , and Lords of the Kingdom j There 
 was likewife all along the river fuch an infinite number of cattcl of all forts, as I can affure you 
 there is not more in Ethiopia > nor in all the dominions of ‘Prefer John- upon the top 
 of the mountains many houfes of their Seas of Gentiles were to be feen, adorned with hi°h 
 Steeples gilt all over, the glittering whereof was fuch, and fo great, that to behold them 
 afar off was an admirable fight: The fourth day of our voyage we arrived at a town, called 
 Pocafer , twice as big as Cant<tno y compared about with flrong walls of hewed flone and 
 towers and bulwarks almoft like ours, together with a key on the river fide, twice aslon^as 
 the fhoc of a falconet, and indofed with two rows of iron graces, with very firon^ °ue5 
 where the Junks and veffels thac arrived there were unladen ; This place abounds with all 
 kinds of merchandife, which from thence is tranfporced over all the Kingdom, efpecially with 
 copper, fugar, and allum, whereof there is very great flore; Here alfo in the middeft of a 
 carre four, that is almott at the end of the town, fiands a mighty ftrong cattle, havin^ three 
 bulwarks and five towers; in the higheft of which the prefenc Kings Father, as the Chinefes 
 told us, kept a King of Tartatia nine years prifoner, at the end whereof he killed faimfelf 
 with poyfon,thftt his fubje&s fenc him, becaufe they would nor be confirmed to pay that ran- 
 fome which the King of China demanded for his deliverance: In this town the Chifua o a ve 
 three of us leave to go up &,down for to crave the alms of good peoplc,accompanied withfour 
 Hupesy that are as Sergeants, or Bailiffs amongft us, who led us, chained tog-cher, as we were 
 through fix or feven flreets, where we got in alms co the value of above twenty ducates as 
 well in clothes, as money,befides fldh, rice, meal, fruit, and other vi&uals, whicti was beftow- 
 ed on us 5 whereof we gave the one half to the Hnpcs thac Condu&ed us, it Deing the cuftom 
 fo to do. Afterwards we were brought to a Pagodty whither the people flocked from all parts 
 that day, in regard of a very folemn feaft chic was then celebrated there: This Temple, or 
 Pagodty as we were told, had fometime been a Palace royal, where the King then rei«nin» was 
 born; now becaufe the Qycen his Mother died there in child- birth, (he commanded her felf 
 to be buried m the very fame chamber where The was brought to bed ; wherefore to honour 
 her death the better, this Temple was dedicated to the invocation of Tanhinarety which is 
 one of the principal Se&s of the Pagans in the Kingdom of China y as I will more amply de¬ 
 clare , when as I (hall fpeak of the Labyripth of the two and thirty laws thac are in it • Ail 
 the buildings of this Temple, together with all the gardens, and walks, that belong toic.are 
 fufpended in the air upon three hundred and tbreefcore pillars, every one of the which is of 
 one inure ftone of a very great bignefs 5 Thefe three hundred and rhreefcore pillars are called 
 by the names of three hundred & threefcore days of the year, & in each of them is a particular 
 featt kept there with many alms,gifts,and bloody facrifices, accompained with mufick, dancing, 
 and other fportsjllndcr this Pagoda namely between chofe pillars,are eight very fair ftreets,in- 
 clofed on every|fide with grates of copper, and gates for the paffage of pilgrims, & others,c!iac 
 run continually to this feaft, as it were co a Jubilee $ The Chamber above, where the Queen 
 l*y, was made in the form of a Chappd, but routed 9 and from the top to the bottom all gar¬ 
 ni fod 
 
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 nifhed with filver, the workmanihip whereof was of greater coft then the matter itfclf* 
 
 In the roidft of it (food a kind of Tribunal, framed round, like the Chamber, fome fifteen 
 iteps high, compared about with fix gates of filver, on the top whereof was a great bowl, and 
 upon that a Lion of filver, that with his head fupported a tonne of gold, three hand, 
 breadths fquare, wherein(they faid)tbe bones of the Queen were, which thefe blinded igno- 
 rlnts reverenced as a great rciique; Below this Tribunal,in equal propomon,wert four bars ofc 
 filver that traverfed the Chamber, whereon hung three and forty lamps of the fame metal, m 
 memory of the three and forty years that this Queen lived, and feven lamps of gold in com¬ 
 memoration of feven fons that (lie had; moreover,atthe entry mtothe Chippel, juft again!* 
 the door, were eight other bars of iron, whereon alfo hung a very great number of filver 
 lamps, which the Cbintfis told us were offered by fome of the Wives of the Chatms , jinmb 
 Tutoens* and Anchacys } who were afliftant at the death of the Queen, fo that in acknow edg- 
 ment of that honour they fent thofc lamps thither afterwards; without the gates of the 
 Temple, and round about fix ballifiers of Copper that invironed it, were a great many Statues 
 of Giants, fifteen foot high, caft in brafs, all well proportioned with halberts or dubs in their 
 hands, and fome of them with battle-axes on their ftioulders, which made fo brave and ma- 
 idfical a {hew as one could never be fatisfied enough with looking on them ; Amongli thele 
 Statues, which were in number twelve hundred * as the Chwefes affirmed, there were four 
 and twenty very great Serpents alfo of brafs, and under every one of them a woman fear¬ 
 ed, wich a fword in her hand, and a filver crown on her head; It was faid, that thofe four and 
 twenty women carried the Titles of Queens, bectufe they facnficed themfelves to the 
 death of this Queen, to the end their fouls might fetve hers in the other life, as in chis their 
 bodies had ferved her body, a matter which the Cbimfes, that draw their extraflion from thefe 
 men, hold for a very great honour, infomuch at they innch the crefts of their coats of arms 
 with it ; round about this row of Giants was another of triumphant arches , gilt all over, 
 whereon a number of filver bells hung by chains of the fame metal, which moved with the 
 ait kept fuch a continual ringing, as one could hardly hear one another for the noifc they 
 made • Without thefe arcbes there were likewife at the famediftance two rows of Copper 
 grates,that indofed all this huge work,and among them certain pillars of the fame metal, which 
 fupported Lions rampant, mounted upon bowls, being the arms of’the Kings of Ch«, as I 
 have related elfewhere. At each corner of the Carrefour was a monfter of brafs, of fo iran e 
 and unmeafurable an heigtb, and fo deformed to behold, as it is not poflible almoft for a man 
 to imagine; fo that I think it beft not to fpeak of them,the rather for that (I confefs I) am not 
 
 ablein words to exprefs the form wherein I faw their prodigies ; Howbeir.as it is reafonable 
 to conceal thefe things without giving fome knowledge of them, I will fay , as much as my 
 
 weak undemanding is able to deliver. One of thefe Monfters which is on the right hand , as 
 one comes into the Carrefour, whom the Ctimfts call the Serjeant Glutton of the hollow or 
 profound houfe of fmoak, and that by their hiflories is held to be Luo,fir, isreprerentedun¬ 
 der the figure of a Serpent of an exceffive heighth, with molt hideous and deformed adders 
 gomins out of bis ftomack, covered all over with green and black fcarrs, and a number of 
 prickles on their backs above a fpan long, like unto Porcupins qui s } each of thefe Adders had 
 a woman between his jaws,with her hair all difhevelled, and (landing an end,as one affrighted 5 
 The monfter carried alfo in his mouth, which was unmeafurable great, a Vizard that was above 
 thirty foot lone, and as big as a tun, with his noftrils and chaps fo full of blood, that all the 
 reft of his body was befmeared with it; this Vizard held a great Elephant between his paws, 
 and feemed to grille him fo hard, as his very guts came oul of his throat; and all this was done; 
 fo pjroporcioaabiy,and to the life,that it nude a man trembleto behold iuch a deformed figure, 
 and which was fcarce poflible for one to imagine: His tail might be fome twenty fathom long. 
 Sc was ectortilled about fuch another Monftcr,that was the fecond of the four,whereof I ipake, 
 in the figure of a man, being an hundred foot high, and by the flnnefes called 1 ttrcamVaroo 
 who (they fay) was the fon of that Serpent j'.befides chat he was very ugly, he flood with both 
 his hands in his mouth, that was as big as a great gate, with a row'of horrible teeth, and a 
 foul black tongue, hanging out two fathom long, mofl dreadful to behold : As for the other 
 two Monfters, one was in the form of a woman, named by th eCfanefes, Magdelgauywsvi- 
 teen fathom high, and fix thick; This fame about the girdlefteed before had a face made pro¬ 
 portionable to her body, above two fathom broad, and (he breathed out of her mouthy and 
 softrils great flakes, not of artificial, but true fire, which proceeded, astney told us, from 
 
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 her head, where fire was continually kenr rh^r X . 
 
 low By this Figure thefe Idolaters wrould ^emonHtare'rJff a™ ° f tbi W face be- 
 ry fphear, which according to their belief is to burn the»' that was the Queen of the fie- 
 
 fourth Mooflet was a man, fee (loopin' which with e " r” ‘f 6 e ? d ? f lhe Wo ' ld - Tne 
 Uil of a Ship, feerr.ed to blow extreamfv • th-Mo h 5 1> 1 oln cheeks* as big. as the main 
 and of fuch an hideous and gaftly afpeff X d,a^ a man 'nTwh’ f jl °‘ unmejlu rable height, 
 Chm'f'! called it Ve.mg ucm boo, and laid that k l,<h“' V ^ Da , ur = the hght oficj the 
 
 Sea,and demolilhedBuildings* in regard whereof rf, - which tatied Tempetis upon the 
 co the end he Jhould do thfm no harm ud m ' ; nr? " °/? ed man J cbi °S s ««o bin,, 
 
 yearly, that he might not drown theirTunk sn o ? k h ' m r ch a F«ce of money 
 J will omit many other abufes which tli-ir M; a d an F ot theirs hurt thac went by Sea 
 
 hold to be fo true, as there t not one of th-m but wo^d'" f m **1™’ aod ™hichthey 
 maintenance thereof. b Wou!d cndure a choufand deaths for tir 
 
 deep ditches about cW, and at " lth Ml$ , ° f Brick Nod ** * 
 
 Towers and Bulwarks after o«r fall,ion - at th~ patecvTr S* 1 .\ ery wcB f °rtifiec! with 
 
 air with great Iron chains, and in the midft of ?h Pm W t C ^T Bndge ? > Upended in the 
 oufly painted with feveral Pi&ures; the Ci&/Wr« aflured^^ ^ S J 0ries ^ h 5 very curi- 
 was as much Treafure as amounted to fifteen thoS ^ haC ?V, thofe two there 
 
 venue of all this Archipelagc, and laid up in this of fi ! er ’ whicb was the red¬ 
 
 ing, in Memorial of a Son of his that was hnm h ^ ^ tbe Klngs Grandfat h« now reign- 
 The joy of M. thofe of the Country repute h?m for’aT*' ? J ™L d Lt "F lMU > 'hat is to fay, 
 Religion, wherealfo he was'buried^in a Temoli* X.d; S " n ^’ bc ^ u ( e h - ent)e d bis days in 
 
 nes, as alfo the Laws he ivented '\$[? world of Foole- 
 mfh a man, as I will more amply declare wlJn tbem / beiB S ,bI<! to »ftt> 
 
 another fiye leagues higher thsmoftpat of dh eSilks of this vf " a In tte J owa and '<* 
 they hold that the waters of thefe place, mi' !„*, tblsK ' r g fl °® ate dyed, becaufe 
 any other part; and thefe Dyers, which” - laid m he ?h° U ” taI , more hvely then thofe of 
 yearly three hundred thoufand Taeie Conin ' b hlttee “ t!m ufand, pay unto the Kin° 
 
 .bout evening we «r«wd ° Ur Up the Riv ” tte davaicer; 
 
 fes,Mares,Colts, and ,iori ofC '" le > aa Hor- 
 Butchers , who afterwards retale them indifferently as f h cb n C fa ! e of them to 
 plains containing fome ten or eleven L'a°ues ood ^ °„ ^ r ®' ® 1S Having pah thefd 
 
 with Brick, but without Battlements ,Bu?w3^ri J Tn T0WnC, i ed ^ a ' >B ’ wal!ed 
 have fpoken before; at the end of the SubuTbs of rhi, r “ ’ **, ° tfc . ers had > “hereof I 
 the water upon great Piles in the form nf m ° f th , f '" n we fa.v aivers houfes built in 
 Rood a Tomb made of ffonejnvironedwhh ^rf 2 ' DeS; Bcfore , ths § a « of a little flree" 
 
 n a fteeple framed of pieces of very fine Pourcelak^i’ — ? reen ’ a,,a 0vir 
 
 flone; upon the top of the Tomb were five Globes * j U amed , by fo , ur P ld3rs °f curious 
 caff iron, and on the one fid* thereof wem^,, °- S J and t v0 others that feemed to be of 
 
 guage, words of this fubflance Here T?aL n n n etterS vt 0f t 8 | 0id ’ aDd i ' 1 the Ch ’”^ e ,an ' 
 
 Malac ,, w hom deaths oTflh,ZruJf ?T FF''" * F clt t0 the Ki ”S *f 
 Albuquerque , the Lym of the rlhhrlef ofth, t‘ t ^ ?+•»*&&& 
 
 this Infcription there; wherefore *dZ\£jZh ■’ V u were much a P azed to behold 
 more honourable then the reft, told us that h C * C ni, o^ l: oi ean a a Chmefe, that feemed 
 Which lay buried there, camethilher asVmh i 1 lom: J on y !«•«* before, this man 
 of MaUca, to demand fuccour from the fon of rh °c IO n * P ‘. mce » 'hat ftiled himfelf King 
 -o name, which came ,g *?‘ ? en , of aCo “»»y that hath 
 
 this man recounted many other incredible thinos co° r ,a * nd bad IJ h eD Maine a. from him ; 
 
 is made in a printed Book thereof • a* alfo r°h r m Cer ^ ln o [ his matter, whereof mention 
 years ac the Kings Cou “f i n „ f ofrhis f u t u » - Embafradot h3 ™3 continued three 
 patationsfor it were a^ m."ic wi hH'c- ' m l g " mcd him - and 'hat pre- 
 
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 tomb , that pofterity might know wherefore he was come thither. Afterwards we departed 
 from this place, and continued our voyage up the river, which thereabouts is not fo large as 
 towards the City of Nanqnin; but the Country is here better peopled with Villages,Boroughs, 
 and Gardens, then any other place, for every Bones cafl we met Bill with fome ‘Tagodc, Man¬ 
 sion of pleafure , or Country houte ; Palling on about fome two leagues further, we arrived 
 at a place encompaffed with great iron grates, in the midB whereof flood two mighty Statues 
 of brafs uprighc, fuflained by pillars of cafl metal of the big net's of a bulhel, and feven fa¬ 
 thom high, the one of a man, and the ocher of a woman, both of them feventy four fpansin 
 heighth, having their hands in their mouths, their cheeks horribly blo.vn our,and their eyes fo 
 Baring as they affrighted all that looked on them. That which reprefented a man,was called 
 Onlay Xingatalor , and the other in the form of a woman was named Apancapatnr^ Ha¬ 
 ving demanded of the Chinefes the explication of thefe figures,they told us that the male was 
 he, which with thofe mighty fwoln checks blew the fire of hell for to torment all chofe mife- 
 rable wretches that would not liberally beflowalms in this life; and for the ocher monfler, 
 that fhe was Porter of hell gate, where Bie would cake notice of chofe that did her good in 
 this world, and letting them fly away into a river of very cold water, called Ochilenday, 
 would keep them hid there from being tormented by the Devils,as ocher damned were: Upon 
 this Speech one of our company could not forbear laughing at fuch a ridiculous and diabolical 
 foolery, wnich three of their Priefls, or Bonz*oes,t\\tn prelent, obferving,they were fo exceed¬ 
 ingly offended therewith, as they perfwaded the Chi fan , which conducted us, chat if he did 
 not chaffife us in fuch manner, as chofe gods might be well contented with the punilhment in- 
 fluffed on us for our mockery of them, both the one and the other would affuredly torment 
 his foul, and never fuffer it to go out of hell; which chreatning fo mightily terrified this dog, 
 the Cbifm , that without further delay, or hearing us fpeak, he caufed us all to be bound hand 
 and foot, and commanded each of us to have an hundred lalhes given him with a double cord, 
 which was immediately executed with fo much rigour, as we were all in a gore blOud, where¬ 
 by we were taught not to jeer afterwards at any thing we faw, or heard.* At fuch time as we 
 arrived here we found twelve Bonzoes upon the place, who with filver cenfers full of per¬ 
 fumes of aloes and benjamin, cenfed chofe two deviliffi Monfters , and chanted out aloud. 
 Help w, even as roe ferve thee ; whereunco divers other Priefls anfwered in the name of the 
 Idol with a great noife, So I promife to do like a good Lord: In this fort they went as it were 
 in proceffion round about the place, finging with an ill-tuned voice to the found of a great 
 many bells, that were in Steeples thereabouts ; In the mean time there were others, D thac 
 with Drums and Bafinsmade fuchadinne, as I may truly fay, put them all together, was 
 moft horrible to hear. 
 
 CHAP* XXIX. 
 
 Our Arrival at Sempitay, our encounter there with a Chriftian woman, together with the Orignal 
 and Foundation of the Empire of China; and who they were that firft peopled it, 
 
 F Rom this place we continued our voyage eleven days more up the. river, which in 
 thofe parts is fo peopled with Cities, Towns, Villages, Boroughs, Forts and Caftlcs, that 
 commonly they are not a flight (hot diftant one from another, befides a world of houfes of 
 pleafure, and temples,where Steeples were all guilt; which made fuch a glorious lhew,as we 
 vy^re much amazed at it; In this manner we arrived at a town,named Sempitay, where we abode 
 live days, by reafon the Chifttns Wife,that conduff ed us,was not well: Here by his permilfion 
 vye landed, and chained together, as we were, we went up and down the ftreets craving of 
 rums, vhich was very liberally given us by the Inhabitants, who wondering to fee fuch men 
 as wc, demanded of us what kind of people we were, of what Kingdom, and how our coun¬ 
 ty was called ? Hereunto we anfwered conformably to that we had often faid before,namely 
 Ld ha W n re nanves of k ^Kingdom of Siam , that going from Liampoo to Nanqnin , we 
 _ Zu a J l ,° Ur 8 ?° ds b ? fhl P vvrack > that although they beheld us then in fo poor a cafe, 
 rh^^ " r en fo T rm - rl y very rich ; whereupon a woman who was come thither amongfl 
 Hnmorre ’i* s y Ct 7 likely, faid (he, fpeaking to them about her, that what thefe poor 
 * do ? ft - true ’ for dai1 / experience doth (hew how thofe that trade by 
 
 iea do oftentimes make it their grave,whercfore it is befl & furefl to travel upon the earth,and 
 
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 to efteem of it, as of that, whereof it hath plcafed God to frame us • faying, fo she gave 
 two M zes, which amounts to about fixteeh pence of our mony,adviling us to make no more 
 fuch long Voyages,fince our Lives were fo fhort:Hereupon (he unbuttoned one of the fleeves 
 of a red Sattin Gown fhe had on,and baring her left arm,fhe fhewed us aCrofs imprinted on 
 ir, like to the Mark of a Slave, ‘Do any of you kneio this Sign, which antongfi thofe , 
 that follow the way of truth , it called a Crofs ? or have any of you heard it named ? To 
 this falling down on our knees,we anlwered, with tears in rur eyes, that we know exceeding 
 well; Then lifting up her hads, fhe cried our, Our Father , which art in Heaven , hallowed 
 he thy Name , fpeaking thefe words in the Portugal Tongue, and becaufefhe could fpeak no 
 more of our Language, fhe very earnefily defued us in Chirefe to tell her whether we were 
 Ghriftians; we replied that we were ; and for proof thereof, after we had kifled that 
 arm whereon the Crofs was, we repeated all the reft of the Lord’s Prayer, which 
 flie had left onfaid, wherewith being allured that we were Chriliians indeed, fhe drew 
 afide from the reft there prefenc, and weeping faid to us; Come tlongiChriftianS'of the other 
 end of the World, with her that is your true Sifter in the Faith of Jefus Chrift, or peradven- 
 cure a Kinfwoman to one of you,by his fide that begot me in this miferable expand fo go¬ 
 ing to carry us to her Houfe, the Hupes which guarded us, would not fuffer her, faying, that 
 if we would not continue our craving of Alms, as the Cbifuu had permitted us,they would re¬ 
 turn us back to the Ship ; but this they fpake in regard of their own intcreft, for that they 
 were co have the moity of what was given us, as I have before declared, and accordingly 
 they made as though they would have lead us thither again, which the Woman perceiving, / 
 Hndtrfiand your meaning, faid fhe, and indeed it is but reafon you fhould make the be(l of your 
 places, for thereby you live 5 fo opening her Purfc, fhe gave them two Tatis in Silver, where¬ 
 with they were very well fatisfied ; whereupon with the leave of the Cbifuu , fhe carried us 
 home to her Houfe,and there kept us all the while we remained in that place,making exceed¬ 
 ing much of us, and ufing us very charitably; Here fhe fhewed us an Oratory, wherein fhe 
 had a Crofs of Wood gilt,as alfo Candlefticks,*nd a Limp of SilverrFurthermorc fhe told us, 
 that fhe was named, Inez, de Leyria, and her Father Tome Pirgz,, who had been great Am- 
 baffidour from Portugal to the King of ('kiha, arid that in regard of an Infurre&ion with a 
 Portugal Captain,made at CautonyhcChinefes caking him for a Spy,and n^t for anAmbaflador, 
 as he termed himfelf,clapped him and all his followers up in Prifon,where by order of Juflice 
 five of them were put to torture, receiving fo many, and fuch cruel ftrires on their bodies, 
 as they died inftantly, and the reft were all banifhed into feveral parts, together with her 
 Father into this place, where he married with her Mother, that had fome means, and Low he 
 made her a Chriftun,living fofeven and twenty years together,and converting many Gentiles 
 to the faith of Chriftj whereof there were above three hundred then abiding in thar Town : 
 Which every Sunday rflembled in her houfe to lay the Carechifme: whereupon demanding of 
 her what were their accuftomed Prayers,fhe anfwered,that fhe ufcd no other buc thefe,which 
 on their knees,with their eyes and hands lift up to Heeven,they pronounced in this manner, 
 O Lordjefm Chrifi, as it is mofi trde that thou art the very Son of God, conceived by the 
 Holy Ghofi in the womb of the Tirgine AFary for the falvation of Jinners , fo thou wilt be 
 pleafed to forgive ou our offences, that thereby we may become worthy to behold thy face in 
 the glory of thy Kingdom, where thou art fitting at the right hand of the Almighty, Our 
 Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name. In the Name of the Father, the Son, 
 and the Holy Ghofi, Amen. And fo all of them killing the Crofs, imbracedone another, and 
 thereupon every one returned to his own home. Moreover fhe told us, that her Father had 
 left her many other Prayers,wbieh the Qhinefes hadftollen from her,fo chat fhe had none left 
 but thofe before recited 5 whereuntc we replied, that thofe we had heard from her were ve¬ 
 ry good, hoc before we wenc away wc would leave her divers other good and who!fome 
 Prayers 5 Do fo then, anfwered fhe, for the reffett you owe to fo good a God, as yours is, and 
 that hath done fuch things for you, forme, and all in general. Then caufing the Cloth to 
 be laid, fhe gave us a very good and plentiful Dinner,and treated us in like fort every Meal, 
 during the five days We continued in her houfe, which (ai I faid before) was permitted hy the 
 Chifuu, in regard of a Prefecit that this good Woman fenc his Wife, whom fhe eanseftly in- 
 treated fo to deal with her Husband,as we might be well intreated, for that we were men of 
 whom God had a particular care* as the Chifuu's Wife promifed her to do with many thanks 
 to her for the Prefenc fhe had received*' Id the mean fpace, during the fiye days We remained' 
 
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 inherHoufe, we read the Catechifm feven times to the ChriHians, wherewithal! they were 
 very much edified ; befide, C'hrifiophoro Borbalho made them a little Book in the Chineft 
 Tongue, containing the T aternofler, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and many other 
 good Prayers. After thefe things we took our leaves of Inez, de Leyria, and the Chriftians 
 who gave us fifty Taeis in Silver, which ftood us fincc in good ftead, as I fhall declare here¬ 
 after; and withall Inez, de Leyria, gave us fccretly fifty Taeis more, humbly defiring us to re¬ 
 member her in our Prayers to God. 
 
 After our departure from the Town of Sempitay we continued our courfe upon the Ri- 
 Se&.i. ver of 'Batanpina, unto a place, named Lcquinpau, containing about eleven or twelve thou* 
 fand Fires, and very|well built, at leaft we judged fo by that we could difeern, as alfoinclo* 
 fed with good Walls, and Curtains round about it: Not far from it Was an exeeding 
 longHoufe; having within it thirty Fornaces on each fide, where a great quantity of Sil¬ 
 ver was malted, which was brought in Carts from a Mountain, fome five leagues off, called 
 Tuxengmm: The Chinefes iffured us, that above a thoufand men wrought continually in 
 that Mine to draw out the Silver, and that the King of China had in yearly Revenue out of 
 it above five thoufand Pico's ; This place we left about Sun-fee, and the next day in the 
 evening we arrived juft between two little Towns, that ftood oppofite one to another, the 
 River onely between, the one named Paean, and the other Nacau-, which although they were 
 little, yet were they fairly built, and well walled with great hewed ftonc, having a number of 
 Temples, which they call Pagodes, all gilt over, and enriched with Steeples and Fanes of great 
 price, very pleafing and agreeable to the eye. Now in regard of that they recounted unto us 
 here of thefe two Towns, I hold it not amifs to difeourfe it in this place; the rather for that 
 I have heard it confirmed fince, and that thereby one may come to know the Original and 
 Foundation of this Empire of China, whereof ancient Writers have fpoken little till this pre- 
 fent. It is wricten in the firft Chronicle, of fourfeore (which have been made) of the Kings of 
 China , the thirteenth Chapter, as I have heard it many times delivered, That fix hundred 
 thirty and nine years, after the Deluge there was a Country called then guantipocau, which 
 as may be judged, by the height of the Climate where it is feituated, being in fixty two 
 Degrees to the Northward, abuts on the back-fide of oar Germany $ In this Country lived 
 at that time a Prince, named Turbano, whofe ftate was not ve.y great: It is faid of him, 
 that being a Youth he had three Children by a Woman, called Nancaa, whom he extremely 
 affe&cd, although the Queen his Mother, then a Widow, was exceedingly difpieafedat it. 
 This King being much importuned by the principal perlons of bis Kingdom to marry, al¬ 
 ways excufed himfelf, allcdging fome Reafons for it, which they did not well allow of, 
 but incited by his Mother, they preifed him fo far, that at length they perceived he had no 
 intent to condefcend unco them, for indeed his minde was to legitimate his eldeft Son he 
 had by Nancaa, and torefign his Kingdom unto him; to which effcdl he not long after 
 put himfelf into Religion in a Temple named Gifon, which feems to have been the Idol of 
 a cercain Se& that the %omans had in their time, and that is ftili at this prefent in the King¬ 
 doms of China, Japan, Cauchenchina, Cambay a, and Siam, whereof I have feen many 
 Pagodas in thofe Countries : But firft having declared his faid Son King,the Queen bis Mo¬ 
 ther jwould- by no means approve of ir, faying, That fince the King her Son would needs pro - 
 fefis himfelf in that Religion, and leave thi Kingdom without a law full Heir,fkc would labour 
 to remedy fo great a diforder 5 as indeed fhe did by inftantly marrying her felf, being fifty years 
 of age, to a Prieft of hers, called Silan , that was but fix and twenty, whom (he proclaimed 
 King, notwithftanding all oppofition made to the contrary 5 whereof being pre* 
 
 fentiy advertifed, and knowing that his Mother bad doneic of purpofe to defeat his Son 
 of the Crown, he got him forthwith out of his Religion for to repoffefs himfelf of it; and 
 to that end ufed ail the means and diligence he could: whereupon the Q^ieen Mother, and 
 Silan, fearing chat which might follow thereof, to both their deftrunions, if fie were noc 
 in tune, and tha fpeedily, prevented, they fecretly aftembled fome of their partakers, to the 
 number of thirty Horfe, and fourfeore Foot, who going one night, where Turbano was, 
 Jlewr him, and all his Company . Howbeit J^ancaa laved her felf, with her three Sens, 
 and accompani ed with cercain of her Domeftical Servants, (he imbarqued her felf in a 
 * l ^f*? 4 ** 1 anc * down the River to a place fome feventy leagues from thence, 
 
 where (he landed with ‘ihofe few followers (he had: There affifted with lome orhers that 
 s£ t ortea-u^rp her, (he fortified her felf in a little Ifland, that was in the midft of the River, 
 
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 and which (he named ‘Pilauncre, that fignifies, The retreat of the poor, with an intent there 
 to end the reft of her days; nov having lived five years in that poor and miferable efface, 
 the Tyrant Silan, whom the People hated, doubting left the three young Princes coining to 
 age might expell him out of what he had injuftly ufurped upon them, or at leaftwife dlfturb 
 him with Wars, by reafon of the right they pretended o© the Kingdom, hefenca Fleet of 
 thirty Jengds, wherein, as it is faid, were fixreen hundred men, for to feek them our, and de- 
 ftroy them, whereof Nancaa receiving intelligence fell to confult what ihe fhould do, and at 
 length refolved by no means to attend thefe Forces, in regard her Sons were but Infants, her 
 felf a weak Woman, her Men few in number, and unprovided of all that was necefi'ary to 
 make any defence againft fo great a number of Enemies, and fo well furnifhed ; whereupon 
 taking a view of her People flie found that they were but thirteen hundred in all, and of 
 themonely five hundred Men, the reft being Women and Children, for all which company 
 there were but three little Lanteads , and one Jangaa, in the whole River, and they not able 
 to carry an hundred perfons[; fo that Nancaa feeing no means to tranfporc them away, the 
 Hiftory faith, She affembled all her People, and declaring the fear fhe was \k, dejired them to 
 advife her what fhe fhould do', but excuftng themfelves , they ingemoufly confeffed, they knew not 
 what counfel to give her in that extremity : Whereupon, according to their afccient cuftome, 
 they refolved to caft Lots, to the end that on whom the Lot did fall to fpeak, he fhould free¬ 
 ly deliver what God would be pleafed toinfpire him with; For which purpofe they took 
 -three days time, wherein with fafting, cries, and tears, they would all with one voice crave 
 the favour and aftiftance of the Lord Almighty, in whofe hands was all the hope of their de¬ 
 liverance ; This advice being approved of all in general, Nancaa made it to be proclaim- 
 ed^chatupon pain of Death no perfon whatever fhould eat above once during thofe three 
 days, to the end that by this abftinence of the Body, the Spirit might be carried with the 
 greater attention towards God. 
 
 The three days abftinence being expired, Lots were caft five times one after another, 
 and all thole five times the Lot fellftill on a little Boy of feven years of age, named^as the 
 Tyrant was, Silau, whereat they were all exeedingiy amazed, in regard chat in the whole 
 Troop there was noc another of this fame name: After that they had made their Sacrifices 
 with all the accuftomed Ceremonies of Mufick, Perfumes, and fweet Odcurs, to render 
 thanks unto God,they commanded the little Boy to lift up his hands unto Heaven, and then 
 to fay what he thought was neceffary for the remedying of fo great an AfflwfUcn, as thac 
 wherein they were 5 Whereupon the little Boy, Silau, beholding Nancaa, the Hiftory af¬ 
 firms he faid thefe words ; O feeble and wretched Woman, now that forrow\and nfjhthon 
 makes thee more troubled and perplexed then ever thou wert, in regard of thefmall relief that 
 humane under flan ding doth reprefent unto thee, fubmit thy felf with humble fighs to the om¬ 
 nipotent hand of the Lord, Efloign then, or at leaftwife labour to tfioign, thy mtnde from the 
 vanities'of the Earth, lifting up thine eyes with faith and Hope, and thou fhalc fee what the 
 Prayers of an Innocent, a flitted and purfued before the Juft ice of him that hath created thee , 
 can do ; For affoon as in all humility thou haft declared the weaknefs of thy power unto the Al- 
 mighty, Vittory will incontinently be given thee from above over the Tyrant Si 1 au 5 Sphere* 
 fore I command thee in his Name to imbarcjue thy felf, thy Children, and all thy Followers in 
 thine Enemies Veffels, wherein amidft the fcbnfufcd murmur of the Waters thou fhalt wander fo 
 long, till thou arrive ft at a piacew here thou art to lay the Foundation of a Houfe of that Re¬ 
 putation, as the Mercy of the moft High fhall be pub lifted therefrom Generation to Generation 
 by the Voice of a ftrange People, whofe Cries ftall be as pleafing to him, as thofe of fucking Chil¬ 
 dren that lie in the Cradle. This laid, the little Boy, according to the Hiftory, fell down 
 Bark dead to the ground, which much aftonifhed Nancaa 3 and all hers; The faid Hiftory 
 further delivers, and as I have often heard it read, thac five days after the fuccefs the thirty 
 Jangaas were one morning feen coming down the River in very good equipage, but not fo 
 much as one man in them ; the reafon hereof, by the report of the Hiftory, which che Chi - 
 ncfes hold to be moft true, was, that all thefe Ships of War being joyned together for to exe¬ 
 cute unmercifully upon Nancaa and her Children the cruel and damnable intentions of the 
 Tyrant Silau, one night as this Fleet rode ac Anchor in a place, called Catebafoy, a huge dark 
 Cloud came over them, whereout ilfued fuch horrible Thunder and Lightning, accompanied 
 with mighty Rain,the Drops whereof were fo hot, thac falling upon them which were afleep 
 *a the Veffels, it made them leap into the River, fo as within lefsjthen an hour they perifhed 
 
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 a JI 5 And it is faid that one drop of this Rain coming to fall upon a body it burnt in fuch fort,- 
 as it penetrated to the very marrow of the bone with moft insupportable pain, no cloths, nor 
 arms, being able to relift it, Tfancaa receiving this favour from the hand of the Lord, with 
 abundance of tears and humble thanks, embarqued her felf,her children, and all her company, 
 in the faid thirty fangaas^ and failing down the River was carried by the ftrength of the cur¬ 
 rent, which for her fake, the Hiftory faith, redoubled then, in feven and forty days to the ve¬ 
 ry place where now the City of Pequin is built 5 There (he, and all hers landed, and doubt* 
 ing left the Tyrant Silas*, whofe cruelty (he feared, might ftill purfue her, fhe fortified her 
 * felf in this place the beft fhe could. 
 
 CHAP* XXX. 
 
 The Foundation of the four chief Cities of China ; together with which of the 
 Kings of China it was that built the Wall between China and Tartaria; 
 and many things that we faw as we pafi along . 
 
 Sod. 1. 'T'He faid Hiftory delivers, that few days after the poor Wjtxcaa, and her followers, were 
 A fetled on fhore, fhe caufed them to fwear fealty unto her eldeft Son, and to acknow¬ 
 ledge him for their lawful Prince; Now the very fame day that lie received the Oath of Alle- 
 geance from thefe few$ubje&s of his,he made cle&ion of the place where theFoxtrefs fhould 
 be ere&ed, together with the inclofure of the Wall • Afterwards, affoon as the fitft Foundin'? 
 ons were laid, which was fpeedijy done, he went out of his Tent, accompanied with his 
 Mother, who governed all, together with his Brothers, and the chiefeft of his company, 
 attired in feftival Robes,with a great ftone carried before him by the nobleft Perfonages,which 
 he had caufed to be wrought aforehand; and arriving at the faid Foundations he laid his hand 
 upon theStone,and on his knees,with his eyes lifted up toHeaven,he faid to all that were pre- 
 •enr, Brethren, and worthy Friends, know that l give mine own Name, that is, Pequin, to 
 this Stone, upon w hich this new place is to be built, fori defire, that hereafter it fhould be fo 
 cailed ; wherefore I pray you all f as Friends , and command you as your King, not to call it 
 otherwife, to the end the memory thereof may remain immortal to thofethat fhall come after 
 sts to the end of the World ; By which means it (hall be manifejled to allmen, that the thirteenth 
 day of the eighth Moon, in the year one thoufand fix hundred thirty and nine, after the Lord 
 of all things created had madethofc that lived upon the Earth, fee how much he abhorred the 
 fins of Men, for the which he drowned the whole World with Water, that he fent down from 
 Heaven, in fatisfattion of his divine Jufiice, it fhall, I fay, be manifejled to them, that 
 the new Prince Pequin built this Fortrcfs, whereunto he gave his Name$ And fo conform¬ 
 able to the Frophefie, which the dead childe bath delivered, it fhall be publifhtd over all, by the 
 voice of firange People, in what manner the Lord is to be feared, and what Sacrifices are to be 
 made, that they may be juft and acceptable unto him . Now this was t hat which King Pequin 
 faid unto his Vafl'als, and which is at this day to be feen engraven on a lilver Scutcheon,faften- 
 ed to an Arch of one of the principal Gates of the City, called Tommicotay, where in me¬ 
 mory of this Prophecy, there is ordinarily a Guard of forty Halberdiers, with their Captain, 
 whereas there are but onely four in all the reft,who are bound to render an account of all chat 
 pafs in and out there daily • And becaufc the Hiffcrics relate, that this new King laid the firft 
 foundation of this City on the 3 d of the moneth of Auguft ,xhz Kings of China do on that diy 
 ufually (hew themfelves to the People, and that with fuch Pomp and Majefty, that I pro- 
 fefs l am not able to declare the leaft pari of it, much lefs to deferibe the whole. Now in 
 regard of this firft Kings words, which the (hinefes hold for an infallible Prophecy, his De- 
 icendantsdo fofear the accomplifhment thereof, that by a Law exprefly made by them, the 
 admittance of any Strangers into this Kingdom,faving Ambafladours and Slaves, is forbidden 
 upon moft grievous pains; So that when any do chance to arrive there, they banifh them pa¬ 
 tently from one place to another,not permitting them to fettle any where,as they pr2&ifed it 
 cowards rr^,and my eight companions. And thus, as I have fuccin&ly delivered, was this Em¬ 
 pire of C hwa founded, and peopled by the means of this Prince,named Pequin, the eldeft of 
 iV4»r4* s three Sons $ As for the other two, called Paean and Nacau, they afterwards found¬ 
 ed the other two Towns aforefaid, and wichall gave them their own Names. It is alfo the 
 general opinion, that their Mother Nancaa founded the City of Nanquin, which took its 
 enonunation from her, continuing fo to this day, and is the fecond City of this greae Mo¬ 
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 mrchy. The Hiftorics further affirm, that from the time of this firft Founder, the Empire of 
 Chin* augmented always from one King to another, by a juft Succeffion till a certain a°c, 
 which according to our Computation, was in the Year of Lord, one thoufand one hundred 
 and thirty. After which a King that then reigned, named Xixip* H , inclofed the City of p c% 
 wlthln th « fp ,cc of ^ree and twenty years, in fuch manner as it is feen at this day, and 
 that fourfeore and two years after another King, his Grand-childe, called JuMrtar’midc 
 the like, fo that both together were fixey leagues in circuit, namely, each of them thirty, cen 
 in length, and five m breadth: Now it is certain, and I have often times read it, that each of 
 tbefc Inclolures, or Walls, hath a thoufand and threescore round Bulwarks, as alfo two hun¬ 
 dred and forty Towers, very fair, ftrong, large, and high, with gilt Lions upon Globes, bein* 
 the Arms of the Kings of China, which are very pleafing to the eye. Without the latt Inclo^ 
 fure is an exceeding great Ditch round about it,ten fathom deep,and forty broad,continbally 
 replenifhed with many Barques and Boats, covered over head as if they were Houfes, where 
 both Provifions,and all forts of Merchandife are fold. This City, according to the Chineses re¬ 
 port, hath above three hundred and thrcefcore Gates, in each of which,as I have before re¬ 
 cited,there are always fourHalberdiers,who are obliged to render an account of all that go in 
 and out daily: There are alfo certain Chambers in it, whither it is the cuflome to bring fuch 
 Children as wander and go aftcay, in the Town; to the end their<Parents that lofe them may 
 be fure to hear of them there. I will refer my fpeaking more largely of the Magnificences of 
 this goodly City to another place,for that which I have now delivered in hafte, and as it were 
 en pajfant, was but to make a brief Relation of the original of this Empire, and of the firft 
 Founder of the City of Pequin, (which may be truly faid to be the chiefeft of all the World 
 for grcatnefs,policy,riches,and abundance of all things that can be defired of man) as alfo of 
 the Foundation of the fecond City of this mighty Kingdom, that is Nanejuin, and of the 
 other two. CPacanvadNacan, wnercof I have heretofore fpoken, and in which the Found¬ 
 ers of them are buried in very ttately and rich Temples, within Tombs of white and green 
 Alabafter, all garniftied with Gold, and cre&ed upon Lions of Silver, with a world of 
 Lamps, and perfuming Pans full of divers forts of fweet Odours round about them. 
 
 . Now that I have fpoken of the Original and Foundation of this Empire, together with the S 
 circuit of the greit City of Ptqtun, I ho'd it not amifs to intreat as fuccindtly as I may of 
 another particular,which is no lefs admirable then thofe whereof I have made mention before! 
 It is written in the fifth Book of theScituacion of all the remarkable places of thisEmpire,or 
 rather Monarcny, (for to fpeak truly, there is no appellation fo great biitmay be well attri¬ 
 buted unto it) that a King, named CrifnagolDicotay, who according to the computation of 
 that Book t reigned in the year of our Lord five hundred and eighteen,happened to make war 
 With the Tartar , about fome difference between them concerning the State of Xenxinapati, 
 that borders on theKingdomof Lauhos i and fo valiantly demeaned himfelf io a Bitcel againft 
 him, that he defeated his Army, and remained Matter of the Field ; whereupon the Tartar 
 confederating himfelf with other Kings,his Friends, did by their affiflance affemble together 
 greater Forces then the former, and therewith invaded the Kingdom of China , where (it is 
 faid) he took three and thirty very important Towns, of which the principal was Panquilor, 
 infomuch that the Chinefe fearing he Ihould not be well able to defend himfelf, concluded a 
 Peace with him upon condition to relinquifh his rigbt,which he pretended to that in quettion 
 betwixt them,and to pay him two thoufand Picos of Silver for to defray the Charges of thofe 
 firangers the Tartar had entertained in this War; by this means China continued for a good 
 while quiet, but the King doubting left the Tartar might in time to come return to annoy 
 him again, rcfolved tofbuild a Wall, that mighc ferve for a Bulwark to his Empirejand to that 
 end calling all his Effaces together, he declared his determination unto’chem, which was 
 prefently not onclv well approved of, bur held moft neceffary; fo that to enable him for the 
 performance of a bufinefs fo much concerning his ftace, they gave him ten thoufand Picos of 
 Sil ver,which amount,according to our accounr,unto fifteen Mi lions of Gold,after the rate of 
 fifteen hundred Ducates each Pico ; and moreover they entercained him two hundred and fifty 
 thoufand men to labour in the work, whereof thirty thoufand were appointed for OfficerSj, 
 and all the reft for manual fervices j Order being taken then for whatfoever was thought fit 
 for fo prodigious an enterprife,they fell to it in fuch fort,as by the report of cheHiftory all tbar 
 huge Wall|w 4 s in feven and twenty years quite finifhed from one end to the other; which if 
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 fifteen miles after nine miles every Jao; wherein that which feemed mo(l wonderfull and 
 moft exceeding the belief! of man, was that feven hundred and fifty choufand men laboured 
 inceffantly for fo long a time in that great work, whereof the Commonalty, as I delivered 
 ^ before, furnifhed one third part; the Priefis, and lfles of Aynen, another third; and the King 
 affified by the Princes,Lords, Chaems, and Ancbacys of the Kingdom,the reft of the build¬ 
 ing, which I have both feen and mcafured, being thirty foot in height, and ten foot in 
 breadth, where it is thickeft : It is made of Lime and Sand, and plaiflered on the ouefide with 
 a kind of Bitumen, which renders it fo flrong,that no Cannon can demolifh it:lnflead of Bul¬ 
 warks it hath Sentries,or Watch-towers,two ftages high, flanked with Buttrefl'es of Carpen¬ 
 try made of a certain black wood, which they call Caubefy , that is to fay, Wood of Iron, be- 
 caufe it is exceeding Prong and hard, every Butt refs being as thick as an Hogfhead, ,and ve¬ 
 ry high, fo that thefe Sentries are far flronger then if they were made of Lime and Stone. 
 Now this Wall, by them termed Chaufacan, which fignifies. Strong refipancc y extends in 
 height equal to the Mountains, whereunto it is joyned, and that chofe Mountains alfo 
 mayferve for a Wall they are cut down very fmooth and fleep, which renders them far 
 flronger then the Wall it felf; but you muft know that in all this extent of land there is no 
 Wall but in the void fpaces from Hill to Hill, fo that the Hills themlelves make up the reft 
 of the Wall and Fence : Further it is to be noted, that in this whole length of an hundred 
 and fifteen leagues,which this Fortification contains,there are are but onely 5 Entries where¬ 
 by the Rivers of Tartaria do pafs, which are derived from the impetuous Torrents that 
 defeendfrom thele Mountains,and running above five hundred leagues in the Country, ren¬ 
 der themfe! ves into the Seas of (,'bina and Cauehenchina ; howbeic one of thele Rivers, be¬ 
 ing greater then the reft,difemboques by the Bay of Cuy in the Kingdom of Sournau , com¬ 
 monly called Siam. Now in all thefe five Paffages both the King of China , and the King 
 of Tart aria, keep Garrifons; the Chinefe in each of them entertains feven thoufand men gi¬ 
 ving them great pay, whereof fix thoufand areHorfe, the reft Foot, being for the moft part 
 ftrangers, as c JVtogores, Pancrus Chamfaas, Corofoncs, Giz,areso( Perjia, and other dif¬ 
 ferent Nations, bordering upon this Empire, and Which in confideration of the extraordi¬ 
 nary pay they receive, ferve the Chinefes ; who (to fpeak truthjare nothing couragious, as be¬ 
 ing but little ufed to the Wars, and ill provided of Arms and Artillery. In all this length 
 of Wall there are three hundred and twenty Companies,eichof them containining five hun¬ 
 dred Souldiers[; fo that there are in all one hundred and threefcore thoufand men, befides 
 Officers of Juflice, lAnchacis , Chaems , and /ithcr fuch sike perfons neceflary for the Go¬ 
 vernment, and entertainment of thefe Forces; fo that all joyned together make up the 
 number of two hundred thoufand, which are all maintained at the Kings onely charge, by rea- 
 fonthemoflof them are Malefa&ours condemned co the reparations and labour of the 
 Wall, as I fha!I more amply declare when I come to fpeak of the Prifon dettined to this pur- 
 pofe, in the City of Pecjuin , which is alfo another Edifice, very remarkable, wherein there are 
 continually above thirty thoufand Prifoners, the moft of them from eighteen to forty five 
 ■years of age, appointed to work in this Wall. 
 
 Being departed from thofe two Towns Paean sad Nacan , we continued our courfe upche 
 River, and arrived at another Town, called t^Mindoo, fomewhac bigger then thofe from 
 whence we parted, where about half a mile off was a great Lake of Salt-water, and a num¬ 
 ber of Salt-hcufes round about it; The Chinefis affured us, that this Lake did ebb and flow 
 like the Sea, and that it extended above two hundred leagues into the Country, rendring 
 the King of China in yearly Revenue one hundred thoufand Tacit, onely for the third of the 
 Salt that was drawn out of it; as alfo that the Town yielded him other one hundred thoufand 
 Tatis for the Silk alone that was made there, not fpeaking at all of theCamphire, Sugar, 
 Pourcelain, Vermilion, and Quick-filver, whereof there was very great plenty* moreover, 
 that fome two leagues from this Town were twelve exceeding long Houfes, like unto 
 Magazines, where a world of people laboured in cafting and purifying of Copper, sad the 
 horrible din which the Hammers made there was fuch, and fo ftrange, as if there were 
 any thing on earth that could reprefenc Hell this was it; wherefore being defiroustoun- 
 derfland the caufe of this extraordinary noife, we would needs go to fee from whence it 
 proceeded ; and we found that there were in each of thefe Houfes forty Fornaces, chat is 
 twenty of cither fide, with forty huge Anvils, upon every of which eight men beat in or¬ 
 der, and fo fwiftly, as a mans eye could hardly difeern the blows, fo as three hundred and . 
 
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 twenty men wrought in each of thefe twelve Houfes, which in all the twelve Houfes mack 
 up three thoufand eight hundred and forty Workmen, befide a great number of other pe r- 
 foris that laboured in other particular things ; whereupon we demanded how much Copper 
 might be wrought every year in each of thefe Houfes, and they told us, one hundred and 
 ten, or fixfcore thoufand Pico's ,whereof the King had two thirds,becaufe the Mines were his; 
 and that the Mountain from whence it was drawn was called C°rotum baga, which fig- 
 nifies a River of Copper, for that from the time fince it was difeoyered, being above two 
 hundred years, it never failed, but rather more and more was found. Having paft about a 
 league beyond thofe twelve Houfes up the River, we came to a place inclofed with three 
 Ranks of Iron Grates, where we beheld thirty Houfes, divided into five Rows, fix in each 
 Row, which were very long and complete, with great Towers full of Bells of call metall, 
 and much carved work, as alfo gilt Pillars, and the Frontifpieces of fair hewed done, 
 whereupon many Inventions were engraved: At this place we went affiore by the fti- 
 funs permiffion, that carried us, for that he had made a Vow to this Pagode, which was cal¬ 
 led Bigay potim, that is to fay, God of an hundred and ten thoufand Gods, Corchoofunganc 
 ginaco ginac a, which (according to their report) fignifies, Strong and great above all others j 
 for fome of the Errours wherewith thefe wretched People are blinded are. That they believe 
 every particular thing hath its God', who bath created it, and preferves its natural being 5 but 
 that this Bigay potim brought them all forth from under his arm-pits, and that from him as a 
 Father, they derive their being , by a filial union , which theJ term Bira Porentalay 5 And in the 
 Kingdom of Pegu, where I have often been, 1 have feen one like mto this, named by thofe 
 of the Country Ginocoginans, the God of Greatnfs, which Temple was in times paft built 
 by the Chinefes, when as they commanded in the Indian’s, being according to their fupputati - 
 on, from the Tear our Lord fefm Chrifl 1013. to the Tear 1072. by which account it ap¬ 
 pears that thclndlifs were under the Empire of China but onely fifty and nine Tears, from 
 the Succejfour of him that conquered it, caUedEx\u°zno, voluntarily abandoned it in regard of 
 the great expence of money and bloudthat the unprofitable keeping of it cofi him: In thole thir¬ 
 ty Houfes, whereof I formerly fpake, were a great number of Idols of gilt Wood ; and a 
 like number of Tin, Latten, and Pourcelain, being indeed fo many, as I Ihould hardly be 
 believed,to declare therm Now we had not paft above five or fix leagues from this place 
 but we came to a great Town, about a league in circuit, quite deftroyed and ruinated’; fo 
 that asking the Chinefes what might be the caufe thereof, they told us, that this Town was 
 anciently called Cohilonz. 4 , that is ,7 he flower of the field, and had in former times been in very 
 great ptofperity, and that about one hundred forty and two years before, a certain ftranger, 
 in the company of fome Merchants of the Port of Tanafarim in the Kingdom of Siam , 
 chanced to come thither, being as it *feems an holy man, although the Bonz.es faid he was 
 a Sorcerer, by reafon of the Wonders he did, having raifed up five dead men, and wrought 
 many other Miracles, whereat all men were exceedingly aftonilhed ; and that having di¬ 
 vers times difputed with the Priefts he had fo (Lamed and confounded them, as fearing to 
 deal any more with him, they incenfcd the Inhabitants againft him, and perfwaded them to 
 put him to death, affirming that otherwife God would confuipe them with fire from Hea¬ 
 ven; whereupon all the Townfmen went unto the Houfe of a poor Weaver, where he lodg¬ 
 ed; and killing the Weaver, with his Son and two Sons in Law of his, that would have de¬ 
 fended him, the holy man came forth to them, and reprehending them for this Uproar, he 
 told them amongft other things. That the God of the Law, whereby they were to be faved was 
 called Jefm Chrift, who came down from Heaven to the Earth for to become a Man, and that it 
 was needfull he (fiould die for mem, and that with the price of his precious Blond, which he fhed 
 for Sinners upon the Crofs, God was fatisfied in his jufiiee; and that giving him the charge of 
 Heaven and Earth, he had promt fed him, that whofoever proftjfedhis Law with Faith and good 
 works Jhom'd be faved, and have everlafting life ; and wit hall, that the gods whom the Bon° 
 2es ferved and adored with Sacrifices of Bloud, were falfe, and Idols, wherewith the Devil de¬ 
 ceived them: Hereat the Church-men entred into fo great fury, that they called unto the 
 People, faying, C ur f e ^ be he that brings not Wood and Fire for to burn him 5 which Was pre- 
 fernly put in execution by them; and the Fire beginning exceedingly to rage, the holy man 
 faid certain Prayers, by vircue whereof the Fi e incontinently went out; wherewith the 
 People being amazed, cried out, faying, Doubilefs the God of this Man is moft mighty, And 
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 Ring-leader of this Mutiny,& feeing the Townfmen retire away in confident ion of that they 
 beheld, he threw a ftone at the holy man,faying fiThey which do not as I do,maytheSerpent of the 
 fflfljf ingulf them into Hell fire.\t thefe words all the other Bonz,es did the like,fo that he was 
 prefently knock’d down dead with the (tones they flung at him,whereupon they cad him into 
 theRiver,which mod prodigioufly (laid ics courfe from running down,and fo continued for the 
 fpace of 5 days together that the body lay in it.By means of this Wonder many embraced the 
 law of that holy man,whereof there are a great number yet remaining in that countrysWhilett 
 thtCbinefeswciz relating thishiftory untous,we arrived at a point of land,where going to dou¬ 
 ble the Cape, we defcried a little place environed with trees,in the midft whereof was a great 
 Crofs of Stone, very well made, which we no fooner efpied, but tranfported with exceeding 
 joy,we fell on our knees before our Condu&or,humbly defiring him to give us leave to go on 
 fhore,but this Heathen Dog refufed us, faying, That they had a great way yet to the place where 
 they were to lodge; whereat we were mightily grieved; howbeit God of his mercy, even 
 miraculoufly fo ordered it,that being gone about a league further,his Wife fell in labour,fo as 
 he was conlirained to return to that place again, it being a Village of thirty oc forty houfes, 
 hard by where the Crofs (food: Here we went on land,and placed his Wifein an houfe,where 
 tome nine days after (he died inChild-bed,during which time we went to the Crofs,and pro¬ 
 fiting our felves befor&it with tears in our eycs;The People of the Village beholding us in 
 this poltore,came tous,and kneeling down alto, with their hands lift up to Heaven, they faid, 
 Chrifio Jefu, Jefu Chrifio, Maria micauvidau late impone model, which in our Tongue fig- 
 nifies, 'jeftuChrifi , JefwsChrifi, Mary always a Hirgine conceived him, a Hirgine brought 
 him forth, and a Htrgine fiill remained ; whereunto we weeping anfwered, that they fpake 
 the very truth; Then they asked us if we were Chrifiians, we told them we were, which as 
 toon as they underftood they carried us home to their houfes, where they entertained us with 
 great affe&ion;Now all thefe wcreChriftians,and defeended of theWeaver,in whofe houfe the 
 holy man was lodged, of whom demanding whether that which xhzChinefeshx\ told us was 
 trae, they {hewed us a Book that contained the whole Hiftory thereof at large,with many o- 
 ther Wonders wrought by that holy man,who (they faid)was named Matthew Efcandel, and 
 that he was a Hermit of Mount Sinai, being an Hungarian by Nation, and born in a place 
 called Buda: The fame Book alfo related that nine days after this Saint was buried, the faid 
 Tov;n of Cohilouzaa , where he was murdered, began to tremble in fuch fort, as all the Peo¬ 
 ple thereof in a mighty fright, ran into'the fields, and there continued in their Tents, not 
 daring to return unto their houfes,for they cried out all with one common confent, The blond 
 of this fir anger craves vengeance for the unjufi death the Bonzes have given him , becaufe he 
 preached the truth unto m ; But the Bonzes rebuked and old them, that they committed a 
 great fin in faying to 5 Neverthelefs,they willed them to be of good chear,for they would go 
 all to Quiay Tiguarem, god of the night, and requeft him to command the Earth to be quiet, 
 otherwiie we would offer him no more facrifices;Immediatly whereupon all the Bonzes went 
 accordingly in procefiion to the faid Idol,which was the chiefeft in the Town,but none of the 
 People durfi follow tbem,for fear of tome Earthquake,which the very next night,about ele¬ 
 ven of the clock,as thofc devlifti Monitors were making their facrifices,with odoriferous per¬ 
 fumes, and other ceremonies, accufiomed amongft them, increafed fo terribly, that by the 
 Lords permiffion, and for a juft punifhmenc of their wickedncfs, it quite overthrew all the 
 Temples, Houfes, and other Edifices of the Town to the ground, wherewich ail the Bonzes 
 were killed, not fo mach as o ie efcapedjalive, being in number above four thoufand, as the 
 Book delivereth,wherein it is further faid, that afterwards the Earth opening fuch abundance 
 of Water came forth, as it clean overwhelmed and drowned the whole Town, fothatic be¬ 
 came a great Lake,and above an hundred fathom deep; moreover they recounted many other 
 very Grange particulars unro us, and alfo however fince that time the place was named Fiun- 
 ganorfee , that 1% The chaftifemtnt of Heaven, whereas before it was called Cohilouzaa, which 
 lignifies, The Flower of the Field , as I have declared heretofore. 
 
 Se&4. After our Departure from the Ruines of Fiunganorfee, we arrived at a great Town, called 
 JanquirnUu , which is very rich, abounding with all kind of things, fortified with a llrong Ga¬ 
 llon of Horfe and Foot, and having a number of Junks and Vtffels riding before it: Here 
 we remained five days to celebrate the Funeral of our Chifuus Wifejfor whofe Soui he gave 
 us by way of Alms both Meat and Clothes,and wichall freeing us from the Oar,permitted us 
 to go alhorc without Irons, vvhich was a very great eafe unco us; Having left this place, vvi 
 
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 continued our courle up the river,beholding ftill on either fide a world of goodly great Towns 
 invironed with firorg waists alfo many Fortrdfes and Cafiies all along the waters fide ; we 
 faw likewise a great number of Temples, whofe Steeples were all gilt, and in the fields fuch a- 
 bundance of cartel that the ground was even covered over with them, fo far as wc could well 
 difcern : Moreover, there were fo many veflels upon this river, efpecially in fome parts,where 
 Fairs were kept, that at firft figbr one would have thought them to be populous Towns• be¬ 
 tides other letter companies of three hundred, five hundred,fix bundred,and a thoufand boats, 
 which continually we metvvithallonbothfides of the river, wherein all things that one could 
 imagine were fold • Moreover, the Chinches allure us, that in this Empire ot China, the num¬ 
 ber of thofe which levied upon the rivers, was no lefs then thofe that dwelled in the Towns, 
 and that without the good order which is obferved to make the common people work, and 
 to confirain the meaner‘fort to fupply themfelves unto trades, for to get their living, they 
 would eat up one another. Now it is to be noted, that every kind of traffique and commerce 
 is divided among them into three or four forms, as followeth: They which trade in Ducks, 
 whereof there are great quantities in this Countrey, proceed therein diverfly ; fome caufe 
 rheir egs to be hatched for to fell the Ducklings ,• others fat them when they are great for to 
 fell them dead after they are falted ; Thefe traffique only with the egs 5 others with the fea¬ 
 thers ; and fome with the heads,feer^gizards, and intrails, no man being permitted to trench 
 upon his companions fale, under the penalty of thirty lalhes, which nopriviledg can exempt 
 them from: In the fame manner, concerning hogs , fome fell them alive, and by whole fale, 
 others dead, and by retail 5 fome make bacon of them, others fell their pigs, and fome again 
 fell nothing but the chitterlings,the fweet-breads,the blood,and the haflets • which is alfo ob¬ 
 ferved for fiflb, for fuch a one fcls ic frefli, that cannot fell it either falted or dried; and fo of 
 other Provinons, as flefh, fruit, fowls, venifon, pulfe,and other things, wherein fuch rigour if 
 ufed, as there are chambers exprefly eftabliflbed, whofe Officers have commiffion and power 
 to fee, that they which trade in one particular may not do it in another , if it be not for 
 juft and lawful caufes,and that on pain of thirty lafhes. Tnere be others likewife that get their 
 living by felling fifh alive, which to that purpofe they keep in great well-boats, and fo carry 
 them into divers Countries, where they know there is no other but fait fifli. There are like- 
 wife all along this river of Batampina, whereon we went from Nanquin to Peqnin, which is 
 diftant one from the other one hundred & fourfeore leagues, fuch a number of engines for fu- 
 gar, and preffes for wine and oyl, made of divers forts of pulfe and fruit, as one could hardly 
 fee any o:her thing on either fide of the water. In many other places alfo there were an infi¬ 
 nite company of H^ufes, and Magazines full of all kinds of provifion, that one could imagine, 
 where all forts offlsfli are falted,dried,fmoaked,and piled up in great high heaps,as gammons 
 of Bacon, Pork, Lard, Geefe, Ducks, Cranes, Buftards, Oftriches, Stags, Cows, Buffles, wild 
 Goats, Rhinoceroces,Horfes,Tygcrs,DogSjFoxes,and almoft all other creatures that one can 
 name, fo that wc faid many times amongft our felves, that it was not poifible for all the peo¬ 
 ple of the world to eat up all thofe provifions. We faw likqwife upon the fame river a number 
 of Veflels, which they call Panoaras , covered from r the poup to the prow with nets, in 
 manner of a cage, three inches high, full of ducks and geefe, that were carried from place to 
 place to be fold ; when the Owners of thofe boats would have thefe fowl to feed, they ap¬ 
 proach to the Land; and where there are rich medows,or marfhes, they fee forth Planks;pen- 
 ning the doors of thofe cages, they beat three or four times upon a Drum,wbich they have ex- 
 prelly for that purpofe; whereupon all thefe fowl, being fix or feven thoufand at the leaft, go 
 out of the boat with a mighty noife.and fo fall to feeding all along the waters fide;Noyv when 
 the Owner perceives, that thefe .fowl have fed fufficiently, and that it is time to return them, he 
 beats the drum the fecond time,at the found whereof they gather all together,& re-enter with 
 the fame noife,as they went out;wherein it is ftrange to obferve, that they return all in again, 
 not fo much asonc miffing. That done, the Mafter of the boat parts from that place; and after¬ 
 wards when he thinks it is time for them to lay,he repairs towards land,and where he finds the 
 grounds dry,and good grafs,he opens the doors,and beats the drum again, at which all the fowl 
 of the boat came forth to lay ; and then at fuch time as the Mafter judges that thefe fowl have 
 laid, he beats his drum afrefh,and fuddenly in hafte they all throng in to the boat,not fo much 
 as one remaining behind;Thereupon two or three men get afhore,with baskets in their hands, 
 whercinto they gather up the egs, till they have gotten eleven or twelve baskets full, and fo 
 they proceed on their voyage to nuke fale of their ware 3 which being almoft fpent, to ftorc 
 
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 themfelves anew, they go for to buy more unto them that breed them, whofe trade it is to 
 fell them young^'or they are not fuffered to keep them when they are great,as the others do, 
 by reafon, as I have faid before, no man may deal in any commodity for which he hath not 
 permiflion from the Governours of the Towns. They that get their living by breeding of 
 Ducks have neer to their Houfes certain Ponds, where many times they keep ten or eleven 
 thoufand of thefeduckings, fome bigger, fome leffer. Now for to hatch the Eggs, they 
 have in very long galleries twenty or thirty furnaces full of dung, wherein they bury two 
 hundred, three hundred, and five hundred Eggs together, then flopping the mouth of each 
 furnace that the'dung may become the hotter, they leave the Eggs there till they think the 
 youflg ones are difclofed ; whereupon putting into every feveral furnace a Capon half pul¬ 
 led, and the skin ftript from off his breft, they leave him (hue up therein for the fpace of two 
 days ; at the end whereof being all come out of the ftiell, they carry them into certain pla¬ 
 ces under ground made for that purpofe, fetting them bran foaked in liquor; and fo being 
 left there loofe fome ten or eleven dayes, they go afterwards of themfelves into the ponds, 
 where they feed and bring them up for to fell them unto thofc former Merchants, who 
 trade with them into divers pans, it being unlawfull for one to trench upon anothers traf- 
 fique, as I have before related; fo that in theiMarkets and publique places* where provifions 
 for the mouth are fold, if any that fell Goofe Eggs do'chance to be taken fiefed with Hens 
 Eggs, and it is fufpe&ed that they fell of them, they are prefendy puniftied with thirty lafhcs 
 on the bare Buttocks, without hearing any juftification they can make for themfelves, being 
 as I have faid, found fiefed of them • fo that if they will have Hens Eggs for their own 
 ufe, to avoid incurring the penalty of the Law, they muft be broken at one end ; whereby 
 it may appear that they keep them not to fell, but to eat. As for them that fell Fifti a« 
 live, if any of their Fifh chance to die, they cut them in pieces, and faking them fell them 
 at the price of falt-fifti , which is lefs then that of frefh-fifh, therein they proceed foex- 
 a&Iy, that no man dares pafs the limits which are preferibed and ordained by the Con - 
 chalis of the State, upon pain of moft fevere punifhment 5 for in all this County the King is 
 fo much refpe&ed, and Jufiice fo feared, as nokindeof perfon, how great foever, dares 
 murmur, or look awry at an Officer, no not at the very Happes % which are as the Bayliflfs 
 or B;adles amongft us. 
 
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 The order which is obferved in the removing Towns that are made upon the 
 Rivers 5 and that which farther befell tu, 
 
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 Scft.i.” TT 7 E faw likewife all along this great River a number of Hogs both wilde and cc- 
 V V mefiick, thac were kept by certain men on hoffeback, and many herds of tame red 
 Deer, which were driven from place to place like Sheep, to feed, all lamed of their right 
 legs, to hinder them from running away; and they are lamed fo, when they are but Calves, 
 to avoid the danger that otherwife they might incur of their lives: We faw a!fodivers 
 Parks, wherein a world of Dogs were kept to be fold to the Butchers* for in thefe Coun¬ 
 tries they eat all manner of Flefh, whereof -they know the price, and of what creatures they 
 are, by the choppings they make of them; Moreover , we met with many fmall Barques, 
 whereof fome were full of Pigs, others of Tortoifes, Frogs, Otters, Adders, Eeles, Snails, 
 and Lizirds;for(as I have have faid)chey buy there of all that is judged good to eat*now to the 
 end that i'uch provifions may pafs at an eafier rate , all that fell them are permitted to 
 make traffique of them in feveral fafhions; true it is, that in fome things they have greater 
 Franchifes then in others, to the end that by means thereof no Merchandile may want fale: 
 And becaufe the Subject I now fpeak of difpenfes me to fpeak of all, I will relate that which 
 we further obferved there, and whereat we wete much abafhed, judging thereby how far 
 men fuffer themfelves to be carried by their Interefts, and extream avarice ; you muft know 
 then,that in this Country there are a many of fuchas make a trade of buying and felling 
 mens Excrements; which is not fo mean a Commerce amongft them, but that there arc ma-' 
 ny of them grow rich by ir, and are held in good account; now thefe Excrements ferve to 
 manure grounds that are newly grubb’d , which is found to be far better for chat purpofe 
 then the ordinary dung; They which make a trade of buying it go up and down the ftreets 
 with certain Clappers, like our Spittle men, whereby they give to underftand what they 
 
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defile withput piiblifhing of it otherwife to people,in regard the thing is filthy of it felf^where- 
 unco I will adde thus much, that this commodity is lo much efteemed amongft them, and fo 
 great a tr.ide driven of it, that into one Sea pore fometimes there comes, in one tyde, two or 
 tnr ^ hundreo Say Is laden with it: Oftentimes alfo there is fuch driving for it, as the Gover- 
 nours Oi thw. place are fain to incerpofe their authority for the diftribution of this goodly com* 
 modify ; and ail for to manure their grounds, which foyledwirh it bears three crops in one 
 year.We faw many boats likewile laden with dried orange pils,wherewith in victualling hou- 
 fes they boyl dogs fleIh,for to cake away the rank favour and humidity of it,as alfo to render it 
 more firm: In brief,we faw fo wany VwcAnSiLanteaas^nd Barcajfes , in this river,laden with 
 all kinds of provifion, that either the fea or land produces, and that in fuch abundance, as I 
 mud confefs, I am not able to exprefs it in words; for it is not pofiible to imagine the in¬ 
 finite ft ore of things thac are in this Country; of each whereof you (hall fee two or three hun¬ 
 dred Veffels together at a time, all full, efpecially at the Fairs, and Markets, that are kept up- 
 on the folemn feftival days of their Pagodes • for then all the Fairs are free, and the Pagodes 
 for the moft part are feituaced upon the banks of rivers, to the end all commodities may the 
 more commodioufly be brought thither by water. Now when all thefe Veffels come to joyn 
 together, during thefe Fairs, they take fuch order, as they make, as it were, a great and fait 
 Town of them; fo that lometimes yop fliall have of them a league in length, and three quar¬ 
 ters of a league in bredth, being compofed of above twenty tboufand Veffels, befides Balovs, 
 Gieedees, and Manchua *, which are fmall boats, whofc number is infinite ; For the Govern¬ 
 ment hereof there are threefcorp Captains appointed, of which thirty are to fee good or¬ 
 der kept, and the other thirty are for the guard of the Merchants thac come thither, to the 
 end they may fail in fafecy , Moreover, there is above them a Chaem , who hath abfoluce 
 power, both in civil and criminal caufes, without any appeal or oppofition whatfoever, during 
 the fifteen days thac this Fairlafts, which is from the new to,the full Moon ♦ And indeed 
 more come to fee the policy, order, and beauty of this kind of Town,then otherwife > for (to 
 fpeak the truth, the framing of it in thac manner with veffels) makes it more to be admired 
 then all the Edifices that can be feen upon the land; There are in this moving Town tw6 
 thoufand ftreets, exceeding long, and very ftraic, inclofedon either fide with (hips, moft of 
 which are covered with filks,8c adorned with a world of banners,flags, and fireamers, wherein 
 all kind of commodities chat can be-defired are to be fold. In other ftreets are as many trades 
 to be feen,as in any Town on the Land ; amidft the which they that traffique, go up and down 
 in little Manchtias, and thac very quietly, and without any diforder; Now if by chance any 
 one is taken ftealiag, he isinftantly punched according to his offence 5 As foon as it is night, 
 all thefe ftreets are fliuc up wirh cords athwart them, to the end none may pafs after the°re- 
 t reat founded; In each of thefe ftreets there are at leaft a dozen of linthorns, with lights bur- 
 ning,faftened a good heighth on the Mafts of che Veffels,by means whereof all that g & o in and 
 out are feen, fo that it may be known who they arc, from whence they come, and what they 
 would have, to the end the Chaem may the next morning receive an account thereof, And 
 truly,to behold all thefe lights together in the night, is a fight fcarce able to be imagined 5 nei- 
 ther is there a ftreet without a Bell, and a Sentinel 5 fo as when that of the Chaems Ihip is 
 beard to ring, all the other bels anfwer it, with fo great a noife of voices adjoyned thereunto, 
 that we were almoft befides our felvcs,at t he hearing of a thing which cannot be well conceit 
 ved: and chat was ruled with fuch good order: In every of thefe ftreets, even in the pooreft of 
 them,there is a Chappcl to pray infframed upon great Barcajfes , like to Gallies, very near, and 
 fo well accommodatedjthat for the moft part they are enriched with filks,and cloth of goldjln 
 thefe Chappels are their Idols, and Priefts which adminifter their facrifices, and receive the 
 offerings that are made them, wherewith they are abundantly furnilhed for their living , Out 
 of each ftreet,one of the moft account,ox chiefeft Merchant,is chofen to watch all night in his 
 turn with thofe of his Squadron , befides the Captains of the Government, who in Ballons 
 walk the round without, to the end no thief may efcape by any avenue^whatfoever ; and 
 for that purpofe thefe guards cry as loud as they can, that they may be heard. Amongft the 
 moft remarkable things, we faw one ftreet, where there were above an hundred Veffels, la¬ 
 den with Idols of gilt wood, of divers fafhions, which were fold for to be offered to che p4- ; 
 godcs ; together with a world of feet, thighs, arms, and heads, that fick folks bought to offer 
 in devotion 5 There alfo we beheld other fhips, covered with fiik hangings, where Comedies 
 and other plays were reprefemed to entertain the people wit hall, which in great numbers. 
 
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 flocked together;In ocher places, Bils of exchange for Heaven were fo’d,whereby thefe Priefts 
 oftheD.v! promifed them many merits, with great intcreft, affirming that without thefe 
 Bils they could not poffibly be faved ; for that God, fay they, is a mortal enemy to all fuch as 
 do not fome good to the Pagodes ; whereupon they tell them fuch fables and lies,as thefe un- 
 happy wretches do often times cake the very bread from their mouthes to give it them; There 
 were alfo other Veflels all laden with dead mens skuls, which divers men bought for to pre- 
 fent as an offering at the tombs of their friends,when they fhould happen to die;for,fay they, 
 as the deceafed is laid in the grave in the company of thefe skuls, fo fhall his foul enter into 
 Heaven, attended by thofe unto whom thofc skuls belonged 5 wherefore when the Porter of 
 Paracife (hall fee fuch a Merchant, with many followers, he will do him honour, as to a man 
 that in this life hath been a man of quality 5 for if he be poor, and without a train, the Porter 
 will not open to him;whereas,comrarily, the more dead mens skuls he hath buried with him, 
 the more happy he fhall be efteemed ; There were many boats likewife, where there were 
 men that bad a great many of Cages, full of live birds, who playing on divers inflruments of 
 mufick, exhorted the people with a loud voice, to deliver thofe poor creatures of God, thac 
 were there in captivity 3 whereupon many came and gave them money for the redemption of 
 thofe prifoners, which prefently they let out of 4 the Cages; and then as they flew sw*Vi the 
 redeemers of them cried out to the birds, Pick an fltanckcatan vac ax l } that \s,G 0, and tell Ged y 
 how we ferve him here below . In imitation of thefe, there arc others alfo, who in their flfips 
 kept a great m*nv of live fifhes tn great pots of water, and like the fellers of birds invite 
 the people, for Gods caufe,to free thofe poor innocent fifhes, that had never finned* fo that 
 divers bought many of them, and calling them into the river, faid, Get ye gone , and tell there 
 below the good l have done yon for Gods fake. To conclude all, the Veflels where thefe 
 things are expofed to fale are feldorn lefs in number then two hundred, befides thoufinds of 
 others, which feli fuch like wares In afar greater quantity, 
 ga&a.. We faw likewife many Barcajfes full of men and women, that played upon divers forts of 
 inftrumencs,and for money gave them mufick thac defired it; There were other Veffcls laden 
 with horns, which the Prieftsfold, therewith to make feafls in Hcavenjfortbey fay,that thofe 
 were the horns of feveral beafis, which were offered in facrifice to the Idols out of devotion, 
 and for the performance of vows that men had made in divers kind of mif-fortunes, and Tick- 
 neffes, wherein they had at other times been 3 And that as the flefh of thofe beafls had been 
 given here below for the hononr of God to the poor , fo the fouls of them for whom thofe 
 horns were offered do in the other world eat the fouls of thofe beafls to whom thofe horns 
 belonged, and thereunto invite the fouls of their friends, as men ufe to invite others here on 
 earcb-Ocher veffcls we faw covered with blacks,and ful of tombs,torches,& great wax lights; 
 as alio women in them, that for money would be hired to weep and lament for the dead°j o- 
 thers there were, called Tltaleue, that in great barques kept divers kinds of wild beafls to be 
 flawed for money, moft dreadful to behold, as Serpcnts,huge Adders,monflrous Lizards,Ty- 
 gers, and many others fuch like ; we faw in like fort a great number of Stationers, which 
 fold all manner of books that could be defired, as well concerning the creation of the world 
 whereof they tell a thoufand lies,as touching the StateSjKingdomeSjIflandSjand Provinces of 
 the world, together wich the Laws andCuflomsof Nations 3 but efpecially of theKin°sof 
 China, their number, brave a&s, and of all things clfe tbac happened in each of tbeir reigns * 
 Moreover, we faw a great many of the light,fwift Foyfls,wherein were men very well armed’ 
 who cried out with aloud voice, that if any one had received an affront, whereof he defired 
 to be avenged, let him come unto them, and they would caufe fatisfa&ion to be made him 3 
 In other veflels there Were old women,that ferved for midwives,and that would bring women 
 fpeedilv and eafily abed 5 as alfo a many of Nurfes,ready to be entertained for to give children 
 fuck; There were barques likewife very well adorned, and fet forth, that had in them divers 
 reverend old men, a d grave matrons, whofe profeflion was to make marriages, and to com¬ 
 fort widows, or /uch as had iofi their children, or fuffered any other mif-fortune ; In others 
 rhere were a numoer of young men and maids, that lacked Maflers, and Mifircfles, which of¬ 
 fered themfelves to any that would hire them 3 There were ocher veflels that had in them 
 Uich as undertook to cell fortunes, and to help folks to things lofl. In a word, not to dwell 
 my longer upon every particular that was to be feen in this moving Town,(for then I fhould 
 a^rhave done) c (hall fuflfice me to fay, that nothing can be defired on land,which was not 
 to be had in their Veflels, and that in greater abundance then I haye delivered, wherefore I 
 
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 that contains two .SddriST]Kingdomafisfom^htSchfand'offoore«“mmercf f/be’ 
 
 *nd To communicate their labours with one another: The narrow^ f h-r rl * V i u C> 
 bridges of hewed done over them that ate very 
 
 lone, eighty, ninety, nay, an hundred fpans long, and fifteen or twenty broad which doub'- 
 
 1 *nf ftn S* ; , f ° r Kls aImo ^jnipofllble to comprehend by what means To hu«e a 
 mafs of (lone could be drawn out of the Quarry without breaking, and how it fhoulcTbe 
 tranfported to the place where it was to be fer.All the ways and paifcges # from Cities Towns 
 and Villages, have very large caufeys made of fair ftone,at the ends whereof are coftly pillars 
 and arches, upon which are infcriptions with letters of gold, containing the oravfes oPrhem 
 that crc&ed them;moreover,there are handfome feats placed all along for poor patfenbers to 
 refi themfclves on : Tnere are likewife innumerable Aquedu&s and fountains every where 
 WenT 4 te nr| S mo \ whoIcfo f * nd .excellent co.drink ; And in divers parts there are certain 
 
 nev and .hhiTh tbat out of TKtec thcmfclvci to travellers which have no mo- 
 pey ; and although amongft us this is held for a great abufe and abomination, yet with them it 
 is accounted a work of mercy ; fo that many on their death-beds do by their teftamenc. 
 queathe great revenues,for the maintenance of this wickednefs,as a thing very meritorious for 
 the falvation ot their fouls ; moreover,many others have left lands for the ere&ing and main- 
 j\ in & of nou * es > *“ defa js and uninhabited places,where great fires are kept all ftie ni°ht to 
 guide fuch as have ftrayed out of their way j as alfo water for men to drink,and feats to repofe 
 them in ; and that there may be no default herein, there arc divers perfons entertained with v- 
 
 2 8 7 d A ean V t0 ? L he ?u h ?u gS carcfu, i y contfnued > according to the infticution of himt&c 
 founded them for the health of his foul. By thefe marvels which are found in the particular 
 Towns of this Empire may be concluded, what the greatnefs thereof might be, were they 
 jqyned all together; bur for the better fatisfadion of the Reader, I dare boldly f ay> if m te V 
 fiimony may be worthy of credit,that in one and twenty years f P ace(during which tiriTw th 
 a world ot mif-fortune, labour and pain, I traverfed the greatefi part of may appeaTby 
 this my difeourfe ) I had feen in fome Countries a wonderful! abundance of fevera/forts of vi- 
 ftuils, and provifions, which we have not in our Europe • yet, without fpeakin» what each of 
 them might have in particular^ do not think there is in all Europe fo much as theTe is in at 
 n& alone; And the fame may be faid of all the refi, wherewith Heaven hath favoured this Cli 
 mate,as well for the temperature of the air, as for that which concerns the policy,and riches’ 
 the magnificence and greatnefs of their eftate ; Now that which gives the greatefi lufire unto 
 it, is, their exa& observation of Juft ice,-for there is fo well ruled a Government in this Coun¬ 
 try,as it may juftly be en vied of all others in the world j And to fpeak the truth,fuch as want 
 this particular, have no glofs, be they otherways never fo great and commendable Verii v fo 
 often a* I reprefent unto my fclf thole great things which I have feen in this China, I am on 
 
 hC °A™J ld u am3 f d r< ? thu, J h ° W L 1,berally k hath afcd God to he *P^on this people the 
 goods of the earth; and on the other fide I am exceedingly grieved to consider how ungrateful! 
 
 they they are in acknowledging fuch extraordinary favours • for they commit amongft them- 
 felvcs an infinite of moftenormou* fins, wherewithall they inceffamly offend the Divine 
 Goodnefs, as well m their bruitifli and diabolical Idolatries, as in the abominable fin of So 
 dotnji which is not only permitted amongft them in publique,but is alfo accounted for a °re*r 
 
 vercue, according to the mftruaions of their Priefts. D 
 
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 Ar ”? al , at ,ke C "J c f Pe <l uin 5 tsgtthcr with our imprifiumeut, and that 
 which moreover happened unto tu there ; as alfo the great LMajefiy 
 
 of the Officers of their Court of Juflice, 
 
 A Fter we were departed from that rare and marvellous Town, whereof I have fooken c » , 
 
 inthe mnUed OUf COUtfcUP ; h; « '-S' 1 '.'’" ruofd^J: t Z^l& **+ 
 
 we hid K- r ‘IfA r r iVL ' at T ' be 8 teJC Clty ° f ?V'"> » J have laid before, 
 
 imnT r em n j y ^? peal V In tKlSmanner > chjln ' d rt »ee» nd three together, v»e were 
 calt into a pnfon, called Gofamuuftrcu , where for our welcom we had at the firtt dafli thirty 
 
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 lafhes'apiece given us, wherewith fome of us became very fick : Now as foon as the Chifuu 
 who conduced us thither had prefented the procefs of our femence, fealed with twelve foals, 
 to the Juftice of the Aytao, which is their Parliament, the twelve Chonchalis of the crimi¬ 
 nal Chamber, unto whom the cognifance of our caufe appertained, commanded us presently 
 away to prifon ; whereupon one of tbol'e twelve, aflifted by two llegifters, and fix or feven 
 Officers, whom they term Hupes, (and are much like our Catchpoles here,)terrified us not 
 a little, as he was leading us thither ;for giving us very threatning fpeeches,CW,faid he unco 
 us , By the power and authority which I have from the Aycao of Batampina , chief Presi¬ 
 dent of the two and thirty Judges of grangers ( within whofe brefi are the fecrets of the 
 Lyon crowned on the throne of the world inclofed ) 1 enjoyn and command you to tell me, what 
 people you are , as alfo of what Country , and whether you have a King , who for the fervice 
 of God, and for the difcharge of his dignity , it inclined to do good to the poor, and to render 
 them )ujltce , to the end that with tears in their eyes , and hands lifted up , they may not ad- 
 dr efs their complaints to that Sovereign Lord which hath made the bright Enamel of the 
 skjes, and for whofe holy feet all they that reign with him , ferve but for [andals. To this 
 demand we anfwered him, that we were poor llrangers,natives of the Kingdom of Siam, who 
 being imbarqued with our Merchandifo for Liampoo were call away in a great ftormat Sea 5 
 from whence we efcaped naked with the lofs of all that we had; *nd how in that deplorable 
 eftate we were fain to get our living by begging from door to door, till fuch time as at cur 
 arrival at the Town of Taypor , the Chumbim , then reiidenr. there, had arrefted us for prifoners 
 withouc caufe , and fo Tent us to the City of Nanquin , where by his report we had been 
 condemned to the whip, and to have our thumbs cut off, without fo much as once deigning 
 to hear us in our juftifications^by reafon whereof,lifting up our eyes to Heaven, we had been 
 advifed to have recourfe,with our tears, to the four and twenty Judges of aulkre life, that 
 (through their zeal to God) they might take our caufe in hand,fince by reaion of our poverty 
 vye were altogether without liipporc, and abandoned of all men, which with an holy zeal they 
 incontinently effe&ed,by revoking the caufe,and annulling the judgment that had been given 
 againft us; and that,thefe things conftdered, we moft inflantly befought him, that for the fer¬ 
 vice of God he would be pleafed to have regard to our mifery, and, the great injuftice that 
 was done us, for chat we had no means in this Country, nor perfon, that would fpeak one 
 word for us.The Judg remained fometime in fufpence upon that we had faid tm him;at length 
 he anfwered, that we need fay no more to him ; for it is fufficieat that I know you are poor, 
 to the end this affair may go another way then hitherto it hath done 5 neverthelefs, to acquit 
 me of my charge, I give you five days time , conformably to the Law of the third Book, that 
 within the faid term you may retain a Pro&or to undertake your caufe; but if you will be advi¬ 
 fed by me,you fhall prefenc your requeft to the Tanigores of the faered Office, to the end chat 
 they,carried by an holy zeal of the honour of God, may out of companion of your miferies 
 take upon them to defend your right. Having fpoken thus, he gave us a Taeisjn way of alms, 
 and faid further to us, Beware of the prifoners that are hcrejfor I aflurc you,chat they make it 
 their crade,t© ileal all that they can from any one 3 whereupon entring into another chamber 
 where there were a great number of prifoners, he continued there above three hours in giving 
 them audience;at the end whereof he font feven and twenty men, that the day before had re¬ 
 ceived their judgement,to execution,which was infli&ed upon them by whipping to death ; a 
 fpe&acle fo dreadful to us,& that it put us in fuch a frighr,as it almoil fet us befides our felves: 
 The n.xt morning,as foon as it was day, the J aylors clapt irons on our feet,and manacleson 
 our hands, and put us to exceeding great pain ,* but feven days after we had endured fuch mi- 
 iery,being laid on the ground one by another,and bewayling our difafler,for the excream fear 
 we were in of fuffering a moft cruel death, if thac which we had done at Calempluy fhould by 
 any means chance to be difeovered, it pleafed God that we were vifited by the Tanigores of 
 the houfe of mercy 9 which is of the jurifdi&ion of this prifon,who are called in their language 
 Cofilem Gnaxy ; Ac their arrival all the prifoners bowing tbemfelvcs, faid with a lamentable 
 tone, Blejfed be the day wherein God doth vijit us by the mini fiery of his fervants • where- 
 tmto the Tanigores made anfwer, with a grave and modeft countenance, The Almighty and 
 divine hand of him that hath formed the beauty of the Stars keep and preferve you ; Then 
 approaching to us, they very courteously demanded of us what people we were, and whence 
 it proceeded that our imprifonment was more fenfible to us then to others ? To this fpectb 
 we replyed,with tears in our eyes, that wc were poor llrangers, fo abandoned of men,as in all 
 
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 thu Country there t 't« not one that knew our names,and t hit all we could in our poverty fata 
 to mtreat them to think of ns for Gods fake, was contained in a Letter, that we had bough 
 them from the Chamber of the Society of the houfe of Quiay HiuarJ, in the City of Nan- 
 tjHin ; whereupon C bn flop boro Borralho, prefenting them with the Letter, thet received it 
 with a new ceremony full of all courtelie, faying, T>,-alfcdbe bo who hath created all 
 things , for that he ts pleafedtoforvehimfetf of ftmers hero helot,, whereby they maybe 
 re_eompenfedatihelafidayofa days, by fotufylug them doable their labour with the riche, 
 ofhuhoytreafures, which (hall be done , as we believe, m a, great abundance , as the drops of 
 ram fall rom the clouds to the earth. After this, one of the tour, putting up the Letter, laid 
 unto us,that as foon as tne Chamber of Jullice for the poor wa 3 open, they would all of them 
 5 vi ln “ fwtr t0 °“ r bufiners, and fee us fumilhed with all that we had need of, and fo they 
 departed from ustThree days after they returned to vifit us in the prifonjand in the next morn- 
 ing coming to us again, they asked us many quettions anfwerable to a memorial which they 
 had thereof; whereunto we replyed in every point according as we were quellioned by each 
 of them, fo as they remained very well fatisfied with our anfwers y Then calling the Re°iUer 
 to them, who had our papers m charge, they inquired very exaftly of him, touching many 
 things that concerned us, and withall required his advice about our affair, thac done, having 
 digeHed all that might make for the converfation of our right into certain heads, they took 
 out procefs from him, faying, they would perufe it all of them together in their Chambers of 
 Juflice with the Prodors of the houfe , and the next day return it him again,, that he mighc 
 carry it to tne Chaem, as be was refolved before to do. 
 
 Not to trouble my felf with recounting in particular all that occurred in this affair, undid Seft-S 
 iuch time as it was fully concluded, wherein fix moneths and an half were imployed,fdurin« 
 the which we continued Ml prifoners in fuch miferyjl will in few words relate all that befell 
 us unto the endjwhen as our bufinefs Was come before the twelve Oncha/is of the criminal 
 Court tfte two Proaors of the houfe of mercy moft willingly took upon them to caule the 
 unjuft fencence which had been given againft us to be revoked 5 Having gotten then all the 
 proceedings to be difannulled, they by petition remonftrared unto the Chaem* who was rhe 
 Prefident of that Court, How we canid not for any canfe whatsoever be condemned to death , 
 feemg there w<re no witness of any Credit that coaid tefiifie that we had robbed any man y 
 or had ever feen us carry any offenfive weapons contrary to the prohibition made arainfl it 
 by the Law of the fir ft body, but that we were apprehended quite naked, like wretched men, 
 roandering after a lamentable fhipwrdcki and that therefore our poverty and mifery was wor¬ 
 thy rather of a pitiful companion , then of that rigour wherewith the firfi Minifler of the 
 arm of wrath had caufed m to be whipt ; moreover % that God alone was the Judge of our in - 
 nocency; in whofe name they required him once , twice, hay in any times , to confider that he 
 was mortal, and could not lafl long ; for that God had given him a perifhable life , at the end 
 whereof he was to render an account of that which had been required of him , ft nee by a fo - 
 lemnoath he was obliged to do all that fhould be manifefl to his judgement 3 without any con- 
 ftderationof men of the world ; whofe cuflom it was to make the ballance fway down, which 
 God would have to be upright , according to the integrity of his divine fujhce. To this pe¬ 
 tition the Kings Proftor oppoiing himfelf 5 as he that was our advetfe party.and that in certain 
 Articles, which he framed againff us, fee torch, how he would prove by ocultr witnefles, a$ 
 ll-^ £ Country, as Grangers, that we were publique thieves, making a common praaice 
 of robbing} and not Merchants, fuch as we pretended to be; whereunr’o he added, that if 
 we haa come to the Coafi of China with a good deiign, and with an intent to pay the Kin« 
 his due in his Cuftom-boufes, we would have repaired to the Ports,where they were eftablifh- 
 ed by tne Ordinance of the Aytan of the Government >• but for a punifhment, becaufe we 
 went from Ille to Hie, like Pirats,Almighty God. that detefts fin and robbery, had permitted 
 us to fuffer fbipwrack, that fo falling into the hands of the Minirters of his J uttice we mi°hc 
 receive the guerdon of our wicked works, namely, the pains of death, whereof our crimes 
 rendred us molt worthy; In regard of all which, he defired we might be condemned accord¬ 
 ing to the Law of the fecond book,that commanded ic in exprefs terms ; And that if for other 
 confederations, no way remarkable in us, we could by any Law be exempted from death, yec 
 reverthelels , for thac we were ltrangers, and vagabonds , without either faith, or know- 
 leog of God, that alone would fuffice, at leaflwife to condemn us to have our hands and no- 
 i^s cut ofr, and ioto be banifhed for ever into the Country of Ponxileytay, whither fuebpeo® 
 
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 pie as we were wont to be exiled, as might be verified by divers fentences given and execu¬ 
 ted in like cafes ; and to that effeft, he defired the admittance of his Articles, which he pro- 
 mifed to prove within the time, that (hould be prefcribed him. Thefe Articles were presently 
 excepted againft by theProdtor of the Court of Juftice, eftablifhed for the poor, who offered 
 to make the contrary appear within a cercain term, which to that end , and for many other 
 reafons aliedged by him in our favour, was granted him ; wherefore he required that the faid 
 Articles mighc not be admitted, efpecially for that they were infamous, and dire&ly contrary 
 to the Ordinances of Juftice. Whereupon the Chaem ordered, that his Articles {hould not be 
 admitted, unlefs he did prove them by evident teftimonies, and fuch as were conformable to 
 the DivineLaw,witbin fix days next enfuing,and that upon pain in cafe of contravention not 
 ro be admitted co any demand of a longer delay. The faid term of fix days being prefcribed 
 the Kings Proftor, he, in the mean time, producing no one proof againft us, nor any perfon 
 that fo much as knew us, came and demanded a delay of other fix days, which was flatly de~ 
 nied him , in regard it but too well appeared, that all he did was only to win time, and 
 therefore he would by no means confent unto it; but contrariIy,he gave the Prohor for the 
 poor five days refpit to alledge all that further he could in our defence ; In the mean time, 
 the Kings Pro&or declaimed againft us in fuch foul and opprobrious cerms,as the Chtemw* 
 much offended thereat 5 fo that he condemned him to pay us twenty Tutisoi filver, both for 
 his wane of charity, and for that he could not prove any one of the obligations whicn he had 
 exhibited againft us. Three days being fpcnc herein, four Tamgores of the houfe of the poor* 
 coming very early in the morning to the prifon, fent for us into the Infrmtrie, where they 
 told us that our bufinefs went very well, and how we might hope that our fentence would 
 hive a good iffue; whereupon we caft our felves at their feet, and with abundance of tears 
 defired God to reward them for the pains they bad taken in our bcbalf.Thereunto one of them 
 replyed, And we alfo mofi humbly befeech him to keep you in the knowledge of his Law, 
 whey cm all the hapfwefs of good iwencoMfijlsy and fo they caufcd two coverlets to be given 
 us, for to lay upon our beds in the nighr, becaufe the weather was cold, and witliall bid us, 
 that we {hould not flick to ask any thing we wanted, for that God Almighty did not love a 
 fpating hand in the diftribucing of alms tor his fake. A little after their departure came the 
 Regifter, and (hewing us the Chacmt order, whereby the Kings Proaor was condemned to 
 pay us twenty Taeis, gave us the money,and took an acquittance under our hands for the re¬ 
 ceipt of it $ For which giving him a world of thanks, we intreated him for his pains to take 
 as much thereof as he pleafed ; but he would not touch a peny, faying, I will not for fo 
 fmall a matter lofe the recompence which I hope to gain from God, for the confideration 
 
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 We paft nine days in great fear, ftiil expefting to have our fentence pronounced, when as 
 on Saturday morning two Chumbims of Juftice came to the prifon for us, accompanied with 
 twenty Officers, by them called Huppes, carrying Halberts, Portifans, and other arms, which 
 made them very dreadful to the be holder s;Thefc men tying us all nine together in a long iron 
 chain, lead us to the Caladigan, which was the place where audience was given, and where 
 execution was done on delinquents; Now how we got thither, toconfefs the truth, I am 
 not able to relate 5 for we were at that inftant fo far befides our felves, as we knew not what 
 we did, or which way we went; fo as in that extremity all our thought vvas how to conform 
 our felves to the will of God, and beg of him with tears, that for the merit of his facred paf- 
 fion, he would be pleafed to receive the punilhment that fhould be infli&ed on us for the 
 fatisfa&ion of our fins. At length after much pain,and many affronts, that were done us by 
 many which followed after us, with loud cries, we arrived at the firft Hill of the Caladiga » 9 
 where were four and twenty Executioners, whom they call , The Minifters of the arm of 
 juftice, with a great many of other people, that were there about their affairs. Here we re¬ 
 mained a long time, till at length upon the ringing of a bell, other doors were opened, that 
 flood under a great Arch of Archite&ure, very artificially wrought,and whereon were a num¬ 
 ber of rich figures; On the top a monftrous Eion of filver was feen, with his fore and hind^ 
 feet upon a mighty great bowl, made of the fame metal, whereby the arms of the King of 
 China are reprefented, which are ordinarily placed on the Fore-front of all the Sovereign 
 Courts, where the Chaems prefide, who are as Vice-roys amongft us: Thofe doors being o» 
 peaed,as I faid before,all tbit were there prefent entred into a very great Hall,like the Body 
 of a Church, hung from the top to the bottom with divers pictures, wherein Grange kinds 
 
of execution done upon perfons of all condkions,afcer a moft dreadful minneflvere conftrain- 
 ed ; and under every pifture was this infcription, Such a one was executed with this kind of 
 death for committing fuch a crime 5 fo that in beholding the diverhty of theib f ; arful pour- 
 trait ures one might lee in ic, as it were, a declaration of the kind of death that was ordained 
 for each crime, as alfo the excream rigour which the Juft ice there obferved in fuch executions. 
 From this Hall we went into anotl er room far richer, and more coftly, for ic was gilt all ©1 
 ver, fo thac one could not have a more pleafing objeft, at leaft wife> if wecouldWe. taken 
 pleasure in any thing,confidering the milery we were ip. In the midft of this room there was 
 a Tribunal, whereunto one alcended by feven fteps, invironed with three rows of ballifters of 
 iron, copper, and ebony 5 the tops whereof were beautified with-Mother of Pearl r Ac 
 che upper end of all was a cloth of State of white damask, frenged about with a deep 
 cawl frenge of green filk and gold ; Under this State fat the Ch“ em wirh a world of greatnefs 
 andmajefty ; he was Tested in a very rich Chair of filver, having before him a little table, and 
 about him three boys on their knees, fumptijoufly apparelled, with chains of gold, one of the 
 which (namely, he in the middle } ferved to give the Chaem the pen wherewithal he ligned 5 
 The ocher two took the petitions thac were preferred, and prefented them on the Table, that 
 they might be figned ; On che right hand, in another place fomewhat higher, and almoft equal 
 with the Chaem y flood a boy, fome ten or eleven years old, attired in a rich robe of white Sa¬ 
 tin , imbroidered with rofes of gold , hiving a chain of pearl three double about his neck, 
 and hair as long as a womans, moft neatly plaited with a fillet of gold, all enamelled with 
 green, and powdered over with great feed pearl; In his hand he held, as a mark of that which 
 he reprefented, a little branch of rofes,made of filk,gold thread, and rich pearls, very curiotifly 
 intermixed 5 And m this manner he appeared fo gentile,*handfome, and beautiful, as no wo¬ 
 man, how fair foever, could overmatch him * this boy leaned on his elbow upon the Chasms 
 chair, and figured mercy. In the like manner, on the left hand was another goodly boy, richly 
 apparelled in a Coat of carnation Satin, all fee with rofes of goid , having his right arm ba- 
 red up to the elbow , and died with a vermilion as red as blood , and in that hand holding a 
 naked fword, which icemed alfo to be J>loody: moreover, on his head he wore a crown, in 
 fafhion like to a My ter, hung all with little, razors, like unto lancets, wherewith Chirur°ions 
 let men blood j being thus gallantly fee forth, and of moft beautiful prefence, yet he ftruck all 
 that beheld him with fear, in regard of that he reprefented , which was J uftice. For they fay- 
 that the Judge, which holds the place of the King, who prefents God on earth* ought necdL- 
 nly to have thofe two qualities, fufiice, and Mercy ; and that he which doth not ufe them is 
 ^Tyrant, acknowledging no Law, and ufurping the power that he hath. The Chasm was ap* 
 parelled in a long Goya of violet Satin, frenged with green filk and gold, with a kind of fca- 
 puhir about his,neck, in the.midft of which was 4 great place of gold, wherein an hand holding 
 a very even paip.of ballancc was^engraven, and the infcription about if ; It is the nature of the 
 Lord Almightyy to obferve in hi* juftice, weighty meafure, and true account -, therefore take 
 heed to what thou doe ft, for if thou, comejtto fin thou (halt fnffer for’k eternally. Upon his 
 head he ha^d a kind of round bonnet, bordered about withfmaii fprigs of gold, ail enamelled 
 violet and green, and on the top of it was a iiccle crowned Lion of gold^upon a round bowl of 
 the fame metal 5 by which Liqn crowned, zi I have delivered heretofore, is the Kingfignified, 
 and by the bowl, the world ; as if by theie devices they would denote, that the King is the Li¬ 
 on crowned on the throne of,the worlds la his right hand he held a little rod of. ivory, fome 
 three/pans long.in nianner of a Scepter* upon the top of the 5 firft fteps. of .this tribunal ftood 
 eight LUbers with filver maces on their (houlders, and below were threefcore Mogors on their 
 knees, difpofed into three ranks,, carrying halberds in,their hands, thac were neatly damasked 
 with gold ; In the vanegardof chefe fame.ftood,iike as if: they h id been, the Commanders or 
 Captains of this Squadronythe Statues of two. Giants, of a moft gallant afped, and very richly 
 attired, with their fworc^ paging in (carfs,. ^ndmighty.great halberds inrheir hands, and 
 .thefe the Chmej.es intheir language call Gigaes ; on the twO Tides of this Tribunal,-below in 
 the room, were two ver^ong pable*, at eachyof which fat twelve men, whereof four were 
 Prefidents or Judges, Twp ^gijfters, foyr Solicitors,-aid Lvo Conchalis , - which are (as ic 
 were) Afliftitotsto the Cou^oneol thefe Tables was for criminal, and die other for civil 
 jcaufes,8c all the officers of both thefe tables Wereapparelledin the gowns of white Satin,thac 
 were ver y : long, and hadiargei4ieves,thefebydemonftcatiQg,the latitude and purity of juft ice 5* 
 m Fables were covered wichcarpets of mfa damask* aitdh&chly bordered .atac wwh' goId, 
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 the Chaems table, becaufe it was of filver, had no carpet on it, nor 2ny thing elfe, but a cu- 
 fhion of cloth of gold, and a Standith ; Now all thefc things puc together, as we fawchem, 
 carried a wonderful (hew of State and Majcfty ; But to proceed, upon the fourth ringing of 
 a bell, one of the Cone halls fiood upland after a low obe,fance made to the Chaem , with a 
 very loud voice, that he might be heard of every one, he faid. Peace there , and with all fub- 
 mifiion hearken, on pain of incurring the punifhment, ordained by the Chaems of the Govern¬ 
 ment for thofe , that interrupt the Jilence of Sacred Jufiice. Whereupon this fame fitting 
 down again, another arofc, and with the like reverence, mounting up to the Tribunal, where 
 the Chaem fac,he cook the Sentences from him that held them in his hand,and pubhlhed them 
 aloud one after another, with fo many ceremonies,*nd compliments, as he employed above an 
 hour therein ; At length coming to pronounce our judgement, they caufcd us to kneel down, 
 with our eyes fixed on the ground, and our hands lifted up, as if we were praying unto Hea¬ 
 ven, to the end that in all humility we might hear the publication thereof, which was thus ; 
 Bit ah Dicabor, the new Chaem of this Sacred Court , where Jufiice is rendred to fir anger s, 
 and that bj the gracious pleafure of the Sen of the Sun, the Lion crowned on the throne of the 
 world , unto whom are fubjetted all the Scepters and Crowns of the Kings that govern the 
 earth • ye are fubjcEled under his feet bj the grace and will of the mofi High in Heaven , 
 having viewed and confidered the Appeal made to me by theje nine fir angers , whofe canfc was 
 commanded hither by the City o/Nanquin , by the four and twenty of auflere life, / fay , by 
 the oath I have taken upon my entry into the Charge , which I exercife for the Aytao of B i- 
 lampina, the chief of two and thirty that govern all the people of this Empire , that the ninth 
 day of the fevtnth tJHoon, in the fifteenth year of the reign of the Son of the Sun , I was pre¬ 
 fen! td with the accufations,which the Chumbim of Taypor fent me againfi them, whereby he 
 chargeth them to be thieves , and robbers of other mens goods, affirming that they have long 
 prattifed that trade > to the great offence of the Lord above , who hath created all things • 
 and withal that without any fear of God they ufed to bathe themfelves in the blood of thofe 
 that with reafon refified them, for which they have already been condemned to be wbipt , and 
 have their thumbs cut off, whereof the one hath been put in execution ; but when they came to 
 have their thumbs cut off, the ProSlors fot the poor, oppbjing it, alledged in their behalf, 
 that they were wrongfully condemned, becaufe there was no proof of that wherewith they were 
 charged , in regard whereof they required for them , that in fiead of judging them upon a bare 
 fhew of uncertain fuff it ions , valuable tefiimonies might be produced, and fuch as were con¬ 
 formable to the divine Laws , and the Jufiice of Heaven J where unto anfwer was made by 
 that Court, how jufiice was to give place to mercy , whereupon they that undertook, their caufe 
 made their complaint to the four and twenty of auficre life, who both out of very jufi confide - 
 rations, and the regard they had to the little fupport they could have, for that they were fir an¬ 
 ger s, and of a Nation fo far difiant from us, as we never heard of the Country where they 
 fay they were born, mercifully inclining to their lamentable cries , fent them and their caufe 
 to be judged by this Qouri ; wherefore omitting the profecution thereof here by the Kings Pro- 
 ft or , being able to prove nothing whereof he accufed them, affirming onely that they are worthy 
 of death for the fufpicion and jealoufie they have given of themfelves; but in regard facred ju¬ 
 fiice, that fiands upon ceffider^tions which are pure and agreeable to God , admits of no rea- 
 fons from an adverfe party, if they be not made good by evident proofs , l thought it not fit to 
 allow of the Kings P roll or s accufations, fince he could not prove what he had alledged ; where¬ 
 upon iujifiing on his demand , without fhewing either any jufi caufes, or fufficient proof, concern¬ 
 ing that he concluded againfi thofe fir angers, I condemned him in twenty Taeis of filver a- 
 mends to his adverfe parties, being altogether according to equity, becaufe the reafons al¬ 
 ledged by him were grounded upon a bad z>cal , and fuch as were neither \ufi , nor plcafing to 
 God, whofe mercy doth always incline to their fide that are poor and feeble on the earth, when 
 as they invoke him with tears in their eyes , as is daily and clearly manifefied by the pitiful tf- 
 fetts of his greatnefs ; fo that having thereupon exprefiy commanded the Tanigores of the 
 houfe of mercy to alledge wbatfoever they could fay on their behalf, they accordingly did fo, 
 within the time that was prefixed them for that purpofe ; And fo all proceedings having re¬ 
 ceived their due courfe, the caufe is now come to a final Judgement : wherefore every thing 
 duly viewed and confidered , without regard had to any humane refpett, but onely to the merit 
 and equity of their caufe , and according to the refolutionof the Laws, accepted by the twelvi 
 Chaems of the (government,in the fifth book^of the will and pleafure of the Son of the Sun, who 
 
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 ihfacb cafes oat of his greatnefs and goodnefs hath more regard to the complaints of the poor 
 then to the wfolcnt clamors of the proud of the earth ; I do ordain, and decree , that thefeninl 
 grangers (hall be clearly quit and abfolved of all that which the Kings Prottor hath laid to 
 their chargers alfo of all thepumfhment belonging thereunto, condemning them only to a years 
 exile , aunng which time they fhall work for their living in the reparations of Quanfy * 
 and when as eight moneths of the faid year fhall be accomphfhed , then 1 exprefly enioyn all the 
 Chumbims, Conchalis, Monceos, and other CMinifiers of their government, that immediately 
 upon their prefenting of this my Decree unto them, they give them a pafs-port and Cafe con- 
 dutt, to the end they may freely and fecurely return into their Country, or to any other place 
 they [hal/ thmkfit- After this fentence was thus pubiifhed in our hearing, we all cried out with 
 a loud voice. The Sentence of thy clear judgement is confirmed in m , even as the purity of thy 
 heart is agreeable to the fon of the Sun. This faid, one of the Conchalis , that fate at one of the 
 tables, food up, and having made a very low obeifance to the C haem, he faid aloud five 
 times one afcer mother, to all that prefs of people which were there in great number ; Is 
 there any one in this Court, in this City, or in this Kingdom, that will eppofe this Decree [ or 
 the deliverance of thefe nine pr if oners l Whereunto no anfwer being made, the two boys, 
 that reprefented juflice and mercy, touched the enfigns which they held in their hands 
 together, and laid aloud. Let them be freed and difcharged according to the fentence very 
 jufily pronounced for it; whereupon one of thofe Minifies, whom they call Huppes , ha¬ 
 ving rung a bell thrice, the two Chumbims of execution, that had formerly bound us, un- 
 looted us from our chain , and withal took off our manacles, collers , and the other irons 
 from our legs, fothat we were quite delivered, for which we gave infinite thanks to our 
 Lord Jefus Chrifl,becaufe we always thought, that for the ill conceit men had of us we 
 fhould be condemned to death. From thence,fo delivered as we were, they led us back to 
 the prifon, where the two Chumbims figned our enlargmenr in thejaylors book - neverthe- 
 lefs that we might be altogether difcharged, we were to go two months after to ferve a veac 
 according to our fentence, upon pain of becoming Haves for ever to the King, conformable 
 to his Ordinances: Now becaufe we would prcfencly have gone about to demand the alms 
 of good people in the City, the Chifuu , who was as Grand Provofl of that prifon, per- 
 fwaded us to Hay till the next day , that he might firfl recommend us to the Tanigores of 
 mercy, that they might do fomething for us. 
 
 CHAP. XXXIII. 
 
 What pafl betwixt us and the Tanigores of mercy, with the great favors they did us ; and a brief 
 Relation of the City of Pequin, where the King of China ksp his Court. 
 
 T He next morning the four Tanigores of mercy came to vific the Infirmity of this pri* 
 fon, as they ufed to do ; where they rejoyced with us for the good fuccefs of our Sen¬ 
 tence, giving us great teftimony, how well contented they were with it,, for which we 
 returned tnem many thanks, not without fhedding abundance of tears, whereat they feem- 
 ed to be not a little pleafed, and willed us not to be troubled With the term we were con¬ 
 demned to ferve in, for they told us that in Head of a year we fliouid continue but eight 
 months there, and that the other four moueths, which made the third part of our punilh- 
 ment, the King ^emitted it by way of alms for Gods fake, in consideration that we were 
 poor 5 for ocherwife, if we had been rich, and of ability, we fliouid have had no favour at 
 al», promifing to cauie this dimumtion of puniflimenc to be endorfed on our Sentence, 
 and befides that they would go , and fpeak to a very honourable man for us, that was ap¬ 
 pointed to be the chief Marfhal, or JMonceo, of Quanfy, the place where we were to ferve, 
 to the end he might fliew us favour, and caufe us to be truly paid for the time we fhould re¬ 
 main there ; Now becaufe this man was naturally a friend to the poor, and inclined to do 
 them good, they thought it would be fit to carry us along with them to his hdufe, the ra¬ 
 ther tor that it might be he would take us into his charge 5 we gave them all very humble 
 thanks for this good offer of theirs, and told them that God would reward this charity 
 they {hewed us for his fake; whereupon we accompanied them to the CWonteos houfe 2 
 who came forth to receive us in his outward Courc, leading his wife by the hand ; which he 
 i'.o, either out of a greater form of complement, or to do the more honour to die Tango- 
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 res , and coming neer them he proftraced himfelf at their feet, and faid: It is now, my Lori , 
 And holy brethren , that I have caufe to rejoyce, for that it hath pleafed God to permit , that 
 you his holy ftrvants fhottld come mto my houfe , being that which / could not hope for, in 
 regard J t eld my felf unworthy of fuch favour. After the Tanigores had ufed many com¬ 
 plements and ceremonies to him, as is ufual in that Country, they anfwered him thus, May 
 God, our Sovereign Lord , the infinite fource of mercy , recompencc the good thou doft for the 
 yoer with bleffirg in this life ; for believe it, dear brother , the ftrongeft ft off whereon the 
 foul doth lean to keep her from fallingfo often as fhe happens to fumble , it the charity which 
 ■we ufe towards our neighbour , when as the vain glory of this world doth not blind the good 
 zeal whereunto his holy Law doth oblige us ; and that thou mayft merit the blejfed felicity of 
 beholding his face , Vee have brought thee herethefe nine Portugal?, who are fo poor , as none 
 in this Kingdom are like to them ; wherefore we pray thee, that tn the place whither thou 
 art going now , as Mpnteo , thou wilt do for them all that thou thinkjftwill be acceptable 
 to the Lord above , in whofe behalf we crave this of thee. To this Speech the Monteo, and his 
 wife, replyed in fuch courteous and remarkable terms, as we were almoft befidesour felves 
 to hear in what manner they attributed the fuccefs of their affairs to the principal caufeofall 
 goodnefs,even as though they had had the light of faith, or the knowledge of the Cbriftian veri¬ 
 ty. Hereupon they withdrew into a Chamber, into which we went not, and continued there 
 about half an hour; then as they were about to take leave of one another, they commanded 
 us to come in to them, where the Tanigores fpake to them again about us, and recommending 
 us unto them more then before, the Monteo caufed our names to be written down in a book 
 that lay before him, and faid unto us, Ido this, becaufe 1 am not fo good a man , as to give you 
 fomething of mine own , nor fo bad as to deprive you of the fwtat of your labour , whereunto 
 the King hath bound you ; wherefore even at this infant you fhall begin to get your living , al¬ 
 though you do not ferve as yet, for the deftre I have that this may be accounted to me for an alms, 
 fo that now you have nothing to do, but to be merry in my houfe , where l will give order that you 
 fhall be provided of all that is neceffary for you; Befiaesthis, I will not promife you anything , 
 for the fear I am in of the (hewing feme vanity by my promife, and fo the Divel may make ufe 
 thereof as of an advantage , to lay hold on me, a matter that often arrives through the wea \- 
 *tcfs of our nature; wherefore let it fujfice you for the prefent to know, that l will be mindful 
 of you for the love of thefe holy brethren here , who have fpokon to me for you. The four Tani¬ 
 gores thereupon taking their leave, gave us four Tatis , and faid unto us. Forget not to render 
 thankj unto God for the good fuccefs you have had in your bnftnefs ; for it would be a grievous 
 ftn in you not to acknowledge fo great a grace . Thus were we very well entertained in the 
 houfe of this Captain for the fpace of two months,that we remained there; at the end where¬ 
 of wc parted from thence, for to go to Quanfy, where we were to make up our time, under 
 the conduct of this Captain, who ever after ufed us very kindly, and (hewed us many favours, 
 until that the Tartars entred into the Town, who did a world of mifehief there, as I will more 
 amply declare hereafter. 
 
 Sf&.a. Before I recount that which happened unto us, after we were imbarquedwiththofe £$;«• 
 nefes that conduced us, and that gave us great hope of fetting us at liberty, I think it not a- 
 mifs to make a brief relation here of the City of ‘Tequin, which may truly be termed the ca¬ 
 pital of the Monarchy of the world; as alfo of fome particulars I obferved there, as well for its 
 arches and policy, as for that which concerns its extent, its government, the laws of the Coun- 
 try,and the admirable manner of providing for the good of the whole Stare, together in what 
 fort they arc paid that ferve in the time of war, according to the Ordinances of the King¬ 
 dom, and many other things like unto thefe; though I muli needs confefs that herein I {hall 
 wane the beft parr, namely, wir, and capacity, to render a reafon in what clymate it is feicua- 
 ted, and in the heigth of how many degrees, which is a matter the learned and curious moft 
 delire to be fatisfied in ; But my delign having never been other(a$ I have faid heretofore) hen 
 to leave this my book unto my children,that therein they may fee the fufferings I have under¬ 
 gone, it little imports me cowrite other wife then I do, that is, in a grofs $nd rude manner; for 
 I hold it better to treat of thefe things in fuch fort as nature hath taught me, then to ufe Hy¬ 
 perboles, and fpeeches from the purpofe, whereby the weaknefs of my poor undemanding 
 may be made more evident. Howbeit,fmce I am obliged to make mention of this matter,by 
 the promife I have made of it heretofore,I fay,that this City,which we call Pequin, and they of 
 the Country Pequin, is feituated in the heighth of forty and one degrees of Northerly latitude; 
 
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 the walls of it are in circuit ( by the report of the Chinefes themfelves, and as I have read in 
 a little book, treating of the greatnefs thereof, and intituled Aqmfendan, which I brought lince 
 along with me into P ortugal) thirty large leagues, namely ten long* and five broad j Some 
 ochers hold, chat it is fifty, namely fevenceen in length, and eight in bredth: and fbrafmuch as 
 they that treat of ic are of different opinions, in that the one make the extent of it thirty 
 leagues, as I have faid beforehand others fifty, I will render a reafon of this doubt, confer^ 
 mab!e to that which I have feen my felf. It is true,that in the manner it is now built,it is thir¬ 
 ty leagues in circuit, as they fay; for it is invironed with two rows of ftrong wall*,where there 
 are a number of towers and bulwarks after our fiftiion ; But without this circuit, which is of 
 the City ic felf, there is another far greater, both in length and breadth , that the Chinefes af¬ 
 firm was anciently all inhabited,but at this prefent there are only fome Boroughs and Villages, 
 as alfo a many of fair houfes, or cafiles, about it, amongft the which there are lixteen hundred 
 that have great advantages over the reft,.and are the houfes of thePro&ors of the fixteen hun¬ 
 dred Cities, and mod remarkable Towns of the two and thirty Kingdoms of this Monarchy, 
 who repair unto this City at the general Affembly of the Effaces, which is held every three 
 years for the publique good. Without this great inclofure, which ( as I have faid ) is not com¬ 
 prehended in the City, there is in adiftance of three leagues broad, and feven long, fourfeore 
 thoufand Tombs of the Mandarins, which are little Cbappels ail gilded within, ?nd compaf- 
 fed about with Ballifters of iron and lattin, the entries whereinto are through very rich and 
 fumptuous arches: near to thefe Chappels there are alfo very great houfes, with gardens 
 and tufted woods of high trees, as alfo many inventions of ponds* fountains, and aqusedudis 5 
 whereunto may be added, that the walls of the inclofure are on the infide covered with fine 
 porcelain, and on the fanes above are many Lions pourtrayed in gold, as alfo in the fquares 
 of the ffeeples, which are likewife very high, and embellifhed with pi&ures. Ic hath alfo five 
 hundred very great Palaces, which are called the houfes of the Son of the Sun, whither all 
 thofc retire that have been hurt in the Wars for the ferviceof the King, as alfo many other 
 fouldiers, who in regard of age or ficknefs are no longer able to bear arms, and to the end that 
 during the reft of their days they may be exempted from incommodity, each of them receives 
 monethly a certain pay to find himfelf withal, and to live upon. Now ail thefe men of War, 
 as we learned of the Chinefes , are ordinarily an hundred thoufand, there being in each of chafe 
 houfes two hundred men according to their reporr. We faw alfo another long ffreec of low 
 houfes, where there were four and twenty thoufand oar-men, belonging to the King Panottres; 
 and another of the fame ftru&ure a good league in length, where fourteen thoufand Taverners 
 that followed the Court dwelc; as alfo a third ffreec like unto the other two,where live a great 
 number of light women, exempted from the tribute which they of the City pay, for that they 
 are Curtiians, whereof the molt part had quitted their husbands for to follow that wretched 
 trade; and if for that caufe they come to receive any hurt,their husbands aregrievouffy punifti- 
 ed for ic, becaufe they arc there as in a place of freedom,and under the protection of the Ttt- 
 tan of the Court, Lord Steward of the Kings houfe. In this inclofure do likewife remain all 
 the Landreffes, by them called t Maynates^ which wafli the linnen of the City, who as vve 
 were cold, are above an hundred thoufand, and five in this quarter, for thac there are divers ri¬ 
 vers there, together with a number of wells , and deep pools of water, compaffed abcuc 
 with good walls. Within this fame inclofure , as the faid Aqttifendan relates, there are thir¬ 
 teen hundred gallant and very fumptuous houfes of religious men and women, who makepro- 
 fiflion of the four principal Laws of chofe two and thirty which are in die Empire of China; 
 and it is thoughc thac In fome of thefe houfes there are above a thoufand perfons, brfides the 
 fervants, that from abroad do furnilh them with vi&uals, and other neceffary provilions. We 
 faw alfo a great many houfes, which have fair buildings of a large extent, wit h fpacious inclo^ 
 lures, wherein there arc gardens, and very chick woods, full of any kind of game, either 
 for hawking, or hunting, that may be defired ; And thefe houfesare as it were Inns, whither 
 come continually in great number people of all ages and lexes, as to fee Comedies.Plays, 
 Combates, Bull-baitings , Wraftlings, and magnificent Feaft, which the Tntcns , Charms, 
 Qonchacys, Aytaos, Bracalons , Chambims , Monteos , haute as, Lords, Gentlemen , Captains, 
 CMcrchants, and ocher rich men, do make for to give contenc to their kindred and friends; 
 Thefe houfes are bravely furnilhed with rich hangings,beds, chairs, and (tools, as likewife with 
 huge cupbords of plate, not onely of filver, but of gold alfo; and the attendants that waic ac 
 the table, are maids ready to be married, very beautiful, and gallantly attired 3 howbeic all 
 
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 this is nothing in comparifon of the fumptuoufncfs,and other Magnificences that we faw there, 
 Nowth tCh'mefes allured us, there were fame feafis that lafied ten days after the Carachina, 
 or Chinefe manner, which in regard of the ftite, pomp, and charge thereof, as well in the at¬ 
 tendance of fervants andwayters, as in the colily fare of all kind of fkfh, fowl, fifh> and all 
 delicacies in mufick, infportsof hunting, and hawking, in plays, comedies, tilts, turnayes, 
 and in (hews both of horle and foot, fighting and skirmifhing together, do cofi above twenty 
 the u and TVw* .Thefe Inns do (land in at lead a million of gold, and are maintained by certain 
 Companies of very rich Merchants, who in way of commerce and traffique employ their ma¬ 
 ny therein, whereby it is thoughc they gain far more, then if they fhould venture it to fea. It is 
 faid alfo,that there is fo good and exa<S an order obferved there, that whenfoever any one will 
 be at a charge that way, he goes to the Xipaton of the houfe, who is the fuperintendent there¬ 
 of, a id declares uaco him what his defign is; whereupon he (hews him a book, all divided in¬ 
 to chapters, which treats of the ordering and l'umptuoufnefs of Feafis,as alfo the rates of them, 
 and how they (hall be ferved in, to the end,chat he who will be at the charge,may chufe which 
 he pleafes; This book,called TPinetorcu, I have feen, and heard it read; fo that I remember 
 ho v in the three firfi Chiptcrs thereof, it {peaks of the feafis, whereunco God is to be invited, 
 and of what price they are; and then it defeends to the King of China , of whom it fays, That 
 by a Jpecial grace of Heaven, andright of Sovereignty ,he hath the Government of the whole earth, 
 and of all the Kings that inhabit it. After ic hath done with the King of China , it fpeaks 
 of the feafis of the Tutons y which are the ten Sovereign dignities, that command over the 
 forty Chaems , who are as the Vice-roys of the State. Thefe Turns alfo are termed the beams 
 of che Sun, for, fay they, as the King of China is the Son of the Sun, fo the Tutonsy who repre- 
 fent h : m, may rightly be termed hii beams, for that they proceed from him, even as the rays do 
 from the Sun; But fetcing afide the bruitifhnefs of thefe Gentiles ,1 will onely fpeak of the Feafi, 
 whereunto God is to be invited, which I have feen fomc to make with much devotion, though 
 for want of faicb, their works can do them little good. 
 
 ' CHAP. XXXIV. 
 
 The Order which is obferved'in the Feafis that are made In certain Inns ; and the 
 State which the Ghaem of the two and thirty Vniverflties keeps ; with 
 certain remarkable things in the (fit) of Pcquin. 
 
 T He firfi thing whereof mention is made in the Preface of that Book, which treats of 
 Feafis, as I have faid before, is the Feafi that is to be made unco God here upon earth ; 
 of which ic is fpoken in this manner : Every Feafis how fumptmus foevet it be 7 may be paid for 
 with a price, more or lefs , conformable to the bounty of him that makes it , who for all his charge 
 be flowed on it reaps no other rccompence then the praife of flatterers and idle perfons ; where¬ 
 fore , O my Brother, faith the Preface of the faid Book, I counfel thee to imploy thy goods in 
 feafling of God in his poor , that is to fay , fecretly to fapply the necefflties of good folkjyfo that 
 they may not perijh for want of that which thou hafl more then thou needefl. Call to mind alfo 
 the vile matter wherewith thy father ingendred thee , and that too y which is far more ab - 
 jell 7 wherewith thy mother conceived thee y and fo thou wilt fee how much inferiour thou art 
 even to the bruit beafls , which without di(lint}ion of reafon apply themfelves to that where¬ 
 unto they are carried by the flejh ; and feeing that in the quality of a man thou wilt invite thy 
 friends , who ptjfibly by to morrow may not be , to jhew that thou art good and faithful, invite 
 the poor creatures of God, of whofe groans and necejflties , he like a pitiful Father taketh com - 
 faflioHy and promifeth to him that doth them good infinite fatisfattion in the houfe of the Sun y 
 where as an Article of faith we hold , that his fervants fin all abide for evermore in eternal 
 happwefs. Afcer thefe words, and other fuch like , worthy to be obferved, the Xipaton, who, 
 as 1 told you,is the ch’cf of them that govern this great Labynnth 3 {hcws him all the Chapters 
 of the Book, from one end to the ocher, and bids him look what manner of men, or Lords he 
 will invite, what number of guefis, and how many days he will have the feafi tolafi; for ad¬ 
 der h he, the Kings , and Tutons y at the feafis that are made for them, have fo many Mefl'es of 
 meat, fo irany Attendants, fuch Furniture, fuch Giambers, fuch veffe!s,fuch place,-itch fporcs, 
 and to many diys of hawking, and hunting, all which amounts to fuch a lum of mony : Then 
 if he will not beftow fo much, the Xipaton fhews him, in another Chapter, the feafis which 
 
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 ate ordinarily made for the Ghaems , Aytaos , Tonchacis, Bracalons , A»cbdch t Co»chaIaat t 
 L ante as , or for Captains, and rich men, whereas other kind of perfons of meaner condition 
 have nothing clfe to do, but to fit down,and fall to on free-coft, to that there are ufuaily fifty 
 or threefcore rooms full of men and women of all lores ; Thare are alfo in other rooms molt 
 excellent and melodious conforrs of mulick, namely, of Harps, Viols, Lutes, Bandores, Cor- 
 nets, Sackbuts, and other Inftruments, which are not in ufe amonglt us. If it be afeill of wo¬ 
 men, as it often falls ouc to be, then are waiters on the table likewife women,oryoun<* 
 Damofels, richly attired, who for that they are maids, and endued with lingular beauty, it hap° 
 pens many times that men of extraordinary quality fall in love with them, and do marry them. 
 Now for a condufion of that which I have to fay of thefe Inns, of all rhe mony which is fpenc 
 upon fuch feafts, four in the hundred, whereof the Xlpaton pays the one half, and they chat 
 make the feafts the other, is fet apart for the entertainment of the table of the poor,w here unto 
 for Gods fake all manner of people are admitted that will come to it 5 Moreover, they are al¬ 
 lowed a Chamber,& a good bed,but that oncly for the fpace of three days, unleis’they be wo¬ 
 men with child,or fick perfons,which are not abie to travel 5 for in that cafe they are entertain¬ 
 ed a longer time, becanfe regard is had unto the people according to the need they are in. We 
 faw alfo in this outward inclofure, which, af I have delivered, invirons til the other City, two 
 and thirty great edifices, or colledgcs, diftanc about a flight (hoot the one from the otherwhere 
 fiich as apply themfelvcs to the ftudy of the two and thirty Laws which are profefled in the 
 two and thirty Kingdoms of this Empire do refide. Now in each of thefe Coliedgcs, accord¬ 
 ing as we could guefs by the great number of perfons thac we faw there, there (hould be a- 
 bove ten thoufand Scholars 5 and indeed th z Aquefcndoo y which is the Book that treats of * 
 thefe things, makes them amount in the whole to four hundred thoufand ; There is likewife, 
 fomewhat apart from the re A, another far greater and fairer Edifice, of almoft a league in 
 circuit, where all thofe thac have taken degrees, as wc|l in their Theology, as in the Laws of 
 the government of this Monarchy,do live. In this Univerficy there is a C'battn> who com¬ 
 mands over all the Heads of the ColIcdges,and is called, by a title of eminent dignity, Xiky- 
 xitafoH, that is to fay, Lord of all the Nobles. This CWw, for that he is more honourable, 
 and of an higher quality then all the reft, keeps as great a Court as any Tmo» ; for he hath or¬ 
 dinarily a guard of three hundred Mogous i four and twenty Lojhers that go with filver Maces 
 before him, and fix and thirty women, which mounted on white ambling Nags, crapped with 
 filk and filver^ ride playing on certain very harmonious inftruments of mufick°, and finding to 
 the tune thereof, make a pleafing Confort after,thejr manner. . There are alfo led before him 
 twenty very handfome fpare horfes, without any other furniture then their clothes of filver 
 tinfel, and with headftalls full of little filver bells, every horfe being waited on by fix Halber¬ 
 diers, and four footmen very well apparelled % Before all this train goes four hundred Huppes, 
 with a number of great long chains, which trailing on the ground make fuch a dreadful railing 
 and noife, as does not a little terrific all chat are within hearing5 Then next to them marches 
 twelve men on horsback, called PeretaneUs, each of them carrying an Umbrella of carnation 
 Sattin, and other twelve that follow them with banners of white damask, deeply indented 
 and edged about with golden frenge; Now after alkhis pomp comes the Chaem fining in a 
 triumphant Chariot, attended by ihreefcpre Conchalaty Chtsmblms , and Monteos , fuch as a- 
 mongft us are the Chancellors, Judges, andCounfellors of the Courts of Juftice, and tbefe go 
 all on foot,carrying upon their fhoulders Cymitexs rightly girniflhed with gold.Laft of ail fol¬ 
 low leffcr officers, that arc like unco our Regifters,Examiners,Auditors, Clerks Atturneys, and 
 Solicitors,all likewife on foot, aind crying ouc unco the people, with a loud voice, for to retire 
 themfelves into their houfes, and clear the ftreets, fo as there may bq nothing to hinder or trou¬ 
 ble the panage of this magnificncc. But the moft oSfemblc thing herein is, that clofe to 
 the Perfon of the Chaem march two little boys on horsback,one on the right hand,the other 
 on the left, richly attired, with their enfigns in their hands, fignifying JuJfo r, and Mercy, 
 whereof I have fpokca heretofore ; That on the right fide, reprefenting mercy, is clothed in 
 white: and that on the left,reprefenting juftice,is apparelled in red j The horfes whereon thefe 
 little boy* are mounted, have on them foot-clothes of rhe fame colour their garments arc, and 
 all their furniture and trappings ire of gold,with a kind of net-wprk over them, made of filver 
 thread ; After each of thefe children march fix young youths; about fifteen ye^rs age, with 
 filver Maces in their bands 5 fo that aft thefe things together are fo remarkable, as there is no 
 man that beholds them* but cfo the one fide ttcmblcl for fW, afidon the Other fide remains a- 
 
 

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 ftoniftied at the fight of. fo much greatncfs, and majefty; Now that I may not longer dwell 
 on that which concerns thi? great inclofure,I will pafs over in filence many other marvels that 
 we faw there, confining in rich and fair buildings in magnificent Pagodes, in bridges placed 
 upon great pillars of Hone, on either fide whereof are rails or grates of iron finely wrought, 
 and in high ways that are firaighr, broad, arid all very well paved, whereof I think fit not to 
 fpeak; for by that which I have already faid,' one may eafily judge of what I have omitted, in re 4 * 
 gard of the rcfemblance and conformity that is between them ; wherefore I will only intrear* 
 and that as fuccin&ly as I can. Of certain buildings which I faw in this City, chiefly of four, 
 that I obfervcd mote curioufly then the reft, as alfb of fome other particularities, that welldc- 
 ferve to be infilled upon. 
 
 Seft.2. This City of Peqnin, whereof I have promifed to fpeak more amply then yet I have done, 
 is fo prodigious, and the things therein fo remarkable,as I do almoft repent me for undertaking 
 to difcourfe of it;becaufe,to fpeak the truth, I know not where to begin,that I may be as good 
 as my word; for one muft not imagine it to be, either as the City of Rome, or Cenfianti»dprs t 
 or Venice, or Paris, or London, or Sevil, or Lisbon , or that any of the Cities of Europe are 
 comparable unto it, how famous or populous foever they be: Nay, I will fay further , that 
 one muft not think it to be like to Grand Cairo in Egypt, Tauris in c Perfia,Amadab* th (Jam* 
 bay a, Bifnagar in Narjingna , Gourd in Bengala 9 Ava in Cha/eu t Timplan tfi Calaminhan 9 
 i^Martaban and Bagott in Pegu , Guimpel and Tinian in Siam/non, Odia in the Kingdom of 
 Sernan, Pajfarvan zn<\Dema in the Illand of Jaoa,Pangor in the Country of the Lequiens, 
 Ufangea in the Grand Cauchin, Lancama in Tartaria, and Meaco in Japan , *'l Which Ci» 
 ties are the Capitals of many great Kingdoms; for I dare Well affirm, that all thofe fame are 
 not to be compared to the leaft part of the wonderful City of Pcqtiin 3 much lefsto the greac- 
 nefs and mgnificence of that which is moft excellent in * it; whereby I underftirid her ihtely 
 buildings, her inward riches, her exceffive abundance of all that is neceflary for the entertain¬ 
 ing of life, alfo the world of people, the infinite number of Barques and Veffelsthat arethere, 
 the Commerce, the Courts of Juftice, the Government and the State of the Tutcns, Chasms , 
 Anchacys, Aytaos, Puchancys, and Bracanons, who rule Whole Kingdoms, and very fparious 
 Provinces, w ! th great periiions,and are ordinarily refidenc in this City,or others for them,ftrhen 
 as by the Kings command they ark fent about affairs bf doalequence. But fetting- thefe things 
 afide,’ whereof yet l intend to fpeak more‘amply, Wheri time ftiall ferve, I fay that this City, 
 ( according to that which is written* of it, both in the Aqntfendoo before mentioned, and all 
 the Chronicles of the kingdom of China) is thirty leagues iti circuit 1 , nor comprehending there¬ 
 in the buddings of the other inclofure that is without ic, and is invirontd with x double wall, 
 made of good ftrong free-ftone, having three hundred and threefcOre gates, each of which hath 
 a fmall Fort, compofedof two high towers, with its (firthes, arid draw-bridges; and at every 
 gate is a Regifter,and four Porters with halberds in their hands, who are bound to give account 
 of alltfsat goes in and out. Thefe gates,by the Ordinance of the 7 W*»,are divided ‘acriordihg to 
 the three hundred and threefcore days of the yeatjlb tbit every day in his turn htth the feaft 
 of the invocation of the Idol, whereof each gate bears the name, celebrated with much folem- 
 nity. This great City hath alfo within tbaf largefihcloftire of her walls, as the ChUefes affu- 
 ted us,three thoufapdandthrke'hundrodiP^^i orTemples;, Whereih Ire contirinsflyiicrifi* 
 ced a great riumberoF birds and wild beafts,which they hold to be more agreeable unto God, 
 then fuch as are kept tifrie in houfes j whettbf cbeiir £tfefts redder div£rs Feaforis to thk‘people', 
 therewith perfwading'chem to believe fbgtcat inabufefor in artideOfTaiih.The ftrudtutes of 
 thefe Pagodes, whereof I lpeik,xrfe Vefyfumptuous, efpccia 11 y tbofe of’.the orders of the Me- 
 wgrepo^Con^nidySytndTafdgrepp's, -who are the Prieftsof the lour of Xaca,Amid4, 
 'Giz,om, and Qanotn, which furpafs iri'amiquicy the other two and thirty of that Labyrinth of 
 the Divel, who appears fothem maify times io'divei-iibVriBs, for to tfiake ttem^Mmpre ere- 
 * ditto hisifnpoftuits and lies.Thepriiicipal ftreets bfthrs City are'all vefy long and broad,wkh 
 Tairboufe^ bf twoof threeftofieshighland inclofedit'both ends with balliftef? of ironand 
 
 the'.rohnd in their turns, and are bound every ten days to make report into the Tovvn-houfe 
 of all that paffeth in their quarters, to the end thaclthe 5 Pnnchacys, ot'Cbdtms of t he Govem- 
 rn&ijfa&y cake fitch bWet therein, i$ teafon fequftes.MoreoVer this great City fl^credirmay 
 
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 be given to that which the faid Book, fo often before mentioned by me,records) hath an hum 4 
 dred and twenty Canals* made by the Kings and people in former times, which are 5 fathom ' 
 deep, and 12 broad, eroding through the whole length and bredth of the City, by che means 
 of a great number of Bridges,buiic uponArches of ltrongFree-ftone,at the end whereof there 
 are Pillars, with Chains,that reach from the one to the other,and refting places for Paffengers 
 to repofe themfelves in : It is faid, that the Bridges of thefe hundred and twenty Canals, cr 
 Aquadu&s, are in number i8co, and that if one of them is fair and rich, the other is yec 
 more,as well for the fafhion, as for the reft of the workmanfhip thereof. The faid Bootyaf- 
 firms, That tn this Citj there is 120 Piatz>as y or pub lie k^p laces, in each of the whieh is a Fair 
 kept every moneth . Now during the 2 moneths time that we were at liberty in this City, we 
 faw 11 or 12 of thefe Fairs* where were an infinite company of people* both on horf.back, 
 andonfoor, that out of Boxes hanging about their necks* iold all things that tvell near can 
 be named, as the Haberdafhers of Small Wares do amongft us, befides the ordinary Shops of 
 rich Merchants*which were ranged very orderly in the particular ftreets, where was to be feeii 
 a world of fiJk ftuffs,tinfels,cloth of gold,linnen, and cotton-cloth,fables,ermins,musk,alocs, 
 fine pourcelain, gold and filver plate, pearl, feed-pearl, gold in powder, and lingots, and fuch 
 other things of value, whereat we 9 'Portugals were exceedingly aftonifhed, But if I fhould 
 fpeak in particular of all the other Commodities, that were to be fold there, as of iron,fted, 
 lead,copper,cin,iactin,corall t corrnalin,cryftal!,quick-filver, vermilion, ivory,cloves,nutmegs, 
 mace,ginger,tamarinds* cinnamom,pepper, cardamone, borax,honey, wax*fanders,fugar,con- 
 ferves,acates,fruic,meal, rice, flefh, venifon,fifti, pulfe, and herbs; there was fneb abundance 
 of them, as it is fcarce poflible to exprefs it in words. The Chinefes alfo allured us, that this 
 City hath an hundred and threefcore Butchers lhamblcs,and in each of them an hundred ftalls 
 full of all kindcs of flelh that the earth produceth; for that thefe people feed on all, as Veal, 
 Mutton, Pork, Goat, the flefh of Horfes, Bufflcs,Rhinocerots, Tygres, Lions,Dogs,Mules, 
 
 Alfes, Otters* Shamois, Badgers ; and finally of ail other beafts whatfoever. Furthermore, 
 befides the Weights that are in every particular Shambles, there is not a Gate in the City that 
 hath not its Scales,wherein the meat is weighed again, for to fee if they have their due weight 
 that have bought it, to the end that by this means the people may not be deceived. Befides 
 thofe ordinary Shambles, there is not fcarce a ftreet but hath 5 or 6 Butchers {hops in ir, 
 where the choiceft meat is fold, there are withall many Taverns, where excellent fare is al¬ 
 ways to be had, and Cellers full of Gammons of Bacon, dried Tongues* powdred Geefe,and 
 other favoury viands, for to relrlhones Drink, all in fo great abundance, that it would be very 
 fuperfluous to fay more of it; but what I fpeak is to Shew how liberally God hath imparted 
 to thefe miferable blinded Wretches the good things which he hath created on the earth* to 
 the end that his holy Name may therefore be bleffed for evermore. 
 
 C H A P. XXXV. , 
 
 The Prifon of Xinanguibaleu, wherein thofe are kept, which have been condemned 
 to ferve at the Reparations of the Wall of Tartaria ; and another Inclofnre , 
 called the Treafure of the Dead , with the Revenues 
 wherewith this Prifon is maintained, 
 
 D Efifting now from fpeaking in particular of the great number of the rich & magnificent Sc £ 
 buildings,which we faw in the City of Pequin, I will only infift on fome of the Edifices 
 thereof,that feemed more remarkable to me then the reft,whence it may be eafic co infer,what 
 all thofe might be,whcreofI will not make any mention here,to avoid prolixity; And of thefe 
 neither would I fpeak,were it not that our Lord may one day permit, that the Portugal Nati¬ 
 on, full of valour,and of lofty courage,may make ufe of this relation for the glory of our great 
 God, to the end that by thefe humane means, and the alTiftancc of his divine favour, it may 
 make thofe barbarous people underftand the verity of our holy Catholick Faith, from which 
 their fins have fo far efloigned them,as they mock at all that we fay to them thercof;Hcreunto 
 I will add, that they are lo extravagant,and fenflefs,as they dare boldly rffirm,that only with 
 beholding the face of the Son of the Sun, tvhich is their King, a foul would be more happy 
 then witn all other things of the world befides;which perfwadcs me,that if God of his infinic 
 mercy and goodnefs would grant, that the King of this People might become a Chriftian, it 
 would be an eafie matter to convert all his Subject** whereas otherwife 1 hold it difficult for 
 
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 fo much as one to change his belief,and all by reafon of the great awe they are in of the Luv, 
 which they fear and reverence alike,and whereof it is not to be believed how much they che- 
 rifb the Minifters. But to return to my difeourfe, the firft Building which I faw of thole that 
 were mod remarkable, was a Prifon, which they cal \ Xinanguiba/eu, that is to fay, The In- 
 clofure of the Epiles • the circuit of this Prifon is two leagues fquare, or little lefs, both in 
 length & bredth:It is inclofed with a very highWall without anyBatelementsjtheWal! on the 
 ourTide is invironed with a great deep Ditch full of water,over the which are a many of Draw- 
 Bridges,that are drawn up in the night with certain ironChains,& fo hang fufpended on huge 
 cad Pillarsjln this Prifon is an Arch of ftrong hewed ftone,abutting in 2 Towers,in the tops 
 whereof are 6 great Sentinel-bells,which are never r # ung but all the reft within the faid inclo- 
 fure do anfwer them, which the affirm to be above a hundred,and indeed they make 2 
 
 moft horrible din.In this place there are ordinarily three hundred thoufand Prifoners,between, 
 17 and 50, whereat we were much amazed; and indeed we had good caufe, in regard it is a 
 thing fo unufuai and extraordinary. Now defiring to know of th zChinefes the occafion of fo 
 marvellous a Building, and of the great number of Prifoners that were in it; they anfwered 
 us,that after the King of China, named Cnfnago Docotay , had finilhed a Wall of 300 leagues 
 fpace betwixt the Kingdom of China , and that of Tart aria, as I have declared other where, 
 he ordained by the advice of his people, (for to that effe& he caufed an Atfemblyof his 
 Eftates to be held) that all thofe which (hould be condemned to banifhment ftiould be fenc 
 to work in the repairing of ^his Wall, and that after they had ferved 6 years together therein, 
 they might freely depart, though they were fentenced to fer ve for a longer time, becaufe the 
 King pardoned them the remainder of the # term by way of Charity and Alms; but if during 
 thofe years they {hould happen to perform any remarkable a&, or other thing, where it ap¬ 
 peared they had advantage over others, or if they were 3 times wounded in the Sallies they 
 (hould make,or if they killed fome of their Enemies,they were then to be difpenfed with for 
 all the reft of their time, and thac the Chaem (hould grant them a Certificate thereof, where 
 it (hould be declared why he had delivered them, and how he had thereby facisfied the Ordi¬ 
 nances of War. Two hundred and ten thoufand men are to be continually entertained in the 
 work of the Wall, by the firft inftitution, whereof defalcation is made of a third parr, for 
 fuch as are dead,maimed,and delivered,either for their notable a&ioas,or for that tfeeyhad ac- 
 complilhed their time: And likewife when as the Chaem, who is as the chief of all thofe,fent 
 to the Pitaucamay , which is the higheft Court of Juftice, tofurnilh him with thac number 
 of men, they could not affemble them together fo foon as was neceffary, for that they were 
 divided in fo many feveral places of that Empire,which is prodigioufly great,as I have deliver¬ 
 ed before,and thac withal! a long time was required for the affembling them together,another 
 King,named Gopiley Apirau,Y*ho fucceeded to that Crifnago Decot ay, ordained that the greac 
 inclofure (hould be made in the City of Pequin , to the end that affoon as any were con« 
 demned to the work of this Wall,they (hould be carried to Xinanguibaleu, for to be there al¬ 
 together, by which means they might be fent away without any delay, as now is done. So 
 foon as theCourt of J uftice hath committed thePrifoners to thi$Prifon,whcreof he thac brings 
 them hath a Certificate, they are immediately left at liberty, fo that they may walk at their 
 pleafurc within this great inclofure,having nothing but a little Plate of a fpan long, 2nd 4 fin¬ 
 gers broad, wherein thefe words are engraven, Such a one of fuch a place hath been condemned 
 to the general Exile for fuch a caufe ; he entred fuch a day, fuch a moneth, fuch a year. Now 
 the reafon why they make every Prifoner to carry this Plate for a teftimony of their evil a&i- 
 ons, is, to manifeft for what crime he was condemned, and at what time he entred, becaufe 
 every one goes forth conformably to the length of time that (hall be fince he entred in. 
 ThefePrifoners are held for duly delivered when they are drawne out of captivity for to go and 
 work at the Wall,for they cannot upon any caufe whaefoever be exempted from thePrifon of 
 Xinanguibaleu ,& the time they are there is counted to them for nothing,in regard they have 
 no hope of liberty but at that inftant when their turn permits them towork inthe reparations; 
 for then they may be fure to be delivered, according to the Ordinance whereof I have made 
 mention before.Having now delivered the occafion wherefore fo greac aPrifon vvasmade,be¬ 
 fore I leave ir,I hold it noc amifs to fpeak of a Fair which we faw there,of two thac are ufu- 
 ally kept every year; which thofe of the Country call, Gunxinem, Apparau, Xina 'guibaleu, 
 that is to fay. The rich Fair of the Prifon of the condemned ; Thefe Fairs are kept in the 
 monechs of July and January, *ith very magnificent Feafts,folemnized for the invocation of 
 
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 their Idols, And ev:n,there they have their plenary Indulgences, by means whereof great ri« 
 ches of Gold and Silver are promifed them in the other World. They are, both of them frank 
 and free, fo as the Merchants pay no Duties, which is the caufe that they flock thither in fuch 
 great number,is they allured us that there werefthree millionsof perfons there;And forafmuch 
 as I faid before, that the three hundred thoufand that are imprifoned there, are at liberty, a£ 
 well as thole that go in and ouc,you lhall fee what courfe they hold to keep thePrifoners from 
 getting forth amongtt othersrEvery one that is free and comes in hath a mark fet on the wrili 
 of his right arm with a certain Confection made of Oyl, Bitumen, Lacre,Rubarb,and Alum, 
 which being once dry cannot be any ways defaced,biit by the means of Vineger and Sale min¬ 
 gled together very hoc: And to the end that fo great a number of people may be marked,iori 
 both fides of the Gates Hand a many of C^> a ^p^toens, who withftamps of Lead, dipt in this 
 Bitumen,imprints a mark on every one that prefents himfelf unto them, and fo they let him 
 enter; which is onely pra&ifed on Men,not upon Women, becaufe none of that Sex are ever 
 condemned to the labour of the Wall. When therefore they come to go out of the Gates, 
 they muft all have their arms bared where this mark is, that the faid C^ M P atoeKS >who are the 
 Porters ScMinifters of this affair,may know them,and let them pafs;and if by chance any one 
 be fo unhappy as to have that mark defaced by any accident, he mutt even have patience, and 
 remain wich the otherPrifoners,in regard there is no way to get him out of this place if he be 
 found without that mark. Now thofe Cbaintapoens are fo dextrous and well verfed in it, that 
 an hundred thoufand men may in an hour go in and out without trouble, fo chat by this means 
 the three hundred thoufand Prifoners continue in their captivity, and none of them can flip 
 away amoDgtt others to get out. There are in this Prifon 3 great Inclofiires like great Towns, 
 where there are a number of houfes,& very long flfeets,without any lanes; & at the entrance 
 into each ttreec there are good gates,with their fentinel bells alofr,together with a Chttmbim, 
 and ao men for a Guard ; within a Flight-flioot of thofe Inclofures are the Lodgings of the 
 Chaem , who commands all this Prifon, and thofe Lodgings are compofed of a nnmber of 
 fairhoufes, wherein are many buc-Courcs, Gardens, Ponds, Halls, and Chambers, enriched 
 wich excellent inventions,able to lodge a King at his eafe,howfgreat a Court foeyer he have. 
 In the 2 principal of thefe Towns there are 2 ftreets,each of them about a Flight-fhoo't long, 
 which abut upon the Okaem 9 * Lodgings, arched allalong with flone, and covered over head 
 like the Hofpital at Lisbon, but that they far furpafs it. Here are all things to be fold that one 
 can defire, as well for visual, and other kihde of provifions, as for all forts of Merchandise, 
 and rich Wares. In thofe arched ftreets, which are very fpacious and long, are thefe 2 Fairs 
 kept every year, whither fuch a multitude of people refort , as I haVe declared be¬ 
 fore. Moreover within the Inclofure of this Prifon are divers Woods of call and highjTrees, 
 with many fmall Streams, and Ponds of dear fweet Water for the ufe of the Prifoners, and 
 to wilh their Linnen, as alfo fundry Hermitages, and Hofpitals, together with 12 very fum- 
 ptuous and rich Monatteries, fo that whatfbever is to be had in a great Town, may in great 
 abundance be found within the Inclbfure,and with advantage in many things,be caufe the moft 
 part of thefe Prifoners*have their Wives and Children there, to whom the King gives a 
 Lodging anfwerable to the Houfliold or Family, (vhich each one hath. 
 
 T he fecond of thofe things,which I have undertaken to relate, is another Inclofure we faw 
 almott as big as the former,compafled about with ftrong Walls,and great Ditches. This place 
 is called Muxiparan .which lignifies fThe trestfure of thtdead’, where are many towers of hew¬ 
 ed carved flone,and tteeples dWeifly painced.Thc walls on the top are inflead of battlements 
 environed with iron grates,where there are a number of Idols of different figurcs,as of Men, 
 Serpents, Horfes,Oxen,Elephants,Fi{hes,Adders, and many other monftrous forms of ere*. 
 tures(which were never feen)fome of Brafs,and Iron,and others of Ticyand Copper; fo that 
 this infinite company of feveral figures joyned together is one of the moft remarkable &plea- 
 fantett things that can be imagined. Having paft over the Bridge of the Ditch we arrived at a 
 great Courc that was at the firft entranee,inciofed round about with huge Gates,and paved all 
 oyej with white and black ftones in Checquer-work, fo polifhed and bright,** one might fee 
 himfelf in them as in a Looking-glafs;In the midft of thisCourc was * Pillar of Jafper fix and 
 thirty f[ans higb,and as it feemed all of one piece,on the top whereof was an Idol of filver in 
 the figure of a Woman, which with her hands ttrangled a Serpent, that was excellently ena¬ 
 melled with black and green.A little further at the entrance of another Gate,which flood be¬ 
 tween two very high Towers, and accompanied with four and twenty Pillars of hugegre«c 
 
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 flone,there were two figures of men, each of them with an iron dub in his hand, as if they 
 had ferved to guard that paffage, being an hundred and forty fpans high, with fuch hideous 
 and u°ly vifages, as make them even to tremble that behold them ; The Chinefes called them 
 Xixipatan Xdie an, that is to fay. The blowers of the houf ? of fmoke. Ac t he entring into this 
 Gate there were twelve men with Halberds,ahd two Regi(ter?,fet at a Tabic,who enrolled all 
 that encred there,unto whom every one paid a matter of a Groat jvvhen we were entred with¬ 
 in this Gate,we met with a very large ftreet,clofed on both Tides with goodly Arches,as well 
 in regard of the workmanfhip,as the reft, round about the which hung an infinite company of 
 little Bells of Lattin,by Cains of the fame metall, that moved by the Air,made fuch a noife as 
 one could notwithout muchado hear one another:theflreet might be about half a league long, 
 & within thefe Arches,on both Tides of the way,were two rows of low houfes,like unto great 
 Churches,with Steeples gilt,and divers Inventions of Painting: of thefe Houfes the Chinefes 
 aCfured us there was in that place three thoufand, all which (from the very top to the bottom) 
 were full of dead mensSkulls,a thing To ftrange,that in every mans judgment a thoufand great 
 Shops could hardly contain them. Behinde thefe Houfes,both on the one fide and the other, 
 were two great Mounts of dead mens Bones, reaching far above the ridges of the houfes, full 
 as long as the ftreer,md of a mighty bredtb.Thefe Bones were ordered and difpofed one upon 
 another fo curioufly and aptly,that they feemed to grow there; Having demanded of the Chi¬ 
 nefes whether any Regifter was kept of thefe Bones;they anfvvered, there vvasjfor the Tala - 
 grepos, unto whofe charge the adminiftration<of thefe three thoufand houfes was committed, 
 enrolled them all; and that none of the houfes yielded lefs then two thoufand Taeis reve¬ 
 nue out of fuch lands, as the owners of thefe bones had bequeathed to them for their fouls 
 health; and that thfcrentof thefe three thoufand houfes together amounted unto five milli¬ 
 ons of Gold yearly,whereof the King hadfour,and the Talagrepos the other,for to defray the 
 Expences of this Fabrick ; and that the four appertained to the King, as their Support, who 
 difpenced them in the maintenance of the three hundred thoufandPrifoners of Xinangtsibalcu. 
 Being amazed at this marvel,wc began to go along this ftreet,in the midft whereof vve found 
 a great Pf***,*,compared about With two hugeGrates of Lattin,and within it was anAdder 
 of Brafs, infolded into I know not how many boughts, and fo big that it contained thirty fa¬ 
 thom in circuit, being withall fo ugly and drcadfull,as no words are able to deferibe it. Some 
 of us would eftimate the weight of it, and the leaft opinions reached to a thoufand quintals, 
 were it hollow within, as I believe it was. Now although it was of an unmeafurable great- 
 aefs, yet was it in every part fo well proportioncd,*s nothing could be amended,whereunto 
 alfo the workmanfhip thereof is fo correfpoadent, that all the perfe&ion that can be defired 
 from a good Workman is obferved in it. This monftrous Serpent, which the Chinefes call. 
 The gluttonous Serpent of the houfe of fmoke , had on the top of his head a Bowl of Iron, two 
 and fifty foot in ciccumference,as if it had been thrown at him from fome other place;twenty 
 paces further was the figure of a man of the fame Brafs in the form of a Giant,in like manner 
 very ftrange and extraordinary, as well for the grcacnefs of the body, as the hugenefs of the 
 limbs; This Monfter held an Iron Bowl juft as big as the other aloft in both his hands, and 
 beholding the Serpent with a frowning & angry councenance,he feemed as though he would 
 throw his Bowl at him. Round about this figure was a number of little Idols all gilt on their 
 knees, with their hands lifted up to him. as if they would adore him. All this great Edifice 
 was confecrated to the honour of this Idol, called Mucluparon^ horn the Chinefes affirmed 
 to be Treafurer of all the dead Bones, and that when the gluttonous Serpent before 
 mentioned came to fteal them away, he made at him with the Bowl which he held in his 
 hands, whereupon the Serpent in great fear fled immcdiatly away to the bottom of the pro¬ 
 found Houfe of Smoke, whither God hid precipitated him for his great wickednefs; and fur¬ 
 ther that he had maintained a Combat with him three thoufand years already,and was to con¬ 
 tinue the fame three thoufand years morc,fo that from three thoufand to three thoufand years 
 he was to imploy five Bowls,wherewith he was to make an end of killing him-,Hereunto chey 
 added, that aftoon as this Serpent fhould be dcad,the Bones that were there affembled,would 
 return to their Bodies, to which they appertained formerly, and fo fhould go and remain for 
 ever in the Houfe of the Moon $ To thefe brutifh opinions they joyn many others fuch like, 
 unto which chey give fo much faitb,that nothing can be able to remove them from it, for it is 
 the Dodrine that is preached unto them by their P^#/,who alfo tell them that the true way 
 to make a foul happy,is to gather thefeBones together into this place,by means whereof there 
 
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 is doc a day paflfes but.chat a choufand or two of thefe Wretches Bones are brought thitheri 
 Now if fome for their far diftance cannoc bring all the Bones whole thither, they will at 
 leaftwife bring a Tooth or two, and fo they fay that by way of an Alms they make as good 
 fatisfatfion as if they brought all the reft 5 which is the realon that in all thefe Charnel 
 Houfes there is fuch an infinite multitude of thefe Teeth, thac one might lade many Ships 
 with them. . 
 
 We fa W in a great Plain without the Walls of this City another Building, very fumptuous 
 and rich, which they call , tytcapirau i that is to fay,7lta Queen of Heaven^ for it is the opinion 
 of thefe blinded Wretches,chat our Lord above is married like the Kings here below,and thac 
 the Children which he hath had by the ‘tyteapiratt, are the Scars we fee twinkling in the Fir¬ 
 mament by nighc,and that when anyExhalation comes to diffolve in theAir,chey fay thac it is 
 one of theCtiildren that is dead,whereat his other Brothers are fo grieved,that they flied fuch 
 abundance of tears,as the Earch is watered therewith,by which means God provides us of oux 
 living,as it were in a manner of Alms beftowed for the fouls of the deccafed. But letting pafs 
 thefe and other fuch like fooleries, I will only treat of fuch particulars, as we obferved in this 
 great Edifice,whereof the firft was one hundred’and fortyConvents of this accurfedReligion, 
 both of Men andWomen,in each of which there are four hundred pcrfons,amouming in alt to 
 fix and fifty thoufand,befides an infinite number of religious Servants,! hat are not obliged to 
 their Vow of Profeflfion that are within, who for a mark of their prieftly Dignity are clothed 
 in Violec,vvith green Stars on them,having their head,beard,and eye-brows lhaven,and wear¬ 
 ing Beads about their necks to pray with, but for all thac they crave no Alms, by reafon they 
 haveReyenue enough to live on.The next was anlnclofure within this hugeBuiiding,a league 
 in circuit,the Walls whereof were built upon arches,vaults,of ftrong hewed ftone,and under¬ 
 neath them were Galleries, invironed ail about with ballifters of lattin ; within an icelofure 
 at a Gate through which we paft, we faw under moft deformed figures the two Porters of 
 Hell,ac leaft they believe fo, calling the one Bacharon, and the other Q*agifan, both of them 
 with Iron Clubs in their hands, a$d fo hideous and horrible to fee to, that it is impoftible to 
 behold them without fear.Having paft this Gate under a chain,that went acrofs from the breft 
 of one of thefe devils to the ocher,we entred into a very fair ftreet,both for bredth & length, 
 inclofed at either end with many arches, diverfly painted, on the top whereof were all along 
 two rows of Idols to the number of five choufand; Now we could not well judge of what 
 matter thefe Idols were made, howfoever they were gilt all over, and upon their heads they 
 wore Mitres of fundry inventions. At the end of this Street was a great fquare place, paved 
 with black and white ftone, and compared abouc with four rows of Giants in Brafs, each of 
 them fifteen foot high, with FUlberds in their hands,and their Hair and Beards all gilc, which 
 was not only a very pleafing ob je& to the cye,but alfo reprefented a kind of majeftical greac- 
 nefs. Ac the end of this place was Quiay Huy an, the god of rain, which Idol was fo huge, 
 that with his head he touched the battlements of the Tower,being above twelve fathom high; 
 he was likewife of Brafs, and both from bis mouth, head, andbreft, at fix and twenty feveral 
 places came out ftreams of Water: Having paft between his legs, which flood ftradling at a 
 great diftance, one from another, we entred into a large Room, as long as a Church, where 
 there were three Ships fee upon very big and high pillars of Jafper;all along the walls thereof 
 on both fides were a many of Idols, great and little in divers forms,all gilt, fitted and difpo- 
 fed in fuch order,as they took up all the bredth &length of the walls,and feemed at firft fight 
 to be all Gold: At the end of this Room or Temple upon a round Tribunal, whereunto one 
 afeended by 15 wynding Stairs,was an Altar, proportionable to the fame Tribunal, whereon 
 flood thelmage of Nacapiraufin the likenefs of a very fairWoman,wich her hair hanging up¬ 
 on her fhoulders, and her hands lifted up to Heaven. Now for that Ihe was gilc all over with 
 fine Gold,and thac with a great deal of art and care,(he gliftered in that manner as it was im- 
 poflible to continue looking on her*fo dazed were a mans eyes with the rays that darted from 
 her. Round about this Tribunal on the firft four Stairs were the Statues of twelve Kings of 
 China in Silver,with Crowns on their heads,and Maces on their fhouldersja little lower were 
 three rows of Idols gilt, kneeling on their knees, and holding up their hands, and all abouc 
 hung a number of filver Candlefticks with 7 branches apiece. When we were out of this, 
 we went through another ftreet all arched like that by which we entred in, and from this we 
 palled through two other ftreets full of very ftacely Buildings, and fo came to a Gate, that 
 flood between four high Towers, where there msiChiftw, with thirty Halberdicrs 3 and 
 
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 two Regifters, which wrote down the names of all that went in and out, as they did ours, 
 and To we gave them about a Groat for our paffage out. 
 
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 Of an Edifice , fcituated in the psidfl of the River, wherein were the hundred 
 and thirteen Chappels of the Kings of China ; with the public ^ 
 
 Granaries eflablifhed for the Relief of the Poor . 
 
 T O give an end to the matter, whereof I intreat, which would be infinite if I (bould re¬ 
 count every thing in particular, amongft the great number of marvellous; buildings,which 
 we faw,the mod remarkable to my feeming was an Inclofure/eated in the midft ot the River 
 
 of Batampina, containing fome league in circuit in an Ifland, and invironed with fair hewed 
 
 ftone, which on the out-fide was about eight and thirty foot high above the water, and on the 
 in-fide even with the ground,being encompalfed with two rows of ballifters of Lattin,where¬ 
 of the outermoft were but fix foot high, for the commodity of fuch as would reft tjiem* 
 felves there,and the innermoft were nine fooidiigh,having fix Lions of filvcr funding upon 
 huge Bowls, which arc the Arms of the King of China, as I have faid elfevvhere. Within the 
 Inclofure of thefe Ballifters flood in goodly order n 3 Chappels after thefafhionof Bul¬ 
 warks all'round, in each of which was a rich Tomb of Alabafter.placed with much art upon 
 the heads of 2 filver Serpents, which in regard of the many Boughs wherein they were en¬ 
 tertained fcemed to be Snakes, though they had the vifagcs of Women, and 3 Homs on their 
 heads, the explication whereof vve could not poffibly learn. In each of thefe Chappels 
 were 13 branched Gmdlefticks with 7 great Lights apiece in them, fo that to compute 
 the whole, the Gandlefticks of thefe hundred and thirteen Chappels amount toathoufand 
 four hundred thirty and nine. In the midftrof a great place, invironed round about with 5 
 rows of wynding Stairs, and 2 ranks of Idols, was a very high Tower, with 5 Steeples di- 
 verfly painted, and filvcr Lions on the top of all*. Here the (fhmefes told us were the Bones 
 of thofe hundred and thirteen Kings, that had been transported thither from the Chappels 
 belowiAnd it is the opinion of the brutifti people,that thefe Bones,which they hold for great 
 Reliques, do feaft one another at every new Moonin regard whereof thefe 'Barbarians ufc 
 on that day to offer unto them a great Charger full of all kinde of Fowl, as alio Rice, Beef, 
 Pork, Sugar, Honey, and all other forts of Visual that one can name ; wherein their blind- 
 nefs is fuch, as in recompencc of thefe Meats, which the Priefts take unto themfelves, they 
 imagine that all their fins are forgiven them,by Way as it were of a plenary indulgence.In this 
 Tower likewife we faw an exceeding richChamber,covered on the infide all over from the top 
 to the bottom with plates of filves. In this Chamber were th!Scatues of tho'e hundred and 
 thirteen Kings of ChinaiW in filver,wherein each of them were the bones of each feveralKing 
 inclofed ; Now they hold,according as they are made to believe by their Priefts, that thefe 
 Kings thus alfembled together converfe every night one with another,and pafs away the time 
 in fundy fports, which none is worthy to fee, but certain Bonnes, whom they term C*bimn~ 
 des, a title amongft them of the moft eminent dignity,fuch it may be as the Cardinals o (Romt, 
 To this beaftly ignorance the wretches adde many other blinde tales,which they are affuredly 
 perfwaded are very clear and manifeft truthsswithin this great inclofure we counted in feven- 
 ceen places three hundred & forty bells of caft metall,namely,twenty in each place,which are 
 all rung together on thofe days of the Moon, wherein they fay thefe Kings do viiit and feaft 
 one another. Near to this Tower in a very rich Chappel, builc upon feven and thirty Pillars ot 
 fair hewed ftone, was the Image of the Ooddefs i/fmida, made of Silver, having her hair of 
 Gold, and feared upon a Tribunal fourteen fteps high, that was all overlaid with fine Gold 5 
 her face was very beautiful!, and her hands were heaved up towards Heaven, at her armpiis 
 hung a many of Ittle Idols not above half a finger long filed together,whereupon demanding 
 of the Chinefes whit thofe meant, they anfwered us. That after the Waters of Heaven had 
 overflowed the Earth, fo that all Mankinde was drowned by the univerfal Deluge, God feeing 
 that the IVoyld would be defolate, and no body to inhabit it, he fent the Goddefs Amida, the 
 chief Lady of Honour to his Wife Nacapirau/w# the Heaven of thtiMoon> that Jhe might re~ 
 pair the lof r of drowned Afankinde, and that then the Goddefs having fet her feet on a Land, 
 from which the^Waters were withdrawn, called Calemphuy, (which was the tamelflmd, 
 whereof I fiave fpoken heretofore, to the ftreighc of T^anquin, whereof vintonio de Faria 
 
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 went on land) /he was changed all into Gold ; and in that manner /landing upright with her 
 face looking up unto Heaven, [he fweat out at her armpits a great number of Children y name - 
 ly, Males out of the right , and Females out of the left , having no other place about her body 
 whence /he might bring them forth, as other Women of the World have , who have finned ; and 
 that for a chafiifement of their Jin } God by the order of Nature hath fubjetted them to a mife- 
 ry full of corruption and filthinefs , for to fhew how odious unto him the fm was that had been 
 committed againfi him. The goddefs Amida having thus brought forth thefe Creatures , which 
 they affirm were thirty three thoufand three hundred thirty and three,two parts of them Females , 
 and the other Males, (for fo, fay they, the World was to be repairedJ {he remained fo feeble and 
 faint with this delivery, having no body to a/fifi her at her need, that (he fell down dead in the 
 place; for which cauf ? the Moon at that time, in memory of this death of hers, whereat Jhe was 
 infinitely grieved, put her felf into mourning ; which mourning they affirm to be thofe blacky /pots 
 we ordinarily behold in her face, occafioned indeed by the fhadow of the Earth, and that when 
 there Jhall be fo many yea/s ran out, as the goddefs Amida brought forth Chi Idren, which 
 were, as l have delivered, thirty three thoufand three hundred thirty and three , then the 
 Moon will put off her mourning, and afterwards be as clear as the day . With thefe and fuch 
 like fopperies did the Chinefes fo turmoil us,as we could noc chufe but grieve to confider how 
 much thofe people, which otherwise are quick of apprehenfion, and of good underlhnding, 
 are abufed in matter of Religion with fuch evident and manifeft untruths. After we were 
 come out of this great place,where we faw all thefe things, we went into another Temple of 
 religious Votaries,very fumptuous and rich,where they told us theMother of the then reign¬ 
 ing King, named Tfhay Camifqma, did abide, but thereinto we were not permitted to enter, 
 becaufe we were Grangers ; From this place, through a flreet arched all along, we arrived ac 
 a Key,called Hichario Topileu,whttc, lay a great number of Veffels,ftill of Pilgrims from di¬ 
 vers Kingdoms,which came inceffantly on pilgrimage to this Temple,for to gain,as they be¬ 
 lieve, plenary indulgences, which the King pf China , and the Cfoewa of the Government, 
 do grant unto them,befides many Priviledges and Franchifes throughout the whole Country, 
 where Visuals are given them abundantly, and for nothing. I will not fpeak of many other 
 Tenples, or Pagodes, which we faw in this City whileft we were ac liberty, forlfhould ne¬ 
 ver have done to make report of them all; howbeic I may not omit fome other particulars, 
 that I hold very fit to be related before I break off this difeourfe; whereof the firf-f were cer¬ 
 tain houfes, in feveral parts of this City, called Laginampurs, that is to fay, The School of 
 the Poor ; wherein fatherlefs and motherlefs Children, that are found in the ftreets,are caught 
 to write and read, as alfo fome Trade, whereby they may get their living, and of thefe 
 Houfes,or Schoo!s,there are about fome five hundred in this CityjNow if it happen that any 
 of them through fome defe& of nature cannoc learn a Trade,then have they recourfe to fome 
 means for to make them get cheir living according to each ones incommodity ;asfor example, 
 if they be blind,theymake them labor in turning of handmils^if they be lame of their feet,they 
 caufe them to make laces,riband,and fuch like manufa&ures; if chey be lame of their hands, 
 then they make them earn their living by carrying of burdens;but if they be lame both of feet 
 and hands,(fo thatNature hath wholly deprived them of means to get their living)tben they 
 (hut them up in great Convents, where there are a number of perfons that pray for the dead, 
 among!* whom they place them,&fo they have their (hare of half the offerings that are made 
 there,the Priefts having the other halfjif they be dumb,then they are (hut up in a great houfe, 
 where they are maintained with the amercements that the common fort of women,as Oifter- 
 wives,& fuch like,are condemned in for their fcolding & fighting one with anotherjAs for.old 
 queans,that are paft the trade,and fuch of the younger fort as by the lewd exercife thereof are 
 become difeafed with the Pox, or other filthy ficknefs, they are put into other houfes, where 
 they are very well looked unto,&furnifhed abundantly with all things neceffary,at the charge 
 of the other women that are of the fame trade, who thereunto pay a certain lum monethly, 
 and that not unwillingly,becaufe they know thac they (hall come to be fo provided for them- 
 felves by other^and for the collecting of this money there areCommifiioners exprefly depu¬ 
 ted in feveral parts of the City.There are alfo other houfes,much like unto Monafteries,where 
 a great many of young maids, thac are orphans,are bred upj and thefe houfes are maintained 
 at the charge of fuch women as are convicted of Adultery ; for,i'ay they,ic is moft juft,thar if 
 there be one which hath loft her felf by her difhonefty,there Should be another,that (hould be 
 maintained by her virtue. Other places there arc alfo, where decayed old people are kept 
 
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 at the chir°e of Lawyers, that plead unjuft caufes, where the parries have no right ; and of 
 Judges, chat fot favouring one more then another, and corrupted with Bribes, do not execute 
 JuftWas they ought to do; whereby one may fee with how much order and policy thtfe 
 
 people govern all things. ... . , 
 
 In theprofecution of my difeourfe it will not be amifs here to deliver the marvellous order 
 and policy which the Kings of Chins obferve in furnifhing their States abundantly with pro- 
 vifions and vi&uals,for the relief of the poor people,which may very well ferve for an example 
 of charity,and good government,toCbriftian Kingdoms and Commonwealths.Their Chroni¬ 
 cles report,that a certain King,great Grandfather to him that then reigned in Chins, named 
 Chauft-Zarso Panagor, very much beloved of his people for his good difpofition and virtues, 
 having loft his fight by an accident of ficknefs,refolved to dofomc pious work, that might be 
 acceptable to God; to which cffe& he affembled his Eftaces, where he ordained, that for the 
 relief of the Poor there (hould be Granaries eftablilhed in all the Towns of bis Kingdom for 
 Wheat and Rice,that in the time of Dearth (which many cimes happened) the people might 
 have wherewithal! tonourifh themfclves that year,and tothatpurpofebegavethe tenth pare 
 of the Duties of his Kingdom by a Grant under his hand,whichwhen he came to fign accord- 
 Jngly yyj[h j golden ftamp, that he ordinarily ufed becaufc he was blmde, it plcafed God to 
 reftore him perfe&ly to his fighc again,which he enjoyed ftill as long as he lived 5 By this ex¬ 
 ample,if it were true,it feemed that our Lord Jefus Chrift would demonftrate,hcw acceptable 
 the charity that good men exercife towards the Poor is to him,cven though they be Gentiles , 
 and without the knowledge of the true Religion ; Ever lince there have been always a great 
 many of Granaries in thisMonarchy,and that to the number of an hundred and fourteen theu- 
 fand As for the order which the Magiftraces obferve in furnifhing them continually with 
 Corn,it is fuch as followeth; A little before Reaping'time all the old Corn is diftribuced forth 
 to the Inhabitants, as it were by way of love, and that for the term of 2 moneths ; after this 
 time is expired, they unto whom the old Corn is lent return in as much new, and withal! fix 
 in the hundred over and above for wafte, to the end that this ftore may never fail; But when 
 it falls out to be a dear year, in that cafe the Corn is diftributed to the People without taking 
 any gain or intereft for it; and that which is given to the poorer fort, who are not abler to re¬ 
 pay what liath been lent to them, is made good out of the Rents; which the Countries pay to 
 the King, as an Alms beftowed on them by his fpecial grace; Touching the Kings Revenues, 
 which are paid in filver Pico's, they are divided into three parts; whereof the firft is for the 
 maintenance of the King, and his State; the fecond,for the defence of the Provinces, as alio 
 for the Magazines and Armies; and the third, to be laid up and referyed in a Trcafury that is 
 in this City of Pequin, which the King himfelf may not touch, unlefs it be upon occafion for 
 defence of the Kingdom, and to oppofe the TsrtsrsCsucbins , and other neighbouring 
 Princes, who many times make grievous War upon him. This Treafure is by them called 
 Chidsmpur , that is to fay, The JVall of the Kingdom ; for they fay, that by means of this 
 Treafure,being well imployed and carefully managed,the King needs lay.nolmpofitions upon 
 the People, fo that they (lull not be any ways vexed and oppreffed, as it happens in other 
 Kingdoms, for want of this providence. Now by this that I have related one may fee, how in 
 all that great Monarchy the Government is fo excellent, the Laws fo exa&ly obferved, and 
 every one fo ready and carefull to put the Princes Ordinances in execution, that Father 
 T^avler, having well noted it, was wont to fay, that if ever God would grant him the 
 grace to return into Tortugsl, he would become a Suiter to the King for to perufe over the 
 Rules and Ordinances of chofe People, and the manner how they govern both in time of 
 War and Peace; adding withall that he did not think the 'Romans ever ruled fo wifely in all _ 
 the time of their greateft profperity, and that in matter of policy the furpafi'ed all 
 
 other Nations of whom the Ancients have written. 
 
 CHAP# XXXVII. . 
 
 The number of Officers, and other people, which are in the Ting of China’* , 1 
 
 Pallace ; with our going to Quincay to accomplifh the time 
 of out Exile ; and whst befell us there . 
 
 O Ut of the fear I am in,left coming to relate in particular all thofe things we faw wich- 
 in the Urge inclofure of cbisCity of Pequin,thzy that fhall chance to read them miy call 
 
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 them in queftion,ind non to give occafion alfo unto detra<5tors,who judging of things accord- 
 ing to the itt e world they have feen,may hold thofe truths for fables, which mine own eyes 
 have beheld,! will forbear the delivery of many matters that poflibly might bring much con¬ 
 tentment to more worthy fpirits,who not judging of the riches and profperity of other Coun. 
 tries by the poverty and mifery of their own, would be well pleafed with the relation thereof 
 Howbcit,on the other fide, I have no great caufe to blame thofe who (hall not give credit to 
 that which I fay,or make any doubt of it,becaufe I mufl acknowledge, that many times when 
 I ca I to mind the things that mine eyes have feen,I remain confounded therewith,whether ic 
 be the Grandeurs of this City of Pequin, or the magnificence wh erewith this Gentile Kin° is 
 ferved, or the pomp of the Chaems , and Anchacjs of the Government, or the dread and Twe 
 wherein all men are of thefe Minifies, or the fumptuoufnefs of their Temples and Paoodes 
 together with all the reft that may be there 5 for within the only inclofure of the Kin°$ Palace 
 there are above a thoufand Eunuchs,three thoufand women,& 12 thoufand men of his Guard, 
 unto whom the King gives great entertainment and penlions :alfo twelve Tuto»s ,6 ignities that 
 are Sovereign above all others whom, as I have already declared, the vulgar call, The beams of 
 the Sm ; Under thefe twelve Ttttens there are forty Chaems ,or Vice-roys,befides many other 
 inferiour dignities,as Judges,Majors, Governours, Treafurers,Admirals, and Generals, which 
 they term, Anchacjs,Aytaos y Ponchacj , L*tuteas y and Chnmbims y whereof there are above five 
 hundred always refiding at the Court, each of them having at the leaft two hundred men in 
 his train, which for the moft part, to ftrike the greater terror, are of divers Nations, namely. 
 Me gores, Perfans, Curaz>enSy APoems, Calaminhams , Tartar Cane bins y and fome Bramaas 
 ol Chalesfy and Tangm ; for in regard of valour,they make no account of the Natives,who are 
 of a weak and effeminate completion, though otherwife,I muft confefs,they are exceeding a* 
 ble and ingenious in whatsoever concerned Mechanick Trades, Tillage, and Husbandry ; cbey 
 have withall a great vivacity of fpirit, and are exceeding proper and apt for the inventing of 
 very fubcle and induftrious things. The women are fair and chafte,and more inclined to labour 
 then the men. The Country is fertile in vitual, and fo rich and abounding in all kind of °ood 
 things, as I cannot fuflficiently exprefs it; and fuch is their blindnefs as they attribute all thofe 
 bleftings to the only merit of their King,& not to the Div ne Providence,and to the goodnefs 
 of that Sovereign Lord,who hath created all things.From this blindnefs,& incredulity of thefe 
 people are theie great abufes, and confufed luperftiiions derived, which are ordinary amon°ft 
 them,and wherein they obferve a world of diabolical ceremonies 5 For they are fo brutifh and 
 wicked, as to facrifice humane blood,offering it up with divers forts of perfumes,and fweec fa- 
 voursjMoreover,they prefent their Priefts with many gifts,upon aflurance from thefe profane 
 wretches, of great bleftings in this life,and infinite riches and treafure in the other: To which 
 eflfeas the fame Priefts grant chem)Iknow not what)Cercificates,as it were Bils of Exchange, 
 which the common people call Couchinnoces y ihzt after their death they may ferve above in Hea¬ 
 ven,to procure for them a recompence of an hundred for one ; wherein thefe miferable crea¬ 
 tures are fo blinded,that they fave the very meat and drink from their own mouthes to furnifh 
 thofe accurfed Priefts of Satan with all things necefiary, believing that thefe goodly Bils they 
 have from them will affuredly return them that benefic .There are alfo Priefts of another Se&, 
 called ^4^/tW,wbo(contrary to thofe others)preach,and affirm with great oaths,thac reafo. 
 liable creatures live & die like beafts,and therefore that they are to make merry & fpend their 
 goods jovially whiles life (hall laft,there being no other after this,as all but fools & ignorams 
 are to believe. There is another Se£f,named Trimechau y wiho are of opinion, thatfo long time 
 as a min fhall live in this world, fo long (hall he remain under ground, uncill at length by the 
 prayers of their Priefts,his foul fhall reaffume the body of a child of feven days old,wherein he 
 (hall live again till he fhall grow fo ftrong,as to re-enter into the old body, which he had lefc 
 in the gravc,and fo be tranfported into the Heaven of the Moon,where(chey fay)he fhall live 
 many years,& in the end be converted into a ftar,which (hall remain fixed above in the Firma¬ 
 ment for ever. Another Sea there is called Gyfon, who believe that only the beafts(in regard 
 of their fifferiBgs,& the labour which they endure in this life)(hall poffefs Heaven after their 
 death jind not man,that leadeth his life according to the Iufts of the flefh,robbing,killing,and 
 committing a world of other offenceS;by reafon wbereof,fay they, ic is not poflible for him to 
 be faved $ unlcfs at the hour of death he leave all his eftatc to the Pagodes y and to the Priefts, 
 that they may pray for him ; whereby one may fee that all the intentions of their diabolical 
 5e6ts is not founded but upon a very tyranny, and upon the interefts of the Btnx^et, who are 
 
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 they that preach this pernicious do&rine to the people,and perfwaded them with many fables 
 to believe it; In the mean time, thefe things feem fo true to chefe wrerches that hear them, 
 as they very willingly give them all their goods, imagining that thereby only they can be 
 fayed, and freed from thofc punilhments and fears, wherewithal! they threaten them if they 
 do otherwife. I have fpoken here of no more then thefe three Se$s, omitting the reft of the 
 two and thirty, which are followed in this great Empire of China, as well becaufe I fhould 
 never have done ( as I have faid heretofore ) if I Ihould relate them all at large, as for that by 
 thefe ic may be known what the others are, which are nothing better, but in a manner q>ven 
 the very fame ; wherefore leaving the remedy of fuch evils, and great blindnefs, to the mer¬ 
 cy and providence of God, unto whom only it appertains; I will pafs on to the declarations 
 of the naileries we indured during our exile in the Town of Quancy , untill fuch time as we 
 were made flaves by the Tmars , which happened in the year, 1544. 
 
 S«d 1. We had been now two moncths and an half in this City of Tcquin , when as on Saturday , 
 the thirteenth of July> 1554. we were carried away to the Town of Quancy, there to ferve 
 all the time that we were condemned unto: Now as foon as we arrived there,the cau- 
 fed us to be brought before him> and after he had asked us fomc queftions, he appointed us to 
 be of the number of fourfeore Halberdiers, which the King afligned him for his Guard ; This 
 we took as a fpecial favour from God, both in regard this imployment was not very painful, 
 as alfo becaufe the entertainment was good,and the pay of it better,bcing alfured befides that 
 at the time we fhould recover our liberty. Thus lived we almofU moneth very peaceably,and 
 well contented for that we met with a better fortune then we expe&ed, when as the devil, 
 feeing how well all we nine agreed together ( for all that we had was in common amongit us, 
 and whatfoever mifery any one had,we (hared it with him like true brethren,) he fo wrought 
 that two of our company fell into a quarrel, which proved very prejudicial to us all ; This di- 
 vifion fprung from a certain vanity too familiar with the Portugal Nation, whereof I can ren¬ 
 der no other reafon,but that they are naturally fenfible of any thing that touches upon ho¬ 
 nour : Now fee what the difference was;two of us nine falling by chance in conteft about the 
 extra&ion of the Madureyras and the Fonfecas,ioi to know which of thefe two houfes was ia 
 moft efteem at the King of Tortugals Court, the mattet went fo far, that from one word to 
 another they came at length to terms of oyfter-wives, faying one to the other,Who are you ? 
 and again, who are you ? fo that thtreupon they fuffered themfelves to be fo cranfported with 
 choler, that one of them gave the other a great box on the ear, who inftantly returned him a 
 blow with his fword, which cut away almoft half his cheek; this fame feeling himfelf hurt 
 caught up an halberd, and therewith ran the other through the arm; this difafter begot fuch 
 part-taking amongft us,as of nine that we were feven of us found our felves grievoufly wound¬ 
 ed,Tn the mean time,the Chaem came running in perfon to this tumult with all the Anchacys 
 of J uftice, who laying hold of us gave us presently thirty lafties apiece, which drew more 
 blood from us then our hurts This done, they fhut us up in a dungeon under ground,where 
 they kept us fix & forty days with heavy iron collars about oar necks,manacles on our hands, 
 and irons on our legs,fo that we fuffered exceedingly in this deplorable eftate.This while our 
 bufinefs was brought before the Kings Atturney, who having feen our accufations, and that 
 one of the articles made faith, that there were fixteen witnetfes againft us, he ftuck not to fay, 
 
 That we wen people without the fear or knowledge of God , who did not confefs him otherwife 
 with our mouthes, then as any wild beafl might do if he could fpeak^i that thefe things prefup- 
 pofed it was to be believed , that we Wire men of blood, of a Language , of a Law, of a Nati¬ 
 on, of a Country, and of a Kingdom, the inhabitants whereof wounded and killed one another 
 ?nofi cruelly, without any reafon or caufe, and therefore no other judgement could be made of 
 tu , but that we were the fervants of the mofi gluttonous Serpent of the profound pit of fmoal 
 as appeared by our workj , fince they were no better then fuch as that accur fed Serpent had 
 aceufhwtsdto do ; fo that according to the Law of the third Pookjof the Will of the Son of the 
 Sun, called Mileterau, we were to be condemned to a banifhment from all commerce of people, 
 as a venemom and contagious plague; fo that we deferved to be confined to the Mountains of 
 C'nabaguay, Sunlbor, or Lamau, whither fuch as we were ufed to be exiled, to the end they might 
 in that place hear the wild beafls howl in the night , which were of as vile a breed and nature 
 sas we. From this prifon we were one morning led to a place,called by them Titan Calidan, 
 where the Anchacy fat in judgement with amajeftical and dreadful greatnefs;He was accom¬ 
 panied by divers ChumbimsyHuppes^anteaSirnd Cypatons, befides a number of other perfons; 
 
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 there each of us had 30 lafaes apiece more given us,and then by publick Sentence ive were re« 
 moved to another Prifon, where we were in better cafe yet then in that out of which we 
 came,howbeit for all that we did not a little detel* among!* our felves both the Fonfecas^nd 
 the c Madureyras, but much more the Devil,that wrought us this mifehief. In this Priion we 
 continued almota monetbs, during which time our liripes were throughly healed, howbeic 
 we were exceedingly affli&ed with hunger, and chirft. Ac length it pleafed God that'tbe Cha - 
 tm took companion of us; for on a certain day, wherein they ufe to do works of charity for 
 the dead, coming to review our Sentence he ordained, That in regard we were fir anger jt, and 
 of a Country fo far diflant from theirs, as no man had knowledge of nor that there was any 
 Book,or Writing which made mention of our Name, and that none underflood our Language ; as 
 alfo that we were aecuftomed, and even hardned to mifery and poverty , which many times puts 
 the befl and mop peaceable perfons into diforder, and therefore might well trouble fuch , as made 
 no profejfion of patience in their adverfities ; whence it followed, that our difeord proceeded ra¬ 
 ther from the effitts of our mifery, then from any inclination unto mutiny and tumult , where¬ 
 with the Kings Atturny charged us', and furthermore reprefenting unto himfelf what great 
 need there was of men for the ordinary fervice of the State, and of the Officers of Juflite, for 
 which proviflon neceffanly was to be made, he thought fit, that the punifhment for the cranes we 
 had committed, fhould in the way of an Alms befl owed in the Kings name be moderated and re¬ 
 duced to the Whipping which we twice already had, upon condition neverthelefs that we fhould be 
 detained there as Slaves for ever , unfefs it fhould pleafe the Tuton otherwife to ordain of tos. 
 
 This Sentence was pronounced againl* us, and though we fhed a many of tears to fee our 
 felves reduced unto this miferable condition, wherein we were, yet this feemed not fo bad 
 unto us as the former. After etie pub ication of this Decree we wereprefendy dra n out of 
 Prifon, and tied 3 and 3 together, then led to certain Iron Forges, where we paii 6 whole 
 monechs in tange labours, and great neceflities, being in a manner quite naked, without 
 any Bed to lie on, and aimod famifhed. At laft after the enduring of fo many evils, we fell 
 fitk of a Lethargy, which was the caufe, in regard it was a contagious Dileafe, that they turn¬ 
 ed us out of doors for to go and feek our living, until! we became well again. Being thus fee 
 at liberty we continued 4 monechs lick, and begging the Alms of good people from door to 
 door, which was given us but fparingly, by reafonof the great Dearth that then reigned over 
 all the Country,fo as we were contained to agree better together, and to promiicone an¬ 
 other by a folemn Oath,that we took, to live lovingly fof the future,as good Chriftians fhould 
 do, and that every moneth one fhould be chofen from amongl* us to be as it were a kinda of 
 Chief, whom, by the Oath we bad taken, all the re!* of us were to obey, as their Superiour; 
 fo that none of us was to difpofe of himfelf, or do any thing, without his command, orap- 
 pointmentjand thofe Rules were put into writing by usjthat they might be the better obfer- 
 ved ; As indeed God gave us the grace to live ever aftcrWard hi good peace and concord, 
 though it were in great pain, and extreme neceflity of all things. 
 
 We had continued a good while living in peace and tranquillity .according to our foremen- Scft . 
 tioned agreement, when as he, whofe lot it was to be*our Chief tnat moneth, named Ckrifto - 
 Vano Boralho , confidering how neeeffary it was to feek our fome relief for our miferies by all 
 the ways that poflibly we couId,appointed us to ferve weekly 2 and 2 together,fome in beg¬ 
 ging up and down the Town,fome in getting water and dreffing our meat,and others in fetch- , 
 ing wood from thcForeft,bDth for our own irfe.,& to fell.Now one day my felf,& one G«£far 
 de Meyrclez, being enjoyned to go to the Fore!*,we role betimes in the morning,& went forth 
 to perform ourebarge ; Arid becaufe this Gaffar de Meyrelez, was a pretty Mufician,playing 
 wei on a Cittern,whereunto he accorded his voice,which was not bad,being parts that are ve¬ 
 ry agreeable to thofe people,injregard they imploy the moft part of their times in the delights 
 of The fkfli,they took great plcafure in hearing of him,foas for that purpole they invited him 
 very often to their fports,from whence he never returned without fome Reward,wherewith 
 we were not a little aflified: As he and I then were going to the Wood, and before we were 
 out of the Town,we met by fortune in One of the tfreets with a great many of people,who 
 full of jollity were carrying a dead Corps to the Grave with divers Banners,and other funeral 
 pomp.in the midi* whereof was a Confort of Mufick and Voices; Now he,that had the chief 
 ordering of the Funeral, knowing Gaffar de Meyrel<z»>m*de him flay, and putting a Cittern 
 into his hands^he Paid unto him, Oblige me ,» / pray thee, by flnging as loud as thon canfl,,fo as 
 thou maift be heard of thy df#d man whom we are carrying to burial, for I fwear unto thee , 
 that he went away vtrj fad for that he was feparated front his Wife and Children, whom he 
 
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 Atari) loved alt bis life time . Gaffar de Meyrelcz, would fain have cxcufed himfelf, alledging 
 many Reafons thereupon to thac end, but fofar was the Govemour of the Funeral from ac¬ 
 cepting them, thu contrarily he anfwered him very angerly, Truly, if thou wilt not deign to 
 benefit this Defmtt with the Gift, that God hath given thee , of finging , and playing on this In - 
 firumentj will no longer fay, that thou art an holy man , as we all believed hitherto, but that the 
 excellency of that voice which thou hafl comes from the Inhabitants of the Houfe of Smoke, 
 whofe nature it was at firfi to fing very harmonioufly, though now they weep and wail in the pro - 
 found Lake of the Night, like hunger-fiarved Dogs, that gnafhing their teeth, and foaming 
 with rage againfi Men dlfcharge the froth of their malice by the offences, which they commit 
 againfi him, that lives in the highefi Heavens. Afcer this io or 11 of them were fo earneft 
 with Gaffar de Meyreltz,, as they made him play almoft by force, and led him to the place, 
 where the Deceafedwas to be burnt, according to thecuftome of thofe Gentiles . In the 
 mean time feeing my felf left alone without any Comrade, I went along to the Forreft for to 
 get fome Wood, according to my Commiflion, and about evening returning back with my 
 load on my ba«k, I met with an old man in a black Damask Gown furred clean through with 
 white Lamb, who being all alone, afloon as he efpied me, he turned a little out of the way, 
 but perceiving me to pafs on without regarding him, he cried fo loud to me, that I might hear 
 him, which I no fooaer did^ but calling mine eye that way, I obferved that he beckoned to me 
 with his hand, as if he called me, whereupon imagining there was fomething more chenordi¬ 
 nary herein, I faid unto him in the Chinefe Language, Totausjuinay, which is, Doft thou call 
 me ? Whercunto returning no anfwer, he gave me to underhand by figns that in effeft he 
 called me; con je&uring then that there might be fome Thieves thereabouts, which would 
 bereave me of my Load of Wood, I threw it on the ground to be the better able to defend 
 my felf, and with my ftaff in my hand, I went fair and foftly after him, who feeing me follow 
 him began to double his pace athwart a little path, which confirmed me in my belief I bad be¬ 
 fore, that he was fome Thief, fo that turning back to the place where I left my Load, I got it 
 up again on my back as fpeedily as I could, with a purpofe to get into the great High-way, thac 
 led unto the City ; But the man gheffing at my intention, began to cry out louder to me then 
 before, which making me turn my look towards him, I prefently perceived him on his knees, 
 and fhewing me afar off a filver Crofs about a fpan long,or thereabouts,lifting up withall both 
 his hands unto Heaven 5 whereat being much amazed, I could not imagine what this man 
 fhould be; in the mean time he with a very pitifull gefture ceafed not to make figns unto me 
 to come to him; whereupon fomewhat recolle&ing my felf, I refolved to go and fee who he 
 was, and what he would have, to which end with my ftaff in my hand I walked towards him, 
 where he ftayed for me; when as then I came near him, hiving always thought him before to 
 be a ChinefefL wondered to fee him caft himfelf at my feet, and with tears and fighs to fay thus 
 unto me, B/effed and praifed be the fweet Name of our Lord Jefus Chrifi,who after fo long an 
 Exile hath fhewsd me fo much grace, at to let me fee a Chrijhan man , that profejfeth the Law 
 of my God fixed on the Crofs. I muft confefs that when I heard fo extraordinary a matter, and 
 fo far beyond my expe&ation, I was therewith fo furprifed,that fcarcely knowing what I faid, 
 / conjure thee, anfwered I unto him, in theNjime of the Lord Jefus to tell me who thou art ? 
 At thefe words this unknown man redoubling his tears, Dear Brother , replied h z,Iam a poor 
 Chrifiian,by Nation 4 Portugal, and named Vafco Calvo, Brother to Diego Calvo, who was 
 fometime Captain of Don Numa Manoel his Ship, and made a Slave here in this Country about 
 [even and twenty years fine e, together with one Tome Perez ,whom Loppo Suarez fent as Am - 
 bajjadour into this Kingdom of China, and that fince died miferably by the occafion of a Portu¬ 
 gal Captain. Whereupon coming throughly to my felf again,I lifted him upfromithe ground 
 where he lay weeping like a childjand fhedding no fewer tears then he,I intreated 'him that we 
 might iic down together, which he would hardly grant, fo defirous he was to have me go 
 prefently with him to his houfe,but fitting down by me he began to difeourfe the whole fuc- 
 cefsot his Travels,and all that had befallen him fince his departure from Portugal, til! that ve- 
 ry ame,as alfo the death of the Ambaffador Tome Perez,, t nd bf all the re ft, whom Ferdinand 
 ert^d Amdrada had left it Canton to go to the King of China, which he recounted in ano- 
 t er manner then our Hiftorians have delivered it. After we had fpent the remainder of the 
 day in entertaining one another with our paffed Adventures, we went to the City, where ha- 
 v ng thewed me his houfe, he defited me that I would inftantly go and fetch the reft of may 
 !e lows, which accordingly I did, and found them all together in the poor lodging where we 
 
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 lay^nd having declared unto them what had befallen me, they were much abafhed at it,as in¬ 
 deed they had caufe,considering the ftratagems of the Accident, fo thev went prefently alone 
 with me to V'afcoCalvo s hcufe, who waiting for us,gave us iuch hearty welcome,is we could 
 not chufe but weep for joy • Then he carried us into a Chamber where was his Wife, with 2 
 little Boys,and 2 Girls of his;Aie entertained us very kindly,and with much demonftration c£ 
 Jove,as if Hie had been the Mother or Daughter to either of us; After this we fate down at 
 the Table, which he had caufcd to be covered, and made a very good Meal of many feveral 
 Dilhes provided for us: Supper done, his Wife arofe very courteoufly from the T, ble.and ta¬ 
 king a Key which hung at her Girdle, fae opened the Door of an Oratory, where there was 
 an Altar,with a filver Crols, asalfo 2 Candlefticks,and a Lamp of the fame, and thenfbe and 
 her 4 Children falling down on their knees,with their hands life up to Heaven,began to pro* 
 nounce thefe words very dillindllv in the Portugal Tongue, O thou true God \ we wretched {in¬ 
 ner* do confeft before thy Crofs, like good Chrifiians, as we are, the mofi [acred Trinity , Father , 
 S°tt, and Holy Ghofi, three Per forts, and one God ; and alfo we promife to live and die in thy mofi 
 holy Cathohck^ Faith, like good and true Chrifiians , confeffing and believing fo much of thy ho^ 
 lj truth , as is held and believed by the Church; In like manner we offer up unto thee our fouls , 
 which thou haft redeemed with thy mo ft precious B loud, for to be wholly imp toyed in thy fervice 
 all the time of our lives, and then to be yielded unto thee at the hour of our death , as to our Lord 
 and God , unto whom we acknowledge they appertain both by Creation and Redemption. A ft Cr this 
 ConfetTion they faid the Lords Prayer , and the Creed, which they pronounced very difiin$> 
 Jy, whereat we could not chufe but fhed a world of teats to fee thefe Innocents, born in a 
 Country, fo far remote from ours, and where there was no knowledge of the true God, thus 
 to confcfs his Law in fuch religious terms. This being done, we returned bccaufe it was 3 
 of the clock in the morning to our lodging, exceedingly aftonifhed at that we hadfeen,asac 
 a thing which we bad great reafon to admire. 
 
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 */£ Tartar Commander enters with his Army into the Town of Quinfay, and thai 
 which followed thereupon; with the Nauticor’x befiegingthe 
 C a file of Nixiamcoo, and the taking of it by the 
 means of fome Portugals. 
 
 W E had been cow 8 moneths and an half in this captivity, wherein we endured much 
 mifery, and many incommodities, for that we had nothing to live upon but chat we 
 got by begging up and down the Town,when as one fVednefday t the third of July, in the yeac 
 1544. a little after midnight there was fuch a hurly burly among!! the people,that to hear the 
 noife and cries which was made in every part, one would have thought the earth would have 
 come over and over, which caufed us to go in haiie to Fafco Calvo his houfe, of whom we de¬ 
 manded the occafion of fo great a Tumult, whereunto with tears in his eyes he anfwere.d us, 
 that certain news were come how the King of Tart ary was fallen upon the City of Sequin 
 with fo great an Army, as the like had never been feen fince Adam's time; In this Army ac¬ 
 cording to report, were feven and twenty Kings,, under whom marched eighteen hundred 
 thoufand men,whereof fix hundred thoufand were Horfe,which were come by land from the 
 Cities of Luamf ima, Famftir, and tjMecuy, with fourfeore thoufand Rhinocerots , that drew 
 the Waggons,wherein was all the Baggage 6f theArmy;as for the other twelve hundred thou- 
 fand,which were Foot,it was faid that they arrived by Sea in feventeen thoufand vefle!s,down 
 through the river of Batampina ; By reafon whereof the King of (hina finding himfe’f too 
 weak for the refifiing of fuch great Forces,had with a few retired himfelf to theCity of Nan- 
 quin* And chat alio it was reported for certain, that a Njtuticor , one of the chiefeft Tmar 
 Commanders,was come to the Forreft of Malineat or an; not above a league and an half from 
 Quwfay, witlyn Army of threescore and two thoufand Horfe, wherewith he marched a- 
 gain!! the Toflm, that in all likelihood he would be there within two hours at the fur the!!. 
 Thefe news fo troubled us,that we did nothing but look one upon another,without being able 
 to fpeak a word to any purpofe, howbeic defiring to fave our felves, we prayed VafcoCalvo 
 wo fhlw us what means he thought we might ufe to effed! ir, who fad and full of grief thus 
 anfwered us ; O that we were in our Countrey between Laura and ffarucha, where I have 
 often been, and Ihould be there now in fafety, but fincc it cannot be fo,all that we can do for 
 
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 the prefect: ,t s to tecommead our felves to God, and to pray unto him to aflift us •, for I a ffure 
 vou chat an hour ago I would have given a thoufand Tam in diver 10 any one, tnat cou d lave 
 got me from hence,and faved me with my Wife and Children,but there was no portability for 
 it hecaufe the Cares were then all (hut up, and the Walls round about mvironed with arnned 
 men wnichthe £ 7 w«»bad placed there to withfland the Enemy. So my fellows and I, thac 
 were nine in number, part the rdf of the night in much affliction and unqmern.fs^ witr - 
 but any means of counselling one another,or rcfolving on what we were to do, continually 
 weering for the extreme fear we were in of what fhould become of us. The next morning a 
 little before Sun-rifing the Enemy appeared in a mod dreadfull manner they were divided in¬ 
 to 7 very great Battalions,having th.ir Enfigns quartered wuh green and white,which are the 
 Colours of the King of Tartars a ;marching in this order to the lound of theirTrumpets,! ney 
 arrived at iParode.cMzteeuUuNweioo,* place of good receit in regard of the many lodg¬ 
 ings it had,which was not much dillant from the Walls.In their Vamguard they had a number 
 oi Li°hc-hotfe, who!?.n confufedly up and down with their Lances in their Reds. B:mg m 
 this fort come to the Parade, they If aid there about half an hour, and then marching on till 
 they were within an Harquebufe-lhot of the Walls,they fuddenly ran to them with fuch hide¬ 
 ous cries, as one would have thought that Heaven and Earth would have come together and 
 rearing up .hove two thoufand Ladders, which for that purpofe they had brought along with 
 them,they affau’ted the Town on every fide with a moll invincible courage. Now though the 
 befieged ac the beginning made fome refinance,yet was it not able to hinder the Enemy from 
 effecting hisDciigmfor by the means of certain ironRams breaking up the 4 principal Oates, 
 they rendred themfelves Mailers of the Town after they had flam the Chaem, together with a 
 ®reat number of Mandarins, and Gentlemen, that were run thitherto keep them fromen- 
 rring; Thus did thefe Barbarians poifefs tfcemfelves of this nnflrable Town,whereof they put 
 all the Inhabitants they could meet wichall to the fword, without fparing any; and it was laid 
 that the number of the {lain amounted to threefcore thoufand perfons, among!! whom were 
 many Women and Maids of very great beauty,which appertained to the chiefed Lords of the 
 place. After the bloudy Maffacrc of fo much people,and that the Town was fi:ed,the princi¬ 
 pal houfes overthrown, and the moll fumptuous Temples laid level with the ground,nothing 
 remaining on foot during the diforder,the Tartars continued there 7 days,at the end whereof 
 they returned towards Tcqmn, where the King was, and from whence he had lent them to 
 this execution, carrying with them a world of Gold and Silver onely, having burnt all dm 
 Merchandife they found there, as well becaufe they knew not how to tranfporc it away, as for 
 that the C'^nefes (hould not make any benefit of it: Two days after their departure they ar¬ 
 rived at a Galile, named Nixiamcoo, where the Nam cor of Lnanfama, their General, 
 pitched his Camp, and intrenched himfelf on ail fides with an intention to take it by admit 
 the next day to be revenged on the Chinefes there, for thac upon his palling by them towards 
 Quin fay, they had cut off an hundred of his Men by an Ambufcado. / 
 
 After the Army was encamped,and intrenened, and that the General had placed 4 Guards 
 and Sentinels in all places, he retired to his Tent, whither he Cent for 70 Ciptains ttiat com¬ 
 manded his Army, unto whom upon their arrival he difeovered his refolution,which being well 
 approved of they fell into deliberation in what manner the Callle fhould be affaulted the 
 day following, which concluded on, the next morning affoon as it was light the Souldiers be¬ 
 gan to march towards the Callle, divided into 14 Battalions ; being come within a rlighc- 
 fhoot of it with the found of Trumpets, and moli hideous cries, they reared up their Ladders 
 againll the Walls, and couragioufiy mounted up ; but in the heat of this Allault, where eve¬ 
 ry one {hewed his valour, the one in bravely attempting, and the other in well defending, the 
 Tartar in lefsthen 2 hours lofi above three thoufand of his Men, which made him found a 
 Retreat in great dil'order, and he pad the rell of chat day in burying the dead, and curing of 
 the wounded, whereof, there being a great number, the mollparc died not long after, for that 
 the Arrows wherewith they were hurt had been fmeared by the fhsnefes wuJp fo llrange and 
 deadly Poifon, as there was no Remedy found for it. In the mean time tie Tartar Con> 
 manders feeng the ill fuccefs of thisAffault,& fearing cheKing would be offended ac fo greac 
 a lofs for fo (mail an occafion, perfwaded the General to call another Council, wherein ic 
 might be confidered, whether ic would be mod expedient for the Kings honour to perfift in 
 tb Siege of that place,or to give ic over,whereupon this affair coming accordingly into delibe¬ 
 ration ic was a long time debated with fuch diverfity of opinions, as they were not able to 
 
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 conclude upon any thing • fochat it was thought: fir, in regard it was then lace, to put off*IhV 
 Aflembly till the next day ; This refolution taken, every man retired to his quarter. Now we 
 being led away amidft a great many of other Hives, with whom we had efcaped out'6f thd 
 fire of the Town,ic fell out,(whether for our good, or for our greater mif-fortune, wk could 
 not then tell) f hac we were under the Guard, as prifonersof war, of one of that Affcmbly/ 
 a rich and honourable man; who returning to his TcntvVith three other perfons^of like quali¬ 
 ty to himfelf, whom he had invited to Supper,it chanced after they were rifen from table that 
 one of them efpied us, where we Mood chained in a corner of the Tent, and perceiving us to 
 weep, was fo moved, that he demanded of us what people we were ? what the name of out 
 Country was ? and how we came to be flaves to the Chinefes $ whereunto we gave fuch an 
 anfwer, asthe Tartar ingaging himfelf further in this difeourfe, enquired of us whether our 
 King was inclined to the wars, and whether we did ufe to fight in our Country ? to whom one 
 of our companions, named forge Mender replyed that we did, and that we had been trained 
 up fro m our infancy in a military courfe of life ; which fo pleafed the Tartar, that calling his 
 two friends unto him,Come hither, faid he,and have the patience to hear what thefe prisoners 
 can fay; for, believe me, they feem to be men of understanding } whereupon the other two 
 came near,and hearing us relate fome part of our mif-fortunes ,it begat a defire in them to ask 
 us other queftions; wherein having Satisfied them the beft that we could, one of them that 
 feemed more curious then the reft, addreffing himfelf to forge Mende fpake thus; Since you 
 have feenfo much of the ivor/d y as yon fay ,if there were any one amongft you that could find out 
 any device , orfiratagem of war, whereby the Mitaquer ( for fo was the Nauticor called ) might 
 take thisCaftle, 1 vow to you that he would become your prifoner, whereas you are his. Then 
 forge Mendez,, never conlidering with what imprudence he fpake, nor underftandmg whac 
 he laid, nor into what danger he was putting himfelf, boldly anfwered him ; If my LordMi- 
 taquer will in the name of the King give it us under his handy that we Jhall have a fafe con - 
 dull to convey us by Sea to the I fie of Ain an, from whence we may fafely return into our 
 Country ypojfibly I may be the man that willjhew him bow he jhall take the Cafi le with little 
 ado . This Speech being heard, and maturely confidered by one of the three,a man in years, 
 and of great authority, as having the honour to be much efteemed and beloved of the Mita- 
 quer ; Think, well of what thou fayeft, replyed he ffijorge Mendez 5 for I ajfure thee ifthoudoeft 
 tt, that whatfoever thou demandeft jhall be granied thee , /, and more too. Hereupon the reft 
 of us feeing what forge Mendez, was going to undertake, asalfohowfar he ingaged himfelf 
 in his promife,& that the Tartars began already to ground fome hope thereupon,we thought 
 fit to reprehend him for it, and to tell him, that he was not to hazard himfelf, fo ac random,by - 
 promifmg a thing that might bring us into the danger of oui lives. I fear nothing lefs , faid he 
 unto us ; for as for my life, in the eft ate where now lam , I make fo little account of it,- that 
 if any of thefe Barbarians would play for it at Primero, 1 would with three of the worft cards in 
 thepack^ venture it upon the firft encounter ; for I am confident that all the benefit they can 
 expett from us will never oblige them to grant us either life or liberty ; fo that for my parti - 
 cular,I had as lief die to day as to morrow ; judge you only by that which you jaw them do at 
 Quincay, whether you are likely to be better dealt wit hall now. The Tartars were much aba- 
 (bed to fee us thus in conteftation one with another, and to hear us talk fo leud, which is not 
 ufual amongft them ; wherefore they reprehended us very ferioufly, faying; That it was for 
 women to fpeak^ aloud , who could not put a bridle to their tongue, nor a key to their mouthes, 
 and not for men , that carry a fword , and are made for the wars : Hoxvbeit , if it were fo that 
 Jorge Mendez could execute what he had propounded, the Mitaquer could not refufe him any 
 thing he could demand . This faid, the Tartars retired every one to his lodging, for that ic 
 was eleven of the clock at night, the firft watch being newly paft, and the Captains of the 
 Guard beginning then to walk the roundabout the Camp, at the found of divers inftrumencs, 
 as is the cuftom in femblable occafions. 
 
 The fame of the three 7*rf<*r-Cornmanders, which I faid before was fo efteemed of by the Seft.f 
 CMitaquer, had no fooner learnt of Jorge Mendez that he could tel! how to take the Caftle 
 oiNixiamcoo, but that he went prefently to acquaint the General wichit, and making the 
 matter greats r then it was, he told him, that he could do no lefs then fend for frm to hear bis 
 rcafons, which peradventufe would perfwade him to give credit unto him $ and in cafe it pro¬ 
 ved not fo, yet was there nothing loft thereby. The Mitaquer being well pleafed with this 
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 Gutrd we were, for to bring us unto him, as prefently he did. Being then arrived, chained as 
 we wetfe, at the Mitaqutrs Tent, we found him fet in Councel with the feventy Commanders 
 of the Army about two hours after midnight; Ac our coming, he received us with an affable 
 countenance,yet grave and fevere j and caufing us to approach nearer unto him,he command¬ 
 ed part of our chains to be undone 5 then asked us if we would eat, whereunco we anfwcred, 
 moft willingly;for that in three days together we had not fo much as rafted a bit of any thing; 
 whereat the Mitaquer was very much offended, and fharply reproving the Tileymay for it, 
 willed two great platters of fodden rice, and Ducks cot in fmall pieces, to be fee before us, 
 whereto we fell with fuch an appetite, like men that were almoft famifhed, as thofe of the 
 company, who took great pleafure to fee us feed fo, faid to the Mitaquer^ when as yon had no¬ 
 thing elfe } my Lord , bat to caufe t hefe to come before you for to Jlack^their hanger , verily yon had 
 done very much for them , by faving them from a langu'ifhing death , which othenvife they could 
 not have avoided ; and fo you might have lofi thefe Jlaves , of whom the fervice or. fale might 
 have been fome way profitable unto you 5 for if you will not make ufe of them at Lancama, you 
 may fed. them for a thoufand Taeis at leafi. Here fome began to laugh, but the Mitaquer 
 commanded more rice to be given us,together with fome apples, and other things, conjuring 
 us again to eac,as a thing which he took pleafure to fee us do,whcrein wc moft willingly gave 
 him fatisfa&ion.After we had fed well, he began to ta'k with Jorge Mendez, about that which 
 bad been told him of him, and of the means chat were to be ufed for taking the Caflle, ma¬ 
 king him many great promifes of honours, penfions, favour with the King, and liberty for all 
 the reft of his fellows, wich other fuch offers, as paffed all meafure: For he fwore unto him, 
 that if by his means God fhould give him the viSqry, whereby he fought nothing but to be 
 revenged on his enemies for the blood which they had fhed of his men, he fhould every way 
 be like unto himfelf, op at leaft,co any of his children which foever 5 Herewith Jorge Mendez, 
 found himfelf fomewhat perplexed, becaufc he held it almoft impofljble for him to bring it to 
 effe& $ howfoever he told him, that,not to hold him longer in hand, he did not think but if he 
 might view the Caftle with his own eyes, he might then peradventqre let him know how it 
 might be taken;wherefore,if his Lordfhip pleafed,he would the next morning confider it all a- 
 bout,& thereupon render him an account what courfe was to be taken therein. Tne Mitaquer , 
 and all the reft,allowed very well of his anfwer,& greatly commending him for it fenc us to be 
 lodged in a Tent not far from his,where we fpenc the reft of the night under a fure Guardjyoi* 
 may judg now in what fear we were,knowing that if the bufinefs did not fucceed according to 
 the defire of thefe Barbarians , they would cut us all in pieces, for that they were a people 
 which for never fo fmall a matter would not ftick to kill twenty or thirty men, without any 
 regard either of God, or any thing clfe. The next morning,about eight of the clock, Jorge 
 LMendez,, and two of us, that were appointed to accompany him, went to furvey the place 
 with thirty horfe for our fafe-Guardj when as Jorge'Mendez had wellobferved the feituation 
 thereof, as alfo that part whereby it might moft commodioufly be affaulced,he returned to the 
 Mitaquer t that expe&ed him wich impatience,to whom he gave an account of what be had feen, 
 and facilitated the taking of the Caftle tvith little hazard 5 whereat the Mitaquer was fo over¬ 
 joyed, that he prefently caufed the reft of our irons, and the chains, wherewith we were fatte¬ 
 ned by the neck and feet to be taken off, fwearing to us by the rice he did eat, that as foon as 
 he came to Pequin y he wouldIprefenc us to the King, and infallibly accomplifh all that he had 
 promifed us 5 for the more affurance whereof he confirmed ic by a Deed under his hand, that 
 was written in letters of gold, to make it more auchentical. That done, he fent for us to din¬ 
 ner, and would needs have us to fit with him at table, doing us many other honours accord¬ 
 ing their manner, which greatly contented us 5 but on the other fide, we were in no little 
 fear, left this affair fhould not for our fins have a fuccefs anfwcrable to that hope the Mita- 
 qtter had already conceived of it. The reft of this day the Commanders fpent in refolving up¬ 
 on the order that was to be obferved for affaulting the Caftle,whercin Jorge Mendez, was the 
 iole Direftor ; Firft of all then,an infinite company of Bavins & Fagots was gotten together for 
 to fill up the ditchesjthere were alfo three hundred Ladders made,very ftrong,& fo large,that 
 three men might eafily mount up on them afront without incombring one another; likewife 
 there was a world of Paniers, Doffers, and Baskets provided, together with a great multitude 
 u > an L d s P ac * cs ' were found in the Villages and Burroughs thereabout, which 
 
 the inhabitants had deferted upon the bruit of this war; & all the Souldicrs of the Army made 
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 In the mean time Jorge AFendez, rode always by the Mitaquers fide, who fihewed him many 
 great favours, which we perceived had begotten in him a fiately carriage, far different from 
 that he was wont to have ; whereat we wondering, fome of us (who Envious of anothers good 
 fortune, and out of an ill nature ) could not chufe hue murmur, faying one to another, as it 
 were in difdain, and in a kind of jeering, What thinly yon of this deg ? verily he will he the 
 caufe that either to morrow morning we fhadbe all cut in pieces , or if the bufwefs he hath 
 undertaken fucceed as we dejire i it is probable that he will be in fuck credit with thefe Birbari- 
 ans, that we (hall account it for a bappwefs to be his fervants ; and this was the talk which we 
 had amongff us.The next day all the Army was put into order,and divided into twelve Batta« 
 lions, whereof they made twelve Files, and one Counterfile in the Vantguard, that incorr- 
 pafled the whole Camp,in manner of an half Moon i upon the wings were the foremoff,with 
 all tbit Mals of Bavins, Ladders, Baskets, Mattocks, Spades,and other materials,to fill up the 
 ditch, and make it equal with the refi of the ground. Marching in this minner they arrived at 
 the Caftle, which they found ffrongly mann'd, and with a number of Flags and Streamers 
 waving upon the Battlements. The firft Salutation between the befiegers and the befieged 
 was with arrows, darts, ftones, and pots of wild-fire, which continued about half an hour: 
 then the Tartars prefently filled the ditch with bavins and earth, and fo reared up their lad¬ 
 ders againli the wall, that now by reafon of the filling up of the ditch, was not very high ; 
 The firft that mounted up was Jorge Mendez,, accompanied with two ofjours, who as men 
 refolvcd had fet up their reft,either to die there, or to render their valour remarkab'e by fome 
 memorable aft ; as in effeft it pleafed our Lord that their refolution had a good fuccefs 5 for 
 they not only encred firft, but alfo planted the firft colours upon the wall, whereat the Mi- 
 taquer , and all that were with him, were fo amazed, as they faid one to another, Dobbtlefs if 
 thefe people did befiege Ttquin, as we do, the Chinefes > which defend that City, would foo» 
 ner lofe their honour, then we ftiall make them to do it with all the forces we have 5 in the 
 mean time all the Tartar x,that were ac the foot of the ladders , followed the three Fortu- 
 galsy and carried themfelves fo valiantly,what with the example of a Captain that had fhewed 
 them the way, as out of their own natural difpoficion, almoft as refolute as thofc of Japan 2 
 that in a very (hort fpace above 5000 of them were got upon the walls, from whence with 
 great violence they made the Chinefes to retirejwhereupon fo furious and bloody a fight en- 
 fued between either party,that in lefs then half an hour the bufinefs was fully decided,and the 
 Caftlc takes, with the death of cwo thoufand Chinefes and Mogores that were in it, there be¬ 
 ing not above fixfcore of the Tartars flain. That done,the*gaccs being opened, the Mitaquer 
 with great acclamations of joy entred, and caufing the Chinefes colours to be taken down, 
 and his own to be advanced in their places,he with a new ceremony of rejoycing at the found 
 of many inftruments of war, after the manner of the Tartars , gave rewards to the wounded, 
 and made divers of the moft valiant of his followers Knights, by putting bracelets of gold 
 about their right arms 5 and then about noon he with the chief Commanders of his Army, 
 for the greater triumph,dined in theCaftle, where he alfo beftowed bracelets of gold upon 
 *]orge Mendez,, and the other Portugals , whom he made to fit down at table with him ; Af¬ 
 ter the cloth was taken away, he went out of the Caftle with all his company, and then cau- 
 fing all the walls of it to be difmantled, he razed the place quite to the ground, fettingon 
 fire all that remained, with a number of ceremonies, which was performed with great cries 
 and acclamations,to the lound of divers inftrumencs of war ; Moreover he commanded the 
 ruines of this Caftle to be fprinkled with the blood of his enemies, and the heads of all of 
 them that lay dead there to be ait off; as for his own fouldiers that were flain, he caufed them 
 to be triumphantly buried, and fuch as were hurt to be carefully looked unto ; this done, 
 he retired,with a huge train,and in great pomp,to his tent, having Jorgt Mendez, clofc by him 
 on horsback 5 As for the other eight of us, together wirh many brave Noblemen and Cap¬ 
 tains, we followed him on foot. Being arrived at bis tenr, which Was richly hung , he fent 
 Jorge Mendez, a thoufand Taeis for a reward, and to us but an hundred apiece ; whereat fome 
 of us, that thought themfelves to be better qualified, were very much difeontented, for thic 
 he was more refpefted then they , by whofe means, as well as his, the enterprife had been 
 fo happily atchieved, though by the good fuccefs thereof we had all obtained honour and li¬ 
 berty. . 1 
 
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 C A A P. XXXIX. 
 
 The Micaquer departs from the Cafile of Nixiancoo, and goes to the King of 
 Tartary his Camp before Pcquin • with that which we faw till 
 we arrived there ; and the Mitaquers pre- 
 fenting m unto the King. 
 
 T He next day the Mitaquer having nothing more to do where he was, refolved to tike 
 his W3y towards the Ciry of Tequin, before which the King lay, as I have delivered be¬ 
 fore ; To rhis effe& having put his Army into battel aray, he departed from thence at eight of 
 the clock in the morning, and marching leafurely to the found of his warlike inflruments, he 
 made his firfi ilacion abouc noon upon the bank of a river, whofe fcituation was very plcafant, 
 being all about mvironed with a company of fruit trees,and a many goodly houfes, but wholly 
 deferted,and bereaved of all things which the Barbarians might any way have made booty of. 
 Having pafi the greateft heat of the day there,he arofe and marched on until about an hour in 
 the night that he took up his lodging at a pretty good Town,called Lavtima^whlch likewife 
 wc found defected, for all this whole Country was quite difpeopled for fear of the Barbari¬ 
 ans, who fpared no kind ofperfon,but wherefoever they came put all to fire and fword, as the 
 next day they did by this place, and many other along this river, which they burnt down to 
 the ground ; and that which yet was more lamentable,they fet on fire, and clean confumed to 
 afhes a great large plain, being above fix leagues about,and full of corn ready to be reaped. 
 This cruelty executed, the Army began again to move,compofed,as it was,of fome threefcore 
 and five thoufand horfe, ( for as touching the reft they were all flain,as well at the taking of 
 fQuincay,is in that of the Caftle of Nixiancoo,) and went on to a mountain, named Vommi- 
 tay, where they remained that night ; The next morning diflodgjpg from thence, they marched 
 on fomewh.it fafter then before, that they might arrive by day Sc the City of Pequin, which 
 was difiant about feven leagues from that mountain: Ac three of the clock ia the afternoon 
 we came to the river of PaUmxitah, where a Tartar Captain, accompanied with an hundred 
 horfe, came to receive us, having waited there two days for that purpofe 5 The firft thing that 
 he did, was the delivering of a letter from the King to bur General, who received it wich (a 
 great uealbf ceremony; From this river to the Kings quarter, which might be fome two 
 leagues,the ' tmy marched without order,as being unable to do otherwife,partly as well in re¬ 
 gard of the great concourfe of people, wherewith the ways were full in coming to fee the 
 Generals arrival, as for the great train which the Lords brought along with them, that over¬ 
 spread «11 the fields ; In this o;der,or rather diforder,we arrived at the Cafile of Lautir, which 
 was the firft Fort of nine that the. Camp had for the retreat of the Spies j there we found a 
 young Prince, whom the Tartar had fenc thither to accompany the General , who alighting 
 from his horfe took his Scymitar from his fide,and on his knees offered it unto him, after he 
 had kitted the ground five times, being the ceremony or complement ordinarily ufed amongft 
 them ; The Prince was exceedingly pleafed with this honour v done unto him, which with a 
 fouling countenance,and much acknowledgment of words he teftified unto himjThis pafi,the 
 Prince with a new ceremony fiepc two or three paces back, and lifting up his voice with more 
 gravity then before, as h: bat represented the Perfon of the King, in whofe name he came, 
 faid unto him, He, the border of whofe rich vefiure my month kjjf*th, and that out of an incre¬ 
 dible greatnefs maficreth the Scepters of the earth , and of the Iflcs of the Sea , fends thee word 
 by me, ■who am his flave, that thy honour able arrival is no lefs agreeable unto him , then the 
 Summers fweet morning is to the ground , when as the dew doth comfort and refrejh our bodies , 
 and therefore would have thee without further delay to come and hear his voice mounted on 
 his horfe, whofe trappings are garntjhed with jewels taken out of his Treafury, to the end, 
 that riding by my fide , thou majeft be made equal in honour to the greatefi of his Court , and 
 that they which behold thee marching m this fort 9 may acknowledge that the right hand of him 
 u mighty and valiant unto whom the labours of war giveth this recompence. Hereupon the 
 Mitaquer proltrating himielf on the earth, with his hands lifted up, anfwered him thus\ Let 
 my head be an hundred times trampled on by the foie of his feet , that all thofe of my race may be 
 Jenfble of fo great a favour , and that my eldefi Son may ever carry it for a markjof honour. 
 T. v :n mounting on the horfe' which the Prince had given him, trapped with gold and pre¬ 
 cious (tones* being one of thofe that the King ufed to ride on himfelf, they marched on with 
 
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 a great dcil of State and M i jefty. In this pomp were many fpare Horfes led richly harnefftd. 
 t here were alio a number of Ufhers, carrying Silver Maces on their fhoulders, and fix hun¬ 
 dred Halberdiers on horsback, together with fifteen Chariots, full of Silver Cymbals, and 
 many ocher ill-tuned barbarous Inlirunients, that made fo great a din, as it wasnocpotfib'e 
 to hear one another. Moreover, in all this difiance of way, which was a league and a half, 
 there were fo many men on horsback, as one could hardly pafs through the crowd in any part 
 thereof The Mnaquer being thus in triumph arrived at the firft Trenches of the Camp,' he 
 ftnc us by one of his Servants co his Quarter, where we were very well received, and abun¬ 
 dantly turnilhed with all things necclfary for us. 
 
 Fourteen days after we arrived at this Camp,the Mitaquer, our General, Cent for us to his 
 Tent, where in thepreience of fome of his Gentlemen,he faid unto us; Tomorrow morning ° 
 about this time be yon ready, that / may make good my word unto you, which is to let you fee 
 the face of him whom we hold for our Sovereign Lord, a grace that is done you cut of a par¬ 
 ticular rdf eel to me ; And this his Majefty doth not onely grant unto you, hut your liberty al- 
 f°) which 1 have obtainedof him for you, andwhich in truth I am no left glad of, then of 
 the taking of Nixiancoo, the particulars whereof you may relate unto him, if you come to be fo 
 happy as to bequeftioned by him about it. Withall , l affure you, that Ifhalltake it fur a great 
 fat is fall ion, if when you fhall return into your Country , you will remember that 1 have kept 
 my word with you, and that therein 1 have fhewedmy felf fo punctual, as it may be l would 
 not for that confederation demand of the King fome other thing more prof table forme, that 
 you may know this was that which I onely dkfired. And the King hath done me the honour to 
 grant it me prefemly, and that with fuch exceeding demonflration of favour, as Imuftcon- 
 fefs I am thereby more obliged unto you , then you are tome. Having fpoken thus unto us, 
 we profirated our felves upon the ground, and in this fort anfwered him. c My Lord, the 
 good which you have pleafed to do us is fo great , that to go about to thank-you with words (as 
 the world ufeth to do) in the fate we now are in, would rather be an ingratitude, then a true and 
 due acknowledgement ; fo that we thinks it better to pafs it by in (Hence within the fecret of that 
 foul which God hath put into us ; And therefore ftnee our tongues are of no ufe to us herein, 
 and that they cannot frame words, capable to fatisfie fo great an obligation as this is, where¬ 
 in all of usJl and for ever fo infinttely ingaged unto you, we mttfl with continual tears and ftohs 
 beg of the Lord which made Heaven and Earth, that he will reward you for it; for it is he that 
 out of his infinite mercy and goodnefs hath taken upon him to pay that for the poor, which 
 they of themfelves are not able to difeharge ; It is he then, that will throughly recompenfe you 
 and your children for this good office you have done us, and whereby you merit to have a (hare 
 in his promifes, and to live long and happily in this world. Amonglt thole which accompa¬ 
 nied the C Mitaquer at that time, there was one named Bonquinuda, a man in years, and of 
 the principally Lords of the Kingdom, who in this Army commanded the firangersand 
 Rhinoceroots, that ferved for the Guard of the Gimp 5 This fame, unto whom more refped 
 was born then to all the reft that were prefenr, had no fooner heard our Anfwer, but lifting 
 up his eyes to Heaven, he faid, O ! who could be fo happy, as to be able to ask of God the 
 explication of fo high a fecret, whereunto the weaknefs of our poor under (landing cannot ar- 
 rtve ; for I yoould fain know whence it comes, that he permits people fo far efloigned from 
 the knowledge of our truth, to anfwer on the fudden in terms fo agreeable to our ears, that 1 
 dare well fay, nay, I will venture my head on it, that concerning things of God, and Hea¬ 
 ven, they know more Jleep mg, then we do broad awake ; whence it may be inferred, that there 
 are Priefts amongft them that uuderftand the courfeof the Stars, and the motions of the Hea - 
 vens, far better then onr Bonzes of the houfe of Lechuna, Whereupon all that were about 
 him anlwered. Tour Qreatnefs hath fo much reafon for it, that we are obliged to hold 
 it as an Article of our Faith ; wherefore we think. it were fit , that thefe (Irangers fhould 
 wot be fuffered to go out of our Country, where, as our Mafters and Doctors, they might 
 teach us fuch things they know of the world. That which you advife, replied the Mitaquer, 
 is not much amifs, and yet the King would never permit it for all the treafures of China, becaufe 
 if he fhould, he would then violate the truth of his word,and fo lofe all the reputation of his oreat- 
 nef s', wherefore you muft excufe me if I do not propound things unto him that cannot be • where¬ 
 upon turning himfelf towards us, Go, get you gone, faid he unto us, and to morrow morning fail 
 not to be ready for to come again when 1 fhall fend for you. Thefe words exceedingly content¬ 
 ed us, as there was greac caufe they fhould ? and accordingly the next day he fent us nine 
 
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 Horfes very well furnifhed,upon which we mounced,and fo went to his Tent 5 He in the mean 
 time had put himfelf into a Piambre (that is fomewhit like to a Licter)drawn with two horfes 
 richly harudVed;round about him for his Guard marched 60 Halberdiers ,6 Pages apparelled in 
 his Livery mounted on white Curtals,and we nine on horsback a little more behinde. Int his 
 manner he went on towards the place where the King was, whom he found lodged in the 
 great and fumptuous Edifice of the Goddels Nacapirau, by the Chintfes called rhe Qj*en of 
 Heaven,whereof I have fpoken at large in 34 Chapter. Being arrived at the firftTrenches of 
 the Kings Tent,he alighted out of his Litter,and all the reft likewife off from their horfes,for 
 tofpeak to the Nautaran, of whom, with a kinde of Ceremony, after the fafhion of the Gen¬ 
 tiles, he craved leave to enter,which was prefently granted him. Thereupon the Mitaquer be¬ 
 ing returned into his Litter, paffed through the Gates in the fame manner as before,onely we 
 and the reft of his followers waited upon him on foot. When he came to a low and very long 
 Gallery, where there was a great number of Gentlemen, he alighted again out of his Litter, 
 and told us that we were to attend him there, for that he would go and know whether it were 
 a fit time to fpeak with the King,or no.We ftayed there then about an hour,during the which 
 fome of the Gentlemen that were in the Gallery obferving us to be ftrangers,and fuch kinde 
 of people as they had never feen the like, they called us, and very courteoufly bid us to fit 
 down by them, where having fpent fome time in beholding certain Tumblers (liewing Feats 
 of Activity,we perceived the Mitaquer coming forth with four very beautiful Boys, attired in 
 long Coats after the Turkjfh fafhion,garded all over with green and ( white,and wearing abouc 
 the fmall of their legs little Hoops of Gold in thetorm of Irons and Shackles. The Gentle¬ 
 men that were prefenr, affoon as they faw them, rofe up on their feet,;and drawing out their 
 CourceLffes, which they wore by their (ides,they laid them on the ground with a new kinde of 
 ceremony, faying three times, Let the Lord of our heads live an hundred thoufand years. In 
 the mean whije,as we lay with our heads bending to the ground, one of thofe Boys faid aloud 
 unto us 5 You men of the other end of the world, re Joyce nova ,for that the hour is come, wherein 
 your dejire is to be accomplished, and that you are to have the libertyhvhich the Mitaquer pro- 
 mifedyou at the Cafile of Nixianicoo, wherefore arife from off the earth,and lift up your hands 
 to Heavenyendring thankj unto the Lordjwho during the night of our peaceable reft,enamels the 
 Firmament with Stars,feeing that of himfelf alone,without the merit of any fiefh,he hath made 
 you to encounter in your exile with a man that delivers your perfons. To this Speech, proftrated 
 as we were on the ground, we returned him this Anfwer by our Truch-man, c J\iay Heavens 
 grant us fo much happinefs, as that his foot may trample on our heads ; whereunto he replied, 
 1 sur wifh is not fmall, and may it pleafe God to accord you this gift of riches. 
 
 Seff.3. Thefe four Boys,and the Mitaquer, whom we followed,paft through a Gallery,erefted up¬ 
 
 on five and twenty pillars of Brafs,and entred into a great room,where there were a number 
 of Gentlemen,& amongft them many l\tin»eis,Mogorcs,Perfians,BordiesfiaUminhams,tnd 
 Bramaas . After we were, out of this room, we came into another, where there were many 
 armed men, ranged into five Files all along the room, wirh Courtelaffes on their fhoulders, 
 that were garniflied with gold* Thefe ftayed the Aiitaquer a little,& withgreac complements 
 asked him fome queftions, and cook his oath upon the Maces the Boys carried,which he per¬ 
 formed on his kneeSjkifling the ground 3 feveral timcs,whereupon he was admirted to pafs on 
 in to a great p lace, like a quadrangle 5 tbere wc faw four ranks of Statues of Brafs, in form of 
 wi!de men,with Clubs and Crowns of the fame metall gilt: Thefe Idols,or Gyants,were each 
 of them fix and twenty Spans high,and fix broad, as well on the breaft, as on the fhoulders; 
 their countenances were hideous and deformed,and their hair curled like to Negroes. The de¬ 
 fire we bad to know what thefe Figures hgnified made us to demand it of the Tartars , who 
 | aniwered us,that they were the three hundred and threefcore gods which framed the days of 
 | year,being placed there exprefly,to the end that in their effigies they mighr be continu¬ 
 ally adored,for having created the fruits which the earth produceth; and withall that the King 
 of Tart ary had caufed them to be tranfported thither from a great Temple, called Angie x- 
 ^/,which he had taken in theCity of Xipaton,o\it of the Chappel of the Tombs of the Kings 
 oi China, {01 to triumph over them, when as he fhould happily return into his Country, thac 
 the whole world might know how in defpight of the King of China he had captivared his 
 gods. Within this place,whereof I fpeak,and amidft a plantation of Orange-trees,that was in- 
 vironed with a fence of Ivy,Rofes,Rofemarv,& many other forts of flowers,which we have 
 nor in Europe, was a I enc pitched upon 12 Bijlifters of the wood of Camphirejeach of them 
 
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Of Ferdinand Mendez^ 'Pinto. i 
 
 wreathed about with {liver in the fafhion of knotted Card-wo k, bigger then ones arm. In 
 this 7 ent was a low Throne in the form of an Alcar, garnifhed with branched work of fine 
 gold,and ov.r it was a cloth 6f flite,i ec thick with filvcr Gars; where alfo the Sun and Moca 
 were to be feen,as alfo cer^in clouds,fome of them white,and others of ihofe colours which 
 appear in the time of ram, all enamelled fo to the life,and with fuchs-fc, that they beguiled 
 all thofe that beheld them,lor rhey feemed tofrain indeed,to as it was impoflible to fee a thing 
 more complete,either for the proportions or colours.In the midfl of this Throne upon a bed 
 lay a great Gatue of lilver, called Abicau Nilancor, which fignifies, the god of the health of 
 kings, that had been alfo taken in the Temple of Angicamoy . Now round about the fame fia- 
 tue were four and thirty Idols of the height of a child of five or fix years old,ranged in 2 files, 
 and fee on their knees,with their hands lifted up towards this Idol,as if they would adore him! 
 At the entry into this Tent there were four young Gentlemen richly clad,wbo with each of 
 them a cenferin his hand, went two and two about, then at the found of a bell proltrated 
 themfelves on the ground,and cenfed one another,faying with a loud voice ,Let cur cry come 
 unto thee res a frveet perfume , to the end thou may ft hear us. For the guard of this Tent, there 
 were 60 Halberdiersywho at a lictle didance invironed ic all about. They were clothed with 
 gilt leather, and hid Murrians on their heids curioufly engraven; all which were very agree- 
 able and majeftical objedfs. Out of this place we en r red into another divifion, where there 
 were four chambers very rich and well furnifhed,in the which were many Gentlemens well 
 Grangers as Tartars . From thence palling on whither the Mitaquer and the young Boys con¬ 
 duced us, we a rived at the door Of a great low room, in form like to a Church,where flood 
 fix Ufhers with their Maces, who with* new complement to the Aditaquer caufed us to en - 
 ter, but kept out all others. In this room was the King of Tartaria , accompanied with many 
 Princes,Lords,and Captains,amongfl whom were the Kings of Pafua,Mecuy,Capinper,Raina 
 Penan, Anchefacotay, and others to the number of 14, who in rich attire were all feared 
 fome three or four paces from the foot of the Tribunal. A lictle more on the one fide were 
 two and thirty very fair women, who playing upon divers inftruments of Mufick, made a 
 wonderful fweec Conforr. The King was fee on his Throne under a rich cloth of flare, and 
 nad about him 12 young boys kneeling on their knees, with lictle Maces of gold like Sce¬ 
 ptres,which they carried on their (houldersjclofe behinde was a young Lady extremely beau- • 
 tiful, and wonderfully richly attired, with a Ventiloe in her hand, wherewith (lie ever and 
 anon fanned him. This fame was the filler of the Aditaquer our General, and infinitely belo¬ 
 ved of the King, for whofe fake therefore it was that he was in fuch credit and reputation 
 throughout the whole ArmyrThe King was much about 40 years of age,full flature,fomewha£ 
 lean,and of a good afpeC; his beard was very flhorr, his muflaches afeer the Turkjfh manner, 
 his eyes like to th zft'hinefes', and his countenance fevere and majeftical; As for his veflure,ic 
 was violet-colour,in fafhion like to a Turkjjh Robe,imbroidered with Pearl, upon his feet he 
 had green Sandals wrought all over with gold-purl,and great Pearls among ic,and bn his head 
 a Sattin cap of the colour of his habir, with a rich Band of Diamonds and Rubies intermin¬ 
 gled together: Before we pafl anv farther,after we had gone ten or eleven fteps in the room, 
 we made cur complement by killing of the ground three feveral times, and performing other 
 ceremonies, which the Truch-men taught us: In the mean time the King commanded the 
 Mnfick to ceafe, and addrefliag himfelf to the Mitaquer ; Ask thefe men of the other end of 
 the World, laid he unco him, whether they have a King, what is the name of their Country, 
 and now far dillant it is from this Kingdom of China where now I am ? Thereupon one of 
 ours,tpeaking for all the refi, anfvvered ; That our Country was called Portugal, that the 
 King thereof was exceeding rich and migbty 5 and that from thence to the City of Pequin was 
 ac the leafi three yearsvoyage. This Anfwer much amazed the King, becaulehe did nor 
 think the World had been fo Urge, fo that ftriking his thigh with a Wand that he had in his 
 hand,and lifting up his eyes to Heaven, as though he would render thanks unto Godjhe faid 
 aloud, m as every one might hear him : O Creator of all things ! are we able to comprehend 
 the marvels of thy greatnefs, we that at the btft are but poor worms of the earth l Fuxiqui- 
 dane, fuxiquidane, let them approach, let them approach. Thereupon beckning to us with his 
 hand,he caufed us to come even to the firft degree of the Throne,where the fourteen Kings 
 fate, and demanded of him again, as a man aflonilhed, Tucau, p tic an, that is to fay, how far, 
 vow far l whereUnto he anfvvered as before,that we (hould be at leafl three years in returning 
 to our Country. Then he asked, why we came not rather by Land, then by Sea, where fo 
 
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 many labours and dangers were to be undergone ? Thereunto he replied, that there was tco 
 great an extent of hnd, through which we were not allured to pafs, for that it was com¬ 
 manded by Kings of feveral nations, hvhat come you to fee for then , added the King, and 
 wherefore do you, expofeyour felves to fuch dangers? Then having refftdred him a Reafon to this 
 laft Demand,with all the fubmifsion that might be, he Hayed a pretty while without fpeaking; 
 and then fhaking his head three or four times, he addrdfed himfelf to an old man that was 
 not far from him, and faid, Certainly we mufi needs conclude , that there is either much ambiti¬ 
 on, or little juft ice in the Country of thefe people, feeing they come fofar to conquer other Lands. 
 To this Speech the old man,named Raia Benan, made no other Anfwer,but that it mull needs 
 be fo; for men, faid he, who have recourfe unto their indullry and invention to run over the 
 Sea for to get that which God hath not given them, are neceflarily carried thereunto, either 
 by extreme poverty, or by an excefs of blindnefs and vanity, derived from much covetoufnefs, 
 which is the caule why they renounce God, and thofe that broughr them into the world. This 
 Reply of the old man was feconded by many jeering words by the other Courtiers, who 
 made great fport upon this occafion, that very much pleafed the King; in the mean time the 
 women fell to their mufick again, and fo continued, till the King withdrew into another 
 Chamber in the company of thefe fair Muficians, and that young Lady that fanned him, not 
 fo much as one of thofe great Perfonages daring to enter be fide s : Nor long after one of 
 thofe twelve Boys that carried the Scepters before mentioned, came to the Mitaquer, and 
 told him from his Siller, That the King commanded him to depart away, which he held for a 
 lingular favour) by reafon this Melfage was delivered to him in the prefence of thofe Kings 
 and Lords that were in the room, fo that he llirred not, but fent us word,that we fhould go 
 unto our Tent with this allurance, that he would take care the Son of the Sun Ihouid be mind¬ 
 ful Of USi’ 
 
 CHAP. XL.' 
 
 The King of Tartaria’/ raifing of his Siege from before Pequin,/<?>' to return into his 
 Country , and that which faffed until his Arrival there . 
 
 W E had been now full three and forty days in this Camp, during which time there pall 
 many fights and skirmilhesbetween the befiegers and the befiegea,as alfo two alfjuks 
 in the open day, which were refilled by them within with an invincible courage,like refolute 
 men as they were ; In the mean time the King of Tart aria facing how contrary to his hope 
 fo great an enterprife had been,\vherein he had confumed fo much treafure,caufed his Council 
 of War to be affembled, in the which were prefent the feven and twenty Kings that accom¬ 
 panied him, and likewife many Princes, and Lords, and the moll part of the chief Comman¬ 
 ders of the Army: In this Council it was refolved, that in regard Winter was ac hand, and 
 that the Rivers had already overflowed their banks with fuch force and violence, as they had 
 ravaged and carried away moll of the Trenches and Pallifadoes of the Camp, and that more¬ 
 over great numbers of the Souldiers died daily of ficknefs, and for want of vi&uals, that 
 therefore theKing could not do better then to raife his Siege,& be gone beforeWinter came, 
 for fear left Haying longer,he fhould run the hazard of lofing himfelf,and his Army: All thefe 
 reafonsfeemed fo good to theKing,that without further delay he refolved to follow this coun- 
 fehand to obey the prefent necefsity, though it were to his great grief; fo that incontinently 
 he caufed all his Infantry & Ammunition to be imbarquedjthen having commanded hisCamp 
 to be fet on fire,he himfelf went away by land with three hundred thoufand Horfe,and twen¬ 
 ty thoulandRhinocerctsiNow after they had taken an account of all the dead,they appeared 
 to be four hundred and fifty thoufand,the moll of whom died of ficknefs, as alfo an hundred 
 thoufand Horfes,*nd threescore thoufand Rhinocerots,which were earen in the fpace of two 
 monechs and an half,wherein they wanted v. ; dual;fo that of eighteen hundred thoufand men 
 wherewith the King of Tart aria came out of his Country £p befiege the City of Pequin , be- 
 A‘jre the which he lay fix moneths and a half, he carried h$me fome feven hundred and fifty 
 thoufand lefs then he brought forth, whereof four and fifty thoufand died of ficknefs, 
 famine,and war,and three hundred thoufand went and rendred chemfelves unto the Chinefes, 
 drawn thereunto by the great pay which they gave them,and other advantages of honor and 
 prefents which theycontinually bellowed on them;whcreac we are not to marvel,feeing expe¬ 
 rience doth fhewjhotv that alone isof far more power to oblige men,then all other things in the 
 
 world. 
 
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 world. After the King of Tart aria was gone from this City of Peqnm\ upon a Mnnday, the 
 feventeemh of October , with three hundred thoufand horfe, as I have 7 related before, thi ■fame 
 
 tl t° hou V SS Wen h C an A d ,0 l ged ne ^ r C ° 3 the ixfinoS 
 
 inttru^e^r^of^wa'r 2 Army ^f® an , to march a t the found of the Drums, Fifes, and other 
 
 befo^ n^h r f L °' hcorder P refc ^d them J In this manner he arrived a little 
 
 r I ? n M^dGuitampea, which he found altogether depopulated: After 
 rCP ° fed tbere 2b P ut an hour aQd half, he fet forth again, and marching fan" 
 
 TnJ J ^ C3t T C0 ° dgC aC foocof 3 & reac mountain, called Liampen, from whence he 
 departed towards morning. Thus marched he eight leagues a day for fourteen days together, 
 
 a the end whereof he arrived at a good Town, named Guanxitim, which might contain abou 
 eleven ortwclve thouland fires; There he was counfelled to furnilh himfelf with viluals 
 w e eof he had great need, for which purpofe therefore he begirt it round, and skalin* ic in 
 e open day he quickly made himfelf Mafier of it, and put it to che fack with fo cruel! Maf- 
 lacreot the innabicants, as my fellows and I were ready to fwoond for very aftoniQiment s 
 
 0?t 'A a^c tbaC l^ 001 ^ and dre dac i confumed all things, and that the Army was abundantly 
 provided of ammunition and vi&ual, he departed at the break of day; and though he pafi the 
 next morning in che view of Caixtloo , yet would not he attaqueic, for that it was a great 
 andllrong Town, and byfcicuation impregnable, having heard befides that there were fifty 
 5 - , 0l l P?. 20 mt ^! n 1C > whereof ten thoufand were Mogores , Cauchins , and Champaas , re- 
 fdute rouldiers and much more warlike then the Cbmefis. From thence pafling on he arrived 
 
 Ji :i r u 7 s 0t which are the very fame that, as I have faid heretofore, do 
 
 \ tr>A Cwo China and Tartarian There meeting with no refinance he went 
 
 and lodged on the further fide of it at fanquinor , which was the firft of his own Towns, and 
 
 c , hrce ] **Z UC * fl c °™ the fald wall >. and che next day he marched to <Pfpator, where 
 he Um lied the mod part of his people: In this place he flayed not above feven days, which he 
 fpent in providing pay for his fouldiers, and in the execution of certain prisoners he had taken 
 in that war, and brought along with him : Thefe things thus expedited, he, as a man not ve¬ 
 ry well pleafed, imbarqued himfelf for Lane ame , in fixfcore Lanlees, with no more then 
 ten or eleven thoufand men : So in fix dayes after his imbarqumg, he arrived at Lanca- 
 
 me, where not permitting any reception to ; be made him, he landed about two hours wkhin 
 mgnt. 
 
 The King abode in this City of Lancame until fuch time as all his force*, as well horfe as foot, Sc a s 
 
 were arrived mere, which was within fix and twenty days ; then having all his Army together, 
 he went on to another City far greater and fairer, called Tuymieoa, where he was vifited by 
 fome Princes lus Neighbours, and by the Ambaffadors of many other Kings and Soveraignsof 
 more remoter Countrys , of which the chiefefl were fix great and mighty Monarchs, namely, 
 Xataanas the Sophy of Perfa ; Siamon Emperour of the Gueos , whofe Country borders on 
 that oi Bramaa, md Tangm ; the Calaminham , Lord of the indomitable force of the Ele¬ 
 phant of the Sarth 3 as I fhall deliver hereafter, when I come to treat of him and his State ; the 
 Sournati of Odiaa, tnat n ames himfelf the King of Siam, whofe dominion runs feven hundred 
 leagues along thecoafl with that of lanaufenn , and on Champaa fide with the Malayos , Ber¬ 
 thes, and Fatones , and through the heart of the Country with Tajfioloqtta , Capioper, and 
 C hiammay^ as alfo with the Lauhos , and Ghcos ,* fo that this Prince alone hath leventeen King* 
 doms within his StaEe, by reaion whereof, for to make himfelf the more redoubted amon°ft 
 the Gentiles, he caufeth himfelf to be Ailed, The Lord of the white Elephant 5 the fifth was 
 me greac Mogor, whofe State is within the heart of the Country, near to the Cora^ones, a 
 1 rovince bordering upon Per fa , and the Kingdom of Dely, and Chttor ; and the lafl an Em¬ 
 perour of a Country named Caran, as we were informed there, the bounds of whofe Sove¬ 
 reignty are at the Mountains oiGengalidau , fixty degrees further on, where a certain people 
 live , whom they of the Country call Ulfofcovites , whereof we have fome in this City, 
 whicn were fair of completion, well lhapen, and apparelled with Breeches, Caffocks, and Hats, 
 like to the F lemings which we fee in Europe, the chiefefl of them wearing Gowns lined with 
 Sables, and the reft with ordinary furs. Tne Ambaffador of this Emperour of Caran was more 
 remarkable in his entry, then all the reft : He had for his Guard abouc fixfcore men, armed wich 
 arrows, and Partifans, damasked with gokl and fiber, and all attired alike in violet and green ; 
 
 Alter them marched on horsback twelve Ufhers, carrying filver Maces, before whom twelve 
 hones were led, that had carnation cloches on them, bordered abouc with gold and filvcr; They 
 
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 were followed by twelve huge tell men, that feemed to k GitDts, dothe 
 wild men ate ufed to be painted, one of them bolding velvet Sad- 
 
 chain ;Then appeared twelve little Pages, mounted on ^"^Yn’ crimfon fattin Caffocks, 
 dies,trimmed with ftiver lace and fringe^hey were a app chains of “old fcarf-wife *- 
 
 lined with mattetns, breeches, and hats of the fame, and g^ c “ "face fo well favoured, 
 bout them; Thefe twelve boys were a, of one e£™ 
 
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 over wall lilver ; R 0 und about th^ P,r^<, aoth laced'all over with carnation fdk lace, 
 
 foot-men in jerkins, ana breeches or green ana rea a , h ji p , and chaos of fil- 
 
 having fwords by their_l.de chains ^andrlcl^wife abou’t them, ’and on their heads 
 
 ver, and hunting . r u ^ ver Wangles : Thus was the equipage of this 
 
 they wore caps, with feathers in them full ot lilver p ® n rftnr ii,rfc he helo^oed to fome 
 
 Ambaffador fofutnptuousandttately. tbntone P^^idamsontbeaMaMjnar, whowentto 
 very rich and mighty Prmce. Now goin B one day as att we obferved there, 
 
 vif.t him from the King , amongft other things that we faw in to 
 
 which Proceeded a moll delicateW S At the door of each ***£*«*\°2 
 two Halberdiers, who admitted perfons of quality to enter that «mc th ther to fee themi In 
 another very ^reat room,in form like to a Gallery ,there was upon a very high and lar D v toot pai c. 
 a“ttle table placed, covered with a damask table-cloth, edged about with g^-fnnge.anduf^n 
 t plate Napkin, with a fork and a fpoon of gold as alfo two■ Imle falt-fe£££££* 
 metal • Now about ten or eleven paces on the one fide from this table were two cupDordsot 
 plate of all kind of fafhions,and other veffels of great value $ Moreover^ the four corners of. h 
 
 table were four citterns about the bignefs of a bpfhel, with their kettles faftene' o , 
 
 chains all of ttlver as alfo two very great candlefticks of the fame with white wax cand*es in them, 
 burnoclio hted^ f The re were alio « the door of the room twelve handfome Halberdiers, do- 
 thed in man les like to Irijh rugs, with Scymitars by their 
 
 flivsr • which Guard ( as ordinarily it is with them) were very haughty and rude in their aniwers 
 to all that fpeak to them. Although this Ambatfadour was come thither in f^ >y of .’ f p 
 the reft , yet th ; principal fubjeft of his Embaffy was i« treat of a marriage between the Em- 
 perour of Car an, and a lifter of the Tartar, named Metca vMu, that is to fay, a rich Saphir, 
 a Lady of about fome thirty years of age, but very handfom, and exceeding charitable to the poor, 
 whom we faw divers times in this Cicy at the chiefeft fea Is, which thefe people ufeto fo- 
 iemniz; at certain times of the year, after the manner of the Cintilcs. Howbeit fectmg afide 
 all this fwhereof 1 had not fpoken but that it feemed more remarkable unto me then all the 
 reft,) I will return to my former difeourfe, as well concerning our liberty, as the voyage that 
 we made, even to the Iflands of the Sea of Chit, a , whither the Empetourof ‘TarUr.auuxd 
 us to be conveighed, to the end that fuch as fhall come after us may attain to t e n c 
 a part of thofe things whereof, it may be, they have never heard fpoken unti t is pr 
 
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 In what manner we were bronght again before the King of Tartaria 5 m / ^ i 
 
 from that Kingdom ; and all that we f“W 3 &nd frfell Hi in onr voyage , til our arrtva a* 
 
 the Court of the King of Cauchinchiaa. 
 
 fI ; A Fcer fome time had been fpent in the Celebration' of certain remarkable Feafts, that: 
 jfX were made for joy of the conclufion of a marriage betwixt the Princefs Mete* viUan t 
 the Kings fitter, and the Emperour of Caran t the Tartar , by the advice ot his Captains, relo¬ 
 ved to return anew to the Siege of Teqnin^ which he had formerly quitted, taking the ill iuc- 
 
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 cefs that he had there as a great affront co his perfon ; To this efreft then hecaufed all the 
 Ettates of hi.iKingdom to be afl’embled,ind alfo made a league with ail the Kings and Princes 
 bordering in hisDominions.-whereupon conhdering with ourielves how prejudicial this might 
 prove co the protnife bad been ma ie us for the feccing of us at liberty,we repaired co thcMi- 
 taquer, and reprefented unto him many things that made for our purpofe, and obliged him to 
 keep his word with us;To which he returned us this AnLwer: Certainly you have a great deal 
 of rcafon for that you fay, and I have yet more, not to refute you that which you demand of 
 me with io much juflicejwherefore I refolve to put the King in minde of you, that you may 
 enjoy your liberty the Looner you fhall be gone from hence 3 the fooner you fhall be freed 
 from the labors which the time begins to prepare for us in the enterprife that histyla jetty hath 
 newly undertaken by the counfei of fome paiticulars,whofor chat they know not how to go¬ 
 vern themfelves have more need to be counfelled, then the earth bach need of water to pro¬ 
 duce the fruits that are fowed in her;but to morrow morning I fhall put the King in minde of 
 you,andyour poverty.and wit hall I {lull prefent unto him how yo have poor facherlefs chil¬ 
 dren,is you have heretofore told me,to the end he may be thereby incited to caft his eyes up¬ 
 on you, as he is accuttomed to do in like cafes, which is none of the leaft marks of his great- * 
 nefs.Hereupon he difmifled us for that day,and the next morning he went to Pontiveu,which 
 is a place where the King ufeth to give aucfience to all iuch as have any fuic to hini;There be- 
 lceching hisMajeliy to think of us,he anfweredhim,thatas foon as he hadfdifpatched away an 
 Ambaflador to the King of Caucheuchina , he would fend us along with him, for fo he had re- 
 folved todo: With this Anfv/er the Mitaquer returned co his houfe,where we were ready at¬ 
 tending his coming, «and cold us what the King had promifed him, wherewithal! not a little 
 contented we went back co our lodging;Tnere in the expectation of the good fuccefs of this 
 promife vve continued io days with fome impatience ; at the end whereof the Mitaquer by 
 the Kings exprefs command carried us with him to the Court, where caufing us to approach 
 near to his Ma jetty, with thofe ceremonies of greatnefs which are obferved in coming before 
 him, being the lame we ufed at < Pequiu, after be had beheld us with a gentle eye, he bid the 
 Mitaquer ask Of us whether we would ferve him, and in cafe we would, he fhould not onely 
 be very well pleated with ic,but he would alfo give us better entertainment,and more advan¬ 
 tageous conditions r hen all the ttrangers that fhould follow him in this War.To this demand 
 the c JAlitaquer anfwered very favourably for us, how he had often heard us fay, that sve were 
 maried in our Councry, and had a great charge of children, who had no other means to main¬ 
 tain them, but what we got with our labor,which was poorly enough,God knows: The King 
 beard this fpeech with fome demon fir at ion of pity, fothat looking on the Mitaquer ; lam 
 glad.) faid he,to know that they have fuchgood caufe to return home as they fteak^of, that I may 
 with the more contentment acquit me of that which thou haft promifed them in my name. At 
 tbefe words the Mitaquer, and all we that were with him, lifting up our hands, as a tefti- 
 mony of our thankfulnefs unto him, we kitted the ground 3 times, and f2id, CMay thy feet 
 reft themfelves upon a thoufand generations, to the end that thou mayft be Lord of the inhabit 
 tants of the earth. Hereac the King began to fmile, and faid to a Prince that was near him, 
 TJoefe men Jpeal^as if they had been bred among ft m 5 Then catting his eyes on Jorge Mendez 
 who ttood before us all next to the CAlitaquer, *Andthou, faid he unto him, in what conditi¬ 
 on art thou, wilt thou go, or flay l whereupon CMeudez,, who had long before premeditated 
 his Anfwer, Sir , replied he, for me, that have neither Wife nor Children to bewail my abfence , 
 the thing I moft defire in the World is to ferve your Majefty, ftnee you are pleafed therewith, 
 where unto l have more ajfeth n then to be Chaem of Pequin one thoufand years together. At 
 this the King fmiled again, and then difmiffed us, io thac \ve returned veiy well latisfied to 
 our lodging, where vve continued 3 days in a readinefs co deparr, at the end of L vuhich, by 
 the mediation of the Mitaquer, and means of his Sitter, who, as I have faid before, was 
 wonderfully beloved of the King, his Ma jetty fent us,for the eight that vve were 2000 Taeis, 
 and gave us in charge to his Ambaflador, whom he lent to the Ciry of Uz,amguee in 
 chenchina, in the company of the fame King of Cauchench'ma’s Ambaflador : With him vve 
 departed from thence 5 days after, being imbarqued in the Vettel wherein he went himfelf i 
 But before our departure Jorge Mendez, gave us 1000 Duckets, which was eatte for him to 
 do, for that he had already < 5 ooo of yearly rent, wichall he kept us company all chat day, and 
 at the length took his leave of us, not without (bedding many a tear fox grief thac he had fo 
 expofed himfelf to a voluntary exile. 
 
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 Being departed from this City of Tuymicxn on the ninth day of May, in the year one thou- 
 fand five hundred forty and four, we came that night to lodge at a Umverfityin a Pagoie cal¬ 
 led Guatipanior , where the two AmbalTadors were very well entertained by the Tuyxivau of 
 the houfe, which is as the Reft or thereof, and the next morning when it was broad day, both 
 of them continued their courfe down the river,each one in his own fhip jbefides other two 
 wherein their fluff was; About two hours in the night we arrived at a lit tie Town, nimed 
 puxangmm, well fortified with Towers and Bulwarks after our manner, as alfo with very 
 broad Ditches,and flrong Bidges of hewed flonejthere waslikevvife great flore of Artillery, 
 or Cannons of Wood,made like unto the Pumps of ftiips,bchinde the which they put Boxes 
 of lron,thar held their Charge, end were faflened unto them with iron bands; as for the Bul¬ 
 lets which they fhot,they were like unto thofe of Falconcts,and half black: Being much a- 
 mrzed to fee this,we demanded of theAmbafladors who it was that had invented thofe kinde 
 of CucsPwhereunto they anfwered,that it was certain men,called Almains, and of a Coun- • 
 try nan ed Mufcovy, who by a very great Lake of fait-water came down to this Town in 9 
 veflels rowed with oars,in the company of a Widow-woman,Lady of a place called Gaytor, 
 •wbo(they faid) was chafed out of her Country by’a King of Denmark, fo that flying for re¬ 
 fuge with 3 fans of her,the great Grand-father of this King of Tartaria made them all great 
 Lords,& gave them cercain kinfwomen of his in mariage,trom whom are extra&ed the chief- 
 efl families of this Empire. The next morning we parted from this Town,and that night lay 
 at another more nobler,named Euxcau: Five days after we continued our voyage down this 
 River,and then arrived at a great Temple, called Singuafatur, w here we faw an inclofure of 
 above a league in circuit, in which were builded an hundred thrcefcore and four houles, very 
 long and broad, after the fafhion of Arfenals, all full (up to the very Tiles) of dead mens 
 headspwfiereof there was fo great a number,that I am afraid to fpeak it,for that it will hardly 
 be credited. Without each of th .fe houfes we r e alfo great Piles of the bones of thefe heads, 
 which were 3 fathom higher then the ridges of them, fo chat the houfe feemed to be buried, 
 no other part of them appearing but the frontifphce where the gate flood 5 not far from 
 thence.upon a little hill on the Somh-flde of them,was a kinde of platform,whereunto one 
 went up by certain winding-flairs of iron, and through 4feveral doors j Upon this platform 
 was the tallefl,the mofl deformed,and dreadful monfler,that polfibly can be imagined,(Bind¬ 
 ing upon his feet, and lean ; ng again A a mighty Tower of hevyed flone 5 he was made of cafl 
 iron,and of fo great and prodigious a flature, that by guefs be feemed to be above 30 fathom 
 high, and more then 6 broad j notwi:hflanding the which deformity he was exceedingly well 
 proportioned in all kis limbs, onely his head was fomewhal too little for fo great a body. 
 This monfler held in both his hands a bowl of the fame iron,being 36 fpans about. Behold¬ 
 ing fo A range and monlirous a thing, we demanded of the Tmar Arnbafl'idor the explicati¬ 
 on r hereof, who willing to fatisfie our curiofity, If you knew, anfwered he, what the 
 power of this God is , and how needful it is for you to have him to friend , certainly you would, 
 thinks it well imployed if you prefentea him with all your means, how great foever they migh t 
 he, and give them to him rather then to your own children 5 for ye muft k>iow that this great 
 Saint, which you fee there, is the Treasurer of the Bones of all thofe that are horn into the 
 World, to the end that at thl laft day, when men come to be horn again, he may give to every 
 one the fame Bones which he had upon earth ; for he knows them all,and can tell, in particular, 
 towha. hod) each of thofe hones belong : whereupon you are further to under ft and, that he 
 who m this life [hall be fo unadvifed as not to honour him, nor prefent him with fame thing, 
 ttodl b: but w att ill caf: in the other WorId, for this Saint will then give him fome of the rot - 
 teneft bones he can meet with all, and one or two left then he fhould have-, by means whereof he 
 will become deformed, lame, or crooked', and therefore if you will follow my com(el, you fhall 
 make your [elves of his fraternity, by offsriug fomething unto him, and you will finde by expe¬ 
 rience the good that will redound to you thereof hereafter. We deflred alfo to know of him 
 ■vhac the Bowl which this Monfler held in his hand lignified, whereunto he anfwered us, 
 r 6 '*! 1 */ 0 at bead of the gluttonous Serpent, that lived in the profound 
 
 k( 0 f the houje of fmoalg, when he fhould come thither to fteal away any of thofe Bones. 
 Alter this,we inquired of him,how this Monfler was cal led,and he toid us thac his name was, 
 ac inavau du beeulem Prinaufacjue , and that it was threefcore and fourteen thoufand years 
 1 l* Cw f ^§ oaen on a 7 artaois, called Migamia, by a Sea-horfe,tbat was an hundred and 
 
 c irty atnom ong,named Tybremvucam, who had been King of theGyantsof Panins 5 he 
 
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 told us like wife many other brutifh fooleries and abfurdicies, which thofe of that Country 
 believe as their Creed, 2nd wherewith the Devi! precipitates them all into Hel’; Moreover 
 this Ambaffidour allured us, that the gifts which were presented to this Idol amounted to a- 
 br.ve two hundred thoufand Tatis of yearly renr,withouc comprifing therein what came from 
 Chappels,and other foundations of obits from the principal Lords of the Country, the Re¬ 
 venue whereof was far greater then that of the gifts; For a conclufion, he told us, that this 
 lame Idol had ordinarily twelve thoufand Priefis attending on his fervice,who were maintain¬ 
 ed with meat, drink, and clothing, onely to pray for the dead, that is to lay, for thofe unto 
 whom thefe bones appertained; we were alfo allured, that thefe Priefis never went out of this 
 inclofure withouc the pennifiion of their Superiors,but that there was Hill without fix hundred 
 Servants, who took care for the providing of all things neceffary for them; And further,that 
 it was not lawful for thefe Priefls, fave once a year, to break, within this inclofure, the vow 
 whicn they had made of chaflity, but without the fame they might whore their pleafure with 
 whomsoever they would, without committing any Fin; There was alfo a Seraglio there, 
 wherein many women 5 appointed for that purpofe,were (hue up,whom their Governeffes per¬ 
 mitted to have to do with the Priefls of thisbeallly and diabolical Se<ft. 
 
 Continuing our voyage from this Pagode , or Monafiery of Gentiles, whereof we have fpo- 
 ken,the nexe day we arrived at a very fair Town, called Quangmau, which Hands on the bank 
 of the River;In this place the Ambaffadours Hayed three whole days for to furnifh themfelves 
 with certain things they wanted, as alfo for to fee the feaflings and joy that was made at that 
 time upon the entry of the Talapicor of Echma , which is their Pope, who was going then 
 unto the King for to comfort him about the ill fuccefs he had in China. AmongH other graces 
 which this Talapicor beflowed on the inhabitants of this Town, in rccompence of the charge 
 they had been at for his reception, he granted unto them, that they might be all PrieHs, and 
 adminifler their facrifices in what places foever they were, and likewife that they might there¬ 
 fore receive the fame entertainment &gifts that were accuHomed to be given unto ourPrieHs, 
 without any difference between them and thofe that upon examination had been promoted to 
 that dignity ; Moreover he gave them power to grant Bills of Exchange for Heaven unto all 
 fuch as (hould do them good here beldw.To the Ambaffadour of Cauchinchina he granted,as 
 a moH lingular favour,that he might legitimate any that would pay him for it,and alio confer 
 bn the Lords of the Court titles,& marks of honor,as far forth as if he had been King;where- 
 of the foolifh Ambaffador was fo proud,as fetting afide covetoufnefs,though it were a vice he 
 was naturally inclined umo,hs jm ploycd all that ever he had there in gifts upon thofe Priefis; 
 and befides not contented thefe$fith,he for that end borrowed of us the 2000 7 aeis * he King 
 had given us, which afterwards he paid us again with intereff after fifteen in the hundred. 
 After thefe matters the two Ambaffadours tefolved to continue their voyage,but before their 
 departure they went to vifit the Talapicor in a Pagode vvhere he was lodged, for >n regard of 
 his grcatnefs,and that he was held for a Saint,he might not abi-de with any man,buc with the 
 King only. Novv affoon as he underfiood of the Ambaflidours coming to him he fent them 
 word not to go away that day, becaufe he was to preach at the Church of certain religious 
 women of the Invocation of Pontimaejueu ; this they took for a great honour, and inconti¬ 
 nently went to the Pagode , where the Sermon was to he : At their arrival they found fuch a 
 concourfe of people, that they were confiraincd to remove the Pulpit to anorher very great 
 place, which in lefs then an hour was invironed with Scaffolds, hung about with filk Huff, 
 where on the one fide were the Ladies, richly apparelled,and on the other the Pnncefs,ca!led 
 VangttcnaraH , with all the Aienigregues , or religious women of the Vagode , being in number 
 above three hundred. After the Talapicor was gone up into the Pulpit, and that he had made 
 an exterior {hew of much holinefs,ever and anon lifring up h’s hands and eyes to Heaven,he 
 began his Sermon in this manner, Like as it is the property of water to clcanfe all things, and 
 of the San to warm all cr eat ares , fo it is the property of God through a ceteflial and divine 
 nature to do good unto 'all; wherefore we are all bound, as well in general and particular, to 
 imitate this our Lord, who hath created, and doth nourifh sis, by doing that unto thofe who 
 ft and in need of the good of this world, as we would that they {hould do unto us, for that by 
 this yearly we are mire p leafing unto him, then by any other what [sever. For as the good 
 Father of a Family rejoyceth to fee his Children made much of, andprefentsgiven tothem, fo 
 our heavenly Lord, which is the true Father of us all, rejoyceth at fuch time as with a z*eal of 
 charity we communicate one with another ; whereby it is evident , that the covetous man, 
 
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 who jhttts his hand, when the poor ask fomething of him which they want, conjf rained i hereunto 
 by necefjity, and that turns him Another way without affifiing them } fhall be treated in the f*mc 
 manner , by a juft judgement of God , and driven down into the bottom of the Jink, of the night , 
 where like a Prog he fhall croke without ceafing, being tormented by the hunger of covetoufnefs : 
 This being fo, / do advife and enjoy n you all, face you have ears to hear me, that you do that 
 which the Law of the Lord obligeth you to do,which is,that you give of that whereof you have 
 too much , to the poor , who have not wherewith to feed themfelves , to the end God may not be 
 wanting to you when you fhall be at the laft gaff of your life: Go to then , let this charity be fo 
 remarkable and univerfal in you, that the very fowls of the air may tafte of your liberality , 
 zAnd this you ought to do to keep the poor, having need of what you poffefs inexcefs,from being 
 forced by their necefjity to rob other men of their goods, whereof you would be no left blame able, 
 then if you killed an infant in the cradle ; I commend alfo unto your remembrance that which 
 is written in the Bookjif our truth , touching th e goo d you are bound to do unto the Priefis that 
 pray for you, to the end that they may not perijb for want of the good you ought to do unto them , 
 which would be as great a fin before God , as if you fhould cut the throat of a little white heifer 
 when fhe is fuckjng of her Dam, by the death of whom a thoufand fouls would die, which'are 
 buried in her as in a golden Tomb , in expectation of the day which is to accomplijh thepromife 
 that was made unto them, wherein they fhall be transformed into white Pearls for to dance in 
 Heaven, like unto Moats which are in the beams of the Sun. Having uttered thcfe thing*, he 
 added many others thereunto, and delivering a world of extravagancies and fooleries, he bc- 
 ftirred himtelf in fuch manner, as was a wonder to behold; fo that we eight Portugals were 
 exceedingly amazed at the extreme devotion -of thefc people, and how that in lifting up 
 their hands to Heaven they ever and anon repeated this word Taiximida , that is to fay. So 
 we believe 5 In the mean time one of our fellows, named Vincent Morofa t hearing the Audi* 
 tors fo often ufe that word Taiximida , faid in imitation of them, Such may thy life be ; and 
 that with fuch a grace, and to fetled a countenance, not feeming any way to jeer him, that 
 not one of the Afftmbly could forbear laughing: He in the mean while continued Hill firm, 
 and more and more confirmed, feeming even to weep out of an excefs of devotion 5 Now 
 his eyes being always fixed on the Talapicor , be whenfoever he chanced to look on him could 
 cot chufc but do as the red did; fo that upon the conclufion of his Sermon all that heard him 
 fell to laughing out-right: The Priorefs her felf, and all the CMenigrepes of her Monaflc- 
 ry could not contain themfelves in their ferious humour, imagining that the faces which the 
 Portugal made, and his a&ions, were fomany effe&s of Jaievotion, and good meaning. 
 For it one had thought it ro be otherwife, and that he baddone it out of derifion,no que- 
 llion but he had been lo chaftifed, as he fhould never have been able to mock again. When 
 the Sermon was ended, the Talapicor returned to the Pagode where he lodged,being accom¬ 
 panied with the moll honourable of all the Affembly, together with the Ambaffadours, unto 
 whom all the way as he went he ceafed not to commend the devotion of the Portugal : Look , 
 faio he, there is not fo much as thcfe people , who live like beafts , and without the knowledge of 
 our truth , but f ee well enough that there is nothing but what is godly in that 1 have preached 5 
 whereunto all anfwered that it was as he faid. 
 
 Sca.4. The day after we parted from the Town of Quanginau , and continued our voyage down 
 the River for the fpace of fourteen days, during the which we faw a number of Towns, and 
 great Borroughs on either fide of us,at the end whereof we arrived ar a City,calied Lechuna , 
 the chiefeft of the Religion of thefe Gentiles , and fuch it may be, as Rome is amongd us. In 
 this City was a very fumptuous Temple,where there were many remarkable Edifices, in the 
 which (even & twenty Kings or Emperours of this Monarchy of Tartaria have been buried, 
 j Their tombs are in chappels,wonderful rich,as well for the excellency of their workmanlhip, 
 which is of an infinite cod, as for that they are within covered all over with plates of filver* 
 wherein there are divers Idols of different forms made alfo of fiiver. On the North fide a 
 little apart from the temple was an inclofure worthy the obfervation,both for its extent,and 
 t he lorcification thereof; within it were two hundred and fourfeore Monaderies, as well of 
 men, as of women, dedicated to certain Idols; and for the fervice of all thefe Pagodes , or 
 '-triples, there are ordinarily, as we were allured, two and forty thoufand Prieds and iJWenL 
 grtpes, not comprifmg therein thofe which were lodged without the inclofure for the fervice 
 ot 11c ic a le 1 rieds.We obferved that in thefe two hundred and fourfeore houfes there was 
 an iniimte company of pillars of brafs,and upon the top of each pillar are Idols of the fame 
 
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 m:tal gui'r, befides thofe which likewife were there all of filver: Thefe Idols are the Statues 
 of them whom in their falie Se£l they hold for Saints, and of whom they recounr fuch fop¬ 
 peries as would make a man wonder to hear them ; For they give unco each of them a Statue, 
 more or lefs rich, and gilded, according to the degrees of vertue which they have exercifed in 
 this life : And this they do exprefly,chac the living may be incited to imitate them,io the end 
 there may be as much done unto them when thev are dead. In one of thefe Monafteries of 
 the Invocation of j Quiay Frigau y that is to fay, The God of the moats of the Sun y was a filler of 
 the Kings, the widow of Reu i Benan , Prince of Pafua y whom the death of her husband had 
 made relolve to fhut her felf up in this Monaftery, with fix theufand women that had follow¬ 
 ed her thither,and fhe had taken upon her,as the moft honourable Title fine could think on,the 
 name of, the broom of the Houfe of God. The Ambalfadors went to fee this Lady,and kilfed her 
 feet as a Saint; Ihe received them very courteoufly, and demanded many things of them with 
 great dilcretion, whereunto they rendred fuch anfwers as became them; but coming to call 
 her eye upon us, who liood fomewhat far off, and undemanding that never any of our Nation 
 was feen in thofe parts before, fhe enquired of the Ambalfadors of what Country we were ? 
 They anfwered, that we were come from a place at the other end of the wor d, whereof no 
 man there knew the name. At thofe words {he Hood much amafccd, and aufing us to come 
 nearer, fhe queftioned us about many things, whereof we gave her fuch an account as great¬ 
 ly contented her, and all that were prelent; In the mean time, the Princefs wondring at the 
 anfwers which one of ours made her ; They fpeak^ faid fhe, like men that have been brought up 
 amongfl people rvho have feen more of the world then we have. So alter fhe had heard us talk* 
 while of fome matters that fhe had propounded unto us, fhe dilirnfled us with very good 
 words, and caufed an hundred Taeis to be given us in way of an alms. The Ambalfadors ha¬ 
 ving taken their leave of her, continued their voyage down along the river ;fo that at the end 
 of five days we arrived at a great Town,cal!ed Re»dacalem y feituated on the uttermofi Con¬ 
 fines of the Kingdom of Tartaria.Oat of this place we entred upon the State of the Xinaley- 
 grau, and therein we proceeded on four days together, until fuch time as we came to a Town 
 named F'oulem, vvh:re the Ambalfadors were very well entertained by the Lord of the Coun¬ 
 try, and abundantly furnilhed with all things neceflary for their voyage, as alfo with Pilots to 
 guide them in thofe rivers. From thence we purfued our courfe for feven days together,during 
 the which we faw not any thing worthy of note, and at lerlgth came to a fireight, called £<*- 
 f*»c#r,whereinto the Pilots entred,as well to abridge their voyage, as to avoid the encounter 
 of a famous Pirate, who had robbed thofe parts of moft of their wealth. Through this Itreighc 
 running Eaft , as alfo Eaft-North-Eaft; and fometimes Eafi, and by Eaft, according to the 
 windings of the water,we arrived at the Lake of Singapamor , called by them of the Country 
 Cunebetea > which was, as our Pilots affirmed, fix and thirty leagues in extent, where we faw 
 fo many feveral forts of birds, that I am not able to recount them. Out of this Lake of Sing*- 
 pamor{ which as an admirable Mafter-piece nature hath opened in the hearc of this Country ) 
 do four very large and deep rivers proceed^ whereof the firft is named Ventrau y that runneth 
 Eaftward through all the Kingdoms oiSernau^ and Siam y enrring into the Sea by the Bar of 
 Chiamtabuuy in fix and twenty degrees ; Trie fecond, Jangumaa y that going Southland South- 
 eaft, traverfeth alfo the greateft part of this Country; as likewife the Kingdom of ChUmmay , 
 th z Laos y Gneos y and another part of Danbambury difimboguing into the Sea by the Bar of 
 Martabano in the Kingdom of Pegu ; and there is in diftance "from the one to the other, by 
 the degrees of this Climate, above feven hundred leagues ; The third, called Pamphileuy 
 pafleth in the fame manner through all the Countries of Capimper and Sacotay y and running 
 above that fecond river runs quite through the Empire of Mo»ginoco y and apart o iMtley- 
 tay y and Sovady y ten(hing it felf into the Sea by the Bar of Cofmim, near to Arracan ; The 
 fourth, which in all likelihood is as great as the reft,is not known by any name, neither could 
 the Ambafladors give us any reafon for it: but it is probable, according to the opinion of di¬ 
 vers, that it is Ganges in the Kingdom of Bcngala ; fo that by all the difeoveries which have 
 been made in thefe Oriental Countries,it is conceived,that there is not a greater river then its 
 Having crofted this Lake we continued our courfe for the fpace of feven dayes, till we came 
 to a place named Caleyputa i the inhabitants whereof would by no means permit us to land, 
 for the Ambafladors endeavouring to do fo, they entertained us with fuch llore of darts and 
 ftones from the fhore, as we thought us not a little happy in that we could fave our felves 
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 we had receivad there; that which aloft ifflifted us was to fee our fe!ves unprovided of thing* 
 we were ere2tly in need of ? but by the counfel of our Pilots we failed by another river far larger 
 th n che Itreivht which we had left,and that by the fpace of nine days.at the end whereof we 
 •'trived at a ve°ry good Town, called Tarim, the Lord of which was lubjeft to the Cauchm, 
 Who r eceived the Ambaffadors with great Demonftrations of love, and furnilhed them abun¬ 
 dantly with all that they wanted. The next day we departed from thence about Sun-let, and 
 continuin' 7 our voyage down the river,about feven days after we came to an Anchor in the l on 
 Of Xolor, which is a very fair Town, where all the enammelled purcelam, which is carried to 
 china, is made. There the Ambaffadors flayed five days,during which time they saufed their 
 filips.thu were very heavy.ro be haled albore by the force of boats: That done, and pr™fion 
 made of all things neceffiry, they went co fee certain Mines which the King of C mchn bath 
 in than place, from whence great ftore of filver is drawn,and the Ambaffadors being de rrous 
 to knpw how much filver thofe Mines yielded every year, they were anfwered,that tne whole 
 amounted to feme fix thoufand pices, which make eight thoufand Quintals of our weight. 
 
 After our departure from the Town of Xoler, we (fill continued our courfe for five days to¬ 
 gether down that great river,and faw all along that while a many ot great Boroughs,& goodly 
 Tontefor in that Climate the Land is better then other where,very well peopled,and full of 
 riches; withill the rivers are frequented with a world of yelfek,and the fields very well tilled, 
 and replenifhed with abundance of wheat, rice, til kind of pulfe, and exceeding great bugar- 
 canes, whereof there is marvellous (lore in all that Country. The Gentlemen there are or i- 
 narily clothed in fi!k,and mounted on horfes handforqly furmfhed * as for the women, they 
 zib exceeding white and fair. Now it was not without much labour, pain, and danger,that we 
 palfed thofe two Channels alfo the river of Jfentinau, by reafon of the Pints that ufually are 
 eficountred there ; neverthelefs,\ve at the length arrived at the Town of Manaqmleu, which is 
 Situated at the foot of the Mountains of Chomay,upon the Frontiers of the twe Kingdoms of 
 China, ?.nd Cattchinchina , where the Amhafladors were both well received by theGovernour 
 thereof The next morning departing from that place they went and lay in a Town, named 
 Quinancaxi, which appertained to an Aunt of the Kings, whom they went to vifitejfhe gave 
 them a very kind reception, and withall told them,for news, that the King,her Nephew, was 
 newly returned from the War of the Tinocouhes , and wonderfully well pleafed With his good 
 fuccefs therein ; whereunto (he added many particularities, which they were glad to hear,e- 
 fpecially when fhe affured them,that the King,after he had difmitfed the forces that he had car¬ 
 ried out with him,w*s gone with a fmall Train to the City of Fanaugrem, where he intended 
 to fpend Come time in hunting and fifhiog,and then to go and winter at Ufamgttee ,the capital 
 City of this Empire of Cauchim. When as they had confulted a while upon thefe news,they 
 refolved to fend their four vcflcls away to Ufamguse, and themfelves to travel by land to Fa- 
 naurrem, where they underfiood the King was. This deliberation taken,they put incontinently 
 into execution, and that by the advice of this Princefs,who for that purpofe caufed them to be 
 furnifhed with borfes for themfelves and their peoplejas alfo with 8 Rhnocerots for the: tran- 
 portation of their baggage. They began their journey then about three days after, and having 
 travelled 86 leagues,m che fpace of thirteen days,and that with much toil and labour, by rea¬ 
 fon of certain mountains which they were to pafs,that were of a long extent,and very rough 
 and ftony,in the end they arrived at a great lodging,called Taraudachitfi^xtta upon the bank 
 of a river - There they patted the night,and the next morning they palled thence for to go to 
 a Town named Landau Panoo , where they were very well received by the Captain thereof, a 
 kinfman of the Ambalfidors of Cauchinchma ; who was come not above fix days before from 
 Fanaugrem, where the King remained Hill,being not more then fifteen leagues from that place. 
 After that this Captain huh told this Ambatfador his kinfman fome other news of the Court, 
 and of the fuccefs of the war, he further advercifed him that a Son in law of his was dead, 
 for the love of whom his daughter,the wife of the deceafcd, had caft her feif into a pile of 
 Aiming fire, where with her husbands body (he was confumed to aflies, at which all her kin- 
 red exceedingly rejoyced, for that by fo generous an end (lie had given proof of what (he had 
 ev^r been. The Ambaflbdor himfelf, her father, tefiified alfo no little content tor the fame, 
 faying 5 T[ow it is, O my daughter, that I k^ove ajfuredly thou art a Saint, and that thou ferveft 
 thy husband in Heaven , wherefore 1 promtfe and fvrear to thee , that for fo memorable an end, 
 wherein thou haft given an infallible proof of the Royal blood whereof thou art defeended, 1 
 will in memory of thygoodnefs build thee fuch a magnificent and honourable houfe , 04 fhail 
 
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 l j'r e ^ e f ire , \° f ome f rom w kerc thou art, for to recreate thy felf in it, in imitation of thofe 
 hiejjedfouls, which we hold have heretofore done ths like. This laid, he fell flac down with his 
 face on ihe ground, and in thac pollure continued till the day following, when as he was vi- 
 ficcd by all the religious men of the place, who comforted him with full aflurance that his 
 daughter was a Saint, fo that all of them granted him permiflion to ereft a Statue of Silver 
 unto her. Thefc fpeeches of the Prielfs greatly pleafed the Ambaffador, who very much ac- 
 Kcoivledged the fame unto them, giving money both to chem, and to all the poor that were 
 thereabout; At this place we fpenc 9 days in celebrating the Funera's of his Defuntf, and 
 then departing’we went the next day to a certain Monalfery called Latiparau , that is to fay, 
 j he remedy of the poor, where the 2 Ambaffadors remained 3 days in expe&ation of news 
 from the King, whom they had already advertifea of their arrival; Now his Anfwer to them 
 was,that they fhould go to a Town named tsfgimpw, 3 leagues from the place where they 
 were, and but one from F*nastgrem, whither he would fend for them when time ferved. 
 
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 The Reception of the Tartarian Ambaffador by the King of Cauchinchina 
 with the faid Kings going from thence to the City of Uzan- 
 guea, and his triumphant Entry thereinto . 
 
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 T He King being advertised by his Ambaffador, that he brought another along with him 
 from the King of Tart aria,(zm for him not long after from Agimpur, by the Brother of 
 the Queen his Wife,a very valiant and rich PrincerHe was mounted on a Chariot with three 
 Wheels on a fide, adorned all within with Plates of Silver, and drawn by four white Horfes, 
 whole Furniture was all imbrojdered with Gold;This Chariot,which they of the Country call 
 Piamber, was waited on by 60 Footmen, half on the one fide, and half on the other, clothed 
 m green Leather, with Scymecers by their fides, whofe Scabberds were garniflied with Gold 
 and before them went 12 Ufhers bearing their Maces on their (boulders ; After the Foot¬ 
 men followed certain others carrying Halberts trimmed with Silver, in Gowns and Breeches 
 of green and white tilk,and with Scymiters by their fides;Thefe fellows feemed verv haughty 
 and proud, fo that by their outward behaviours, which in all their a&ions appeared to belike 
 unto their furly difpo(itions,they rendred themfelves fomewbat terrible to others; 30 paces 
 after this Guard marched 80 Elephants exceeding well furnifhed wich Chairs and Cattles 
 adorned with Silver, which they carried on their backs, and on their teeth their Panores, or 
 warlike Defences, together with many little Bells of the fame metall hanging about their 
 necKSj Before theie Elephants,which were faid to be tbs Kings Guard,rode a number of men 
 at Arms in very good equipage 5 and in the vantguard of all this Train went 12 Chariots 
 with Cymbals or Silver, and covered with filk. When this Prince was come in this (lately 
 manner to rhe Ambaffador of Tartaria, who attended him, and that they had performed all 
 fuch complements,one to another,as are ufual amongft them,the Prince gave the Ambaffador 
 theCharioc wherein he came thither,and mounting on a gallant Courfer,he placed himfelf on 
 the right hand of him,and the Kings Ambaffador on the left: In this pomp, and with the 
 fame order as before,as alfowich the found of divers inlfruments of mufick, they arrived at 
 the firllCourc of theKings houfe,where the Broquem y Captain of the Guard of che Palace,ar° 
 tended them,being accompanied with many Noblemen,behdcs a number on horsback,which 
 flood ranked in 2 files all along the Court. After they had wich a new ceremony been com¬ 
 plemented withal!, they went on foot to the Palace-gate, where they encountred with an 
 old man, above 80 years of age.who was faid to be the Kings Uncle; This fame,being wait¬ 
 ed upon by divers great Lords, was no fooner perceived by the Ambaffadors, but wich a new* 
 kindeof complement they kid the Scymicer that hung by his fide, whereupon he returned 
 tw'.m tne lii<e,tcgerher with an Honour which is of no little eftimation amongft them; that 
 was to hold his hands upon their heads,fo long as they were prolfrated on the ground before 
 him. Then having caufcd the Tartar to rife, and to march even check by jole with him, he led 
 him through a very longHall to a door which was at che end thereof;whexe after he had knock¬ 
 ed three times,one demanded of him, who he vvas,and what he would have ? whereunto an- 
 bvering very foSerly, Here is come, faid he, out of an ancient cufiome of true amity,an Am- 
 baffador from the great Xinarau of Tartaria, to demand audience of Prechau Guimian, whom 
 we all hold for the Lord of our heads «This Anfwer being returned, che door was opened, into 
 
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 which they prefently entred;the Prince marched foremoft with the Ambaffador of Tartaria, 
 whom he held by the hand,and a little behinde them went the other belonging to the King, 
 with the Cap ain of the Guard, then followed all the company by three and three. Having 
 o 0 ne through that room,where there was none but.certain of the Guard on their knees With 
 Halberds in their hands, we went into another room far more l'pacious and fair then the for¬ 
 mer, in which we faw 64 Statues of Brals, and 19 of Silver, all tied by th>- neck with iron 
 Chuns ; At fo extraordinary a thing as this being much abafhed, we demanded of one of 
 their Grepes or Priefts, the reafon of ir, who anfwered us. That the Sta ues which we beheld 
 there were the 8 3 gods of the 7 inocoubos, whom the King in the late W ar had taken from 
 them out of a Temple, where they were placed; for, added he, there is nothing.in the 
 Wo Id held in more efteem, or for a greater honour,by the King, then to. triumph over the 
 gods of his Enemies, which he hath led away captive in defpight of them : whereupon in¬ 
 quiring further of him, why they were fet there,|he replied, thac it was to have them in a tea 
 dinels againft the time thac the King ftiould make his entry into llz,amguee, whither he pur- 
 pofed fhortly to go, for to make a fhew of them fo chained L in his triumph as a fpecial mark 
 of the victory he had gained. After we were at the end of this room, where the Idols were, 
 we entred into another very great one, where we faw a number of very fair women, who 
 were let ail along, fome imployed in curious needle-works, and others Tinging and playing 
 upon certain initrwments of maftck,very pleafing to hear. Palling on we arrived at the door of 
 the Kings chamber,where we found 6 Women,which were as it were porters there, and car¬ 
 ried Elver Maces • In this room was the King, in the company of a few ancient men, and a 
 great number of young women/o the tune of whofe mufick certain little girls fung very har- 
 moniouflyiThe K : ng was fet on a Throne of 8 fteps high in the manner of an Altar,over the 
 which was a cloth of ft ate fupported by pillars, all covered over with gold engraven*; near to 
 him were 6 little children upon their knees with Scepters in their hands, and a little further 
 off flood a woman reafonably well in years,which fa nned him ever and anon, and had a great 
 Garland about her neck. This Prince was about fome live and thirty years of age, and of a 
 goodly prefence: He had full eyes,auborn hair and beard, a grave look, and in all points the 
 countenance of a generous King. Alfoon as the Ambafodors came into the room they pro- 
 liraced themfelves^ times on the ground, and at the third time the Kings lay ftill flat all a- 
 long, whiled the Tartar pafled on; who being come near to the firft ftepof the Throne 
 where the King fate, he faid unto him with fo loud a voice as all there prerent might hear him, 
 O thou the Prop of all the Forces of the Earth, and the breath of the High God which hath 
 created all things, may the Majeftical Being of thy Grearnefs proffer for ever and every fo 
 that thy Sandals may ferve for Hairs to the Heads of Kings, making thee like to the Bones and 
 F/efh of the or eat Prince of the Silver Mount ainsy by whofe Commandment l come to vifit thee , 
 as thou may ft perceive by this his Let er fealed with his Royal Arms. Wnen he had made an 
 end of fpeaking thus,the Cauchin beholding hi n with a tailing countenance, CMaythe Sun , 
 aniwered he, put a conformity between the defires of the King thy'Mafter, and mine, and that 
 by the fweet heat of his amorous rays , to the, end that the great amity which is betwixt us may 
 endure and c ontinue firm till the laft noife the Sea {ball make, that fo the Lord may be eternally 
 praifed in his peace. At rhelb words all the Lords that were in the room anfwered with one 
 voice. So grant it may be, O Lord Almighty , that giveft a being to the night and the day. 
 Then the lame women, which played before, beginning their mulick again, the King ufed no 
 further fpeech, but onely in kindly enrertaining the Ambalfidor, 1 will, faid he, read my bro¬ 
 ther Xinarau’/ Letter, and return an Anfwer thereunto according to thy defire, to the end thou 
 may ft go from me contented. The Ambaffador made him no reply, but proftrated himfelf 
 again at the foot of the Royal Throne, laying his head 3 times on the uppermoft ftep where 
 the Kings feet Hood. That done the Captain of the Guard took him by the hand, and led 
 him to his houfe, where he lodged during the 3 days that he abode there, at the end whereof 
 the King departed thence for to go to Uz,amguee. 
 
 In regard of thcKings journey toUz,amgueeyi\vs. Tartar Ambaffador had audience but once 
 by the way, in the which he moved him about our particular, according to the exprefs com¬ 
 mandment he had received from his Mafter for that purpofe; and it was faid that the King 
 heard him very willingly, anfweriDg, that he would do what he defired, and therefore willed 
 him to put him in mindc of it, when the time fhould ferve,to the end we might not lofe the 
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 at his return, aod demanded of us for this good office he had done us, that we would write 
 bimoutfome^of thole prayers which we made to our God,whole Have, he faid, he infinitely 
 defired to be, in regard of the great excellencies which he had heard us deliver of him • This 
 we not onely granted him very readily, but alfo gave him infinite thanks befides for this his 
 great fivour fheived unto us, which we made more account of then all the benefits that had 
 been propounded unto us by the King of Tartaria, if we would have continued in his fervice. 
 »fter the King was departed from the City of Fanagrem, he proceeded on in his journey, 
 travelling but onely 6 leagues a day, by reafon of the great number of perlons that he car¬ 
 ried along with him ; The firft day he dined at a little Town, called Benau, where be Hayed 
 until! the evening, and then went to lodge at a Monafiery, named Pamgatur ; The next 
 morning he departed thence, and fo with not above 3000 Horle in his Train, he profecuted 
 his journey for 5? days together, palling by many goodly Town's, at leafi they feemed to be 
 fo, without permitting any reception to be made him by any of them; In this manner he 
 arrived at the City of Litigator, feared on a River of freflh water, which for the breadth and 
 deepnefs of it is frequented with much fhippiog 5 There he abode 5 days, for that he found 
 himfclf fomewhat indifpofed with the tedioufnefs cf the journey : From this place he de* 
 parted before day, taking no greater company with him then 30 Horfe, and fo withdrawing 
 himfelf from theteommunication of fo much people as continually importuned him, he fpenc 
 mofi part of the time as he went by the way in Hawking andjdunting ; thofe of the Coun¬ 
 tries by which he paft providing Game always ready for him*. In this fore going on he fiepe 
 molt commonly amidft very thick Woods in Tents pitched for him to thatpurpofe. Bein» 
 arrived at the River of Baguetor , he paffed down the fame in certain Veflels, called Laniers 
 and Jangoas, which were there ready for him, till he came to a Town, named Natibafoy, 
 where about evening he landed Without any kinde of pomp ; The reH of his journey he 
 made by land, io that at the end of 13 days he arrived at Uzamguee, where he had a molt 
 magnificent reception. At his entry thereinto there marched before him, as it were in tri¬ 
 umph, all the Spoils which he had taken in the Wars, whereof the principal, and thofe which 
 he made moH reckoning of, were 12 Chariots laden with the Idols of whom I have fpoken 
 heretofore, and whereof the forms were different, as they ufe to have them in their Pagodes , 
 Of thefe Idols there were threefcore and four of Brafs, which feemed to be Giants,and 19 
 of Silver of the fame ftacure, for, as I have delivered before, thefe people glory in nothin*? fo 
 much, as to triumph over thofe Idols,that fo they may fay p f That in deffightof their Enemies 
 he had made their gods his Jlaves ; Round about thefe 12 Chariots went divers Priefls by 3 
 and 3 weeping, and bound with Iron Chains 5 After them followed forty other Chariots, 
 each of them being drawn by 2 Rhinocerots, and full from the bottom to the top of an infi¬ 
 nite company of Arms, and trailed Colours ; In the tail of them there were 20 more, car¬ 
 rying each of them a very great Chefi, barr’d with Iron, and wherein, as we were cold, was 
 the Treafure of the Tinoconhos ; In the fame order marched all other things which are" ufed 
 to be mofi efieemed of in fuch triumphant Entries, as 200 Elephants armed with Cafiles, 
 and warlike Panoures , which are certain Swords that are fattened to their Teeth when they 
 fight, and a great number of Horfes laden with Sacks full of dead mens heads and bones; 
 fo that in this Entry this King of Caxchin prefented to the view of his People all that he 
 had gained from his Enemies in the Bactel he had given them. After we had been a full 
 moneth in this City, during which time we had feen a world of ftately fhews, fports, and fe° 
 veral forts of rejoycings, accompanied with mofi coftly feafis and banquers, fet forth and 
 made not onely by the greater perfons, but by the common people alfojthe Tartar Ambafia- 
 dor, thac had brought us thither, moved the King again about our Voyage, wnereunto he 
 gave us fo gracious an ear, that he prefently commanded we fhould be furnifhed with a Vef- 
 lei for to carry us to the Coaft of China, where we hoped to meet with fome Portugal {hip, 
 thac might tranlport us to Adalaca, and from thence to the Ittdiaes , which accordingly was 
 done; whereupon without further delay we prepared all things ncceflary for our departure; 
 
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 CHAP. XLIII. 
 
 Onr Departure from the Cuy of Uzamguee, and our adventures tiUottr arri¬ 
 val at the IJle of 1 anixumaa, which is the firfi Land of Jap- 
 pan i with our going afhore. 
 
 U pon the 12 of famarj we departed from the City of Uzamguee, exceedingly rejoycmg 
 at our et'cape from to any labors and erodes, which we before had fuftained, and im- 
 barqued our felves upon a Riyer, that was above a league broad, down the which we yvenc 
 7 days together, beholding in the mean time on either tide thereof many fair Towns, and 
 poodly Boroughs, which by the outward appearance we believed were inhabited by very rich 
 people, in regard of the fumptuoufnefs of the buildings, not onely of particular houfes,but: 
 much more of the Temples,whofe fteeples were all covered over with gold ; as likevvifc in re¬ 
 gard of the <j rea t number of barques and veffels that were on this River,abundantly fraught; 
 vvith all forts of provifions and merchandife. Now when vve were come to a very fait 
 town called Quangeparttu, containing feme 18 or 2000 fires, the tiandclum, who was he 
 that conduced us by the exprefs commandment from the King, itayed there 12 days to 
 trade in exchange of Silver and Pearl 5 whereby he confeffed to us that he had gained 14 
 for i, and that if he had been fo advifed as to have brought Salt thither, he had doubled his 
 Money above 30 times: we were flared that in this town the King had yearly out of the In¬ 
 ver Mines abov • 150a Vicos, which are 40000 Quintals of our Weight, befides the huge 
 Revenue char he dr . w our of many other citfcrem things: This town hath no other Fortifi¬ 
 cation then a weak Brit k Wall, 8 Fooc high, and a (hallow Ditch fome 30 Foot broad; The 
 Inhabitants are weak and unarmed, haying neither Artillery,nor any thing for their defence, 
 fo that 500 relolute Souldiers might eahly take it.- We parted from this place on 7 uefdaj 
 morning, and continued our courie 13 days, at the end whereof we got to the Port of San - 
 chany in the Kingdom of China. Now becaufe there was no (hipping of c JMalaca there, 
 for they were gone from thence 9 days-efore, w* w nt 7 'eagues further to anotherPorr, 
 named Lampac au, where we found 2 J uncks of eJHdapa, one of Tata**, and another of 
 Lugor ; And whereas it is the quality of us Vortugals to abound in our own lenfe, and to 
 be obftmate in our opinions, there arofe amongti us Highc fo g eatacontrar e*y of judge¬ 
 ment about a thing, (y\herein nothing was fo necefiary for us, as to maintain our felves in 
 peace and unity) that we were even upon the point of killing one another; But becauie the 
 matter would be too fhamefuU to recount in the manner as ic paft, I will fav no more, but 
 that the T^ecoda of the Lore he, which had bought us thither from Vz.amguee, amazed ar 
 this fo great barbaroufnefs of ours, feparated himfelf from us in fuch difpleafure, that he 
 would^or charge himfelf cither with our M (Tages of Letters, faying, that he had rather 
 the King (hould command his head to be cut off, then to offend Cod in carrying with him 
 any thing whmoever that belonged to us. Thus different as we were in opinions, and in ve¬ 
 ry bad terms amonglt our felves, we fingred above 9 days in this little Iflind, during which 
 time th: J uncks departed without vouchsafing to take us in, fo that we were conftrained to 
 remain in thefe fohtudes, txpofed to many great dangers, our of which I did not think thac 
 ever we could have efcaped, if God bad not been extraordinarily merciful! unto us; for ha¬ 
 ving been there 17 days in great mifery and want; it happened that a Pyrar, named Sami* 
 pocheca, arrived in this place, who having been defeated, went flying from the Fleet of «✓*>• 
 taooi Chincheo , that of eight and twenty Sail, which thisPyrat had, had taken Fix and 
 twenty of them from him, fo that he had with much ado efcaped with thole onely two re¬ 
 maining, .wherein the moft part of his men were hurt, for which caufe he was conftrained to 
 ftay there 7 days to have them cured: Now the prefenc necefliry enforcing’ us to take fome 
 courfe, wha foever it were, we were glad to agree to ferve under him until! fuch time as vve 
 might meet with l'orne good opportunity to get unto tMalaca. Thofe 20 days ended, 
 wherein yet there w is ro manner of reconciliation between us, but ftill continuing in dif- 
 cord we imbnrqucd our felves with the Pyrat, namely,^ in the Junck where he himfelf 
 was, and 5 ; n the other, whereof he had made a Nephew of his Captain. Having left 
 this Ki nd wirh an intent to fail unto a Port, called Lailoo 3 fome 7 leagues from (Joincheo t 
 we continued our voyage with a good Winde all along the Coaft of Lamau for-ime fpace 
 nine days, umiJl thac one morning when we were near to the River of Salt, which is 
 
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 dooa. five leagues from Chabaquea, ic was our ill fortune to be afliiled by a Pirate, who with 
 ievcn great J uncks fell to fighting with us Pom fix in the morning till ten of the clock before 
 noon, in which confl'& we were fo entertained with foot, and pots full of artificiall fire.thac 
 at laft there were three Sail burnt, to wit, two of the Pirats, and one of ours, which was the 
 J unck, wherein the five Portugals were, whom we could by no means fuccour, for that then 
 moftof our men were hurt; But at length towards nighc being well refrefhcd by the after¬ 
 noons gale, it pleafedour Lord that we efcaped out of this Pirats hands. In this ill equipage 
 wheiein we were, we continued our courfe for three days together, at the end whereof we 
 were mvironed by fo great and impe r uous a Tempefi, that the fame night in which it feized 
 us we loll tne Coart • and becaufe the violence of the Storm would never fuffer us after to re- 
 cover !t again, we vyere forced to make with full Sail towards the Ifiands of the Lequios 
 where the Pirate, with whom we wen r , was we!l known, both to the King, 2nd thofe of the 
 Country; with this refolution we fet our felves to fail through the Archipelage of thefe I- 
 llands, where notwithrtanding we could not make land, as well for that we wanted a Pilot to 
 Beer the vcflel, ours being flain in the Iart fight, as alfo becaufe the wind and tide was againft 
 us • Amidfi 10 many croffrs we beat up and down with labour enough from one rhomb to 
 another for three and twenty dayes together, at the end whereof ic pleaGd God that we dif- 
 covercd land, whereunco approaching to lee if we could defery any appearance of a Porr, ot 
 good anchorage, we perceived on the South-coart near to the Horizon of the Sea a great 
 fire, which perlwaded us that there we might peradventure findfome Borough, where we: 
 might furnifh our felves with frefh water, whereof we had very great need. So we went and 
 rode jurt before the Iflmd in feventy fathom,and preiently we beheld two Almedias come to¬ 
 wards us from the Land with fix men in them,who being come clofc to the fide of our Junck, 
 and having complemented with us according to their manner, demanded of us from whence 
 we came ? whereunto having anfwcred,that we came from China , with merchandize,intending 
 to trade in this place if we might be fuffered, one of the fix replyed; That the Nautaquim, 
 Lord of that Ifland, called Tamxtimaay would very willingly permit ic upon payment of fuch 
 cufioms as are ufual in Jappan, which is, continued he, this great Country that you fee here be¬ 
 fore you : At thefe news, and many other things which they told us,we were exceeding glad; 
 fothac after they had fhewed us the Port, we weighed anchor,and went and put our felves un¬ 
 der the lee-lhore of a creek, which was on the South-fide , and where rtood a great Town, 
 named Miay-gima* t from whence there came inrtantly aboard of us divers Taraoos with re* 
 frefhments, which we bought. 
 
 We had not been two hours in this Creek of Aiiay,gimaa y when as the r Ffiutaquim y Prince 
 of this Ifland of Famxumaa i cvx\x. direftly to our Junck, attended by divers Gentlemen and 
 Merchants, who had brought with them many Cherts full df fivler Ingots, therewith to barter 
 for our commodities;fo after ordinary complements part on either fide,and that we had given 
 our word for his ealtert coming aboard of us; he no fooner perceived us three Portugals y but 
 he demanded what people we were, faying,that by our beards and faces we could not be Chi - 
 nefes : Hereunto the Pirate anfwered,That we were of a Country called Malacay whither 
 many years before we were come from another Land, named Portugal, which was at the 
 further end of the world; At thefe words the Nautaquim remained much amazed,and turn¬ 
 ing himfelf to his followers ; Let me not live , faid he unto them, if thefe men here be not the 
 Cheuchicogis, of whom it k written tn our Bookj , 7 hat flying on the top of the waters they (hall 
 from thence fubdue the inhabitants of the earthy where God hath created the riches of the 
 world, wherefore it will be a good fortune for us if they come into our Country as good friends* 
 Thereupon having called a woman of Lequia , whom he had brought to ferve as an interpre¬ 
 ter between him and the Chinefc, Captain of the Junck ; Ask^the Necoda , faid he unto her, 
 where he met with thefe men , and upon what occajion he had brought them hither with him 
 into our Country of J appan ? The Captain thereunto replied , That we were honert men and 
 Merchants, and that having found us at Lampacau, where we had been cart away, he had ouc 
 of charity taken us in, as he ufed to do unto all fuch as he met withall in the like cafe, to the 
 end that God might ouc of his gracious goodnefs be thereby moved to deliver him from the 
 danger of fuch violentTemperts,as commonly fuch as fail on the Sea are fubjeft to perifh in. 
 This faying of the Pirate feemed fo reasonable to the Tsiautaquim, that he prefently came 
 aboard of us, and becaufe thofe of his Train were very manyj he commanded that none but 
 fuch as he named fhould enter in. After he had feen all the commodities in the Junck,he fare 
 
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 him down in a Chair upon the Deck, and began to queftion us about certain things which he 
 defined to know, to the which we aafwered him in luch fort, as we thoughc would be moft 
 agreeable to his humour,fo that he feemed co be exceedingly fatisfied therewichjln this man¬ 
 ner be emerca’ned us a good while together, making it apparent by his demands chat he was 
 a man very curious,and much inclined to hear of novelties,and rare things. That done,he took 
 his leave of us, and the Necoda , little regarding the reft, faying, Come and fee me at my houfe 
 to morrow, and for aprefent bring me an ample relation of the ftrange things of that great 
 world through which you have travelled , as alfo of the Countries that you have feen, and withal! 
 remember to tell me h'ovo they are called -,for l fwear unto you that 1 would far more willingly 
 buy this commodity then any that you can fell me. This faid, he returned to Land, and the 
 next morning,as foon as it was day,he lent us to our Junck a great Parao , full of divers forts 
 of refreftimencs, as Ray fins Pears, Melons, and other kinds of fruits of that Country; In ex¬ 
 change of this f refine the Necoda returned him, by the lame meffenger, divers rich pieces of 
 fluff, together with certain knacks and rarities of China, and withall lent him word, that as 
 foon as hi? J unck fhould be at anchor, and out of danger of the weather, he would come and 
 w Ac on him < fhore, and bring him fome patterns of the commodities which we had to fell 3 
 as indeed the next morning he went on land,and carried us three along with him,as alfo fomc 
 ten or eleven of the chiefefl of the Chi»*fa of his Company, to the end that at this firft fight 
 he migl fettle a good opinion of himfelf in this people for the better fatisfaftion of that 
 vanity where unto they are naturally inclined i we went then to the Nautaquims houfe, 
 where we were very well entertained, & the Ngcoda having given him a rich prcfent,fliewed 
 him the citterns of all the commodities he had,wherewith he refled fo contenced,that he lent 
 prefentiy for the principal Merchants of the place, with whom che Necoda having agreed up¬ 
 on a price for his commodities, it was refolved thatrhe nexr day they fhould be tranfported 
 from the Junck unto a certain houfe, which was appointed for the Necoda and his people to 
 remain in till fuch time as he fhouid fet fail for China: After all this was concluded,the Nauia- 
 cjuim fell again to queltiorf ng of us about many feveral matters,whereunto we rendred him 
 iuch anlwers as might rather fit his humour, then agree with the truth indeed, which yet we 
 did cot oblerve but in fome certain demands that be made us,where we thought it neceffary to 
 make ufe of certain particulars altogether fained by us, that fo we might not derogate from 
 the’grcat opinion he had conceived of our Count ry.The firft thing he propounded was,how he 
 had learned from the Chinefes and Lequios ,uut Portugal was far richei,and of a larger extent, 
 then the whole Empire of China, which we confirmed unto him. Thefecond, bow he had 
 likewife been sflured, that our King had upon the Sea conquered the greateft part of che 
 world, which alfo we averred to be fo ; The third, that our King was fo rich in gold and fil- 
 ver, as it was held for moft certain, thar he had above two rhoufand houfes full of it even co 
 the very tops; but thereunto we anfwered, that we could not truly fay the number of the 
 houfes, becaufe the Kingdom of Portugal was fo fpacious, fo abounding with treafure,and fo 
 populous, as it was impoflible to fpecifie the fame. So after the Nautaquim had entertained 
 us above two hours with fuch and the like difeourfe, he turned him to thofe of his Train, and 
 faid, Affuredlj not one of thofe Kings , which at this prefent we know to be on the earth , is to be 
 efeemed happy , if he be not the vajfal of fo great a Monarch as the Emperour of this people here. 
 Whereupon having difmiffed the 'Necoda and his Company, be imre2ted us to palfe chat 
 night on (here with him, for to fatisfie the excream defire that he bad to be informed from 
 us of many ihings of the world, whereunto he was exceedingly carried by his own inclina¬ 
 tion ; withall he told us, that the nexc day he would afligne us a lodging next ro his own 
 Palace s which was in the moft commodious place of the Town, and for that inftant he fenc us 
 to lie at a very rich Merchants houfe, who entertained us very bountifully that night. 
 
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 The great honour which the Nautaquim, Lord of the JJle, did to one of us for 
 having feen him (hoot with an Harquebufe ; and his fending me to 
 the King of Bungo j and that which pajfed till 
 my arrival at his Court . 
 
 Sc&t; f |'He next day the Chinefe Necoda difimbarqued all his commodities, as th t Nautaquim 
 X had en joyned him,and put them into fure rooms,which were given him for that purpofe, 
 
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 and in three days he iold them all, as well for chat he had not many, as becaufe hts good for- 
 tune was fucn, that the Country was at that time utterly unfurnifhed thereof,hy which means 
 this I irate profited fo much, t hat by this Sale he wholly recovered himfelf of the lofs of the fix 
 and twenty Saile which th tChinefe Pirate had taken from him - for they gave him any price he 
 demanded,fo that he confdied unto us,that of the value of lome five and twenty hundred Taeis 
 which he might have in goods, he made above thirty thoufand. Now as for us three Portwals 
 haying nothmg to fell,we imp oyed our time cither in fifhing,hunting,or feeing the Temples 
 of theie Gentiles, which were very fumptuous and rich, whcreinco the Bonnes , who arc their 
 Prielts,received us very courteoufly , for indeed it is the cuftome of chofe of Jappan to be ex« 
 ceedmg kind and courteous. Thus we having litc'e to do, one of us, called Diego Zeimoto 
 went many times a (hooting for his pleafiire in an Harquebufe chat he had, wherein he was 
 very expert, fo thac going one day by chance to a certain Marfh,where there was °reat ftore 
 ot fowl, he killed at chat time about fix and twenty wild Ducks * In the mean time thefe peo¬ 
 ple beholding this manner of fhooting, which they had never been beforc,were muchamazid 
 at it, intomuch thac it came to the notice of the Nautaquim, who was at that, inftanc ridin^ 
 of hori.es, and noc knowing what co think of this novelty, lent prefently for Zeimoto, juft as 
 he was fhooc.ng in the Mufh, but when he faw him come with hi s Harquebufe on his (houl- 
 der,and two Chmefes with him carrying the fowl, he was fo mightily taken with the matter,as 
 ns. could doc fufbcicncly admire it : for whereas they had never feen any Gun before in thac 
 Councry,t!riey could noc comprehend what ic might be, fo thac for wane of underftandin* the 
 fecrec of the powder, they all concluded that of neceffity ic muft be fome Sorcery ; Thereupon 
 Zeimoto feeing them to aftonijfhad, and the Nautaquim fo contented, made three fhoocs be- 
 iore them, wnereof the effedfc was fuch, that, he killed one Kite, and two Turtle Doves ^ In a 
 word then, and not to loie time, by endearing the matter with much Speech, I will lay no 
 more, but that the Nautaquim caufed Zeimoto to get up op the horfes crupper behind him, 
 and fo accompanied wich a great croud of people,and four ZJfhers, who with Battoons head¬ 
 ed with iron went before him,crying all along the ftreecs, Know all men, that the Nautaquim, 
 Prince of this IJland of Tanixumaa,<a»^ Lord of our heads y enjoyns and exprefly commands , That 
 aU perfonswhatfoever^ which inhabit the Land that lies between the two Seas , do honour this 
 Chenchicogrti, of the further end of the worlds for even at this prefent and for hereafter he 
 makes him his kjnfman, in fuch manner as the}] acharons are, who Jit next his Perfon> t and 
 whofoever fhall not do fo willingly , he fhall be fare to lofe his head • Whereupon ill the people 
 anlwered with a great noife ; We will do fo for ever, In this pomp Zeimoto being come to the 
 Palace gate, the Nautaquim alighted from his horfe, and caking him by the hand, whileft vve 
 two followed on foot a prety way after, he led him into his Court, where he made him fic 
 with him at his own table, and to honour^ him the more, he would needs have him todg there 
 that night, {hewing many other favours to him afterwards, and to us alfo for his fakef Now 
 Zeimoto conceiving, that he could not better acknowledge the honour which the Nautaquim 
 did him, then by giving him his Harquebufe which he thoughc would be a moft accep¬ 
 table prefent unto him; on a day when he came home from (hooting, he cendred it unto him 
 with a number of Pigeons and Turtle-doves, which he received very kindly,as * thing of great 
 value, affuring him that be efteemed of ic more, then of all the treafures of China, and giving 
 him withal in recompence thereof a thoufand Tatis in fil ver,he defired him to teach him how 
 to make the powder, (aying, thac without that the Harquebufe would be of no ufe to him, as 
 being but apiec- of unprofitable iron, which Zeimoto promifed him to do,& accordingly per¬ 
 formed the fame.Now the Nautaquim taking pleafure in nothing fo much as (hooting in chis 
 Harquebufe, and his Subje&s perceiving chat they could not concenc him beccer in any thing, 
 then in chis,whcrewith he was fo much delighted,they took a pattern of the faid Harquebufe co 
 make others by ir, and the effed thereof was fuch, chat before our departure ( which was five 
 moneths and an half after) ch :re was fix hundred of them made in the Country ; nay I will fay 
 more,that afterwards,namely,the laft time thac the Vice-roy Don Alphonfode Noronha fenc 
 me thither with t prefent to the King of Bungo, which happened in the year 15 y6.thofe of Jap* 
 pan affirmed, thac in the City o £ Fucheo, being the chief of that Kingdom,^here were above 
 thirty thoufand 5 whereat finding my felf co be much amazed, for thac ic feemed impoflible 
 unto me,that this invention (hould multiply in fuch fort jcertain Merchants of good credit af- 
 fured me that in the whole Ifhnd of Jappan there were above three hundred thoufand Har- 
 quebufes , and that they alone had cranfporced of them in the way of trade to the Counrry o£ 
 
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 the Louies, at fix feveral time?, to the number of five and twenty hundred 5 fothat by the 
 means of that one, which Zeimoto prefented to the Nautaquim in acknowledgment of the 
 honour and good offices that hi had done him, as I have declared before, the Country Was 
 filled with fuch abundance of them, as at this day there is not fo fmall an hamlet but hath an 
 hundred at the lead ; for as for Cities and great Towns, they have them by thoufands, 
 whereby one may perceive,what the inclination of this people is, and how much they are na¬ 
 turally addifted to the wars, wherein they take more delight, then any other Nation that 
 
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 We had been now three and twenty days in the Ifiand of Tanixumaa,\\nzit very conten¬ 
 tedly we pad away the time, cither in fifhing, fowling, or hunting, whereumo thefe people 
 of Jappm are much adduced,when as a veffel belonging to the King of Bungo arriving in that 
 Pore, in the which were divers men of quality, and certain Merchants, who as foonaschey 
 were landed went to wait upon the Nautaquim with their prefents, according to the ufualcu- 
 fiom of the Country. Amongft them there was an ancient man,very well atcended,and unto 
 whom the red carried much refpedfc, that falling on his knees before the Nautaquim, prefen¬ 
 ted him with a Letter, and a rich Courtelafs girnifhed with gold, together wicb a box full of 
 ventiioes, which the Nautaquim received with a great deal of ceremony : Then having fpenc 
 fome time with him in asking of certain quedions, he read the Letter to himfelf, and thereup¬ 
 on having remained a pretty while as it were in fufpence, and difmitfed the bearer thereof 
 from his prefence,with an exprefs charge unto thofe about him to fee him honourably enter¬ 
 tained, he called us unto him, and commanded theTruchman that was thereby, toufe thefe 
 words unto us,Cj 3 Ty goad Friends >1 intreat yon that yon will hear this Letter readywhicb is fe nt 
 me from my Lord and Vnclc, and then I will let you know what l defre of you 5 So giving it 
 to a Treafurer of his, he commanded him to read it, which indantly he did, and thefe were 
 the contents of ir y Thou right eye^of my face, Hynfcarangoxo , Nautiquim of Tanixumaa, 
 /Orgemdoo, who am your Father m the true love of my bowels, as he from whom you have 
 taken the name and being of your Terfon, King of Bungo and Fatacaa , Lord of the great 
 Houfeof Fianeima, Tofa, and Bandou, Chief Soveraign of the petty Kings of the /{lands of 
 Goto, and Xamanaxequa, I give you to under[l and, my Sony by the words of my mouth, which 
 are fpoken of your perfon , that fome day es fince certain men, coming from your Country, have 
 ajfnred me , that you have in your Town three Chenchicogims of the other end of the world, 
 men that, accommodate themfelv.es very well with thofe of Jappan, are clothed in filk^, and u- 
 fmlly wear fwords by their fide s , not like ter chants that ufe trcjfique-, but in the quality of 
 perfons that make profejfion of honour , and which by that only mean pretend to render their 
 names immortal ; tJAdoreover, I have, heard for a truth, that thefe fame men have entertain¬ 
 ed you at large with all matters of the whole ZJniverfe , and have ajfured unto you on their 
 faith, that there is another world greater then ours , inhabited with b lackland tawny people, 
 of whom they have told you things mofi incredible to our judgement , for which caufe 1 infi¬ 
 nitely de/ire you , as if you were my Son , that by Fiangeandono, whom l have difpatchedfrom 
 hence to vifit my daughter , you will fend me one of thofe three fir angers , which l am told you 
 have in your houfe ; the rather for that you know my long indifpofition , accompanied with fo 
 much pain and grief , hath great need of fome diverfton : Tfow if it fhould happen that they 
 would not be willing thereunto, you may then ajfure them , as well on your own faith , as on 
 mine , that l will not fail to return them back L m all Jafety ; whereupon, like a good Son that 
 defires to pleafe his Father , fo order the matter that I may rejoyce my felf in the fight of them , 
 and fo have mj defire aecomplifhed. fVbat 1 have further to fay unto you , my v imbajfadour 
 Fingeandono fhall acquaint you with , by whom I pray you liberally impart to me the good 
 news of your per fon , and that of my daughter , feeing {he is, as you know, the apple of my right 
 eye, whereof the fight is all the joy of my face. From the houfe of Fucheo the feventh tJMa- 
 moq-ie of the Moon. After rhat the Nautaquim had heard this Letter read ; The K : ng of Bun- 
 go, raid he unto us, is my Lord, and my Vncle , the brother of my mother,and (above all) he 
 is my good Father, for I call him by that name, bccaufe he is fo to my wife, which is the rea¬ 
 son that he loves me no iefs then his own children ; wherefore I count my felf exceedingly 
 bound unto him, and do fo much defire to pleafe him, that I could now find in my hearc to 
 give the bed part of my Ellate for to be transformed into one of you, as well for to go unto 
 him, as togive him the content of feeing you, wbichouc of the knowledge I have of his dif- 
 pofuion, I am *0 ired he will value more then all the treafures of China ; Now having thus 
 
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 acquainted you with his defire,I earnellly inereat you to render your felvesconformable there¬ 
 unto,and chat one of you two will cake the pains to go to 2 ?there to fee the King whom 
 I hold for my Father and my Lord jafor as for this other, to whom I have given the name and 
 being of a kinfman,Iam not willing to pare with him till he hath taught me to (hoot as well 
 as himfelf.Hcreupon C hrifiovano ^rr^/^and I,greatly facisfied with thcNautaqui ms cour- 
 tefie, anfwered him, that we kiffed his Highnefs hands for the exceeding honor he did us its 
 vouchfafing to make ufe of usjand feeing it was his pleafure fo to do, that he (hould for chac 
 effect make choice of which of us two be thought bell,and he fhould not fail to be fuddenly 
 ready for the voyage.At thefe words (landing a while in muling to himfelf,he looked on me* 
 and Laid, I am refolved to fend him there, becaufe he feems noc fo folemn, but is of a more 
 lively humour, wherewith thofeof fappan are infinitely delighted, and may thereby chearup 
 the (ick man,wherea$ the too ferious gravity of this other, (aid he,turning him to Borralho , 
 though very commendable for more important matters,would ferve but to entertain his me¬ 
 lancholy inllead of diverting it. Thereupon falling into merry difeourfe and jefiing with 
 thofe about him,whereunto the people of Jappan are much inclined,the Fingeandono arrived, 
 unto whom he prefented me,with a fpecial ana particular recommendation touching the alfu- 
 rance of my perfon,wherewith I was not onely well fatisfied, but had my minde alio cleared 
 from certain doubts,which out of the little knowledg I had of thfefe peoples humors,had for° 
 merly troubled me. This done, the Tsfautaquim commanded aoo Taeis to be given me for 
 the expence of my voyage,whereupon the Fingeandono and I imbarqued our lelves in a vef- 
 fel with oars, called a Funcc, and in one night having traverfed all this llhftd of Tanixu- 
 maa, the next morning we call Anchor in an Haven, named Hiamangoo, from whence we 
 went to a good town,called Quanquixumaa,znd fo continuing our courfe afore the Winde, 
 with a very fair gale,we arrived the day enfuing at a very fweec place,named Tanora , whence 
 the morrow after we went to mtinato, and fo forward to a Fortrefs of the King of Bungoes , 
 called Ofiyuy, where the Fingeandono flayed fome time, by reafon that the Captain of the 
 place (who was his Brother in Law) found himfelf much indifpofed in his health. There we 
 left the veffd in which we came, and fo went by land dire&ly to the City, where being arri¬ 
 ved about noon,the Fingeandono, becaufe it was not a time fit to wait upon the King, went to 
 his own houfe v After dinner having refted a little, and fhifted himfelf into a better habit, he 
 mounted on horsback, and with certain of his Friends rode t# the Court, carrying me along 
 with him,where the King was no fooner advertifed of his coming,but he fent a Son of his a- 
 bout nine or ten years of age to receive him,who accompanied with a number of Noblemen, 
 richly apparelled, and his Ufhers with their Maces going before him, took the Fingeandono 
 by the hand, and beholding him with a finding countenance; UYtay thy entrance , laid he un¬ 
 to him, into the houfie of the King my Ford-, bring thee as much content and honour as thy chil¬ 
 dren defer ve, and are worthy, being thine, to Jit at table with me in the folemn Feafis. Ac 
 thefe words the Fingeandono ppioftxmng himfelf on the ground; My Lord, anfwered he, 1 
 mofl humbly befeech them that are in Heaven above , which have taught thee to be fo courted 
 ou4 and fo good, either to anfwer forme , or to give me a tongue fo voluble, as may exprefs my 
 thankfulnefs in terms agreeable to thy ears far the great honour thou art pleafed to do me at 
 thisprefent ; for in doing otherwife I Jhould of end no left, then thofe wgratefull wretches 
 which inhabit the lowefi pit of the profound and obfeure boufeof fmoak J This laid, he offered 
 to kifs the Curtelafs which the young Prince wore by his fide, which he would by no means 
 permit, but taking him by the hand, he led him to the King bis Father, unto whom, lying fick 
 in his bed,he delivered a Letter from the Nautaquim, which after he had read,he commanded 
 him to call me in from the next room where I (laid attending,which infiantly he did,and pre- 
 fentedme to the King, who entertaining me very gracioully; 7 hy arrival, faid he unto me, 
 in this my Country is no lefs pleafing to me, then the Rain which falls from Heaven is profitable 
 to our fields that are fowed with Rice. Finding my felf fomewhat perplexed with the nove'ty 
 of thefe terms, and this manner of falutation, I made him no Anfwer for the infianr, which 
 made the King fay to the Lords that were about him, I imagine that this 11 ranger is daunted 
 with feeing fo much company here, for that peradventure he hath not been accullomed unto 
 it, wherefore I hold it fit to remit him unto^fome other time, when as he may be better ac¬ 
 quainted, and not be fo abalhed at the fight of the people. Upon this Speech of the Kings I v 
 anfwered by my Truchman, that whereas his Highnefs had faid that I was daunted, I con- 
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 far many more, but that my amazement proceeded from the confideration that I was non 
 before tne feet of fo great a King, which was fufficient to mike me mute an hund red chou- 
 fand years, if I coud live fo long: I added further, that thofe which were prefent there feem- 
 to me but men, as I my felf was, but as for his Highnefs, that God had given him fuch 
 great advantages above all, as it was his pleafurethat he fhotld be Lord, and that others 
 fhould be meer Servants,-yea, and that I my felf was but a filly Ant, in comparifon of his 
 grearnefs, fo that his Majefty could not fee me in regard of my fmalnefs, nor I in refpedfc 
 thereof be able to anfwer unto his demands. All the AfTiftants made fuch account of this mad 
 Anfwerof mine, as clapping theit bands by way of aftonifhment, they faid unto the King, 
 Mark, I befeech your Highnefs, how he (peaks to purpofe; verily it feems that this man is 
 not a Merchant, which meddles wit h bafe things, as buying and felling, but rather a Bonz,o, 
 that offers facrifices for the people ; or if not fo, furely he is fome great Captain that hath a 
 long time fcoured the Seas. Truly, faid the King, I am of che fame opinion, now that I fee 
 him fo refolute; but let every man be filent,becaufe I purpofe that none (hall fpeak to him 
 but my felf alone; for I afifure you, that I take fo much delight in hearing him talk, that at 
 this inftant I feel no pain. At thofe words the Queen and her Daughters, which were fet by 
 him, were not a liccle glad, and falling on their knees, with their hands lifed up to Heaven, 
 they thanked God for this his goodnefs unto him. 
 
 CHAP. X L V. 
 
 The great tfhifhap that hefill the King of Bungo’j- Son, with the extreme danger that / was 
 
 in for the fame; and what followed thereof on. 
 
 A Little after the King caufed me to approach unto his bed, where he lay fick of the Gour, 
 Sea.i. jT^Lwhen I wasnear him, I prithee , faid he unto me, he not unwilling to fiayhere byyne, 
 for it does me much good to look^on thee , and talk^with thee ; thou fhalt alfo oblige me to let me 
 knoVt whether in thy Country , which is At the further end of the World, thou hafi not learn d any 
 Remedy for this Difeafe wherewith / am tormented , or for the lack, of appetite, which hath con¬ 
 tinued with me now almoft thefe two moneths without eating any thing to fpeak. °f* Hereunto I 
 anfwered, that I made no profeflion of Pbyfick, for that I had never learn’d that Arc, but that 
 in the Junk, wherein I c a rife ftom China, there was a certain Wood, which infufed in Wa¬ 
 ter healed far greater Sicknetfes then that whereof he complained, and that if he took of it, 
 it would affuredly help him ; To hear of this he was very glad, infomuch that tranfported 
 with an extreme defire to be healed, he fent away for it in all hafte to TamxumaajNhzte the 
 Juncklay, and having ufed of it todays together, he perfectly recovered of his Difeafe, 
 which had held him fpfor 2 years together, as he was not able to ftir from one place to ano¬ 
 ther. Now during the time that I remained with much content in this City of Fttchea, being 
 fome 20 days, I wanted not occafions to entertain my felf withall 5 for fometimes I was im- 
 ployed in anfwering the Qjefiions, which the King, Qiieen, Princes, and Lords asked of me, 
 wherein I ealily fatisfied them, for that the matters they demanded of me were of very lit¬ 
 tle ccnicqaence. CLher-whiles I bellowed my felf in beholding their Solemnities, the Tem¬ 
 ples, where they offered up their prayers, their warlike Exercifes, their naval Fleets, as alfo 
 their fifhing & huncing,wherein they greatly delighr ? efpecially in the high-flying of Falcons, 
 and Vultures. Oftentimes I paft away the time with my Harquebufe in killing of Turtles, 
 and Quails, whereof there is great abundance in the Country. In the mean fcafon this hew 
 manner of (flooring feemed no Iefs marvellous & ftrange to the inhabitants of thisLand,then 
 to them of Tamxumaa ; fo that beholding a thing which they had never feen before, they 
 made more reckoning of it than I am able to expreis,which wasthecaufe that the Kings fe- 
 cond ^.on, named Anchaudono, of the age of 16 or 17 years, and whom the King wonder- 
 t u ly loved, mtreated me one day to teach him to fhooc; but I put him off, by faying that 
 * there needea a far longer time for it then he imagined, wherewith not well pleafed he com- 
 p amed to his Father of me, who to content the Prince defired ms to give him a couple of 
 C ^ latlsfyia & ot his mindc j whereunto I anfwered, that I would give him as many 
 
 as ms Highnefs would be pleafed to command me.Now becanfe he was thaeday to dine with 
 is at -r, tne matter was referred to the afeernoon, howbeit then too there was nothing 
 done, lor that he waited on his Mother to a Village adjoyning, whither they came from all 
 parts 00 pilgrimage by reafon of 2 certain Feafl, which was celebrated there for the health of 
 
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 the King: The next day this young Princ: came with onely 2 ^oung Gentlemen waiting On 
 him to my lodging,where finding me alleep on a Maty.nd my Harquebufe hanging cn a hook 
 by,he would not wake me till he had rtiot otF acoup.e of chargcs,incending,as he told me af¬ 
 terwards himfd f, that thefe 2 (hoots fhould not be comprifed in them I had promifed him; 
 Having then commanded one of the young Gentlemen that attended him, to go foftly and 
 kindle the Match,hc took down the Harqucbufeizovn. the place where it hung, and going to 
 chkge it,as he had fcen me do,not knowing how much Powder he fhould put in,he charged 
 the Piece almort 2 (pans deep, then putting in the Bullet, he fet himfelf with it to fhoot at 
 anOrange tree that Was not far oflgbuc fire being given,it was his ill hap that th zHarquebufe 
 brake into 3 pieces, and gave him 2 hurts, by one of the which his right hand thumb was in a 
 manner loft; inftancly whereupon the Prince fell down as one dead, which the 2 Gentlemen 
 perceiving, they ran away towards the Courr, crying along in the ftreets that the Grangers 
 Harquebufe had killed the Prince 5 Ac thefe fad news the people flocked in all hafte with 
 Weapons and great cries to the houfe where I was; Now God knows whether I was not a 
 little amazed when coming to awake I faw this tumult, as alfo the young Prince lying along* 
 upon the floor by me weltring in his own bloud without Birring either hand or foot; All that 
 I could do then was to imbrace him in my arms, fo befides myfelf, as I knew not where I 
 was. In the mean time, behold the King comes in a.Chair carried upon 4 mens Ihoulders, 
 and io fad and pale, as he feemedmore dead then alive; after him followed the Queen on foot 
 leaning upon 2 Ladies* with her 2 Daughters, and a many of Women all weeping, Afloon 
 as they were entred into the Chamber,and beheld the young Prince extended on the ground, 
 as if he had been dead, imbraced in my arms, and both of us wallowing in bloud, they ail 
 concluded that I had killed him 5 fo that 2 of the company drawing out their Scymitars, 
 would have (lain me; which the King perceiving, Stay, ft a}, cried he, let m know fir ft how 
 the matter goes, for I fear it comes farther off, and that this Fellow here hath been corrupted bp 
 fome of thofe Traitors kjnred, whom I caufed to be laft executed. Thereupon commanding 
 che 2 young Gentlemen to be called which had accompanied the Prince, his Son, thither, 
 he queftioned them exa&ly ; Tneir Anfwcr was, that my Harquebufe with the Inchant- 
 mencs in it had killed him: Tiiis bepofition ferved but to incenfc the Affiftants the more, 
 who in a rage addrtfling rhemfelves 10 the King ; What need. Sir, have you to hear more, 
 cried they? here is but too much, let him be put to a cruel Death .* Therewith they Cent in 
 all hafte for the Jarabuca, who was my Interpreter, to them; now for that upon the arrival 
 of this Difafter he was out of extreme fear fled away, they brought him ftraightly bound to 
 the King; but before they fell to examining of him, they mightily threatned him, in cafe he 
 did not confefs the truth; whereunto he anfwered trembling, ana with tears in his eyes, that 
 he would reveal all that he knew. In the mean time being on my knees,with my hands bound, 
 a Bonzo, that was Prcfidenc of their Juftice, having his arms bared up to the (houlders, and a 
 Poiniard in his hand dipped in the bloud of the young Prince, faid thus unto me, 1 conjure 
 thee, thou Son of fome Devil, and culpable of the fame crime for which they are damned that 
 inhabit in the houfe of Smoak, where they lie buried in the obfeure and deep Pit of the Centre 
 of the Earth, that thou confefs unto me with a voice fo loud that everyone may hear thee, for 
 what caufe thou haft with thefe Sorceries and Inchantments killed this young.Innocent, whom 
 we hold for the hairs, and chief ornaments of our heads. To this Demand I knew not what 
 to anfwer upon the fudden, for that I was fofar befides my felf, as if one had taken avvajp my 
 life, I believe I ftiould not have felt it j which the Prefident perceiving, and beholding me 
 wirb a terrible countenance, Seeft thou not, continued he, that if thou doeft not anfwer to the 
 Qutftions J ask L thee, that thou mayft hold thy felf for condemned to a Death of Bloud, of Fire , 
 of Water, and of the Blafts of the Winder for thou fhalt be difmembred into Air, like the 
 Feathers of dead Fowl, which the Winde carries from one place to another , feparated from the 
 Body with which they were joyned while ft they lived. This faid, he gave me a great kick wit h 
 bis foot for to rowfe up my fpirits, and cried out again, Speak, confefs who they an that have 
 corrupted thee l whatfum of money have they given thee ? how are they called ? and when are 
 they at this prefent l Ac thefe words being iomewhat come again to my felf, I anfwered him, 
 that God knew my innocenct,and that I took him for witnefs thereof:But he nbt contented 
 with what he had done began to menace me more than before, and fee before my eyes an in¬ 
 finite of torments & terrible things;wherein a long time being fpent,it pleafed God at length 
 that the youngPrincecame to himfelf,who no fooner faw thcKing his Father,as alfohisMo- 
 
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 ther and Sifters diftolved into tears, but that he deftred them not to weep ; and that if he 
 chanced to die, they would attribute his death to none but himfelf, who was the onely caufc 
 thereof conjuring them moreover by the bloud,wherein they beheld him weltring, to caufe 
 me to be unbound without all delay, if they defired not to make him die anew: The King 
 much amazed with this language, commanded the Manacles to be taken off which they had 
 put upon me ; whereupon came in 4 Bonz,oes to apply Remedies unto him, but when they 
 law in what mar tier he was wounded, and that his thumb hung in a fort but by the skin, they 
 were fo troubled at it, as they knew not what to do; which the poor Prince obferving, Away, 
 away,faid he, fend hence thefe Devils, and let others come that have more heart to judge of 
 my hurt, fince it hath pleafed God to fend it me ; Therewith the 4 Bokoes were Cent away, 
 and other 4 came in their Head, who likewife wanted the courage to drefs him; which the 
 King perceiving W2s to much troubled as he knew not what to do ; howbeit he refolved at 
 length to be advifed therein by them that were about him, who counfelled him to fend for a 
 Bonz.0, called Tcixeandono, a man of great reputation amongft them, and that lived then at 
 the City of Facataa, fome 70 leagues from that place; but the wounded Prince not able to 
 brook thefe delays : ; 1 know not , anftvered he, what yon mean by this counfel which you give, 
 my Father, feeing me in the deplorable eftate wherein l am$ for whereas l ought to have been 
 dreft already, you would have me flay for an old rotten man, who cannot be here untill one hath 
 made a journey of an hundred and forty Leagues, both in going and coming , fo that it mujl be 
 a moneth at leaf before he can arrive ; wherefore jpeak^no more of it, but if you define to do me 
 a phafure,free this Stranger a little from the fear you have put him in, and clear the Room of 
 all this throng , he that you believe hath hurt me will help me, as he may , for l had rather die 
 under the hands of this poor Wretch $that hath wept fomueh for me, then be touched by Bonzo 
 of Facataa, who at the age he is of, of ninety and two years, can fee no further then his no ft. . 
 
 CHAP. XLVI. 
 
 <JMy curing the young Prince of Bungo; with my Return foTanixumaa, 
 and imbarquing there for Liampoo j and alfo that which hap - 
 pened to ns on land, after the Shipwrack, we 
 fuffered by the way. 
 
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 canfi do it, 1 will make no lefs efleem of thee, then of him himfelf, and w id give thee what foe- 
 ver thou wilt demand of me : Hereunto I anfwered the King, that I defired his Majefty to 
 command all thole people away, becaufe the coyl that they kept confounded me, and that 
 - then J would fee whether his hurts were dangerous;for if I found that I was able to cure them, 
 I would do it moft willingly:Prefently theKing willed every one to be gone,’whereupon ap¬ 
 proaching unto the Prince, I perceived that he had but i hurts; one on the cop of his fore- 
 head,which was no great matter; and the other on his right hand thumb, that was almoff cut 
 eff: So that our Lord infpiring me,as it were, with new courage, I befought the King not to 
 be grieved,for I hoped in lefs then a month to render him hisSon perfectly recovered.Having 
 comforted him in this manner, 1 began to prepare my felf for the drefling of the Prince; but 
 in the mean time the King was very much reprehended by the Bon&oes, who told him,that his 
 Son would sfl'urecly die that night, and therefore it was better for him to put me to death 
 prefemly,then to ftffer me to kill the Prince our-right, adding further,thac if it fhould hap¬ 
 pen to prove io, as it was very likely,it would not only be a great fcandal unto him, but alfo 
 much alienate his Peoples affe&ions from him. To thefe fpeeches of the Bonz,oes theKing 
 repliedjthat he rhoughc they had reafon for that they faid,and therefore he defired them tolec 
 him know how he fhould govern himfelf in this excremicy;You muft,faid they,flay the com¬ 
 ing of the Bonsjo Teixeandouo, and never think of any other courfe; for we allure you,in re¬ 
 gard he is the holieft man living, he will no fooner lay his hand on him but he will heal him 
 ilraic, as he hath healed many others in our light. As the King was even refolved to follow 
 thecurfed counfel of thefe fervants of the devihihePrince complained that his wounds pained 
 him in fuch fore as he was not able to endure ir, and therefore prayed that any handfome re 
 
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 medy might be inftantly applied to them ; whereupon the King,much diftra$ed between the 
 opinion of the Bonz.oes^ and the danger that his Son was in of his life, together with the ex- 
 rteam pain that he luffered, deliring thole about him to advife him what he Should refolve on, 
 in that exigent$ not one of them but was of the mind, that ie was far more expedient to have 
 the Prince drett out of band, then to flay the time which the Forgoes fpake of. This counfel 
 being approved of the King, he came again to me, arid making very much of me.he promifed 
 me mighty matters if I could recover his Sen • I anfwered him with tears in my eyes, that by 
 the help of God I would do it, and that he himfelf fhould be witnefs of my care therein : So 
 recommending my felf to God, and taking a good heart unto me, for I faw there was no other 
 way tofave my life,but that, I prepared all things neccflary to perform the curc.Now becaufe 
 the hurt of the right hand thumb was moft dangurous, I began with that, and gave it feven 
 flitches, whereas peradventure if a Chirurgion had drett him, he would have given it fewer * 
 as for than of the forehead, I gave it but four, in regard it was much (lighter then the other; 
 that done,I applyed to them tow wet in the Whites of eggs,and fo bound them up very clofe, 
 as I had feen others done in the JndiaestVvyt days after 1 cut the flitches, and continued dref- 
 ting him as before,until that at the end of twenty days it pleafed God he was throughly cured, 
 wichouc any other inconvenience remaining in him, then a little weaknefs in his thumb ; For 
 this caufe alter that time the King and his Lords did me much honour; the Qu en alfo, and 
 the Princefies her daughters prefented me with a great many Sutes of fllksjand the chicfeft of 
 the Courc with Cymitars, and ocher things, befldes all which the King gave me fix hundred 
 'TmU ; lo that after this fore I received in recompence of this my cure above fifeeen hundred 
 Ducates, that I carried with me from this place. After things were paft in this manner, being 
 advetifed by letters from my two Companions at 7 'amxtimaa, that the Chinefe Pirate, with 
 whom we came thither, was preparing for his return to China , I befoughc the King o IBwgo 
 to give me leave to go back, which he readily granted me, and with much acknowledgement 
 of the curing of his Son he willed a Funce to be made ready for me, furnished with all things 
 Beceflary,wherein commanded a man ofqua!ity,that was attended by twenty of the Kings fer- 
 vants, with whom I departed on Saturday morning from the City of Fucheo i and the Friday 
 following about Sun-fet I arrived at Tamxumaa , where I found my two Camradts, who re¬ 
 ceived me with much joy. Here we continued fifteen days linger, till fuch time as the Junck 
 was quite ready, arid chefi we fet Sail for Liampooy which is a Sea-port of the Kingdom of 
 China , whereof I have fpoken at large heretofore, and where at that time the Portrait tra¬ 
 ded. Having continued our voyage with a profperous wind, it pleafed God that- we arrived fafe 
 at our defired Port,where it is not to be believed how much we were Welcomed by the Inha¬ 
 bitants of the place. Now becaufe it feemed ftrange unto them, that we had voluntarily fub- 
 micted our felves in that fort to the bad faith of the Chinefesy they asked of us from what Coun¬ 
 try we came, and w ere it was that we imbarqued our felves with them ? whereupon we 
 freely declared unto them the truth of all,and gave them an account of our Voyage,as alfo of 
 the new Land of Japp an that we had difeovered, the great abundance of filver that was there, 
 and the exceeding profit that might be made by carrying the commodities of China thither ; 
 wherewith they were wonderfully contented,and inftantly ordained a general Proceflion to be 
 made by way of thankfgiving unto God for fo great a bitfling: But withal 1 covetoufnefs be¬ 
 gan in fuch forttofeize upon the hearts of moft of the Inhabit ants,every one driving to be the 
 foremoft in this voyage, as they came to divide themfelves into troops , and to make fevcral 
 parties;fo that even with weapons in their hands they went thronging to buy up the commo¬ 
 dities of that Country ; which made the Chwefc Merchants, upon the fight of our unruly a- 
 varice, fet fo high a price upon their wares, that whereas a Pico of filk was at firfl not worth 
 forty Taleisy it rofc before the end of eight dayes to an hundred and threcfcore,at which rate 
 too the Merchants feemed to parr with it very willingly. Thus by the means of this unreasona¬ 
 ble defire of gain nine] uncks, which were then in the Port, were in 15 days ready to fet Sail5 
 though tq/ay the truth they were all in fuch diforder, and i'o unprovided, that fome among!* 
 them had no other Pilots then the Matters themfelves,who had but little understanding in Na¬ 
 vigation. In this bad order they departed all in company together one Sunday morning, not¬ 
 withstanding that they had the wind,the feafon,che fea,and atl things elfe contrary,not .uffsr- 
 ing themfelves to be guided by reafon, or the confideration of the dangers which they are fab* 
 jc& unto that commit themfelves to this ElemenrjFor they were fo obftinacri,& fo blinded,u 
 they would not reprcfcnc any inconvenience to themfelves; and I my felf was fo inforcunate, 
 
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 that I went along with them in one of their Vctfels. In this manner they failed all that fame 
 day, as it were groping between the Elands and the firm Land ; but about midnight there a- 
 rofe in the dark fo mighty a Storm, accompanied with fuch horrible rain,that fuffering them- 
 felves to be carried at the mercy of the wind, they ran upon the Sands of Gotom, where of the 
 nine Juncks,two only,as it were by miracle,were faved,fo that the other fevcn were loft,out 
 of which not fo much as one man efcaped, This lofs was thought to amount unto above three 
 hundred thoufand Crowns in Commodities,bcfides the greater, which was of fix hundred per- 
 fons that left their lives there, whereof there were an hundred and forty Portugals, all rich 
 men,and of quality. As for the other two Junck?, in one of the which by good hap I was, joy n- 
 ing in conforc together, they followed the courl'e they had begun, until fuch time as they ar¬ 
 rived at tlw Ifland of the Lequios j There we were beaten with fo furious a North-eaft wind, 
 which increafed by the conjun&ionof the new Moon, that our veffels were feparated in fuch 
 fort as we could never fee one another again. After dinner the wind turned to Weft-Ncrth- 
 weft,whereby the Sea was fo moved, and the waves rofe with fuch fury,as it was a moll dread¬ 
 ful thing to behold ; whereupon our Captain, named Gafpar Melo , a very couragious Gentle¬ 
 man, feeing the greateft part of the prow of the Junck to be half open, and that there was 
 nine fpans water in the bottom of her, he rcfolved by the advice of all the Officers to cue 
 down the two Mafts, whofe weight was the caufe of the opening of the Junckjhowbeit this 
 could not be done with fuch care, but that the main Maft in its fall overwhelmed fourteen 
 perfons, whereof five were Portugals, which were all crushed in pieces, a lpe&acle fo lamen¬ 
 table to behold that it exceedingly grieved every mans heart. Now forafmuch as the Storm 
 increafed more and more, we were conftrained to let our felves be carried at the mercy of the 
 Sea,even until Sun*fet,at which time thejunck made an end offplitcing quite afunderjwhere- 
 upon our Op tain,and every one of us,feeing the deplorable eftate whereunto our fins had re¬ 
 duced us,fell to preparing our felves for our laft end. Having in this fort paft away half of the 
 nighr, about the firft quarter of the watch we ftruck upon a Shelf, where at the firft blow the 
 Junck broke all to pieces, the event whereof was fo lamentable that thrcefcore and two men 
 left their lives there, fome of which were drowned, and the reft fqueczed to death under the 
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 Stft.z. There were but four and twenty of us, befides fome women,fihat efcaped from this mifera- 
 ble Shipwrack; Now as foon as it was day we perceived by the fight of the Ifland of fire, and 
 of the Mountain of Taydacano, that the Land where we were was the great Lcquto, where¬ 
 upon with tears in our eyes recommending our felves to God,and marching up to the breft in 
 water, we fwam over certain deeper places, and fo went five dayes together in great pain, not 
 finding in all that time any thing to eat but the flime which the Sea caft up on the mud ; 
 Howbeit at length by the mercy of God we got to land, where going into the woods we fu- 
 ftained our felves with a certain herb like unto Sorrell, whereof there was great plenty along 
 chefe Coafts, which was all the nourishment that we hid for three days fpace that we were 
 there, until at laft we were efpyed by a boy that was keeping of eattel,who as foon as he had 
 difeovered us, ran to the next Village, which was fome quarter of a league off, for to give no¬ 
 tice of it to the inhabitants there; who prefently thereupon with the found of Drums and 
 Cornets aftembled all their Neighbours round about them, fo that within three or four hours 
 they were a Company of about two hundred men, whereof there were fourteen on horsback.* 
 As foon as they deferied us afar off, they made dire&ly towards us j whereupon our Captain, 
 feeing the wretched eftate whereunto we were reduced, fell down upon his knees, and began 
 to encourage us with many good words, defiring us to remember, That nothing in the world 
 could fall out without the Providence of God, and therefore like good Chriftians we fhould af- 
 fure oilr felves it was hispleafure , that this fhould be the laft hour of our lives, fothat we 
 could not do better then to conform our felves to his holy will , and with patience imbrace this 
 pitiful end, which came from his Almighty handy craving pardon from the bottom of our hearts 
 for all our fins paft , and that for himfelf he had fuch confidence in his mercy , that we duly 
 repenting us,according as we were obliged by his holy Commandments , he would not forget us 
 in that our extremity . Having made us this Exhortation, and lifted up his hands to Heaven j 
 he cried out three times together with abundance of tears. Lord have mercy upon tu, which 
 words were reiterated by all the reft, but with fuch fighs and groans of true Chriftians, and 
 io full of devotion and zeal,that I may truly fay,the thing which then we feared leaft was that 
 which narurally is moft abhorr’d. As we were in this grievous agony fix horfmen came unto 
 
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 us, and beholding us in a manner naked, without arms, on the ground on our knees, and 
 cvvo women lying as it were dead before us, they were fo moved with companion, that four 
 of them turning back to the footmen, which were coming on, made them all to ftav,not fuf- 
 fering them to appiOach us; Howbeic a little r<fter they came to us again, bringing with them 
 fix footmen, which feemed to be fome of the Officers of J uftice, who by the commandment 
 of the horfmen tied us, three and three together , and with fome (hew of pity bid us. That 
 we {heald not he afraid, for that the King of the Lequios was a man greatly fearing God , 
 and very well inclined to the poor, upon whom he continually beftowed much alms: Moreover* 
 they fwore unto us by their Law, that we fhould receive no hurtj yet could we not by any 
 means be perfwaded therenneo, for at that time we had fo litcle hope of life, that if perfons 
 worthy of credic had affured us of it,we (hould hardly have believed them,much lefs thofe cru¬ 
 el and deteliable Gentiles , who neither had Religion, nor any knowledge of God : When they 
 had tied us together, the footmen placed us in the midft of them, whileft thofe on horsback 
 courfed up and down on every fide, as though they had gone the round • now we no fooner 
 b^gan to march, but that the three women which were with us, more dead then alive, fell 
 down on the place in a fwoon, partly through their narural weaknefs, and partly through the 
 fear they were in $ fo that the footmen were forced to take them up in their arms, and each 
 one to carry them in his turn, howbeit for all that before we could arrive at the place whither 
 they were leading us, two of the rhree died , and were left in the Wood for a prey to the 
 Wolves, Foxes, and other Wild-bealis, whereof we faw great plenty thereabout. At length 
 afrer we hid marched a good while we arrived about Sun-fet at a great Borough where we 
 were prefently put into a Pagode,or Temp!e,of theirs, which was invironed with very high 
 walls; and yet for the more lecurity they placed an hundred men about it to guard us all that 
 night, who with their cries and beating of their Drums kept us waking till the next morn¬ 
 ing j for the noife thereof, and theconfideration of our prefenc mifery, would not fuffer us to 
 cake any reft. 
 
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 The carrying of m to the Town of Pungor, and prefenting ns to the 
 Broquen, Governour of the Kingdom 5 with that 
 which enfued upon it . 
 
 A S foon as it was morning the next day the chiefeft women of the Town came to vifit SsS'.f? 
 
 us,and in the way of charity brought us a quantity of Rice,boyled fi(h,and certain fruits 
 of the Country for us to eat, (hewing themfelves to be much moved with our mifery, al well 
 by their words, as by their tears • and feeing theextream need we flood in of cloches,for that 
 we had little, or fcarce any,upon our bodies, fix amongft them, which for that purpofe were 
 chofen by the reft, went a begging for us-through all the ftreets of the Town, faying ; Ogood 
 folks , goodfolks, whieh make profeffion of the Law of the Lord , whofe property it is, if one may 
 fay fo, to jhew himfelfprodigal towards us by communicating his benefits unto ns, come forth of 
 jour houfes to behold the flefh of our fiejh, which the wrath of the hand of the Lord Almighty 
 bath touched, andfuecour them with your alms, to the end the mercy of his greatnefs may not 
 abandon you , as it hath done them, Thefe words were of fuch force to ftir up their charity, 
 as within lefs then an hour we were abundantly furnifhed with all things neceffary for us: 
 
 But about three of the clock in the afternoon came a Poft to this Borough with letters to the 
 Xlvalon of the place,thac is the Captain thereof, who had no fooner read thcm,but he caufed 
 two Drums to beat an Alarum, at the found whereof all the people aflembled together in z 
 great Pagode or Temple, where out of a window he fpake unto them, and gave them to un- 
 derftand that the Broquen, the Governor of the Kingdom, had commanded us to be broughc 
 to the Town of Pungor, which was fome feven leagues from thence. The moft part of them 
 at firft refufed to obey this command, fo that there was great contention about it,in fuch fore 
 that nothing could be agreed upon all that day, by means whereof the Poft was returned to 
 the Broquen with a relation of that which had paft, and fo we were left there till eight of the 
 clock the next morning, at which time two Peretandaos, who are as it were Judges, came ac¬ 
 companied with divers Burgefles, and fome twenty horfmen,unto us, and after many writings 
 drawn up by certain publique Regiiiers concerning us, they fent us away the fame day to a 
 Town, called Gondexilau, where we were put into a dungeon,made in the fafhion of a Cittern, 
 
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 remaining there till the next day up to the middle in filthy (landing water, that was fall 
 of horfleeches, which made us all gore blood: As foon as it was morning- they carried us to¬ 
 wards Pmger, where we arrived about four of the clock in the afternoon; now becaufe it was 
 late the Broquen would not fee us till the day following 5 and then bound together as we were, 
 he caufed us 10 be led through four of the principallftreets of the City, where the people 
 thronging from all parts to behold us, feemed much to pity our mifery,chiefly the women j In 
 this manner we were brought to a Court of Juftice,where there was a great many of Officers, 
 amongft whom we continued a long time waiting for the coming of the Judge,tc leng r h up¬ 
 on the thrice ftriktng of a clock, a door that flood juft againft the place where we attended, 
 was prefently opened, by which we entred into a very fpacious Hall,where the Governour fac 
 upon a Throne all adorned with rich tapeflry,and under a Cloth of State of ftlver tinfel$round 
 about him were fix Ufhers upon their knees,carrying Maces on their fhoulders,and all along 
 the room flood a Guard with Halberds in their hands,damasked with gold and ftlver $ All the 
 reft of the Hall was full of people of divers Nations,the like whereof we had not feen in chofe 
 Cuntries. After ftlence was impoi'ed on all that were prefenr, we proflrated our felves be¬ 
 fore the Throne of the Broquen^ and weeping fluid unco him, Sir , we befeech thee by that God 
 which hath made Heaven and Earth> and on whefe power we all of hs depend , to take pity of oar 
 miferable fortune ; for fince the waves of the\ Sea have brought us to the lamentable ejflate , 
 and wretched condition wherein thou feefi us , we mofi humbly defire thee that thy goodnefs will 
 be pleafed to put us into a better before the King , to the end he may be incited to have com - 
 fajfion on us poor fir angers , that are defiitute of all face our and favour of the world ;for fo it 
 hath pleafed G od to have it in regard of our fins. At thefe words the Brcquen looking on them 
 that were about him, and fhaking his head , what thinkjyou of thefe people , faid he unto them* 
 verily here is one of them that fpeaks of God as a man which hath the knowledge of his truth, 
 fo that we may conclude without all doubt , that there is another great world whereof we have no 
 notice , wherefore fince thefe men know the Source of all good, it is reafonable that we fhould 
 proceed with them according to the requefi they have made unto us with fo many tears ; Where¬ 
 upon turning towards us, who all this while lay proflrated on the ground, with our hands 
 lifted up, as if we were worftiipping God j 1 mufi confefs , faid he unco us, that I have fo 
 great compujfion of your mifery , and am fo grieved to fee you fo poor as you are , as l affiureyou 
 in all verity , that l had rather , if it were the goodpie ofare of the King , bt like one of you , as 
 wretched as you are, then to fee my felf in this office , which quefiionlefs was conferred on me 
 for my fins ; wherefore I would be loth to offend yon, but the duty of my place obliging me there¬ 
 unto , I mufi dejire you as friends not to be troubled , if 1 ask^Jou form quefiions , which are »e- 
 cejftry for the good of juflice ; and as touching your deliver ante, if God affords me life , be a fa¬ 
 red you (hall have it, for 1 am mofi confident that the King my Afafitrs inclination to the poor 
 is truly Royal. Thefe promifes exceedingly contented us; and to thank him for them we had 
 recourie to our rears, which we fhed in abundance, for our hearts were fofull, as we could 
 noc poflibly bring forth a word to anfwer him. 
 
 Sc&.i. The Brcquen called four Rcgiflers, the two Ptretandaos of the Court aforefaid, and fomc 
 eleven or twelve other Officers of Juftice, to come immediately before him •, Then riftng on 
 his feer, be began with a fevere countenance, and a naked Scymitar in his hand, to exa¬ 
 mine us, fpeakmg fo loud as every one might hear him ; 1 Tinaquila , faid he, Brcquen 
 of this City of Pungor by the good pleafure of him whom we all hold for the hairs of our 
 heads , King of the Nation of the Lequios, and of all this Country of the two Seas , where 
 the frejh and fait waters divide the Myncs of his treafttres , do advife and command you 
 by the rigour and force of my words , to tell me clearly 9 and with a clean heart , what people, 
 and of what Nation you are , as alfo where your Country is , and how it is called ? To this 
 demand we anlwered according to the truth, that wewer c Portugal;, Natives of Malaca. 
 It is well , added he, but what adventure brought you into this Country , and whither did you 
 intend to go when as you fuffered jhipwrackj We replyed thereunto. That being Merchants, 
 who make no ocher profdlion then of traffique, we had imbarqued our felves in the King¬ 
 dom of Cnina, for to go from the Port of Liampo to Tanixumaa , where we had former¬ 
 ly been; but that arriving near to’the Ifland of Fire, we were furprized by a mighty tem- 
 peft, 10 that not able to oppole the violence of the Sea,we were conftrained to lie at the mer¬ 
 cy ot the winds for the fpace of three dayes and three nights together ; and that at the end 
 thereof our J unck ran her felf upon the Sands of Ttyd\ean,w heie^of ninety and two perfonfr 
 
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 rhat we were, threefcore and eight were drowned, no more efcaping of that great number 
 bjc thcfe four and twenty of us which (food before him all covered over with Wounds, that 
 were faved(as it were by miracIe)through the fpecial grace of God. At thcfe words Handing 
 a little in fufpence, By what title, replied he, did you pojfefs fo rnuch Riches , and fo many 
 pieces of Silkjvhich were in jour Juuck, and that were worth above an hundred Taeis, as I am 
 informed ; Truly, it is not credible that you could get fo much Wealth ary other way then by 
 thieving, which being a great off tnce againH God , is a thing proper to the ftrvants of the Ser¬ 
 pent of the houfe of fmo ak, and not to thofe of the houfeof the Sun, where they that are juft, and 
 of a pure he art,do bath themfelves amidft the perfumes in the great Pool of the Almighty: We 
 anfwered hereunto, that alluredly we were Merchants, and not Thieves, as he was plealed to 
 charge us, becaufe the God in whom we believed forbad us by his holy Law, either to kill or 
 to rob. Hereupon the Broquen beholding them that were about him ; Doubtlefs , conrinued 
 he’, if that which theft men affirm be true , we may well fay than they are like unto us, and that 
 their God is much better then all others , as me thinks may be inferred from the truth of their 
 words . Then turning himfelf towards us he examined u?, as before, with a Hern counte¬ 
 nance, and the behaviour of a Judge that exercifeth his charge with integrity : In this exa¬ 
 mination he beHowed almoH an hour, and in the laH place faid unto us; / would fain know 
 why thofe of your Country, when as heretofore they /W^Malaca, carried thereunto by extreme 
 avarice, did kjU oUr men with fo little 'pity ? which is ft ill made good by fo many Widows who 
 in thefe Countries have furvived their Husbands. To this we made anfweiy how that hap« 
 pened rather by the chance of War, then out of any delire ofjjRobbing, which we had never 
 ufed to do in any place wherefoever we came ; what is this you fay , replied he* can you main¬ 
 tain that he that conquers doth not rob ? that he that ufeth foree, doth not kill ? that he which 
 fhews himfelf covetous, is not a Thief ? that he which opprejfeth , performs not the attion of a, 
 Tyrant ? and lo, all thefe are the goodly qualities which are given to you, and whereof you are 
 faid to be culpable, and that by the affirmation of verity it felf: whence it is manifeft, that Gods 
 abandoning of you, and permitting the Waves of the Sea to [wallow you up, is rather a pure ef¬ 
 fect of hisjuftice, then any injury that is done to you. This faid, he arofe out of the Chair 
 where be was fet, and commanded the Officers to return us back to Prifon,promifing to give 
 us audience according to the grace which it (hould pleafetthe King to (hew us,& the compaf- 
 Hon that he would have of us ; wherewith we were very much affii&ed, and in great defpair 
 of our lives. The next day the King was advertifed, as well of our imprifonment, as of the 
 Anfwers we had made, by the Broquen* s'Letters. wherein he had intermingled Tomething in 
 favor of u?;by means whereof he did not caufe us to be executcd,as it was faid he had refolved 
 to have done upon certain falfe reports which the ffhinefes had made to him of us.In this Pri- 
 fon we continued Very near 2 moneths,with much pain,never hearing in all that time fo much 
 as any word fpok'en of that firft proceeding againfi us. Now forafmuch as the King defired 
 to be more amply informed concerning us by otherjmore particular inquiries then theLetcers 
 of the Broquen, he fent a certain man unto \\$,mm.z&%andinaa, for to come lecretly to the 
 Prifon where we were, to the end that under the pretext of being a Merchant-firanger, he 
 might exa&ly learn the caufe of our arrival in that place, and that upon the report he (hould 
 make thereof to the King he might proceed to do that which fhould feem jufl unto him.How- 
 beit,though this was clofely carried,yet was it our good fortune to be advertifed of it the day 
 before his coining to us,fo that we had time enough to arm our felves outwardly with all the 
 ‘apparances of mifery and affli&ion we couldpoffibly devife,and counterfeitjwhich expedient: 
 next to Gods affiHance Hood us in more Head then any other we could have thoughc upon<> 
 
 This man then came one morning well accompanied to the Prifon* and after he had viewed 
 us all one after another, he cal'td to him the Jurabaca, who ferved to interpret for him ; 
 tyisk^thefe men, faid h z,wbat is the caufe that the mighty hand of God hath fo\[abandoned them . 
 as to permit their lives,through an effiett of his Divine jufttce,tobe fitbjetted to the judgement 
 of men, without having fo much rtmorfe of confcience, as to fet before their eyes theterrour of 
 that dreadful vifion which doth ufe to fright the foul at the laft gaff of a mans life 5 for it is to 
 be believed, that they who have done that which I cbferve in them, have heaped fin upon fin. 
 
 We anfwered him thereunto, that he had a great deal of reafon for what he fpake, in regard 
 it was very probable thatithe fins of men were the principal caufe of their fufferings ; how- 
 beic that God, as the Sovereign Lord of all, did neverthelefs in that cafe accuflometo 
 ! take pity of them * who with fobs and tears continually called upon him,and that it was alfo 
 
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 his bounty wherein ill our hope was pliced, to the end he would be pleifed to mfpire ths 
 K'n°s heart with a will to|do us juftice according to our works, for that we were poor ton- 
 -ers'deffirute of all favour, a thing whereof men make moll account in this world. That 
 Zbiohjon fay, replied he, <V very well, provided that your hearts he conformable to year word.s, 
 and then yon are not to be found fault with-, for it it mop certain, that he Which enamels all 
 , hat OUT lyes do behold fl the beautifying of the night, and that hath likewife made whatfoever 
 the day doth jhew reefer the fufienance of man,who are hut Worms of the Earth, will not refnft 
 yon your deliverance, feeing you heg of him with fo many fighs and tears a wherefore I entreat 
 I on not to difemhle with me, but truly to confefs what f defire to nnderftandfrom you at this 
 prefent ; namely, what People yon are > of what Nation? ,n what par, of the World yon live 
 us, and how the Kingdom of your King unamed? wherennto youpall adde thetanfe th.at hat 
 brought yon hither,and to what flace you are going with fo much Riche,.which theSea hath caf- 
 Mon the (hoarsof Taydican, whereat all the Inhabitants have fo wondred, as they were ptr- 
 Laded that you were Mafiers of all the Trade of China ? In thefe, and other like Quefti- 
 ons, which this Spie asked of us, we returned him fuch Anfwers as were ffloft behoofull for 
 us to °ive him; wherewith he was fo contented, that making us many offers, he promifed to 
 move°the King for our deliverance. In the mean time he fpake not a word to us of the oc- 
 cation for which he was Cent, hue ftill feigned himfelf to be a ftnnger, and a Merchant like 
 one of us. Howbeit when he went away, he carefully recommended us to the Gaoler, and 
 willed him nor to let us wantany thing, promiftng to fatisfie him for it to his content; In 
 acknowledgment whereof we gave him many humble thanks with tears tn our eyes, wterc- 
 bv he was Ireatly moved to companion, fo that he gave us a Bracelet of Gold that washed 
 thirty Ducates, and alfo fix Sacks of Rice, and withall defired us to excufe him for thelfmal- 
 nefsof the Prefent he had given us. After this he returned back to the King, unto whom 
 he rendred an account of all that had pad with us, affurmg mm that we were not fuch as the 
 Chinefes had made him to believe, and offered for proof thereof to pawn his life an hundred 
 times, if need were, which was the caufe that the King abated muen of the fufpmon Where¬ 
 withal! they bad inveigled him about out manner of lying. But as he was refolving to give 
 order for our enlargement, as well upon the report of this man, as m regard of the Letter 
 which the Broanen had written him, there arrived at the Port a Chinefc Pyrat with four 
 Tuncks- unto whom the King gave his Country for the place of Retreat, upon condition 
 that he fhould (hare with him the moity of the Booty which he tould cake, by means where- 
 of he was in great favour with the King, and all of them of the Country. Now fonfmuch 
 as our fins would have it, that this Pyrac was one of the greateft Enemies.the Pmugals had 
 at that time, by reafon of a Fight that we had with http a little before inthe Port of Laman, 
 'eehs.itLancerote Pareyra , born at Lyma, commanded in chief, and in which he bad i Juncks 
 burnt, and too of his men fliin; this Dog was no fooner advertifedI of our Imprifonmenr, 
 and how the King was refolved to free us, but that be imbroiled the bufinefs in a ftrange 
 manner, and told him fo many Lies of us, that he lacked but little of perfwading him, that 
 ere lon° we would be the caufe of the lofs of his Kingdom: I*or he adured him that it was 
 our cuftomcto p’ay the Spies in a Country under pretence of Trading, and then to make our 
 felves Matters of ic,Robbers as we were, potting all to the Sword that we met withall in it; 
 which wrought fo powerfully with the King, that he revoked all that he had refolved to have 
 done; and changing his minde he ordained that in regard of what had been told him, we 
 fhould each of us be difmembred into 4 quarters, and the fame fee up in the publick ttreets, 
 that all the World might know we had deferved to be ufed fo. 
 
 CHAP. XLVIIIJ 
 
 The King\of the Lequio $ fending a cruet Sentence agsinfi m to fkBroqucn 
 of the Town) where we were Pr if oners, to the end loe fhould put 
 tt in executionstud that which happened unto 
 tilfrour arrival at Liampoo. 
 
 A Fter that this cruel Sentence of Death had been pronounced againft us, the King fenc a 
 Peretanda to the Broquen of the City, where we were Prifoners, to the end that with¬ 
 in 4 days it (hould be executed upon our perfons. This Peretanda departed presently awiy, 
 and upon his arrival at the City, he went and lodged himfelf at ft certain Widows houfe, 
 
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 that was his Sifter, a very honourable Woman, and from whom we had received much Almsjj 
 This fame man naving fecretly imported unco her the caufe of his coming, and how he vvas 
 not to return but with a good Certificate unto the King of the performance of this executi¬ 
 on, ftie went ftraitvvay, and acquainted a Niece of hers with it, who was Daughter to the 
 Braque* of the City, in vvhofe houfe lay a Portugal Woman, the Wife of a Pilot who was a 
 Priior.er with us, and 2 Children of hers, defiring then to comfort her, fhe difeovered unto 
 her all that fhe bad learnt, which fhe had no fooner underftood, but that exfremely affli<fted 
 at fo fad a news, fhe fell inftantly to the ground in a fwoon, wherein fhe continued a long 
 time fpeechlefs; At length being come to her felf agaiD,fhe fell to tearing of her cheeks fo cru¬ 
 elly with her nails,that all her face was nothing but gore- bloud,vvhich,for that it vvas a new 
 and extraordinary thing in that Country, was incontinently fpread abroad throughout all the 
 City, infomuch that all the Women being frighted with it, the moft part of them went forth¬ 
 with their Children in their hands to the Broqnens Daughters houfe, where the Portugal 
 Woman vvas, more ready to die, then to anfvver to the Queftions one or another asked her, 
 and beingjexceedingly moved with pity to behold her, fo lamentably taking on, drowned ail 
 in tears and bloud, which paftion and grief had drawn from her, they all refolved to write a 
 Letter in favour of us to the Queen, the Kings Mother, as accordingly they did, and the con¬ 
 tents of it were thefe ; Sacred Pearly congealed m the great eft ft) all of the profoundeft depth of 
 the Waters j thou Star, enamelled with rays of Fire ; thoutrefs of golden hair, intermixed with 
 a Garlandof Rofes, whofe feet are fo replenifted withgreatnefs that they reft upon the top of our 
 heads, like to Rubies enchaced in Gold, whereof the price is inejhmable: We that are no other, 
 then the leaft and pooreftof thy creatnres y the]daughters and kwfwomenof the Broquen’f wife ; 
 together with the reft of thy captives that have fet their hands to thefe prefents t do make our 
 moan unto thee concerning a thing which we have feen with our eyes , that is , a poor Woman, a 
 ftr anger, who feems to have neither fit ft nor face, drowned as ft e is 1^ a pool of bloud , beating 
 her breaft with fuch cruelty as would ftirup even vnlde beafts in the Forrefl to compaffion, and 
 firike fear into every °ne 5 AForeoverwe have heard her cry fo loud, as we affure thee by the 
 Law of all verity, that if God would lend an ear unto her, as we believe he will , becattfe he doth 
 ufually affifi the poor, that are deffifid of the world, it is to be feared that feme great chafiife - 
 ment of Famine or Fire will fall upon us j wherefore the extreme apprehenfion which we have 
 of thefe things, caufeth us to joyn all our voices together, like little children hungry after their 
 mothers, and humbly befecch thee , that cafiing thine eyes upon the foul of the deceafed King , 
 thy Husband , for whofe fake we beg this of thee, thou wilt vouchfafc to make thy felf like the 
 Saints,fitting afide'allreffett of the fleft ; For the more thou ft alt do for God , the greater thou 
 ftalt be in his houfe, where we verily believe thou ftalt finde the ICtng thy Husband, fingingts> 
 the found of the harp of thofe children, that have never finned, the fong of this charitable alms, 
 which for Gods fake, and his, 1 pray thee to obtain of the King, thy fion: And this we hope ftall 
 be a means to move him, both for the love of God, and of thy felf, asalfobythe force of our 
 tears and cries, to take pity on thefe ftrangersf and freely pardon them all the faults, wherewith 
 they are mjufily charged, fince , as thou ftnowefi, they are not the Saints of Heaven that ufe to 
 accufe us, but men , that are infamous, and of an evil life , to whom we are forbidden to lend an 
 ~ ear . Conchenilau, the fa ir Gentlewoman , and well born, but above all more honourable then all 
 thofe of this City, for having been bred up in thy fervice by her Aunt, ftall reprefent unto thee 
 on the behalf of God, and the King thy Husband, for the love of whom we prefer this Requeft 
 unto thee, all the other particularities of this affair, as alfo the grievous tears and groans of 
 thefe poor folkj, and the extreme fadnefs and fear of all the inhabitants af this place, who moft 
 earneftly befeech thee to prefent their humble Suit to the King, thy Son, cherifted above all 
 others , on whom it maf pleafe the)Lord of all good to be flow fo much thereof t as with that, which 
 onely ftall be refting on him, all thefe people, that inhabit the Land, and I {Lands of the Sea, may 
 be replenifted. This Letter, figned by above an hundred of the chiefeft of the Women of 
 the City, was fent by a Gentlewoman, the Daughter of the CMandarin Comanilau , Gover- 
 nourof the IfUnd of Banoaa , which is on the South-fide of that of the Lequios, and good 
 luck would have it that this young Damofel came thither, but 3 days before the Sentence of 
 death was to be put into execution upon us, in the company of 2 of her Brothers, and 10 or 
 11 Gentlemen, her Kinfmen. 
 
 This Gentlewoman being arrived at the City of Bintor, where the King and Queen his 
 Mother were, fhe went to the houfe of an Aunt of hers, the chief Lady of Honour to the 
 
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 Queen, and that infinitely loved her,co whom (lie rendred an account of the occafion of her 
 coming, and withall rcprelented unto her how much it imported both her honour and credit, 
 feeing all the reft had made choice of her for this affair, that her Highnefs fhould grant her 
 the grace which all of them together made fuch fuic unto her for: The Lady having given 
 her Niece the beft welcome that poftibly fhe could by all demonftrations of her affe<ftion,fhe 
 faid unto her, that fince fhe perceived this bufinefs fo much concerned her honor, fhevvould 
 labor by all the means fhe could that fhe fhould not return difcontented,and fruftrated of the 
 hope of her Ilequeft, the rather for that the thing was juft in it felf, and fo earnaftiy fought 
 for by fo many great Ladies; whereupon the Gentlewoman, having given her very humble 
 thanks, befought her to difpatch the bufinefs with as mu?h fpeed'as might be, in regard we 
 had buc 2 days more to live,according to the tenour of our Sentencc,after which time all help 
 would be but in vain. Since it is fo , anfwered her Aunt, and that for want of requifitc dili¬ 
 gence the poor Wretches are like to fuffer the punifment wheremto the King hath defined them 
 upon the Chinefes report, I will go and lay my felf at the Queens feet , ajfoon as fhe awake** 
 which will be within an hour at the furthefi, to the end that this novelty , not having done fo 
 theje 6 years by reafon of my indiff option, may draw her to demand of me the caufe of it. Ha¬ 
 ving faid this, fhe left her Niece behinde her,and went and opened a Gallery door, whereof 
 fhe alone had the Key, and foentred into the Chamber where the Queen lay ; A while after 
 the Queen awaking,found her lying at her feet,whereupon fhe faid unto her$ How WNhay 
 Mdcamur, (for fo was this Lady called) what is it hath brought you hither at this time ? cer¬ 
 tainly it is fome extraordinary matter . CMadam, anfwered fhe, that which your Majefty 
 fays is very true, and l ajfure my felf that it will feem no lefs firange in your ears , then it was 
 to me to fee my Niece arrive here lately with fo much forrow and grief\ that l am net able to 
 exprefs it in words. The Queen having then commanded her to call her in, fheprefently 
 fetched her ; The firft thing that this young Gentlewoman did, was to proftrate her felf be¬ 
 fore the Queen, who was in her Bed, and fo told her weeping the occafion that brought her 
 thithef, and therewithal! prefented her with the Letter, which the Queen commanded her to 
 read,as accordingly fhe did 5 and it*is faid the Queen was fo moved with companion at it, 
 that not enduring to have her make an end of reading it, fhe faid many times unto her with 
 tears in her eyes ; Enough, enough, I will hear no more of it at this time$ and fince the bufinefs 
 fiands m the terms you fpeak^ of , God, and the Soul of the King my Husband, for whofe fyke 
 all thefe Ladies beg the boon of me, forbid, that thefe poor Wretches fould loft their lives 
 fo unjuftly 5 The falfe reports which the Chinefes have made of them, together with the mi- 
 fenes they had endured at Sea, may ferve them inflead of great P uni foments ; wherefore , 
 rely upon me for your Requefl, and in t he mean face withdraw your felves till tomorrow morn¬ 
 ing betimes, when we will go all three to the King my Son before it be day, and then you Jhall 
 read this Letter to him, as you have read it to me,that being incited to pity he may maze no 
 difficulty to grant us that which we demand of him with fo mush reafon. Th : l rcfolution taken, 
 the Queen was no fooner up the next day,buc carrying along with her onely her chief Lady, 
 and the Gentlewoman her Niece,fhe paft through a Gallery to the Chamber of the King her 
 Son,whom fhe found Hill in bed, and having rendred him an account of the occafion of her 
 coming, fhe commanded the Gentlewoman to read the Letter, as alfo to tell by word of 
 mouch all that had happened in that affair, which the Gentlewoman performed very exactly, 
 but not without mingling her tears with thofe of her Aunts, as we knew afterwards: In 
 the mean time the King looking on his Mother; tJMadam, anfwered he unto her, 1 mufi 
 needs eonfefs , that I dream d this night how I faw my felf before an angry Judge , who 
 carrying bus hand three times to his face , as if he had threatned me, I promife thee, faid 
 he unto me, that if the bloud of thefe firangers doth cry unto me for vengeance , thou and thine 
 jbaL Jatispe my juf ice, which makes me believe, that affuredly this fofion came from God, 
 i" r w hofe fake 1 will do ihis Alms to his praife, giving them both life and liberty, that fo they 
 
 K L' Te th L ^ "Moreover 1 will caufe a Hejfel to be provided for them, furnifed 
 
 / ““things they fall need,all at mine own charge. The Queen gave the King her Son chan ks 
 TCkY\£w*f '' reaC u ° ro them,and withall commanded her Lady and the Gentlewoman 
 
 rhf* T<;J S r eer ’ as ^ ^id,and fo the Qyeen retired to her own lodging. Hereupon 
 
 V..1 r -iK n ^ n L* ° r mi,*,** t0 c0rnma nd him that the Sentence againft us might be revo- 
 MofK*rV 1:n f 1 laC vf? ac ^ we ^ concerning his Dream,as theRequeft the Queen his 
 
 a n,a e unto lam,which he had granted her.Then cheOfficers of Juftice commenc 5 - 
 
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 ing the King much tor,rhis iftion, revoking the fo.mer, drew up another Sentence in favour 
 ot us, vv iich cone iced re ordst o tnis ; Brpquen of my City of Pungor, I, the lord of 
 [even Generations , And of the hairs of thy head, do fend thee the fmiles of ray mouth, that thy 
 reputation may he thereby augmented Confide ring the inf rmation which the Chineles had 
 given me <f the pernicious manner of living of iheje fir mgers, ajfunng me by a foltmn oath , 
 and upon the faith they owe unto their\Gods ^ that infallibly they were Pirats and robbers, who 
 ufed no other trade then to jteal away ot‘‘cr mens goods, arid bathe their hands m the blood of thofc 
 that would defend toeir own according o reafon , as .they fatd was mamfefl to all the world, 
 which they have run over, not leaving any //land, Tort of the Sea, River, nor Land, that 
 they have not invaded 791th fire and fword , committing fuch enormous and horrible crimes, 
 as fox fear of offending God, I may not mention. tA ll which things have at firfi fight feemed 
 unto me mofl worthy to be punifhed in Jufiice according to the Laws of my Kingdom ; where » 
 fore 1 fen: their Proces to the principal Officers of my Crown , who all with one common con fent 
 fwore unto me that thefe firangers deferved not only one, but many deaths, if it were poffihie j 
 fo that relying upon their advice , 1 wrote . unto Nhay Peretanda, that he fhould enjoyn thee 
 prom me not to fail within fou^ dayes to pat that Sentence of mine m execution. Now foraf- 
 much as the chief fi Dames .of your City, whom 1 hold for my kjnfwomen, have been Suitors 
 untome fince , that I would be pleafed to befiow their lives upon them hy way of an alms, aL 
 ledgmg many reafons m their Letters to that purpofe , whereby 1 might be induced not to denyj 
 but rather to accord them that grace $ the fear which 1 have leafi their cries Jhould in cafe of 
 refufal arrive at the highefiof the Heavens, where that Lord liveth reigning, whofe proper¬ 
 ty it is_ to have pity on the tears which are truly jhed by thofe that have a right zeal to his holy 
 Law, hath wrought fo with me, that freeing my feIf from that blind paffion whereunto the 
 fitfh readied me inclined, 1 would not let my choler prevail over the blood of thofe wretches 0 
 For which re fons I command thee , that as foon as this fair Gentlewoman, who ts of noble 
 extraction , and my kj^f woman, fhall prefent thee thefe Letters, figned with my hand, where¬ 
 withal foufefs, I am well contented, m regard of the perfonS that have made this Suite unto 
 me, thou go unto the pr if on, whither thou bafi committed thefe fir angers , and that without 
 all delay thou fet them at liberty, as alfo that thou furnifh them with avejfel at my charge, 
 giving them moreover fuch alms as the Law of the Lord commandeth thee to befiow on them t 
 and that too with a liberal hand ; whereupon thou fhalt tell them, that they may go aw ay-with¬ 
 out feeing my Perfon, for which 1 will difpenfe with them , as well beeaufe that labour would 
 be to no purpofe, as for that, performing as I do t% Office of a King, it is not fit for me to be - 
 hold meuifvho have a great, knowledge of God, and yet feem to make little account ofhis Law± 
 in that they accufiom themfelves to r 06 others of their goods . Given at Bint or in the third 
 Chavequa of the firfi Mamoquo of the tJMoon, m the prefence of the Queen my (JMother, the 
 Source of my right eye, and fad/ of all my Kingdom . And figned a little below, Hirst 
 Titan, Xwancor, Ambulec , the firm prop of all Jufiice. As foon as the Gentlewoman had 
 this Letter of the Kings in hex hands,me was never at quiet till fhe had left her Aunt,and put 
 her felf upon her journey, which {he continued with fuch diligence, that in a (hortfpace fibe 
 arrived at the City, and delivered the.Letter to the Broquen, who prefently, upon the reading 
 of ic caused all the Feretandas, Chumbims, and other Officers of Jufticestoaflemble together, 
 and then went with themdircdUy to cbe^rifon, where we were at that inftant under a lure 
 guard ; we no fooner faw them enter,but all of us cried out three or four times together, 
 Lord have mercy upon us ; wherewith the Broquen, and all that accompanied him, whereof 
 the Prifon was fuU, w ere fo moved, as iotne of them could not forbear weeping, out of the 
 compaffion they had of us : In rhe mean time the Broquen fell' to comforting us in fuch kind 
 and loving terms, as web exprefled the grea; nets of his charity ; Withal! he commanded the 
 irons co be taken rff from our hands andfeer, and drawing us into an open Courc, he re¬ 
 counted unco us all that had pa ft in our bufinefs, whereof we had nor. any knowledge at all, 
 in regard of the ftridt watch chit was let upon us all the while $ Then having caufed the Kings 
 Letters. to be pu’ lifhed My friends, l aid he unto us, now that God hath (hewed you fo much 
 grace , to deliver you as you fee , l have-one reqttefi to make unto you , which is, that for my 
 Jake, you will thanks him from the bottom of your heart, and praife him for it $ for if you 
 make this acknowledgement Unto him, he will communicate to you from above, whence all good 
 doth proceed, an agreeabft repofe , which is a thing far more convenient for us then to 
 five three or four days in the mi(cries of this,world , where there is nothing but labour , grieft 
 
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 great affliction , and above all poverty , which is the accompli foment of all evils , and 
 whereby ordinarily our fouls are wholly con fumed in the deep abyfs of the houfe of 
 fmoak, 
 
 Ttie Broquen moreover caufed two Paniers full of clothes ro be brought to that place, and 
 dittribuced to them amongtt us according to each ones need;That done, he carried us home to 
 his houfe, where ail the Ladies of the Town came to fee us, tettifying by their countenances 
 thac they greatly rejoyced at the good fuccefs of our deliverance:They comforted us alfb with 
 great demonttneion of pity,which is an effeft of the good nature of the women of this Coun- 
 try,that is common to them al'jand not contented therewith they ente r tained us in their bou- 
 (es, one after another during ail the time we were there until our departure, for we continued 
 in this City afterwards the fpace of forty-fix days, in which time we were furniflhed with all 
 things neceflbry for us, and that in Inch abundance, as there was not one of us but carried a- 
 bove an hundred Ducates away with him. As for the Portugal woman, of whom I fpake be¬ 
 fore, (he had above a thoufand, as well in money 5 as in other gifes which were*given her, by 
 which means her husband in lefs then an year recovered himfelf of all the Ioffes he had futtai- 
 ned. After we had with a great deal of contencmenr pad thofe forty fix days there, the feafon 
 proper for our voyage being come, the Broquen procured us paflfige in the Junck of a Chintfe , 
 which was bound for the Pore of Liampoo in the Kingdom of China , according to the 
 commandment that he had received of the King for that purpofe; but fird he caufed the Cap¬ 
 tain of the Junck to put in good fecurity for the fafetyof our perlons during all the time of 
 the voyage. In this manner we departed from Ptwgor, the capital City of the Idand of Leqdi- 
 os, of which I will here make a brief relation, to the end thac if it (lull one day plcafe God to 
 infplrethe Portugal Nation, principally for the exaltation & increafe of the Catholike faith, 
 and next for the great benefit tbit may redound thereof, to undertake the Conqueft of this 
 Iflind, they may know where fird to begin, as alfo the commodities of it, and the eafinefs of 
 this Conquett. We mud underdand then that this I (land of Lequios % feituated in nine and 
 twenry degrees, is two hundred leagues in circuit, ihreefcnre id length, and thirty iti bredth. 
 The Country is almod like that of Japp an frying that it is a little more mounrainous in certain 
 parts,but in the middle ic is plainer tc more ferci e.lt is rendred very agreeable by many large 
 Plains, that are watred with divers rivers of frefli Water, and from Whence are gathered grfcac 
 provifiors, efpecially of Rice and Wheat. It hath Mountains out of which is drawit fiich quan¬ 
 tity of copper, as in regard of the abundance ^hereof ic is fo common among tfiblfe people, 
 that whole Ships are laden with ie from thence in Way of fraffique to ill the Ports of China, 
 Lamati) Sumbor> Chabaquea , T »j fa, Miacoo,* nd Jappan, as likewife ro all the other Iflattds On 
 the South-lide thereof, as thofe Of S'efirauyGoto, Fucanixi, and Polled* : Moreover, in all this 
 Country of the Lequios , there is alfo great dore of iron, ftfcel, lead, tin, allum, fak-pe&cer, 
 brimfton, hony, wax, fugar, and ginger, far better then that which comes from t he Indiaes, 
 It.harh withall a world of Xngelin-wood, Chednuts, Trees,Oak,and Cedar, wherewith thou- 
 fands of Ships may be made.On the Ead lide ic hath five ver y great ifiands,where many Mynts 
 ot' Silver are found, as alfo Pearls, Amber, Frankincenfe, Silk,Ebony,Brafil, and a great abun¬ 
 dance of a certain wood fit for Carpentry,called Poytan ; It is true that there is not fuch flore 
 of Silk there,as i n China, The Inhabitants of all this Country do,as the Chinefcs^ldth theni- 
 felves', WithLinnen, Coctcn, Silk, and a kind of Damask-ttuff, which comes to them frOm 
 NamqUin; They are great eaters, very much addi&ed to the delights of the flefh, little incli¬ 
 ned to arms, and altogether unfurnilhed of them; which induceth fee to believe that thfcy 
 might be eafily conquered; and the rather for that in the year, a thoufand, five hundred, fifty 
 and fix, a ‘Portugal arrived at Malaca, named fPero Gomez, d* Almeyda , fervant to thfc Grand 
 Matter of Santiago, with a rich Prefenc, and Letters from the Nasitaquimfiimce of the Ifland 
 of Tahixumaa, dire&ed to King John the third ; the Subftance and Contents of his requeft 
 was, to have five hundred Portugals granted to him, to the end that with them, and his own 
 Forces,he might 'conquer the Ilhnd of Lequio , for which he would remain tributary to him ac 
 five thoufand Kintals of Copper,& a thoufand of Lattin yearly; vvhich Embjfly came to no ef* 
 left,because the Meffenger was lott in the Gallion, where Manael de Souz,<*de Sepulveda alfo 
 perifhed, A little further to the Northward of this Ifland of Lequio there is a great Archipela- 
 gb Off mall Iflands,frorn whence is drawn a great quantity of Silver, which in my opinion, and 
 by what I gathered out of a peticion which Puy Upez.de V'ilhalobos General of th£ CafliUians 
 prefented to jorge de Caftro, at that time Captain of Ternaie, flionfd be thofe Whereof the id- 
 
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 habitants had fome knowledge, and which thjy called the Iflatids of Silver; and yet I cannot 
 fee with what reafon that may be, becaufe both by whit I have obfetved, and read, as well in 
 the writings of Pto/omie, as other Geographers, not any one of them hath pierced into the 
 Kingdom of Siam> and the Iflinds of Sumatra j only our Cofmographers, fioce the time of 
 Alyhonfo d’ Albuquerque, have p^da little further, and treated of the Selebres, Pufuaas, 
 tJltwdanaw } Champas • as alfo 6CChma i and Jappan y but not of the Lequios, or other Archi¬ 
 pelagoes t which are to be diicovered within the vuii extent of that Sea. From this brief relati¬ 
 on which I have made of the Ifhnd oi Lequios^iruy be inferred, both out of what I have heard 
 and fetn> thac with two rhouland men only this Illmd might be taken, together with all the 
 reft of rhefe Archipelagoes, whence more profit might be drawn then from the Indiaes, and 
 they might l e conierved with lefs charge, as well in regard of men, as otherwife ; for we 
 fpake there with Merchants, who affured us, that the foie Revenue of three Cufiom houfes, 
 and of the Kland of Lequios ) amounted unto one million and an half of gold, not comprifing 
 therein eirher the Mai's of che whole Kingdom, or the Mynes of Silver, Copper, Iron, Steef, 
 Lead and Tinjwhwh are of a far grater Revenue )t hen the Cufioms. I will only fpeak furcher 
 of other particularities of this Ifhnd, which I might here inferc, for. that I hold this fufficient 
 to awaken the courages of the PoHtigals^ and incitfc them to an Enterprife of fo much fervice 
 for our King, and profit for themfelves. 
 
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 dMf fay ling from Liampod to MalaCa, from whence the Capt kin of the Fortrefs 
 fent me to the Chaubainhaft at Martabano ; and all that befel 
 iti in lour voyage thither. 
 
 B Eing arrived k Liampoo , we vvete very well received by the Portugal*, that lived there; S:&V 
 From whence Within a while after I imbarqued my felf jn the Ship of a 'Portugal , named 
 T'rifiand de Gaa, for to return unto Malaca, with ah intention once more to rry my fortune, 
 which had fo often been contrary to me, as may appear by that which I have delivered be¬ 
 fore. This Ship beidg fafely arrived at Malaca, I went prefently unto Pedro de Faria > Go\tt- 
 nour of the Fortrefs,who defirihg tO benefit me fomewhat before the time of his Government 
 was expired, hecaiifed me to undertake the voyage of Martaban^ which was ufually very 
 profitable, and rhAt in the Judck of t A/L&hiWKtAny named TSfjcoda Afamiide , who had wife 
 2nd children Now the principal dellgne of this voyage was,' to conclude st peace 
 
 wirh the Chaubainhaa&mgoC Martabano ; is alfo to continue chc commerce of thofe of thac 
 Country wich us, becaufe their Juncks did greatly ferve forth£ provifions of our Fortrefs, 
 which it that time was unfurdiflied thereof by reafon ofthe fuccefs of the Wars of Jaoa. 
 Befides I had a deiwne in this my voyage of no lefs confequence, then the refi, which was 
 to get one, called Lane ante Gnerreyro, to come thither, who was then on the Coafi of Ta~ 
 Aaucarim , with an hundred men in four Foifls,under the name of a Rebel or Mutiner ; I was 
 to require him to come to the fuccour of the Fortrefs, in regard it was held for certain, char 
 the King of Achem Was fuddainly cofall upon it ; fo that Petro de Faria , feeing himfelf de- 
 fticute of all that Was necetfary for him to fuftain a Siege, and of men like wife, found it fic 
 fo make ufe of thfcfe hundred men, the rather for that they were neareft, and fo might be the 
 looner with him. In the third place, 4 he fent me upon another important occafion, namely,to 
 give advice to the Ships of Bengala, chat they Ihould come all carefully id conforc together, 
 left their negligence in their Navigation fhould be the caufe of fome difafier.This voyage then 
 I undertook very unwillingly, and parted from Malaca upon a Wednefday, the ninth day of 
 January in the year, 6n6 thoufand, five hundred, forty and five; being under Sail I continued 
 my courfe with a good Vyind to Pullo Pracela'r, where the Pilot was a little retarded by means 
 of the Shelves, which crofs all rhat Channel ofthe firm Land, even unto the Iflind of Sumo* 
 tra j When we were got forth with much labour, we patfedjon to the Iflinds of Pullo $am~ 
 bitluMy where I put my felf into a Manchua , Which I had very Well equipped; and fayling 
 in it the fpace of twelve days, I obferved, according to the order Pedro de Faria bad given 
 .ne for ir, all the Coafi of tnac Country of ^Malaya, which unco 'juncklan contains an hun¬ 
 dred andthirev leagues, entring by all the Rivers of Banuhaas, Salangor , Fanaagim , Quc~ 
 dam t Parley Tendan, and Sambilan, Siam , without fo much as hearing any news at all of his 
 enemies in any of them: So continuing the fame courfe nine days more, being the three and 
 
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 twentieth of our voyage, we wenraridcaft Anchor at a little Ifhnd, called Plfandarea^ where 
 v ‘ the the Mabametan Captain of the j unck, was of nectflity to make a cable, and fur- 
 
 nidi himfelf with wood and water; With this refolution going on fhore every man appived 
 himfelftothe labour he was appointed unto, and therein fpent mod part of the day ; Now 
 whiled they were thus at work the Son of this Mabumetan Captain came and asked me whi¬ 
 ther I would go with him, and fee if we could kill a Stag, whereof there was great plenty in 
 that Ifland ; I anfwercd him that I would accompany him with ail my heart, io that having 
 taken my Harejaebafe, I went along with him athwart the wood, where we had not walked 
 above an hundred fpaces, but chat we efpied a many of wild Boars, that were rooting in the 
 earth near to a pond 5 Having difeovered this game, we got as near to them as we could, 
 and difeharging amongli them, we carried two of them to the ground .* Being very glad of 
 this good fuccefs we prefently gave a great fhout, and ran ftraight to the place we had feen 
 them rooting. Bat(0 dreadful to behold) in this place we found above a dozen bodies of men 
 digged out of the earth,and fome niire or ten others half eaten.Being much amazed at thisob- 
 je£t„we withdrew a little afide by reafon of the great flench which proceeded from thefe dead 
 bodies. Hereupon the Saracen told me, that he thought we fhoufd do well to advertife his 
 father of this,to the end we might inflamly furround this Ifhnd all about for to fee whether 
 vve could difeover any veffeis with Pirac5;for,faid he,there may be fome lie hidden behind yon¬ 
 der poynr,whereby we may very well run the hazard of our lives,as it hath often befallen other 
 (hips, where many men have been lofl by the carelefnefs of their Captains. This advice of the 
 Saracen feemed fo good unto me, chat we prefently returned back unto the Rode, where he 
 gave an account to his father of that we had feen. Now for that the Necoda was a very pru¬ 
 dent man, and fcalded(as one may fay) with the like inconveniences, he ftraight way gave or¬ 
 der to have the Ifland furrounded ; tken cauftng the women, children, and linnen, although it 
 were but half wafhed, to be imbarqued, he himfelf being followed by forty men, armed with 
 Harquebufes and Lances, went dire<Rly to the place where vve had difeovered thofe bodies, 
 and viewing them one after another, with flopping oiir nofes by reafon of the flench, which 
 was infupportable, he was fo moved with compaflion, that he commanded the mariners to dig 
 a great pic for co bury them injBut as they were about to render them this lafl duty,and look¬ 
 ing over them again, there was found upon fome of them little daggers garnifhed with gold, 
 and on others bracelets : Whereupon the AfaW^underftanding well this myftery,wifhed me 
 with all fpeed to dffpatchaway the rowing veffd that I had to the Captain of Malaca^oi char, 
 as he affured me,thofe dead men, which they faw there,were Achems y vfho had been defeated 
 near to Tanaticarim % whicher their Armies ordinarily retired becaufeof the war which they 
 had with the King of Slam The reafon he alledged co us for this was, that thofe which we 
 faw there lying dead, having golden bracelets about them, were Captains of Achem , who had 
 caufed themfelvesco be buried without permitting them to be taken away, and chat he would 
 lofe his head if it were not fo. For a greater proof whereof, he further added, that he would 
 make fome more of them to be dif-enterred, as incontinently he didjand having digged fome 
 leven and thirty of them out of the earth, there was found about them fixteen bracelets, of 
 gold, twelve very rich daggers, and many jewels, fo that thinking of no other but hunting, 
 we got a boocy worth above athoufand Ducates, which the Necoda had, bclides what was 
 concealed; but the truth is, this was nor altogether to our advantage, for the moft part of our 
 men becameXick with the extream flench of thofe bodies. At the very inftanc I difpatched a- 
 way the rowing veffd that we had to Malaca t and advertifed Pedro de Faria of the whole 
 fuccefs of oar voyage ; Withall I certified him what courfe. we had held $ as alfo into whac 
 Ports, and into what Rivets we hid entred, without hearing any other news of his enemies, 
 then that it was fufpe&ed they had been at Tanaucarim , where by the appearances of thofe 
 dead bodies, it was to be believed that they had been defeated ; whereunto I added,for a con- 
 clufion,that if I could light on any more allured news concerning thcm,I would prefently ac¬ 
 quaint him with ir, in what part foover I were. V 7/; . 
 
 After I had difpatched away the rowing Veffd to Malaca-, with the Letters which, I had 
 * di-re&ed co Tedro de Faria ,& that our Junck was furniftied with all things needfary for her, 
 we fayled towards the Coaft of Tanaacarim , where, as I faid before, I had order co land for 
 to treat with Lancerote Garerrejro, that he, and the reft of the Portugal of his Company, 
 might cbme to the fuccour of Malaca , which the Achems intended to befiege, according to 
 she feporc that went of it. Being under Sail then we arrived at a little Ifland,- a league in cir¬ 
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 circuit, called ‘Pulho Hinhor, where a Parao came unto us, in the which were fix rawey 
 Moors,poorly clad,with red Bonnets on their heads; their Bca being dole to our Juncle, 
 which was then under Sail, they faiuted us in the way of peace, vvhereumo vve anivv^red in 
 the like manner;That done,they demanded of us if there were any Portugals among!! us?we 
 told them that there were 5 buc miltruliing it, they defired to fee one or two of them upon 
 the Hatches, becaufe, added they, it imporcs much that it ftiould be lb. Whereupon t e Ne - 
 coda prayed me to come up, which incontinently I did, though at thac time I was (hut up ia 
 my Cabbin below fomewhat indifpofed in my health ; wh.n I was on the Deck I cal'ed to 
 them that were ill the Parao , who had no iboner feen me, and known me to be a Portugal, 
 buc they gave a great fhouc; and clapping their hands for joy, they came aboard our Junck. 
 Then one of them, who by his countenance Teemed to have more Authority then the red, 
 began to fay unto me ; Seignior, before I crave leave of thee to fpeakj 1 defire thee to read this 
 Letter, to the end it may induce thee the more readily to believe that which l am to fay unto thee. 
 Thereupon out of an old filthy Clout he took a Letter,wherdn(jfcer I had open d it)I found 
 this Written: Signior s Portugals, which are true Chrtftians , this honourable man, that (hall 
 fheiv you this Letter , is King of this lfland, newly converted to the Faith, and called Dom Lan*» 
 cerote ; He hath rendred many good Offices, not onely to them who havefubferibed this Writing, 
 but to us alfo who have navigated on thefe Coafls : For he hath given us very important adver~ 
 t{foments of the Treafons which the Achems and Turks have plotted againfi us, fo that by 
 the means of this honefi man we have difeovered all their Defgns : withall God hath made 
 ufe of him for to give us not long fince a great FKlory againfi them, wherein we have taken 
 frohsthemone Gaily, four Galliots, and five Foifis, with the death of above at houfand Sar- 
 razins. wherefore we intreat you, by the Wounds of our Lord Jefus Chrifi, and by the me¬ 
 rits of his holy Paffion, not onely to keep him from all wrong, but to affift him with all your 
 power , as the manner is of all good Portugals, that it may ferve for an example to thofe which 
 fhall know this, to do the like in imitation of you ; And fo we kffs your hands,this thirteenth day 
 of November, 1544. This Letter wasfigned by more then 50 Portugals, amongfi whom 
 were the 4 Captains chat I fought for, namely, Lancerote Guerrtyra , Antonio Gomez,, Pedro 
 Ferreyra , andCofmo Bernaldes. When I had read this Letter, I madea under of my per- 
 fon to this petty King, forotherways my power was fo final), as it could not reach further 
 then to the giving him a bad Dinner, and a red Bonnet I had on, which all worn as it was, 
 was yet better then his own. Now after this poor King had made fome Declaration to me of 
 himfelf, and of his miferies, lifting up his hands to Heaven,and {bedding abundance of tears; 
 Our Lord Jefus Chrifi, Laid he unto me, whofe Slave lam, doth know what great need 1 have 
 now of the favour and fuccour of fome Chriftians', for becaufe / am aChnfiian , as they are , 
 a Mahometan Slave of mine, about four Moneths ago, reduced me to that extremity, wherein 
 1 behold my felf at this inftant , being not able in the ft ate J am in to do any other then cafi 
 up mine eyes to Heaven, and lament my misfortune, with much forrow, and little remedy . 
 t/ixd / affiure thee, by the verity of that holy and new Law, whereof / now make proftjfion, 
 that not onely for being a Chrifiian, and a Friend to the Portugal*, / am perfected in this fsrt . 
 T^ow for that being alone, as thou art, it is not piffiible for thee to afiift me, I befeech thee , 
 Signior, to take me along with thee, to the end that this Soul which Godhath tut intome 
 may not pert{h, and in recompence thereof 1 promtfe to ferve thee as a Slave all the days of 
 my life. Lo rhis is chat which this poor King faid with fo many tears, as it was great pity to 
 behold it; in the mean time the Ffecoda, who was of a good difpofition, andcharita ly in¬ 
 clined, was very much moved with the Difafter of the unfortunate King, fo thic he gave him 
 a little Rice, and fome Linnen to cover him withall, for he was 10 ragged, that one might 
 fee his naked skin every where about him. After he had informed himfelf from hum of cer¬ 
 tain particulars, the knowledge whereof concerned him, he demanded him where his Enemy 
 Was, and what Forces he had ? \y iereunto he anfwered, Thar he was 9 quarter of a league 
 from thence, in a Cabbin covered with ftraw, having not above thirty Fifhermen with him, 
 who were moft of them without Arms* Hereupon the Necoda caft his eye upon me, and fee¬ 
 ing me fad, for that I was not able of my felf to fuccour this poor Chrifiian, thinking withall 
 that he fhould much oblige me thereby, Signior, faid he unto me, if thou wort now ( aptain 
 of my Junck-* as I am, what Remedy wouldfi thou give to the tears of this poor man, where« 
 with alfo thy eyes do participate l I knew not whac Reply to make him, for thac 1 was greatly 
 
 moved to behold my Neighbour, a Ghriftiaa like my felf, to fuficr in that manner, which the. 
 
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 Tfjcod«s fon perceiving, who was, as I have faid, a young man of a good fpirir, and brought 
 up among!! the Portugal *, and guefiing at the fhame and forrow I was in, he defired his 
 father to lend him 20 Miriners of his J unck, that by their means he might re-eftabliih this 
 poo: Kins?, and chafe the Thief out 01 >helfLnd; To this the Necoda anfwered, that if I 
 woulo demand 10 much of him, he would do it very willing’y ; whereupon calling my felf ac 
 his feet, and embracing him, which is the humbled complement nfed among!! them, I told 
 him with tears in my eyes, that if he would dome this favour I would be his Slave while!! I 
 lived, and that both he and his children fhould finde how ready I would be always to ac¬ 
 knowledge the fame ; He presently granted my Requel!, fo that caufing the Junck to ap¬ 
 proach near the fhoar, he prepared hi nfelf in 3 Boats with one Faulcon, 3 Bafes, and 60 
 Men, Jaos and Lefons, all well armed, for 30 of them carried Harquebufes t the reft Lances, 
 and Bowes anu A rows, belides Granadoes, and other fuch like Fire-works, as we thought 
 were convenient tor out DTign. 
 
 F Ic was about 2 of the clock in the afternoon when we landed, and fo we went dire&ly to 
 the Trench where t e Enemies were. The Necodas fon led the Vantguard, conlifting of 40 
 men, whereof 20 were armed with Harquebufes, and the reft with Bowes and Arrows • The 
 Necoda himfelf drought on the Rear, wherein were goSouldiers, carrying a Bmner, which 
 TPedro de Faria had g ven him at his parting from t JMalaca y with a Crofs painted in it, to 
 the end that he might be known for a Vafiai to our King, in cafe he fhould encounter any 
 of or Ships. Marching in this order by the guiding of this petty King, we arrived where 
 theRebdl was with his men fet in order, who by the {Routing and cries feemed in fhew 
 not to make any reckoning of us. They were in number abour 50, but weak, unarmed, and 
 utter y deftitute of ail things neceft ry for their defence, having for all their Arms but Staves, 
 10 or 11 Lances, and 1 Harquequfe. Afibon as we haddifeovered them we gave fire to the 
 Faulcon a d Biles, difclurg ng withall 20 Harquebufes y whereupon the Thieves betook 
 themfelves pref mly to flight, be ; ng in grear d lorder, and mol! of them hurt; We purfued 
 them then fo dofe, that we overtook them on the top of a little Hill, where they were de¬ 
 feated in the fpace of 2 not one of them efcaping with life fave onely 3, whom 
 
 we fpared for that they faid they were Chriftians. That done, we went to a Vil age, where 
 there we not above 20 poor low Cabbins, covered with llraw • in it were found fomc three¬ 
 score and four Women, with a many of litrlt Children, who no fooner perceived us, but all 
 of them with tears fell a crying out, C'hrifli*”* Christian, Jeftu, Jefus. Ac thefe words be¬ 
 ing fully perfwaded r hat they were Chriftians, I defired the Necoda that he would caufe his 
 fon to retire, and not rofuffer any of them to be killed, becaufe they were not Gentiles, 
 which he prefenrly yielded unco, and yet for all that he could not keep the Cabbins from 
 facking, rhegh in them all there was not found the value of 5 Ducatcs. For the People 
 of ihislfland re to poor,that fcarceoneof them is worth a Groat; they feed on nothing 
 but a lice e fifli, which they take with angling, and eat it broiled on the coals without fait; 
 yet are they fo vain and prefumptuous, that not one almoft among!! them but terms himfelf 
 a King of fome vile piece of ground, wherein there is little more then one poor Cabbin; 
 befides, neither the Men nor the Women have wherewichail to cover their nakednels. Af¬ 
 ter the flaughter of the rebellious Saracen and his followers, and there-eftablifhment of 
 the poor Cdrillian King, putting him in poflfeflion of his Wife and Children, whom his Ene¬ 
 my had made Slaves, together with above threefcore and 1 hree Chrillian Souls, we ordained 
 akindeof Church among!! them, for the inftru&ion of thofe chat were newly converted; 
 And then returning to our Junck, we prefently fee fail, and continued our courfe towards 
 Taunacarim , where I was perfwaded I flioufd finde Lancerote Guerreyra , and his compani¬ 
 ons, for to treat with them about the bufinefs, whereof I have formerly fpoken: But for as 
 much as in the Letter, wl Lh the petty King fhewed me, the Portugals made mention of a 
 Victory which God had given them again!! the Turk* and tsfebems of this Coaft, I hold ic 
 noc amifs to relate here how that hapned, as well for the content the Reader may take 
 therein, as to fliew that there is no Enterprise which valiant Souldiers at a need may not 
 bring to pafs, in regard whereof it imports much to cherifli, and make efteemof them; 
 For eigne moneths and more our hundred Portugals had fcoured up and down this Coaft in 
 four well rigg d Foifts, wherewith they had taken three and twenty rich Ships, and many 
 other lefler Veflds, !o that they which ufed to fail in thofe parts were fo terrified with the 
 fole name of the Portugal: , as they quitted their Commerce without making any further 
 
 ufe 
 
of the Ports of 
 their R’venue, in 
 
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 uie of their topping : By this furceafc of Trade the Cuttom-hdufes 
 
 Tanaucaum, Juncalan, Utterguim, Tagaruu, and Tavaj, fell much in ...,. , lu 
 
 V° mucb ' hat tl ^ fe people were conlirained to give notice of it to the Emperor of 
 Soma^ King of Sam, and foveraign Lord of all thatCountry, befeeching. him to gwe a 
 remedy to this mUchief, whereof every one complained. Inttantly whereupon, being then 
 
 nf hH° Cy ° f ?t Aa 'j' [C ? 7 l than f P ecdtoth c F roncireof Lauhos for a Turkifh &ptain 
 of his, named Her Ur in Mahomet, the fame who in the year one thoufandfive hundred 
 
 thirty and eight came from Sue* to the Army of Soliman the Bafhaw, Vice-roy of Cairo, 
 wh.nas the great T^ fent him to invade the /«£«;; but it fell out that this manflip- 
 pmg from the bony ot the Army arrived m a Gaily on the Coaft of Tanaucarim, where he 
 was entertained by the .W King of Siam, and for a Penfaon of twelve thoufand 
 Duutesby the year ferved him as a General of that Frontire. No.7 for that the Kin- 
 
 hJd 4 x 1 - f° r ^ Vlnable > aad made more accountof him then of all others, he com- 
 manded him from the place where he was , with three hundred Januaries that he had' 
 with him, and giving him a great fumof money he made him General of all the Coaft of 
 1 1 S ^ c ^ ch . ecnd he might free thofe people from our incurfions ; withal he promiied to 
 make him Duke ot Banco**, which is an eftate of great extent, if he could bring him the 
 neads of tour Portugal Captains. Tnis proud Turkey becoming more inlblent by the re¬ 
 ward and promhes which the King made him potted prefenciy away to Tanaucarim , where 
 being arnved ne rigged forth a Fleet of ten Sails for to fight with us, being foconhd nt of 
 vanqu m & us, 2s in anfwer of certain Letcers, which the Sornauhadw riften unto him 
 from Odiaa, chefe words were found in one of them. From the time that my head was 
 efloigned from the feet of your Hignefs for to execute this fmali emerge, wherein it feems 
 you are pie a fed . fhould ferve jou, I continued my Toy age till at the end of nine days / arrived 
 ^Tanaucarim , where I presently provided myfclf of fuch Teffels as were neceffary for me,and 
 indeed would have had but only two , for l hold it mofi infallible that thofe would fuffee to chafe 
 away thefe petty Thieves - howbeit not to difobey the C^miffton, which Combraealon the 
 Governor o } the Empire hath given me under your great Seal , I have m«de ready the great 
 p A lfo the four little ones , and the five Foifts with which 1 pur pofe to fee forth with all 
 Jpeed , For I fear lefi thefe Dogs fhould have news of my coming , and chat for m y fins God 
 Jhould be fo much their friend, as to give them leafure to fly, which would be fo great a grief 
 untome, that the very imagination thereof might be my death, or through anexcefs of dehair 
 render me like unto them-, but l hope that the Prophet Mahomet, of whofe Uw I have made 
 ffofflion from mine infancy , will not permit that it fhould fo happen for my fins. This Here- 
 drtn Mahomet being arrived at Tanaucarim, as I have denvered before, prefently made ready 
 
 h l*I :’"if com P°^°f five F.itts, four Galliots, and one Gaily Royal; Within 
 th .u. VAkls he lmoarqued eight hundred Mahometans , men of combat (befides the Ma- 
 rmers,) amongtt the which were three hundred Janizaries, as for the reft they were Turks 
 Greeks, Malabares , Achems, and Msgores^W choyce men, and fo difciplmed,that their Cap! 
 
 d Via ° r y a i fead y molt alfured; Alfitted with thefe Forces he parted from 
 in ?\°! fo* to goin the queft of our men, who a t that time were in this 
 
 luand otPulho Hmhor, whereof the forefaid Chriftian was King. Now during thofe levies 
 of men of War, this petty King going to the Town for to fell tome dryed fitti there, as foon 
 as he perceived what was intended againtt us, he left all his Commodities behind him, and 
 mall natte returned to this Ittand of his; where finding our men in great fecuricy, as little 
 dreaming of that which was in hand againtt us, he related it all unto them, whereat they re¬ 
 mained 10 much amazed, as the importance of the matter did require; In fo much that th- 
 lame night and the next day having well caulked their Veflels which they had drawn 
 Afhore, they Inched them into the Sea , after they had imbarqued their provifions, their 
 water, their artillery, and ammunition. So falling to their oars, with a purpofe (as I have 
 heard them fay fince ) to get to Bengal a, or to Racan , for that they durtt not withttand fo 
 great an Army 5 but as they were unsolved thereupon, and divided in opinion, behold 
 they raw all the ten Sails appearing together, and behind them five great Ships of Gyrates* 
 whole Matters had given Heredrin Mahomet thirty thoufand Ducates for co fecure them 
 againtt our Portuga/s. The fight of thefe fifteen Sails put our men into a very o reat; COn f u „ 
 lion; and becauie they were nor able at chit time co make coSea for that the wind was con¬ 
 trary, they put themfelves into a Creek, which was on the Souch : fide of the Ittand and invi- 
 
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 ronned byaDown,or Hill, where they refolved to attend what God would fend them: 
 In the mean time cbe five Gustrat Ships dhewed themfelves with full fails at Sea, and the 
 ten Sails with oars went dire&ly to the Ilhnd, where they arrived abount Sun-let. Prelently 
 thereupon the 7 urkjfh Captain fencouc Spies to the Ports, where he was advertifed thac 
 they had been, and entered by little and little into the mouth of the Haven, thac fo he migbc 
 render himfelf more allured of the prize which he pretended co make,with hope that as fooa 
 'as i f was day he Ihould take them all, and fo bound hand and foot prefenn them fo the Soman 
 o {Slant, who in recompence thereof had promifed him the State of Banchaa, as I have faid 
 hetocc. The c JManchm, which had been at the Port to fpy them out, return d to the Fleet 
 about two hours within night, and cold Hcrednn for news, thac they were fled and gone; 
 wherewith ic is laid this Barbarian was fo affli&ed, that tearing his hair,/ always feared , 
 faid he weeping, my Jins would be the caufe that In the execution of this enterprise God would 
 fhew himfelf more a Chrljlian, then a Sarazin, and that Mahomet would be like to thefe Dogs, 
 of whom lgo in quefi. This faid, he fell down all along in the place, and fo continued a good 
 while withouc fpeaking a word. Neverthelefs being come again to himfelf he gave order, 
 like a good Captain, to all thac was necelfary . Firft of all then he fent the four Galliots in 
 queftof them co an Iflmd, called Taubafoy, .diftant from that of Pulho Hlnhor about feven 
 leagues, for he was perfwaded chat our men were retired thither, becaufe this was abetter 
 Harbor ciien that of the Ifland from whence they were gone. As for the live Foifls he di¬ 
 vided them into three, whereof he fent two to another llland, named Sambilan ; ai^i other 
 two to thofe which were neareft to the firm l.md, for that all thefe places were very proper 
 to livelier one in ; As for the fifth Foil!, in regard fhe was flatter then the red, he lent her 
 along with the four Galliots, that Ihe might before it was day bring him news of that which 
 fhouid happen, with promileof great reward for the fame; but during thefe things our 
 men, who had always a watchful eye, feeing the Turk^ hid rid himfelf of his greateft Forces, 
 and thac there was no more remaining wich him but the Gaily wherein he was, they re¬ 
 folved to fight with him; and fo failing out of the Creek, where they hadfhrouded them- 
 feives, they rowed directly to her. Now in regard it was part midnight, and that the Ene¬ 
 mies had but weak Sentinels, for that they thought themfclves moft fecure, and never 
 dreamt of any body lying in wait to attaque them there, our four Foifts hid the'opportunity 
 to board her all together, and threefcore of their Iuftieft men leaping fudden’y into her, in 
 Iefs then a quarter of an hour, and before the Enemies knew where they were for to make 
 ufe of their Arms, they killed above fourfeore Tml^s ; as for the reft they call themfelves 
 all into theSes, not one man remaining alive : The dog Heredrln ^Mahomet was flsin a- 
 mongft the reft, and in this great a&ion God was fo gracious to oar rr n; and gave them 
 this Victory at fo cheap a race, that they had but one young man killed, and nine Tortugals 
 hurt. They allured me fince, that in this Gaily ,in fo fhort a time, what by water, and the 
 fword, above three hundred O^Pahometans lott their lives, whereof rhe moft pare were ja¬ 
 nizaries of the Gold Chain, which among the Turks is a mark of honour. Our Portugals 
 having paft the reft of the night wich much contentment, and always keeping good watch, 
 kpleafed God thac the next morning the two Foifts arrived from the llland whither they 
 bed been fent; who. altogether ignorant of thac which had paft, came carelefly doubling the 
 point of the Haven, where che Gaily lay, fo that the four Foifts made themfelves Mailers 
 of them in a little fpace, and with the lofs of bun a few men. After fo good a fuccefstbey 
 fell diligently to work in forrifying the Gaily and the two Foifts, which they had taken, and 
 then flanked the South-fide of the llland with five great Pieces of Ordnance to defend the 
 entry into the Haven. No v about evening the ocher two Foifts arrived, making to Land 
 with the fame indifcrecion as the others; aud alchough they had much ado to reach them, 
 ysr were they conllrained at length to render themfelves, with the iofs onely of two Penn- 
 gals. Hereupon our men refolved to attend the four Galliots that remained, and which had 
 oeen fent to the next llland, but the next day fo great a wind arofe from the North, thac 
 two of them were call away upon the Coaft, not one that was in them efcaping. As for the 
 other t/vo,about evening they dfcovered them very much in diforder, deftituce of oars, and 
 feparated above three leagues the one from the other ; But at Iaft about Sun-fet one of them 
 ca me to the Port, and ran the lame fortune as the former, without favingany one of the Sa- 
 rasms lives. The nexc morning an hour before day, the wind being very calm, our men 
 diicovered the othea Galliot, which for want of oars was not able ro recover the Pore, in 
 
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 rt”ar,-, whereof our men refolved to go and fetch her in, as accordingly they did, and coming 
 fo ne hat near her with two Cannon Ifior, they killed the mod part of them that were in 
 her, and hoarding her took her very eafily; Now bscaufe all her men were either 11 .in, or 
 hurt, they drew her to land by force of orher Boats; fo that of the ten Sail of this Fleet.our 
 men had the Gaily, twoGaliots, and four Foyfts; as for the other two Galliots, they were 
 call away on the Ille of Tk»i</«;,as I have delivered before; and touching the fift Foylf, no 
 news could be heard of her, which made it credible that (he alfo differed (hipwrack, or hat 
 the wind had call her upon feme of the other Iflands. This glorious vidory, which it pleafed 
 God to g lv e us, was obtained in the month of S eptember, one thoufand, five hundred forty 
 and four, on (JLlichatlmasEvc, which rendred the name of the Vonugals fo famous ihrou°h 
 all thofe Coafis that for three years after there was nothing elfe fpoken of; fo that the Chat 
 t^hM, King of tManabmo, hearing of it, fent prefently to feek them out, and promifed 
 them great advantages if they would fuccour him again!! the King of Bramaa, who at that 
 time was making preparation in his City of Pegu, for to go and befiege MartaLo, with 'an 
 
 Army of feven hundred thoufand men. » ' 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 The Continuance of Mr voyage to the Bar of Martabano j and certain memorable 
 
 fmicttUnties banning there. 
 
 B Eing departed, as I faid, from thelflandof Palho H'mbor, we continued ourcourfe to- 
 war s the Port of Tarnajfery ,for the affair of which I have fpoken; but upon the approach 
 oi the night, the Pilot def.ring to avoid certain fands that were w the Prow-ward of him put 
 forth to Sea wtth an intention as foon as it was day to return towards land with the We(S 
 wind, which at the mlfant blew from the Mats by reafon of the Seafon. We had now held 
 this coure five days, running with much labour by many different roombs when as it Dleafed 
 God thatweaccidently thfeovered a little veffel;,nd for as much as we thought ittobe.H- 
 f er-ooat, we made to it, for to be informed from them in her whereabouts we were,and how 
 many leagues it was from thence to Tarnajfery, but having paffed clofe by her, 7 nd haled heT 
 without receiving any anfwer, we fent offaShallop well fumilhed with men for to compel 
 her to come aboard us:OurBo a t then going diredfly to theveffel,weentred her.but were much 
 ama2edto find in her only five Portugal!, two dead, and three alive, with a Coffer, and a faek 
 full oi Tangoes and Lanas, which is the mony of that Country, and a fardh: wherein there 
 were Bafins and Ewers of filver.and two other very great Bafinl Having UW ip ,U this flfeW 
 I caufed the Portugal to be brought into our Junck;where looking very carefully unto then 3 
 yet could I not in two days get one word from them; But at length by the means of yelks of 
 eggs, and good breaths, which I made them take,rhey came again to rhemfelvesffo that n fix 
 or feven days they were able to render me a reafon of their accidem.One of thofe Portnoi 
 ms cal led Chnjlovano Dona , who was fince fent into this Country for a Captain to Spirit 
 iff" 0 t l £r L “y s Tabonia,vti the third Simarn de Brito, all men of credited rich Mer- 
 
 T J‘£ f *!u C recouncec ! U , DC0 us > that coming from the Pndiaes in a veffel belongin'* to 
 JorgeBTanhoz,, that was married at Goa, with a purpofe to go to the Port of Char intan in 
 
 ’ they were caff atoy in the fands of Bjcano for want oflak’n" 
 
 ?h C \ f ?, that ° f f0 i Ur L“ re per ' on ’’ c .h Jt they were in the veffel, onely feventeen bein'* faved° 
 they had continued their courfe all along by the Coaft for five days together, intending if Zf- 
 
 fibly they could to recover the river of Cofmira in the Kingdom of Pegu, there to (Mp them- 
 felves for the ludtaesm (ofiie veffel or other that they Ihould meet wtfh in the Port‘bu P c whhft 
 they were in this refolutron, they were fo driven by a moll impetuous Weflerly wind that in 
 
 Oars vfithou^Sats'a'nd^ , 0 °F h Dd > ***** » the mifn Sea wthouc 
 
 Oars.vvithout Sayls.and all knowledge of the vvtnds,they continued in that Scare fixceen davs 
 
 together, at the end whereof their water coming to fail, ,11 died but thofe three he faw before 
 
 him. Upon the fintlhing of this relation we proceeded on in our courfe,and within four davi 
 
 after we met Wtth Roc Portugal veffels, which were faylia 1 * from to t %r u 
 
 vtng (hewed them Pedro dtp anas Cfi’der.I delired them^tokeep in^forc r^ herforfe« 
 
 Of the Acherns Army,chat ranged all over the Coafi,left through their imprudence rhev fhould 
 
 lad into any mifchief, and thereof I demanded a Certificate from them, which they willingly 
 
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 granted, as alfo furnifhed me very plentifully with all things necefi'ary. Having mtde this dif- 
 patch we continued our courfe,and nine days after we arrived at the Bar of Martabano , on 
 a Friday, the feven and twentieth of March) one thoufand, five hundred, forty and five, ha¬ 
 ving pad by Tarnajfey, Tovay, Mergttin, Juncay , Ptt/lo , Camuda, and Vagarua, without 
 hearing any tidings of thofe hundred Portugal^ in learch ofwhomlwenr, becaufe before 
 that they had taken pay in the lervice of th zCbaubainbaa, King of Martabano, who, accord¬ 
 ing to report, had fenc for them to aflift him againft the King of Bramaa 9 that held him be- 
 fieged with an Army of feven hundred thoufand men, as I have declared before; howbeic 
 they were not at this time ia his Service 3 as we fhall fee prefentiy. 
 
 Se£U. Ic was almoft two hours within night, when we arrived at the mouth of the River; where 
 we cart anchor with a refolution to go up the next day to the City; Having continued fome- 
 time very quier,we ever & anon heard many Cannon (hot,whereat we were fo troubled,as we 
 knew not what to refolve on$As foon as the Sun rofe,the Necoda affembled his men to coun- 
 cel* for in Semblable occafions he always ufed fo to do, and told them, that as furcas they 
 were ali to have a fhare in the peril, fo it was fit chat every one fhould give his advice about 
 it; Then he made a Speech, wherein he reprcfcnted unco them that which they had heard 
 that night, and how in regard thereof he feared to go unto the City. Their opinions upon it 
 were very different, howbeic at length they concluded, that their eyes were to be witneffes of 
 that whereof they flood in fuch doubt: To this end we fet Sail, having both wind and tyde, 
 and doubled a point,called Mou*ay % from whence we difcovered the City , invironed with a 
 worldof men, and upon the River almoft as many veffels, and although we fufpc&ed whac 
 this might be, becaufe we had heard fomething of it, yet left we not off from fay ling to the 
 Porr, where we arrived with a great deal of care, and having difcharged our Ordnance ac- 
 cording to the ufual manner, in fign of peace, we perceived a yelfel very well furnifhed came 
 dire£Uy to us from the fhore, wherein there was hxPortttgals ,at which we exceedingly rejoy- 
 ced; Thefe prefentiy came aboard our Junck,where they were very well entertained* & having 
 declared unto us what we were to do for the fafety of our perfons, they counfelled us not to 
 budge from thence for any thing in the world, as we had told them our refolution was to have 
 fled that night to Bengal* ; becaufe if we had followed that defign, we had affuredly been 
 lofl, and taken by the Fleet which the King of Bramaa had in that place, confifling of feven- 
 teen hundred Sayls, wherein were comprifed an hundred Gallies very well furnifhed with 
 flrangers.They added withal,that they were of opinion I fhould goafhore with them to Joane 
 foyeyro, who was Captain of the Portugals , for to give him an account of the caufe that 
 brought me thither, the rather for that he was a man of a fWeet difpofition, and a great friend 
 of Pedro de Farid >, to whom they had often heard him give much commendation, as well 
 fo' his noble extra<ftion,as for the goodly qualities that were in him $ befldes they told me that 
 I fhould find LancarotcGueyreyo, and the reft of the Captains with him, unto whom my 
 aforefaid Letters were directed, and that I fhould do nothing therein prejudicial to the Ser¬ 
 vice of Gpd,and rhe King. This'counfel feeminggood unto me.I went prefentiy to land with 
 the Portugals to wait on Jomo Cayeyro,io whom I was exceeding welcome, as likewife to all 
 the reft that were in his quarters, to the number of feven hundred ^Portugals, all rich men, 
 and of good efteem. Then I fhewed Joano £ayeyro my Letters, and the Order that Pedro de 
 Faria had given me; Moreover I treated with him about the affair that led me thither: where¬ 
 upon I obferved that he was very inftant with the Captains, to whom I was addreft, who an- 
 fwered him that they wire ready to ferve the King in all occafions that fhould be prefented; 
 howbeit fince the Letter of Pedro de Faria, Governour of Malaca % was grounded on the 
 fear that he was in of the Army oithzAchems, compofed of an hundred and thirty Sayl, 
 whereof Bijaya Sora King of Tedirwu General; and it having fallen out, that his Admiral 
 had been defeaced at Tarnafery by thofe of the Countrr, with the lofs of feventy Lanchares , 
 and fix thoufand men, it was not needful they fhould ftir for that occafion ; for according to 
 what they had feen with their own eyes, the Forces of that enemy were fo mightily weakned, 
 as they did not think lie could in ten years fpace recover again the lofs he had fuftained. To 
 this they added many other reafons, which made them all to agree, that it was apt neceffary 
 they fhould go to Malaca . After thefe things I defired Joano Cayeyro to make n^a Declarati¬ 
 on of all that had paft in this bufinefs, that it might terve me, as it were, for a Certificate at 
 my return to our Fortrefs, determining as foon as I had it to gee me from this place, for that 
 l had nothing more to do there. With this refolution I flayed there with Joano Cayeyro , in 
 
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 continual expedition to He gone when the Seaion fhouia ferve tor the Junck to depart,and 
 remained with him at this Siege the {pace of fix & forty days,which was the chief time of the 
 King of Bramaa his abode there; of whom I will fay fomething here in a few words,becaufe 
 I conceive the curious \vould be well content to know what fuccefs the Chaubainhaa, King 
 of Martabano , had in his war. This Siege had lalied now fix months ana thirteen days, in 
 which fpace theCity had bin a (faulted five times in plain-day,but the befieged defended them- 
 felves at ^ays very valiantly, and like men of greac courage; Howbeit in regard they were in- 
 fenfibly confumed with length of time, and the fuccefs of war, and that no fuccour came to 
 them from any part, their enemies were without comparifon far more in number then they, 
 in fuch fort as the Chaubainhaa found himfelf fo dedicate of men, as it was thought he had 
 not above five thoufand fouldiers lefc in the City,the hundred and thirty thoufand which were 
 faid to be there at the beginning of the Siege, being confumed by Famine, or the Sword, by' 
 reafon whereof the Counccl alfembling for to deliberate what was to be done thereupon, it 
 was refolved t hat the King fhould found his enemy by his Intereft, which he prefently put in 
 execution.* For that tffed he fent to tell him, that if he would raife the Siege he would °ive 
 him thirty thoufand Biffes of filver, which is in value a million of gold, and would become 
 his Tributary at tbrecfcore thoufand Ducates by the year. The anfwer made by the Kjpg of 
 Bramaa hereunto was, that he could accept of no conditions from him, if he did not firft 
 yield himfelf to his mercy. The fecond time he propounded unto him 5 chat if be would fuffer 
 him to depart away with two ftiips^inone of the which fhould be his Treafure, and in the 
 ocher his Wife and Children, that then he would deliver him the City, and all that was in it. 
 But the King of Bramaa would hearken no more to that then the former. The third Propor¬ 
 tion which he made him was this. That he fhould retire with his Army to Tagalaa , fome 
 fix leagues off, that fo he might have liberty to go away freely with all his, and thereupon he 
 would deliver him chc City, and the Kingdom, together with all the Treafure belonging to 
 the King his Predecdfour, or that in lieu thereof he would give him three millions of gold t 
 But he aifo refufed this iaft offer, infomuch that the Chaubainhaa utterly difpairing of ever 
 making his peace wich fo cruel an enemy ,began to meditate wich himfelf what means he might 
 ufe co five himfelf from him> Having long thought upon it he found no better an expedient 
 then therein to ferve himfelf of the fuccour of the ‘Fortugals, for he was perfwaded that by 
 their means he might cfcape the prefenc danger. He fent then fecretly to tell Joano Cayeyro * 
 that if he would imbarque himfelf in the night in his four (hips, and take him in with his 
 wife, and children, and fo fave them, he would give him half his treafure. In t^iis affair he 
 very clofeiy imployed a certain Portugal, named Paula de Seixas, born in the Town of O- 
 bidos % who at that time was with him in the City ; This fame having difguifed himfelf in a 
 Pegu habit, that he might not be known, ftole one night to Cayeyro's Tent, and delivered 
 him a Letter from the Chaubainhaa , wherein this was contained: Valiant and faithful 
 Commander of the Portugals, through the Grace of the great King of the other end of the 
 world , the firong and mighty Lion , dreadfully roaring , With a Crown of Majefty in the 
 Houfc of the Sm, I the unhappy Chaubainha’s, heretofore a Prince , but now no longer fo, 
 finding my feJf befieged in this wretched and infort unate City , do give thee to under ft and by 
 the words pronounced out of my mouth, with an ajfurance no lefs faithful then rue, that 1 now 
 render my felf the V«Jf*l of the great King of Portugal, Soveraign Lord of me , and my children, 
 with An acknowledgement of homage, and fuch tribute as he at his pleafure (hall impofe on me : 
 wherefore I require thee on his behalf that as foon as Paulo Seixas Jhall prefent this my Let¬ 
 ter unto thee , thou come fpeedily with thy Ships to the Bulwarks of the Chappel-key, where 
 thou (halt find me ready attending thee, and then without taking further counfel, I will deliver 
 my felf up to thy mercy , with all the treafures that J have in gold , and precious ft ones, 
 whereof I will moft willingly give the one half to the King of Portugal, upon condition that 
 he (hall permit me with the remainder to leavy in his Kingdom , or in the Fortre(fes which he 
 hath tn the Indues, two thoufand Portugals, to whom I will give extraordinary great pay 
 that by their means 1 may be re-eftablijhed in this State , which now 1 am conftrained to a » 
 banaon ; fince my ill fortune will haue it fo. As for that which concerns thee , and thy men , 
 / do promife them , by the faith of my verity , that in cafe they do help to fave me , l will di~ 
 vide my treafure fo liberally among them , that all of them (hall be very well fatisfied and 
 contented ; And for that time will not fuffer me to enlarge any further , Paulo ue Seixas, by 
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 which I have communicated unto him. Joano Cayeyro bad no fooner received this Letter, 
 buc he prefer)tly caufed the chief of his followers fecretly to aflfemble together in Councel. 
 Hiving fhewed them the Letter, he reprefented unto them how important and profitable it 
 would be for the fervice of God, and the King, to accept of the offer, which the Chaubain - 
 baa had made them; Whereupon caufingan Oath to be given to Paulo de Stixas , he willed 
 him freely to declare all his knowledge of the matter, and whether it were true that the 
 Chaubainhaa his Treafure was to great, as it wasreported to be. Thereunto he anfwered by 
 the Oath what he had taken. That he knew not certainly how great his Treafure was, buc 
 that he was well allured how he had often feen, with his own eyes, an houfe in form of a 
 Church, and of a reafonab e bignefs, all full up to the very tyles of bars and wedges of Gold, 
 which might very well lade two great Ships? He further faid, That he had moreover feen 
 fix and twenty Chefis bound about with ftrong cords, wherein according to the Chaubain - 
 fi*.* his own report was the Treafure of the deceafed Prefagucan King of Tegu , which faid 
 Treafure containing an hundred and thirty thoufandBifl'es, and every Bifsin value five hun¬ 
 dred Ducates, made in all together the fum of threefcore Millions of Gold: He faid alfo, 
 That he knew not certainly the number of the wedges of Gold which he had feen in the 
 Temple of the God of Tnunder, but he was moft affured nbtwichftanding that they would 
 fully lade four good Veffels; And for a conclufion, he told them; That the. fame Chaubaim- 
 haa had fhewed him the golden Image of Quiay Frigati, which was taken at Degum , all 
 full of fuch rich and refplendent ftones, as it was thought the like again were not in the 
 whole world ; So that this Declaration which this min made upon Oath aftonifhed them 
 fo that heard it, as they could not poflibly beleeve it to be true. Howbeit after they had feat 
 him out of the Tent, they entered into confultation about this affair, wherein nothing was 
 refolved, of which I verily believe our fins were thecaufe; for there were in thisAlfembly 
 as many different opinions, as Babel had diverfities of Languages, which proceeded efpeci- 
 ally from the envy of fix or feven men there prefent, who would needs perfwade the reft, 
 that if this affair fhould happen to have fuch fuccefs as was hoped for, Joano Cayeyro (unco 
 whom they all bore no good willj would go then into Portugal with fo much honor and 
 reputation, as it would be a fmall matter for the King to make him an Earl, or a Marquis, 
 or at lead recompence him with the Government of the Indiaes $ fo that after thefe Mini- 
 fters.of the Devil had alledged many reafons wherefore it might not be done, which I chink 
 was buc the mask of their weaknefs and ill nature, chough it may be they did it out of the 
 fear they were in of lofing both their goods and lives if this matter fhould come to be dif- 
 covered to the King of Bramaa ; howfoever they would not agree to accept of this offer, but 
 contrariwife they threatened Joano Cayeyro, that if hedefiftednot from his purpofe, which 
 was to comply with the Cbaubainbaa, they would difclofe it to the Bramaa; fo that Cayeyro 
 wis conftrained to abandon this bufinefs, left if he fhould perfift therein the Portugals them- 
 fclves would difeover him, as they threatened to do, without either fear of God , or regard 
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 Caubainha* , wherein he ufed many weak excufes for not performing that which he de¬ 
 manded of him, and givifjg it to Paulo de Seixas , he fpeedily difpatched him away with it; 
 fo that departing about three hours after midnight he arrived fafe at the City, where he 
 found the Caubainhaa attending him in the fame place which he had named in his Letter, 
 unto whom he delivered the Anfwcr he had brought; ‘After he had read it, and thereby 
 found that he cou d not be fuccoured by our men, as he always thought he fhould, it is faid 
 that he remained fo confounded, chat for very grief and forrow he funk down to the ground 
 like a dead man,and continuing a pretty while in that manner, at length he came again to 
 himfelf, and then beating his breft, and bewailing his miferable fortune. Ah ‘Portugals, 
 laid he with rears in his eyes, how ill do you acknowledge that which l have done for you, tma • 
 gmng that thereby I fhould make acquifition of your fnendfhip , as of a treafure , to the end that 
 like faithful men you would be affi(lmg to me in fo great a necejfity as this is which now 1 am 
 in, whereby I de fired no other thing then to fave my childrens lives, inrich your King, and ft ate, 
 you in the number of my chiefeft friends > And would it had pleafed him who raigns in the 
 he any of ihefeftars , tha you had merited before him the doing me this good office, which onely 
 for my Jins you have r efufed me\ for m fo doing you had by my means augmented his Law, and 
 1 fatten]aved w the promifes of his truth. Thereupon fending away Paulo de Seixas , with a 
 
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 young Wench, by whom be had had two Tons, he gave hin a pair of Bracelets , and faid tin- 
 to him, / defirc thee not to thinly of this utile which notv I give thee, hut of the areat love I have 
 always horn thee ; above all, forget not to tell the Portugal*, with horv muc feattfe and grief 1 
 complain of their extream ingratitude, whereof I will render them culpable before God at the 
 Uft and dreadful dy of Judgement . The night following Paul de Seixas came back to the 
 Portugals, with two chiloren, and a very fair young Damofel their Mother , with whom he 
 married afterwards at Coromandel, and fhewed to Simon de Binto, and Pedro de Bruges 
 * ne5 b the Bracelets which Chaubainhaa Fid given him, who buying them of him 
 payd fix ancUhircy thouland Ducates for them, and had afterwards fourfeore thoufand for 
 themof Tnmira %ata Governour of Narjingua. Five days after Vfulo de Seixas coming to 
 Ste wh f c ,, h F an that I have related before, th it Chaubainhaa , feeing him- 
 
 ielf d^nituce of all humane remedy, aavifed with his Councel what courfc he fhould take io 
 io many misfortunes, that dayly in then rck of one another fell upon him; and it wus~re- 
 folved by them to put to the iword ail things, living that were nor able to h'ghr,and with the 
 blood of them to make a Sacrifice to Quiay Nivandel , God of Bictels, then to cart all the 
 creafuie into the Sea, that their Enemies might make no benefit of ir, afterward to fee the 
 whole City on fir^, and la lily that all chofe which were able to bear arms fhould mike 
 tnemfelves AmoitCos y that is to fay, men refolved either to dye, or vanquifh, in fighting with 
 the Bramxas. The Chaubainhaa very much approved this counfei, and concludio^of it 
 accordingly they fell presently to the demolifhing of houl'es, and were preparin 0 all other 
 £ hc effecting of their delign, when as one of the three principal Commanders of 
 the City, apprehending that which was to follow the next day, fled the night enfuing to the 
 Enemies Camp, and there rendered himfelf with four thoufand men under his leadi ro to the 
 Bramaa ; Hereupon the courages of all the refi were fo abated by fuch a ftrange infidelity 
 and flight, r.jac not one or them cared afterwards either to keep watch, maintain thebrea- 
 ches, or do any other fei vice whatfoever, but contrariiy all that remained fluck not to lay 
 publiquely, that if the Chaubainhaa would not fuddeniy refolve to yield himfelf to the 
 Bramaa, they would open the gates and let him in, for that it would be better for them to 
 dye fo, then to languifh and Con fume away like rotten bealls as they did • The Chaubainhaa 
 eeiog them hifly bent thereunto,for to appeafe them,aniwered, that he would perform their 
 delire; howbeit withal he caufed a review to be made of thofe that would fight, but he 
 foun them to be not above two thoufand in all, and they too fo defiitute ofcourage.as they 
 could htfdly have refilled feeble women: Beholding himfelf then reduced to the iaficaft, 
 e communicated his mind to the Qpeen onely, as having no other at that time by whom, he 
 might be advifed,or that indeed couldadvife him ; The onely expedient then that he could 
 reft on, was to render nimfeif into the hands of his Ei emy, and to Hand to his mercy , or his 
 l igor. Wherefore the next day about fix of the clock in the morning he caufed a white fia 0, 
 to be hung out over tile wail in fign of oeace, whereunto they of the Camp anfwered with 
 another like banner; Hereupon the Xenimbrum , who was as it were Marfbal of the Camp, 
 lent an borfeixian totbv- bulwark, where the flag flood, unto whom it was delivered from 
 the top of the wall jThat the ffhaubainhaa defired to fend a Letter to the King,fo as he mi°ht 
 have a fafe-conduA for it; which being lignified to the Xenimbrum , he infiantly difpatched 
 away two of good quality in the Army with a fafe-condu&, and fo thefe two Bramaas re¬ 
 maining for hofiages in the City, the Chaubainhaa fent the King a Letter by one of his 
 Priefis, that was fourtcore years of age, and reputed for a Saint among!! them. The contents 
 of this Letter were thefe: Fee love of children hath fo much power m this houfe of our weak. 
 neffythat amongfi us, who are fathers, there is not fo much os'one that for their fakes would 
 not be well contented to defeend a thoufand times into the deep pit of the houfe of the Serpent , 
 much more would expofe hi s'life for them t and put himfelf into the hands of one that ufeth fo 
 much clemency towards them that full do fo : For which reafon I refolved this night with my 
 wife and children, contrary to the opinions that would diffwade me from this good which I hold 
 the greatefl of all others, to render my felf untoyour Highnefs , that you may do with me as you 
 thinks fit, and as tyall be mofl agreeable to your good pleaf ure , As for the fault wherewith 1 
 may be charged , and which I fubmit at your feet, I humbly befeechyou not to regard it, that fo 
 the merit of.the mercy, which you jhall jhew me, may be the greater before God and men. May 
 Jghncfs therefore be pleafed to fend fome prefently for to take poffejfton of my perfon,of 
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 even novo field up unto you , at to my Sovereign Lord, and lawful King. All the requefi that 
 / have to make unto you hereupon wit h my knees on the ground, is, that we may all of us with 
 your permijfion finifh our days in a CLifter, Where I have already vowed continually to bewail 
 and repent my faults $ajl - l or as touching the honors and efiates of the world , wherewith your 
 Hignefs might inrich me, as Lord of the moft pzrt of the Earth, and of \he Ifles of the Sea, 
 they are things which I utterly renounce for evermore. In a word, I do folemnly [wear unto 
 y°u btforc the great eft of all the Gods , who with the gentle touch of his Almighty hand makes 
 the Clouds of Heaven to move, never to leave that Religion which by your pleafure 1 fhall be 
 commanded to profefsy where being freed from the vain hopes of the world, my repentance may 
 be the more p leafing to him that pardoneth all things. This holy Grepo, Dean of the golden 
 Hjufe of Saint Q^-'y , who‘for his goodnefs and aufltnty of life hath all power over mt y 
 will make a more ample relation unto you of what 1 have omitted, and can more particularly 
 tell you that which concerns the offer l make you of rendring my felf ; that fo relying on the 
 reality of his opeecb, the unquietnefs wherewith my foul is mcejfantly troubled may be appea - 
 fed. i he King of Bramaa having read this Letter inftantly returned another inanlwer 
 thereunto full of promites and oaths to this effeft, That he would forget all^ that was pafl . and 
 that for the future he would provide him an ejlate of fo great a 'R^evenyf, as fhould very 
 well content him : Which he but badly accomplifhed, as I fhall declare hereafter. Theie 
 news was pub ifhed throughout all the Camp with a great deal of joy> and the next morn¬ 
 ing 2II the Equipage and Train that the King had in his quarter was fee forth to view: Firft 
 of all there were to befeen fourfeore and fix Field-Tents, wonderful rich, each of them be¬ 
 ing invironed with thirty Elephants, ranked in two Files, as if they had been ready to fighr, 
 With Caftles on their backs full of Banners, and their Panores fattened to their Trunks, the 
 whole number of them amounted unto two thoufand, five hundred, and fourfeore: Not far 
 from them were twelve thoufand and five hundred Bramaas , all mounted on horfes, very 
 richly accoutred • with the order, which they kept, they inclofed all the Kings quarter in 
 four Files, and were all armed in Corflets,or Coats of May!, with Lances, Cymitars, and 
 gilded Bucklers. After thefe Horfc followed four Files of Foor, all Bramaas , being in num¬ 
 ber above twenty thoufand. For all the other Souldiers of the Camp,there were fo many as 
 they could not be counted, and they marched all in order after their Captains. In this pub- 
 lique Muftcr were to be feen a world of Banners, and rich colours 3 and fuch a number of In- 
 ftruments of war founded, that the noife thereof, together with chat which the Souldiers 
 made, was moft dreadful, and lo great as it was not poflible to hear one another. Now for 
 that the King of Bramaa would this day make fhew of his greatnefs,in the reddition of the 
 Chaubamhaa, he gaveexprefs Command, that all the Captains which were ftrangers , with 
 their men,fhouid put on their beft clothes, and Arms, and fo ranged in two Files,they fhoujd 
 make as it were a kind of ftreet, through which the Chaubainhaa might pafs 3 this according¬ 
 ly was put in execution ; and this ftreet took beginning from the City gate, and reached as 
 far as to the Kings Lent, being in length about three quarters of a League, or better; In this 
 flreet there were fix and thirty thoufand ftrangers,of two and forty different Nations, namely 
 Vortugals,Grecians, Tmetians,Turks, faniz,aries y Jews, Armenians , Tartars , Afogorcs , A- 
 byjfins, Raizbutos, Lfnbins y C oracone s, Per fans, Tuparaas t Glares, Tanacos , c JMalabares, 
 faos,Achems, sJHoens, Slams, Lujfons o[ thelfland Borneo , Chacomas, Arraeons. Predine 
 fpapuaas, Selebres, tMmdancas, Tegus, Bramaas, and many others whofe names I know 
 not. All thefe Nations were ranked according to the Xemimbrums order, whereby the Por¬ 
 tugal* w re placed in the Vantgard, which was next to the gate of the City where the Cha- 
 bainhaa was to come 5 After them followed the Armenians, then the Janizaries and Turkr 
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 In what manner ^Chaubainhaa rendred himfelf to the King of Bramaa, and the cruel pro¬ 
 ceeding agamfi the Queen of Martabano, aid the Ladies , her Attendants. 
 
 A Bout one of the clock in the afternoon a Cannon was fliotoff,which was the Signal for seft, 
 the inHant opening of the Gates* of the Cicyjwhereupon firft of all iffued out the Sou!- 
 dJers, whom the’King had fent thither for the Guard of it, being 4000 Slams and Bramaas , 
 all Harquebufiers, Halberdiers, and Pikemen, with above 300 armed Elephants; all which 
 were commanded by a Bramaa, Unde to the King, named UWonpocaffer Bainha , of the Ci¬ 
 ty of Melietay ; Ten or eleven paces after this Guard of Elephants marched divers Princes, 
 and great Lords, whom the King had fent to receive the Chaubainhaa, all mounted on Ele¬ 
 phants, richly harnefl'ed, with Chairs upon their backs, plated over with Gold, and Collars of 
 precious Bones about their necks; Then followed at fome 8 or 9 paces diBance the Rolim 
 of Momay , Sovereign Talapoy of all the PrieBsof the Kingdom, and held in the reputation 
 of a Saint, who went alone with th zChaubainhaa, as a Mediatour between the King and 
 him;immediately after him came in a clofe Chair, carried upon mens {Boulders, A7/&4/ Canato?, 
 the Daughter of the King of Pegu , from whom this Bramaa had taken his Kingdom, and 
 Wife to th zChaubainhap, having with her 4 fmall Chi.dren, namely, 2 Boys, and 2 Girls, 
 whereof theeldeB was not 7 years old; round about her and them went fome 3cor 40 
 young Women of noble extra&ion, and wonderful! fair, with cafl down looks, and tears m 
 their eyes, leaning upon otjier Women: After them marched in order certain Talagrepos, 
 which are amongB them as the Capuchins with us, who bare-fooc and bare-headed wenc 
 along praying, holding Beads in their hands, and ever and anon comforting thofe La¬ 
 diesthe befl they could, andcaBing Water in their faces for to bring them to themfelves 
 again, when as they fainted, which they did very often; A fpe&ade fo lamentable, as it was 
 not poflible to behold it without {heading of tears: This defolate Company was attended 
 by another Guard of Foot, and 500 Bramaas on horsback. The Chaubainhaa was mount¬ 
 ed on a little Elephant.* iq fign of poverty and contempt of the world, conformable to the 
 Religion which he intended to enter into, being (imply apparelled ina long Caffock of black 
 Velvet, as a Mark of his Mourning, having his Beard, Head, and Eye-brows (haven, with an 
 old Cord about hisNeck, fo to render himfelf to the King ; In this equipage he appeared 
 fo fad and aiflt&ed, that one could not forbear weeping to behold him ; As for his age, he 
 was aboirt threefcore and two years old, tail of Bature, with a grave and fevere look, and the 
 countenance of a generous Prince. Afl'oonas he was arrived at a place which was near to 
 the Gate of the City, where a great throng of Women, Children, and old men, waited for 
 him, when they law him in fo deplorable an efhte, they all made (7 times one after ano¬ 
 ther) fo loud and dreadfuil a cry, as if Heaven and.Earch would have come together. Now 
 thefe lamentations and complaints were prefently feconded with fuch terrible blows, that 
 they gave themfelves without pity on their faces with Bones, as they weremoBof them 
 all of a gore-bioud . In the mean time things fo horrible to behold, and mournful! to hear, 
 fo much a (fluffed all the AlhBants, that the very Bramaas of the Guard, though Men of 
 War, and confequentlv but little inclined to companion, being alfo Enemies to the Chase- 
 bainhaa, could noy foroear weeping. It was likewife in this place, where VJyay Canatoo, 
 and ail the other Ladies that attended on her, fainted twice, by reafon whereof they were 
 fain to let the Chaubainhaa alight from his Elephant for to go and comfort her; whereupon 
 feeing her lying upon the ground in a Swoon with her 4 Children in her arms, he kneeled 
 down on both his knees, and looking up to Heaven with his eyes full of tears, O mi&hty Po¬ 
 wer of God, cried he, who is able topomprehendthe A righteous judgments of thy divine Jufhce , 
 in that thou, having no regard to the innocency of thefe poor creatures, givefi way to thy wrath , 
 which paffeth far beyond the reach of our weak^capacit ies 1 but remember , O Lord, who thou 
 
 art, and not what 1 am. This laid, he fell with his face on the ground, near to the Queen his 
 Wife, which caufed all the Aflembly, who were without number,* to make another fuch loud 
 and horrible cry, as my words are not able to exprefs it; The Chaubainhaa then took Wa¬ 
 ter in his mouth, and fpurted ic on his Wife, by which means,he broughc her to her felf a- 
 gain, and fo taking her up in his arms, he fell a comforting her with fpeeches fo full of zeal 
 and devotion, as any one chat heard him would have taken him rather for a£hriBian, then a 
 
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 Gentile. After he had employed about half an hours time therein,and that they had remounted 
 him on his Elephant, they proceed on their way in the fame order as they held before, and 
 jffoon as the Ch au bainhali was out of the City gace,and came to the ftrect which was form¬ 
 ed of ihc feveral Companies of the ftrangers, ranked in 2 Files, he by chance caft his eye on 
 that fide where the 700 Portugals were, ail of them in their beft Clothes, with their Buff- 
 Coats, great Feathers in their Caps, and their Harquebufiers on their fhoulders, as alfo 
 Jamo Caytyro in th: midft of them, in a Carnation Sattin Suit, and a gilt Parcifan in his 
 hand, w'hetcvyith he made room; the affli&ed Prince no fooner knew him, but he present¬ 
 ly fell down on the Elephant; and there landing (fill without palling on, he faid with tears in 
 hi’ ey-"s,to thole ch r were about him *, CMy Brethren, and good Friends, Iprotefi unto you, 
 (hat it v alefs grief unto me to make this Sacrifice of my felf, which the divine Jufiice of 
 God permit s me to make him this day , then to lookjtponmen fo wicked and ingratefull as thefe 
 fame here m e : either kill me then, or fend thefe away, for otherwife Twill not fiir a foot fur¬ 
 ther ; H.wing laid lo he turned away his face three times that he might not behold us, there¬ 
 by fhewhg the great fpleen that he bore us; and indeed all things well considered there 
 wa ( s a great deal of feafon that he fhould carry himfelf in that fort towards us, in regard of 
 that which I have related before: In the mean time the Captain of the Guard feeirig the flay 
 which the fhaubainhaa had made, and tmderftanding the caufe why he would not go on, 
 though he could not imagine wherefore he complained fo of the Portugals, yet hehaftily 
 turned his: Elephant towards Cayeyro, and giving him a fcurvylook; Get you gone, faid he, 
 and that in ft ant ly, for fuch wicked memos you are do not defer ve to fland on any ground that 
 hears fruit; and I pray God to pardon him which hath put it into the Kings head that you can be 
 any ways profitable unto him ; It were fitter for you therefore tp {have away your beards,that you 
 may not deceive the world as you do, and we will have women in your places that fhall ferve m 
 for our money. Whereupon the Bramaas of the Guard, being incenfed againft us, drove us 
 away from thence with a great deal of flume and contumely. And truly,not to lye,never was 
 I fo fenfible of any thing as this, in refpeft of the honour of my Country-men. After this, 
 the Cl° a ’ahainhaa went on till he came to the Tent of the King, who attended him with a 
 Royal Pomp: for he was accompanied with a great number of Lords, among!! the which 
 there Were 15 Bainhaai, who are as Dukes with us, and of 6 or 7 others, that were of 
 greater digni y then they : Alfoonasthe Chaubalnkaa came near him, he threw himfelf at 
 his feer, and fo proftraced oh the ground he lay there a go >d while, as it were in a Swoon, 
 without fpeaking a word; but the Rolim of Mounay , that was clofe by him, fupplied thatde- 
 fe&, and like a religious man, as he was, fpake for him to the King, faying * Sir , here is a 
 Spectacle able to move thy heart to pity , though the crime be fuch as it is ; Remember then 
 that the thing moft pleafing to God in this world, and rt>hereunto the effects of his mercy is foon - 
 eft communicated, is fuch an allion, and voluntary fubmiffion , as this is, which here thou 
 behold eft • It is for thee now to imitate his clemency , and fo to do thou art moft humbly intfeated 
 by the hearts of aU them that are mollified by fo great a misfortune as this is ; Now if thou 
 grant eft them this their Requeft, which with fo muck inftance they beg of thee, be affuredthat 
 God will take it in good part, and that at the hour of thy death he will ftretch forth his 
 mighty hand over thee , to the end thou may ft be exempted from all manner of faults. Hereun¬ 
 to he added many other fpeeches, whereby he perfwaded the King tp pardon him 5 at leaft- 
 wife hepromifedfotodo, wherewith the Rolim, and all the Lords there prefeii^ (helved 
 themfelves very well contented, and commended him exceedingly for it, imagining that the 
 effett Would be anf verable to that which he had engaged himfelf for before all. Now be¬ 
 came ir began to be night, he commanded the moftfof them that were about him to retire; as 
 for ihy Chaubunhaa, he committed him into the hands of a Bramaa Commander, named 
 Xemm Commidau ; and the Queen his Wife, with his Children, and the other Ladies were 
 put into the cutioay oi. Xemin Anfedaa , as well becaufe he had his Wife there,-as for that he 
 was an honour b e old man, in whom the King of Bramaa much confided. 
 
 Se&i. * J 12 w b?ch the King of Bramaa was in left the Men of War fhould enter into the Ci¬ 
 ty o t CMartabano, and fhould pillage it now that it was night before he had done all thac 
 which I am hereafter to relate, was the cHufe that he fenc to all the Gates of the City, (being 
 c *ptains for to guard them, with exprefs Commandment, that upon pain 
 o ean i o nun fhould K e luffered to enter in at any of them, before he had taken order 
 for the performance of the Pro nife which he had made to the Strangers, to give cheM the 
 
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 fpoil of it i howbeit he took not that care, nor ufed fuch diligence for the confederation he 
 ipa e of, but onely that he mighc preferve the Chaubainhaa s Treafur'e; to which effe& he 
 fpent two whole days in conveighing it 4 away, it being fo great that a thoufand men were 
 for that fpace altogether impioyed therein ; Ac the end of thefe two days the King went 
 very early in the morning to an Hill, called Beldao , diftanc from his Quarters feme two or 
 three Fiight-fhoot, and then earned the Captains that were at the Guard of the Gates to 
 leave them, and retire away ; whereupon the milcrable City of Martabano was delivered to 
 the mercy of the Souidiers, who at the fbooting off of a Cannon, which was the Signal 
 thereof, entred prelehtly into it pd-melfi and fo thronging together, that at the entfing in¬ 
 to the Gates, ir. is-faid, above three hundred men were Hifled ; for as there was thefe an infi¬ 
 nite company of Men of War of different Nations, the moft of them without King, with° 
 out Law, and without the fear and knowledge of God, they went all to the Spoil with clofed 
 eyes, and therein (hewed themfelvas fo cruel minded, that the thing they made leaft reckon¬ 
 ing of was to kill an hundred men for a Crown ; And truly the Diforder was fuch in the Ci¬ 
 ty, as the King himfelf was fain to go thither fix or feven times in perfon for to appeafe it 
 The Sack of this City eridured three days and an half, with fo much avarice and cruelty oE 
 thefe birbarous Enemies as it was \vholly pillaged,without any thing lefc that might give an 
 eye caufe'Vo covet it. That done, the King with a new ceremony of Proclamations caul'ed the 
 Chaubainhaa s PzUczs, together with thirty or forty very fair richHoufesof his principal 
 Lords, and ill the Pagodes and Temples of the City to be demoiilhed j fo that according to 
 cbeopinidtfof many, it was thought that the lofs of bhofe niagnificeiic Edifices amounted 
 to above io Millibris of Gold: wherewith not yet contented he commanded all the Build* 
 ingfc of the City that were (fill afoot, to be fet on fire. Which by tfie violence of the Winde 
 kindled in luch manner, as in that onely night there remained nothing unburnr, yea the ve¬ 
 ry Walls, Towers, and Bulwarks were confumed even to the Foundations. The number of 
 them that were kilted ka this Sack was threefcore thoufand perfons; nor was that of the 
 Prifoners much lefs. There were an hundred and forty thoufand Houfes, andfeventeen hun¬ 
 dred Tepnples burnt, wherbin alfo; were confumed threefcore thoufand Statues, or Idols of 
 divers Kjfctallsj during this Sege they of the City had eaten three thoufand Elephants. 
 There Vfasfound in this City fix thoufand Pieces of Artillery, what of Brafs and Iron, an 
 hundred thoufand Quintals of Pepper, and as much of Sanders, Benjamin, Lacre, Lignum 
 Aloes, Camphire, Silk, and many other kindes of rich Merchandife, but above all an infinite 
 number of Commodities, which were come thither from the Indites in above an hundred 
 Veffelsof Cambay a, Ac hem, Melinda, Ceilam, and of all the Streight of CMecqua, of the 
 Lequios^ndoi China. AsfosGold, Silver, precious fiones, and jewels, that were found 
 there, one truly knows not what they were, for thofe things are ordinarily concealed; 
 wherefore it (hall fuffice me to fay, that fo much as the King of Bramaa had for certain of 
 the Chaubainhaa* s Treafure,- amounted to an hundred Millions of Gold, whereof, asfl have 
 faid before, our King loft the Moity, as well for our .fins, as through the malice and envy of 
 wicked difpofitions.. The next day after the City was pillaged, demolifhed, and burnt, there 
 was feen in the morning upon the Hill where the King was, one and twenty pair of Gal¬ 
 lows, twenty of the which were of equal height, and the other a little lower erected on Pil¬ 
 lars of ftone, and guarded by an hundred Bramaa Horfmcn 5 There were alfo round about 
 the place very large Trenches, where a great many Banners fpotted with Drops of Bloud 
 were planted. As this Novelty promifed fomewhat which no man bad heard of before, fix 
 of us Fortugals ran thither to learn what the matter might be 5 and as we were going along 
 we heard a great noife made by the Men of War from the Camp, whereupon we faw come 
 out of the Kings Quarter a number|of Horftnen,who with Lances in their hands prepared a 
 great Street, and cried out alou^ ; Let no man upon paw of death appear in Arms , nor utter 
 that with his mouth which he thinks in hie heart. A pretty way off from thefe Horfe was the 
 Xemimbrum , with an hundred armed Elephants, and a good many Foot 5 after them went 
 fifteen hundred Bramaas on horsback, caft into four Orders of Files, each of them fix in 2 
 Rank, whereof th z Talanagybras y Viceroy of Tangu y Was Commander: Then marched 
 the Chauferoo Siammon with three thoufand Siammes , armed with Harcjuebufes and Lances, 
 all in one Battalion : In the midft of thefe were an hundred and twenty Women tied and 
 bound four and four together, and accompanied with Talagrepos , Men of great aufterity 3 
 and are fuch as the Capuchins amongft us. who laboured all they might to comfort them ia 
 
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 this laft aa of life ; Behinde them were twelve Ufhers with Maces, that went before \hay 
 Cauatoo, Daughter to the King of Pegu, from whom this Bramaa Tyrant had ufurped his 
 Kingdom, and Wife to th tChaubainhaa, with four Children of hers, which were carried by 
 fo many Horfmen: all thefe Sufferers were the Wives or Daughters of the principal Com¬ 
 manders that the Chaubair.haa had with him in the City, upon whom in,the way of a flran»e 
 Revenge this Bramaa Tyrant defired to wreak his fpighr, and the hatred that he had always 
 born unto Women. The molt of thefe poor Wretches were, between feventeen and five 
 and twenty years of age, all of them very white and fair, with bright auborn hair, but fo 
 weak in body, that often-times they fell down in a Swoon, out of which certain Wo¬ 
 men upon whom they leaned, endeavoured fiill to bring them again, pret'enting them Com- 
 fits, and other fuch things fit for that purpofe, but they would take none < t them, for that 
 they were, as I have faid, fo feeble and benummed, as they could farce hear what che Tale* 
 w^'Mcuntothem;onely they now and then lifted up their hands to Heaven. After this 
 Princefs marched threefcore Grepos , in two Files, praying with their looks fixed on the 
 ground, and their eyes watered with tears, faying ever and anon m a doleful! rone ; Thou 
 which holdeft thy Being of none but thy felf y fo juftife our works , that they may be agreeable 
 to thy juft tee Whereumo others anfwered weeping ; Grant , Lord , that it may be fo that 
 through our fault we lofe not the rich gifts of thy promlfes . After thefe Grepos followed a 
 Proccffion of three or jour hundred little Children, quite naked from the Girdie-fied 
 downwards, having in their hands great white Wax lights, and Cords about their necks; 
 Thefe, like the others, with a fad and lamentable voice, which moved every one to compani¬ 
 on, uttered thefe words • PVe mojl humb’y befeech thee, O Lord , to give ear unto our cries and 
 groans, and fhew mercy to thefe thy Captives , that with a full rejoycing they may have a pan 
 of the graces and benefits of thy rich treafures • and much more they faid to that purpofe,in 
 favour of thefe poor Sufferers: Behinde this Proceflion was another Guard of Footmen, 
 all Bramaas, and armed with Lances, Arrows, and fom z Harqucbufes, As for the Rear¬ 
 ward, it confifted of an hundred Elephants, like to them that marched firff of all, fo that the 
 number of the Men of War that aflifted at this Execution, as well for the Guard, as for the 
 Pomp thereof, was ten thoufand Foot, and two thoufand Horfe, befides the two hundred 
 Elephants, and a world of other people, both Strangers and Natives, that dune thitherto 
 behold the end of fo mournfull and lamentable an A&ion. 
 
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 In what fort the Sentence of Death was executed on the per [on of the Chaubainhaa > 
 
 King of, Martaban, Nhay Canatoo his Wife , and an hundred and forty ’ 
 
 Women ; with that which the King of Bramaa did after :; , 
 
 his Return to Pegu, 
 
 T Hefe poor Sufferers having been led in the order before mentioned clean through the Se&,s: 
 
 Camp, they came at laft to the place of Execution, where the fix U(hers with a loud 
 voice made this Proclamation: Let all manner of People fee and obferve the bloudy jafiice, 
 which is here to be done by the living God, Lord of all Truth, and our King the Sovereign o f 
 our Heads, who of his abfolute power doth fommaud that thefe hundred and forty Womenbc put 
 to death, and thrown into the airy for that by their counfel and incitement their Fathers and 
 Husbands flood out agawfi tt^w this City, and at times hilled twelve thoufand Bram ?as of the 
 Kingdom of Tangu. Then at the ringing of a Bell all the Officers and Muaifters of Juftice, 
 pell-mell together with the Guards, made fuch a cry* as was moft dreadfull to hear; where¬ 
 upon the cruel Hangmen being ready to put the Sentence of Death in execution, thofe poor 
 Wretches embraced one another, and fhedding abundance of tears they addreffed them- 
 Telvcs to Nhay Canatoo, who lay at that time almoft dead in the lap of anoldLady* and 
 with their belt complements one of them fpake forall the reft unto her in this manner ^ 
 Excellent Lady, that art as a Crown of Rofes upon our-Heads , now that we thy humble Servants 
 are entrmg into thofe mournful Manfions where Death doth rejide , comfort us we befeech 
 thee with thy dear fight, that fo we may with lefis grief quit thefe Bodies full of anguifkffor to 
 prefent our felves bef ire that Almighty juft Judge 3 of whom we will for ever implore his juftice 
 for a perpetual vengeance of the wrong that is done us. Then Nhay Canatoo beholding them 
 with a countenance more dead then alive, anfwered them with a feeble voice, that could 
 fcarce be heard, Go not away fo foon, my Sifters, -but help me to fuftain thefe little Children*. 
 Thacfaid, (he leaned down again on the bofom of that Lady, without fpc a king a word 
 more ; whereupon the Miniftersof the Arm of Vengeance, fo they term theHangn en, 
 laid hold on thofe poor Women, and hanged them up all by the feet, with their heads down¬ 
 wards, upon twenty Gibbets, namely, feven on each one: now fo painfull a Death as this 
 was, made them give ftrange and fearfull groans and fobs, untill at length the bloud ftifled 
 them all in lefs then an hour. In the mean time Nhay Canatoo was conducted by the four 
 Womfcn, upon whom (he leaned, diredtly to the Gallows, whereon (he and her four Chil¬ 
 dren were to be hanged, andtthere the Kolim of CMounay, who was held amongft them 
 for a holy man, ufed fome fpeeches unco he • for to encourage her the better to fuffer death $ 
 whereupon (he defired them to give her a little Water, which being brought unco her, (he 
 filled her mouth with ic, and lo fpurted it upon her four Children* whom (lie held in her 
 arms; then having kiffed them many times, (lie faid unto them weeping, O my Children, 
 my Children, whom I have conceived anew within the interior of my Soul, how happy would 
 I thinkjny felf if I might redeem Jour lives with lofs of mine own a thoufand times over, 
 if it were pojfible J for in regard of the fear and anguifh wherein I fee you at this prefent, 
 and wherein every one fees me alfo, / fhould receive Death with as good an heart from the 
 hand of this cruel Enemy, as / willingly defire to fee my felf in the prefence of my Sovereign 
 Lord of all things, within the repofe of his celefiial Habitation . Then turning her to the 
 Hangrrian, who was going to binde her two little Boys, Good Friend , faid (lie* be not 1 
 pray thee, fo void of pity, as to make me fee my Children die, -fir in fo doing thoU wouldH com¬ 
 mit a great (in: wherefore put me fir ft to death , and refufe me not this Boon which 1 crave of 
 thee for Gods fake. After fhe had thus fpoken (he t ook her Children again in her arms, and 
 kifling them over and over in giving them herlaft farewell, (he yielded up the ghoft in the 
 Ladies lap upon whom (he leaned, not fo much as once (lining ever after; which the Hang¬ 
 man perceiving, ran prefencly unto her and hanged her as he had done the reft, together 
 with her four little Children, two on each fide of her, and (lie in the middle. Acthis cruel 
 and pitiful fpe&acle there arofe from amongft all this People fo great and hideous a cry, 
 that the Earth feemed to tremble under the feet of them thac flood upon it, andwithall 
 there followed fuch a Mutiny throughout the whole Cauip, as the King was conftrained to 
 
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 fortifie himfelf in bis Quarter with 6000 Bramaa Horfe, and 30000 Foot, and yet for all 
 that he thought not himfelf fecure enough from if, had not the night come, which onely 
 was able to calm the furious motions of thefe >Aen of War ; For of feven hundred thou- 
 fand which were in the Gamp, fix hundred thoufand were by Nation Pegus, whofe King 
 was the Father of this Queen, that was thus put to death ; but this Tyrant of Bramaa had 
 fo difarmed and fubjeeted them, as they flurft not fo much as quicb upon any occafion. 
 Behold in what an infamous manner NhayCanat 00 fim(hzd her days, a Princefs every way 
 accomplifhed, Wife to the Chaubainbaa King of LMartabano,, and the Daughter of the 
 King of fEmperour of 9 Kingdoms, whofe yearly Revenue amounted unto 3 Millions 
 of Gold. As for the infortunate King her Husband, he was the fame night c*ft into the Ri¬ 
 ver with a great Hone tied about his neck, together with 50 or 60 of his chiefeft Lords, who 
 were either the Fathers, Husbands, or Brothers of thofe hundred and forty Ladies, that were 
 moft unjuftly put to fuch an ignominious Death,amongft the which there were 3, whom the 
 K>ng of Bramaa had demanded in marriage at fuch time as he was but a Ample Earl, but not 
 one of their Fathers would condefcend unto it; whereby one m*y fee how great the Revolu¬ 
 tions of Time and Fortune are. 
 
 Se&.z. After the Tyrant of Bramaa had caufed this rigorous Juftice to be done, he flayed there 
 9 whole days, during the which many of the Inhabitants of the City were alfo executed 5 
 At la(l he departed for to go to Pegu, leaving behinde him Bainhaa Cbaquc, Lord Steward 
 of his Houfe, to take order for all things that might conduce to the pacifying of that King¬ 
 dom, and to provide for the repairing of what the fite had confumed; to which purpofe he 
 placed a good Garifon there, and carried wirh him the reft of his Army; Joano Cayejro fol¬ 
 lowed him alfo with feven hundred Portugals , nor above three or four remaining behinde 
 in the Ruines of CMartabano, and thofe too not very confiderable, except it were one, 
 named Goncalo Falcan , a Gentleman well born, and whom the Gentiles commonly 
 called Crifna Paean , that is to fay, Flower of Flowers , a very honourable Tide amongft 
 them, which the King of Bramaa had given him in recompence of his Services: Now for- 
 afmucb as at the departure from UWaluca, Pedro dt Faria had given me a Letter dire&cd 
 unto him, whereby he defired him to affift me with his favour, in cafe I had meed of it in the 
 affair for which he fent me thither, as well for the fervice of the King, as for his own parti¬ 
 cular ; affoon as I arrived at Martabano, where I found him refidenc, I delivered him this 
 Letter, and withall gave him an account of the occafion that brought me thither, which was 
 to confirm the ancient League of Peace that the Chaubainbaa had made by his Ambafia- 
 dours with them of Malaca , at fuch time as Pedro de Faria was firft Governour of it, and 
 whereof he could not chufe but have fome knowledge ; adding moreover, how to chac ef¬ 
 fect I had brought the Cbaubainbaa Letters full of great Proteliations of Amicy, and a 
 Prefent of certain very rich Pieces of China. Hereupon the Goncalo Falcan imagining 
 that by means hereof might infinuate himfelf much more into the good grace of the 
 King of Bramaa , to whofe fide he turned at the Siege of Martabano, quieting that of the 
 Chaubainbaa formerly he ferved, he went three days after the Kings departure to 
 his faid Governour, and told him that I was come thither, as Ambafladour from the Captain 
 of Malaca to treat with the Chaubainhaa } unto whom the Captain fent an offer of great 
 Forces againft the King of Bramaa ; in fo much that they of the Country were upon the 
 point of fortifying chemfelves in Martabano, and chafing away Caz Bramaa t out of the 
 Kingdom 5 whereunro he added fo many other fuch like matters, that the GovernourTent 
 prefently to apprehend me; and after he had put me into fafe cuftody, he went dire&ly to the 
 Junck, in which I came from Malaca , and feized upon all the goods that were in her, which 
 were wort h above an hundred thoufand Ducates, committing the ^ ecoda, Captain and 
 Mafter of the Junck,to Prifon, as alfo all the reft that were in her, to the number of an hun¬ 
 dred- threefcore and four perfons, wherein comprized forty rich Merchants, Malayes, 
 Menancabo’s, Mahumetans , and Gentiles , Natives of Malaca . All thefe were incontinent¬ 
 ly condemned to the confifcation of their goods, and to remain the Kings prifoners, as well 
 as I, for being Complices in the Treafon, which the Captain of Malaca had plotted in fe- 
 cret with the Chaubainbaa againft the King of Bramaa. Having thus caufed them to be 
 put into a deep Dungeon, he made them be fo cruelly feearged, that within a moneth after 
 their Imprifonment, of an hundred fixtyfourof them, which they were, there died nine¬ 
 teen, either of a Lethargy, or of Hunger, or Thirft. As for the reft, they were put into a 
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 miferable Shallop without Sails or Oars, wherein they were expofcd down the River j Be¬ 
 ing delivered in this fort to the mercy of Fortune, they were cad by the Winde into a de- 
 ferc Ifland, called r Pulho Canuida , heated 20 Leagues within the Sea of this Bar, where they 
 furnifhed themfelves with home Sea-fifh, and fucn Fruits as they found in the Woods'; and 
 in this necelfity making a kinde of Sail of the Clothes they had, and with 2 Oars, which ic 
 may be they met withall there, or made themfelves, they took their courfe all along by the 
 Coaftof Jmcalan, and frqm thence to another place, wherein chey’iaiployed the fpace of 
 2 moneths, arriving at length at the River of Tarles, in the Kingdom of Qaeda, where they 
 all died of certain Impofthumes, which role in their throats, like unto Carbuncles, two one- 
 ly excepted, who came to Malaca , and recounted to Pedro dc FarU t he whole fuccefs of 
 this fad Voyage, and how that I was condemned to die, as indeed I expe&ed every hour to 
 be led to Execution, when ic pleafed God to deliver me miraculoufly j for a Boon as the 
 'Hjcoda and the Merchants were banilKed in the manner chat I have declared, I was com - 
 mitted to another Prifon farther off, where I remained fix and thirty days laden with Chains 
 andirons in a moft cruel and infupportable manner ; During all that time the Traitor 
 Concalo exhibited againft me daily new and falfe Allegations, wnerein he charged me with a 
 world of things which I never fo much as thought of, and that to no other intent but to pro¬ 
 cure my Death, that fo he might rob me, as he had done all the reft thac were in the Junck: 
 To which end, having cyaeftioned me $ feveral times in Judgment, I never anfwered any 
 thing to his In c errog?tbries that was to purpofe, whereat he and ocher of my Enemies were 
 much enraged, /faying, that I did ic out of pride, and in contempt of J uftice 5 fo that for a 
 punifhmenc thereof 1 hey caufed me to be openly whipped* and a great deal of Lacre, which 
 is like unto hard Wax, to be dropped Raiding hot upon me, whereof the pain was fuch as ic 
 had almoft killed me 5 and indeed all v th&c were by held me for a dead man. Now becaufe 
 for the moft part I knew not what I fpake, but talked like a defperate man, I happened 3 or 
 4 times to fay, that for to rob me of my Goods I had all thefe falfe Accufations put upon 
 me, but that Captain Joano Cayeyro , whcvwas at Pegu, would ere it were long acquainc the 
 King with this cruel ufage of me, which was the caufe of faving my life ; for even as this 
 wicked Governout was going to have the Sentence executed, wbicn was given againft me, 
 fomeof his Friends counselled him to forbear, faying, that if he put me to death, nodotihc 
 but thac all the Portugals .which were at Pegu would complain of him to the King, and_'j?eil 
 him, that for to rob me of, an hundred thousand Ducates, which I had there in Commodi¬ 
 ties, appertaining to the Captain of c. Malaca , he had moft unjuftly taken away my life • 
 And thac this being fo, the King would demand an account of him of all thofe Commodi¬ 
 ties, or of the Money for them j and that if he rendered him even all change had taken from 
 me, yet would not that content him, imagining ftill there w^s fomewhac more, whereby he 
 would fo put himfelf out of the good grace of the King, as he would never recover it c again, 
 which would be the caufeof the utter overthrow both of himfelf and his Children, belldes 
 the Difhonour that woulcfredound to him over and above. This Dog the Governour Bain - 
 baa Chaque, fearing left that fhould come to pafs which they had faid, defifted from his for¬ 
 mer obftinacy, and corredfing the Sentence he had given, he ordained, That I fhould noc 
 die, but that my Goods fhould be confiscated, and my felf arrefted for the Kings Prifoncr % 
 As indeed, fo foon as I was healed of the< Hurrs which the Burning of the Lacre, and the 
 Stripes of the Whips had made upon me, I was conduced in Chains to Pegu , and there as a 
 Prifoner was put into the hands of a Bramaa, Treafurer to the King, named Dioforaj, who 
 had alfo in his cuftody 8 other Portugals, whofe (ins had procured them the fame misfortune 
 which mine had caufed untome; for it was now full 6 moneths fince thefe poor Wretches 
 had been in his power,being taken in the Ship of Don AnriqueDeca of C'avanor, which by 
 a Tempeft was caft on that Coaft. Now feeing that hitherto I have difeourfed of the fuccefs 
 of.my Voyage to UHartabano, and.of the benefit that redounded to me by my going thi¬ 
 ther for thefe rvice of the King, which was no other then thelofsof my Goods, and the 
 imprifonment of myperfon ; before I engage my felf further in thefe Relations, I amre- 
 folved to entreat of the divers Fortunes which 1 ran in that Kingdom for the fpace of 2 
 years and an half that I travelled therein, being the time of my Captivity, as alfo of the fe- 
 veral Countries through u hich I was carried by my erodes and mifhaps; as holding ic altoge¬ 
 ther neceflary for the declaration of that which I am going on withall.-1 fay then, thac after 
 this the King of Bramaa was departed from the City Martabano , as I have related before. 
 
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 1* jouriiyed fo long that ac length he came to m», where, before he difmifled his Com¬ 
 manders/he caufed a Mullet to be made of his Army, and found that of feyen hundred 
 thoufand men, which he had carried along with him to the be teging of the £ 
 there was fourfcore and fix thoufand of them wanting : And for as much as he,tad about 
 that time feme hackling how the King of confederated wuh the and p>*. 
 
 lew would *ive entry unto the Sianmon (whofe Country borders on the Well andNorth- 
 W fide of °the fialamnhan, Empirour of the indomitable forces of the Elephants of 
 the Earth, as I will frew hereafter when 1 fpeak of him) fo the end he might win from this 
 Bramaa the chiefeft ftrength* of his Kingdoms, he like a good Captain as he was, and very 
 cunning in matter of War, before he patted on further, caufed men to be levied,, with whom, 
 as alio with all other necettary things, he furmfhed thofe principal Fortreffes from whence 
 his °reateft fear proceeded. Then having refolved to go and befiege the City of Prom , he 
 retained the Army which he had already afoot, and made new and great preparations 
 throughout the Kingdom, ufing fuch diligence therein, as in fix moneths time he had got to¬ 
 gether the number of nine hundred thoufand men, whom he imbarquedm 12000 rcWing 
 Vett^ls whereof 2000 were Setoos, Laniers , Caturos , and Foijls. Now all this g rear Fieet 
 fee forth from Per* the 9^ of March, 1545. and going up the River of tAnfedaa, it wenc 
 to Vaiaplm, where it was furnifhedjWith all fuch Provilions as were neceffary. Fr om this 
 place following on their way through a great River of frefh Water, _ ca led Ptcan Malacott, 
 which was above a League broad, at length upon the 13 tb of April they came within v.ew 
 of Prom. There, by fome whom they took that night, they learned, chat the King was 
 dead, and how he had left for his Succeffour to the Kingdom a Son of his of 13 years of age, 
 whom the King his Father before he died had married to his Wives Sifter, the Aunt of 
 the faid youn* Prince, and Daughter to the King of Avaa. This young King was no fooner 
 adyertifed of* the King of Bramaa his coming to befiege him mhisCity of Prom, but he 
 fent prefentlv away to the King his Father in Law for fuccour, which he mftantjy granted, 
 and to that end fpeedily raifed an Army of 30000 Mons, Twees, and Cbalcms , choice men 
 and trained up in the Wars, of whom he made a Son of his, and Brother to the Queen, Gei 
 neral. In the mean time the Bramaa, having intelligence thereof, ufed all poffible diligence 
 for to befiege the*City before fo great a fuccour might arrive. To which purpofc, having land¬ 
 ed his Army in a Plain, called c Meigavotm, fome 2 Leagues below the City, he continued 
 there « days in making ready fuch preparations as were necdfull 5 Having given order for all 
 things, he caufed his Army to march one morning before day dircftly to the City, with the 
 Tound of Drums, Fifes, and other fuch Inftruments of War ; where being arrived about 
 noon without any oppofition, he began preicatly to fettle his Camp j fo that before it was 
 night, the whole City was environed with Trenches, and very grew Ditches, as alfo with fix 
 rows of Cannons, and other Pieces of Qrdiiance. 
 
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 C H A P. LI II. 
 
 That which paffed between the Queen of Prom, and the King ef Bramaa, 
 together with the fir ft A (fault that was given to the City, 
 
 and the Succefs thereof. 
 
 T He King of Bramaa had been now five days before the City of Trom, when as the Se& 
 Queen that governed the Scare in the place of her Husband, feeing her felf thusbefie- 
 ged, fenc to vifir this her enemy with a rich jewel of precious Hones, which was prelected 
 unto him by a Talagrepo, or religious man, of above an hundred years o!d, who was held a- 
 mongfithem for a Saint, together with a Letter, wherein this was written ; Great and mighty 
 Lord, more favoured in the Houfe of fortune then all the Kings of the earth, the force of an 
 extream power, an increafing of the Salt feas , whereinto all lejfer rivers do render themfelves 
 a Shield full of very fair devices , c Procejfor of the great eft States, upon the Throne whereof 
 thy feet dorepofe with a marvellous Majefty : / Nnay Nivolau , a poor woman, Governefs , 
 and lutreft of my Son , an Orphan, do pro fir ate my felf before thee with tears in mine eyes, 
 and with the refpecl which ought to be rendred unto thee ; 1 befeech thee not to draw thy 
 Sword againjl my-weaknefs, for thou finowefi that 1 am but a filly woman , which ean but 
 only cry unto God for the wrong that is done me , whofe property atfo it is to fuccour with mer¬ 
 cy , and to chafitfe with jufiice the States of the world be they never fo great, trampling 
 them under his feet with fo redoubted a power , that the very Inhabitants of the profound 
 houfe of fmoafi do fear and tremble before this Almighty Lord: / pray and conjure thee not 
 to take from me that which is mine , feeing it is fo fmall a thing, as thou fhalt not be thegrea* 
 ter for it when thou hafi it, nor yet the lejs if thou haft it not ; whereas contranly, ifthou 3 
 my Lordy wilt fhew thy felf pitiful tome , that ail of clemency will bring thee fuch reputati * 
 on, as the very Infants themfelves will ceafe from fucking the white Feafts of their Ano¬ 
 ther s for to praife thee with the pure lips of their innocentJ ; and like wife all they of my Coun¬ 
 try, and Strangers, will ever remember fuch thy charity towards me, and I my felf will can ft 
 it to be engraven on the Tombs of the dead, that both they and the living may give thee thankj 
 for a thing which I do beg of thee with fo much infiance from the bottom of my heart. This 
 holy man , Aveniachim , from whom thou fhalc receive this Letter , written with mine own 
 hand, hath Power and Authcrity to treat with thee in the Name of my Father lefts Son, concern¬ 
 ing all that (hall be judged reafonabte touching the tribute and homage which thou (halt thinks 
 fit to have rendred unto thee , upon condition that thou wilt be pleafed to let m enjoy our hou- 
 fes, (o that under a true ajfurance thereof we may lur ing up our children, and gather the fruit 
 of our labours for the nourijhment of the poor Inhabitants of this paltry Towny who will all 
 ferve thee , and / too, with a mofi humble refpett, in all things wherein thou (halt thinfigood te 
 imploy us at thy pleafure. 
 
 The Bramaa received this Letter and Ambaflhge with a great ceal of authority,and enter¬ 
 tained the Religious man that delivered it unto him with much honour,as well in regard of his 
 age, as for chat he was held as a Saint amongfi them ; with all he granted him cercain things 
 which were at firft demanded, as a Ceffation of Arms till fuch time as Articles fhould be a- 
 greed on; as alfo a permifli n for the Bcfieged to converfe with the Befiegers, and ocher fuch 
 things of little conleqaence ; In the mean time judging with himfelf that all thofe offers, 
 which this poor Queen made him, and the humble funmifftons of her Letters,proceeded from 
 weaknefs and fear, he would never anfwer the Ambaffadour clearl , or to purpofe : Contra- 
 rily he caufed all the places there abouts that were weak,and unarmed,to be fecretly ranfaked, 
 and the poor Inhabitants thereof to be unmercifully butchered by their barbarous enemies, 
 whole cruelty was fo great, that in five dayes, according to report, they killed fourteen thou- 
 fandperfons, the moil part whereof were women, children, and old men, thac were noc 
 able to bear Arms. Hereupon the Rolim , who brought this Letter, relying no longer on the 
 falie promiles of this Tyrant,and difcontented with the little refped he ufed towards him,de¬ 
 manded leave of him to return to the City, which the Bramaa gave him, together with this 
 anfwer ^ That if the Queen would deliver up her felf, her Treafrre, her Kingdom, and her 
 Vaffals to him, he would recompence her another way for the iofs of her State; but witball 
 chat fhe was to return him a peremptory anfwer to this prdpontion of his the very fame day, 
 
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 which was all the time I could give her, that fo he might upon the knowledge of her refolu- 
 tion determina upon what he had to do. The Rohm went herewith back to the City,where he 
 gave the Queen an account of all things, faying, That this Tyrant was a man without faith, 
 and replete with damnable intcntions;for proof whereof he reprefented unco her the Sic° , eof 
 Martabano, the uiage of the Chaubalnhaa after he had rendred himfelf unto him upon his word, 
 and how he had put him, his wife, his children, and the chiefeli Nobility of his Kingdom, to ' 
 a mod fharnefull death. Thefe things considered it was inrtantly concluded, as well by the 
 Qj;en,as by all thole of her Councel,chat (he fliould defend the City,cill fuch time as fuccour 
 came from her Father, which would be within iy days at the furchefi : This refolution taken, 
 fhefbemg; of agreat courage)wichout further delay took order for all things that were though? 
 neceflary for the defence of the City, animating to that end her people with great prudence 
 and a man-iikc Spirit, though (he was but a woman 5 Moreover, as fhe liberally imparted to 
 them of her Ireafure, fo (he promifed every one throughly to ackno wledg their fervices with 
 all manner of recompences and honours, whereby they were mightily encouraged to fiaht : 
 n tne mean fpace the King of feeing that the Rollm returned him no anfwer wfthin 
 
 tne time prefixe, began the next day to forcifie all the Quarters of his Camp with double rows 
 of Cannon, for to batter the City on every fide; and for a {faulting of the walls he caufed a 
 great number of Lidders to be made, publifinng withall throughout his whole Army, that all 
 Souldiers upon pam of death ftiould be ready within three days to go to the AflaultrThe time 
 then being come, wmch was the third of Mxy, i s4J . About an hour before day the Kin- 
 went out of his Quarter, where he was at Anchor upon the river with two thoufand veffels 
 oi choice men, and giving the Signal to the Cemmanders which were on Land, to prepare 
 themfeivfcs, they altogether in one Body availed the walls, with fo great » cry, as if Heaven 
 and Earth would have come together, fo that both Tides falling to encounter pell-mell with 
 one anocher,there was fuch a conflift betwixt them,as within a little while the air was leen all 
 on fire, and the earth all bloody ; whereunto being added the clafhing of weapons, and noife 
 
 m fSJ a W3 n a ? ea i d , C f0 a d [ e * d , fuI > that wc fcw who beheld thefe things, re¬ 
 
 mained aftonilhed.and almoft befides our felves: This fight induced full five hours,at the end 
 
 whereof the Tyrant of Brsmaa feeing thofe within defend themfclves fo valiantly, and the 
 molf part of his Forces to grow fainr,he went to land with ten or eleven thoufand of his beft 
 ?T r a11 dlll S eQce w-inforcing the Companies, that were fighting, the Bickering re- 
 r 10 y aS 0ne WOu ^ d have ^ a * d d * d but then begin, fo great was the fury of it 
 
 i he lecond trial continued till night,yet would not the King defifi from the fi°ht,whaccoun- 
 lel losver was given him to retire 5 but contranly he fwore not to give over the Enterprife 
 begun, and that he would lie that night within the inclofure of the City walls, or cut off the 
 heads of an thoie Commanders that were not wounded at their coming off;In the mean time 
 ^nw° b w°^ C h W3S V£ry P rejudlciaI But continuing the Affaulc till the Moon was gone 
 
 h 3 H lnrtT hl h h T h0Urs P afi L midni S h > be was then forced to found a Retreat, after he 
 
 ml bVr^ hl ^? 1U ^ u S WaS E. he nex ' found u P on 3 Mufter > lourfcorc thoufand of his 
 men, oefides thofe which were hurt, which were thirty thoufand at the leaft, whereof manv 
 
 died fO|T want of dreffiog ; whence iffued fuch a plague in the Camp, as well through the cor- 
 
 rupaon of the air, as the water of the river,(that was all tainted with blood and dead bodies ) 
 
 * tbereby about fourfeore thoufand more perifhed, amongft whom were five hundred For - 
 
 °° ° th 7 , buria C , hen of Vultures, Crows, and fuch like birds of 
 
 prey, which devoured them all along the Coaft where they lay 
 
 nomore hlffrH £ ramM ’ h l ving CODf,de u redthat this M Affault had co ft him fo dear, would 
 f°, ra ?' ha2,rd h ‘ s ,[ ’ cn :" that manner,but he caufed a great Terrace to be made with Bavins 
 and above ten thoufand Date-trees, which be commanded to be cut down and on that £ 
 ,,.i.ed up a platform fo high, as it over-topped the walls of the City two fathoms, and more 
 7 dIcc- f e ^ SC= “° plec *^ oi Ordnance, and with them continually battering the City for the* 
 
 ’ thoufand nerfom'wh^h nr ’ “ Wa j the moH part de moliflied,with the deal h of fourteen 
 ' underIUnd t h , L h,HhMr r e a l*“? th , e c p ?“ r ^ ue “ s coutl 8 e > especially when (he came to 
 j me d c children L ft nW h m d b f - 1X th0 c fand , fi 8 hi «g men left, all the reft, which confifted of wo- 
 'thcmfelves reduce, finr u “ 8 , unfi . l; ,ad “ Da We to beat Arms. The miferable befieged feeing 
 1 of the chiefeft of them ; “ c extreJ m'ty>affembled together inCouncd, & there,by the advice 
 
 ‘Oil of the Lamps c the ru’ COn , c u f c ^' 3 1 m general ftiould anoint themfelves with the 
 
 O.l o, tne Lamps o. the Chappel of Qmmj Af/Wc/.Cod of Battel of the field ritan, and fo 
 
 « offering 
 
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 offering themfelves up ia facrifice to him, fet upon the platform, with a determination 
 cither to dye, or to vanquish, in vowing themfelves all for the defence of their young Kid ct 3 
 to whom they had to lately done homage, and fworn to be true land faithful Subjects. 
 This refolution taken, which the Qj/en and her Nobility approved of for the belf and 
 moli affurcd, in a time wherein all mings were wanting to them for the longer defending 
 themfelves, they promifed to accompiilh it in the manner aforefaid by a iolemn Oath, 
 which they all tpok ; Now there being no further queftion but to fee how they fhould carry 
 themfelves in this affair, they firftof ail made an Uncle of the Queens the Captain of this 
 refolute Band, who aiTembling thefe fix thoufand together, the fame night, about the firft 
 quarter of the watch, made a Tally out of the two gates that were neereli to the Terrace 
 and platform, and fo taking courage from their delpair, and refolution to dye, they fought 
 fo valiantly; that in lefs then half an hour the whole Camp was put in diforder, the Ter¬ 
 race gained, the feurfeore pieces of Cannon taken, the King himfelfburr, thePallifado 
 burnt, the Trenches broken, and the Xemmhrum , General of the Army, fhin, with above 
 fifteen thoufand men more, amongft the which were five hundred Turk* ; the^e were 
 moreover forty Elephants taken, befides thofe that were killed, and eight hundred Bramaas 
 made prisoners; to that thefe fix thoufand refolute men did that which an hundred theu- 
 fand, though valiant enough, could hardly have effaced. After this they retreated an hour 
 before day, and upon a review they found, that of fix thoufand which they were, there 
 was but feven hundred (lain. This bad fuccefs fo grieved and incenfed the King of Bra~ 
 maa, as attributing the caufe thereof to the negligence of fome of his Captains in the ill 
 guarding of the Terrace, that the day following he caufed two thoufand Pegu's to be be¬ 
 headed , which had flood fentinel that night. This adventure rendred things quiet for the 
 fpace of twelve days, during which the befieged ftirred not 5 in the mean time one of the 
 four principal Captains of the City, named Xemim Mtleytay^ fearing that which all others 
 in general mifdoubted, namely, that they could not efcape from falling into the hands of 
 fo cruel an Enemy, treated fecretly with the Tyrant, and upon condition that he would 
 continue him in his charge, nor meddle with any of the houfei of his friends, and make him 
 Xemin of Anfedaa in the Kingdom of Teg*, with all the Revenue which the Baitthaa c£ 
 c Malacou had there, being thirty thouland Ducates a year, he would deliver him up the 
 City by giving him entrance into it through the gate which he commanded: The King of 
 Bramaa accepted hereof, and for a gage of performance on his part, hefent him a rich 
 Ring from off his finger. ThisTreafon fo concluded, was effected on the three and twen¬ 
 tieth of Auguft > in the year 1545. whefein this Tyrant of Bramaa carried himfelf with 
 all the barbaroufnefs and cruelty that he ufed to pri&ife in the like cafes. And for as much 
 as I conceive that I iKould never have done, if I fhould recount here at large how this af¬ 
 fair paft , I will fay no more, but that the gate was opened, the City delivered up, the 
 Inhabitants all cut in pieces, without fo much as fparing one; the King and Queen made 
 prifohers, their Treafurers taken, the Buildings and Temples demolifhed, and many other 
 inhumanities exerciled with fuch outragioufnefs, the belief whereof is beyond the imagi¬ 
 nation and thought of man; and truly I never reprefont unto myfelfinwhac manneric 
 was done, as having feen it with mine own eyes, but that I remain as it were aftonifhed 
 and befides my felf at it. For as this Tyrant was touched to the quick with the affront he 
 bad lately received, fo he executed all the cruelties he could imagine againft thofe mifera- 
 ble Inhabitants, for to be revenged of rhe ill fuccefs he had had in the liege, which could 
 not proceed from any other but a bafe mind and vile extraction ; for it ordinarily falls our, 
 that barbaroufnefs finds place in fuch kind of people, rather then in generous and valiant 
 hearts ; Whereunto may be added, that he was a man without faith, and of an effeminate 
 difpofition, though he was neverthelefs an Enemy to women, albeit there were in that King¬ 
 dom , and in all the others whereof he was Lord, thofe that were very white and fair* 
 After the bloudy ruineof that wretched City, the Tyrant entred into it in great pomp, and 
 as it were in triumph, through a breach that was made of purpofe in the wall, and by 
 his exprefs commandment. When he was arrived at the [young Kings Palace, he caufed 
 himfelf to be crowned King of Prom; and during the Ceremony of this Coronation, he 
 made that poor Prince, whom he had deprived of his Kingdom, to continue kneeling be¬ 
 fore him, with his hands held up, as if he adored fome god , and ever and anon they con¬ 
 tained him to ftoopdown and kifs the Tyrants feet, who in the mean time made fhew as 
 
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 if he were not pleafed therewith. This done, he vvenc into a Balcone, which looked on a 
 great Mirkec place, whither he commanded all the dead children, that fay up and down the 
 ftreets, to be brought; and then cauling them to be hacked very fmall, he gave them,mingled 
 with Bran, Rice, and Herbs, to his E,ephancs to eat. Afterward, with a Grange kind of 
 ceremony, at the found of Trumpets, Drums, and other fuch like Instruments, there was 
 above an hundred Horfesledin, loaden with the quarters of men and women, which alfo 
 he commanded to be cut fmdI, and then caft into a great fire, kindled exprefly for it. Thefe 
 things fo done, theQjeenwas brought before him, that was wife to the poor little King, 
 who, as I faid before, was but thirceen years of age, and fhe thirty and fix, a woman ve¬ 
 ry white, and well favoured, Aunt to her own Husband, Sifter to her Mother, and Daugh¬ 
 ter to the King of Avaa , which is the Country from whence the Rubies, Saphirs, and 
 Emeralds do come toPegn^ and it was the fame Lady, whom the Bramaa* had fent to 
 demand in marriage of her Father, as it was then fpoken , bur that he refufed him, faying 
 to his Ambafl'ador, for ananfw£r, That the choughrs of his Daughter foared a pitch higher 
 then to be the wife of the Xemlm of Tan gun , which was the family whence this Tyrant 
 was iffued: Bat now that fhe was fallen into his hands as his flave, whether he ufed her fo, 
 either out of a revenge of that affront, or out of lcorn and contempt, fo it was thac he 
 made her to be publiquely ftript ftark naked, and to be corn and mangled with whipping, 
 and then in thatjnanner to be led up and down all the City, where amidft the cries and 
 hooting of the people, he expofed her to other cruel torments, wherewith fhe was tor¬ 
 tured till fhe gave up the ghoft • When fhe was,dead, he made her to be bound to the little 
 King her husband, who was yet living ; and having commanded a great ftone to be eyed 
 about their necks, they were caft into the River, which was a kind of cruelty very dread¬ 
 ful to all hat beheld it. To thefe barbarous parts he added many others fo inhumane, as it 
 is not likely that any other buc he could imagine the like ; And for a conclulion of his cru¬ 
 elties, the next day he caufed all the Gentlemen thac were taken alive , being fome three 
 hundred, to be impaled, and fo fpitted like roftedPigs, to be alfo thrown into the River, 
 whereby may be feen how great and unheard of the injuftice of this Tyrant was, which he 
 exercifed on thefe miferable wretches. . 
 
 CHAP. LIV. 
 
 The King of Bramaa hit befieglng of the Fertrefs of Meleytay, with his going 
 from thence to Avaa ; and that which faffed there • 
 
 led.i. T?Ourteen days were paft fince the doing of thefe things, during the which the Tyrant 
 IT employed himfelf in fortifying the City with a great deal of diligence and care, when 
 as his fpies, whom he had fent our, brought him word, chat from the City of Avaa a Fleet 
 of four hundred rowing Veflels was come down the River of Queltor , wherein there 
 were thirty thoufand Slamon SoutfiieYs, befides the Mariners, of which the King of Avaas 
 Son, and Brorher to cm poor Qjeen, was General; for this Prince having received ad- 
 vertifement of the takin ; of the Cuy of Prom , and of the death of his Sifter and Brother-in- 
 law, went and lodged in rbe Fortrefs of Meleytay , which was fome twelve leagues up the 
 River from Prom. This news much troubled the Tyranr, howbeic he resolved to. go him¬ 
 felf in perfon againft his Enemies before that other fuccours came to joyn with them, as in¬ 
 deed the report went, that fourfeore thoufand, all Mans by Nation, and led y the King of 
 Avaa, W’re on their way thither: With this refolution the Tyrant of Bramaa fee forth 
 towards Meleytay with an Army of three hundred thoufand men, namely, two hundred 
 thoufand by Land alqngft the Rivers fide, whereof the Chaumlgrem his Fofter-brothe: 
 tv as Commander in chief, and the other hundred thoufand under his own condu&, being 
 all choyce men, and imbarqncd in two thoufand Seroes ; Being come within fight of Me- 
 lejftay, the Avaas defiring to fhew that the refolution wherewith they were come thither 
 was or tar mote power with them, then any fear they could have, and thac alfo their Ene¬ 
 mies might not receive any benefit by their Fleet which lay on the River, and do 1 them an 
 affront bdides by taking ic, they let all their Velfels on fire, and burnt them every one; 
 I ben, without any dread of that which the flefli doth naturally moft fear, they got all into 
 
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 tae field, sad ranged:hemfelvcsincp four Battalions, in three of which, whefeof each one 
 
 J. i:4Qe r f n ,. oul,inc ^ Ir ‘ 2n > ' ,ver - i c ^ e rhirty thoufani A/ohs • and in the other, chat were 
 fotnewhac bigger, were all the Mariners of the four hundred Velfds they had burnt; Thefe 
 i?rne they placed in the Vau ;r-guard, with an intention that they ftiould weary the Ene- 
 niies, w!th whom they made a cruel fight, which laded about half an hour , wherein ail 
 thefe Mariners were put in pieces - prefentiy after them the thirty thoufand Mms , clofe 
 compacted together in tnree Battalions, presented themfelves, and with wonderful.vjo- 
 Jencc fee upon their Enemies, between whom and them followed fo extraordinary and 
 cruei a battel, as not longer to infift upon it, nor to recount in particular how things paft, 
 winch ilfolcannotwell do, itfhall fuffice me to fay, that of the thirty thoufand Mons t 
 eight hundred only efcaped cut of it 5 who being routed made their retreat into the For- 
 trefs of Mdcjtaj • but that which was mod memorable herein was, chat of the Kin ° of 
 Bramahs two hundred thoufand men, an hundred and fifteen thoufand lay dead in the field, 
 and ail the reft for the mod pare were wounded. In the mean time the Tyrant, which 
 came along on the River in the two thoufand Seroos , arrived at the place, of Battel, where 
 benolding the flrange mattacre which the Mans had made; of his people* he became fo en¬ 
 raged at it, chatdtf-imbarquing his Forces, he indantly layd liege unto the Fortrefs, with 
 a purpofe, as he faid, to take all thofe eight hundred that were in it alive. This liege con- 
 tmued feven whole days tpgecher, during the which thofe -without gave five attaults to ir* 
 and the befieged defended, themfelves always very valiantly 5 bowb.de feeing that the lad 
 hour of their life was come, and that they could no longer hold that place for their Kin^, 
 as toey had hoped they might, by reafon of the frefh Forces which the King of Bramaa 
 had landed, ike couragious men, as they were, they rcfolved to dye in the field, as their com¬ 
 panions nad done, and valiantly revenge their deaths with that of their Enemies ,• whereun- 
 to they were the more willingly carryed, becaufe they perceived well that if they continued 
 mil in tne place, they (hould never make ufe of their valour, as they defired to do,for that 
 the Tyrants Ordnance would by little and little confume them : This’refolucion taken, they 
 under the favour of a very dark and rainy night fallyed forth, and firft of all fell upon the 
 tqohrft Courts oi guard that were on the Lands fide, cutting all in pieces that they met 
 wichalL Tnen following their defignthey patted on like defperate men $ and whether they 
 u ir ? ’ j tt “ er *p foew that they regarded not death which threatened them, or for the defire 
 theynad to gam honor, foie was that they behaved themfelves fo couragionfly, and prefi¬ 
 fed the Tyrant foneer, as they forced him to leap into the River, and fwim for his life, in 
 fo much that all the Camp was indiforder, and broken through in I know not how many 
 paces, with the death of above twelve thoufand men ; amongft whom were fifteen hun¬ 
 dred Bramaas, two thoufand ftrangers of divers Nations, and all the reft Pegu’s. This 
 fight lafted not above half an hour, in which time the eight hundred Moms were all llain 5 there 
 being not fo much as one of them that would yield upon any compofition whatfoever 0 • 
 Hereupon the Tyrant of Bramaa feeing the fight ended, and all things quiet, wentandre- 
 attembled his Forces together, and fo entered the Fortrefs of CMeleytay , where he 
 prefentiy commanded the Xemims head to be cut off, faying, that he was the foie caufe of 
 that difafter, and that he who had been a Traytor to his King could not be faithful un- 
 to him: behold the recompence which this Traytor made him for delivering up the City of 
 Prom unco him, bomoever it juftly belonged unto him for a punifhment of his perfidiouf- 
 nefs, that carryed iiim to betray his King and his own Country into the power of his 
 Enemies .* Arcer this they fell to dreffing of the hurt men, which were in very great 
 numbtr. 
 
 
 We paft all this night with much apprehenfion, always keeping good watch; and the Se&.£ 
 next morning as foon as it was day, the firft thing that we did was to rid away the dead bo¬ 
 dies,^ wh.cn were in fogreft number a 1 over the Camp, that the ground was quite cover¬ 
 ed with rhem ; After this we took a view of thofe that were killed, as well on the one, as 
 the ochec pa^ty, and we found that on the Bramaas fide there were an hundred and feur- 
 fcore thoufand, and on the Prince of Avats forty and two thoufand , wherein were com¬ 
 prized the thirty thoufand Moms , Thac done, after the Tyrant had .fortified the City of 
 Prom > as alio the Fort of Meleytay , and made two other Forts npon the bank of the 
 River, in fuch pheus as he judged to be moft important for the fafecy of thac Kingdom, he 
 went up the River or j Qucitor in a thoufand rowing Seroos 3 wherein were imbarqued 
 
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 | Seventy thoufand men. Ia this Voyage his intention was to go in his ovrn perfon, for to ob- 
 ferve the Kingdom of Avaa t and to fee the City himfelf, the better to confider the ftrength 
 of it, and thereby judge what Forces he fhould bring for to take it; So he proceeded ttill 
 on for the fpace of eight and twenty days, and during that time pafLd by many goodly 
 places, which within the Kingdom of £&*/<?# and Jaeupa/aon were upon the bank of the 
 River: At length he arrived at the City of Avaa, the thirteenth of Ottobcr, the fame year, 
 a thoufand five hundred forty and five ; Being come to the Port, he remained there thirteen 
 days, and that while burned between two and three thoufand Veffels that he found there; 
 Moreover, he fee fire on many Villages thereabout, which coft him nocfolictle but that 
 he loft in all thefe degafts eight thoufand of his men, amongft the which were threescore 
 and. two Portugals. Now whereas this City was very ftrong, as well in regard of the 
 'feituation of ir, as of the Fortifications which were newly made there, ic hadbefides with¬ 
 in it twenty thoufand Mons, who (as ic was faid) were come thither fome five days before from 
 the Mountains of Pondalett , where the King of Avaa, by the permiftion of the Siamo » 9 
 Emperour of that Monarchy, was levying aboye fourfeore thoufand men for to go and regain 
 the City of Prom : for as foon as that King had received certain news of the death of his 
 Daughcer and Son-in-law, perceiving that he was not ftrong enough of himfelf to revenge 
 the wrongs this Tyrant had done him, or to fecure himfelf from thofe which he feared to 
 receive of him in time to come, namely, the depriving him of his Kingdom, as he was 
 threatened , he went in perfon with his wife and children and caft himfelf at the S'tamons 
 feet, and acquainting him with the great affronts he had received, and what his defire was, 
 be made himfelf his Tributary at threefcore thoufand Btffes by the year, which amount to 
 an hundred thoufand Ducates of our money, ihdtgncta of Rubies, being a meafure like to 
 our pint, therewith to make a jewel for his wife % of which Tribute, it was faid that he ad¬ 
 vanced the payment for ten years beforehand, befidcs many other precious ftones, and very 
 rich Plate, which he prefented him with, eftimated in all at two millions 5 in recompencc 
 whereof the Stamm obliged himfelf to take him into his prote&ion, yea and to march into 
 the field for him as often as need fhould require, and to re-eftablifh him within a year in the 
 Kingdom of Prom % fo as for that efFcft he granted him thofe thirty thoufand men of fuc- 
 cour, which the Bramaa defeated at tJMeleytay ; as alfo the twenty thoufand that were 
 then in the City, and the fourfeore thoufand which were to come to him, over whom the 
 faid King of Avaa was to be the General. The Tyrant having intelligence thereof, and ap¬ 
 prehending that this,above all other things he could fear, might be the caufe of his ruine, he 
 gave prefenc order for the fortifying of Prom with much more care and diligence then for¬ 
 merly : howbeir, before his departure from this River where he lay at Anchor, being about 
 fome league from the City of Avaa , he fent his Treafurer, named Diocorj ( with whom 
 we eight Tortttgals, as I have related before, remained priloners ) Embaffador to the \Cala- 
 tnlnhan 5 a Prince of mighty power, who is fcated in the midft of this region in a great and 
 fpacious Extent of Country, and of whom I (hall fay fomething when I come to fpeak of 
 him. The fubje# of this Embaffage was ,to make him his Brother in Arms by a League 
 and Contra& of new amity, offering for that effeft to give him a certain quantity of Gold 
 and precious ftones ; as alio to render unto him certain Frontier Lands of his Kingdom, up¬ 
 on condition that the Spring following he fhould keep the Siamon in war for to divert him 
 from fuccouring the King of Avaa , and thereby give him means the more eafily to take his 
 City from him* without fear of that afliftance which the King hoped fhould ferve for an 
 obftacle to his defign. This Embitfadour departed then after he had imbarqued himfelf in 
 a Lattlea , that was attended on by twelve Scrots, wherein there were three hundred men of 
 fervice, and his guard, befides the Watermen and Mariners, whofe number was little lefir. 
 The Prefencs which he carried to the Calaminhan were very great, and confifted in divers 
 rich pieces, as well of Gold as of precious itones, but above all in theHarnefsof an Ele¬ 
 phant, which according to reports was worth above fix hundred thoufand Ducates ;and 
 it? was thought that all the Prefents put together amounted to a Million of Gold. At his de¬ 
 parture, amongft other favours which the King his Mafter conferred on him, this fame was 
 not the leaft for us, that he gave us eight unto him for to be his perpetual flaves ; Having 
 clothed us then very well, and furnifhed us abundantly with all things neceffary, he feemed 
 to be exceedingly contented with having us along with him in this Voyage, and ever after 
 he made more account of us, then of all the reft that followed him. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
Of Ferdinand Mende^ Tinto. 
 
 C H A P. L V. ; 
 
 0 “ r F% ”'“r i *»!>•$<**' <° <b' Cilaminhim , mh 
 
 the Lmrje which we held mtil we arr.vtd at the Temple or Pa°ode 
 oj Tiinagoogoo, and a Defer iption thereof 
 
 TT fecms*'fir'unro me, and conformable to that which I am relating, to leave for a while this Se&. 
 iTyrant oiBramaafo whom 1 will return again when time fhall lerve)for to entreat here of 
 tne way we held for t o go irnoTimpUn, the capital City of the Empire of the C'aUminham, 
 Th* C p ^^Lordofthe world ; for in their language,^ is Lord,and Mmham the world * 
 
 the Earth VnAi « h [ olute Lard °f the '^domiptable force of the Elephants of 
 
 A ^ d nd , eed 1 d °. noc lh,nk that ln a!I the world is a greater Lord then he as I 
 fliall declare hereafter. Tms Ambafiadour then departing from Avaa in the Moneth of Ofl*- 
 
 „!>,* r ula , nd ? “ ve hlindrcd 5 foxy and five, took his eourfe up the river of Queitor , fieerin^ 
 Welt, Soutn-Ealt, and in many places Eaflward,by reafon of the winding of the water. and 
 lo m this diverfity of rhombes vve continued our voyage feven days together, at the end 
 w ereo we arrived at a Channel, called Gnampanoo^ through which the Rhobamoy who was 
 '! or * t°°k his eourfe, that he might decline the Siamws Country, being fo commanded 
 
 r °u ^ 1 u ex ^f ei:S A ^i d ? Kin S- A a ^ cer ws came to a great Town, named 
 
 Gataldy where the Ambafiadour flayed three days to make provilion of certain things necef- 
 
 lary tor his voyage. Having left this place we went on flill, rowing up through his Channel 
 eleven days onger, during which time we met not with any place that was remarkable, only 
 we aw iome f.nall villages, the houfes whereof were covered with thatch, and peopled with 
 very poor folks.and yet for all that the fields are full of Cattel,which feemed to have no Ma- 
 fler for we killed twenty and thirty of them in a day in the fight of thofe of the Country, 
 no man fo much as finding fault with it,but contrary they brought tbemin courtelie to us,as 
 if they were glad to fee us kill them in that fort. At our going out of this Channel of Guam- 
 
 en , lnc r ° a vi 7 § rcat river,called AngegHtn^k was above three Leagues broad, 
 and m fome places fix and twenty fathom deep , with fuch impetuous currents as they drove 
 us often-times from our eourfe ; This river we coafled above feven dayes together/and ac 
 lengrh arrived at pretty little walled Town,named Gurnblm ,, in the Kingdom of fangromaa* 
 ravironed on the Lands fide for five or fix leagues fpace with Forrefts or Binjanting affo with 
 Plains of Lacre, wherewith they ordinarily traded to Martabano, and do alfo lade there many 
 vsflds with tnofe commodities for to tranfport them into divers Countries of the Indiaes , 
 a ^, tof i Str ^S hc Alccqna, to Alcoccr y and Jndaa . There is alfo in this Town great fiore 
 of Musk, far better then that of China , which from thence is carried to Martabano and Be- 
 gtty where thofe of our Nation buy of it, therewith to traffique ac Narfingnay Orix at, and 
 Majulepatan . The women of this Country are all very whice and well-favoured- They ap¬ 
 parel themfelves with So fts made of Silk and Cotten-wool, wear links of gold andlilver 
 about their leg?, and rich Carcanets about their necks ; The ground there is of ft felf exceeding 
 fertile m Wheat, Rice, Millets, Sugar, Wax, and Cartel: This Town, with ten leagues of 
 circuit about ir, yields ev ry year fo the King of Jangomad threescore Altars of gold, which 
 are feven hundred thoufand Ducates of our money. From thence we coafled the river Souch- 
 waro, for the fpace of above (even daves, and arrived at a great Town, named Catammai* 
 which in our language figmfies, the golden Crevice , being the Patrimony of Randiavaa Tin - 
 bati) the C alarninhams fecond Son. The Naugator of this Town gave good entertainment to 
 the Amb ffadour, and fenr him many fores of refr.fhmencs for his followers; withal! he <>ave 
 him to uDd rfland that the Calaminham was at the City of Timplan . We departed from°this 
 place on a Sunday morning, and the day after about evening we came to a Fortrefs, called 
 C ampalagor bunt in the midfl of the river in the form of an Ifiand upon a rock, and invi- 
 roned wirh good free-Hone,having three Bulwarks & two Towers feven flories high,where¬ 
 in, they told tne Ambaffidour, was one of the four and twenty Treafures, which the Cala- 
 minham had in this Kingdom , the moft part whereof confifted in Lingots of filver, of the 
 weight of fix thoufand Candins , which are four and twenty thoufand Quintals 5 and it was 
 faid, char all this hlver was buried in wells under ground. After this wo flill continued our 
 coune for the fpace of thirteen days, during the which we law on both fides of the river 
 
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 many very goodly places, whereof the mold were fair Towns, and the reft ftately high Trees, 
 delicate Gardens, and great Plains full of Corn, as alfo much Cartel, red Deer, Shamoifes, 
 and Rhinocerots, under the keeping of certain men on horsback, who looked to them whilft 
 they fed* On the river there were a great number of veffels, where in much abundance was 
 all things to be fold which the earth produceth, wherewith it hath pleafed God to enrich thefe 
 Countries more then any other in the world. Now forafmuch as the Ambaffadour fell lick 
 here of an Impofturne in his ftomack; he was counfellcd to proceed no further till he was 
 healed, fo that he refolved to go with fome of his Train for to be cured to a famous Hofpi- 
 tal, fome twelve Leagues from thence, in a ‘Pagode, named Tinagoogoo , which fignifies the 
 God of rhoufand Gods , and fo departing at the fame inftanc he arrived there on Saturday 
 about night. 
 
 Se£Uf The Ambaffadour being fet on fhore was the next day led to an Hofpical, called 
 
 nocA» y whither the greatelt Lords ufed to repair when they were ftck, and where there were 
 two and forty feveral Lodgings very neat and convenient, in one of the which he was 
 placed by the exprefs command of the Puitaleu , who was, as it were, Governour of the 
 Hofpical: There care was taken that he wanted for nothing, but was furnifhed in abun¬ 
 dance with all that was neceflary for him : I will omit the odours, the neatnefs, the care 
 of attendance, the veffels, the robes, the exquilite meats, the dehcaciet, and all the de¬ 
 lights that may be imagined, which were to be had therewith as much perfeft ion and curio- 
 fuy as more cannot be defired. Thither likewife came twice a day to him exceeding fair 
 women, who fung to the Tune of Inftrumentsof Mulick, and at certain hours reprefented 
 Playes, or Comedies,before him, that were very pleafanr, and finely fet forth. Now thac I 
 may noc trouble my felf in recounting here at length the infinite number of things which I 
 could fpeak of concerning this Subject, I will pafs over many of them in filencc, whereof o®; 
 ther perTons,that could better exprefs them then my felf, would peradventure make great e- 
 fteem. After we h^d, been eight and twenty days there, by which time the Ambaffadour was 
 perfe< 5 Uy cured,we departed from thence for to go to a Town,named Afcidurywzhz leagues 
 further up the river of Angeguma • Buc chat I may non be blamed for failing in the promife 
 which I made heretofore of lpeaking of this c Pagode of Tinagoogoo , I will here leave the Am¬ 
 baffadour to his Voyage, and return me to the Pagode ; that of fo many things which we faw 
 there I may deliver fome one, for tofhew how littlewe Chriftians do to lave our fouls, in 
 edmparifon of that which thefe wretches do to lofe theirs. During the eight and twenty days 
 which the Ambaffadour imployed in recovering hi s health, we nine Portugals chat waited on 
 him not knowing what to do, or how to beftow our time in the mean while, no more then 
 the reft, we pafHt away in divers things, according to each ones fancy and delight, for to 
 that purpofe we wanted no commodities. Thus fome applied themfclves to the hunting of 
 Stags and Wild-boars, whereof there is great ftore in chat Country - y Some to the purfuing 
 of Tygers, Rhinocerots, Ounces, Zeores, Lions, Buffles, Wild-bulls, and of many other 
 fuch kind ofbeafts which we have not heard fpoken of in our Europe ; fome to {booting at 
 Wild-ducks,Geefe, and fuch like Water-fowl; fome to hawking with Vultures and Falcons 5 
 and fome to fifhing for Trowts, M wkarels, Chevins, Mullets, Soles, and many other forts 
 of fifh, whereof there is great abundance in all the rivers of this Empire. In this manner 
 we beftowed our time, now in one thing, and then in another; but chat which we gave 
 our felves moft unto was to hear, and fee j as alfo to enquire after the Laws of the Coun¬ 
 try, th tPagodes y and Sacrifices, which we beheld there with much terrour and aftonffh- 
 ment: Howbeit I purpofe not to make any relation here more then of a few of them, 
 which I conceive may fuffice to draw out the confequences of chofe that I {hall not dif- 
 courfe oh I fay then thac one of chofe facrifices was made on the day of the new Moon of 
 December y namely, on the ninth of thac Moneth, which .is a time wherein thefe blinded peo¬ 
 ple are accuftomed to celebrate a Feaft, called by thofe of the Country dfajfunterivoo; 
 by thofe of Japp an , Ferloo • by the Chinefes, Afaneioo ; by the Lecjmos, Champas, and 
 Cauchins , osfmpatilor ; by the Stamens 9 Bramdas , Tafts as, and Sac at ays, Sanfaporau ; 
 io that though all thefe names through thediyerfity of thofe languages are different, yet do 
 they in our tongue fignifie all o-e thing, that is, The memorial of the dead. This was 
 tnea c ‘] e Feaft which'we faw celebrated here with fo much diverfity of things that we 
 never dreamt of, as I know not where to begin ; for fuch a multitude of people of all the 
 Nation Sot thefe Countries came flocking to thisplace , as is noc to be expreffed, how- 
 
Of Ferdinand Mendez^ Pinto. 
 
 beit tne cbiefeft caufe of their repair thither in fuch numbers, is a Fair, which is kept all 
 the time of the Feaft, being fitrecn days, namely from the new to the full Moon. In this 
 Fair are all things to be fold which Nacure hath created on the earth, or in the Sea, and 
 thac in fc hi 0 h a degree of abundance, as there is not any one kind of thing, whereof there 
 are noc whole Streets or Houfes, Cabbins , or Tents, folong thac one can hardly fee from 
 one end to the ocher. AH theie flreets arc replenilhed with very rich Merchants, befides an 
 infinite company of other people, who are lodged all along the River,which is above 
 two Leagues broad, and planted abouc with feveral forts of Trees, as Walnuts, Chefr 
 nuts. Cocos, and Daces, whereof everyone takes what he pleafech, .becaufe ic doth all 
 belong to the Pagode. The Temple of this Idol is a very fumptuous Edifice,fcituated in the 
 midfi of a Plain upon a lice le round hill, more then half a league in circuic: It is built all flope 
 fiiteen fathorn high, and from thence upward it hath a wall of free-ftone of fome three fa¬ 
 thom , with it’s Bulwarks, and Towers, after the falhion Of ours. Within the inclofure of 
 this wall there is a platform made level with Bictlemenrs, a Hones call in breadth, which to¬ 
 gether with the wall extends round about the hill, fo that ac firft fight one would cake it for 
 a Gallery. There are likewife all alohg an hundred and threefcore Hofpicals, in each where¬ 
 of are above an hundred houfes, which are low, but very neac and convenient,where the Pil¬ 
 grims, F ucatotts, and Daroe&es are entertained^ which come thither in troops, like the 
 Gipfies in our Europe > with their Captains, each company of them having two or three 
 thoufand perfons, fome more, fome lefs, according as the Kingdoms from whence they re¬ 
 fort are nearer or further off; now it is known of What Country they are by the devices 
 which they carry in their Banners. From the top to the bottom ic is all invironed with 
 Cyprefs-trees, and Cedars, where many fountains of moft excellent water do continually 
 flow forth; and on the highefl part of this hill, almoft a quarter of a league in circuic, there 
 are four Convents, and in them very fUmptuous and rich Temples,namely two'of men,and 
 as many of women, in each of which , as we were affured, were very near five hundred per¬ 
 fons. In the midfl of tbefe four Monafteries there is a Garden, compafl'ed about with 
 three mclofures of Balliflersof Lactin, having Very fair Arches, of curious Mafons-work, 
 and Steeples gilt all over, with a nunlber of little filvet bells in them,whieh ting continually 
 with the moving of the air. This Chappel of the Idol TinAgoogoo is of a round form,all over¬ 
 laid on the in-fide with plates of filver wrought in flowers, and garnifhed with a great ma¬ 
 ny Branches, for lights, of the fame metal. This Monfler, of whom we could noc judge, 
 whether he were gold, wood, or copper gilt, flood upright on his feer, with his hands 
 lifted up to Heaven, and a rich Crown ori his head* round abouc him were many other lit¬ 
 tle Idols on their knees, and beholding him as it were amazed .* Below were two men made 
 of brafs,in the fafhion of Gyants, feven and thircy fpans high , and very ugly and deform¬ 
 ed , whom they held for the gods of the twelve months of the year. Without this place al- 
 fo there were an hundred and forty Gyants, who ranked in two Files inclofed it round a- 
 bout, and were made of caft iron, hclding Halberds in their hands, as if they had been the 
 Guard of ic 5 fo that all the Marvels of this Edifice put together made it appear fo flarely, 
 that looking upon ic one could not fufnciently efleem the riches and fumptuoufnefs thereof* 
 But fetting aftde,for this prefenr,the relation I could make of the buildings of this Pagode , 
 becaufe that which I have faid of it may, me thinks, fuffice for the underflanding of the refl, 
 I will entreat here of the Sacrifices which we faw to be made thereon a feflival day, called by 
 them, Xipatilatt, fignifymg, 71 &* refreshing of good people. 
 
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 The Travels, Voyages, and zAdventures 
 
 7)1 
 
 CHAP. L VI. 
 
 Seft.i, 
 
 The great and fmftmus [rocejfion made In this f agode, together with their 
 Sacrifice's / and other particularities. 
 
 I • <• ' ’ ‘ ‘ ' c ‘ - '' * ** ' 4 ‘ \ ’ * * • . , * 
 
 W Hiteft this Feafi of thefe Gentiles, as alfo the Fair, which was kept all 'the-time 
 thereof, endured 'for the Wee of fifteen days, with an infinite concourfe of 
 MfctthantS and Fibri ns, that catnc flocking thither from all parts, as I have declared be- 
 
 as We could guefs; It wa^the common opinion of all, that in this Proceflion^ tber^ were 
 forty thoufand Priefis of the four and twenty Sefts, which are in this Empire ; mofl of 
 t .^ein were of different dignities, and called Grepos , Talagrepos , hR^oohmsy Neepois, discos. 
 Shearclu\ and Chanfrauhos ; Now' by the ornaments they Wear, as alto by the^ devices ancj 
 enfigns which they .carry, in their hands, they may be ciifiinguifhed * and fp every, of meat 
 is refpefled according to his dignity ; Howbeit thefe Went not on foot as the other ordina¬ 
 ry Priefis, for that they Were as this day forbidden upon pain of great fin to tread uppo^fic 
 ground, To that they caufed themt^lvej to be born in f allaqttins > oi^ Arm-chairs, upoq the 
 fliotildcrs of other Priefis their inferiors, apparelled in green Sactin,wifh their Stoics o( 
 Carnation Dhmask. frfi he mid ft of the ranks of this Proceflion were all the inventions 
 of their Sacrifices to be ieeri ^ a^afrqfpe rich Cu’ftodcs of their Idols, for the which each 
 of them had a 'particular Devotion.; - they ;thac ^rried 'them' were clothed m yellow, ha¬ 
 ving each of them a big'wax candle,in his Hand ; and between ev^ry fifteen Of chofc 
 Cufiodes went a triumphant Charec, all which Charecs put together were in number an 
 hundred ewenry and fix: All' thefe CHarbrs were four, and fome Jive; Rories high, with as 
 many wheels ori either hife ; In each'of, them there were at the leaft' two hundred perfons. 
 bhaf with the Priefis and the Guards, and on the top of all an Idol of Silver , with a Miter 
 of Gold on its head, and all of them Had rich chains of Pearl and precious ftones ,^b6uc 
 their’heck^ ; round about every Charet went little Boys, carrying ^Silver Maces _ on their 
 flhoulders, and "behind them were a'many 'of Caskets full of exquilite perfumes> as alfo 
 divers perfbhs with'Centers in their hands, ; who ever and anon cenled the Idol to the tune 
 of'certain Infttumqfts ofMuficTt, ..faying three times, with a lamentable voyce, Lord, afc 
 [wage !'the pains cf the dead\ to the end they may frfife thee peaceably 5 .whereumb all the 
 people anfwered with a firings noife , Such may thy ' pieafure be , and Jo may it come to pafif 
 'every day wherein thou Jberpeftw'tkJ$M. Each of thefe Chirets was drawn by above threg 
 thoufand perfonsfwfio for that purpofe made ‘life of very long cords, covered, vyi^h iilE 
 ^and,'thereby gained' to' them r elves plenary remiflion of their Fins, without reflitutionco Be 
 tnade.pf any thing it all: Now that many might participate of this' abfolution by ; drawing 
 t)ie coard, they fee their hands to it one after and clofe to another, continuing ^dping jfo.t? 
 the very end, in fuch fore tfiat the whole coardwaS covered with hands, and nothing idle 
 to be feetf; but that they alfo which were without misfit gain this^adulgence, rhey’Wlped 
 thofe that had their hands on the coVrcf by putting theirs about their flioulders* then they 
 ilftf were behind them did the like, and fo confequently all the reft; In this manner through¬ 
 out the who'e length of the coard there were fix or feven Ranks or Files, and in each of 
 them above five hundred perfons. This Proceflion was environed with a great number of 
 Horfemen, that carryed ftaves with pikes at both ends , who riding all about, went crying 
 to the people, which wera infinite in number, that they fhould make way, and not inter¬ 
 rupt the Priefis in their prayers: Many times alfo they ftruck thofe fo rudely whom they 
 firft met withal, as they beat down three or four together, or hurt them grievoufly, flo man 
 daring to find fault with, or fo much as fpeak a word again!! it. In this order this marvelous 
 Procefiion paffed through above an hundred ftreets , which to that end were all adorned 
 with boughs of Palms and Myrtle, amongft the which were many Standards and Banners 
 of Silk planted j^Fhere were alfo many Tables fet up in divers places, where all that defired 
 it for Gods fake were admitted to eat of free-coft; yea and in other parts they had clothes 
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 and money given them ; T.iere like wife Enemies reconciled rhemfeives one to another, and 
 the rich men forgave them their Debts which were not able to pay. Inawbra, lo many 
 good works were done there, more properfor Ghriflians then for Gentiles, as I mull needs 
 conclude, that if they had been done wich Faith, and Baptilm, for the love of our Lord Je° 
 fus Chrifl, and without any mixture of the things of this World, afiuredly they would 
 have been acceptable to him. But alas ! the bed was wanting to them, and that both for 
 theirs and our fins. WhileA this Proccffion, together with the Chariots wherein the Idols 
 were, paffed along in this manner, and that with a dreadfull nolle of Drums, and other fuch 
 Indruments, behold where out of certain wooden Sheds cmde exprefly for the purpole, fix> 
 feven, eight, or ten men, all befmeared with odours, and wrapped up in filk, wearing Gold 
 Bracelets about their Wrifts, dart forth all at once, and room being indantly made them by 
 the People, after they had talured the Idol which was on the top of the Charior, they went 
 and laid themlelves down athwart on the ground, foihat the Wheels coming to go over 
 them crufh’d them all to pieces, which the Afliflants beholding, cried out aloud togechcr? 
 
 C 7hty Soul be with thwe : Preiently whereupon nine or ten oi the Prieds defc^no'ng from 
 the Chariot took up thefe blefled, or rather accurfed, creatures, chit lacrificed themlelves in 
 this fore, and putting the head, bowels, and all the other members lo crufhed in pieces into 
 great Bowls nude for that purpofe, they fliewed them to the people from tha highed pi, tot 
 the Chariot where the Idol dood, laying with a picifuli voice, CMiffable firmer*, fall ye to 
 fraying, that God may make you worthy to be a Saint, at this here is, who hath now ofe> ed 
 himfelf up as a fweet fmeUing Sacrifice. Whereunto all the people, prodrated on the ground, 
 anfwered with a feirfull noile, We hope that the God of a thoufand Gods will permit it to be fo. 
 In this manner many other of thefe poor Wretches lacrificed themfclves, to the number, as 
 we were told by certain Merchants worthy of credit, of hx hundred and more. After thele 
 followed other Martyrs of the Devil, whom they called Xixapordus, which facrificed them¬ 
 fclves before the faid Chariots,by mod mercildly flafhing themlelves wuh.fharpRafors, that 
 to behold them how they did it, one could not think but that they were altogether mfen- 
 Eble ; for they cut oft great gobbets of their flefh, and holding them on high at the end 
 of Arrows, as if they would (hoot them up to Heaven, they laid. That they made a Pre^ 
 Cent thereof to God for the Souls* of their Fathers , of their Wives, of their Children, or of 
 fuch an one, for whofe fake they did this wicked work, Now wheretoever this gobbet of flefh 
 chanced to fall, there ran fo much people to catch it up, as oftemirnes many were dined in 
 the prefs, for they held it as a very great Relick. In this fort thefe milerable Wretches dood 
 upon their feer, all bathed in their own bloud, without Nofes, without Ears, and without 
 any refemblance at all of a man, untill at length they fell down dark dead on the Earth* then 
 came the Grepos in all hafte down from the top of the Charior, and cutting off their heads, 
 Ihewed them to all the people, who kneeling on the ground, and lifting up t hem hands to 
 Heaven cried out with a loud voice, Let us, O Lord, hve to thdt time, wherein for thy fer- 
 vice we may do as this fame here hath done. There were others alfo whom the Devil drew 
 thither after another manner ; Thofe fame craving an Alms, faid, Give me an Alms for Gods 
 fah, or if thou dofi it not, I will kill my [elf. So that if they were not prcfently contented, 
 they would indantly cut their own throats with Rafors which they held in their hands, or 
 dab themfelves into the belly, and fo drop down dark dead * whereupon chc Grepos ran 
 fuddenly to them, and having cut off their beads, {hewed them, as before, to the people, 
 who reverenced them prodrated on the ground. We likewifc law fome, named ffucara- 
 mons men of a very ill look, clothed with Tygers skins, and carrying in their hands certain 
 Pots of Copper full of Excrements, and filthy corrupted Urine, the flench whereof was 
 i'o horrible and infupportable, as ic was not poffible for any nodr 1D0 endure it; Thefe cra¬ 
 ving an Alms of the people, fafd; Give me an Alms , and thdt infant/y, otherwife 1 will 
 eat ‘this Ordure which the Devil eats, and be fatter thee with it, thatfo thou may ft be accurfed 
 as he is. They no fooner uttered thefe wore?, but that all ran hadily to give them an Alms; 
 for if they ftaid never fo lictje, 'they ftraigheway let the Pot to their mouths, and taking a 
 great fup of that {linking fluff, they therewith all to bedafhed fuch as they pleafed ; in the 
 mean time all others that beheld them io drert, holding them accurfed, fell upon them, and 
 entreated them in fuch a ftrange fafhion, as the poor Wretches knew not which way to turn 
 themlelves • for there was not a man of the company that drove them not away with b ows, 
 and chat railed not at them, faying ; That they were accurfed for having been the cauje that 
 
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 this holy man had eaten of that beafily filth which the Devil feeds upon, and therefore was be• 
 come /linking before God,fo that he could neither go into Paradife } nor live amongft men . Be¬ 
 hold how firange the biindnefs of this people is, who otherwife have judgment and wit e- 
 nough. I will pafs by much ocher beafilinefs committed by them, which is fo far efloigned 
 from all reafon, astheyferve for a great motive unto us, to render thanks without ccafin® 
 unto God fer the infinite mercy and goodnefs that he fhews us, in giving us the light of true 
 Faith, for the laving of our Souls. 
 
 „ Of the 15 days that this Feafi was to laft, 9 being paft, all the people, which were there 
 affembled, feigning that the gluttonous Serpent of the Houfe of Smoke (who is their Luci¬ 
 fer, as I have laid elfewhere) was come for to Heal away the Afhes of them that were dead 
 in thel'e feveral Sacrifices, and fo to keep their Souls from going into Heaven, there arofe 
 among them lb great and dreadfull a noife, as words are not able to exprefs it; for to the 
 confuted voices that were heard from every part, there was adjoyned fuch a ringing of Bells 
 and B dins, beating of Drums, and winding of Horns, as it was not poHibic to hear one 
 another; and all this was done to fright away the Devil. Now thisnoile endured from one of 
 the clock in the afternoon till the next morning; and it is not to be believed what a world of 
 Lights and Torches were fpent that night, belides the infinite number of Fires that were 
 kindled every where ; the reafon hereof was, astheyfaid, For that Tinagoopoo, the God of 
 thoufand Gods , was in ejnefi of the gluttonous Serpent , for to kill him with a Sword which had 
 been given him from Heaven . Afcer the night had been palf thy? amidfi this infernal noife 
 and fumu t, aff<?on as it was day, the whole Hill, whereon the Temple was built, appeared 
 fiu! of wbice Banners, which the people beholding, they fell Hraighc to giving thanks unto 
 God, and to that end they profiraced themfelves on the ground with great demonfirations of 
 joy, and then begm to fend Prefenrs one to another, for the good news they received from 
 the PrieHs by the fhew of chofe white Banners, an affured fign that the gluttonous Serpent 
 was killed. So all the people, tranfported with incredible gladnefs, fell to going up the Hill, 
 whereon the Temple Hood, by four and twenty fevcral acceffes chic there were unto it, for 
 to give thanks unco the Idol, and chaunc his Praifes, for the Vi&ory he had the night paft 
 obtained over the gluccpnous Serpent, and cutting off his head: This throng of"people 
 continued three days, apd three nights; fo that during time it was not poffible tojbreak 
 through the prefs op cheway, but amth much pain. Now we Fmugals having little to do, 
 refolved ro go i hither alfo to fee rhole abules, wherefore we went to ask ieavc of rheEm- 
 balladour, but he denied us for the preienr, willing us to Hay till the next day, and that 
 then we fhould waic on him thither, foi in his laH iicknefs he had vowed to vifit it; hereac 
 we were very glad, bscaufe we thought that by this means "we fhould the more eafily fee 
 all that we defired: The morrow afcer, which was the third day of this Affembiy, the 
 greaceH croud being over, we went along with him to the Temple of Tinagoogoo, and at 
 length arrived, though with much ado, at the Hill whereon it was built. There we faw fix 
 very fair long fireets, all full of Scales hanging on great Rods of Brafs; In thefe Scales a 
 number of people weighed themfelves, as well for the accomplifhmenc of the Vows they 
 had made in their adverliues and fickpefs, asfor the remiffion of all the fins they had com- 
 m teed till thac prefen,e; and the weight which each of them laid in the other Scale was an- 
 fwerabje to the quality of the fault they had done: So they that found themfelves culpable 
 of Gluttony, and had not ail that year ufedany abfiinepce, weighed themfelves withHo- 
 ney, Sugar, Eggs, and Butter, which were chings not difpleafing to the PrieHs, from whom 
 they were to recewe Absolution; They thac were addi&ed to Senfuality weighed them- 
 lelves with Cotton-wool, Feathers, Cloth, Apparel, Wine, and fwecc Odours v becaufe. 
 lay tney, thoie things incite a man tothatfin: They thac were uncharitable to the poor 
 weighed themfelves with Coin of Copper, Tin, and Silver, or with pieces of Gold • The 
 Bothfull with Wood, Rice, Coals, Pork, and Fruit; and the envious, becaufe they reap no 
 u 2 ahgnins , the P rof P erit y of others, expiated their fin by confeffag it 
 
 , aiK , a dozen boxes on the ear to be given them in the memory and 
 £ rt ths - 5 wcIvc Mo ° ns of the y^r; As for the fin of Pride, it was fatisfied with 
 t h " r k 1 ^° 0rn ‘, S ’ Cc T duDg >. as being the bafeH of things ; And touching 
 ~ ,• h 4C jd ‘P?ken ill of their Neighbours, without asking them forgivenefs, they 
 
 ft * the ? CaIe ’ °, r cife a Ho §> a ? hee P> or a Stag: fo that infinite was 
 
 Uw ' 14 thoie wmch weighed themfelves in the Scales thac were in thofe fix 
 
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 ftreets, from whom the Priells received fo much Alms, as there were great piles of all forts 
 of things made up all along. No v for the poor that had nothing to give for the Remifii n 
 of their fins, they offered their own hair, which was prefently cut off by above an hundred 
 Priells, who for that effedt fate in order one by another on low ftools, with Sizzars in their 
 hands ; There alfo we faw great heaps of that hair, whereof other Grepos, which were a 
 thoufand at lead, and ranked alfo in order, made Wreathes, Treffes, Rings, and Bracelets, 
 which one or another boughc for to carry home to their houfes, even as our Pilgrims ufe to 
 do, that come fro n Santiago de Comp oft ella, or other fuch places. Our Embaftadou-, being 
 amazed at the fight of cneie thing?-, nquired further of the Priells concerning th'em, who be- 
 fides other particulars told him, that all chofe Alms, and other Offerings which were given 
 there during the fifteen cbys of this Affemb y, amounted to a great Revenue ; and that even 
 of the hair of the poor alone there was railed every year above an hundred thoufand Par- 
 danis of Gold, which are fourfcore and ten thoufand Ducatesof our Money ; whereby one 
 may judge what a world of Wealth was made of all the refi. After that the Embaffidour 
 bad fiaid fome time in,the fireets of the Scales, he puffed on through all the other quarters, 
 where were Comedies, Dancing, Wreff ing, and excellent Contorts of all kmdes of Mufick, 
 till at length we arrived at Tinagoogoo y buc with much labour and pain, becaufe the throng 
 was fo great, as none could hardly break through it. This Temple had but one Ifle, than 
 was very long and fpacidus, and fuli?6f great Wax lights, each of them having ten or ele¬ 
 ven Wieks in ir, fee qp all about in Silver Candlefiicks; there was alfo great Horeof Per¬ 
 fumes of Aloes and Benjamin: As for the Image of Tinagoogoo , it was placed in the 
 midd of ibe Temple upon a (lately Tribunal, in the form of an Altar, environed with a 
 numbei?of SilverCandleffickk, and a many of Children attired in Purple, which didno- 
 thin^’but cenfe it at the found of Inliruments of Mufick, whereon the Priells played rea- 
 fonable well. Before'this Idol danced, to the tune of the faid Inflrument, certain Ladies, 
 which' were'wonderfull fair, and richly clad, to whom the People prefented their Alms and 
 Offerings^ which the Priells received for them, and then laid them before the Tribunal of 
 the Idol with a great deal of ceremony and complement, ever and anonprollrating them- 
 felves on the ground. The Statue of this Monller was feven and twenty (pans high, having 
 the face of a Giant, the hair of a Negro, wide dillortednollrils, mighty great lips, and a very 
 fowre and ill-favoured countenance; He had in his hand an Hatchet in the form of a 
 Coopers Addis, but with a far longer handle: With this Addis, as the Priefls made the 
 People be ieve, this Monger the night before killed the gluttonous Serpent of the Houfe of 
 Smoke, for that he would havefioln away the Afkes of thofe that facrificed themfelves . There 
 alfo we law the Serpenc amidll the place before the Tribunal in the’form of an Adder, more 
 horrible to behold then the wic of man can imagine, and done fo to the life, as all that look¬ 
 ed on it trembled for fear; It was laid all along, with the head cut off, being eight fathom 
 long, and the neck of it as thick as a Bufhel, fo lively reprefented, that thoug i we knew 
 it to be an artificial thing, yet could we not chufe but be afraid of it. In the mean time all 
 the Aflifhnts ran thronging about ir, fome pricking it with the points of their Halberds, and 
 fome with their Daggers, everyone with railing lp eches, curling and calling ir, Proud , 
 prefumptuous accurfed, infernal Monfter, Pool of Damnation , envious agawfi Gods goodnef c, 
 hunger-flarved Dragon, in the midfl of the night, and many other names, which they de¬ 
 livered in fuch extraordinary terms, and fo fitted to the efR&s of this Serpent, as we could 
 not but admire them; That done, they put into Bafins which flood at the foot of the Idols 
 Tribunal a world of Alms, of Gold, Silver, Jewels, pieces of Silk, fine Callicoes, Money, 
 and a hundred other things in very great abundance. After we had feen all thefe things, we 
 continued following the Emb, ffidour, who went to fee the Grots of the Hermits or Peni¬ 
 tents, which were at the utmoll end of the Wood, all cut out of the hard Rock, and in 
 fuel} order, as one would have thought that Nature, rather then the hand of man, had labour¬ 
 ed in it. There were an hundred forty and two of them, in fome of the which remained 
 divers men, whom they held for Saints, and that did very great and auffere penance; They 
 in the firfl Grots wore long Robes like the Bonnes of Japan , and followed the Law of an 
 Idol, that had fometimes been a man, called Situmpor Michay , who during his life enjoyned 
 thofe of his Sedt to lead their lives in great aullerity, afluring them that the onely and true 
 way to gain Heaven, was tofubdue the fleffi, and that the more they laboured coaffli& them¬ 
 felves, the more liberally God would grant them all they could demand of him. They 
 
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 which'accompanicd us thither, told us, that they felddm eat any thing but Herbs boiled, a 
 few Beans of Aricot rolled, and witde fruit, which were provided for them by other Priefts, 
 who as the Purveyors of a Gloifter took care to furnifh thefe Penitents with fuch things as 
 were conformable to the Law whereof they made profeflion. After thefe we faw in a Croc 
 others of a Se& of one of their Saints, or rather of a Devil, named tAngtmactir j thefe li¬ 
 ved in deep holes, made in the midft of the Rock, according to the Rule of their wretched 
 Order, eating nothing but Flies, Ants, Scorpions, and Spiders, with the juice of a certain 
 Hero growing in abundance thereabout, much like to Sorrel j Thefe fpent their time in me¬ 
 ditating day and nighr, with their eyes lifted up to Heaven, and their hands clofed one within 
 anocher, for a tedimony that they defired nothing of this World, and in that manner died 
 like Beads * but they are accounted greater Saints then all the reft, and as fuch, after they are 
 dead, they burn them in fires, whereinto they call great quantities of moft precious Per¬ 
 fumes 5 The funeral pomp being celebrated with great ftate, and very rich offerings, they 
 have fumptuous Temples ere&ed unto them, thereby to draw the living to do as they had 
 done, for to obtain this vain-glory, which is all the recompence that the World gives them 
 for their excelfive penance. We likewife faw others of a Se& altogether diabolical, invent¬ 
 ed by a certain Glleu Mitraj ; Thefe have fundry Orders of Penance* and are not much dif¬ 
 ferent in their Opinions from the Abijfins of Ethiopia 5 Now chat their abftinence may be 
 the more agreeable to their Idol, fome of them eat nothing but filthy thick Spittings and 
 Snot, with Grafhoppers and Hens dung; others Clots of Bloud drawn from other men, with 
 bitter Fruits and Herbs brought to them from the Wood, by reafon whereof they live but a 
 fhort time, and have fo bad a look ^nd colour, as they fright thofe that behold them. I will 
 pafs by them of the Se& of Godomem , who fpend their whole life in crying day and night on 
 thofe mountains, Godomem, Godomem , ana defift not from it untill they fall down ftark 
 dead to the ground for want of breath : Neither will I fpeak of them which they call Taxi• 
 Uconsy who die more brutifhly then the reft ; for they (hut themfelves up in certain Grots 
 made of purpofe for it, that are very little and clofe, ftopped on all /ides, and then burning 
 green Thiftles’and Thorns in them, they choke themfelves with the fmoke thereof • Where¬ 
 by one may fee how by fuch rude and different ways of living thefe miferable creatures ren¬ 
 der themfelves the Devils Martyrs, who in reward thereof gives them everlafting Hell-fire 1 
 and verily it is a pitifull thing to behold the great pains which thefe Wretches take to loib 
 semfelves, and the little that we do to be faved. 
 

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 CHAP. LV1I. 
 
 I'/hit m fan m the conthm'mg of ear vrfage, tmil vet arrived at the 
 
 City »/ ri.T.pian. „ 
 
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 A Fcer we had feen all thefe things with wonder enough, we departed from thlsfagode of Se&ij 
 Tinagoogoo , and continued on our way for thirteen days together, at the end whereof 
 we arrived at two grpax,Towns, feituatedon ch&Banjbof, the river, juft oppofite the one a- 
 gainft the other, about the ^iftance of a i^ones caft, one of the which was called Manavedea t 
 and che other Si»gliapau-\ In,tbs midftof this fame river ^ which was there fomewhar nar¬ 
 row,, there was an lflincj by nature formed rouqd,-and in it a rock fix and thirty fathom high, 
 and aGrofs-bow (hoc broad ; upon this rock’was a Fort built, with nine Bulwarks and five % 
 Towers; without the rampire of the wall it was inylro.ned with,two rows of great.iron gat?s, 
 and from the Bulwarks to the other fide of the river ran a; huge Chain of iron, to keep vcffels 
 from parting along , f^that nothing could pofsibly-enter there rAt one of thefe two Towns* 
 which was called Sixgtlapxu, the Ambafl'idau: landed >| where he was exceedingly well en¬ 
 tertained by the Xemimhrum , orGovemour of it, who likewife furnifhed all his Train with 
 great ftpre of refrefbments.; The next .morning we left this place, accompanied with tvyemy * 
 Lmle? , yvnereiji t^^ vyire a, tfioufand. inert and better, and about evening we arrived at the 
 Cuftom-houfes of the Kingdom, which are two firong places, and from the one to the otheg . 
 tun five mighty great chajnsofLatten, all athwart the whole breadth of the river, lb chat no¬ 
 thing can. pais in and out without leave ; Hither came a man in a fWift Seroo to tnej Ambaf-? 
 ladour, fold hmt^ac he was.fP go afliore at Campalagro, which was one of the two 
 Caftles on the South-fide, for to fhew the Tetter which this King had fent by him tp theCff . 
 laminbjrk*^ ^ if written in the form that vyas required in fpeaking to him, as was 
 
 jfiWjS being come to land he was led 
 
 inm# gre^-^flj^wl^e^yere three men fee ac a table, with a great mapy Gentlemen , who 
 gay? him gpocl.enieitaidnp^t,, and demmdedof lutn the occafionof his coming thither, as 
 they^biit ^pevymc^jfeqg^ the Ambalfadour anfwered* > he came thuher, 
 
 an A be had a meJfage ro i deliver unto the 
 holy Calaminham concerning matters greatly importing his Bfiate. Then having made further 
 infwer tp otfer q^u^tians',^rhich Were puf to him in a way o£h ceremony by t he three principal 
 pe-fpns teat,were at the Table, he'^fiewed them the letter, wherein they corrected fome 
 vvordsjwhich were not c$ the fiyle wherewith they were accuftomed to fpeak to the Calamin¬ 
 ham .together with this letter the Ambaifadour fliewed chem the prefent which he had 
 brought for hLm,,wfierqat .they very myeft/vvondred, efpecially when they faw the Chair for an 
 Elephant qfgoLd and precious fiones> whrehin the judgement of diversjfcapidaries was worth 
 aboye fix hundred thoufand Ducates, beiides che other rich pieces that he carried him alfo, as 
 I have .before related. After had our di. patch from this firft Cufioimhoufe, we went tp 
 the other, wherea^e found more venerable men then the former,u ho with another new Ce¬ 
 remony looked likewife on the Letter, aad.cheprefent, and put to all the f^veral pajcels of 
 dt firings‘of wreathed carnation filk,'.wjtn .three Seals in , ; Lacre, which vyas as the con- 
 clufion of the receiving of the AnjJja^\^jfil ^-Q^minham. The lame day there cam$ 
 
 ^m^fromth^next J^yn^f -Quekor^ .£ej*c by the Goyernour of tpeKingdom to viiictfie 
 A.mbalTadour with a prelent of /rei t eflai^ems of Hefh* frpir, c and otbpr Tuch things after their 
 "manner,’ Duijng nine j%^thac. the.Ambafladpur fiaygd.in this, place h$ was abundantly futf . 
 nilhed with all things , nec.efjtary, botfim\^hi§ own Perion, and his Train, and withal was eny 
 pertained wi^f^ry fpqftscf hunting $adfi{hing,as allp with Feafis^accompiined with mu- 
 jjck and Comedies reprefented by very.fieaurrful' women,and richly attired; I n the mean time 
 ,vye Portugal? went, with the permjfsipn of the Ambafifadour, to fee certain things which they 
 tfi^Coi^ry had mijch roiifaendedunto as, namely very antique huilpipg?,rich andfanupr 
 xuous Tempkwery fait Gardens, Houfes and Cables that wete, all along the fide of. chis^ 
 yer ,.,made,a x fcer a firangp.falhion, well fortified, and pf great charge,ampngft the whish there 
 'was an tipfpuajf fofco lo.dge pilgrims in called LManicafaran, fignifying in .our tongue, The 
 Trifon if, fa fyds ,. tgfeji $as above a League in breadth* Here we faw twelve fireets, all 
 faulted in^yerjf^on? of chem^wo hundred and forty houfes, namely, fixfcore on 
 
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 each fide, which made in ail two thoufand,eighc hundred, and fourfcore, all full of pilgrim?, 
 who the whole year throughout came thither in pilgrimage from divers Countries; for,as they 
 hold, this pilgrimage ought to be of far greater merit rhen all others, becaufe that thefe Idols 
 imprifoned by Grangers have need of company. All thefe pilgrims, which, as they of the 
 Country fay, are all the year long without difeontinuing above fix thoufand, have meat given 
 them the whole time of their abode there, at the charge , and out of the revenue of the 
 houie: They are ferved by four thoufand Priefts of LManicafaran, who with many others re- 
 fide within the fame inclofure in lixfcore religious houfes, where there are alfo as many wo¬ 
 men thit ferve in like manner. The Temple of this Hofpital was very great, with three 
 Illes after the fafhion of ours , in the midft whereof was a remark able Chappel built round, 
 and inviromd with three very big Billifters of Latten ; within it there were fourfcore Idols 
 of men and women, befides many other little gods, that lay proftrated on the ground ; for 
 the fourfcore great Idols onely ftood upright, and were all tied together with chains of iron 5 
 As for the little ones, they were, as I faid,laid along on the pavement,as the children of thefe 
 greyer, and tied fix to fix by the middle with other fleighter chains : Moreover withouc the 
 Ballifters in two Files thefe ftoodtwo hundred, forty and four,Giants of brafs, fix and twen¬ 
 ty fpans high, with their Halberds and Clubs upon their fhoulders, as if they had been fee 
 there for the Guard of the captive gods. There was over-head upon iron rods, that traver- 
 fed ihe Ifles of the Temple, great ftore of Lamps hanging, having feven or eight Matches 
 apiece in them, in the fafhion of Candlefticks, like to them of the Indites, all varnifhed with¬ 
 out , as alfo the walls were, and every thing elfe that we faw there, in token of mourning, 
 by reafon of the captivicy of thefe gods. Being amazed as well at that which I have recount¬ 
 ed, as at many other things which 1 pafs over infilcnce, and not able to comprehend what 
 they meant by the imprifonment of thefe gods, we demanded the fignification of it of the 
 Priefts, whereumo one amongft them, that Teemed of more authority then the reft , made us 
 thisanfwer; Since 1 fee that being Strangers yon defire to learn of me that which I know ve~ 
 ry well, and which yon have never heard fpoken , nor read of in your Books y I will declare 
 the matter unto you as it pfi , according as it is truly delivered by our Hifiories. Know 
 then, that it is now feven thoufand^three hundred > and twenty Moons , which make fix km - 
 dred and ten years 9 after thefuppuiation of other Tfations , fince the time that an holy Ca- 
 laminham, named Xtxivarem Melentay, commanding over the c Monarchy of the fix and twen~ 
 ty Kingdoms of this Crown , waged wars with the Siamon , Emperour of the (^Mountains of 
 the Earth tnfomuch that there affembled , what on the one part and the otherythreefcore and 
 two Kings, ft bo puling t hem felves into the Fields fought fo cruel and bloody a battel , as 
 fit endured from an hour before day till nighty and there was flain on both fides fixteen Laque- 
 {ns of men, each of which makes and hundred thoufand ; At length the viftory remaining 
 to our Caiarmnham , jvitbout any more refiing alive of his Forces then two hundred and thir¬ 
 ty thoufana, he ruined in four moneths {face all the enemies Countries , with fuch a defirm 
 Him of people, as (if credit may be given to our Hifiories , o>* to what any other befides have 
 affured) there died fifty Laquefaas of per fans. This battel was fought in the firfi of the faid 
 feven thoufand , three hundred , and twenty t^Moons , in the renowned Field Vitau, where 
 Qjiay Nivuidft appeared to the Calarr.inham, fitting in a C I s air of woody who acquired unto 
 himfelf in this place a greater and more famotti Title of honour , then all the other gods of 
 the Mon. and Si unities; in regard whereof fo often as they that inhabit the earth defire to 
 make oath of things which pafs the belief of men % they ufe for the more authorising thereof to 
 fwetr by the holy Q; iay Nivandel, god of Battels of the field Vitau. Now in a great City 
 named Sarocacam , where five hundred thoufand perfons were flain , all thefe gods , which 
 here you fee before you, were made frifoners in dejpight of the Kings that believed in them y 
 and the Pnefls that ferved them with perfumes in their facrifices, Thus by reafon of fo 
 glorious a vdlory all thofe people became fubjett to us , and tributaries to the Crown of the 
 Cal 2 mm ham, who at this day holds the Scepter of this Monarchy, whereunto he was not 
 raifed but with much labour , and the fhedding of a world of blood , during the threefcore and 
 four rebellions made by the faid people fince that time until this prefent ; who notable to en¬ 
 dure the captivity of their gods , for that , to fay the truth, it is a mighty affront unto them , 
 they do ft ill in memory of Jo unhappy a fuccefs continue making great demonfir ations of for- 
 row f or it, renewing every year the vow they have made not to celebrate any Feafi , nor to 
 reyyce m any find of fort whatfoever , until they have provided for the deliverance of thefe 
 
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 Pr if oners ; which alfo is the caufe that ko Lamps are feen in their Temples , and that they are 
 refolvedto light up none during the captivity of their idols. Some ot us feeming to coubt 
 the verity hereof, becaule it leemed linage unco them, the Grepo furore that ic was moffc 
 true, and that alio there had been killed at iu' dry times,about the deliverance of thefe Gods, 
 whom there we Taw captive* abov,. three millions of men, belides thofe that fell in prece¬ 
 dent Battels; whereby one may clearly lee in what a fir nge manner the Devil keeps thefe 
 poor blinded Wretches iubje&.d unco him, and with how much abuie and extravagancy he 
 precipitates them into Hell. When >e had well o Served all the Hngularities of this Temple, 
 we vtenc to fee another, called ZJrpanefendoo; to fpe k of which I defire to be excufed, that I 
 may not be forced to treac of infamous anj abominable matters'- wherefore omittin° the 
 great abundance of Riches, and other things which we few there • it (hall iiffice me to°fay, 
 that this Temple is ierved by none but Women, who are all of them the Daughters of 
 Princes, and of the principal Lords of the Kingdom, which dedicate them from their infancy 
 to effer up their honour in facrifice there ; Now this filthy and fenfual Sacrifice is performed 
 with fo <freat charge, that many of them belfovv above ten thouland Due ces in ir, behdes the 
 Offerings which are made to this Idol Vrpanefendoo, to whom they facrifice their honour. 
 This Idol is in a Chappel that is round, and gilt all over; it is made of Silver, arid fet upon a 
 Tribunal in form of an Altar, environed over-head with a great number of Candlelit ks, 
 which are ^11 of Silver UkeWife, every light in them having fix Wieks : Round about this Tii- 
 bunal are many other Idols gilded over, of very comely and well-favoured Women, who with 
 their knees on the ground, and hands lifted up, adore this Idol; Thefe fame, as tile Priefis 
 told us, ate the holy Souls of certain young Ladies, which finished their days there to the great 
 honour of their Parents, who made more elleem of that then of all the King couldgive 
 them. They affured us, that the Revenue belonging to the Idoi was three hundred thousand 
 Ducates by the year, belides the Offerings and rich Ornaments of their abominable Sacrifices, 
 which was yet worth more. In this diabolical Temple were fhut up within many religious s 
 Houfes that w. law above five thoufane Women,being all of them old, and for the n oil pare 
 exceeding rich; fo that coming to die, they make a Donation of all their Wealth to rff Pagode ; 
 wherefore it is no marvel^ if it have the Revenue I fpoke of. From this place wc went to 
 fee the companies of lirangers, which came thither in pilgrmage in the manD.-r that I have 
 declared. Thefe Con panies were fotty and fx in number, every one of ah hundred, 
 2oo, 300 400, or 500 perfon*; nay, fomeof them were more, and were all lodged a ong 
 by the River, art n had been a Camp, Amfffi thefe Troops of Stringers we met by 
 chance with a Portugal Woman, wberear v»e wondred more then at all we hid feen before; 
 fo that deliring to kn >w ot her the rea on of lb Hrange an accident, fhe told us, with tears, 
 who Ihe was, what occafion bad brought her thither, and how fhe was at that infiant ihe Wife 
 of one of thofe Pilgrims, to whom fhe had been married three or four and twenty years i 
 whereunto (he further added, tha not daring to go and live amongll Chrilluns, becaule of 
 her fin, fhe continued (fill in her wickednefs, but that Ihe hoped God wou.dat length be 
 pleaied ro bring her into fome Country, where before Ihe ended her days, fhe m’gh repent 
 her 01 her life pall; and char although e found her m the company of people devoted to 
 the fervice of the Devil, yer (he left not for all that to be (fill a true Chrifiian: we remained 
 much amzed at folirange a Relation, and not a little forrowfull alio to fee and u derlland to 
 what a point of misfortune this poor Woman was reduerd, fo that ue told her our opinion, 
 and what we thoughr was fit for he r to do; whereupon fhe concluded to go along w 1 h*us to 
 Timplam , and fo to Pegu , and from thence to fet fail for C'oromandef there ro finifh h r cays 
 in the Ifland of St. Tome. Having vowed unto us to jio thus we quitted her, nor doubling 
 that fhe would lofe fo good an opportunity to retire her felf out of the Errours wherein (lie 
 was, and to refiore her felf to an efiatc wherein fhe might be laved, fi nee it had pleafed God 
 to permit her to meet with us in a Country fo tar difiant from that which fhe could hope for: 
 Howbeit fhe performed nothing, for we could never Tee nor hear of her afeerwaros, which 
 made us tc believe, that cither lomething had befallen her that kept her from coming to us; 
 or that through the ob unacy of her fins, fhe deferved not to make her profit of the grace 
 which our Lord had offered to her out of his infinite goodnefs and mercy. 
 
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 The Magnificent Reception of the King of Bramaa his Ambaffadour, at the 
 City of Tun pi am ; and that which paffed betwixt the 
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 N ine days after the King of Bramaa his Ambaffadour had repofed himfelf there by way 
 of ceremony,according to the faihion of the Country, for the more honour of his Am- 
 baflVe., one of the Governours of the City, called C a mpanogrtm, came to fetch him, ac¬ 
 companied with fouricore Seroos and Laulees, very well equipped, and full of lufty able men: 
 Throughout this Fleet they played on fo many barbarous & ill accorded Inftrumcnts,asBells, 
 CvmbalSjDrumSjand Sea-comets,thatthe din thereof coming to joyn with the none which 
 the Rowers made, terrified all thofe that heard it; and indeed one would havo thought it at 
 firfftobe fome Inchantmentjor to fay betcer,a Mufickof Hell,if there be any therei Amidft 
 thisftir we drew near to the City, where we arrived about noon 5 Being come to the firR 
 Key, that was named Campalarraia , we faw a great many men, both Horfe and Foot, all 
 richly accoutred, as alfo a number of fighting Elephants, very well furnifhed, hiving them 
 Chairs and tore-head pieces garniftied with Silver, and their warlike Panorcs fattened to their 
 teeth, which rendered them very terrible. The Ambaffadour was no fooner come on fhore, 
 but the Campanogrem took him by the hand,and falling on hi* knees prefented him to ano¬ 
 ther great min that attended for him at the Key in great pomp ; This fame was called Pa - 
 tedacan , one of thechiefeft of the Kingdom, as we were told; After he had with anew 
 complement of codrtefie received the Ambaffadour, he offered him an Elephant furnifhed 
 with a Chair and Harnefs of Gold 5 but whatioever the Mandarin could do to make the Am¬ 
 baffadour accept ot it, he could by no m >ans draw him thereunto j whereupon he caufed ano¬ 
 ther alrnoft as well furnifhed to be brought, and gave it to him. As for us nine ‘Portugal*, 
 and fifty or threetcorc Bramaas, they provided Horfes, on which we mounted: In this 
 manner we departed from that plac<^ having his Chariots before us full of men, that amidft 
 the acclamations of the people played upon divers kindes of I nftruments; namely, on Silver 
 Cymb Is, Bells, and Drums Thus we were conduced through many long Streets, whereof 
 nine were environed with Bailifiers of Lattin, and at the entrance into them, there were Ar¬ 
 ches very richly wrought, as alfo many Chapiters of Pillars gilt, and great Bells, which like 
 unto Clocks If ruck the hours, nay, the quarters of the hour of the Day, whereby the people 
 were ordinarily dire&ed. After that with much ado, by reafon of the great prefs of people 
 that was in the Streets, we were, come to the outward Court of the Calaminhan s Palace, 
 which was as long, or little lefs, as a Faulcons (hot, and broad proportionably thereunto, we 
 faw in it above fix thoufand Horfes,all trapped with Silver and Silk,and ihofe that were mount¬ 
 ed on them were armed with Corfiets of Lattin and Copper, Head-pieces of Silver, carrying 
 Enfigns in their hands of divers Colouts, and Targets at their Saddle-bows. The Com¬ 
 mander of thefe Troops was the Quietor of J ulfice, who is as the Superintendent o*ver all 
 the otherCivil and Criminal MiniRers, which is a Jurifdi&ion feparate by it felf,from whence 
 there is no Appeal. The Ambaffadour being come near unto him, who was alfo advanced 
 to receive him,and the two Governours, they all proilrated themfelves on the ground three 
 times, which is amongflehem a newkinde of complement, whereupon the Quietor fpake 
 not a word to the Ambaffadour, but onely laid his band on his head, and then gave him a 
 richS:ymitar that he wore by his fide, which the Ambaffadour accepted of very thankfully, 
 and kiffed it thrice; That done the Quietor fee the Ambaffadour on his right hand, and lea¬ 
 ving the two Mandarins a little behinde, they paffed along through two rows of Elephants* 
 which made a kinde of a Street of the length of the outward Courc,they being fifteen hundred 
 in number, ail lurniflaed with Cafiles, and rich Chairs of divers inventions, as alfo with a 
 great many of filk Banners, and gorgeous Coverings ; round about were a great Company of 
 Halberdiers,ana many ocher flhews of Greatnefs and Majefty,which made us believe that this 
 Prince was one of t r. inighcieff in the Country. When we were come to a great G*te,thac 
 Rood between two high To vers, two hundred men which guarded it no fooner faw the 
 Quietor, but they alt fell down on their knees. Through this Gate, we entered into another 
 very long outward Coujc,where the Kings fecond Guard was, compofed of a thoufand men, 
 
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 who were all in gilt Arms, their Sworus by their lides, and on their heads Helmets wrougbe 
 with Gold ac ' silver, wherein Huck gallanc Plumes of feveral colours. After ive had pal! 
 through the middle of ah this Guard we arrived at a great Hall, where there was a Aianda- 
 nm , Uncle ro the K mg, called the Monvagamu, a man of above l’cveniy yenrs of age, ac¬ 
 companied wi r h a g .a. number of Nobility, as alio with many Captains and Officers of the 
 K-ngdom; About mm were twelve little Boys richly clad,witb great Chains of Gold three 
 or four ti ms doublr about rheir necks, and each of them a Silver Mace upon his fhoulder : 
 A {Toon is the Amb jfadour v\as come near him, he couched him on the head with a Vemilce 
 that he held in : hand, Tnd behelcing him, May thy entrance, faidhe, into this Palace of 
 the Lord of the World be as agreeable to his eyes, as the Rain is to our Filde of Rice, for 
 fo [hall he gram thee all char thy King demands of him. From thence we went up an high 
 pair of Hairs, :nd sneered into a very long Room, wherein there were many great Lords, who 
 feeing the Monvagarm Hood up on their feec,ss acknowledging him for their SuperiourjOuc 
 of this Room ,\t entered into another, w ere there were 4 Altars, very well accommodated 
 with Idols of Silver;upon one of ihefe Altars we faw the Statue of a Woman as big as a Gi¬ 
 ant, being eighteen Spans high, and with her arms all abroad looking up to Heaven: This 
 Idol was of Silver, and her Hair of Gold,which was very long,and fpread over her fhoulder?; 
 There ilfo we faw a great Throne, encompaffed round about with thirty Giants of Brafs,wt o 
 had gilded Clubs upon their fhoulders,and faces as deformed as thofe they paint for the Devil. 
 From thisRcom we paH into a manner of a Gallery,adorned from the top to the bottom with 
 a number of little Tables of Ebony, inlayed wich Ivory, and full of mens heads, under every 
 one of the which the name of him* to whom it belonged was written in Letters of Gold 5 At 
 the end of this Gallery there were a dozen of Iron Rods gilt,whereon hung a great many Sil¬ 
 ver CandleHicks of great value,and a number of perfuming pans,from whencejbreathed forth 
 a moft excellent odour of Amber , and Calambuco , or Lignum Aloes, but fuch as we have 
 none in Chrifiendom. There on an Altar environed all about with three rows of BalliHers of 
 Silver,we faw thirteen Kings vifages of the fame Metall,with golden Mitres upon their heads, 
 and under each of them a dead mans head, and below many CandleHicks of Silver, with great 
 whiteWax lights in them,which were fnufFed ever and anon by llttLBoys,who accorded their 
 voices to thole of the Grepos that fung in form of a Letany,anfwering one another.! h cGrepos 
 told us that thofe thirteen dead mens heads which were under the vifages were the skulls 
 of rhirceen Calaminhans, which in times paH gained this Empire from certain Hrangers, cal¬ 
 led Rcparons , who by Arms had ufurped the fame upon them of the Country: As for the 
 other dead mens heads which we faw there, they were the skulls of fuch Commanders as by 
 their Heroick deeds had honourab y ended their days in helping to recover this Empire,in re¬ 
 gard whereof it was mofl reafon. ble,chat though death had deprived them of the recompence 
 which r' y h d merited by the’r n, yet their memory fhould not be abolifhed out of the 
 World. When w /et gone out of the Gallery, we proceeded on upon a great Bridge, 
 thac was in the form of Street 9 railed on either Tides wich BaliiHers of Lattin,and beautified 
 with a m ny of Arches curioufly wrought, upon which were Scutcheons of Arms, charged 
 with feveral devices of C lb, and the Crelt over them were Silver Globes, five fpans incir- 
 cumferences,aH ve y t itely nd majeHical to behold. At the end of this Bridge was another 
 building,the doors where of w r e found fhur,whereupon we knocked 4 times,they within not 
 deigning to infvver us,vvhuh is a ceremony o served by them in fuch occalions:At the length 
 after vve had tin a Bell 4 times more, as it were in haHe, out comes a Woman of about 50 
 years of age, accompanied with 6 little Gi richly actired, and Scymicars upon their {Boul¬ 
 ders garnifhed with Flowers wrought in Gok :TBs ancient Woman having demanded of the 
 Monvagarriu why he had rum; the Bell, and what he would have, he anlwered her with a 
 great deal of refpe&, 7 ».a he had there an Ambajfadour from the King ofRizm%z,thc Lord 
 of Tanguu, who was cornc rhiher to treat at the feet of the Calaminhan about certain mat¬ 
 ters much importing his frvice . By realon of the great Authority which this Woman was in 
 Ihe feemed little to regard ? his Anlwer, whereat we wondred much, becaufe he that lpake 
 to her was one of the chicfeH Lords of the K ngdom, and Uncle to the Calaminhan, as it 
 was faid;Neverrhelefs one of the 6 Girls that accompanied her,fpake thus in her behalf to 
 the Mohvagaruu, My Lord, may it pleafe your Greatnefs , to have a little patience till we 
 way know whether the time be fit for the fiffing of the foot of the Throne of this Lord of 
 fhe World, and advertifing him of the coming of this Stranger , and fo according to the 
 
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 grace which our Lord will jhew him therein , his heart may rejoyce , and we with him . 
 That faid, the Door was (hue again for the fpaceof three or tour .Credo's, and then thcjlix 
 Girls ca ne and opened it, but the ancient Woman that at firft came along wich them we 
 fiwnomore ; howbeit inhead of her there came a Boy of about nine years of age, richly 
 apparelled, and having on his head an Hurfangua of Gold, which is a kindeof Mitre, (but 
 that it is fomewhat more clofed ail about, and without any overture) he had alfo a Mace of 
 Gold, much like a Sceptre, which he carried upon his Ihoulder ; this fame, without making 
 much reckoning of the t^Monvagaruuy or of any of the other Lords there prefent, took 
 the Embafl'adour by thehand, and faid unto him, The news of thy arrival is come Unto the 
 feet of Binaigaa the Calaminhan, and Sceptre of the Kings that govern the Earth, and is fo 
 agreeable to his ears , that with a fmihng look„ he now fends for thee to give thee audience con¬ 
 cerning that which is defined of him by the King , whom he newly receives into the number of his 
 Brethren,with the love of the Son of his Entralsyhat fo he may remain powerfull and vitt or ions 
 over his Enemies: Thereupon he caufed him, together with the Kings Uncle, and the other 
 Governcurs that accompanied him, to come in, leaving all the reft without; theEmbalfa- 
 dour then feeirg none of his Train follow him, looked three or four times back, feeming by 
 his countenance to be fomewhat difcontenced, which the c jMonvagaruu perceiving, fpake 
 to the Queitor , who was a little behinde, that he fhould caufe the ltrangers to be let in, and 
 noneele; the Doors being then opened again, we Portugals began to go in with the Bra-* 
 mass ; but fuch a number of others 4 came chrufting in amongft us, as the Gentlemen Ufhers, 
 who were above twenty, had much ado to keep the Doors, ftriking many with Battoons 
 which they had in their hinds, and (of thofe) fomc that were perfons of quality, and yec 
 could they not therewith, neither with their cries, nor menaces, flop them all from enter¬ 
 ing: Thus being come in, we paft along through the midft of a great Garden, made 
 with fuch arc, and where appeared fo many goodly things, fo divers, and fo pleafing to the 
 eye, as words are not able to exprefs them: For rhere were there many Alleys environed 
 withBallifters of Silver, and many Arbors of extraordinary feent, which we were told 
 had fo much fympathy with the Moons of the year, that in all Seafons whatfoever they 
 bare Flowers and Fruits ; withail there was fuch abundance and variety of Rofes and other 
 Flowers, as almoft pafTcth belief. In the midft of this Garden we faw a great many young 
 Women, very fair, and well clad, whereof fome paft away their time in Dancing, and 
 others in P aying on fundry forts of Inftruments much after our manner, which they per¬ 
 formed with fo much harmony, as we were not a little delighred therewith: fome alfo be¬ 
 llowed themfelves in making of curious Needle-works and Gold-ftrings, fome in other 
 things, w hileft their Companions gathered Fruit to eat; and all this was done fo quietly, 
 and with fuch order and good behaviour, as made us admire ic. Ac our going out of this 
 Garden, where the < JMonvagaruu would needs have the EmbalTadour to ftay a while, that 
 he might there obferve fomething worthy to entertain his King with at his return to Pegu s 
 we went into a very great Antichamber, where many Commanders and Lords were fitting, 
 as aifo fome great Princes, who received the Embaffadour with new ceremonies, and com¬ 
 plements, and yet not one of them ftirred from his place 5 Through this Antichamber we 
 came to a Door, where there were fix Gentlemen lifters with Silver Maces, by which we 
 entered into another Room very richly furnifted : in this was the Cal*™inhan feated on a 
 moft majeftical Throne, encompstfed with three rows of Balliftersof Silver; At the foot 
 of the degrees of his Throne fate twelve Women that were exceeding beautiful!, and moft 
 richly apparelled, playing on divers forts of Inftruments, whereunto they accorded their 
 voices ; On the top of the Throne, and not far from his perfon, were twelve young Datn- 
 fels about nine or ten years old, all of them on their knees round about him, and carrying 
 Maces of G r Id in the faftiion of Sceptres* amongft them there was alfo another that 
 wood on her feet, and fanned him. Below, all along the whole length of the Room, were 
 a great many of o d men, wearing Mitres of Gold on their heads, and long Robes of 
 ^tan and Damask, curioufly embroidered, every one having Silver Maces on their fhoul- 
 oers, and ranked in order on cither fide againft the Walls: Over all the reft of the Room 
 werehtcing, upon rich Perf an Carpets, about two hundred young Ladies, as we could 
 guefs, that were wonderfull fair, and exceeding well-favoured. Thus did this Room, both 
 tor the marvellous ftru&ure of it, and for the excellent order that was obferved therein, re- 
 preienc-fo great and extraordinary a Majefty, as we heard the EmbalTadour fay afterwads, 
 
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 raking of ir, that if God would grant him the grace to return to Tegtt, he would never 
 fpeakof ic 10 he King, as well for fear of grieving him, as of being taken for a man that 
 reports tl ings which f em altogether incredible, 
 
 Affocn as the Emb*fl' dour was entered into the Room where the (dUmwbkn was, ac¬ 
 companied with the four Princes thac conduced him, he prodrated himtelf five times on 
 the ground, without to much as dar ng to behold the Calaminhan, infignof the great re- 
 fpe$ he carried to ards him, which the tJMonvagaruu perceiving, willed him to advance 
 forward; fo that being arrived near to the fird degree of his Throne, with his face (fill 
 fi nding downward, he ffid to the C alaminhan, with fo loud a voice as every one might 
 hear him ; The Clouds of the Air, which recreate the Fruits whereof we eat, have publijhed 
 over the whole Monarchy of the JVorld the great Majefiy of thy Power, which hath caufed 
 my King, defining to be honoured with thy amity, as with a rich Pearl, to fend me for tha r pirr- 
 fofe, and to tell thee from hiry, that thou fhalt much oblige him, if thm pie afeft to accept of 
 him for thy Brother, with the honourable obedience which he will always render to thee, tvs to 
 him that is the elder, as thou art : And for that end it is, that he f ends thee this Letter, which 
 is the Jewel of all his Freafure that he priz.es mofi, and wherein his eyes take more pleafure, 
 for the honour and contentment they receive by it, then being Lord of the Kings of Avaa, and 
 of all the precious Slones of the Mountain of Falent, of Jarir, and Pontau. Hereunto the 
 Calaminhan made him this Anfwer following, and that with a grave and fevere counte¬ 
 nance; For my part, l accept of this new Amity, thereby to give full fatisfaftion to thy King , 
 as to a Son newly born of my Intrals. Thtn began the Women to play on Inftruments of 
 Mufick, and fix of them danced with little Children for the fpace of three or four Credo* s ; 
 After tha>, other fix little Girls danced with fix of the olded men that were in the Room, 
 which fe med to us a very pret: y fantaftica'nefs. This Dance ended, there was a very fine 
 Comedy reprefented by twelve Ladies, exceeding beautifull, and gorgeoufly attired, where¬ 
 in appeared on the Stage a g^eat Sea-monficr,holding in his mouth the Daughter of a King, 
 whomth FUh fwallowed up before them all, which the twelve Ladies feeing went in all 
 hafle weeping to an Hermitage that was at the foot of a Mountain, from whence they re¬ 
 turned with an Hermit, who made earned fupplications to Quiay Patureu , God of the Sea, 
 that he would bring this Monder to the fhore, fo as they might come to bury the Damfei 
 according to her quality ; The Hermit was anfwered by Quiay Patureu, That the twelve 
 Ladies fhould change their lamentations and complaints into fo many Conforts of Mufick, 
 thac were agreeable to his ears, and he would then command the Sea to cad the Filh upon 
 the flrand to be done withall as they thought goodj whereupon comes on the Stage fix 
 little Boys with Wings and Crowns of Gold upon their beads, in the fame manner as wc 
 life to paint Angels, and naked all over, who falling on their knees before the Ladies, pre- 
 fented them with three Harps and three Viols, faying, that Quiay Patureu fent them thefe 
 Indrumcncs from the Heaven of the Moon, therewith to cad the Monder of the Sea into a 
 fleep, char fo they might have their defire on him 5 whereupon the twelve Ladies took them 
 out of the hands of the little Boys, and began to play upon them, tuning them unto their 
 voices with fo lamentable and fad a tone, and fuch abundance of tears, that it drew Come 
 from the eyes of divers Lords that were in the Room 5 Having continued their Mufick about 
 half a quarter of an hour, they faw the Monder coming out of the Sea, and by little and 
 little as it were adonilhed, making to the fhore where thefe fair Muficians were ; all which 
 was performed fo properly, and to the life, that the Aflidants could hardly imagine ic to 
 be a Fable, and a matter devifed for pleafure, but a very truth, befidesthe Scene was fee 
 forthwith a world of date and riches. Then one of the twelve Ladies drawing out a Po¬ 
 niard, all fet with precious dones, uhichfhe wore by her fide, ripped uptheFifb, and out 
 of the billy of it drew the Infanta alive, which prefently went and danced to the tune of 
 their Indruments, and fo went and kiffed th Calamtnhatis hand, who received her very 
 gracioufl , and made her fit down by him; It was faid that this young Lady was his 
 Niece, the Daughter of a Brother of his; as for the other twelve, they were all the Daugh¬ 
 ters of Princes, and of the greated Lords of the Country, whofe Fathers and Brothers 
 were there prefenc. There were alfo three or four Comedies more like this, a&ed by other 
 young Ladies of great quality, and fet forth with fo much pomp and magnificence, as more 
 could nor be defired . About evening the retired into another Room, accom- 
 
 panied with Women one!y 5 for all the reft they went along wich the ^Monvagaruu, who 
 
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 took theEmbaffadour by the hand, and led him back to the ourermofi Room of all, where 
 with many complements, after their manner, he took his leave of him, and fo committed 
 himtothe Oueitor, who firaighcway carried him to his Houle, where he lodged all the 
 while thac he was there, being two and thirty days, during which time he was leaded by 
 the principal Lords of the Court, in a fplendid and fumpiuous manner, and continually enter¬ 
 tained with fevenlfports of filhing, hunting, hawking, and crher fuch like recreations ; 
 As for us Portugal*, we took a lingular content in obferving, over all the Ciry and about it, 
 the excellent firu&ure of very fumptuous and magnificent Edifices, of (lately Pagodes or 
 Temples, and of Houfes adorned with goodly workmanlhip, and of inefiimable value. 
 Now amongll allthefe Buildings there was not in the whole City a more majellical one 
 then that which was dedicated to Quiay Pimpocau, who is The God of the Sicl^: In it 
 ferve continually a number of Priefis, apparelled in grey Gowns, who being of greater 
 knowledge chen all thcreft of the four and twenty Se&s of this Empire, do dillinguilh 
 them (elves from the others by certain yellow firings, which ferve them for Girdles • they 
 are aifobv the vulgar people in a fovereign degree of honour called, ordinarily, Perfrtt men. 
 The Emb'alfadour himfelf went five times to their Temple, as well to fee very marvellous 
 things, as to hear the Doftrine ©f thofe that preached there, of which, and of all that con¬ 
 cerns the extravagancies of their Religion, he brought a great Volume to the King of Bra - 
 maa, wnich was fo dealing to him, as he afterward commanded the faid Dodrioe to be 
 preached in all the Temples of that Kingdom, which is to this day exadly obferved in all 
 his(t3tes. Of this Book I brought a Tranflation into the Kingdom of ‘Portugal, which 
 a Florentine borrowed of me* and when I asked him for it again, he told me chit it was 
 lofi, hu : T found afterward that he had carried it to Florence, and orefentea it to the Duke 
 of Tufcany , who commanded it to be printed under this Title, The new Belief of the pa¬ 
 gans of the other end of the World. Upon a day as the Em.baffadour was calking in this Pa~ 
 gode with one of che Grepos , who profeffed much kindnefs unto him, (for indeed they are 
 all of a good nature* ealie of accefs, and communicating themfelves to {lingers freely 
 enough) be demanded of him, how long it was fince the Creation of the World,tor whether 
 thofe things had a beginning whic;i God doth (hew fo dearly to our eyes, fuch as the Night, 
 the Day, the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, and other Creatures that have neither Father nor 
 Mother, and of whom no reafon cin be rendered in Nature how they began: The Grepe 
 relying more on his own knowledge, then on the others th it were about him, made tb : $ An- 
 fwer to his Quefiion ; T^ature, faid he, had no other Creation but that which proceeded from 
 the will of the Creator, who in a certain time, determined in his divine Counfcl. manifefted 
 it to the Inhabitants of Heaven, created before by his fovereign power j and according to that 
 which is written thereof y it was fourfcore and two thoufand Moons, fince the Earth was dif- 
 covered from under the Waters, when as God created therein a very fair Garden, where he 
 placed the firfl Man, whom he named Adaa, together with his Wife Bazagon, them he exprefiy 
 commanded, for to reduce them under the yoke of obedience, that they Jhould not touch a cer¬ 
 tain Fruit of a Tree, called Hilsforan, for that he refervedthe fame for himfelf j and in cafe 
 they came to eat thereof, they jhould for a chaflifement of their fault prove the rigour of his 
 Juflice, whereof they and their defendants Jhould feel the dire ejfetts : This being known to 
 the great Lupantoo, who is the gluttonous Serpent of the profound Houfe of Smoke, and per¬ 
 ceiving how by this Commandment God would for mans obedience on Earth give him Hea^ 
 ven for <« Reward, he went to Adaa *s Wjfe and bid her eat of the Fruit, and that fhe Jhould 
 alfom ks her Husband eat thereof, for he ajfured her that in fo doing they Jhould both of them 
 be more excellent in knowledge then all other Creatures, and free from that heavy nature whereof 
 he hadco poj-d them, fothat in a moment their bodies Jhould mount to Heaven ♦ Then Baza- 
 gon hearing what L .1 pant 00 had faid unto her , was fo taken with a dr fire oj enjoying that 
 excellent Prerogative of Knowledge which he promifed her , as to attain thereunto Jhe eat of the 
 Fru ,’ j and made her Husband likewife to eat of it, whence it enfued, that they were both of 
 them by that unhappy Morfel fubjetted to the pains of Death, of Sorrow , and of Poverty. For 
 God feeing the cl- [obedience of thefe two firfl Creatures , made them feel the rigour of his Juflice , 
 by chafing them out of the Gar dm where he had placed them, and confirming the Punijhments 
 upon them wherewith he had threatned them before ; Wherefore Adaa, fearing lefi the divine 
 juflice Jhould proceed further a<jainfl him, gave himfelf up for a long time to continual tears • 
 whereupon God fent him word, that if he continued in his repentance he would forgive him 
 
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 hii (in. While!} the Grepo Was [peaking thus, the Amb-flm'our wondering at his Difcourfe, 
 which was a great novelty to him, Certainly, faid he unco him, l amweUaffured that the 
 King my Mafter hath never heard the like of this from the Priefts of our Temples, for they 
 in recompence *>f our workj propound no other thing tsnto us but the poffeffionof Riches in this 
 life ; for , as they lay, there is ho Guerdon after Deah , and that we muft fini(h our Lives as all 
 the Beafts of the Field do, except the Coves , which for a Reward of the Milk^they have given ta, 
 are converted into other Sea-cows, of the Apples ef whofe Lyes are Pearls engendered. At thefe 
 words the Grepo, puffed up with vanity for that which he had faid to rhe Amb (fadour; 
 Think not, aniwered he unto him, that there is any one m all this Country can let thee under - 
 ft and fo much as l have done, nnlefs it be one Gr ^po, who is as learned as my felf. ' With rhis 
 fume of preemption he chanced to caff his eye on us Por>ugdiS , that were behinde the Am- 
 bafladour,and as the Minilfer of the Devil,believing that we efteemed him as much as he did 
 himfelf. Verily , faid he unto us, I ftould be glad, that you, who as ft rangers have no know* 
 ledge of this Truth t would come more often to hear me, for to underftand how God hath ere - 
 ated all thefe things, and how much we are bound to Vim for the beneft of this Creation: Then 
 one of the company, named Gaffar de Meyrelez., (hewing himfelf therein more curious 
 then the rdf, after he had thanked the Grepo in the name of us all, he prayed him to give 
 him leave to ask him fomething which he defired to know of him; Whereunto the Grepo 
 inadeanfwer, that he was very well contented* For, added he, it is as well the property of 
 a wife and curious man to inquire for to learn , as of an ignorant to hear , and not be able to 
 anfwer: whereupon Gaffar de Meyrelez , demanded of him, whether God, after he h ad 
 created all thefe things whereof he l'pake, had not done fome heroicai Works unon Earth, 
 either by his Juftice, or by his Mercy. To this the Grepo replied, that he had , it being evi¬ 
 dent, that as long as Man lived m this Flefh, he could not chufe but commit Jins which would 
 render him pumfhable, nor God be without a great de fire to pardon him; and he added fur¬ 
 ther, 7 hat the fins of Men coming to be multiplied on Earth, God had overwhelmed the 
 whole World, by commanding the Clouds of Heaven to ram upon it, and to drown all living 
 things , except one juft Man with his Family , which God put into a great Houfe of Wood, 
 from whom ijfued afterwards all the Inhabitants of the Earth. The Portugal fgain in¬ 
 quired, wb oer God after this Chaftifemenc had not lent fome other ? God did not, an- 
 fwered he, fend any , which taken m general , was like unto that $ but it is true that in 
 particular he c aftifeth Kingdoms and People with Wars and other Scourges which he fend - 
 eth them , as we fee that he punifheth men with infinite offhftions, labours, difeafes , and above 
 all with extreme poverty 9 which is the la ft and extreme ft of all evils The Portugal on- 
 tinuing in hte Demands, defired him to cell him, whether he had any hope thu*. God 
 would one day be appealed, fo as Men might have entrance into Heaven 5 whereunto rhe 
 Grepo replied, 'That he knew nothing thereof , but that it was an evident thing , andtobe be¬ 
 lieved as an Article of Faith , that as God was an infinite good, fo he would have regard 
 to the good which Men did upon Earth for his fake . Hereupon he demanded of him, whe¬ 
 ther V had not heard it faid, or found writcen, That after all thofe things whereof he 
 l^pake, aM n was come into the World, who dying on the Crofs, had fatisfiedGod for all 
 Men; or whether there was not among them fome knowledge thereof: Whmeunrothe 
 Grepo aniwered, None can make fatisfaftion to God , but God himfelf, although there be in 
 the World holy and virtuous men. which fat is fie for them/elves, and for fome of their Friends, 
 fuch as the Gods of our Temples , as the Q repos do affure us 5 But to fay , that one alone 
 hath fat is fled for all, is a thing which we have never / sard of till now ; be fide s, on Earth, 
 which is fobafe of it felf , a Ruby of fo high a price cannot be engendred 1 It is true never- 
 thelefs , that m times paft fo much was certified to the Inhabitants of this Country by a man, 
 named] ohn, who came into this City , who was held for an holy man, having been the Dif- 
 ciple of another, called Tome Modeliar, the Servant of God, whom thofe of the Country 
 put to death becaufe he went publicity preaching , That God was made Man, and that he 
 had luffe'ed Death for Mankinde 5 which at fir ft wrought fuch a Fivifien amongft the People of 
 this Nation, as many believed it for a Truth, and others oppofed it, and formed a con¬ 
 trary party agawft it, incited thereunto by the Grepos of the Law of Quiay Figrau, (jod 
 of the Atcmes of the Sun’, fo that they reproved all that this Stranger faid, by reafon 
 whereof He wasbanifhed from this City to the Kingdom of Bramaa, and from thence for the 
 
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 fame caufe''to the Town of Digan, where he was put to death for preaching publickjy, as I 
 faid before, That God became Man, and was crucified for Men: Upon thefe fpeeches Gaffar 
 de Meyrelex, , and we, [aid, that this Min had preached nothing in this Country which was 
 not moft true ; wherewith the Grepo was fo taken, that he fell down on his knees before all 
 that were prefent, and lifting up bis hands and eyes to Heaven, he faid, with tears in his eyes. 
 Lord, of whofe beauty and goodnefs the Heavens and the Stars do give tefiim ony , / frith all my 
 heart do befeech thee to permit, that in our times the hour may come, wherein the People of the 
 other end of the World may give thee thanks for fo great a Grace. After that theie matters 
 were part in this manner, and many others befides, which well deferved to be related, if my 
 grofs wit were able to deferibe them, the Ambaffadour took his leave of the Grepo with many 
 complements and words of courtefie, whereof they are nothing fparing, as being much ac. 
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 An ample relation of the Empire of the Calammham, and of the Kingdoms of Peo U . and 
 Bnmaa, with the continuance of our voyage , and what we faw among the fame. 
 
 A A ZTfr A ka A ° m !J / ml at c , his Cit >’ of T, ' m ' 6M ’ where the Court then was.the - 
 ffniiv rI? b /"'/ 0r d ' mande . a an ■; n ' w “ to his A nbaffie, and it was immediately granted 
 h^him h C*gmigifm, mth whom he fpake hmifelf, and being gracioufly entertained 
 fni d Ft h,s dlf P atch “> ** Monuagaruu, that was, as I have here“o- 
 
 I rf S r f T m S ? efmng F*“ Kin ° dom > who § are him an anfwer ° n 
 7 ? b h h h " G * Uminh «™>™ aIl ° a Patent in exchange of that which the Kin* of 
 Brama* had ftnt him; withal he wrore him a Letter, that contained tbefe words, Thou 
 
 77 “L ? C CAr R 'i h '* hich . Go f ha,h * n,l 7 “tchaced into my body, and whofe fiefh it fitly 
 faflnedto me, as that of my brother, by that new league and amity now accorded unto the! 
 
 m f ‘ tethau Guimiam, Lord of the [even and twenty Crowns of the OMontaines of the 
 
 Tt'hdf’eT"* by “U Ul / UC gf'”‘- himwho M' '*» *»d ‘twenty moneths hath not 
 
 ! her m} t e if r A U s%“ "**? he lef ‘ me ' KCWr c °f” reafon of 
 
 7ul7hfT m I T l > F, h 7" en >°y ** th ‘ fi"* >>'« /‘he beam, of the 
 
 Sm.l have feet, thy Letter,datea thefifth chaveca of,he eighth moon of,he year, where™,a 
 
 1 have given the true credit of a brother,and asfuch a one I accept of the parly thou dofi pre¬ 
 fer me with,obliging my felf to render thee the two pafages of Savady frle that fothou 
 mayefe without fear of,he Siamon be King of Avaa, X Ju deflejl me lythy Letter: And 
 
 »!Z //fi, Cmd ‘“ 0 7’ wh "‘°f‘hy Ambajfador hath made feme men,Junto me, 1 will 
 make anfwer,hereunto by one of mme own, whom 1 will fend unto thee from hence e’re i, be 
 long,,o the end,,houmayefl have agoodfuccefs in,he pleafure thou feemefi to take in ma- 
 
 tilicZ/Z ,M H T m T / rhs . A, ? i>sffldor h *ving received this Letter,departed from 
 the Court the third day of ‘2fo V . in the year one thoufand five hundred forty and fix, ac- 
 
 wenfaionp'n'irh 7&T rf' '7'° fay c the eX P refs commandment of th Jcalaminham 
 him a . J Zln h u /" r ’l V u hcte the J ' 00k le,ve of hi <n. after they had made 
 wSrh°we hXd f ’ and f ated l f ? lrn Wlth dlvers § ifts - fi ut before I entreat of the way 
 
 I thinkTconl thlS d P e f " C 10 ^ ’ Where thi Kin S °f Bramaa was, 
 
 faw ^ rL^mrrfih ” e , ce m ry CO m,k “ a rela[ion of certain things which we 
 faw in this country .wherein I will acquit my felf as iuccinSly as I can, as I have done in 
 
 Lla°r rfaU that 1 h her r° n hi !f t°J“ n h P e [. 0 L fore * fot * 1 ^ould dilcourfe in parci- 
 cular of all chat 1 have feen, and of that which hath part as well in this Empire, as^in o- 
 
 m!L K anot d ?er vo| V me e f I r h h-'' e b; ' n durl ;’gmy painful voyages, I had then need to 
 ” 1 " otl e , r V0 ‘ L ' mt( =^‘gger then this lame, and be indued with a wit much above 
 that I have . howbeit chad may not wholly conceal things fo remarkable,I am content, 
 edto Hy fonauch thereof as my grofs (file will permic me to deliver. The Kn°do;n 
 of Pegu hath in circuit an hundred and forty leagues, is feituate on the South fide in fix- 
 teen degrees, and in the heart of the Country towards the rhomb of the Ealf it hath 
 an hundred & forty leagues,being mvironed all above with a high grouncf.named Pan- 
 gavtrau .where the Nation of the Bramaas doth inhabit, whofe count™ is fourfeore 
 Lagu.s broad,and two hundred long. This Monarchy was in times pad one foie King- 
 dom, which no wins not, but is divided into thirteen effaces of Sovereigns, who made 
 
 [ 0f ,C b y P?> , f oniI, S ^ K ' a S « a banquet which they made him in 
 
 the Cuy of Chaleu, as theit hillot.es relateof thefe thirteen effaces, there are eleven 
 
 old “T and f d \ Nations, who by a trait of another great country ate 
 pyned to a the bounds of th z Bramaas, where two great Emperors a ide, of which 
 the one is called the Siamon, and the ocher che Calaminham, who is the fame I purpoie 
 Tj According to report,the Empire of che Pence is above three hundred 
 
 ! »•; d i h, ' & a l tr, . ucbleD S th > and lc 15 M chat anciently it contained feven and 
 
 twenty Kingdoms, the inhabitants whereof fpake all one languagewithin this Em- 
 
 Pt oV UlVm l ¥S °c 0dlyClt, , e P exceedlB g'y"ell peopled, and abounding withal! 
 prov uons neceffary for mans life, as flefl,, frelh water, filh, corn, pulfe, rice partures 
 
 wY ad “u- 1 n‘ chlef ° f a “ thefe C,cies is where this Emperorfthe cj- 
 
 lam,nham,mth his Court commonly refides: it is feaced along aby a »reat river named 
 
 P“*J, and mvironed all about with two broad walls of earth, made up with ftrong Hone 
 
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 cn either fide, having very broad ditches, and at each gate a Cafile with high Towers, ; 
 certain Merchants affirmed unto us, that this City had within ic iome lour hundred 
 thouland fires; and albeit the houfes are for the moft part not above two ftories high, 
 yet in recompence thereof they are builc very (lately, and with great charge, cfpecially 
 thofe of the Nobility,and of the Merchants,oot fpeaking of the great Lords,which are 
 leparated by great inclofures, where are fpacious outward Courts, and at the encring 
 into Lhem arches after the manner of Cbm** as alfo gardens, and walks planted wun 
 trees,and great ponds,all very handfomely accommodated to the pleafures and delights 
 of this life,whereunto thefe people are very much inclined; We were altocertined, 
 thac both within the inclofure of the City, and a league about it, there were fix and 
 twenty hundred Pagodcs, fome of which, wherein we had been, were very fum.ptuous 
 and richjindeedffor the re!l)themoflof them were but petty houfes in the falhion of 
 Hermitages .* Thefe people follow four and twenty Se&s, all different one from ano¬ 
 ther, among!! the which there is fo great a confufion of errors, and diabolical precepts, 
 principally in that which concerns their bloody Sacrifices, as I abhor to fpeak of them ; 
 but the Idol which is moft in vogue among!! them,and moll frequented, is that whereof 
 I have already made mention,called Qu'uny Frigate,t hat is to fay y TheGodof the Moats of 
 the Sun; for it is in this falfe god that th tCalaminham believes, and does adore him, 
 and fo do all the.chiefeft Lords of the Kingdom, wherefore the Grepos, <JMcnigrepos y 
 & Talagrepos of this falfe god,are honored far more then all others, & held in the repu¬ 
 tation of holy perfonages; their fuperiours, who by an eminent tide are called Cabi~ 
 rondos, never know women,as they fay;but to content their bruitifh and fenfual appe¬ 
 tites they want not diabolical inventions,which are more worthy of tears then recital: 
 during the ordinary Fairs of this City,called by them Cha»duhos y vte faw all things there 
 that nature hath created, as iron, fteel, lead, tin, copper, lattin, falt-peter, brimfione, 
 oyl, vermillion, honey, wax, fugar,lacre,benjamin, divers forts of ftuffes and garments 
 offiik,pepper,ginger,cinamon,linnencloth,cotton wool, alum, borax, cornaines, 
 crifial, camphire, musk, ivory, callia ^rhubarbe, turbith, fcamony, azure, woad, in- 
 cenfe,cochcnel, faffron,myrrhe,rich porcelain, gold, filver, rubies, diamonds,£meraulds, 
 faphirs, and generally all ocher kind of things that can be named, and that info great a- 
 bundance, as it is not poflibie for me to fpeak chat which I have feen, and be believed ; 
 women there are ordinarily very white and fair, buc thac which mo!l commends them 
 is, that they are of a good nature, cha!l, charitable , and much inclined to compalfion ; 
 The Pridls of all thefe four and twenty Se£f s,whereof there are a very great number in 
 this Empire, are cloathed in yellow, like the ‘P^oollms of Pegu$ they have no money ei¬ 
 ther of gold or filver, but all their commerce is made with the weight of cates, cacis,ma- 
 az>es } and condenns. The Court of the Calaminham is very rich,the Nobility exceeding 
 gallant, and the revenue of the Lords and Princes very great, the King is feared and rc- 
 ipedfed in a marvellous maner; he hath in his Court many Commanders that are ftanr- 
 gers, unto whom he giveth great penfions, to fervehim for the fafety of his perfor; 
 our Amb fiador was afPred, r hat in the City of Timphan, where moll commonly the 
 Court is,there arc above threelcore rhoufand horfe, and ioooo Elephants : the gentle¬ 
 men of the country live very handfomely,and are ferved in velfels of fi ver,and fometimes 
 of gold, but as for the common people they ufe procelain and lattin ; in fummer they 
 arc apparelled in fattin, damask, and wrought taffeties, which come from Perfia, and 
 in winter in gowns fumed with marterns; there is no going to Law among!! them, nor 
 does any man enter into bond there;but if there be any difference among the common 
 people, certain Migiftrates, like to our Aldermen of Wards, do decide it; and if con¬ 
 tention happens to arife between perfons of an higher quality, then they fubmic to the 
 judgement of certain religious men, who are exprefly deputed for thac purpofe, and 
 iiom them matters pals on in manner of appeal to the Qucitor of Jufiice ', which is as 
 the iuper ntendent thereof, from whofe ientence there is no appeal, how grear and im« 
 po can. ioever the btifinefs be; The Monarchy of thefe feven and twenty Kingdoms 
 . u ! iCV:R hundred Provinces,that is fix and twenty in every Kingdom; and in the ca- 
 pu-m to wn ot etch of thofe Provinces doth a Governor prefide, all of them being of 
 -uc and equal power. Nowonevery new Moon,each Captain is bound to mufter the 
 iouidiers that are under hrs charge, which ordinarily are two rhoufand foot, five bun- 
 
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 dred horfe, ind fourfcore fighting Elephants, one of the which is called by thenariieof 
 the capital town of the fame Province; fo that if one fhould make a juft computation 
 of all thofe men of war that are in thofe feven hundred companies of thofe Provinces, 
 they would appear to be fevenceen hundred and fifty thoufand, whereof there are three 
 hundred and fifty thoufand horfe, and five and fifty thoufand Elephants ; for in regard 
 of the great number that there are of thofe beafts in that country, this Emperor liiles 
 himfelf,in his titles. Lord of the indomitable force of Elephants* The revenue which 
 the Monarch draws from his Royal Prerogatives, by them called, the price of the Scepter , 
 asalfo from his Mines, amounts to twenty millions of gold, without eomprifing there¬ 
 in che prefents which are given him by the Princes, Lords and Captains, and °a great 
 quantity of money that is diftributed amongft che men of war, according co every ones 
 meric, which are not of that account. In all this country, pearl, amber, and fait, are ve¬ 
 ry much efteemed of, becaufe they are things that come from the Sea, which is fardi- 
 ftam from the City of Timplan• buc of all ocher commodities chey have infinite ftore: 
 
 The Country of itfclf is very healthy, the air very good, and likewife the waters. When 
 they fneeze they uic to fay, the God of truth is three and one , whereby one may judge thac 
 thefe people have hadfome knowledge of the Chriftian Religion. 
 
 Being departed from the town of Bidor , we held on our courfe down the great river S&X 
 of Pituy , and che fame day *c night we went and lodged at a certain Abby ot che land 
 of Qutay far cm , che god of married folks ; this Abby is feared on the bank of the ri¬ 
 ver in a plain, where are a great many of trees planted, and very rich buildings, here the 
 Ambaffador was well entertained by the fabiuondo and the Talagrepos ; then continuing 
 our voyage feven days longer, we arrived at a town named Pavel , where we ftaid three 
 days, to furnifh our veflels with fome provifions which we needed * in this place the 
 Ambaflador bought divers knacks of China , and other commodities that were fold 
 there at a very cheap rate, as musk, fine porcelains,wrought filks, Ermins, and many 
 other forts of furs, which aremuch ufed in that country, becaufe it is extreme cold there 5 
 thefe vvares were brought thither by great troops of Elephants and Rhinocero’s trom 
 a certain far diftanc Province, as the Merchants told us, called Frioucaraniaa , beyond 
 the which, they faid, was a kind of people called Calogens and Funcaos^ tawny men, and 
 great Archers, having their feet like unto Oxen, buc hands like unto other men , fave 
 that they are exceeding hairy , they are naturally inclined to cruelty, and nave below at 
 the end of the backbone a lump of flefh as big as ones two fills, their dwelling is in 
 mountains that are very high and rough on fome parts, where there are mighty deep pit* 
 or caves, from whence are heard in winter nights moft dreadful cries, and doleful la¬ 
 mentations: We were told likewife, that not far from thefe people there were others, 
 called Calouhos , Timpates, and Bttgems , and a good way beyond them fome, named 
 Covens and c Magores, who feed on wild beafts which they catch in hunting, and eat taw, 
 as alfoon all kind of contagious creatures, as lizards, ferpents, and adders; they hunt 
 thofe wild beafts mounted on certain animals, as big as horfes, which have three horns 
 in the midft of their foreheads, with thick fliorc legs, and on the middle of their backs 
 a row of prickles, wherewith they prick when they are angry, and all the reft of the bo¬ 
 dy is like a great lizard; befides they have on their necks, inftead of hair, other prickles 
 far longer and bigger then thofe on their backs, and on the joynts of their (boulders 
 fhorc wings like to the fins of fifties, wherewith chey fly, as it were, leaping the length 
 of five or fix and twenty paces at a jump: Thefe creature* are called Banaz.es , upon 
 which thefe favage ride into the country of their enemies, with whom they hold conti¬ 
 nual war, and whereof fome pay them tribute in fait, which is the thing they make moft 
 accountof,', in regard of the need they have of ir, for that they are very far diftanc from 
 the Sea. We fpake alfo with other men called Bumioens , who live on high mountains, 
 where there are Mines of Alum and Lacre, and great ftore of wood ; of this Nation , we 
 faw a troop conducting of above two thoufand oxen, on whom they had put pack-lad¬ 
 dies, and fo made them to carry their Merchandife; thefe men were' very call, and had 
 eyes and beards like the Chinefes : We faw others likewife, that had reafonable long 
 beards * their faces full of freckles, and their ears and noftrils pierced, and in the holes 
 thereof fmall thredsof gold made into clafps, thefe were called Ginaphogaas , and the 
 Province whereof they were Natives Snrobofay , which within the mountains of the 
 
 A a I 2 Lanhes 
 
2,^4- The Travels, Vwages, and iAdventures 
 
 Lauhos are bounded with the lake of Chiammay , and are cloathed with hairy skins, go¬ 
 ing bare*foot and bare-headed, certain Merchants told us that thefe had great riches, 
 and thac all their traffique was in filver, whereof they had great (lore. We fpake aifo 
 with another fort of men, called Tuparoens, who are tawny* great eaters, and much ad- 
 di&ed to the pleafures of the fle(h ; thefe gave us bettef entertaibnljnt then all the reft, 
 and oftentimes feafted us. Now becaufe in a certain banquet, where we nine Portugals 
 were with the Ambaflidor, one of us, named Francifco Temuda, challenged them to 
 drink, they taking it for a great affront, caufed the feaft to continue the longer for the 
 recovery of their honour; but the Portugal fet on them fo luftily, twenty that they were 3 
 as he laid them all along drunk on the ground, himfelf remaining ftill fobe.r; when they 
 were out of their drink, the Sapiton, that was their Captain, and in whofe houfe the 
 feaft had been made, called bis company together, which were above three hundred, 
 and,whether the Portugal would or no, made him to mount upon an Elephant , and fo 
 lead him through all the town, accompanied with a great multitude of people that fol¬ 
 lowed him at the found of trumpets, drums, and other fuch inftrumencs; the Captain 
 himfelf, as aifo the Ambalfador, and the ;eft of us, together with all the Bramaas, march* 
 ing on foot after him, with boughs in our hands, and two men before him on horfe- 
 back , that rode crying, O all ye people , praife with gladnefs the beams which proceed 
 from the rmdjl of the Shu , who is the God that makes ottr rice to grow, for that you have lived 
 to fee a man fo holy, that knowing how to drinks better then all the men of the world , hath laid 
 on the ground twenty of the principal drinkers of our troop , to the end his renown may be day - 
 ly more and more augmented. Wnereunto all the crowd of people that accompanied 
 him, anfwered with fuch cries and acclamations, as the very noife thereof frighted all 
 thac heard ir. In this equipage they lead the ‘Portugal to the Ambaffadors houfe, where 
 they fet him down with a great deal of refped and many complements; then on their 
 knees they rendred him to the Ambaffador, ddiring him to have a care of him as of an 
 holy man, or the fon of fomc great King, for , faid they, it cannot be otherwife, feeing 
 God hath beftovved fo great a gift on him, as to know howto drink fo well. Whereup¬ 
 on having made a gathering for him , they got together above two hundred lingoes of 
 hlyer, which they gave him; and until the time that we departed he was continually 
 vinted by the inhabitants, whereof many prefenced him with rich pieces of (ilk, and o- 
 ther gifts, as if they had made an offering cbfomeSaint upon a folemn day of his invo¬ 
 cation. After thefe we faw other men that were very white, named ‘Pavilens , great 
 archers, and good horfemen, apparrelled in caffocks of (ilk like thofe of Japon, and that 
 carried their meat to their mouths with little flicks, after the manner of the Chinefes » 
 thefe fame told us thac their Country was called Binagorem , and that it was diftanc 
 from thence about two hundred leagues up the river; their merchandize was ftore of 
 gold in powder, like to that of CMeuancabo , of the Ifland of Sumatra , as aifo lacre, a- 
 loes, musk, tin, copper, fiik, and wax, which they exchanged for pepper, ginger, falr s 
 wine, and rice: the wives of thefe men which we faw there are very whire, of better con- 
 verfation then all the reft of thofe countrys, well natured, and exceeding charitable; 
 demanding of them what was their Law, and what was the divinity that they adored, 
 they anfvered us. That their gods were the Sun , the heaven, and the flars, for that 
 from them they received by an holy communication all the good that they enjoyed upon earth ; 
 and furthermore , that the foul of man was but a breath which ended in the death of the body , and 
 that afterwards tumbling up and down in the air fhe mingled her felf with the clouds , until 
 fuch time as coming to be diffolved into water , fhe died again upon the earth, as the body had 
 done before. I omit an infinite many of fuch excravagances which were told us, and thac 
 gave us good caufe to wonder at the blindnefs and confufion of thefe wretches, and doth aifo 
 oolige us to render thanks conrinually unto God for delivering us from thefe errors, and this 
 falie belief. Now from the diverfity of thefe unknown Nations, which we faw in thefe 
 parts, it is eafte to infer, that in this Monarchy of the world there are many countries yet un¬ 
 divided, and unknown to us. 
 
 \ CHAP. 
 
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CHAP. LX. 
 
 Om Arrival at Pe»u j rfith the death of the Roolim of Mounay. 
 
 /continuing our courfe from this town of Pavel, we came the next day to a villa®- 
 V_y called Lmcor, in vtroned about the (pace of three leagues, with a great number °of 
 trees of^^wh^hfrom this place is tranfpohed into the Kingdoms of /Wand 
 Siam. _ From thence we tailed for nine days together down that great river, all alon°ft 
 the which we faw many_ goodly towns; and then we arrived at another river, called 
 Ventrau, thorow the which we continued our voyage to Penauchin, the firP Borrou°h 
 of the Kingdome of Jaugumaa, where the Ambaifador regiPred his vetfds, and all that 
 were within them^ becaufe fuch was the cullom of the country. Being departed from 
 thenqe, we went an^j lay that night at th z%4uditens y which are two Pron^ places be~ 
 longing to the Prince of T ancanor . Five days after we came to a great town call >d 
 Magdalen ^hich iSthe country from whence lacre is brought to Martabano- the*Prince 
 thereof, during the time that we Payed there, (hewed the AmbaiTador a general mufter 
 of all the^men of war that he had levied ‘againli the King of the Lauhos t with whom b- 
 was at difference,'becaufe he had repudiated a daughter of his, which he had married 
 uhree years before^mtqi'dmg to efpoufe a gentlewoman by whom he had had a fon that 
 he had legitimated, and made choice of for heir of his Kingdom, thereby fruPratin- 
 bis Nephew Cty his daughter ) of his right. Parting on then thorow the Prei°ht o°i 
 MadHr, wherein we lailed five days, we arrived at a village called CMouchcll, thefirP 
 place of the Kingdom of c Pegu ,; there one Chalagonim y famous Pyrac, that went up 
 and down robbing in this place with thirty Ceroos, well equipped, and full of warlike 
 men, aflailed us one mghr, and fighting with us till it was almoP day, he handled us in 
 fuch fort, as it was the great grace of Cod that we efcaped out of his hands- neverche- 
 lefs it was not without the lofs of five of the twelve vetfels that we had, together with 
 an hundred and fourfcote of our men, whereof two were Portugals : The AmbaiTador 
 nimlelf had a etc on on£ of his arms, and two wounds befides with arrow (hot, which 
 had almoftcoP him his life; all of us likewife were cruelly hurt; and the Prefdnc which 
 the ialaminham fent to the King of Bramaa, being worth above an hundred thoufand 
 ducaces, was taken by the Pyrad, together with a great deal of rich merchandize thac 
 was in the ? vc whereof he had made himfelf maPer. In this fad equipage we ar¬ 
 rived three days after at the City of Martabano, from whence the AmbatfadSr wrote 
 the King a letter, wherein he rendred him an account of all that bad hapned to him 
 in his voyage, as alfo in hiSdifaPer. Whereupon the King fent prefently away a Fleet 
 of fixfcore Ceroos i with a number of choice men, amongP which were an hundred Par - 
 tngals ,m queP of this Pyrat. This Fleet having by good fortune difeovered him, found 
 that he had put on ftiore his thirty fews , wherewith he had affailed us, and was 
 with all his forces retired into a fortrefs, which was full of divers prizes that he had ta¬ 
 ken in feveral parts thereabout ,• our men immediately attacqued the place, and carried 
 * ic eafily at the very firP affault, only with the lofs of fome few Bramaas apd one Portu¬ 
 gal^ howbeit many were hurt with arrows, but they recovered in a ftiorc time withouc 
 the maiming of any one. As foon as^the fortrefs was gained, all thac were found with¬ 
 in it were put to the fword,noc fparing the life of any, but thac of che Pyrac, and fix. 
 fcore others of his company,which Were led alive to che King of Bramaa , who caufed 
 them to be caP to his Elephants, thac inPantly difmembred them. In the mean time che 
 taking of this fortrefs was fo advantagious to the 'Portugals thac were fent thither as 
 they returned from thence all very rich • and ic was thought that five or fix of them °oc 
 each of them the value of five and twenty, or thirty thoufand ducaces apiece, and thac 
 be which had leafi had che worth of two or three thoufand for his fhare: After that the 
 Ambaff.idor was cured at of the hurts which he had received in thefi°ht 
 
 he went dire&ly to the City of c P'egu x where, as I have declared, the King of BramJs 
 Court W2s at thac time; who being advertifedof his arrival, and of che letter which 
 he brought him from che C'alami»ham } ("whereby he accepted ofhisamity & allied him- 
 ielt with him)he fent the Chaumlgrem y his foPer-brother,and brother-in-law,to receive 
 bun; to which end tie fee forth, accompanied with all the Grandees of the Kingdom, 
 tnd four battalions of Prangers, amongP the which were a thoufand Portugal?com- 
 
 > manded 
 
 24.5 
 
 Scftolo 
 
The TnavelsfFoyagtsjmd sA dventures 
 
 manded by Antonio Ferreira born in Braguenca, a man of great undemanding, arid to 
 whom this King gave twelve thoufand ducates a year pen lion , befides the Presents 
 which he bellowed on him in partifcular, that came to little lefs. Hereupon the King of 
 J Sramaa feeing thac by this new league God had contented his dcfire, he refolved to 
 fhewhimfelf thankful for fo great a favour, wherefore he caufed great feafis to be 
 made among!! thefe people, and a number of Sacrifices to be offered in their Temples, 
 where there was no fpare of perfumes, and wherein ic was thought there were killed 
 above a thoufand fiags, cows, and hogs, which were be flowed for an alms among the 
 poor, befides many other works of charity , as the cloathing of five thoufand poor 
 folks,and impioying great fums of money in the releafing of a thoufand prifoncrs which 
 wer f e detained for debt. After thac thefe feafls had continued feven whole days toge¬ 
 ther, with a mofi ardent zeal, and at the incredible charge of the King, Lords, and peo¬ 
 ple, news came to the City of the death of the Aixquendoo, Roolim of CMounay, who 
 was as it were their Sovereign Bifhop, which caufed all rejoycings to ccafe in an in- 
 ftant, and every one to fall into mourning , with great exprcflions of forrow : The 
 Kinghimfelf retired, the fairs were given over, the windows, doors, and (hops were 
 fhut° up, fo that no liv’uig thing was feen to ftir in the City, withal their Temples and 
 Pagodes were full of penitents of all forts, who with inceffant (bedding of tears exer- 
 cifed fuch an excefs of repentance, as fome of them died therewith. In the mean time 
 the King departed away the fame night for to go to c A/Lomay^ which wals fome twenty 
 leagues from thence, for that he was neceflarily to be affiftant at this funeral pomp, ac¬ 
 cording to the ancient cuflom of the King^ of Fegn^ he arrived there the next day fome- 
 what lare, and then gave order for all that was neceffary for his funerals; fo that the next 
 day,every thing being in a readinefs , the body of the deccafed was about evening 
 brought from the place where he died, and laid on a Scaffold that was crewed in the 
 midftof a great place, hung all about with white velvet, and covered over head with 
 three clothes of Effate of gold and filver tinfel; in the middle of it jpras a Throne of 
 twelve fleps afeent unto ic,and an hearfe almoft like unto ours, fet forth with divers rich 
 works of gold and precious ftones ; round about hung a number of filver candlefticks, 
 and perfuming pots, wherein great quantities of fweec odours were burnt, by reafon of 
 tbe corruption of the body, which already began to have an ill favour. In this manner 
 they kept it all thac night, during the which was no little ado, and fuch a tumult of 
 cries and lamentations made by the people,as words are not able to exprefs ; for the on¬ 
 ly number of the Bicos t Grcpos 9 Afenigrepos, Talagreposfiuimons , and Racisms , who arc 
 the chicfefl of their Priefls, amounted to above thirty thoufand,thac were affembled to¬ 
 gether there, befides a world of others which came thither every hour. When divers in¬ 
 ventions of forrow, thac were well accommodated to the fubjeft of this mourning, 
 hid been fhewn, there came fome two hours after midnight, out of a Temple, called 
 Quiay Ftgratt , god of the Motes of the Sun, a proccflion, wherein were feen five hun¬ 
 dred little boys flark naked, and bound about the neck and the middle with cords, and 
 chains of iron; upon their heads they carried bundles of wood, and in their hands 
 knives,fioging to two Quires with a tonc,fo lamentable and fad, as few that heard them 
 could hardly foibear crying: In the meantime one among!! them went, faying in this 
 manner, 7 bon that art going to enjoy the contentments of heavenfeave m not prifoncrs in this 
 exile ; wherunto anot her quire anfwered,7o the end we may re joy ce with thee in thebltJJings 
 of the Lord: then continuing their fong in miner of a Lecany,they faid many other things 
 with the fame tone. After thar, when they were all fallen on their knees before the 
 Scaffold where the body lay, a Grepo, above an hundred years old, profirated on the 
 ground,with his hands lifted ur> on high,madc a fpeech to him in the name of thefe lit¬ 
 tle boys; whereunto another Grepo , who was near the hearfe, as if he had fpoken in the 
 perfon of the deceafed,came toanfwer chus,S/Wf it hath p/eafed God by his holy will to 
 form me of earth fit hath pleafed him alfo to refolve me into earth J recommend unto you } mj 
 children , the fear of that hourjwherein the hand of the Lord fkallput ns into the balance of 
 his juft ice 3 whereupon all the re!! with a great cry replied in this for i^May stpleafe the 
 mofi Almighty high Lord that reigns mthe Sun, to have no regard to our works jhat fo we 
 may be delivered from the pains of death : Thefe little boys being retired, there came o- 
 thers about the age of ten or eleven years,apparrelled in white Satcin robes,with chains 
 
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 fu L go^ on their fcer,an a about their necks many rich jewels and pearls: After they had 
 with much ceremony done a great deal of reverence to the dead body , they WC ni and 
 flounced naked fcymitars which they bad m their hands all about the hearfe, as if they 
 
 Z U if Iheh7r iy f r T h I ay,n | * lou °7 atheeaccttrfed * thouth ‘U- 
 
 L ° f whe ? e dp ”£ mth a P er P"»*l ^without making an end of dy- 
 
 pay, without making an end al/o of pay mg th rigor on* juftice of the Lord 4 . 
 ^zj.Tnisiaid,tbey withdrew,as it they would (hew that by this action they had left the 
 body of the deceafed exempt from the power of the dive!, which befisged it before 
 In the p.ace or thefe fame came in fix and twenty of their principal Talaarepos, bfin" 
 fourfcore years old ana upwards, apparelled in robes of violet coloured camask Ynd 
 carrying filver cenfers in cheir hands, before whom, for the greater gracin'* of the n 
 marched twelve gentlemen Ulhers with Maces of Jhe fame metal ^ ^ Son as thife 
 1 iiv-its had cen.ed the hearfe four leveral times with many ceremonies, they all profira- 
 
 t ed k h i? fe r VeS WIC L 1 J eir ,^ Ces 0n the g f0und ; a Qd cben one of them began ro fay as if 
 he had ipoken to the dead man, If the clouds of heaven were able to tell our nrief unto the 
 
 bsajrs oj use field, they would for fake their pa/lure for to help us to wail' thy'death, and the 
 great extremity waemnto we are reduced:-or elfe they would befeech thee. Lordgo imbarque 
 ** With mo t ‘h* deadly houfe, where thou feefi not us, becaufe we are not worthy of fa 
 great a favor; but that all this people may be comforted in thee before the tomb (hall hide thy 
 U\7 "L 9 *? **" ^h*res of earth,the peaceable joy]and fweet contentment of 
 
 PtlTu b i “ l aW & d ° Ht °f the heAV y "herein the obfcurdles of the 
 
 M h doth wrap us and that we miferable wretches may be pelted to imitate thee,& follow 
 
 thj fleps, for to behold thee m the joyful houfe of the Sun at the lafe gaff of our lives. To 
 the:e words chc peopfe,having made a very dreadful cry, anfwered Incontinently, The 
 Lord grant us this grace. Then the twelve gentlemen Ulhers that carried the Maces,°o- 
 mg on ‘oore to, make way phorow the prefs, though with much ado, becaufe the peo¬ 
 ple Would no: withdraw, there came forth of an houfe on the right fide of the Scaffold 
 four and twenty little boys richly apparelled , with chains of gold and pretious hones 
 about then necks, who playing after their manner on divers inflruments of mufick, and 
 falling down on their knees in t V vo ranks before the hearfe, they continued playin- on 
 tnur mflrumencs, to the tune whereof there were only two of them that fung / where- 
 unto five others anfvyered from time to time in fuch a doleful manner, as made all the 
 -Til ams Ihed abundance of tears, yea fome of them were fo fenfible of it, as they 
 t ° uI i, not f°t^ear plucking off their hair, and knocking their heads againlf the fleps of 
 t e Tiirone wnerc the hearfe flood. During this and many other ceremonies there per¬ 
 formed, fix young gentlemen G«/wAacrificed chemfelves, by drinking out of a -olden 
 cup a certain yellow liquor, fo venemous, that before they had mad/an end of their 
 draught,they fell down flark dead on the ground; this action of theirs brought thefe 
 Martyrs of the devil into the number of their Saints, fo as they were envied^by every 
 one for it, and prefently their bodies were parried with a folemn procelfion to be 
 burnt in a great fire, that was made of Sanders, Aloes, and Benjamin , where they were 
 quickly reduced unto allies. The next morning the Scaffold Was difgarniflved of all the 
 ncitefl pieces about it, anef the hcarfe^buc the cloches of efface, the hangings & banners ’ 
 as alfo many other moveables of great worth were not flirred, and foV/ich divers cere¬ 
 monies, fearful cries and lamentations, and a flrange noife of feveral forts, of inflru- 
 mencs, chey fet fi.e on cue Scaffold, and all that was upon ir, anointing ic ofeen with o« 
 donferous liquors, and confedtions of great price. Tims was the body confumed to a- 
 mes in a very fhqrt time; but whilfl it was burning, the King and all the Grandees of 
 his Court whicn were then prefenc, cafl in by way of alms many pieces-old, pre¬ 
 tious hones, jewels, and chains of pearl of exceeding greac value ; all which fo ill 
 imp. oyed were inflandy coqiumed by the fire, together with the body and bones of 
 tm- wretched dead man,fo as we were certainly informed afterw ard, chat this funeral 
 pomp eoh r ove an lumcreJ thousand ducats, befid.s the garments which the Kin* 
 ? nd the Grandees of the corncrey gave to thirty choufand Prieflsthat were afliflin-at 
 it, wherein was employed an incredible quantity of fluffs of feveral forts, wicnefslhe 
 PortH Z*:S who mightily profited by fo lucky an occafion , becaufe they fold ar what 
 pri.e they would luai as tney broughtfio.n Bengal*, for which chey were paid in lin¬ 
 goes of gold and filver. ; CHAP, 
 
 Hi 
 
The ¥ravels,Foy ages,and 4 /dventures 
 
 CHAP. L XI. 
 
 The el eft ion of the new Roolim of Mounay, the grand. Talagrepo ofthefe 
 
 Gentiles of the Kingdom of Pegu. 
 
 T He next day between feven and eight in the morning, which was the time when 
 the alhes of the deceafed began to be cold,the King and all the great Lords of the 
 Court came unto the place where the body had been burnt, marching all in order after 
 the manner of a (lately proceflion, and affilied by all the Grepos, amongft whom there 
 were an hundred and thirty with (ilver centers , and fourteen with mitres of gold on 
 their heads; they were apparelled in long robes of yellow fattin; as for all the reft , to 
 the number of ten thoufand, they were cloathed with taffeta of the fame colour, and 
 with a kind of turphfs of fine linnen, which was not done without a very great charge, 
 by reafon of the number of them. Being arrived at the place where the Roolim had 
 been burnt, after fome ceremonies performed, as is ufual with them, according to the 
 time and fenfe chat every one had of it, a Talagrepo of the Bramaa Nation> and Uncle 
 . to the King, as Brother to his Father, whom the people held for the ableft of them all, 
 having been chofen to preach that day, went up into the Pulpit for that effed : The be¬ 
 ginning of his Sermon was an Elegy touching the defundfr, whofe life he commended 
 with many fpeeches that made for bis purpofe, wherein he grew fo earned and hot, as 
 turning himfelf to the King with tears in his eyes, and lifting up his voice fomewhac 
 louder, to the end he might hear him the better, he faid unto him,Ifthe Kings in thefe 
 times wherein we live do conflder how little a time they have to live, and with what rigor of 
 juflice they fhall be chafiifed by the Almighty hand of the mofi high God for the crimes of 
 their tyrannical lives , pojfibly it would be better for them to feed in the open fields like brttit 
 beaftsythen to be fo abfolate in their will,and to ufe it with fo little reafon , even as to be cruel 
 to the good, and flack, in punijhing the wicked, whom by their fovereign power they have put 
 into greatnefs and authority *,and truly they are much to be lament edywhofe good fortune hath 
 raifed them up to an eflate fo dangerous, as is that of Kings at this day, by reafon of the in - 
 folence and liberty wherein they continually live, without fo much as the leafi apprehenfion of 
 any fear or fhame. But you mufi know, O ye blinded of the worldy that God hath made you 
 Kings to ufe clemency towards Wf«, to give them audience, to content, to chaflife them y but 
 not to kill them tyrannically : Nevsrtbclefs, O ye bad Kings ,w the condition w hereunto you 
 are raifedyou oppofe your felves to the nature which God hath induedyou with,and take up¬ 
 on you many other different forms , in apparelling your felves every hour with fome % fuch li¬ 
 very as feems befi unto you, to the end you may be to the one very blood fuckers, that incef- 
 fantly fuck, from them their goods and their lives, never leaving them fo long as they have 
 one drop of blood in their veins ; and to others you are dreadful roaring Lions, who to give a 
 mask.and a colour to your ambition and avarice ,cauf ? fufremc Laws of death to be publifhed 
 for the leafi faults, and all for to confifcate other mens goods, which is the main end of your 
 pretentions. Contrarily ,if there be any that you love,and unto whom you , or the world, or 1 
 know not what,have given the name of grandees,^# are fo negligent in chafhfmg their proud 
 humors, and fo prodigal in enriching them with the fpoils and undoing of the poor,whom you 
 have left naked, and even flayed to the very quick 1 us you cannot doubt but that they will one 
 day accufe you before God for all thefe things % when you will have no excufeto makj;fo that 
 there will be nothing left you but 4 dreadful confufton to trouble you , and to put you into an 
 horrible diforder. To thefe he added fo many other remonftrances in favour of the poor 
 fubjeds, cried out fo mainly, and fhed fo many tears in their behalf,as the King remain#, 
 ed almoft befides himfe f,snd was touched fo nearly therewith, that he inftamly called 
 Braz,agaran , the Governor of Tegu, unco him, and commanded him vvichouc all delay 
 to difmifs all the Deputies of the Provinces of the Kingdom, whom he had caufedco 
 be aftembled in the Town of Cofmin , for to demand of them a great fum of money, 
 th;t he might fet upon the Kingdom of Savady, on which he had newly refolved to 
 make war. Withal he fware publike!y on the allies of the defun& , that during his 
 reign he would never charge his fubjeds with imports,nor would make them to ferve by 
 force,as he had formerly done ; yea, and that for the future he would have a naoft fpeci- 
 al care to hear the poor, and to do them juftice againft the mifdemeanours of the great 
 ones, conformable to the merit of every one, together with many other things very 
 
Of Ferdinand Mendel^ Tint o', 
 
 juft tnd good, which might well ferve for a Ieffon to us that are Chriftiin* This Sermn* 
 
 SeadS: a b s t v S :* t .et to ? up one °? his 
 
 '„,f, ‘ h *$■ J ‘ he :mh > there they were put into a (haUSv* »rave with¬ 
 er,,, thenwuinvironeH«h° f f °■‘i?the late Roolim, commanded.This 
 D 1 then was mvironed about with three iron graces, and with two of fiber, and one 
 
 of latten, and upon three iron rods that croffed the whole bredth of the Chappe I hun' 
 feventy and two lamps of fiber, namely, four and twenty on each of themallof oreaf 
 value, and fattened together with great fiber chains. Furthermore, there” ete pbeed a 
 bout the fteps, whereby one defeended into the grave, thirty and fix little perfuming 
 pots, with Benjamin, Aloes, and other confeff ions, wherein was great flore of Amber- 
 greece ; all which was not fimflied till it was almoll night, by reafon of the many cere- 
 
 v?Wrht U /h d,n k' 5 f T r k- l i al that day ,0D 8 th =y freed an infinite number of birds 
 which had been broughc thither in above an hundred cages 5 thefe Gentiles being of the 
 
 fedo^ofthislifeTnd h ‘“j' 1 * °r d ?* , ? sd P erfons > which before rimes had paf- 
 
 the dv Of hrir dHi, d ha “ Ic were in che bodies of rhofe birds, till 
 
 e day of their deliverance fhould come, at which time they were in all liberty to ac- 
 
 £ r?^^ toul ° f c the “- The life rheydid with a great many of little fif£ 
 which had been trinfpocced thither alfo in certain Vetfells full of water ; fo that to fen 
 them at lioerty, they call them into the river with another new ceremony, to the end 
 th,>L mi M h f- fe i V V he r U ofb ™ whole allies were then buried: There was alfo broughc 
 th.r h werl Sr n &. 0 f V k nir °“ a ? d C0 ?l' which diflributedas an alms to all the poor 
 
 and mher P fl hTf ber k’k Where0fthe numb - r WJS » Irno ft infinite. Thefe ceremonies, 
 and other fuch like which were performed in this aftion being finilhed, the King inre- 
 
 for m lX^ e * r , n 'f h L Kt,r r d ‘"'c his ^ uarter > where he had caufed tents to be pitched 
 
 the Affemhlv h Ur i hM !f r 8 f* ofm ' > “ rn,n g ; the like did all the great ones, fo that all 
 K l ^ withdrew. The next morning as foon as it was day, the 
 
 fhould! * ° cu° C u I j 1 n d J tbac a '^ P er f ons °f what condition foever they were, 
 
 p? u i d S? 1 )?*’? of dettb dlflod g? f P eedi| y ouc of the Ifland.and that they which were 
 
 Tr« e h d rn their cures, With this penalty, in cafe ofcon- 
 
 V outTt a hrifia„H e8 " ded T k he,r dlgnity - Whereu P°° *'I the Priefls went prefent- 
 b out of the Ifland, ninety of them excepted, who were deputed fot theeleaion of 
 
 him that was to fucceed in the place of the defuna. Thefe fame then affembled in the 
 houfe o(Gmtifaro to acquit themfebes of their charge j and for that in the twofirft 
 dayes, which was the term limited to make this eleaicn , it could not fucceed by reafon 
 ot the divert try of opinions, and great contrariety that was found amongft them 
 which were to give their votes, the King thought fit, that out of thofe deputed ninety 
 there fhould nine be chofen, who alone (hould make theeleaion. This refolution be¬ 
 ing taken, thefe nine continued five dayes, and as many nights, together, in continual! 
 prayer; in the mean time a world of offerings wete made,and alms given 5 a great num- 
 ber of poor people were alio eloathed, and tables prepared, where all men that would 
 might cat of free coft ; and ail this was accompanied with Proceflions in every quarter. 
 At laft thefe nine being agreed in conformity of votes,elected for Roolim one Aianicha 
 CMouch*n y who at that time was t Capiendo, or Prelate, in the Town of Digam, of a 
 Pagodcy called Quia) Figrauy that is to fay, god of the atomes of the Sun , of whom I 
 have oftentimes tpoken ; he was a man of about threescore and eight years of |oe, ac- 
 counted atnongft them for an holy perfonage, very knowing in the Cuftoms and^Laws 
 of thole Sects of the Gentiles , and above a 1 exceeding charitable to the poor: With 
 this election the King and all the great ones of the Court remained very well fatisfied : 
 
 1 he King then fpeedily difparched away the Chaumigrem his fofter-brother, to whom 
 xie gave thereupon the title of Coutalanhaa, which fignifies, the Kings brother, to the 
 end he might be the more honourably qualified,with an hundred LauleM, wherein was 
 the Flower of all the Bramau Nobility, together witlnhe nine Eledors, for to go and 
 fetch him which had been newly chofen to the dignity of Roolim ? And having brought 
 
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 him nine dayes after with a great deal of refpeft and honour to a place called Tagalaa, 
 fome five leagues from the Ifle of Mon-nay, the King met him with all the great men of 
 the Court, befides a world of other people, and above two thoufand veflells with 
 oars.When he was come in this equipage where the new Roolim was,he proftrated him- 
 felf before him, and killing the gronnd three times, O thou holy pearl, faid he unto him, 
 which art in the midft of the Sun^ breathe forth upon me by an agreeable inspiration of the 
 Lord of uncreated power, that / may not dread upon earth the irfupportable yoke of mine ene¬ 
 mies. At thefe words the new Roolim putting forth his hand to raife him from the 
 ground, fpake thus unto him/ Labour ,my Son , that thy works may bepleafng to God , and I 
 will pray for thee without ceafing. Hereupon the King riling up, the Roolim made him fit 
 do vn by him, and ftroaked him three times with his hand on his head, Which the fang 
 took for the greateft honour he could do him* then having faid fomething unto him 
 which we could not hear, for that we were a little too far off, he blowed three times 
 on the Kings head,whilclt he was on his knees again before him, and all the people laid 
 flat on the eatth. This done, he parted from that place amidft the applaufes that were 
 given him from all parts, and the found of bells and inftruments of mufick, and im- 
 barqued himfelf in the Wings Laulea, where he wasfeatedina rich chair of gold, fee 
 with precious ftones, and the King at his feet, which was aifo taken for agreac honour 
 done him by the Roolim * round about, and a little diftanc from him, were twelve little 
 boys attired in yellow fattin, with fcarfes of filver Tinfell, golden Maces, and Scepters 
 in their hands. All along the fides of the veffe!, inftead of Mariners, flood the Lords 
 of the Kingdom with gilt oars by them; and as well in the Poop as the Prow were 
 two Quires of young firiplings, apparelled in carnation fattin, and having divers forts 
 of inftruments in their b *;sds, to the tune whereof they fung the praifes of God. Some 
 of our company ohfervec 1 , that one of their fongs faid thus ; Children of a pure heart, 
 praife this admirable and divine Lord for as for me being a fmner l am not worthy to do it ; 
 and if that too be not permitted unto you , let your eys weep before his feet, that fo you may 
 render your felves agreeable unto him. In the fame manner they fung many other fongs 
 to the tune of their inftruments, and with fo much ardor and zeal, as if they had been 
 Chriflians, it would have been able to have ftirred up. the devotion of them that heard 
 them. After that the Roolim was in this fumptuous fort arrived at the City of Marta- 
 banoft did not go to Land, as it had been refoived, becaufe it was night, for it was not 
 lawful for him at any hand :o touch the ground with his feet, in regard of the great 
 dignity of his perfon, but flayed cill the next morning, at which time the King difim- 
 barqued him firfl of all upon his own fhoulders, and fo too did the Princes and °reat 
 Lords of the Kingdom carry him alternatively to the Pagode of Quiay Ponuedea , as 
 being the greateft and moft fumptuous of the whole City, in the midft whereof was a 
 Theater richly fet forth of yellow fattin, which is the livery of that foverein dignity. 
 There, out of a new ceremony, being laid all along upon a little bed of gold he made as 
 though he were dead, and then at the found of a bell which gave three roles, the Bonz.es 
 proftrated themfelves all with their faces on the ground for thcfpaceof half an hour, 
 during which time,? all the afliftants, fora fign of fadnefs, held their hands before their 
 eys,in faying aloud, Lord recall this thy fervant to a new life,to the end we may have one to 
 pray for us. Inftantly thereupon they took him from thence, and put him into a Tomb 
 adorned with the fame livery, then chanting out certain, I know not what, very forrow- 
 ful words with tears in their eys, they left him, after they had furrounded the Temple 
 thrice, m a grave made exprefly for thatpurpofe, covered over with a cloth of black 
 vc!\er, and invironed abouc with dead mens heads. This done, they faid certain prayers 
 after their manner, weeping,which very much moved the King; and then all the throng 
 of people that mad^ a ftrange noyfe,being commanded to iilence,they gave three coles 
 ivith a great bell, for a fign to all the reft of the bells in the City to anfwer them, as 
 they did wirh fo horrible and dreadfull a din, that the earth even trembled therewith: 
 
 , ter the ceafing of this noyfe, two Talagrepos , men of great reputation amongft 
 t em,and very well verfed in their Laws, went up into two Pulpits, prepared exprefly 
 them, and that were hung with rich Turky Carpets, where they entertained their 
 Auditors with the fubjea: of this ceremony, and gave them the explication of every 
 mg,makmg an ample relation unco them of the life and death of the deceafed Roolim , 
 
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 and of the election of this lame ; together with the excellent qualities with which he 
 was indued for to be railed to lo high a charge whereunto he was called by a particular 
 grace of God 5 to this they added many other things wherewith the people were ex¬ 
 ceedingly latisfied and contented • then the lame bell having toiled three times more, 
 the two Pnelis delcended irotn their Pulpits, which together with all their furniture 
 were presently burned with another new kind of ceremony, whereof I will forbear 
 here making a relation, becaufe it feems uoneceflfiry to me to lofe time in thefe fuper- 
 fluities, having faid but too much already thereof. After a'.l things were peaceable and 
 quiet, and that for the ipace of five or fix Credoes nothing had been fpoken, there ap¬ 
 peared coming from the next Temple, which was about a flight ("hot off, a very rich and 
 fumptuous Proc fiion of little children, attired all in white taffeta, for a mark of their 
 innocency and purenels $ they had about their necks a number of jewells,chains of gold 
 upon their legs in form of bracelets, whi e wax lights in their hands, and upon their 
 heaos bonnets imbroydered with filk and gold,and let with Pearls, Rubies, and Saphifs $ 
 in the middle of this Proceffion was a rich Canopy of cloth of gold, which twelve of 
 thole little children cirried, invironed roundabout with perfuming pans and confers 
 of filveq, from whence breathed forth excellent odors moll pleafing to the feent .the fe 
 little children played on divers infirumencs of mulick, and went on finging praires to 
 God, and praying him to refufeitate this defun& to a new life* When they were arrived 
 at the place where the Roolim lay, they drew to the fhnne, and taking away theiloth 
 wherewith it was covered, there came out of it a little child, which could not be above 
 three or four \ ears old, and although he was naked, yet was not his nakednefs feenj be*, 
 caule he was all covered over with gold and precous liones, and appeared in the lam® 
 fafhion as we are accuftomed to paint Angelis; he had alfo golden wings, and a very 
 rich Crown upon his head: When as he was come from out the fh inc, the Aflifiants 
 being profiled on the ground, fell to faying aloud, with a voice that made thofe to 
 tremble Wiich heard them, Thou, Angel of God,fent from heaven for our falvation , fray 
 form when thou ret urneft thither again. The King went intfantly to this child, and ha¬ 
 ving raken him in his arms with a great deal of refpedf, and a flrange ceremony, as if he 
 would fhew that he was not worthy to touch him, in regard he was an Angel ent from 
 heaven, he let him on the brink of the grave, where after the child had taken away the 
 cloth of black ydvet that covered him , whileft all were on their knees, with their 
 hands and eys lift up to heaven, he laid aloud, as if he had fpoken to him, Thou which 
 baft been conceived mfm, amldfi the tnlfery and filthinefs ofthefiefh, God commands thee 
 by me y who am the leaf of his fervants , that thou do rejufeitate to a new life which may be 
 agreeable unto himyalwayes dreading the chaftifement of his mighty hand, to the end that at 
 the laft gaff of thy life thou may eft not (tumble like the children of the worldand that from 
 this place where thou art extended ftark^deadythou do rife upprefentlyy becaufe it hath been 
 fo decreed by thegreateft of the great eft in the Temple of the earth, and come after me, and 
 tome after me, and come after me. The King thereupon took this child again in his arms, 
 and then the Roolim rifing up in the grave where he was, as it were anmed with this vi- 
 fion, fell on his knees before the child whom the King held,and faid, / accept of this new 
 grace from the hand oft the Lor d t conformably to that which thou haft told me from him,ob - 
 liging my felf to be even till death an example of humility, and the leaft of all his , to the end 
 the toads of the earth may not lofe themfelves in the abundance of the world. This faid, the 
 child rid himfelf again out of the Kings arms, and going directly to the grave, he lent 
 the Roolim his hand to help him out of it. Now he was fcarce come forth, whenas they 
 gave five tolcs with a Bell, which was a fign for all the peop e to profirate themfelves 
 on the ground the fecond time, faying, Bleffed be thou , O Lord , for fo great a grace $ 
 whereupon all the bells in the City began to ring , and all the Ordnance that were on 
 the land to fhoot off, as alfo thofe of above two thoufand vcffells thac rode at Anchor 
 in the Port, from whence proceeded fo Grange a noife, as was moft infupporuble to 
 
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 Jn what manner the Roolim was conducted to the JJle of Mounay , and 
 
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 T He new Roolim was condu&ed from char place in a chair of gold exceeding rich] 
 and fee with Precious Stones , which the principal Lords of the Kingdom carried 
 upon their fhoulders ; the King in the mean time marched on foot before him, bearing 
 a rich Scymitar upright in his hand. In this equipage he accompanied him to his Palace, 
 which was gorgeoufly furn.fhed, and where he was lodged three dayes ; during which 
 time the preparations necefftry for his entry was made in the Hie of Mounay. Now 
 whileft he abode in the City of CMartabano 9 there were many forts of inventions of 
 great charge made by the Princes, Lords, and Inhabitants; In two of thofe flails the 
 King himfelf was prefent in perfon, with a moft fumptuous entertainment, which I 
 fhali not deferibe, becaufe, to fay the truth,I do not know how it did pafs. The day be¬ 
 ing artived wherein the new Roolim -,who is (as I have already deferibed) their Sovereign 
 High Pried, was to make his entry into the Ifle of Mounay , the whole Fleet of Seroos, 
 fangoasy Lauleaiy and fuch other veffelis of divers fores which were upon the river, to 
 the number of two thoufand and better,were ranked in two files, fome a league and half 
 in length,being the fpace between the City & the Ifland;fo that of all thofe veffels joy- 
 ned together was formed a ftreet, the faired that poffibfy could be feen; for every veflel 
 was covered with boughs full of fcveral dainty fruits , together with all kind of flowers, 
 Tangets, Standards, and Banners of Silk, each one driving in emulation of another to 
 gain cheir pretended ] ubilee, and a plenary indulgence and absolution of all the robbe¬ 
 ries they had formerly committed, without being fubje& to the reftitution of any thing 
 whatfoever. This they did alio to be abiolved from an infinite of other abufes of their 
 abhomirrSie lives, which 1 pafs by in dlence, as a matter unfit for devout ears, but con¬ 
 formable to their diabolical Sefts , and the damnable intentions of thofe which have 
 infticuted themjfor their whole manner of living is nothing but diffolutenefs and exceffe 
 in the lafcivioufnefs of the flefh ; as in like manner are all other infidells,and arch-here- 
 tiques. In the Rooitms company there were noc above thirty Lauleasy who were reple- 
 mfhed with a great number of the Nobility 5 as for him he was in a rich Serooy feated in 
 a Throne of diver, under a cloth of State of cloth of gold, and the King at bis feet, as 
 not being worthy to flt in a more eminent place ; round about him were thirty children 
 on their knees attired in Crimfon Sarcin , with diver Maces on their fhoulders, and 
 twelve Handing on their feet cloatbed with white Damask, having cenfers in their 
 hands, from whence breathed forth moft delicate perfumes. In the refl of the (hipping 
 followed two hundred of the moft honourable Talagrepos , fuch as Archbifhops and o- 
 ther Prelates may be amongft us, in the number of whom were alfo dx or feven young 
 Princes, all the Sons of Kii:gs,comprehended. Now becaufe thefe veflells were fo full 
 of people as one could not row, they had dfteen Lauleasy or little Skjffesy wherein the 
 Supream religious men of thofe nine Se&s did row, to bring them the fooner to land. 
 In this equipage, and in this order,the new Roolim parced from the City of Martabano 
 two hours before day, and continued his courfe amidft thefe Veffelis, which made, as I 
 have delivered,a kind of ftreetjand forafmuch as it was not yet day, there were a great 
 number of Lanterns ot different fafhionsplaced amongft the boughs. As foon as he be¬ 
 gin to fet forth , a Cannon was fhoc off three times, at which dgn there was fuch 
 a noyfe of Bells, and great Ordnance, as alfo of divers fores of very ftrange Inftruments 
 in* ^.rmingled with the cries and acclamations of the people, as one would have thought 
 * u heaven and Earth would have come together. When he w*s arrived at the Kay, 
 where he was to land, he was received with a folemn Proceflionof certain religious 
 men , hat live in fohtary phces,& are called MenigrepoSy which are like to the Capuchins 
 m France, whom t he; Gentiles infinitely refpedt, by reafon of their manner of living; 
 tor according to the rme which they obferve, they ufe more abftinence by far then all 
 £ a ; Thefe fame), being fome fix or feven tboufand in number, were all bare foot, 
 an c oathed with biack Mar, to fhew their contempt of the world: upon their heads 
 
 li lTl 0 *? j u, L Is and bone ? of dead men, and great cords about their necks, having 
 r i^s dawbed over with dirr, and a writing hanging upon them which contained 
 
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 »-rh?h i f h , RmUm ’ who received ibem very affably, thd produced themi'dves 
 
 cWef<^!nino^h VVn i t0 t^ Sr0un t’ snd afc ' r ths Y had continued fo feme time, ihe 
 lllhJ f hc - m J°r klns ° n t^RooUm-, Map it pleafe bimfiid he ,from whofe hand 
 than h*fi newly received fo gre*, * buffing *s to be the Head of *11 on the ,*r,h , to render 
 the, fo good and fo hot) *m*» that all thy work) m», be *t ple*f,ng unto him, as the inno. 
 cency of children which hold their peace when the mother gives them the dag. WhereUKO 
 
 l ' “ 1 ° reJ u n °y‘ 3 01 confuled v0;ce *5 ‘Permit, O Lord Almighty, 
 
 g, ma ? be f°- Pj ^ in » ° n thci ?> accompanied with chis Procellion, which th, Km« 
 tor the greater honour governed himiclf , together with fome of the principal perfon- 
 
 C , l d UnC j 0 hltn /? r . that pujpofe , he went dirediy to the place where 
 the dead Roohm lay buried, and being arrived at his Tomb he fell down fLc with his 
 race upon ir, tnen having flied a great many tears, he laid with a fad and doleful voice, 
 as it he had ipoken to the deceafed , May it pleafe him, who reigns in the beauty of the 
 Stars,to make me deferve the honour to be thy Slave,to the end that in the houfe of the Suit, 
 were now thou rear eat efi thy [elf,l may ferve at a broom to thy feet,for fo fhati i be made a 
 Diamond of jo high a price, as the world, and all the riches thereof together, (hall not be able 
 to ecjuall the valueof it: whereunto ihcGrepos anfwered , God grant it. Thereupon ta¬ 
 king a pair ot B :ads which had belonged to the deceafed, and tnat was upon the Tomb, 
 he puc it about his neck a_s a rehque of great worth, giving as an Aims, fix Lamps of 
 lilyer, two Cenfers, and fix or feven pieces of violet coloured Damask. This done, he 
 renred unto his Palace, accompanied (fill with the King, the Princes, and great Lords 
 ot the Kl ngdom ; as alfo with the Priefis that were there afliltant, from whom he ore- 
 fently rid himfelt, and then from out of the window he threw down upon the Aff-m- 
 bl X h ? ndfuI ! s 0 j R^e, as amongft the Papifts they ufe to caft holy Water, which all the 
 people received upon their knees, with their hands lifted up. This Ceremony ended, 
 which laded very neer three hours,they gave three coles with a Bell, upon which Signal 
 the Roohm retired for altogether , and 1b did the Veffells, tnd they that came in them, 
 wherein all that day was wholly beftcJWed. About evening the King took his leave of 
 the Roohm, and returned to the City, making dire&ly the next morning towards Pe¬ 
 gu, winch was fome eighteen leagues from thence, where he arrived the day following 
 two hours within mghr, without making any entry or (hew, to teftifie the extream 
 w ^ s ln ^ death of the lace Roolim y whom(ic wasfaid,) he greatly af» 
 
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 T Wo and twenty dayes after the King of Bramaa arrived at the City of ‘Tegu, he 
 perceived by the Letrer which his Ambaffidour brought him from the CaUminham . # 
 that he bad concluded the League with him againft the Siamon 3 yet in regard the fealon 
 was not fit for him, either to commence that war, or to afliail the Kingdom of Avaa4 
 as hedefired, he refolved to fend his Fofier.brother, unto whom, as I have already de¬ 
 clared, he had given the title of lawfull Brother, to the fiegc of Savady, which was 
 fome hundred and thirr Leagues from thence to the North-Eaft. Having Tumbled an 
 Army then of an hundred and fifty thoufand men,amongtt whom were thirty thoufand 
 Grangers of divers Nations, and five thoufand fighting Elephants, befides three thou- 
 fand others that carried the baggage, and the viftualls ; the Chaumigremdt parted from 
 *Pegu with a Fleet of thirteen hundred rowing Veffeils, the fifteenth of rhe monech of 
 March. Fourteen dayes after he arrived in the fight of Savady; and having cafi Anchor 
 neer to a great Plain, called Gumpalaor y he arrived there fix dayes in attending the five 
 thoufand Elephants which were to come to him by land,which were no fooner arrived, 
 but he began to befiege the Town 5 fo that having begirt it round, he affaulced it three 
 times in the open day, and retreated ftill with very great lofs, as well in regard of the 
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 people were at in planting their ladders againft the walls, by reafon of their bad fcicua- 
 tion, which was all of Slate ; whereupon confulting with his Commanders about what 
 he (hould do, they were all of opinion to have it battered with the Canon on the 
 weakefifide, untill that by the overthrow of fome part of the wall, a breach might be 
 made, whereby they might enter with more eafe and lcfs danger. This relolution was 
 as foon executed as taken, fo that the Ingineers fell to making of two manner of bull- 
 works on the outfide upon a great Platform, compofed of great beams and bavins, 
 which in five dayes they raifed up to fuch an height, as it furpafl'ed the wall two fathom 
 at the lead. This done,they planted on each bulwark twenty great pieces of Ordnance 
 wherewith they began to batter the Town fo valiantly, that in a little time they beat 
 down a pane of the wall* and befides thofe pieces of battery, there were above three 
 hundred Falcons that fhot inceffancly, with an intention only to kill thofe that were 
 in the ftreets,as indeed they made a great havock, which was the caufe that feeing them- 
 felves lb ill entreated, and their people flain in that manner, they refolved,like valiant 
 men as they were,to fell their lives as dearly as they could; fo that one morning having 
 fallied forth by the fame breach of the wall which the Cannon had made, they gave fo 
 valiantly upon thofe of the Camp , that in lefs then an hour they almoft routed the 
 Bramam whole Army. Now becaufe it began to be day , the Savadis thought it fit to 
 re-enter into the Town, leaving eight choufand of their enimies dead on the place. 
 Afcer this they repaired the breach in a very little time by the means of a rampire of 
 earth, which they made up with bavins and other materialls, that was ftrong enough 
 to refill: the Cannon. Hereupon the ChAnmlgrem feeing the bad fuccefs jhe had had, re- 
 folved to make war, both upon the places neer about, as alfo upon the frontiers that 
 were furcheft off from the Town j for which purpofe he feat T>iofanay y high Treafurer 
 of the Kingdom, whofe Slaves we Fortuga/s were, Colonel of five thoufand men, to 
 fpoil a certain Borrough, called VAlentaj , which furnifhed the befieged Town with pro- 
 vifions ; but this voyage was fo inforcunate unto him, that before his arrivall at the de¬ 
 fig ned place, his forces were by two thoufand SwadU , whom he incountred by the 
 way, all cut in pieces in lefs then half an hour, not one efcaping with life that fell into 
 their enemies hands. Neverthelefs,it pleafed our Lord that amidft this defeat we faved 
 our (elves by the favour of the night, and without knowing whither we went, we 
 took the way of a very craggy mountain, where we marched in exceeding great pain 
 three dayes and an half, at the end whereof we entredinto certain Moorifh Plains, 
 where we could meet with no path or way, nor having ocher company then Tygers, 
 Serpents, and other favage beads, which puc us into a mighty fear. But as our God, 
 whom inceffantiy we invoked with tears in our eys, is the true guide of travellers, he 
 out of his infinite mercy permitted, that at length we perceived one evening a certain 
 fire towards the Eart, fo that continuing our courfe towards that place where we faw 
 this light, we found our felves the next morning neer to a great Lake,where there were 
 fome Cottages, which in all likelihood were inhabited by very poor people ; howbeir 
 not dating to difcover our felves as yec, we hid us all that day in certain hanging pre¬ 
 cipices that were very boggy, and full of Horfleaches, which made us all gore blood. 
 As foon as it was night we fell to marching again untill the next morning, when as we 
 arrived neer to a great river, all alongft the which we continued going for five dayes to¬ 
 gether. Ac laft with much pain we got to another Lake, that was far greater then the 
 former, upon the bank whereof was a little Temple in the form of an Hermitage, and 
 there we found an old Hermite, who g<*ve us the bed entertainment that polfibly he 
 could: This old man permitted us to repofe our felves two dayes with him, during 
 which time we demanded many things of himthac made for our purpofe 5 whereunto 
 he alwayes anfweted according to che truth, and cold us , that we were dill within the 
 Te *f cories of rhe King of Savady, that this Lake was called Orcguantor , that is to fay, 
 the opening of the mght ; and the Hermitage, the God of fuc c our. Whereupon being defi- 
 rous nfcnowof haiithe fignificacion of thisabufe, he laid his hand on anherfe of 
 bnfle,rh 3 t flood for the Idol upon the Alcar, and faidthat he often read in a book, 
 which entreated of the foundation of the Kingdom, that fome two hundred, thirty, 
 and feven years befqre, this Lake being a great Town, called Octtmhalett , a King that 
 was named %/fvaa had taken it in war, that in acknowledgement of this victory, his 
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 Prierts,by whom he was wholly governed,counselled him tofa.crifice unco Quiay Gua - 
 iof> the god of war, all the young male children which hadbeen made cap.uve s; n in 
 cafe he did not fo, they would when they became men regain the Kingdom from biiru 
 The King apprehending the event of this tfareatning, cauted Ji th fe children, being 
 fourfeore and five thoufand in number, to be brought all into one place, and lo upon a 
 day that was kept very folemn amongfl them,he made them to be put mod inhumanely 
 to the edge of the fword , with an intent to h. ve them burned the next morning in Sa¬ 
 crifice ; but the night following there came a great earthquake, and fuch lighting and 
 fire from heaven upon the Town, as within lei's then half an hour it was qui e de- 
 molifhed, and all that was in it reduced to nothing ; fo that by this juft judgement of 
 God, the King, together with all his,were firicken dead, not fo much as one e caping j 
 and befides them thirty thoufand Prierts in like manner, who ever lince during all the 
 New Moons are heard to cry and roar fo dreadfully, that all the Inhabitants there¬ 
 abouts were ready to go befides chemfelves with fear 5 by reafon whereof the Country 
 was utterly depopulated, no other habiration remaining therein, fave only fourfeore 
 and five Hermitages, which were erefted in memory of the fourfeore and five thoufand 
 children, whom the King had caufed to be butchered through the evillcounfeli of his 
 Prierts. 
 
 CHAP. LXIV. 
 
 zAcontinuation of the fuccefs which we had in this voyage , with my departure from Goa 
 to Zunda, and what pajfed during my abode there . 
 
 W E part two dayes in this Hermitage, where, as I declared before, we were very 5 e #„i 
 well entertained by the Hertnitejthe third day after betimes in the morning we 
 took our leave of him , and departed from thence not a little afflicted with that which 
 we had heard, and fo all the fame day and the night following we continued on our 
 way along by the river 5 the next mornirg we arrived at a place where were a great ma¬ 
 ny of fugar canes, of which we took fome , for that we had nothing elfe to nourifh us 
 withal!. In this manner we marched rtill along by this river, which wc kept for a guide 
 of our voyage, becaufe wc judged that how long foever it were, yet would ir t laft 
 ingulfe it felf in the Sea, where we hoped that our Lord would raife us up fome remedy 
 for our miferies. The day enfuing we arrived at a village called Pommiferay y where we 
 hid our felves in a very thick wood from being delcried by .prffengers, and two hours 
 within night we continued our defign in following the current of the river, being re- 
 folved to take our death in good part,if it fhould pleafe God to fend it us, for to put an 
 end to fomany furterings as we had undergone day and night; and without lying, the 
 apprehenlion and vifionsof this laftend troubled us more then death it felf, where¬ 
 with we imagined our felves to be already enfnared. At the end of ieventeen aayes, 
 that this painfull and fad voyage had larted, God {hewed us fo much grace, that during 
 the obfcurity of a very rainy night we difeovered a certain light little more' hen a 
 Faulcon (hot before us ; the fear we were in atthefirft that we were neer fome Town, 
 made us to ftand rtill for a good fpace, without knowing what to refolve upon, u till 
 we obferved that this light feemed to move, whereby we conje&ured that it was fome 
 Veffel which went from one port to another; as indeed half an hour after we percei¬ 
 ved one, wherein there were nine perfons, who approaching to the bank of the 
 river, neer to the plaee where we were, landed all in a Creek that was there in the form 
 of an Haven, and prefently making a fire, they began to prepare their (upper, .which 
 was no fooner ready, but they fell to eating with great demonftrations of mirth,where¬ 
 in they bellowed a pretty good time.At length when they were well replenifhed with 
 meat and drink , it happened that all nine of them, amoogft whom there were three 
 women, fell fart afleep 5 whereupon feeing that we could not find a rrore favourable 
 occafion to make our benefit of this adventure, we went all eight of us very ioftly into 
 the barque, that fiuck half in the Ouze, and was tyed faft to a great flake, which pufh- 
 ing forth with cur fhoulders we let aflote; and then imbarquing our felves in it with all 
 fpeed, we began to row down the river with as little noyfe as poffibly we could make. 
 
 Now in regard the current of the water and the wind were both very favourable 
 
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 unto us,we found our felves the next morning above ten leagues from the place whence 
 we parted, namely, neerto a Tagode, called Qulay Hiuarel, that is to fay, the god of 
 Rice , where we met but only with one man and feven and thirty women, the mott of 
 them old, and Rcligionaries of this Temple , who received us with a great deal of cha* 
 riey, although in my opinion they did it rather out of fear of us, then any will that 
 they had to do us good. Having quettioned them about many things which ferved for 
 our purpofe, they could give us no pertinent anfwer thereunto, alledging hill, that 
 they were but poor women , who upon a folemn vow had renounced all things in the 
 world, and confined themfelyes into this inclofurc, where they befiowed all their time 
 in continuall prayer to Quiay Pomedea , which moves the clouds of heaven, that he 
 woifld be pleafed to give them rain, whereby their grounds might be made ftuitfull to 
 produce them abundance of Rice. In this place we fpent all the day in caulking our 
 barque, and furnifhing our felves at thefe religious womens cott, with feice. Sugar, 
 Beans, Onyons, and fome fmoak-dried flefh, wherewith they were fufficiency 
 provided. Being parted from hence about an hour within night, we continued our 
 courfe With our Oars and Sails for feven whole dayes together, without fo much as 
 once daring to touch the Land, fo much were we in fear of fome difafter that might 
 eaf ly arrive to us from thofe places which we faw all alongft the river. But as it is m- 
 poflible to avoid that here below which is determined there above, juft at the inlianc 
 as we were continuing on our coufe, all confufed as we were , and in a perpetuail a- 
 iarm, by reafon of the danger thit wasalwayes ptefent before our eyes, as well for that 
 which we faw, as for that we were in doubt of, our ill hap would have it, that an 
 hour before day, as we pail thorough the mouth of a ChanncII, three Paraos of Pyrats 
 sfliulted us with fuch violence, and with fo many different forts of Dares, which they 
 fhowred upon us, that within lefs then two Credoes , they had killed three of our com¬ 
 panions ; as for us five that remained , we caft our felves into the Sea all bloudy as we 
 were with the wounds which we had received, whefeof two others died a little af¬ 
 ter : When as we were got afhore we hid our felves in the woods, where we paft all 
 that day in lamenting our prefent mifhap after fo many fortunes as we had run tho¬ 
 rough before time. Thus wounded as we were, parting from thence in more hope of 
 death then life, we proceeded on our way by Lan J 9 with fo mnch pain and irrcfoluti- 
 on concerning what we were to do, as we fell many times a weeping, without being 
 able to comfort One another, in regard of the fmall likelihood there was of faving 
 our lives by auy humane means. As we were reduced to this deplorable eftate, with 
 two of our companions ready to die , it pleafed our Lord ( whofe fuccour doth ordina¬ 
 rily fupply our defers) that in a place where we found our felves upon the bank of the 
 water, there chanced to pafs by a Veflel. wherein there was a Chriftian woman, na- 
 Ktd Violent^ who was married to a Pagan, to whom this Veflel appertained, which 
 he had laden with Cotton Woo 11 to fell off at Cefmw ; this woman no fooner percei- 
 ved us but moved With pity at the fight of us, Jefut, cried fhe, thefe are ChrlJha Jwhich 
 I beholdX that fald, fhe caulcd the Veflel wherein fhe was to come to the fhore, and 
 leaping on Land, together with her husband, they fell both of them to imbracino us 
 wuh tears in their eys , and then made us to be imbarqued with them ; prefently where¬ 
 upon this vertuous Dime took a care to have our wounds dre ft, and provided us of 
 cloaths the beft that fhe could, rendring us many other good offices of a true and chari¬ 
 table Chnfiun ; Then fetting afide all fear, we parted from this place with all fpeed,and 
 hve dayes after thorough Gods gface we arrived fafely at the Town of which 
 
 as a part of the Sea in the Kingdom of Ttgu , where in the houfe of this good Chrittian 
 woman we were fo Well looked unto, that in a fhort timer we found our felves tho- 
 roughly cured of all our hurts. Now whereas there is never any want in the grace which 
 God doth to Hs creatures, it pleafed him that at that very time we met in this Port 
 with a imp, vvhereof Lttts de Montorrayo was Matter, who was upon the poynt of 
 etting fad for Bcngala* fo that after we had taken our leave of our Hottefs, to Whom we 
 nmdred «n«i 7 thaoto for tte benefits which we had received of her, we imbarqued 
 j r vc * with the faid L^u de Aiontarrayo, who likewife entreated us exceeding well- 
 
 Pnrr o 7 r^ ed - US a . bun ;fc nt, .y wich al1 was neccflary for us. At our arrivall at the 
 atigan m the Kingdom of Bengal a ^ where there" was at that time many 
 
 Tortugah, 
 
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 ™ h u r !ued my ‘ elfia •>< i certain Merchant, called Fa 
 
 mndo CaUeyr* r sH\o w s bound tor Goa, where it pleated God I arrived in »ood health” 
 
 beenf 1 f ° Un ? Pe * r °A e Fart *> ^ ho b- f d been Qaprain of Malaca , and by^whom Ihad 
 .^7 * T nr f A*ii^fljdor to the C hainbmhaa of Manahano , as I have declared hereto¬ 
 fore. To hiun I renored an ex«<ft ao-oum of ail that h id Daft for mhirh i,» ru j > • 
 felf very forrowful, and accommodated me with divert to 
 ence and generofuy obliged him, in regird of the goods which I had loft for his occafi- 
 
 Mf ' c [Cr ’ • th3C 1 might n L ot lole the opportunity of the feafon, I imbatqued my 
 elf wi,h an ln tem.ont o g o t othe Sou thward > and once more to try my fortune”! 
 tnc Kingdoms of Chtnasni Japan, to fee if in thofe countries where I had fo ma!v 
 times loft my coat, I could not hnd a better then that I had on. Y 
 
 in wav^mdefet 7^ J ‘V J ““a that k'onged to Pedro de Faria, which was bound 
 Wa ^i°^ e or Zm ^ * arrived ac c JMalaca the fame day that < Ruv vas <7 
 tvmtdUUarramaqHe died, who was then Captain of the fort refs th?rr R ' 
 petted from that place to go to Zuuda, at the end of fevente^yf I arrived ae^? 
 nn / rc c . he *re accuftomed totraffique. And becaufe th!re was at thac rime 
 
 h* w T ? ° f p ‘ p ? er ? ,er all . th , e councr V> a °d that we came thither of purpofe foe 
 sc , we were conftrained to pafs the winter there, with a refolution to °o for Chinn 
 
 the year following. We had been almoft two moneths in thij Porc.where we exercifed 
 
 ™?T KI J P J y t Wh - 3 * ftom the Ki "g of *>«»«, EmperoT of all the - 
 
 ? e J"*>f t W'“ a ’S ,,a > %&*&**, and of the reft of the Mands of that Archi- 
 fh^of ?f' ,nd r d thlscountr y»mdowwoman, named Map Pombaya, about 
 W« !'l his V ff r r . e *T i ’ W ^ 0 . Came M Anbaflidot to lagan/, King of Zunda, that 
 
 "thin the Term !f f then ?* opthat Monarchy, for to tell him chat he was. ' 
 
 Wi h,n the term of fix weeks to be ,n perfon at the town of Japan , where 
 
 he was then makng preparation to invade the Kingdom of Paiflrm » When 
 
 from W X!ic“h' VCd “ j' h h“ P ° r [* C o | King ” ent * P erfon to the Veffel where (he was, 
 nvof . k h2r 10 h ' S Palace wlth § Kac pomp,and put her into the compa- 
 
 ? y o f ^,77 he j b; “ cr entertainment, whileft he himfelf retired to another lodg- 
 
 wS-r fore th f '°k,n° hit the m0rS >? r ' Now that one may know the realm 
 that it hath «* , , ° e l Y as executed ^ther by a woman then a man, you muft note, 
 
 moft mi f J 7 r beeD f h t cu ‘‘°® °f the Kings of this kingdom to treat of the* 
 m ft imp acanc matters of their State by mediation of women, efpecially when ic 
 
 LoXo^heir vTffl only in particular meffages that are fent by the 
 
 Lords to the.c Vuffal s ,(iuch as this was) but alfo in matter ofpublique and general af¬ 
 fairs, which ts; performed by ambaffage from one king co another ; and all the reafon 
 they give for ir,is ; That God hath given more gentle»t(s and inclination to cmrtefie, tea 
 and more authority to women then to men, who are fevere, as they f a y, andiy confeetaent lefs 
 agreeable to thofe unto whom they arefent. Now it is their opinion, thac every one of 
 thofe women which the kings are accuftomed to fend about affairs of importance ‘ 
 ought to have certain qualities for well executing of an ambaffage, and worthily dif- 
 
 chrrgiog the Commiifion which is granted to them: for firft of all, theyfay. That (he 
 muft not bea Maid,for fear (he chance to lofe her honor ingoing out of her houfe,becaufe that 
 even acwjth her be.antyjbe contentsevery one,fo byt,he fame reafon fhemay be a motive of 
 dtfeord &un<ymetnes w matters where unity is required,rather then an accefs to concord,& 
 the peace which w pretended unto. To this they add, that (he muji be married oral leafiwife 
 a widow after a lawful marrtage ; that if (he have had children, (he mufi have a Certificate 
 how(he-hath given themall fuckwith her- own breafis, alledging thereupon, that (he who 
 hath bornchildren and doth no. murtfi them if (he can, is rather a carnal, voluptuous, 
 corrupted, and dijhonefi woman, then a true mother. And this cuftom is obferved lb ex- 
 3 ftiy ov: r all this country,principally amongft perfons of quality, thac if a mother bath 
 a child wmch (h ennot give luck unto for lome valuable confideration, {he muft make 
 an utieliacion thereof, as of a thing very fenous,and much importing her honor. That 
 it being young too (he happens to lole her husband, and becomes a widdow, (he muft 
 for t he better certifying of her verrue enter into Religion, to the endlhe may thereby 
 lhew,that (hediu not ionnerly marry for the plealure which (he expefled from her 
 marriage, but co have children, according to the pure and honeft intention, wherewith 
 
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 God joyned together the firtt married couple in the terreftial Paradife. Furthermore, 
 that there might be nothing to be found fault with in the purity of their marriage, and 
 that it might be altogether conformable to the Law of God, they fay, that after a wo¬ 
 man is with child, (he ought no longer to have the company of her husband, becaufe the 
 fame could not then be but difhoneft and fenfual. To thefe conditions they add many 
 others which I will pafs over in filence, for that I think it unreafonable to ufe prolixity 
 in matters that I hold worthy of excufe, if I do not relate them at length. In the mean 
 time after that Nhay Bombay a had delivered her Embaffage to the King of Zunda y as I 
 have declared before, and treated with him about the occafion which brought her thi¬ 
 ther, fhe prefently departed from this Town of Banta; whereupon the King having 
 fpeedily prepared all things in readinefs, he fet fail with a Fleet of thirty Calaluz.es, and 
 ten Juripangocs, well furnifhed with ammunition and vi&ual,in which forty veflels there 
 were 7000 lighting men, befides the Mariners and Rowers. Amongft this number were 
 forty *Portugals, of fix and forty that we were in all, in regard whereof they did us ma¬ 
 ny particular favors in the bufinefsof our Merchandize, and publikely confeflfed, that 
 they were much obliged to us for following them as we did, fo that we fhould have had 
 little reafon to have excufcd our felves from accompanying them in this war. 
 
 ' CHAP. X LIV. 
 
 The expedition of the Pangueyran, Emperor of J aoa, and King of Demaa, againfl the 
 King o/Pafferuan, and all that which paffed in this wari 
 
 ScA=i. HP He King of Zunda being departed from the Port of Banta the fifth day of January, 
 A in the year one thoufand fiye hundred forty and fix, arrived on the nineteenth of 
 the fame at the Town of Japura , where the King of Demaa , Emperor of this Ifland of 
 Jaoa, was then making his preparatives, having an army on foot of eight hundred thou- 
 fand men. This Prince being advertifed of the King of Zunda 9 s coming , who was his 
 brother-in-law and vaffal, he fent the King of c Panarnca> Admiral of the Fleet, to re¬ 
 ceive him, who brought along with him an hundred and threefcore C*laluz,cs, & nine¬ 
 ty Lanchares , full of Luffons from the Ifle of Borneo : With all this company he arrived 
 where the King of Zmda was, who entertained him very courteoufly, and with a great 
 deal of honor. Fourteen days after our coming to this Town of Japura, the King of 
 Demaa went and imbarqued himfelf for the Kingdom of ‘Pajfaruaum a Fleet of two 
 thoufand and feven hundred fails,amongft the which were a thoufand high built Juncks, 
 and all the reft were Vetfels with oars. The eleventh of February he arrived ac the ri¬ 
 ver of Hicandurea , which is at the entrance of the bar ; and becaufe the King of Fana - 
 ruca , Admiral of the Fleet, perceived that the great Veffels could not pafs unto the 
 Port, which was two leagues off, by reafon of certain (helves of fand chat were in 
 divers parts of the river, he caufed all thofe that were in them to be difimbarqued, and 
 the other Veffds with oars to go and anchor in the road before the Town, with an in¬ 
 tention to burn the Ships that were in the Port, which indeed was accordingly execu¬ 
 ted. In this Army was the Emperor Pangueyran in perfon, accompanied with all the 
 grandees of the Kingdom; the King of Zunda, his brother in law who was General 
 of the Army, went by land with a great part of the forces, and being all arrived at the 
 place where they meant to pitch their Camp, they took care in the firft place for the 
 fortifying thereof, and for placing the Canon in the moft commodious places to bat¬ 
 ter the To^n, in which labour they beftowed the moft part of the day. As for the 
 night enfuing it was fpent in rejoycings, and keeping good watch until fuch time as it 
 was day,when as each Captain applied himfelf to that whereunto his duty obliged him, 
 all in general imploying themfelves accordingto theingineersdireftions, fo that by 
 thefecondday the whole Town was invironed with high PalUfadoes , and their Plat¬ 
 forms fortified with great beams, whereupon they planted divers great pieces of 
 O.dnancc, amongft the which were Eagles and Lions of metal, that the Zchems and 
 Turkj had caft,by the invention of a certain %$ncgado> born in the Kingdom of Al- 
 garues, appertaining to the Crown of Portugal*, and by reafon this wicked wretch had 
 changed his belief, he called himfelf Coia Gtinak for as for the name which he had be¬ 
 fore 
 
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 forsv.hen he was a Chridian, I am contented to pats it over in filence forth-hcnor 
 of hts Family, being indeed or no mean exrraffion. In the mean time the belied ha 
 ^ng taken notice how ill-advifed they had been in ftffering the enemies to labornvo 
 
 wnole days together peaceably mfortdymg of their Cimp, without any impe'chment 
 
 of theirs j and taking the lame tor a great affront, they defired their Kin» to permff them 
 to tal upon them the night following,*1,edging how it was probable that men wear'ed 
 with labor could not make any great ufe of their arms.nor be able to refill this fi-il im 
 petuofity.The King,who at that timecoajmanded the Kingdom of Faffaruan was yo£ 
 
 & induedwitiiminy .excellent qaal.ties which made him to be exceedingly beloved cf 
 all his fubjeas; or as it was reported of him.he was very I,beral.no miner of tyrmr ex¬ 
 ceedingly affable to the common peoples friend to the poor, and fo charitable^towards 
 widows, that if they acquainted him with their necerfities, he relieved them infi ndv 
 
 and did them more good then they asked of him. Befides thefe perfeaion? that were 
 lo recommendable, he poffefled fome others fo comfortable to mens defires as ,"ere 
 was not any one that would Pot have expofed his life , thoufand times for his fcrvice 
 it need had bren. Furthermore he had none bur choice men with him, even the flower 
 
 finor h ' Sl f mSd0!P,beideS ml ny L HraDgerS ’ . p0n Vvhom he conferr «d much wealth, 
 i nor, and many graces, which he accompanied with good words, that being indeed 
 
 the means whereby the minds both of great and fmail are fo flrongly gained that they 
 make them Lions of Iheep, whereas carrying ones felf other ways , of » nerous Li¬ 
 ons, they are made fear.ul hares. This King then examining the requefl which his peo¬ 
 ple madejunto him, and referring himfelf to the advice of the antientefl and molt Dru 
 dent Counsellors of his Stare which were with him, there was”greet conrendoS 
 bout the luccels that the affairs might have; but in the end, by the countil of ail in»e- 
 neral, it was concluded, That tn cafe Fortune ftould he altogether adverfe unto them in 
 thu fatly which they meant to make again ft their enemies, yet would it be a much lefts evil, 
 and lefts conjidcrable affront, then to fee the King fo bbfteged by vile people, who againft alt 
 reafton would, reduce them by force to y,„t their belief, wherein they ha d been bred by their 
 Fathers, to imbrace another new ene by thefufeitatienofthe Fames,*** place their faha. 
 t,en ,n wafting their parts behind, ,n not eating offwmes fleft, and marrying of [even wives, 
 
 Jrailfh ^ ^ •W' 4 *!* ea/ily yttdgeghatGod wa, ft much the.r enemy J he wmldnot 
 ajftft them in any thing.feeing that with ft great offence they would under pretext of Religi- 
 on ana. with reafons fo full of contradiction, compel their King to become a Mahometan, 
 and render himfelf tributary to them. To thefe realons they added many others which 
 the King, and ll, ey that were with hmi.found to be fo good, as they all with one com¬ 
 mon content agreed thereunto, which ,s an evident mark, that it is a thing no “efs na¬ 
 tural for a good Subjea to expofe his life for his King , then for a vertuous wife to 
 
 conferve her chaftity for the husband which God hath given her: This beim> fo laid 
 they, a matter of fo great importance was no longer to be deferred, but we all in ’ene 
 ral, and each one m particular,are by this tally to make demonffration of the extreme 
 affea.cn vvhich we bear to our good King, whowe are affured will never be unmindful 
 of them t hat flaall fight feed for his defence, which is ,11 the inheritance we defire to 
 leave to our children. Whereupon it was refolved that the night following they fbould 
 
 Whereas the joy.which this defigned Tally brought to all the inhabitants of theTown, SrtU 
 was general, they never flayed till they were called, but two hours after midni»hr and 
 before the time which the King had appointed, they affemblcd ail in a great place 
 vvhich was not far from the Royal Palace, and where they of the country had accu ’ 
 (tomed to keep their Fairs,and to folemmze their mod remarkable fealls on thofe orin- 
 cipal days which were dedined to the invocation of their 'Tafodcs. The Kin" in ihe 
 mean time, wonderfully content to fee luch heat of courage in them, of feventy thou- 
 land inhabitants which were in the Town, drew out twelve thoufand only for thisen- 
 rerpriie and diwded them into four companies, each of them containing three thou- 
 land, whereof an Unklc of the Kings was General, a man whom experience had ren- 
 dred very Knowing in luch undertakings, and that marched in the head of the firft com¬ 
 pany. Oftbe fecondwras Captain another of the principal Mandacint ■ Of the third 
 1 Hranger, a Champaa by Nation, and born in the Iflmd of Borneo ; and of the fourth 
 
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 one called Panbdcaluio ; all of them good Commanders, very valianr, and exceeding 
 expert in matters of war. When they were all ready, the King made them a Speech, 
 whereby he fuccin&ly reprefented unto them the confidence which he had in them 
 touching this enterprife. After which, the better to encourage them,and 2fTure them of 
 bis love, he took a cup of gold and drunk to them all, caufing the chiefeft of them to 
 pledge him, and craving pardon of the reft, for that the time would not permit them 
 to do the like* This gracious carriage of his fo encouraged the fouldiers, that without 
 further delay the moll part of them went and anointed themfelves with Afinhammdi> 
 which is a certain confedfion of an odoriferous oyl, werewith thefe people are ac- 
 cuftomed to frote themfelves with, when they have taken a full refolution to die , and 
 thefe fame are ordinarily called Amacos . The hour,being come wherein this Tally was to 
 be made, four of twelve gates that were in the Town were opened, thorow each of 
 the which fallied forth one of the four Captains with his company, having firft fent 
 out for Spies into the Camp fix Orobalons , of the moft valiant that were about the 
 King, whom he had honored with new titles, and with fuch fpccial favors as ufe to 
 give courage to them thac want it, and to encreafe it in them that are endued with fome 
 refolution. Tne four Ciptains marched a little after the fix Spies, and went and joyned 
 all together in a certain place, where they were to fight witii the enemies .* whereupon 
 falling into the midftof them with a marvellous impetuofity, they fought fo valiantly, 
 that in lefs then an hours time, which the fight endured, the twelve thoufand Tajfaru- 
 ans left above thirty thoufand enemies upon the place, befides thofe that were wound¬ 
 ed, which were in afar greater number, and whereof many died afterwards. Further¬ 
 more they took prifoner three Kings, and eight Pates % which are as the Dukes amongft 
 us; the King of Zunda too, with whom we forty Portugals were, could not fofaVe 
 himfelf, bur that he was hurt with a Lance in three places, a number being killed in de¬ 
 fending him. Thus was the Camp put in fo great diforder,as it was almoft deftroyed, 
 the Pangueyrm himfelf being wounded vvith a dart, and conftrained to leap into the 
 water, where little lacked hut that he had been drowned. Whereby one may fee whac 
 the force of a number of refolute andfearlefs men is agaiptt fuch as are furprifed when 
 leaft they think of it; for before thac the enemies could know whit they did, or the 
 Commanders could put their fouldiers into order , they were twice routed. The next 
 morning, as foon as the day gave them leave to know the truth of the bufinefs, the 
 Pajferuans retired into the Town, 
 bove nine hundred of their men 
 hurt. 
 
 Se&3. It is fcarcely to be believed how much the King of Demaa was grieved with the difa- 
 fter of the former day,as well for the affront which he received from thofe within by che 
 lofs of his people,as for the bad fuccefs of che beginning of this fiege, whereof he Teem¬ 
 ed in fome fort to impute the fault unto our King of Zunda, faying,chac this fortune had 
 hapned by the bad dire&ions he bad given to the Sentinels. Now after he had com¬ 
 manded that the wounded fhould be dreft, and the dead buried, he called toCouncel 
 all the Kings, Princes, and Capcains of the forces thac he had, both by Land and Wa¬ 
 ter,unto whom he fai d,That be had made a folemn vow,and oath upon thcMauapho o/Ma- 
 hornet, which u their Alcoran , or the bookjf their Law,never to raife the fiege from before 
 this Town 3 until he had utterly deftroyed it, or lofl his own State therein. Whereunto he 
 added, 7 hat he protefled he would put to death whomfoever fhould oppofe this refolution of 
 his, what reafonfoever he could alledge thereupon ; which begot fo great a terror in the 
 minds of all chat heard him,is there was not one that durft contradidl his will, but con- 
 trarily they infinitely approved and commended ic.He ufed then all kind of diligencefor 
 the new fortifying of the Camp with good ditches, ftrong Pallifadoes, and divers Bu!- 
 works made of ftone and timber, garnifhed on the infide with their Platforms, where 
 he caulea a great many of Cannons to be planted, fo that by this means the Camp was 
 Wronger then the Town it lelf, in regard whereof the befieged did often times jeer 
 ti e Sentinels without, telling them. That it tnujl needs be concluded they were notorious 
 f p. fi nce in ft ea dof bejieging their enemies like valiant men 9 they befieged themfelves 
 f h 6 1 v f mefty therefore they bid them return home to their houfes , where it was fitter 
 , or them to fall to ffwning, then to make war. Thefe were the jeers which they ordinarily 
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 put upon the befiegers who were greatly offended with them. This Town had been 
 a molt th.ee moneths befieged, and yechad the enemies advanced but little: for during 
 all thac time, wherein there had been five batteries and three afl'aults given to it, with 
 above atnoufand ladders planted againft the waHs, the befieged defended themfelves 
 liili like valiant and contagious men, tonifying themfelves with counter-mires which 
 they oppofed to the breaches, which they made with pieces of timber taken from the 
 houtesy fo thatall the power of the Pmgttejratt, which (as I have declared) was abouc 
 eighp hundred chouiand men, whereof the number was much dimmifhed, was not able 
 to give him entrance in to ,t. Hereupon the principal Ingineer of the Camp, who was 
 a Renegado of feeing that this affair had nor a fuccefs anfwerable to wbac 
 
 he had prorniied the King, he retolved to cake another far different courfe.’ To thac ef¬ 
 fect, with a greae amats of earth and bavins he framed a kind'of a Platform which h*- 
 fort,bed wuh fix rows of bea.nes, and wrought fo, that in nine days he raifed it a fa¬ 
 thom higher then the wall ; that done, he planted forty great pieces of Cannon upon it 
 together with a number of Bafesand Faulconecs, wherewith he fell to battering the 
 Town in fuch fort, as the befieged were therewith mightily damnified, fo thac the Kin» 
 perceiving that this invention of the enemy was the only thing in the world thac could 
 mod tncommodate him in the Town, he refolved by the means of ten tboufand Vo¬ 
 lunteers, who had offered themfelves unto him for chat purpofe , and to whom fora 
 maik of honor he gave the title of Tygeri of the world, to accacque this Fort, and they 
 that were upon tt; this matter was no fooner refolved upon , but was prefently put in 
 execution, and for the better incouragement of them, the King himfelf would be their 
 Captain, albeit this whole enterprife was governed by the four «triw, which had 
 formerly commanded in the firftfally. Having put themfelves into the field thenwi h 
 the riling of the Sun, they fought fo valiantly without any fear ac all of the dreadful 
 Ordnance, whicn were planted on the Platform, asinlefs then two Credoes ,hev»oc 
 to the top of it, and there feettng on the enemies, who were thirty thoufand in num¬ 
 ber, they defeated them all in a very (bore time. The 'Pm.gHtyrm of Pate feeing his 
 forces thus routed, ran thither in perfon with twenty thoufand choice fouldiers, intend¬ 
 ing to beat the Pafer HM s from the place which they had gained; but they defended it 
 fo couragioufly,as tc is not poflible to exprefs it in words. This bloody battel havin° in- 
 dured ti l evening, the Pafferum, who had loft the moll part of his men, made his° re¬ 
 treat into the Town by the gate that was next to the Platform, whereunto having 
 firlf fee fire in ltx or feven places, ic took hold of fome barrels of powder whereof 
 there was great ftore there, which inflamed it fo cerribly in feveral parts, as It was not 
 poflible to approach unto it by the fpace of a flight fhoot, this accident was very favor¬ 
 able to the befieged, becaufe the enemies were thereby kept from joyning cogecher.and 
 fo the Townlvas for this time preferved from the great danger wherewithal it was 
 thteatned; howbeit the Pajfernans fcap.c not fo fcot-free, but that of the ten thoufand 
 Volunceers employed in this fervtce/ix thoufand remained dead on the top of the Plat¬ 
 form. True it is, that in the Pmgueyrtn part there was above forty thoufand killed 
 amongft the which were three thoufand ftrangers of divers Nations, the molt pare A- 
 
 chems, Tttrk.s, and Malahmes, as alfo twelve P*tes s <x Dukes,five Kings, with manv o. 
 cher Commanders, and men of quality. 3 
 
 All this night was fpent oni bothi fides in lamentations and complaints, as alfo in ScS- 
 drefting the wounded, and calling the dead into the river. The next mornin» as loon 
 as it was day the P Mguejran of Pa,a feeing the bad fuccefs which his enterprife had 
 had until that prefenc, could noc for all that be drawn to defift from it fo that 
 he caufed all his fouldiers to prepare themfelves for a new affaultinu of the Town 
 being periwaded char the befieged had no great force left to defend them withal! 
 considering the, r walls were overthrown in many places, their ammunition fpent the 
 moli part of their people flam, and their King dangeroufly hurt, at leaftwife it was fo 
 reported. Now the better to be allured thereof, he caufed fome of his forces to be 
 laid in ambulh in certain avenues, by which he had been advertifed that divers of 
 , “°“tiztng inhabitants would pafs, co bring unto the Town, Eggs, Pullein and o- 
 tner fuch like things neceflary for the recovery of lick perfons. Now they whom he 
 had fenc for that purpofe arrived at the Camp a little before day, and brought nine 
 
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 prifonets with them, amongft the which there was one ‘Portugal. After then that they 
 had racked and tortured the other eight, & were come to do as much to the Portugal , 
 who was the lalf, he imagined that it may be they would fhew him tome favor if he de¬ 
 clared un:o them what he was,fo that upon the firft torment he cried outfThat he was a 
 ‘Portugal^ not knowing hitherto any thing of us 3 nor we of him: Our King of Zm- 
 da noiooner heard this Declaration of his, but he commanded him to be taken from 
 the rack, and inftantly Cent for us to know whether that which this wretch delivered 
 was true; whereupon fix of us that were the leaft hurt went unto him, and at thefirlf 
 fight we judged him by his countenance to be a Portugal, fo that profirating our felvcs 
 before the King,we befoughc him to give us this man,reprefenting unto him, that in re¬ 
 gard he was of our Nation we were bound to make this fuit for him, which he very 
 willingly granted us, and fo we in way of thankfuinefs kifledhis feet. After we had 
 received him,we carried him to the place where our companions lay wounded, and then 
 we would needs underftand of him whether he were a Portugal indeed,becaufe he look¬ 
 ed fo Hrangely as we could not well know him,no not by his fpeech ; but after he was a 
 little come to himfelf, and that he had fhec( a many of tears. My Mafters , laid he un¬ 
 to us, 1 ajfure you that I am a Chrifiian, and a Portugal, both by father and mother , al¬ 
 though as you fee 1 do not wear the habit of one ; my country is Penamocor , and my name 
 Nuno Rodriguez Taborda; / went out of Portugal in the year one thoufand five hundred 
 and thirteen , after / had inroiled my Jelf in the Alarfhals Army, and in the Ship called the 
 S. Joano, whereofKuy Drz Pereyra was Captain. T^ow becaufe in thofe fir ft beginnings 
 J /hewed my felf in all occajions a worthy man, Alphonlo o'Albuquerque made me Cap - 
 tain of the four brigandines which he had in the Indiaes at that time • afterwards Iwaspre- 
 fent with him at the takjng of Goa and Malaca ; withal / labored in the foundations of Or¬ 
 muz & Cal t cut,never failing in any of the fervtces performed in thofe times by that famous 
 Commander jo whom fo many different Nations do at this day give the title of Great. I con» 
 tinned the fame proof of my courage during the Governments of Lopo, Suarez, 0/Diego, 
 Lopez de Siqueyra,^^ of other Governors of the Indiaes, even unto Don Anriaque de Me- 
 nefez, who fucceeded to that charge by the death of theVice Roy Vafco de Gam t\who at the 
 entrance into his Government made Francifco de Sa General of a Fleet of twelve V'e/fels 5 
 wherein were three hundred men which he was to make ufe of for the building of a Port at 
 Zunda, in regard of the fear they were then in of the Spaniards, who at that time went to 
 the Moluccaes by the new way which Magellan hafidifeovered unto them fin this Fleet J was 
 made Captain of a Brigandine, called the S.J orge, where 1 commanded over fix and twen¬ 
 ty very c our agions and valiant men. We departed then from the bay of B intan, when as Pe¬ 
 dro de Mafcarenhas defiroyed /V; but when we arrived at the Jfie of Lingua, we were beaten 
 with fo furious a temyeft, that unable torefifi it, we were forced to make towards Jaoa, 
 Where of f,even rowing Veffels that we were,fix were lofi,and my fins would have it that mine 
 was one of that number fisfides for my greater misfortune,the tempeficafi my Brigandine upon 
 the coafi of this Country .where I have now remainedthefe three and twenty years, not one of 
 all that were in the vejfel efcaping,fave three of my companions,who are every one dead but 
 my felf h and would to God it had pleafed him to /hew me the grace that I had been fo too , 
 that fo 1 might not have offended him as l have done fince; for feeing my felf continually 
 preffed by thefe Gentiles to follow their pernicious errors , I with flood them a long time, but 
 whereas the flefh is frail fie ing very poor, far from my country, and without hope of liberty , 
 my fins made me at their intreaties to yield to that which they de fired of me with fo much 
 importunity • by reafon whereof this Kings Father did me many great favours ; and being 
 fern for yefterday from a place where 1 was to lookjtnto two of the chief eft Gentlemen of this 
 country,it pleafed God that l fell into the hands of thefe dogs,to the end I fhould no longer be 
 one,for which the Lord be b/rjfedfor evermore.This mans difcourle exceedingly aftonifhed 
 us, and as much as the novelty of foftrangc an accident required, fo that having com¬ 
 forted’him as well as we could in fuch terms as we thought were neceffaryfor the 
 time wherein we were,we asked him whether he would go with us to Zunda, and from, 
 then to Lftlalaca, where God might fihew him the grace to die in his fervice like a 
 t r '^ aa * Whereunto hiving made anfwer, that he defired nothing more, and 
 that he had never had other defign, we gave him another habit, becaufe he was cipatbed 
 nke a Pagatij and kept him always with us as long as the fiege Jailed. 
 
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 he death of the King ofDziazi. by a very fir ange accident , and that which cnfued 
 
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 qpo come again now to our hirtory, you are to unde And, thit the Pamueyran of StA.t. 
 
 A ‘Pita, King of Demaa, be>ng certified by fome of Hfc enemies whom his men had • 
 taken prifonciS,ot the piteous eftate whereunto the befieged were reduced, the moft 
 pare of them dead, their ammunition failing, and their King dangeroufly hurt • all chef* 
 things together carried him more ardently then ever to the affmlr, which ne had purpo¬ 
 sed with himfelf to gfve to the befiegea T^wn.He refolved then to fcalc it in plain day 
 and to affault it with more violence then before, fo that inllantly great preparations 
 were made over all the Camp, where divers Serjeants at Arms, on horfeback, and car¬ 
 rying Maces on their (h au.ders, went proclaiming aloud, after the men of war had been 
 made to a (Terrible together with the found of trumpets, The Pangueyran e/Para by the 
 foyer of him who hath created all things , Lord of the Lands which mviron the Seas^being 
 ■willing t o di[cover unto all in general the fecret of his foufdoth let you know , that nine days 
 hence he will have you be in a readmefs, to the end th it with the courages of Tygers,and re¬ 
 doubted forces, you affid him m the ajfault which he intends to give unto the Town,for a re- ' 
 
 compence whereof he liberally promifetb to do great favors, as well m money ,as in honorable 
 and remarkable i itles , to thof r five fouldiers which fir ft of all ft all plant colours on the 
 enemies walls, or that ftjgall perform aQions which ftall be agreeable to him .Whereas ,contra° 
 rily .they which do not carry themfelves valiantly in this euterprife,conformably to his plea- 
 fur e, (hail be executed by the way ofjuftice, without any regard had to their condition. This 
 Oruin n vC of i he Kings, full ot menaces, being publifhed over every pare of the Camp, 
 put them into luch an alarm, as the Commanders began incontinently to make them¬ 
 felves ready, and ro provide all things neceffary for this alTiult, without fcarce caking a- 
 ny reft either day or night, making withal to great a noire, by intermingling their hues 
 and cries with the founds of drums, and other inrtruments of vvar 3 as it could not be 
 heard without much terror. In the ouan time, whereas of the nine days, defined for 
 the pu pofeaforelaid, feven we e already part, fo as there relied no more but two, at 
 the end whereof an affmlt was to be given to the Town, one morning as the Tdan - 
 gueyran fate in Councel, torefolvcof the affairs of this liege with the principal Lords 
 of his Army, as alfo of the means, of the time, and places, whereby they were to af- 
 fault the Town, and of other neceffary things, it was faid, that from the diverfity of o- 
 pinions, which the one and the other had, there arofe fo great a contention amongfl 
 them, as the King was constrained to take every ones advice in writing. During this 
 time, whereas he had always neer about him a young Page, who carried Bethel , an herb 
 whofe leaves are like unco Plantain,which thefe Pagans ate accuftomed to chaw,becaufe 
 it makes them have a fweet breath,and alfo purges the humours of the iiomack; he ask¬ 
 ed this Page then for fome of it, who at firlt feemed not to hear him, being much about 
 twelve or thirteen years old, for I hold it fit to make mention of his age, in regard of 
 that I am to fay of him hereafter. Now to return to the Pangueyran , as he was conti¬ 
 nuing his difcourfe with his Councel of War, thorow much fpeaking, and fomevvhac 
 in choler, his mouth became dry , fo chat he asked the Page again for fome Bethel , 
 which he ordinarily carried in a little box of gold , but he heard him no more this fe. 
 cond time, then he had done the firrt 5 infomuch as the King having asked him for fome 
 the third rime, one of the Lords that was neer to the Page pulled him by the fleeve, 
 and bid him give the King fome Bethel, which immediately he did, and falling on his 
 knees he prefented him wuo cue box which he had in his hands; the King then took 
 two or three leaves of it, as he ufed to do, and without being otherwife angry, giving 
 him a light touch ith his hand on the hea d, art thou deaf laid he unco him, that thm 
 couldft not hear me ? and h reupon re-entted into dtfcourfe with them of his Coun-< 
 cel. Now becaufe thefe fucasitc the moft pun&iliious and perfidious Nation of the 
 world, and that withal they of this country hold it for the greatert affront that can 
 be done them, when one g ; ves them a touch on the head,, this young Page imagining 
 that the King had touched him fo out of a mark of fo great a contempt, as hefhould 
 thereby be made infamous for ever, though indeed none of the company took notice of 
 
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 ic, he went afide weeping and fobbing by tiimfelf,& in the end refolved to revenge the 
 injury which the king had done him , fo that drawing out a little knife which he wore 
 at his girdle, he ftabbed the king wich it into the midft of the left pap, and fo becaufe 
 the blow was moreal, the king fell infiantly down on the ground, not able to fay any 
 more then thefe two or thr^pvords, I am dead: wherewith all thofe of the Councel 
 were fo frighted,as it is notpoflible toexprefs ic. After that this commotion was a lit¬ 
 tle calmed , they fell firft unto looking to the king , to fee if fome remedy might not 
 be applied to his wound ; but becaufe he was hurt juft in the heart there was no hope 
 of recovery, fo that he died within a very fhorc time after: Prefently they feized on the 
 Page, whom they put to torture, by reafon of fome fufpitions which they had upon 
 this accident, but he never confeffed any thing, and Paid nought elfe, fave. That he had 
 done it of hie own free will,and to he revenged of the blow which the King had given him on 
 his head by way of contempt } as if he hadJtruck^fome dog that was barking up and down the 
 flrcets in the night , without conftdering that he was the fon of the Pate Pondan , Lord of 
 Surebayaa.The page then was impaled alive, with a good big flake, which was thrufl in 
 at his Fundament, and came'out at the nape of his neck. As much was done to his Fa¬ 
 ther, to three of his brothers, and to threefcore and twelve of his kinfmen, fo that his 
 whole Race was exterminated; upon which fo cruel and rigorous an execution, many 
 great troubles enfued afterwards in all the country of Jaca , and in all the Illands of 
 Bale , Tymor , and Madura^ which are very grear, and whereof the Governors are Sove¬ 
 reigns by their Laws, and from all antiquity. After the end of*this execution, que- 
 fiion was made what (hould be done wich the kings body, whereupon there were ma¬ 
 ny different opinions amongfl them; for fome faid that to bury him in that place was 
 as much as to leave him in the power of the Pafferuans ; and others,that if he were tran« 
 lported to Demaa , where his Tomb was, it was not poffible but that it would be cor¬ 
 rupted before ic arrived there; whereunto was added, that if they interred him fo putri- 
 fied and corrupted, his foul could not be received into Paradife, according to the Law 
 of the country, which is that of Mahomet , wherein he died. After many conteflations 
 thereupon, in the end they followed the counfel which one of our ^Portugal* gave 
 them, that was fo profitable to him afterwards, as it was worth him above ten tbouiand 
 ducatesjwherewbh the Lords rewarded him as it were in vye of one another fora re- 
 compence of the good fervice which he did then to the deceafed. This counfel was, that 
 they fhould puc the body into a Coffin full of Lime and Camphire, and fo bury it in a 
 Junck alfofull of earth; fo that albeit the thing was not fo marvellous of it felf, yet left 
 ic not to be very profitable to the Portugal*, becaufe they all found it very good,and well 
 invented, as indeed the fuccefs of it was fuch, as by means thereof the kings body was 
 carried to Demaa, without any kind of corruption or ill favour. 
 
 Seft.a. As foon as the kings body was put into the Junck appointed for it, the king of Zun- 
 da, General of the Army, caufed the great Ordinance and the ammunition to be im- 
 barqued, and with the leafl noyfe chat might be committed to fafe cuftody the moft 
 precious things the king had, together wich all the treafures of the Tents. But what- 
 foever care and filence was ufed therein, the enemy could not be kept from havin® 
 fome inkling of it, and from undemanding how things went in the Camp, fo that in- 
 ftanily the king marched out of the Town in perfon, wich onely three thoufand foul- 
 diersof the paft confederacy, who by a folemn vow caufed themfelves to be anointed 
 with the oyl which they call Minhamundi, as men refolved, and that had vowed them- 
 felves to death. Thus fully determined as they were, they went and fell upon the ene¬ 
 mies, whom finding bufie in trtffing up their baggage, they entreated fo ill, as in lei's 
 then half an hours fpace, for no longer lafied the heac of the fight,they cut twelve thou¬ 
 fand of them in pieces. Withal they took two kings, and five Pates , or Dukes , prifon- 
 erSj together with above three hundred V arks, Zbyjjines, and Jlchcms, yea and their Ca * 
 cifmoubana, the Sovereign dignity amongfl the ^Mahometans , by whole counfel the 
 Pangueyran was come thither. There were alfo four hundred (hips burnt, wherein 
 were the hurt men, fo that by this means all the Camp was neer loft. After this the 
 king retreated into the Town with his men, whereof he loft but four hundred. In the 
 meantime the king of Zunda having caufed the remainder of the Army to bere-im- 
 oarqued with all fpeed the fame day, being the nineth of Ulfarch , they fee fail 
 
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 dire&ly for the Ciiy of Demaa, bringing along with them the Body of the Pan- 
 gueyran , which upon the arrival thereof was received by the People with great 
 Cries, and llrange Demonfirations of an univerfal Mourning. The day after a review, 
 was taken of ail the Men of War, for to know how many were dead, and there was 
 Found mifling an hundred and thirty thoufand ; whereas the Taferuans, according to 
 report, had loll but live and twenty thoufand; but be itasicwiP, and let Fortune 
 make the bell Market that Hie can of thefe things, yet they never arrive, but the Field is 
 dyed with the Bloud of Vanquifhers, and by a llronger reafon with that of the Van- 
 quifhed, to whom thefe Events do always coil far dearer, then to the others. The fame 
 day there was quellion of creating a n ZMfPangueyran, who, as I have faid heretofore, 
 the Emperour over all the Pates and Kings of that °rzziArcbipelago,\vhich thzChlnefes , 
 Tartar,] apon, and Lequlo, Hiftorians are wont to call Ratsrra Tiendau,ibzt is to fay, the 
 eye-lidof the World, as oneway fee in the Card, il the Elevation of the Heights prove 
 true. Now becaufe that after the death of the Pangueyran, there was not a lawfull fuc- 
 celfor to bejfound that might inherit this Crown, it was refolved thst one fliould be 
 made by election; for which-effed! by the common confent of all, eight men were cho- 
 fen, as Heads of all the People,to create a Pangueyran. Thefe fame affembled then to¬ 
 gether in a houfe, and after order had been taken for the pacifying of all things in the 
 City, they continued feven whole days together without being able to come to any 
 agreement about the ele&ion ; for whereas there were eight Pretendents of the prin¬ 
 cipal Lords of the Kingdom, there were found among!! thefe Electors many different 
 opinions, which proceeded from this, that the moll, part, or all df them, were meeriy 
 allicd»to the eighr, or to their kinfmen, fo that each one laboured to make him Pan - 
 gueyran which was mol! to his minde. Whereupon the Inhabitants of the City,and the 
 Souldiers of the Army, making ufe of this delay to their advantage, as men who imagi- 
 ned that this affair would never be terminated, and that there would be nochaflife- 
 ment for them, they began fha.melefly to break out into all kinde of a&ions full of in- 
 folency and malice. And forafmuch as there was a great number of Merchants Ships 
 in the Port, they got aboard them, and fell pell-mell to rifling both of Strangers, and 
 thofe of the Country, with fo much licentioufnefs, as it was faid,that in four days they 
 took an hundred Junks, wherein they killed above fix thoufand men ; whereof notice 
 being given to the King of Panaruca , Prince of Balambuam, and Admiral of the Sea 
 of this Empire, he ran thither with ail fpeed, and of the number of thofe which were 
 convi&ed of manifell Robbery, hecaufed fourfeore to be hanged all along the fhore, 
 to theterrour of thofe that fhould behold them. After this adtion, Qulay Anfedeaa t 
 Pate or Duke of fherbom, who was Governour of the Town, and greatly in authority, 
 taking this which the King of Panaruca had done for a manifell contempr, becaufe he 
 had, faid he, little relpe<5!ed the charge of Governour, was fo mightily offended at ir, 
 as having inflantly got together about fix or feven thoufand men, he went and fell up¬ 
 on this Kings Palace, with an intent tofeize upon his perfon ; but the Pamruca refilled 
 him with his followers, and as it was faid, he endeavoured with many complements to 
 jullifiehimfilf to him all that ever he could; whereunto Qulay Anfedeaa was fo far 
 from having any regard, as contrarily entring by force into his houfe he flew thirty or 
 forty of his men;in the mean timefo many people ran to this mutiny as it was a dread- 
 full thing to behold. For whereas rhefe two Heads were great Lords, one Admiral of 
 the Fleer, the other Governour of theTo.vn, and both of them a lied to the principal 
 Fami iesof the Country, the Devil fowed fo great a Divifionamongllthem, as if night 
 had not feparaced the Fight, it is credible that not one of them had efcaped ; neverthe- 
 lefs the Difference went yet much farther, and ended not fo 5 for the Men of War, who 
 were at that time above fix hundred thoufand in number, coming to confider the great 
 Affront which Quiay Anfedeaa, Governour of theTown, had done to their Admiral, 
 they to be revenged thereof went all afhore the fame night, the Panaruca not being 
 of power enough to keep them from it, notwithllanding he laboured all that he could 
 to do it. T hus all of them animated and tranfported with wrath; and a defire of re¬ 
 venge, went and fet upon . Qulay Anfedeaa s houfe, where they flew him, and ten thou- 
 r End men ; wherewith not contented, they affaulted the Town in ten or eleven places, 
 and fell to killing and plundering all that ever they met with, fo that they carried them- 
 
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 reives therein with fo much violence, »s in three days alone, which was as long as the 
 fie°e of this Town lafted, nothing remained that was not an infupporcable objeft to 
 the fioht There was withall fo greac a confufion of howling, weeping, and heavy la¬ 
 mentation, as all that heard it could think no other bo: that the Earth was going to turn 
 toDfie-turvy. In a word, and not to lofe time in aggravating this with fuperfluous 
 ■/beeches, the Town was all on fire, which burnt to the very Foundations, fo that ac¬ 
 cording to report there were above an hundred thoufand houfes confumed, above three 
 hundred thoufand perfons cut in pieces, and almoft as many made Prisoners, which 
 were led away Slaves, and fold in divers Countries. Befides there was an infinite of 
 Riches ftollen, whereof the value, asitwasfaid onely in Silver ^nd Gold, amounted 
 even to forty millions, and all put together, to an hundred millions of Gold. As for the 
 number of Prifoners, and of fuch as were ffain, it was near five hundred thoufand per¬ 
 fons ; and all thefe things arrived by the evil counfel of a young King, bred up among!* 
 young people like himfelf, who did everything at his own pleafurc, without any bo¬ 
 dy contradi&ing him. 
 
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 / That which befell m, mill our departu re towards the Port of Zunda, from whence we Jet 
 
 fail for China, and what afterwards happened unto ms 
 
 $e&.K ^TpHreis days after fo cruel and horrible a Mutiny, whenas all things were peaceable, 
 JL the principal Heads of this Commotion fearing atfoonas a Pangueyran mould be 
 elefted,that they fhould be punilhed according to the enormity of their crime, they all 
 of them fet fail vvithout longer attending the danger which chreatned them. They de¬ 
 parted away then in the fame VefTels wherein they came, the King of Panoruca, their 
 Admiral, being not poflibly able to flay them, but contrarily was twice in jeopardy of 
 lofing himfelf in endeavouring to do itvviththofe few m^n that weie't5Fnisp*tty* 
 Thus in the fpace of two days onely, the two thoufand Sails that wire in the I ore 
 went away, leaving the Town (fill burning, which was the caufe that thbfc few Lords, 
 which remained, being joyned together, relolved to pals unto the Town of Japara, 
 fome five leagues from thence towards the Coaft of the Meditcrranean Sea. This re - 
 folution being taken, they put it prefently in execution, to the end that with the more 
 tranquillity (for the popular Commotion was not yet well appeafed) they might make 
 ele&ion of the Pangueyran, which properly fignifies Emperonr ; As indeed they created 
 one, called Pate Sudayo , Prince of Surubayaa, who had been none of thole eight Pre- 
 tendents of whom we have lpoken; but this Election they made, becaufe it feemed to 
 them neceffary for the common good, and the quiet of the Country: All.the Inhabi¬ 
 tants too were exceedingly fatisfied with it, and they immediatly fent the Panarucd 
 for him to a place fome dozen leagues from thence, called PifammcneSyVthttt he at that 
 time lived. Nine days after he was fent for he failed not to come, accompanied with 
 above two hundred thoufand men, imbarqued in fifteen hundred Calaluz.es and Jury- 
 pangos . He was received by all the people with great demonfiration of joy, and a lit¬ 
 tle .’iter he was crowned with the accufiomed Ceremonies, as Pangueyran of all the 
 Countries of Jaoa, Bala , and Madura , which is a Monarchy that is very populous, and 
 exceeding rich and mighty. That done, he returned 10 the Town of Demaa, with an 
 intent to have it rebuilt anew, and to reftore it to its former eftate. At his arrival in 
 that place, the firft thing he did was to give order for the punifbing of thofe wfrich were 
 found attainted and convi&ed of the facking of the Town, who proved not to be a- 
 bovc five thoufand, though the number of them was far greater, for all the rel* were 
 fled avvay,fome here, fome there. Thefe Wretches fuffered onely two kindes of Death, 
 fome were impaled alive, and the icl* were burned in the very fame Ships wherein they 
 were apprehended; and of four days, wherein this juftice was executed, there pal* 
 not one without the putting to death of a great number, which fo mightily terrified us 
 Portugals thac were there prefent, as feeing the Commotion very great flill over the 
 whole Country, and no likelihood that things would of a long time be peaceable, we 
 humbly delired the King of Zunda to give us leave to go to our Ship which lay in the 
 Port of Banta t in regard the fealon for the Voyage to China was already come. This 
 
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 King having eafily granted our requelfiwith an exemption of the Cuftoms of our Mer- 
 chandie, prefented every of us befides with an hundred Ducates; and to each of ihe 
 Heirs of fourteen of ours, which were flain in the War,he gave three hundred,which we 
 acceptedof as a very honourable Reward, end worthy of a moft liberal, and goodnatu- 
 red Prince. Thus went we presently away very well fatisfied of him to the pert of 
 Santa, and there we remained twelve whole days together, during the which we made 
 an end of preparing our felves for our Voyage. After this, we fee fail for (fhina in the 
 company of other four Ships, who were bound for the fame place, and we took a- 
 long with us the fame Jouno Rodriguez, y whom we encountred at Pafferuan y as I hive 
 before declared, that had made himfelf a Brachman of a Pagode y called Ouiay Nacorcl; 
 and as for him he had named himfelf Gauxitau Facalem ,which is as much co fay a sjhe 
 Council of the Samt. The fame Joano Rodriguez, no toorer arrived at China , but he im« 
 barqued himfelf for Malaca, where (through the grace of God) he was reconciled a- 
 new to the Catholick Faith; and after he had continued a year there, he died with great 
 demonftrations of a good and true Chriftian, whereby it feems we may believe that our 
 Lord received him to mercy,fi nee after fo many years profeffion of an Infidel, he refer- 
 ved him to come and die in his fervice, for which be he praifed for evermore. Our five 
 Ships then, with which we parted from Zunda y being arrived at C'hincbeo y where tne 
 Portugals at that time traded, we abode three moneths and an half there with travel 
 and danger enough of our perfons; for we were in a Country, where nothing but Re¬ 
 volts and Mutinies Were fpoken of. Withall, there were great Armies afoot all 
 along the Coafi, by reafon of many Robberies which the Pirats of Japon had com¬ 
 mitted thereabout; fo that in this Diforder therc|was no means to exercife any Com¬ 
 merce, for the Merchants durft not leave their houfes to go to Sea. By reafon of all 
 this we were conftrained topafs unto the Port of Chabaquca, where <we found at an¬ 
 chor fixfcore Juncks, who having fet upon us, took three of our five Veffels, wherein 
 four hundred Cbriftians were killed, of which fourfeore and two were Portugals. As for 
 the other two Vcflfds, in one of the which I was, they cfcaped as it were by Miracle. 
 
 But becaufe we could nor make to land, by reafon of the Eaftcrly Windes which were 
 contrary to us all that fame moneth, we were conftrained (though to our great grief ) 
 to regain the Coaft of Jaoa.. At length after we had couJinued our courfe by the fpace 
 of two and twenty days with a great deal of travel fnd danger, we difeovered an 
 Ifland called PuRo Condor diliaht eight Degrees,and ojafe third of heighth from the Bar 
 of the Kingdom of Carboy i1. Whereupon as we w'erfc even ready to reach it, fo furi¬ 
 ous a Storm came from the South-coaft,as we werdjsli in jeopardy to be caft away* Ne- 
 vertbelefs driving along we got to the Ifle of Li»gua> where a Tempeft furprifed us at 
 Weft and South-Weft,with 16 impetuous a Winders ftrugling againft the Billow,it kept 
 us from making ufe of our Sails 5 fothat being in fear of Rocks and Shelves of Sand, 
 which were in the Proiv-fide, we fleered the other way, untill that after fome time the 
 Fore-keel of our Poup opened within nine hand-bredths of the Water, which was the 
 caufe, feeing our felves fo near unto.death, that we were enforced to cut down our two 
 Mafts,and co caft all our Merchandifes into the Sea,whereby our Ship was fomewhat eaf- 
 ed. This done, whereas we had left our Ship the reft of the day, and a good part of the 
 night,to the mercy of the Sea,it pieafed our Lord out of an ctfe& of his divine juftice, 
 thac without knowing how, or without feeing any thing, our Ship ran her felf againft 
 a Rock, with the death of feventy and two perfons. This miferable fuccefs fb deprived 
 us of all our underftandings and forces, thac not fo much as one of us ever thought of 
 any way faving himfelf, as the Chinefes y whom we had for Mariners in our Junck hid 
 done, for they had fo beftirred themtelVes all the night long, that before it was day 
 they had made a Raft of fuch Planks and Beams as came to their hands, tying them to¬ 
 gether in fuch fort with the Ofrdage of their Sails,that forty perfons might abide upon 
 ft with eafe. Now whereas we were in an imminent Danger, and in a time wherein 
 (as they fay) the Father does nothing for his Son, nor the Son for the Father, no man 
 took care but for himfelf alone, whereof we had a fair Example in our Chine ft Man¬ 
 ners, whom we accounted but as our ftaveS',for Afartin Eftcvcz, y the Captain and Mafter 
 of the Junck, having intreated his own fervants, who were upon the Raft, to receive 
 him amongft them, theyanfwercd him, chat they could not do it at any hand, which 
 
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 coming to the ears of one of ours called %uy ds Mourn, whereas he could not endure 
 t hat thofe perfidious Villains (hould ufe us with fo much aifcourtefie and ingratitude, he 
 got him up on his feet from a place where he lay hurt, and made unto us a (hort fpeech, 
 whereby be reprelented unto us, 7 hat we were to remember how odious a thing Cowardice 
 was; and Withall, how ahfo lately it imported us to {size upon this raft for the faviug of 
 our Lives. To thefe words he added many o:her fuch like, which fo encouraged us, t han 
 v/ith one accord, and with one and the fame refolution, whereunto the prefenr nec Oicy 
 obliged us, being but eight and twenry Portugal*, we fee upon the forty Chituks which 
 were upon the raft. We oppofed our Swords then to their Iron Hatchets, and fou'°hc 
 fo luftily with them, as we killed them all in the fpace of two or three Credo's. It is 
 true indeed, that of us eight and twenty Portugal*, fixteen were flain,sncJ twelve efca- 
 ped, but fo wounded, that four of them died the next day. This was an accident, where¬ 
 of no doubt the like hath feldom been heard of, or feen, whereby one mav clearly per¬ 
 ceive how great the mifery of humane life is, for it was not twelve hours before 
 when as we all embraced each other in the {hip, and behaved our felvesilike ri°ht Bre¬ 
 thren, intending to die tor one another ; and fo foon after our fins carried us\o fuch 
 great extremity, as hardly fuftaining our felves upon four feurvy Planks, tied together 
 with two Ropes, we killed one another with as much barbarifm, as if we had been 
 mortal fcnemies, or fomething worfe. It is true, that the Excufe which may be alleged 
 thereupon is, that ncceflity, which hath no law, compelled us thereunto. 
 
 When as we were Matters of this raft, which had coft us and the Chine ft siom\xd\ 
 bloud, we fet upon it eight and thirty perfons of us that we were, of which there were 
 twelve .Portugal*, fome of their children, our fervants, and the remainder of thofe that 
 were hurt, whereof the moft part died afterwards. Now forafmuch as w e werefo 
 great a number upon a very little raft, where we floated at the mercy of the Waves of 
 the Sea, the Water came up to our middles, and in chis faftiion we efcaped from that 
 angv_rous and intortunate Rock, on Saturday, being Chriftmat day, one thoufand five 
 hundred forty and {even,with one onely piece of an old counter-point, which ferved us 
 f P r a h tying neither Needle nor Compafs to guide us: True it is, that we fupplied 
 this defedfc with the great hope which we had in our Lord, whom we invoked incetfant- 
 yp roans and %hs, that were accompanied with abundance of tears. In this piti- 
 
 we T lgated a f0 - Ur ^ holc days witfaouc eadD § l °y thi ®g» fo that upon 
 \ h day neceflity conftrained us to feed on a which died amongft us, with 
 
 whoie body we fuflained our felves five days longer, which made up the nineth of out 
 Voyage 5 io that during other four, wherein we continued in this cafe, we had nothin** 
 eifetocat but the foam and flime of the Sea; for we refolved to die with hunger ri 
 t her then feed on any of thofe four Portugal* which lay dead by us. After we had wan- 
 dcred thus at the mercy of the Sea, it pieafed out.Lord out of hi s infinite goodnefs to 
 “ L j“ d ° n , the r twdft h day, which was fo agreeable a fight tour, as the 
 
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 died fuddenly,whereof three were Portugal*; fo that of eight and thirty perfons which 
 had been imbarqued on the raft, there was but eleven that efcaped, namely, fevenfV- 
 four of our Boys, in the end having got to land, we found our felves in a 
 
 ^XoGodfo?ha n ? dmU h Ch J^ t0 ,“ «** "»** we began™ mndeHnfinire 
 thanks toGodfor having thus delivered us from the perils of the Sea, promifine our 
 
 Ha’vinobh’ chac , tbr0u s*|' hls infinite mercy he would draw us out of thofe of the Land; 
 Swkhall“ rcam ,? ieI1 -fifi'.« Oiflets,andSea-crabs,to nourilhour 
 S r X ' h J T f had ° bferved bow 111 tbis Country was very Deferr, and full 
 r [ „ £ and T, 8' e r s > we g°t “P mto certain Trees, tothe end we might avoid the fu¬ 
 ry of thefe Bealls, and fome others which we faw there; then when we t hough t hat we 
 
 rwood'fwhere 0 to'fecuteoT'r !i ,WC gathered " s t°g* b «,and vvent D 0 n through 
 
 a wood,fwnere to fecure our lives)we had recourfe to loud cries.and hollowing Id the 
 
 S dlviae ^ to f«“ poo^Lfferers 
 
 ter P ° n ^ l tb, L Pjjnutwd US to fee coming along in a Channel of frefh Wa- 
 
 Wood, wherefn wt°fn\nt Nco™ ^ 7 Sca,a J j CtIc Blr< J ue » ■then with Timber and other 
 g)nin° thatwe w.-rr r«m„ n S/ W! Papua*. Affoon as thefe men faw us,ima- 
 a ° a We were fome D < Vils >« they confefled to us afterwards, they leapt into the 
 
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 Wateiyind quite left the Veffel, not fo much as one of rhem abiding in her; But when 
 t hey perceived what we were, they abandoned the fear they were in before, and com¬ 
 ing unto us they questioned us about many particulars, whereunto we anfwered accord¬ 
 ing to the truth, and withal!, delired them, for Gods fake, to lead us whitherfoever they 
 wou d,and there to fell us as Slaves to fome that would carry us to Malaca; adding that 
 we were Merchants, and that in acknowledgment of fo good an office, they fliould gee 
 a great deal cf Money for us, or as much in Commodities as they would require. Now 
 wnereas t'nefe Jaoas are natura'ly inclined to avarice, when they heard us talk of their 
 intereff, they began to be more tradf able, and gave us better words, with hope of doing 
 that which we delired of them'; but thefe courtefies lalied no longer but till luch time as 
 they could get again into their Barque, which they had quitted ; for affoon as they faw 
 themfelves aboard her, they put off from the land, and making as though they would 
 part without taking us in, they told us, that to be affured of what we had laid to them, 
 they would have us before they proceeded any further, to yield up our Arms to them, 
 whereas otherwife they would never take us in, no not chough they faw us eaten up with 
 Lions. Seeing our felves thus contained by neceffity, and by a certain defpair of find¬ 
 ing any other remedy to our prefent extremity, we were enforced to do all that thefe 
 men required of us* fo that having brought their Barque a little nearer, they bid us 
 fwim to them, becaufe they had never a Boat to fetch us from the fhore, which we pre¬ 
 fen rlyrefolved to do. Whereupon two Boys and one Portugal leapt into the Sea to 
 take hold on a Rope, which they had thrown out to us from eff the Poup of the Barque; 
 but before they could reach it, they were devoured by 3 great Lizards, nothing of the 
 bodies of thefe 3 appearing to us, but onely the bloud, wherewith the Sea was all dyed. 
 Whiieff this paffed fo, we the other 8 that remained on the fhore were fo feized with 
 fear and terrour,as we were not our felves a long time after,wherewith thofc Dogs which 
 were in the Barque were not a whit moved; bat contrarily, clapping their hands toge¬ 
 ther in the fign of joy. they faid in the way of jearing, O how happy are thefe three, for 
 that they have ended their days without pain ! Then when as they faw that we were half 
 funk up into the Ouze,without lo much lirength as to get our felves outacdL it, 5 of them 
 leaped a fhore, and tying us by the middle, drew us into their Birque,with a thoufand 
 injuries and affronts. After this fetting fail they carried us to a Village called Cherbam , 
 which was fome dozen leagues from!thence, where they fold all eight of us, namely, fix 
 Portugals, one Chinefe Boy, and a Caphar , for the fum of 13 Par dains, which are in va¬ 
 lue ^ooRcalsoi our Money. He that bought us was a Pagan Merchant of thelfleof 
 Zelebres , in whofe power we continued fix or eight and twenty days, and without ly¬ 
 ing, we had no lack with him, either of clothes or meat. The fame Merchant fold us 
 afterwards for twelve Piftols to the King of Calapa , who ufed fo great a magnificence 
 towards us, as he fent us freely to the Port of Zunda , where there were three Portugal 
 Veflels, where Jeronimo Gomez, Surmento was General, who gave us a very good re¬ 
 ception, and furnifhed us abundantly with all that was neceffary for us, untill fuchtime 
 as he put to Sea from the Port, to fet fet fail to China • 
 
 CHAP, LXVII. 
 
 t^My puffing from Zunda to Siam, where in the company of the Portugals / went to the War 
 of Chiammay; and thatwhich the King of Siam did, untiU he returned into hie 
 
 Kingdom , where his Queen poifoned him. 
 
 A Peer we had been very rear a moneth in this Port of Zunda , where a good number 
 of 'Portugal* were affembled together, fo foon as the feafon to go to China was 
 come, the three Vellels let fail for Chineheo, no more Portugals remaining afhore, but 
 onely two, who went r o Siam in a Junckof Patana with their Merchandise. I be¬ 
 thought me then to lay hold on this occafion, and put my felf into their company, be¬ 
 caufe they offered to bear my charges in this voyage,yea and to lend me fome money for 
 to try fortune once more,and fee whether by the force of importuning her,fhe would 
 not ufe me better then formerly fhe bad done. Being departed then from this place, in 
 fix and twenty days vve arrived at the City of Odiaa , the Capital of this Empire of 
 Sarnau , which they of this Country ordinarily call Siaam, where vve were vvonder- 
 
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 fullv well received andintreatedby the Portugal*, which vve found there. Novv having 
 b^en a moneth and better in this City, attending t he feafon lor the Voyage to China, 
 that fo I might pifs to Japan in the company of fix or feven ‘Portugal*, who had im- 
 barqued themfelves for‘that purpofe, I made account to imploy in Commodities fome 
 hundred Ducates, which thofe 2, with whom 1 came from Zmda, had lent me. In the 
 mean time very certain news came to the King of Siam , who was at that time with all 
 his Court at the faid City of Odiaa, that the King of Chiammay, allied with the Time- 
 couho*, laaos, and Gucos, People which on the North-Eali hold the moft part of that 
 Country above Capimper and Patfiloco,* nd are all Sovereigns, exceeding rich and migh¬ 
 ty i n Elbtes, had laid liege to the Town of Quiteruan , with the dpathof above thirty 
 thoufand men, and of Oyaa Capimper , Governour and Lieutenant General of all that 
 Frontirc. The King remained fo much appalled with this news, that without further 
 temporifmg, he pafied over the very fame day to the other fide of the River, and never 
 Handing to lodge itx houfes, he went and encamped under Tents in the open Field, 
 thereby to draw others to do the like in imitation of him : Witball he caufed Proclama¬ 
 tion to be made over all the City, That all fuch as were neither eld nor lamcy andfo could 
 not he diffenfed with forgoing to this War, Should be ready to march within 12 days at the 
 uttermofiyUpon pain of being burned alive , with perpetual infamy for themfe Ives,and their 
 defeendents, and conffcation of their pjflates to the Crown* To which he added many 
 ocher fuch great and dreadfull penalties, as the onely recital of them ftruck cerrour, noc 
 onely into them of the Country, but into the very ftrangers, whom the King would noc 
 exempt from this War, of what Nation foever they were, for if they would noc ferve, 
 they were very exprefly enjoyned to depart out of his Kingdom within three days. 
 In the mean time fo rigorous an Edi& terrified every one in fuch fort, as they knew noc 
 what counfcl to take, or what refolution to follow; As for us Portugals y in regard 
 that more refpeft had always been carried in that Councry to them, then to all other 
 Nations, this King fent to defire them that they would accompany him in this Voyage* 
 wherein they fhould do him a pleafure, becaufe he would truft them onely with the 
 Guard of hisPerfon, as judging them more proper for it then any other that he could 
 make choice of; and to oblige them the more thereunto, the Meffage was accompanied 
 with many fair promifes, and very great hopes of Penfions, Graces, Benefits,Favours, 
 and Honours, but above all, with a permiflion which fhould be granted them to build 
 Churches in his Kingdom which fo obliged us, that of an hundred and thirty Portu¬ 
 gal* vvhich vve vvere,there were fixfcore of us that agreed together to go to this War. 
 The twelve days limited being pafi,the King put himfelf into the Field with an Afmy 
 of four hundred thoufand men,-whereof feventy thoufand were Strangers of divers 
 Nations: They imbarqued all in three hundred Seroosy Lauleas , and Jangas, fothat on 
 the nineth day of this Voyage the King arrived at a Frontier Town, named Suropifem , 
 fome 12 or 13 leagues from .Quitiruan, which the Enemies had befieged. There 
 he abode above feven days to attend four thoufand Elephants which came to him by 
 land. During that time, he was certified that the Town was greatly prefi, both on the ri¬ 
 vers fide,which the Enemies had feized upon with two thoufand Vefiels,as alfo towards 
 t£e land, where there were fo many men, as the number of them was noc truly known, 
 but as it was adjudged by con je&ure,tbeyiT.ight be fome three hundred thoufand,where¬ 
 of forty thoufand were Horfe,but no Elephants at all. This news made the King haflen 
 the more, fo that inftantly he made a review of his Forces, and found that he bad five 
 hundred thoufand men ; for fince his coming forth many had joyned with him by the 
 way, as alfo four thoufand Elephants, and two hundred Carts with Field- pieces. With 
 this Army he parted from Suropifem, and drew towards Quitiruan , marching not above 
 four or five leagues a day. At the end of the third, then he' arrived at a Valley called 
 Siputay, a league and a half from the place where the Enemies lay. Then allthefe 
 Men of War, with the Elephants, being fet in Battel-aray by the three Mailers of the 
 Camp, whereof two were Turk* by Nation, and the third a ‘Portugal , named Domin¬ 
 gos de Soixas, they proceeded on in their way towards Quitiruan , whefe they arrived 
 before the Sun appeared. Now whereas the Enemies were already prepared, in regard 
 they had been adverifed by their Spies of the King of Siam's Forces,and of the Defign 
 which he had, they attended him refolutcly in the plain Field, relying much on their 
 
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 forty thoufand Horfe. Affoon as they difcovered him, they prefently advanced, and 
 with their Vant-guard, which were the faid forty tb ‘Ufand Horfe, they fo charged the 
 Kin a of Siam's Rereward, compofedof chrcefcore thouiand Foot,that they routed c lem 
 in lei's then a quarter of an hour, with the lofs of three Princes that were (lain upon the 
 place. The King of Siam feeing his Men thus routed, relol ved not to follow the or¬ 
 der which he had formerly appointed, but to fall on with thejwhole Body of his Army, 
 and the four tboufand Elephants joyncd together. With thefe Forces he gave upon the 
 Battalion of the Enemies with fo much impetuofity, as at his firft Shock r hey were 
 wholly difcomfised, from whence enfued the death of an infinite company of men | 
 for whereas their principal firength confifted in their Horfe, affoon as the Elephants, 
 fuftained by the Harquebufes and the Field-pieces, fell upon cuem, they were defeated 
 lnlefs then half an hour, fo that after the routing of thete fame, all the reft began in- 
 ftantly to retreat. In the mean time the Kingof S>sm 9 following the honour of the 
 Vi&orv, purfued them to the Rivers fide, which the Enemies perceiving, they formed 
 a new Squadron of thofe that remained of them, wherein there were above an hun¬ 
 dred thoufand men, as well found as hurt, and fo pall all the fame day there, joyned 
 together in one entire Body of an Army, the King not daring to fight withth^m, by 
 reafon he faw them fortified with two thoufand Ships, wherein there were-great mm- 
 hers of men. Neverthelefs, affoon as it was dark night the Enemies began to march 
 away with all fpeed all along by the River, wherewith.the King was nothing difoleafed, 
 becaufe the moft part of his Souldiers being hurt, they were neceffanly to. be dreft, as 
 indeed that was prefently executed, and the moft part of the day and the m D ht fol o 
 
 1U lifter the Kingof Smw had obtained fo happy a Vi&ory, the firft thing that he did 
 was to provide with all diligence for the Fortifications of the Town, and whatfoever 
 elfe he thought to be neceffary for the fecurity thereof. After that he commanded a ge¬ 
 neral Mufter to be made of all his Men of War, that he might know how many he had 
 loft in th- Battel; whereupon he found that fome fifty thoufand were wanting, ah men 
 of little reckoning, whom the rigour of the Kings Edia had compelled ito icrvein the 
 War, ill provided, and without defenfive Arms; As for the Enemies, it was known the 
 next day P that an hundred and thirty thoufand of them had beenfhin. Affoon as the 
 hurt men were recovered, the King, having put into the principal places of hls ^ r °“; 1 
 fuch Guards as feemed requifite to him, was counfelled by his Lords to make War upon 
 the Kingdom of Gn\bem, which was not above fifteen leagues from thence on the 
 North-fide, to be revenged on the Queen of Guibem , for having given free paitage 
 through her Dominions to thofe of Cbiammay , in regard whereof he attributed to her 
 the lofs of Oyaa Capimper, and the chirty thoufand men that had been killed with him. 
 The King approving^of this advice, parted from this Town with an Army of four hun¬ 
 dred thoufand men" and went and fell upon one of this Queens Towns, called Fumba- 
 CO r which was eafily taken, and all the Inhabitants put to the Sword, not one excepted. 
 This done he continued his Voyage till he came to Guitor,thz capital Town of theKmg- 
 dorn of Guibem, where the Queen then was,who being a Widow governed the State un¬ 
 der the Title of Xcgevt, during the minority of her Son,that was about the age of nine 
 years: At his arrival he laid fiege to the Town, and forafmuch as the Qjeenfound not 
 her felf ftrong enough to refift the Kingof Siam's power, fhe fell to accord with him 
 
 to pay him an annual Tribute of five thoufand Tmmes of Silver, which are threefcore 
 thoufand Ducaces of our Money, whereof fhe paid him five years advance m hand Be- 
 Tides that the young Prince her Son did him Homage as his Vaflal, and the King led him 
 away with him to Siam. Hereupon he raifed his fiege from before the Town, »d pai¬ 
 red ^towards the North-Eaft to the Town of Tayfira*, where be^ be rc! 
 Kin« of (hiammay Was fallen oft from League aforefaid. In the mean time, where 
 m he had been fix /ays march in the Enemies Territories,he racked as m * n Y P’*“**f A e 
 met withal!, not permitting the life of any Male whatfoever tobefaved. Soproaed. 
 
 onward he arrived at the Lake of Swgtfamor, which ordinarily is called Cyammay, 
 where he (laid fix and twenty days, during the which he took twelve good ly places, 
 environed with Ditches and Bulwarks after our fafhion, all of Brick and Mortar, with- 
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 but they had no other Artillery then fome Faulconets, and certain Muskets of Brafs. 
 Now forafmuch as Winter began to approach, and that it was very rainy Weather, the 
 Kin^ coo feeling himfelf not very well, he retired back again to the Town of Quitl - 
 rua», where he tarried three and twenty days and better, in which fpace he made an 
 end of fortifying it with Walls, and many broad and deep Ditches, fo that having put 
 this Town into an eftate of being able to defend it felt againft any Attempt, he im- 
 barquedhis Army in the three thoufand Veffels which brought him thither, and fore- 
 turned towards Siam* Nine day^after he arrived at Odiaa, the chief City of his whole 
 Kingdom, where for the moft part he kept his Court. At his arrival the Inhabitants 
 gave him a [lately Reception, wherein they bellowed a world of money upon divers In¬ 
 ventions, which Were made againft his entiy. Now whereas during the fix moneths’of 
 the Kings abfence* the Queen his Wife had committed Adultery with a Purveyor of her 
 houfe, named Vtyuumcheniraa, and that at the Kings return fhe found her felf gone 
 four moneths with childe by him, the fear (he was in left it fhould be difeovered made 
 her, for the faving of her felf from the danger that threatned her, refolve topoifon 
 the King her Husband, as indeed, wit hour further delaying her pernicious intention, frte 
 gave him in a Mefs of Milk, which wi ought that effeft, as he died of ic within five 
 days after 5 during which time he took order by his Teftament for the moft important 
 affairs of his Kingdom, and difeharged himfelf of the obligation wherein he flood in- 
 gaged to the Strangers which had ferved him in this War of Chiammay In this Tefta- 
 menr, when as he came to make mention of us Tortugalsf he would needs have this 
 claufe added thereunto. It is my intent that the flxfcore Portugals, which have always fo 
 faithfully watched upon the Guard of my Perfon, (fall receive for a Recompence of their 
 good Services, half a years Tribute which the Queen of Guibim gives me j and that in my 
 Cufiom-houfes their Merchandife fhallpay no Cu(lorn for the Jpace of 3 years : Moreover 
 my intent is , that their Priefts may throughout all the Towns of my Kingdom publifh the 
 Law whereof they make prof effort) namely , of a God made Man for the falvation of man- 
 kjnde, as they have many times ajfured me. To thefe things he added many others fuch 
 like, which well deferve to be reported here,though I pafs them over in filence, beciufe I 
 hope to make a more ample mention of them hereafter. Furthermore, he defired all the 
 Grandees of his Court which were prefent with him, that they would give him the con¬ 
 solation before he died, to make his eldeft Son be declared King, which was inconti¬ 
 nently executed. For which effe< 5 fc,after that all the Oyaas,Conchalis, and Monteos, which 
 are Sovereign Dignities over all the reft of the Kingdom, had caken the Oath of Alle- 
 geance to this young Prince, they fhewed him out at a Window to all the People, who 
 were in a great place below, and they fee upon his head a rich Crown of Gold in the 
 form of a Mitre, and put a Sword into his right hand, and a pair of Balances in his left, 
 a cufiom which they always obferve in fuch a like ceremony.- Then Oya Paflilico , who 
 was the higheft in dignity in the Kingdom, falling on his knees before the new King, 
 faid unto him with tears in his eyes, and fo loud that every one might hear him, Bleffed 
 childe,that in fo tender an age dofl hold from the good influence of thy Star the happinefs to 
 be ehofen by Heaven there above for Governour of this Empire of Sornau -fee how God puts 
 it into thy hand by me who am thy Taffafto the end thou maift take thy firfl Oath, whereby 
 tho udefl yrotefl to hold it with obedience to his divine will , as alfo to obferve juftice e- 
 qually to all the people,without having any regard to perfons,whether it be in chafliflng or re- 
 comp njing the great or fm ally he mighty or the humble, that fo m time to come thou maifl 
 not be reproached for not having accomplijhedthat which thou hafl [worn in this folemn alii- 
 on.For if it fball happen,that humane considerations fhall make thee fwerve from that which 
 for thy jufl if cation thou art obliged to do before fo juft a Lord,thou Jba/t be greatly punijh- 
 ed for it in the profound pit of the houfeof [moke, the,burning lake of infupportable flench, 
 where the wicked and damned howl continually with a fadnefs of obfeure night in their en¬ 
 trails. Andto the endthoumaifloblige thy felf to the charge which thou takeflupon thee, 
 fay now Ximxaimpom, which is as much as to fay , amongfl us,\Amen. The Pafflico ha¬ 
 ving fin (lied hbSpeecffthe young Prince faid weeping Xamxalmpomyrthich fo mightily 
 moved all the Aflernbly of the People, as there was nothing heard for a good while 
 t p°i7V ,er * k Ut and wailing. At length, after that this noife was appeafed, the 
 
 l ajjiiico proceeding on with his Difcourfe in looking on the young King; This Sword, 
 
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 laid he unco him, which thou holdefi naked m thy handy is given thee as a Scepter of Sdve* 
 reign power upon earth for the [ubdutng of the rebellious , which is alfo to (ay that thou art 
 truly obliged to be thefupport of the feeble and poor , to the end that they which grow lofty 
 With their power jnay not overthrow them with the pujfe of their pride, whteh the, Lord doth 
 tu much abhor,as he doth the mouth of him that blafphemeth againjl a little Infant which 
 hath never finned: z/ 4 nd that thou mayefi in all things fat is fie the fair enamelling of 
 the flarsof heaven,which is the per feft,ju]l,and good God,whofe power is admirable over all 
 things of the world,fay once again Xamxaimpom 5 whereumo the Prince anfwered twice 
 weeping, Maxinau, Maxinau , that is to fay, / promife fo to do. After this, the Pafflico 
 having lnftru&ed him in divers ocher fuch like things, the young Prince anfwered feven 
 times Xamxaimpom, and fo che ceremony of his Coronation was finifhed , only there 
 came firft a Talagrepo, of a foyereign dignicy above all the other Priefts, named Quiay 
 Fonuedea, who ic was faid was above an hundred years old : This fame proftrating.hicn- 
 felf at the feet of the Prince, gave him an oath upon a golden bafon fall of rice; and 
 that done, they put him into it, after they had created him thus anew; for time would 
 not permit them to hold him there longer, in regard the King his Father was at the 
 point of death ; beftdes there was fo univerfall a mourning amongft the people, that; 
 in every place there was nothing heard buc lamentations and wailing. 
 
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 The lamentable death of the King of Siam, with certain illuflriom and memorable 
 things done by him during his life ; and many other accidents that 
 
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 W Hen as the day and the night following hid been fpenc in the manner that I Sedt.u 
 have related* the next morning about eight of the clock the infortunate King 
 yielded up the Ghoft in the prefence of the mod pare of the Lords of his Kingdom, 
 toe the which all the people made fo great demonftrations of mourning, as every 
 where there was nothing but wailing and weeping. Now forafmucb as this Prince had 
 lived ifl the reputation of being charitable to the poor, liberall in his benefits and re- 
 compences, picifull and gentle toward every one, and above all incorrupt in doing of 
 juftice, and chaftifing the wicked • HTs Subjects fpake fo amply thereof in their lamentati¬ 
 ons, as if all that they faid of it was true; we arc to believe, that there was never a bet¬ 
 ter King then he^ either amongft thefe Pagans, or in all the Countries of the world. 
 Howbeic, whereas I cannot allure, that thofe things which they affirmed in their com¬ 
 plaints were true, becaufe I did not fee them, I will only infift upon thofe which part 
 concerning him, in che time whileft I was trading in this Kingdom, whereof I will re¬ 
 port three or four amongft many others,which I have feen him do,from the year 1 ^40. 
 untill 1 54?. The firft was, that in the year 1 540. Pedro de Faria, being Goyernour of 
 Malaca, King Jodno or John, the third, of glorious memory, wrote him a Letter,whereby 
 above all things he recommended unto him his tiling all poflible means for the redeeming 
 of a certain Domingos de Seixai, who for the fpace of three and twenty years had been a 
 {live in the Kingdom of Siam ; adding that the doing thereof would be very impor¬ 
 tant for Gods fervice and his, in regard he was informed, that from him, rather then 
 from any other,he might be certified of the great things which were recounted to him 
 of this Kingdom ; and in cafe he could redeem this Chriftian, that he faould fend him 
 incontinently to Don Garcia , the Vice-Roy of the India's , to whom he had alfo writ¬ 
 ten, that he fhould imbarque him in the {hip which was to part that year for to return 
 nco* Portugal. r Pedro de Faria had no fooner received this Letter, buc feeing with how 
 much care the King his Mafter recommended dais affair unto him,he fent us with his Am- 
 balTadour to Siam,one. Francifco de Caflro,% noble &:ve:y rich man,to the end he fhould 
 treat about the raniom of this Domingos de Seixas , and ocher ftxreen Portugals , which 
 were alfo Haves there as well as he. According to this Commiffion Francifco de Caflro 
 came to the City of Odiaa , whileft I was there, where he delivered his Letter to the 
 King of Siam ; wno gave him a very good reception; and after he had read it, and que- 
 ftioned him concerning many new and curious things, he anfwered him prefently, 
 which wasa th ng he did not ufually do co any Ambaffidour 5 his anfwer contained this 
 much, As for Domingos d: Seixas, whom the Captain of M ilaca fends to m:for 9 advertia 
 
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 fw? me that 1 ’./M do the King of Portugal a great pleafure in releafing him , I do mo ft 
 willingly tyrant to do it ; as alfo to deliver all the reft that are with him. Whereupon Fran - 
 eifeode Caftro, having had chis difpacch from the King,gave him molt humble thanks for 
 it, and proftrated himfelf three fevera! times before him, with his head bowed down 
 to the ground, as the cuftome was to do unto this King, in regard he was more abfolute 
 then others. When as then the feafon permitted Francifco de Caftro to return to Mala - 
 ca, the King Cent to fetch Domingos de Seiotas from the Town of Goutaleu, where he 
 was at that time Generali of the Frontire,having under his charge thirty thoufand foot, 
 five thoufandhorfe, and eighteen thoufand ducates penfion by the year; With him al* 
 fo he caufed to be brought the other (ixteen Portugals, and configned them all into the 
 hands of Francifco de Caftro , who gave him thanks again for the grace which he did 
 him.- A little after, when as T)imiggos de Seixas and his companions went to take their 
 leave of this King, he caufed a thouland turmes of filver to be given to them, which are 
 in value twelve thoufand ducates of our money , and defired them to pardon him for 
 giving them folifde. Another time, which was in the year a thoufand five hundred for¬ 
 ty and five, Simano de CMelo being Captain of the fame Fortrcfs of Malaca, one Lays 
 de xJATontarroyo coming from China to go to Tatanay it happened tbac the (hip wherein 
 he was, being beaten with a furious tempeft, was calf away in the Pore of Charir , fome 
 five leagues from Lugor, where alibis goods were feizeduponby the Xabandar of the 
 Country, after that the Sea had call him.aftaore, and witha.il, he himfelf was made a pri- 
 foner, together with all the reft which werefaved, to the number of four and twenty 
 j Vortugalsy and fifty boys, which made in all feventy and four perfons; the goods too 
 that were faved out of this Shipwrack,amounted at Ieaft to fifteen thoufand ducares.Now 
 the reafon which the Xabandar alledged for this fame was, that by the ancient cuftom of 
 the Kingdom ail thefe goods belonged unto him ; whereof Lais de Montarroyo having 
 advertifed certain Tortugals which were at that inftant in the City, they concluded a- 
 mongft themfelves to make an Odiaa y or prefent, of fome rich pieces, to the value of a 
 thoufand ducates, and therewith to go unto the King, upon the day which was named 
 of the white Elephant , that was ten dayes after, and on the which, in regard it was a very 
 folemn feaft, this Prince was accuftomed to do many graces to fuch as were fuicors to 
 bimfor them. So on the folemnity of chis day, which they call Onidajpileu, thac is to 
 fay, the rejoydng of good men j all che Portugals, who were threefcore and odd, placed 
 themfelves in a certain paffige of one of the three principal] ftreecs, through which 
 the King was to pafs with a great deal of pomp and Majefty, and when as they faw 
 the King come by, they proftrated themfelves all upon the ground, as the inhabitants of 
 Siam ufe todo 5 and one of them, being deputed thereunto, recounted unto che King 
 the whole bufinefs of Lais de Mont array o, and his companions, juft as ic had paft, be- 
 feeching him he would do them fo much grace , as to command the releafement of 
 thofepoor prifoners, without fpeaking of che goods which the Xabandar had feiztd 
 upon, becaufe ic feemed not reafonable unco them. B it the King, who prefently un- 
 derftood their demand, was fo moved with the tears which he faw fome of them 
 lhed, as he caufed * the white Elephant whereon be was mounted to ftay; then ctfting 
 his eye on'the Portugals , and the Prefent that fome of them held out in their hands, 
 which he knew they intended to offer unto him ; ^My friends, faid he unto him, l take 
 that for received which yon would prefent me with , and do thank-you for it ft at in fo folemn 
 a day as this is / do not ttfe to take any thong of any body ft Ht to give oblige every one with 
 benefit spherefore / defire you for the love of your God,whofe fervant I am, and ever will be y 
 to beftow this Prefent upon fuch of your company as are in moft need of it 5 for you fhall do 
 far better in gaining thereby the recompence of this Alms , which you (had give,for his f<*ke, 
 then you could get by all that which I fioould confer on you in acknowledgment of this Prefent , 
 it being mofi certain that btfore him I am but a poor worm of the earth. As far the prifoners 
 which you demand of me, it is my pleafure to beftow them as an Alms upon you, that fo in all 
 liberty they may return into Milica,; and further, / command that all the goods which they 
 fay have been taken from them be reft ore d to them again* for things which are done for Gods 
 fake ought to be accomplijhed with much more liberality then the need of the poor requires , 
 efpectally when they crave it with tears in their eyes. Hereupon the Portugals proftrated 
 themfelves all before him ; and the nex: day the King by his Letters Parents ordained, 
 
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 That within the term of ten dayes the pr if oners fhould he brought to the City, together with 
 all that which had been taken from them ; which incontinently was executed very exa&iy; 
 for there were reftored unto them all the goods which had been faved out of the Ship, 
 amounting, as I have already faid, to fifteen thoufand ducates, which the King freely 
 gave them. Two or three moneths after,, in the fame year one thoufand five hundred 
 forty and five, it greatly importing this King of Siam to go in perfon and repul fe the 
 King of Taparabos, whoon Paffilicans fide had invaded his Country, and facked fome 
 of the weakefi places, with an intent to befiege the Fortrefs of Xinati and Lautor, 
 whereon depended the whole fafety of this State ; he refolved to go againft him in per¬ 
 fon. Wherefore he fent certain Colonells over all the Kingdom to ieavy men 3 with an 
 exprefs Commiffion to return within twenty dayes with their men of war to the City 
 of Odiaa, for it was his intention to fet forth from thence about chat time. Withall he 
 enjoyned his Commanders, upon pain of a rigorous chaftifemenr, not todifpenfe with 
 a man that could fight, from this war, except it were fuch as were any way impotent, 
 and above threefcore years of age % whereupon each of thefe Colonells was afligned the 
 Province wherein he fhould make his levies? It happened then that on z Quiay Raw* 
 efiuaa, a man of quality, and one that the King made oftentimes ufe of, had for his lot 
 the frontier of Blanchaa % where the mofl part of the Inhabitants being very rich, as well 
 in money, as other wayes, gave thetafelves to the delights of the flefh, and fpent the 
 moft part of their time infeafts, in fports, and other fuch like pleafures of this life 5 fo 
 that when they faw that Quiay Raudiuaa would compell them to go to this war, as he 
 was enjoyned to do, they took it for too heavy a yoke, and too infupporcable a bur- 
 then, and that did not well agree with the manner of life which they were wont to 
 lead, and therefore the richeft of the Country aflembled together, and refolved to get 
 a difpeniation from this voyage by the means of a great fum of money which they 
 made up amongft themfelves, and carried to the Colonel. Now whereas there is no 
 place where, money is not powerfull enough to overthrow all things, and from which 
 a man can hardly defend himfelf; the Colonel Raudiuaa fuffered himCelf co be overcome 
 with fuch a mafle of coyn as thefe men prefenced him with, and confented that they 
 fhould nor budge from their homes. In this fort he was conftrained to take up in theit 
 heads moft of the poor impotent and old men of the Country, without afay regard had 
 to the Kings exprefs Injua&ion to the contrary. Being arrived with this goodly com¬ 
 pany of Souldiers at the City of Odiaa, he was commanded co make a (hew of them be¬ 
 fore the King, as all the Colonels did of theirs; as foon as this Prince caft bis eye from 
 a window where he was, upon men fo wretched, old, and poorly clad, he caufed one 
 file of them to come before him - then having asked of them how old they were, and 
 why they pfefented themfelves before him in fo bad an equipage; one amongft them 
 fpeaking for the reft, recounted unto him the whole bufinefs as it had paft^ which put 
 the King into fuch choler, that having prefendy commanded Quiay Raudiuaa to be 
 brought before him, and reviled him publikely for his villany and bafenefs, he caufed 
 him to be bound hand and foot, and having given order for the melting of five Turmes 
 of filver, he made it to be powred into his mouth in his prefence, whereof he died in- 
 ftancly. Whereupon beholding him lie dead before him ; If it be fo, faid he unto him, 
 that there needed but five Turmes of filver to kill thee t how could'ft thou imagine that the 
 threefcore thoufand ducates which thou tookefi of the cowards o/Banchaa for to difpenfis 
 with them from the war,(hould not be capable offending thee into the other world ? God for¬ 
 give thee thy avaricc>& me the littlepumfhment I have infixed on thee for the fams.hit.zt 
 this, he fenc prefently co fearch his houfe, where the five thoufand Turmss he had takea 
 were found, which were immediately brought to the King, who caufed this money to 
 be diftributed in h ; s prefence to thofe old and impotent poor wretches which Raudiuaa 
 had brought thither, being in number above three thoufand ; that done, he fent them 
 home to their houfes, willing them to pray unto God for him; As for thofe eft minate 
 men, who co be exempted from going co the war, had given the five thoufand Turmes 
 co the Colonel, he commanded them to be attired like women, and fo banifhed them 
 into anlfimd called PulhoCaton ; wherewith yet not contented,he connfcated all their 
 eftates, which he ordered fhould be beftowed on fuch as behaved themfelves beft in the 
 war. And not long after, obferving that one of the hundred and threefcore Portugal*, 
 
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 which went along with him. in this expedition, hung back in a certain attempt, which 
 the reft of his fellows went upon, where they carried themfelyes fo valiantly, and with 
 fuch courage, as they regained the principallFort which the enemy had taken in the 
 Town of Lautor, he commanded him to return to Siam, feeing he was not like his o- 
 ther companions, and that as long as he continued there he fliould neither offer to go 
 out of the houfe where he was, nor take upon him the name of a Portugal , on pain of 
 having his beard fhaven off, and ufed like thofe of Banchaa , fince he was as cowardly as 
 they ; whereas,contrarily,to all the reft of the Portugals he fent treble pay, and exemp¬ 
 ted them from all duties that were to be paid for their Merchandize; as alfo gave them 
 power to build Churches in any part of his Kingdom, for the adoring of the name of 
 the God of the Portngals . By thefe and many other examples which I could produce 
 here, itismanifeft how great and commendable the inclinations of this Prince were, 
 who notwichftanding that he was a Gentile , was of a wonderfull good nature, and ex¬ 
 ceedingly a ddi&ed to vertuous aft ions: 
 
 USk.il It is not to be believed with what infinite forrow, both all the great Loras, and ge¬ 
 nerally all the Subje&s of this Kingdom,bewailed the death of their good King ; but 
 at length an Affembly was made of all the Priefts of this City, who as it was faid, were 
 twenty thoufand in number; b. whofe dire&ion the principall perfons of the Kingdom 
 concluded .upon the funerall pomp, and eeremonies which were to be ufed thereabout, 
 according to the cuftom of the Country: whereupon a mighty great pile was forth¬ 
 with eredted, made of Sandal, Aloes,Calembaa, and B :n jamin ; on the which the body 
 of the deceafed King being laid, fire was put to it, with a ftrange ceremony .* during all 
 the time that the body was a burning, the people did nothing but wail and lament be¬ 
 yond ail expreflion; but in the end, it being confumed to afhes, they put them into a lil- 
 ver fhrine,which they imbarqued in a Laulea very richly equipped,that was accompanied 
 with forty Scroos full of Talagreposy which are the higheft dignity of their Gentile 
 Priefts, and a great number of ocher Veflells, wherein there was a world of people : af¬ 
 ter them followed an hundred fmall barqaes laden with divers figures of Idols, under 
 the forms of Adders, Lizards, Tygers, Lions, Toads, Serpents,Bats,Geefe,Bucks, Dogs, 
 Elephants, Cats, Vultures, Kices, Crows, and other fuch like creatures, whole figures 
 were fo well reprefented to the life, as they feemed to be living. In another vety great 
 Ship was the King of all thefe Idols, which they called. The gluttonous Serpent of the 
 profound pic of the houfe offmoakj- This Idol had the figure of a monftrous Adder, was as 
 big about as an hogfhead,and writhed into nine circlesjfo that when as ic was extended, 
 ir was above an hundred fpans long ;it had the neck ftanding upright, and out of the 
 eyes, throat, and breaft, iffued flames of artificial! fire, which rendredthis monfter fo 
 dreadful! and furious, as all that beheld it trembled for fear. Now upon a Theatre three 
 fathom high, and richly gilt, was a very beautiful little boy,about four or five years old, 
 covered all over with pearls, and chains, and bracelets of precious ftones, having wings, 
 and a bulh of hair of fine gold, much after the manner as we ufe to paint Angels. This 
 child had a rich Curtelas in his hand ; by which invention thefe Pagans would give to 
 underrtand. That it was an Angel of heaven fent from God toimprifon all thofe many De¬ 
 vils, to the end they (hould not fieal away the Kings foul, before it {hould arrive at the place 
 ofrefi, which was prepared for it there above in glory, for a recompencc of the good works 
 which he had done below in the world.ln this order all thefe Veflells got to land at a Pa- 
 gode, called Quiay Poutor, where after that the filver fhrine, in which the Kings afhes 
 were, was placed, and the little boy taken from thence, fire was put to all that infinite 
 number of Idolls, juft in the manner as they flood in the Barques ; and this was accom* 
 panied with fo horrible a din of cries, great Ordnance, Harquebufes, Drums, Bells, Cor¬ 
 nets, and other different kinds of noyfe, as it was impoflible to hear it without trem¬ 
 bling. This ceremony lafted not above an hour;for whereas all thefe figures were made 
 of combuftible ftuffe, and the Veflells filled with pitch and rozen, fo dreadfull a flume 
 enfued prefently thereupon, as one might well have faid chat ic was a very pourrraiture 
 of heil. fo thac in an inftanc the Veflells, and all that were in them were feen to be re¬ 
 duced to nothing. When as this, and many other very lively inventions, which had eoft 
 a great deal of money, were finiflied, ail the inhabitants, which were come thronging 
 thither, and whereof the number feemed to be infinite, retired back to their houfes, 
 
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 where they remained with their doors and windows fhur, not one appearing in the 
 Greets for the fpace of ten dayes, during which time all places were unfrequented, and 
 none were feen ftirring but fome poor people,who in the night went up and down beg¬ 
 ging withftrange lamentations* At the end of the ten dayes wherein they had fhut 
 themfelves up fo,they opened their doors and windows,and their Pagodes, or Temples., 
 were adorned with many Enfigns of rejoycing,together with a world of hangings,ftan- 
 dards, and banners of filk. Hereupon there went through all the Greets certain men on 
 horfeback, apparelled in white Damask who at the found of very harmonious inftru- 
 menrs, cryed aloud with tears in their eyes, Te fad inhabit ams of this Kingdom of Siam, 
 hearken , hearken to that which is made known to you from God, and with humble and pure 
 hearts praifeye all his holy name* for the effetts of his divine jufiice are great ; withall lay - 
 ing. a fide jour mourning , come forth ofydur abodes wherein you are fhut up, and fng the 
 ■praifes of the goodnef r of your Gad, fince he hath been pleafed to give you a new King, who 
 fears him, and is a friend of the poor . This Proclamation being made, all the Afliftants, 
 with their faces proff rated on the ground, and their hands lifted up, as people that ren- 
 dred thanks to God, anfwered aloud weeping ; We make the Angells of heaven our *At- 
 torneys , to the end they may continually praife the Lord for m. After this, all the inhabi¬ 
 tants of the City coming out of their houfes, and thinking of nothing but dancing and 
 rejoycing, went to the Temple of Quiay Fanarel, that is to fay, the god of the joyful 1 , 
 where they offered fw:ec perfumes, and the pooreft fort, fruits, pullen, and rice, for the 
 entertainment of the Priefts. The fame day the new King (hewed himfelf over all the 
 City with a great deal of pomp and Majefty, in regard whereof the people made great 
 demonftweions of joy and gladnefs. And forafmuch as the King was but nine years 
 old, it was ordained by the four and twenty Bracalons of the Goveroment, that the 
 Queen his mother lhould be the Proteftrefs or Regent of him, and that (lie (hould bear 
 rule over all the Officers of the Croivn., Things palt thus for the fpace of four monerhs 
 and 2n half, during the which there was no manner of diforder, but all was peaceable 
 in the Kingdom; howbeit, at the end of that time, the Queen coming to be delivered of 
 a Son which (he had had by her Purveyor, being difpleafed with the bad repott thac 
 went of her, (he refolved with her felf to iatisfie her defire , which was to marry with 
 the Father of this new San, for that (he was defperately in love with him : And further, 
 
 (lie wickedly enterprifed to make away the new King, her lawfull child, to the end thac 
 by this means the Crown might pafs to the baftard by right of inheritance. Now to 
 execute this horrible delign of hers, (he made (hew that the excefs of her affe&ion to 
 the young King her Son kept her always in fear, left fome attempt (hould be made up¬ 
 on his life; fo that one day having caufed all the Councell of the State to be aflembled, 
 
 (he represented unto them,that having but this only pearl enchaced in her heart, (he de¬ 
 fined to keep it from being plucked from thence by fome difafter; for which effedt (he 
 thought it requifite,as well to fecure her from her apprehenfions,as to prevent the greac 
 mifehiefs which carelefsnefs is wont to bring in fuch like cafes, that there (hould be a 
 guard fet about the Palace, and the perfon of the King. This affair was immediately de¬ 
 bated in the Councell, and accorded to the Queen, in regard the matter feemed good 
 of it felf. The Q^eea feeing then that her defign had fuccecded fo well, took inftantly 
 for the guard of the Palace, and the perfon of her Son, fuch as (he judged were proper 
 for the executing of her damnable enterprife, and in whom (he moft confided. She or¬ 
 dained a guard then of two thoufand foot, and five hundred horfe, befides the ordinary 
 guard of her houfe, which were fix hundred Cauchins and Lequios ,and thereof (he made 
 Captain one called Tileubacus , the cozen of the fame Purveyor, by whom (he had had a 
 child, to the end that by this mans favour (he might difpofe of things as (he pleafed, 
 and the more eafdy bring to pafs her pernicious defign. Whereupon relying on the 
 great forces which (he had already on her party,(lie began to revenge her felf upon fome 
 of the great ones of the Kingdom, becaufe fhe knew they defpifed her, and held her 
 not in that efteem fhe defired. The two firft whom fhe caufed to be hid hands on were 
 two Deputies of the Government, making ufe of chis pretext, that they held fecretin- 
 tefiigence with the King of Chiammay, and were to give him an encryinto the King¬ 
 dom thorough their lands 5 fo thac under colour of juftice (he caufed them to be both 
 executed, and confifcaced their eftates, whereof (he gave the one to her Favourite/ aad 
 
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 the other to a brother-in-law of hi?, who (it was faid ) had been a Smith: But in regard 
 this execution had been done precipitioufly, and without any proof, the greateft part of 
 the Lords of the Kingdom murmured againft the Q^ieen for it, reprefenting unto her the 
 meric of them whom {he had put to death, the Cervices they had rendred to the Crown, 
 the quality of the perfons, and the nobility and antiquity of their extractions, as beinq 
 of the blood royall,and lineally dcfcended from rhe Kings of Siam * howbeit,(he made 
 no reckoning thereof, but contrarily a little after making (hew as if (he had not been 
 well, {he in a full Council! renounced her regency,and conferred icon Vgjuumchcniraay 
 her Favourite,to the end that by this means bearing rule over all others,he might difpofe 
 of the affairs of the Kingdom at his pleafure, and give the moft important charges there¬ 
 of to fuch as would be of his party, which he thought to be the moft affured way for him 
 to ufurp this Crown, and make himfelf abfolute Lord of the Empire of Sor»au y where¬ 
 of the revenue was twelve millions of gold, ^ betides other comings in, which a- 
 mounced to as much more. With all thefe inventions this Qyeen ufed fo great diligence 
 for the contenting of the defire which ftie had to raife her Favourite to the Royalty, to 
 marry her felf to him, and to make the illegitimate Son, which {be had had by him* fuc- 
 ceffor of the Crown, as within the fpace of eight moneths, fortune favouring her de- 
 fignes, and hoping more fully to execute her wicked plot, (he caufed moft of the great 
 men of the Kingdom to be put to death, and confifcaced all their lands, goods and irea- 
 fures, which fhe diftributed amongft fuch of het creatures as {he daily drew to her par¬ 
 ty. Now forafmuch as the young King her Son ferved for the principal! obftacle to her 
 i*atentions,this young Prince could not efcape her abominable fury,for {he her felf poy- 
 foned him even as fhe had poyfoned the King his father. That done, (he married with 
 Vqmmcheniraa , who had been one of the Purveyors of her houfe,and caufed him to be 
 crowned King in the City of Odiaa y the eleventh of November in the year one thoufand 
 five hundred forty five. But whereas Heaven never leaves wicked actions unpunilhed, 
 the year after, one thoufand five hundred forty and fix, and on the fifteenth day of J4- 
 nttarjy they were both of chemfhin by Oyaa PaJftlico y and the King of Cambay a, at a cer¬ 
 tain banquet which thefe Princes made in a Temple, that was called Qyyiay Ftgrau, that 
 is to fay, the god of the atoms of the Sun , whofe folemnicy was that day celebrated *. So 
 that, as well by the death of thefe two perfons, as of all the reft of their party, whom 
 thefe Princes alfo killed with them, all things became very peaceable, without any fur¬ 
 ther prejudice to the people of the Kingdom ; only it is true, that it was defpoyled of 
 the moft part of the Nobility,which formerly it had, by the wicked inventions, and per¬ 
 nicious pra&ices, whereof I have fpoken before. 
 
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 The King of Bramaa’s enterprise upon the Kingdom ofS\im;and that which pafi untill hk 
 arrivall at the City o/.Odia ; with his befeging of it , and all that enfued thereupon . 
 
 Se&i." 'T'He Empire of Siam remaining without a lawfull Succeffor, thofe two great Lords 
 JL of the Kingdom,namely, Oyaa Pafliltco, and the King of Cambay a, together with 
 four or five more of the truftieft that were left, and which had been confederate with 
 them, thought fic to chufe for King & certain religious man, named Tretiem , in regard 
 he was the naturall brother of the deceafed Prince, husband to that wicked Qjeen of 
 whom I have fpoken; whereupon this religious man, who was Talagrepo of a Pagode , 
 called Quiay Mltran , from whence he hid not bilg’d for the fpace of thirty years,was 
 the day after drawn forth of it by Oyaa < PaJfilico i who brought him on the fevenceenth 
 day of January into th: City of Odiaa y where on the nineteenth he was crowned King 
 with a new kind of ceremony, and a world of magnificence, which (to avoid prolixity ) 
 I will not make mention of here, having formerly treated of fuch like things. WichiH 
 parting by all that further arrived in this Kingdom of Siam, I will content my felf with 
 reporting fuch things as I imagine will be moft agreeable to the curious. It happened 
 then that the King of Bramaa y who at that time reigned tyrannically in Pegu y being ad- 
 vertifed of the deplorable eftate whereinto the Empire of Soman was reduced, and of 
 the death of the greateft Lords of the Country, as alfo chat the new King of this Monar¬ 
 chy was a religious man , who had no knowledge cither of arms or war, and withall of 
 
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a towardly difpofition,a tyrant.and ill beloved of his Subje&s, he fell to confult there¬ 
 upon with his Lords in the Town of Anapleu , where.at that time he kept his Court. 
 Defiring their advice then upon fo important an enterprize, they all of them told him, 
 that by no means he fliould defift from it , in regard this Kingdom was one of the bcft 
 of the world, as well in riches, as in abundance of all things; thereunto they added, that 
 the feafon which was then fo favourable for him, promifed it to him at fogood a rate, 
 as it was likely it would not coft him above the revenue of one only year, what expence 
 focver he fliould make of his treafure; befides, if he chinced to get ir, he fliould remain 
 Monarch of all the Emperours of the world , and therewithal! he fliould be honoured 
 with the fovereig 0 title of Lord of the white Elephant 5 by which means the feventeen 
 Kin^s of Capimptr, who made profeflion of his Law, muft of neccflity render him obe¬ 
 dience. Tney told him moreover, that having made fo great a conqueft, he might, tho¬ 
 rough the fame Territories,and with the fuccour of the Princes his Allies,pifs into Chi - 
 where was the great City of the incomparable pearl of all the world; 'and 
 
 ag^inlf which the great Cham of Tartaria , the Siamon , and the Calaminham y had 
 brought fuch prodigious Armies into the field. The King of Bramua y having heard all 
 their reafons, and many others which his great Lords alledged unto him,wherein his in¬ 
 ter was cfpecially concerned, which alwayes works powerfully on every man, was 
 r ided by them, and refolved to undertake this enterprife. For this eflfeft he went 
 aiy to Martabanoy where in lefs then two monechs and an half, he raifed an Army 
 t ; rgbr hundred thoufand men, wherein there were an hundred thoufand firangers; 
 sac- nongfl them a thoufand *Portugals, which were commanded by Diego Suarez, ef 
 Albergariap ailed Galego by way of nick-name. This SDiego Suarez, departed out of the 
 Kin'aomof Portugal in the year one thoufand five hundred thirty and eight, and 
 w tic into the India* with the Fleet of the Vice-Roy , Don Garcia dt Noronha y in a 
 J .nek, whereof joano de Sepulveda pi the Town of Suora, was Captain 5 but in the time 
 which 1 fpeak,namely, in the year one thoufand five hundred forty and eight, he had 
 of ih. King of Bramaa two hundred thoufand ducates a year, with the title of his 
 brother, and Governour of the Kingdom of Pegu. The King departed then from the 
 Town of c AUrtabano the Sunday after Eafter, being the feventh of *April 1548. 
 His Army, as I have already laid, was eight hundred thoufand men, whereof only forty 
 thoufand were horfe,and all the reft foor, threefcore thoufand of them being Harque- 
 buziers; there were moreover five thoufand warlike Elephants, with whom they fight 
 in , hofe Countries,and alfo a world of baggage,coge> her with a thoufand pieces of Cm- 
 non,wmch were drawn by a thoufand couple of Buffles and Rhinocerots ; wifhall,there 
 was a like number of yokes of Oxen for the carriage of the vi&ualls. Having taken the 
 field then with thefe forces, he caufed his Army to march ftill on,undll at length he en- 
 tre d in:o the Territories of the King of Siam, where after five days he came toa For¬ 
 ets called Tapurau y containing fome two thoufand fires, commanded by a certain Mo- 
 nor, a valiant man, and well verft in matters of war. The King of Bramaa having mve- 
 h -d ir pave three aflaulcs to it in the open day, and laboured to fcale it with a world of 
 1,-dders which he had caufed robe brought thither for that purpofe ; but not being able 
 to carry it- in regard of the great refiftanceof them within, he retreated for that time. 
 B it having by the coudfel of ‘Diego Snares who was Generali of the Camp, and by 
 whom he was wholly governed, caufed forty great pieces of Ordnance, whereof the 
 mod of them (hot bullets of iron, to be planted againft it, he fell to battering it with 
 fo much fury, as having made a breach in the wall twelve fathom wide, he afiaulced it 
 •vith ten thoufand ftrangers, Turks, Abjj]ins y Moors , Malauares , Acbems , Jaaos, and 
 Malagas ; whereupon enfued fo terrible a conflift between the one and the other, that 
 in lefs then half an hour, the befieged, which were fix thoufand Siamites, were all cut 
 in pieces, for not fo much as one of them would render himfelf. As for the King ot 
 Bramaa, he loft above three thoufand of his men,whereat he was fo inraged,as thac to be 
 revenged for rhis lofs he caufed all the women to be pur to the fword, which n °^ ou c 
 was arrange kind of cruelty: After this execution, he drew diredly cowards the 
 Town of Sacotay, which was nine leagues beyond, defiring to make himfelf Mailer of 
 char as well as of the other. He arrived in the fighc of this Town on Saturday about 
 
 Sun-fer, and incamped all along the river of Lcbrau, which is one of the three that iduc 
 
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 out of che Like of Chiawm*}) whereof I hive formerly mtde mention, with a defiga 
 to march thorough it dire&ly to Odiaa, the Capitil City of the Empire of Sornau $ for 
 he had already been advertised that che Kiag wis there in perfon, and chit he was ma¬ 
 king preparation to fight with him in the field ; he no fooner received this advice, but 
 his Lords counfelled him to make no ta r rying in my place, as well thit he might not 
 lofe time, as that he might keep hi nfelf from infen'ibly confuming his forces, in lying 
 before places which he pretended to tike, thic were fo well forcified as they would 
 coft him dear if he amufed himfelf about them • fo that at his arrivall at OdUa he 
 would find the mod pirc of his men wanting, and his vi&ualls quite fpent* The King 
 having approved of this advice caufed his Army to march away the next day thorough 
 woods that were cut down by threefcore thoufand Pioners, whom he hid fent before 
 to plane the patf ages and wayes 5 which with much ado they performed. When he was 
 come to a place, called TiUu } which is befides on the South-Eaft Coaft, neer 
 
 to the Kingdom of Quedea } an hundred and forty leagues from MttUca, he took 
 guides that were very well acquainted with che way, by whofe means in nine days jour¬ 
 ney he arrived in the fight of Odia *, where he pitched his Camp, which he invironed 
 with trenchesrand firong Pallifadoes. 
 
 Sca . t ; During the firfi fiver days that the King of Bramaa had been before the City of Odiaa , 
 he had beftowed labour a^d pains enough, as well in making of trenches and Pallifa- 
 does,as in providing all things neceffiry for this fieg e;in all which time the befieged ne¬ 
 ver offered to ftir, whereof ‘Diego Suarez,, the Mirtlnllof che Camo being aware, as 
 alfo of the little reckoning wuich ch zSiamltes made of fo great a power as was there 
 affembled, and not knowing whereunco he fhould attribute thecaufe of ic, he refolved 
 to execute the defign for which he came; to which effe<ft, of the moft part of the men 
 which he had under his command, he made two feparated Squadrons, in each of which 
 there were fix Battalions of fix thoufand a piece. After this manner he marched in bat- 
 tell arcay, at the found of many inftruments , towards the two poynts which the City 
 made on the South fide, becaufe the entrance there feemed more facile to him then any 
 other where. So upon the nineteenth day of Jnne\n che year one thoufand five hundred 
 forty and eight, an hour before d iy, all thefe men of Wir , having fee up above a thou- 
 iand ladders againft the walls, endeavoured to mount up on them 5 but the befieged op* 
 pofed them fo valiantly, that in lefs thea half an hour there remained dead on che place 
 above ten thoufand on either parr. In the mean cime the King.who incouraged his foul- 
 diers, feeing the ill fuccefs of this fight, commanded chefe to retreat, and then made 
 the wall to be affiulted afrefh; making ufe for chat effect of five thoufand Elephants of 
 war which he had brought thither, and divided into twenty troops, of two hundred 
 and fifey apiece, upon whom there Were twenty thoufand Moens and Chnlew , choice 
 men, and that had double pay. The wall then was affiulted by thefe forces with fo 
 terrible an impetuofity , as I want words to exprefs it. For whereas all the Elephants 
 carried wooden Caftles on thfir backs, from whence they jfhot with Muskets,brafs Cul- 
 varins,& a great number of Hirquebufes a crock,each of them ten or twelve fpans long, 
 thefe guns made fuch an havock of the befieged, that in lefs then a quarter of an hour 
 the moft of them were beaten down ; che Elephants withall fetcing their trunks to the 
 target fences, which feryed as battlements, and wherewith they within defended them- 
 felves, tore them do vn in fuch fort,as not one of them remained entire; fo that by this 
 means the wall was abandoned of all defence, no man daring to fhew himfelf above. la 
 this fort was the entry into the City very eafie to the Affailants,who being invited by fo 
 good fuccefs to make their profit of fo favourable an occafion, fee up their ladders a- 
 gain which they had quieted, and mounting up by them to the top of the wall, with a 
 vyorld of cries and acclamations, they planced thereon, to lign of victory,a number of 
 B mners an i E aligns, Nov beciufe the Txrkj defired to have therein a better fhire then 
 toe reft, they belought the King to do them fo much favour as to give them the vant- 
 giyird, vynich the King ealilv’granced them, and that by the counfeli of ‘Diego Snare 
 j 0 defired nothing more then to fee their number leffened, always gave them the moft 
 ing -.rous imploym-nts. They in the mean time extraordinarily contenced, and proud 
 to themfelyes preferred before fo many orher Nations as were in the Camp,refoived 
 to come off with honour from this fervice which they had undertaken. For which pur- 
 
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 pole having formed a Squadron of twelve hundred men, wherein fome tAbjQins and 
 Janizaries were compriled, they mounted with great Cries by thofe Ladders up to the 
 top of the Wall, which,as I have declaredwas at that time in the power of the King of 
 Bramaas people. Thefe Turkj then, whither more rafh,or moreinfortunate then the 
 reft, Aiding down by a Pane of the Wall, defcended through a Bulwark into a place 
 which was below, with an intent to open a Gate, and give an entrance unto the King, 
 to the end they might rightly boaft, that they all alone had delivered to him the capi- ; 
 tal City of the Kingdom of Siam, and fo might gain the recompence which they 
 might well expcft for fo brave an A&ion; for the King had before promifed to give un¬ 
 co whomfoever fhould deliver up the City unto him,a thoufand Bifles of Gold,which in 
 value are five hundred thoufandDucates of our money.Thefe Turks being gocten down, 
 as I have faid, laboured to break open a Gate with two Rams which they had brought 
 with them for that purpofe;but as they were occupied about it,upon a confidence that 
 they alone fhould gam the thoufand Biffes of Gold$ which the King had promifed to 
 whomfoever fhould open him the Gates,they faw themfelves fuddenly charged by three 
 thoufand Jaos ,all refolute Souldiers,who fell upon them with fuch fury,as in little more 
 then a quarter of an hour there was not fo much as one Turk ^left alive in the plac? 9 
 wherewithnoc contented, they mounted up immediately to the cop of the Wall with a 
 wonderfu l courage, and fo flefht as they were^ and covered over with the bloud of the 
 Turks , whom they had newly cut in pieces, they fet upon the Bramacts men which 
 they found there, and fought with them fo valiantly, chat they durft not make head a* 
 gainft them, fo that moll of them were there (lain, and the reft tumbled down over the 
 Wall. The King of Bramaa redoubling his courage more then before, would not for 
 all that give over this Afl'ault, but contrarily refolved to undertake it anew,' fo as imagi¬ 
 ning that thofe Elephants alone would be able,to give him an entry into the City* 
 he caufed them once again to approach unto the Wall. Ac the noife hereof, Oyaa Paf- 
 filico, Captain General of the City,ran in all hafte to this part of the Wall, accompani® 
 ed with fifteen thopfand men,whereof the moft part were Lumens, Berness, and Ch 
 paas, with fome Menancabcfs among, and paufed the Gate to be prefently opened, 
 chrpugh which the Bramaa pretended co enter,and then fent him word 9 that whereas he 
 was given to underftand how his Highnefs had promifed to give a thoufand Bifles of 
 Gold to whomfoever Ihould open him the Gaces 9 that fo he might thereby enter into the 
 City, he had now performed it, fo that he might enter if he would, provided that like 
 a great King as he was, he would make-good his word, and fend him the thoufand Bifles 
 of Gold, which he flayed there to receive. The King of Bramaa having received this 
 jear, would not vouchfafe to give an anfwer, thereby to (hew his contempt of Oyaa 
 Tajfilico; but inftantly he commanded the City to be aflaulted, which was prefently 
 executed with a great deal cf fury ; for the fight began fo terrible, as it was a dreadfull 
 thing co behold, the rather for that the violence of it lafted above three whole hours, 
 during the which time the Gate was twice forced open, and twice the Aflailants got an 
 entrance into the City, which the King of Siam no fooner perceived, and that all was 
 in danger to be loft, but he ran fpeedily to oppofc them with his followers, which 
 were about thirty thoufand in number, and the beft Souldiers that were in all the City : 
 whereupon the Confli& grew much hotter then before, and continued half an hour and 
 becter, during the which I do not know what paft, nor can fay any other thing, fave 
 that we faw ftreams of bloud running every where, and the Air all of a light fire 5 there 
 was alio on either part fuch a tumult and noife, as one would have faid the Earthhad 
 been tottering; for it was a moft dreadfull thing to hear the difeord and jarring of thofe 
 barbarous Inliruments, as Bells, Drums, and Trumpets, intermingled with the noife of 
 the great Ordnance and fmaller fhor, and the dreadfull yelling of fix thoufand Ele¬ 
 phants,whence enlued lb great a terrour, that it took from them that heard ic both cou¬ 
 rage and feDfe; withall, that place at the City gate, whereof the Bramaa had been Ma- 
 fter, was all covered over with bodies drowned in bloud, a fpe&acle lo horrible, that 
 the very light of it put us a ! moft befidesour felves. T)ieyo Suarez, then, feeing their For¬ 
 ces quite repulfedouc of the City,the moft part of the Elephants hurt, and the reft ft? 
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 unto the Wall; as alfo that the beft of thole that had fought at the Gate were {lain, 
 and that the Sun was almoft down, came to the King, and counselled him to found 
 a Retreat, whereumo the King yielded, though much agamlf his will, became tie 
 ohfetved, that both he and the moll part of the Pertugxls were wounded , but 
 it was with a putpofe to return to the fame Enterpife again the next morning. 
 
 The Kin" bein° retired to his quartet, found himfelf wounded with the ftiot of an 
 Arrow which he received in that days Conflia, and which he felt noc untill then, by rea- 
 on of the heat of the Fight. This Accident hindred the executing of the Refolucion he 
 had taken to give another Affault to the City the next day; for he was conllrained to 
 keep his bed twelve days together; but at feventeen.days end, when he was fully cured 
 of his hurt he undettook again the profecution of hisDefign, and toelfea that which 
 he bad fo refolved upon, namely, not to raife the Siege from beforethe Cuy unti Ue 
 had made himfelf Mallet of ir, though it coll him both his Life and his whole State. He 
 ojve then a fecond Affault unto the City, which proved like unto the former, for he loft 
 a world of men in il, fo that he was forced to retreat; but his wilfulnefs was fuch, as 
 nothing daunted with the great flaughter of his men, he gave five Affaults more to it m 
 the open day, wherein he made ule of many warlike ftratagems, which a ( 7 m<,Enginier 
 daily invented for him ; but whatever he could do, he was always fain to retire with 
 lofs whereat he was greatly troubled. In the mean time, whereas che Siege of this City 
 h id'already endi red four moneths and an half, he commanded a general Mutter of his 
 Souldiers to be made, and he found that an hundred and forty thoufand of them were 
 wantin° Whereupon feeing to what eftate he was reduced, for the putti' g of an end 
 to the bufinefs, he refolved to affiult the City again with another new Invention, and 
 this Alfault was the eighth he had already given to ir> during the Siege, which ne enter- 
 prifed by the Council of War, and that under the favour of the night; for they alledg- 
 cd unto him, that Darknefs would make the Affault lefs dangerous, and the fcaling of 
 the Walls more facile. This refolution taken, he inftancly commanded all preparations 
 neceffary for this Defign to be made, fo that in feventeen days they built up hx ana 
 twenty Caftles of firong pieces of Timber, whereof each one was fet upon fix and twen¬ 
 ty Wheels of Iron, which facilitated the motion of fo great a Every Caftle was 
 
 fifty foot broad, threefcore and five long, and five and twenty high, and all of them 
 were re-inforced with double Beams, covered over with Sheers of Lead : Moreover 
 each of them was full of Wood, and had fattened to them before great Iron Chains, 
 and that were very long in regard of the Fire. Things thus prepared, on Friday about 
 midnight, being very dark and rainy, the King of Bramaa caufed[three times one after 
 another all the great Ordnance of the Camp to be difeharged, which, as I remember, I 
 have already faid, confifted of an hundred and threefcore great Pieces, whereof the mod 
 part (hot Iron Bullets, befides a many of Falconets, Bafes, and Muskets, to the number 
 of fifteen hundred; fo that from all thefe Guns (hoc off together three times one after 
 another, proceeded fo horrible and dreadfull a noife, as I cannot think that any where 
 but in Hell the like could be ; for on whatfoever the imagination can be fixr, it cannot 
 meet with any thing that may be rightly compared thereunto* At this time, it was not 
 onely the great Pieces of Ordnance, whereof I have fpoken before, and che fmall 
 ones too, which were fhot off, buc the like was done by all the Guns which were both 
 within the City, and without the Camp, of whit bignefs foever they were, being 
 at leart an hundred thoufand in all; for whereas there w^re, as I have already laid, 
 threefcore thoufand Harquebufiers in the King of Bramaa s Army, there were thir¬ 
 ty thoufand alfoin the City, befides feven or eight thoufand Falconets and Bafes; fo 
 chat to hear all thefe fhot off continually for the fjpace of three hours together, and 
 intermingled with thunder, lightning, and checempeft of the night, was, to fay che 
 truth, a thing which was never feen, read of, or imagined, a‘nd fuch indeed as put every 
 one almoft befides himfelf; for fome fell flat on the ground, fome crept behinde Wals, 
 and others got into Walls. During che greateft: violence of this horrible and furious 
 Tempeft, they fet fire on the fix and ewem y Cattles which they had before brought dole 
 to the Walls, fo time by the force of the Winde, which was at that time very great, and 
 
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 onely name that can be mven i? Lcaufe ,h^ifi i U s p,aure of hel1 the 
 
 be refembled unto k) that if even thofe which were wkbout trembled at it 11 "' h ‘' y 
 to think with how much more reafon w^re rhev m e c trembled it it, I leave you 
 
 to abide tne violence of it Hereupon be" *7 ‘ J M * whom neceffity confirmed 
 
 Without falling to fcale the walls, Jd the believed who°took ° Q elc r her P irr > the y 
 
 then they, valiantly to defend chemfelv's fo thar nn ^ 0 ca J 2 tor tbln o s 
 
 ther fide, but rather both of t&S vvas c ? b * on et 
 
 whereas the one and other reinforced them(Wv« r B ^ ^ . U 5 ter \ de ^ roye< ^ ; f° r 
 that the King of Br* mMS obffinacy ^i fuch " ^wereS ^ rup P lies * a " d 
 his fouldiers, incoutaging them with his foeechca i , hi.n.elf in perion amongft 
 them, the fight ptoceeded fofat and incre^ l’ "77 §te,C P r0 ™' s ‘bar he made 
 the lead part of that which paffed therein, I letve it tftk underftS»of ‘° de ' ,Vet 
 
 to imagine what .t might be. Four hours after midni°ht,the fix and twen.v PartP T* 
 mg quite burned to the ground, with fn rerrihu , k?„ 0,1 llX ada twenty Cafties be- 
 
 fiones cafiof ir, the King of Bramaa caulcd aretreAr m U r° C ° me wichin 4 
 
 Captains of the iitanger?; for theTewerefomanvh.b be founded - J f th - «P"» of the 
 
 and moft part of the night following, was impioyed in <d're ‘Zgot tfr “ ths dJy ’ 
 
 CHAP. LXX. 
 
 0rdajo “ wheKwith he h * d 
 of Cafties, accompaniedwithfo SI? *tTF * inVentions 
 
 bad ferved him to any purpofe for the “xecurion ofrh £*$ , fo m . uch teIied > 
 red, and being refolved not todeliii from the enterprife which he h jk° m,ghcil y defi j 
 a Councel of War, wherein all the Princes Dukes Lords M be “ un< h L e callid 
 
 in the Army were prefent. Having then ’„ m 1, S ’ j ! o andI Commanders that were 
 them, he required them to »ive him?h»ir ,d^i ^ h** bis defire and intention unto 
 ing put into deliberation, and thorowly debare d^c^her *f*j r . b ^ 
 
 the end, that the King was by n o means to raite r» • p rt ’ , c ^ y coaclu ded m 
 
 the moft glorious, and moft profitable of all that ever mi-ht r ^ enCC , r P rife was 
 
 reprefented moreover unto him the world of treafure °that hS h J m u 5 th * cy 
 
 and that if he continued battering the City without defining fr omhis affaubf « "'“g 
 the enemies would be fpent, becaufe it was apparent (as they were infnrm.i» t en L ° th 
 were no longer able to withfland the leaft attempt chat ftio^ld hr. f , rmccJ ). tfm ¥*> 
 The King being exceedingly contented, forthrcTh C ironi«f^! ^ ^ ?P aiaft them - 
 ble to his defire, teftified the great fatisfa&ioa that he received^-rebv' fo^ 
 them many recompences in money, and vowed to them th J if rh ^ , j th f h T ^ 
 
 *j> «* r c " A thein & &om c ^ t 'h e v«; 
 
 the counfel ot Ditto $uarez, y and of che Inffinef»r« ir w „ j i i wne . r ^ u ? on W 
 
 and green turf a kind of platform lhould^e erefted hwherthl'n lh-w lT‘ Ch ^T* 
 thereon fliould be mounted good fiore of oreTordnlb, ^ thi "? 1,5 > “ d . th ‘ c 
 pal fortifications of the City firould be toteS that in'rh^ er r' Ch 
 the enemies defence. Ofder then was p'refentlv »iven fnr 11 ‘l De c , 00 ^ lied ‘J 1 
 faty thereunto, and t be^recRorc^SpLfieers which were 
 
 impioyed about itj, who in twelve davs brouohr rhr» c were in the Camp were 
 whtch^theKingdefifed Ttoe werealre dvobnreL " ° r P la f cfbrin . “ ro ‘he eftate 
 for the battering of the City^?he day e S ? S2? Z'pn" f Cl000a 
 
 the King, whereby he was adveryfed' ^ZeSKS^ 
 
184- The T rave Is, Voyages,and iA dventttres 
 
 dom of Pe^u, had cut fifteen thoufand Bramaas there in pieces, and h id rvithal feizedon 
 the principal places of the country. Ac thefe news the King was l'o croubledjthat with¬ 
 outfurther delay he raifed the liege, and imbarqued himfelf on a river, called Tacarau, 
 where he flayed but that night, and the day following, which he imployed in retiring 
 his a rent Ordnance and ammunition. Then having let fire on all the Paliifadoes, and 
 lodgings of the Camp, he parted away o n Tuefday, the fifteenth day of Ottober, in 
 thereat a rhoufand five hundred forty and eight, for to go to the Town of Marta- 
 bam. Hi viDg ufed ah polftble fpeed in his voyage ; at levenceen days end he came 
 thitb r, and there was amply informed by the Chalagonim, his Captain of all the 
 Zemihdov proceedings, in making himfelf King, andieizingon histreafure * by kil¬ 
 ling fifteen thoufand Bramaas , and that in divers places he had lodged five hundred 
 thoufand men, wit h an intention to flop his paflage into the Kingdom. This news ve¬ 
 ry much perplexed the King of Bramaa, fo that he fell to thinking with himfelf what 
 courfe he (hould take for the remedying of fo great a mifebief as he was threatned 
 with : In the end he rcfolved to tarry a while at UMartabano , to attend fome of his 
 forces that were Itiil behind, and then to go and fighc a battel with his enemy; but 
 it was his ill luck, that in thefpace of fourteen days onely which he abode there, of 
 four hundred thoufand men which he had, fifty thoufand quitted him: For whereas 
 they were all Pegues , and confequendy defirous to (li ke oft" the Bramaas yoke, 
 they thought it bail to fide with the new King the Zemindoo , who was a ‘Pegu as well 
 as they; and they were the rather induced thereunto, by underftanding, that this 
 Prince was of an eminent condition , liberal, and fo affable to every one, that he 
 thereby won moil men to be of his party. In che mean time the king of Bramaa, fear¬ 
 ing left the defe&ion of his fouldiers {hould daily more and more inereafe, was advi- 
 fed by hisCouncel toftay no longer there, in regard the longer he fhould tarry, the 
 more his forceswould diminilh, for that a great part of his Army ms Pegues, which 
 were not likely to very faithful unco him. This counfel was approved of by the 
 king, who prefently marched a way towards Peg#, neerunco which he was no foon- 
 er arrived, but be was certified that the Zemindeo , being advertifed of his coming, 
 was attending ready to receive him. So thefe two kings being it the view of * ne an¬ 
 other, incamped in a great plain, iome two leagues from the City of Pegu, the 
 Zemindoo with fix hundred thoufand men, and the Bramaa with three hundreds nd 
 fifty thoufand. The next day thefe two Armies being puc into battel array, came to 
 joyn together on Friday the ftxccenth of 2 November > che fame year, a thoufand five 
 hundred forty and eight. It was about fix of t he dock in the morning when firft they 
 beg in their incoumer, which was performed with fo much violence, as a general de¬ 
 feat enfued thereupon, yet fought they with an invincible courage on cither part; 
 but the Zemindoo had the worfe,for in lefs then three hours his whole Army was rout¬ 
 ed, with tfie daughter of three hundred thoufand of his men, fo that in this extre¬ 
 mity he was forced, to lave himfelf onely with fix horie in a fortrefs, called Battelor , 
 where he flayed but one hour, during the which, he furnilhed himfelf with a little Vef- 
 fel, wherein he fled the night enfuing up the river to Cedaa, Let us leave him now fly¬ 
 ing, until we (ball co ne to him again when as time {hall ferve, and return to the king 
 of Bramaa y who exceedingly contented with the vi&ory which he had gotten, march¬ 
 ed the next morning againlt the City of Pegu ; where as loon as he arrived, the inha¬ 
 bitants rendred themfelves unto him, on condition to have their lives and goods fa- 
 ved. Whereupon he took order for the drelfmg of them that were hurt; asforthofc 
 that he loft in this battel, they were found to be threescore thoufand in number, a- 
 mongft the which were two hundred and fourfeore Portugals , all the reft of them being 
 grievoufly wounded. 
 
 Having already treated of thefuccefs which the king of Bramaas voyage hid in 
 the .kingdom of Siam , and of the rebellion of the kingdom of Pegu , me-thinks it will 
 not be amifs for me to fpeak here fuccin&ly of the feituation, extent, abundance, riches, 
 and fertility which I ftw in this kingdom of Siam, and in this Empire of Sornau ,to {hew 
 th|t the conqueft thereof would have been far more ufeful unto us, then all theeftates 
 which now we have in the Mists, and that we might obtain it with a great deal lefts 
 
 „ ' ' * charge. 
 
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 Of Ferdinand MendezfPinto. %8? 
 
 charge. This kingdom, as may be feen in the Map, is feven.hundred leagues in length, 
 and a hundred and threefcore in breadth $ the mod part of ir conlifts in gr.at plains, 
 where are a world of corn grounds , and rivers of frefti water, by reafon whereof the 
 ' Country is exceeding fertile, and abundantly ftored with cartel and visuals. In the 
 mod eminent parts of ic are thick Foreds of Angelin wood, whereof thoufands of (hips 
 nmghc be made ; there are alfomany mines o( Silver, Iron, Steel, Lead, TinjSaltpctre^ 
 and Brimdone ; likewife great abundance of Silk, Aloe?, Benjamin, Lac5e,Indico,Cor- 
 ton-wool. Rubies, Saphires, Ivory and Gold; There is moreover in the weocs marvel¬ 
 lous dore of Brail I and Ebony, wherewith an hundred Juncks are every year laden, to 
 be tranlported to China^Hahaatij the Lequios^ (famboya and Ca^phaa 5 befides Wax, 
 Honey,and Sugar,which divers places there doyceid very plentifuliy.The Kings yearly 
 revenue is ordinarily twe ve millions of Gold, over md above the prefents which the 
 great Lords make him,chat co nes to a great matter. In the juriidiftion of flis territories 
 there are fix and twenty hundred populations, which they call Prodon , as cities and 
 towns arjiongd us, befides villages and final 1 hamlers,whereof I have no reckoning.Thc 
 mod part of thofe populations have no other fortifications or walls, then paliladoes of 
 wood; fo thac ic would beeafte for any that fhould attaque them to make themfelves 
 maders thereof; the rather for that the inhabitants of thofe places are naturally effemi¬ 
 nate, and dedicute of arms offenfive and defenlive* This coad of this kingdom joyns up- 
 on the two North and South Seas • on thac of the Ind’ias by Juncalo and Tanatscarim, 
 and on that of China by <J\rlonpolocati f, Cuy> Lugor , Chintabu, and Berdio. The capital 
 City of all this Empire is Odi<ta> whereof 1 have lpoken heretofore ; it is fortified with 
 walls of brick and mortar, and contains, according to fome, four hundred thoufand 
 fires, whereof an hundred thoufand are drangers of divers countries of the world: for 
 whereas the-counrry is very rich of it felf, and of great tr*ffick, there paffes nor a year 
 wherein,from the Provinces & Iflands of Jdoa,BaIe^ AladoHrayAngemoyBomeo^ii Solor j 
 there fails not thereunto at the le.ft a iooo Juncks,befides other fmailer vdfels,-.,here¬ 
 with all the rivers and all the harbors are full. The King naturally is no way given to ty¬ 
 ranny. ThecudomSof all cheKingdome are charicably dedinated for the maintenance 
 of certam Tagodes, where the duties that are paid are very eafie ; for whereas the religi¬ 
 ous men are forbidden to trade with money,chey take no more of Merchants ttK n what 
 they will give them out of alms. ♦ There are in this Country twelve Se£ts of Gentiles, 
 as in the Kingdom of rpegu ; and the King for a Sovereign ride cauiech bimfelf to be 
 called Prechau Salctt 9 which in our tongue dignifies, A holy member of God. He flm.ws 
 not himfeif to the people fave only twice in the year, but then with to much riches and 
 majefty, as he hath power and grearnefsj and yet for all this thit I fay, he lets nut to 
 acknowledge himfeif the vaflal and tributary to the King of Ch\na y ro the end that by 
 means thereof his fubje&s J uncks may be admitted into the pori of Comb*y 9 where Or¬ 
 dinarily theyexercife their commerce. There is alfo in this Kingdom a great quantity 
 of Pepper, Ginger, Ginam6n,Camphire,Allume,Cafiia,Tamarinds and Cardamon; fo 
 as one may truly fiflirm that, wh ; ch I hive often heard fay in thofe parts, namely, thac 
 this Kingdom is one of the befi countries in the world, and tali r to be fu idued then a- 
 ny other Province, how little foever. I could here report likewife many more particula¬ 
 rities of things which I have feen only in the city of Odiaa, but I am not minded to make 
 mention of them,that I may not beget in them that fhall read this the fame grief which 
 I have for the lofs which we made of ic through our fins, and the gain we might mak« 
 in conquering this Kingdom. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
z3 6 The Travels, Voyages,and zAdvenmes 
 
 CHAP. LXXI. 
 
 A continuation of that which hapned in the Kingdom of Pegu, as well during the life 
 
 as after the death of the King of Bramaa. 
 
 Seft.i. qpO return now unto the hiftory which heretofore I have left, you muft know, that 
 X after the King of Bramaa had obtained that memorable vi&ory neer to Pegajs I 
 have declared heretofore, by means whereof he remained peaceable poffefTor of* the 
 whole kingdom, the firft thing he imployed himfelf in was to punifh the offendors," 
 which had formerly rebelled ; for which effeft he cut off the heads of a great many of 
 the Nobility,and Commanders, all whofeeftates were confifcated to the Crown, which 
 (according to report) amounted unto ten millions of gold, befides plate and jewels, 
 whereby thaucommon Proverb, which was common in the mouths of all, was verified* 
 namely , 7 hat one mans offence cofl many men very dear . ■ Whileft the king continued 
 more and more in his cruelties, and injuftice, which he executed againft divers perfons 
 during the fpace of two moneths and a half, certain news came to him, that the city of 
 Mariabano was revolted, with the death of twothoufand Bramaas , and that the Cha - 
 logomin , Governour of the fame city, had declared himfelf for the Xemindoo. But that 
 the cauie of this revoic may be the better uaderftood by fuch as are curious,! will(beforc 
 I proceed any further) fuccin^ly re!ate,how this Xemindoo had been of a religious order 
 in Tegu, a man of noble extra&ion, and (as fome affirmed jneer of kin to the precedent 
 King, whom this Bramaa had put to death twelve year* before, as 1 have already decla- 
 reo. ! ms Xemiudoo had formerly to name X orip am Xay ,s man of about forty five years 
 of age, of a great undemanding,and held by every one , for a Saint: he was withal very 
 well verfi in the Laws of their Seas and falfe Religion, and had many excellent parts, 
 
 ; which rendered him fo agreeable unco all that heard him preach, as he was no fooner in 
 I the Pulpic, but all the afliftants proflrated themfelves on Lhe ground, faying at every 
 word that he uttered, Affuredly God fpeakj in thee. This Xemindoo fating himfelf then in 
 fuch great credit with the people, fpurred on by the generoficy of his nature, and the 
 occafion which was then fo favorable unto him, refolved to try his fortune, and fee to 
 what degree it might arrive. To this end, at fuch time as the King of Bramaa was fal¬ 
 len upon the kingdom of Siam , and had laid fiege to the city of Odiaa y the Xemindoo 
 preaching in the temple of C^quiay at Pegu, which is as it were the Cathedral of all 
 the reft, where there was a very great aflembly of people, he difeourfed at large of the 
 lofs of this kingdom, of the deach of their lawful King,as alfo of the great extortions* * 
 cruel punilhmcnts, and many other mifehiefs which rhe Bramaas had done to their Na¬ 
 tion; with fo many infolencies,and with fo many offences againft 6od,as even the very 
 houfes which had been founded by the charity of good people, to ferve for Temples 
 wherein the Divine Word might be preached, were all defolated and demoliflied • ck if 
 any were found ftill (finding, they were made ufe of, either for ftables, lay ftalli, or Mo¬ 
 ther fuch places accuftomed to lay filth or dung in. Thefe, and many other fuch like 
 things, which the Xemindoo delivered, accompanied with many fighs and tears, made fo 
 great an impreflion in the minds of the people, as from thenceforward they acknow¬ 
 ledged him for their lawful king, and fwore aliegeance unto him; fothac inftead of 
 calling him, as they did before, Xonipam Xay, they named him Xemindoo , as a fbverewn 
 title which they gave him above all others. Seeing himfelf raifed then to the dignity 
 of king, the firft thing during the heat and fury of this people, was to go to the kin* 
 of Bramaas palace, where having found five thoufand Bramaas , he cut them all in pie¬ 
 ces , not fpanng the life of one of them ; the like did he afterwards t 0 all the reft of 
 them that were abiding in the moft important places of the State, and withal he feizad 
 on the kings treafure, which was not fmall. In this manner he flew all the Bramaas 
 that were in the kingdom, which were fifteen thoufand, befides the women of that Na¬ 
 tion of what age foever, and feized on the places where theyrefided, which were in- 
 ItanUy demolifhed • fo that in the fpace of three and twenty days onely he became ab- 
 lolute pofUffor of the kingdom, and prepared a great Army to fight with the king of 
 ±>ramaa,\ he fhould chance to return upon the bruit of this rebellion, as indeed he 
 
 * fought 
 
Of Ferdinand Mendes^ Pinto. • %$*t 
 
 fought with him to his great damage, being defeated by him, as I have heretofore de¬ 
 clared. And thus having methinks faid enough for the intelligence of that which I 
 am to recount, I will come again to my firft Difcourfe. This Kibg of Bramaa being 
 advertifed of the Revolt of the Town of Martabano, and of the deach of thofe two 
 thoufand Bramahs, gave order immediately to all the Lords of the Kingdom for 
 their repair unto him with as many men as they could levy, and that within the term 
 of fifteen days at the furtheft, in regard the prefent neceflity would not endure a 
 longer delay. This done, he parted the day following with a fmall Train from the 
 City of ( Pegu i to give example to others to do the like, and went and lodged at a 
 Town called Moucban, with an intention to tarry there thofe fifteen days he had li¬ 
 mited the Lords to come unto him. Now when as fix or feven of them were already 
 paft f he was advertifed that Xemin dc Satan , Governour of a Town fo named, had 
 iccretly fenc a great Sum of Gold to the Zemindoo , and wichall had done him Homage 
 for the fame Town where he commanded. This news fomewhat troubled the King 
 of Bramaa, who devifing with himfelf of the means which he might ufe to meet 
 with the milchief that threatned him, he fenc for Xemin de Satan, who was then in 
 the faid Town of his Government, with a purpofe to cutoff his Head ; but he, be¬ 
 taking himfeT to his Bed, and making fhew of being fick, anfwered, that he would 
 wait upon the King slfoon as he was able to rife. Nowin regard he found himfelf 
 to be guilty, and mifdoubdng thecaufe wherefore he was fent for, he communicated 
 this Affair to a dozen of his Kinfmen who were there prefent with him, who all of 
 them concluded together, how fince there was no better way to fave himfelf then in 
 killing the King, that without further delay it was to be put in execution 5 fothac 
 all of them offering fecretly to affift him in this Enterprife, they fpeedily affembled 
 all their Confidents, without declaring unto them at firft the occafion wherefore 
 they did it; and wichall, drawing others unto them with many fair promifes, they 
 made up, all being joyned together, a company of fix hundred men. Whereupon 
 being informed that the King was lodged in a certain Pagode, they fell upon ic with 
 great violence ; and fortune was fo favourable unto them, that finding him almoft 
 alone in his Chamber, they flew him without incurring any danger. That done, they 
 retired into an outward Court, where the Kings Guard having had fomc notice of 
 this Treafon, fet upon them, and the Conflict was fo hot between them, that in half an 
 hours fpace, or thereabout, eight hundred men lay dead in the place, whereof the 
 moft part were Bramahs. After this Xemin de Satan making away with four hun¬ 
 dred of his followers, went to a place of large extent, called Poutel , whither ail 
 thofe of the Country round about reforted unto him, who being advertifed of the 
 Death of the King of Bramaa^ whom they mortally hated, made up a Body of five 
 thoufand men, and went to feek out the three thoufand Brama* s which the King 
 had brought thither with him: And forafmuch as thefe fame were difperfed infe- 
 veral places, they were all of them eafily fljin, not fcarce fomuch as oneefcaping: 
 
 With them alfo were flain fourfeore of three hundred Portugals that ‘Diego Sm« 
 rez. had with him, who, together with all the reft which remained with their lives 
 faved, rendered themfelves upon Compolition, and were received to mercy, upon Con¬ 
 dition that for the future they ftiould faithfully ferve Xemin de Satan, as their proper 
 King, which they eafily promifed to do. Nine days after this Mutiny, the Rebell fee¬ 
 ing himfelf favoured by fortune, and fuch a multitude of people at his devotion, 
 which were come to him out of this Province, to the number of thirty thoufand 
 men, caufed himfelf to be declared King of Pegu, promifing great recompences to 
 fuch as fhould follow and accompany him, uncill he had wholly gotten the King¬ 
 dom, and driven the ‘Bramaa s out of the Country. With this Defign he retired 
 to a Fortrefs called Tagalaa, and refolved to foriifie himfelf there out of the fear 
 he vvas in of the Forces which were to come to the fuccour of the deceafed King, 
 thinking to finde him alive, having been advertifed that many were already fet forth 
 from the City of Pegu for that purpofe. Now of thofe Brama* s which Xemin de 
 Satan had flain, one by chance efcaped, and caft himfelf all wounded as he was into 
 the River, and fwimming over, never left travelling all that night, and the day (oU 
 
 lowing 
 
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The Travels , Voyages , and Adventures 
 
 lowing, for fear of the Pegus, untili he arrived at a place, called C°utafarem, where 
 heencouncred with the (haumigrem, the deceafed Kings Fofter-brother, who was 
 encamped there with an Army of an hundred and fourfeore thoufand men, whereof 
 there were but one!y thircy thoufand Bramahs, all the reft Pegu's; finding him then 
 upon the point of parting from thence, in regard of the heat that would be with¬ 
 in two hours after, he acquainted him with the death of the King, and all that had 
 part befides. Now though the news greatly troubled the Cbaumigrem, yet he diffem- 
 Wed it for the prefent with fo much courage and prudence, as not one of his follow¬ 
 ers perceived any alteration in him; But contrarily, putting on a rich Habit of Car¬ 
 nation Sattin, embroidered with Gold, and a Chain of precious Stones about his Neck, 
 he caufed all the Lords and Commanders of his Army to sflemble before him, and 
 then fpeaking to them with the femblancc of a joyfull man, gentlemen, faid he, this 
 fellow which you faw come to me hut now in fuch hafte , hath brought me this Letter , 
 which l hav e here in my hand, from the King, my Lord and yours ; and although by the 
 contents thereof he feemeth to blame us for our carelefnefs in lingring thus, yet I hope 
 ere long to render him fuch an account of it, as his Highnef t (hall give us all thankj for 
 the fervice we have done him. By this Letter too he certifies me, that he hath very certain 
 intelligence, how the Zemindoo hath raifed an Army, with an intent to fall upon the Towns 
 of Cofmin and Dalaa, and to gain all along the Rivers of Digon and Meidoo, the whole 
 Province of Dmi^Amevento Anfedaa ; wherefore he hath exprefly enjoyned me 9 that as 
 foon as poffibly I may, I put into thofe places (as the moft important) fuch Forces as fhall 
 be able to refifi the Enemy ; and that J take heed nothing be loft through my negligence , 
 hecaufe in that cafe he will admit of no excufe. This being fo, it feems to me very import- 
 ant and neceffary for his fervice , that you my Lor^Xemimbrum go inftantly without all 
 delay, and put your felf with your Forces into the Town of Dalaa; and your Brother-in- 
 law B iinhaa Quern into that of Digon, with his fifteen thoufand men; as for Colonel Gi- 
 pray and MonpocafTer, they fhall go with their thirteen thoufand Souldicrs into Anfedaa, 
 and Danaphiu, and Ciguamcan, with twenty thoufand men fhall march along to Xiraa, 
 and fo to Malacou ; moreover Quiay Brazagaran, with his Brethren and Kinfmen, fhall 
 go for General of the Frontier, with an Army of fifty thoufand men, to the end that ajjifted 
 with thefe Fones he may in perfongive order wherefoever need fhall be. Behold, what the 
 King hath written to me, whereof l pray you let us make an Agreement, and all fignit 
 together , for it is no reafon that my head fhould anfwer for your want of care, and impru¬ 
 dence. His Commanders prefently obeyed him, and without longer tarrying there, 
 each of them went Ilraighc to the place whither his Commiflion dire&ed him. The 
 Chaumigrem, by the means of this fo cunning and well difTembled a fleighr, rid himfelf 
 in iels then three hours of all the hundred and fifty thoufand PegiVs, who he knew, 
 if once they came to hear of the Kings death, would fall upon che thirty thoufand 
 Bramaas that he had there with him, and not leave one of them alive. This done 
 affoon as it was night, turning back to the City, which was not above a league from 
 thence, he feized with all fpeed on the deceafed Kings Treafure, which amounted, 
 according to report, unto above thirty Millions of Gold, befides Jewels that were* 
 not to be eftimated; andwithall, he faved all the Bramaas Wives and Children, and 
 took as many Arms and as much Ammunition as he could carry away. After this, he 
 fet fire on all that was in the Magazines, caufed all the leflfer Ordnance to be rived 
 afunder, and the greater, which he could not ufe fo, to be cloyed. Furthermore, he 
 made feven thoufand Elephants that were in the Country to be killed, referving onely 
 two thoufand for the carriage of his Treafure, Ammunition, and Baggage. As for all 
 the refl, it was confumed with fire, fo that neither in the Palace, where were Cham¬ 
 bers a 1 fieled with Gold, nor in the Magazines and Arfenals, nor on the River 
 where were two thoufand rowing Veflfels, remained ought that was not reduced to 
 allies. After this execution, he departed in all hafte, an hour before day, and drew di- 
 reftly towards Tanguu, which was his own Country, from whence he camefome 
 ourteen years before to theConqueft of the Kingdom of Pegu, which in the heart 
 ot the Country was diftant from thence about an hundred and threefcore leagues 
 15 J 0 W whereas Fear commonly adds Wings to the Feet, it made him march with fuch 
 
Of Ferdinand Mendes^ Pinto. 
 
 .peed, as he and his arrived in fifteen days at the place whither they were a going* I© 
 the mean time, whereas the Chaumigrem had cunningly Tent away the hundred and 
 fifty thoufand Pegu's , as I have declared already, it happened that two day s after they 
 underftood how toe King of Bramai t was dead i Now in regard they were mortal 
 Enemies of that Nation, fixfcore thoufand of them in one great Body turned back in 
 hafte for to go in queft of the thirty thoufand Bramahs ; but when they arrived at the 
 City, they found that they were gone from thence three days before 5 this making 
 them to follow m purfuit of them with all the fpeed that poflibly they could, they 
 came to a place, called Guinacoutel, fome forty leagues from the Qity whence they 
 came ; there they were informed, that it was five days fince they patted by $ fothac 
 defpairing of being able to execute the Defign which they had, of cutting them in 
 pieces, they returned back to the place from whence they were parted, where they 
 confulted amongft themfelves about that which they were to do, and refolved in the 
 end,^ fince they had no Iawfull King, and that the Land was quite freed of tht Bra- 
 mao's, to go to Xemin de Satan , as incontinently they did, who received them, non 
 onely with with a great deal of joy and good entertainment, but promifed them 
 mighty matters, and much Honour, by raifmg them to the principal Commands of the 
 Kingdom, afloon as time fhould ferve, and that he was more peaceably letled. There¬ 
 upon he went dire&ly to the City of ‘Pegu, where he was received with the magnifi¬ 
 cence of a King, and for fuch crowned in the Temple of C'omquiay, which is the chief- 
 eft of all the reft. 
 
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 That which arrived in the time of Xenim de Satan, and an abominable cafe that befell to 
 Diego’Suarez3 together with the Xemindoo’j Expedition againfi Xenim de 
 Satan 3 and that which enfued thereupon. 
 
 T Hree moneths and nine days had this Tyrant Xenim de Satan already peaceably 
 pofTfkd the City and Kingdom of Pegu, when as without fearing any thing, or 
 being contradioed by none, he fell to dittributing the TreafureJ and Revenues of the 
 Crov.n to whomsoever he pleafed; whereupon great Scandals enfued, which were 
 the caufc of divers Quarrels and Divifions amongft many of the Lords, who for this 
 caufe, and the injustice which this Tyrant did them, retired into feveral forreign 
 Countries and Kingdoms. Some-alfo went and fided with the Xemindoo , who began 
 at that time to be in reputation again: For after he had fled from the Battel onely 
 with fix Horfe, as I have declared heretofore, he got into the Kingdom of i/tnfedaa, 
 where as well by the efficacy of his Sermons, as by the authority of his perfon, he 
 won fo many to his devotion, as aflifted by the favour and Forces of thofe Lords as ad¬ 
 hered to him, he made up an Army of threefcore thoufand men, with which he march* 
 ed to UVeidoo, where he was very well received by thofe of the Country. Now fcc- 
 tingafide what he did in thofe parts, during the fpace of four moneths that he abode 
 there, I will in the mean time pafs to a ftrange Accident which in a few days fell out 
 in this City, that one may know what end the good fortune of the great Diego Sha« 
 rek, had, who had been Governour of this Kingdom of Pegu 3 and the recompence 
 which the World is accuftomed to make at laft unto all fuch as ferve andtruftinir, 
 under the femblance of a good coubcenance which fhe fhews them at firft. The matter 
 paft in this fort; There was in this City of Pegu a Merchant, called (jManbagoaa, a 
 rich man, and that of good reputation in the Country ; This fame refolved to marry 
 a Daughter of his to a young man, the Son of a worfhipfull and very rich Merchant 
 alfo, named Manicaniandarim, about that time that Diego Suarez, was in the great- 
 eft height of his Fortune, and termed the Kings Brother, and in Dignity above all the 
 Princes and Lords of the Kingdom. So the Fathers of this young Couple being 
 agreed on this Marriage, and of the t)owry that was to be given, which by report 
 was three hundred thoufand Ducates ; when as the Day was come wherein the Nupti¬ 
 als were celebrated with a great deal of liate and magnificence, and honoured with 
 the prefence of moft of the Gentlemen of chiefeft quality in the City, it happened 
 
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 th.r n;<«S* 4 r«, being come a little before Sun-fet from the royal Palace, with a 
 ot -x /n both of Horfe and Foot, as his manner was to. be. always well accompani¬ 
 ed l-ffed by CMambwiA** door, where hearing the Mutick ana rejoicing that was in 
 tbehoufe, asked wim the matter was, whereuufo anfwer being made him, chat Mam- 
 imaati had in.rned his Daughter, and that the Wedding was kept there, he prefentiy 
 taxied the Elephant on which,he was mounted to (fay, and fenc one to teal the Fa- 
 th‘rof the Bride that he congratulated with him for this Marriage, aodvvifhed a 
 W and ham life to the new married couple; to thefe words he added many o- 
 thersby way^cf complem.nt, yea and made him many offers if he would make ufe of 
 to wherewith the old Father of the Bride finding himfelf fo exceedingly honour¬ 
 ed as not knowino how to acknowledge it, in regard the perfon who did him fo 
 ed, as: not knoA himfelf in greatnefs and dignity, the de- 
 
 mnch honour was no lels tnen me *w a whoilvdoir 
 
 lire which he had to ^>1 n “ d fLadies of 
 
 ^ ity an'd " e d g her^ the SueJt door, where DiL was he proftrated 
 
 himfelf'on'the® round with a great deal of refpeft, and vvtth many complements a f. 
 
 ter ms manner ^thanked him for the favour and honour that he had done him. T, >. e 
 uron ,h- new married Bride, having taken from off her finger a rich Ring, prefeoccd it 
 on her’knees by her fathers exprefs commandment, to <D,egoSuarez.-, but he thac 
 nacurallv was fenfual and lafcivious, inftead of ufing civility, whereunco the Laws df 
 tr r A p ipn^Hiio obliged him, having taken the Ring which the Maid pre- 
 heffiSs hand, an? plucked her to him by force, faymg, 
 
 lid £°» hC' si'J fc"S 2,%’hL’. Id r,!f* 4 ,hg«, o.d. 
 
 JiSllJfrn at it , but if thou deCtre of me that 1 fhould g,ve thee her 
 ullthJt is in my Houfe, and that / deliver up my felf mto thee f^Z’AZonloZr 
 ly do it,.provided thoum h P‘rmu‘hat h "Vj£?«Z?dfiive. Whereupon offering 
 good mtheworldbutfhe.mrre. aveany anfwer to him, turned himfelf 
 
 toray by Nation, and faid unto him, 
 
 ^° ut '° n h * c l h ; r«h prefentiy drew out his Scym.car to kill the poor old man, hue 
 he fuddenly^*ed away, leaving his Daughter with all her 
 
 SuaL hi hands. In the mean time the Bridegroom came running to this Tumult, 
 ikb Ms ctreksall bedewed with tears 5 but he was fcarcely arrived there, when as thefe 
 Birbaiirns flew him, and his Father roo, With fix or feven other of his K.nfmen 
 Whileft this oafl fo, the Women made fuch fearlull Cries in the Houle as terrified all 
 ^foi tbac heard them, fo that even the Earth and the Air feemed to tremble at rt or 
 to lav b’ttcr they demanded Vengeance of God for the littlerefpeft which was h» 
 Soh?s div'nejiifiice, and for fo great a Violence as this was; and truly, if I do not 
 m re amply report the particularities of lo black and io abominable an Afti _n, f 
 . r " L ^excufed in r^°ard I pafs them by for the honour of the Tortagal Nation : 
 teo auKe,. 1 fay, thac 'this poor Maid feeing her felf upon the 
 point to b! forced, ttrnngled her felf with a firing that (he wore about her Middle 
 
 for a Girdle • which firechofe rather to do, then fuffer this fenfual and brutifii Man 
 to earn’her away with him by force, but he was therewith lo duplexed, asihe was 
 
 heard to fay, that he repented him more for that he had not-^^dUf-our'ycara 
 ufing her in that fort as he did. Now from the day of this abhorred Aft, tfil four years 
 al ter, the good old man, the Father of the Bride, was never feento go jut of h£ 
 Houfe, but at length to give a greater Demonftration of his Sorrow, and - ffjew 
 his extreme Refentment of thematter, he covered himfelf with n claves' 
 
 and in that fad equipage went up and down, begging an Alms of his very b^ve , 
 
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 never eating any thing, bur lying all along naked, and his face fixed on the ground. 
 Thus continued he in t'o fad a manner of life, unnll in the end he faw that the feafon 
 invited him to have recouri'c unto juftice, which he demanded in this fort; perceiving 
 that in the Kingdom there was another King, other Governours, and other Juril- 
 di&ion, alterations which time ordinarily produceth in every Country, and in all kinde 
 of affairs, he went out of hishmfe in the wretched fafhion he had lb long ufed, ha- 
 ving a big Cord about his Neck, and a white Beard, reaching almoft down to his 
 Girdle, and gor him into the midlf of a great place, where flood a Temple called 
 Quiay Fantareu, that is to fay, the God of the e{fitted-, there he took the Idol from 
 eff the Altar, and holding it in his arms, he returned out of the Temple, to the faid 
 great place, where having cr ed out aloud three times to draw the People together, 
 as accordingly they came flocking in unto him, he faid with tears in his eyes; O ye 
 People, ye People ! who with a clean and peaceable heart make profcjfion of the truth of 
 this God of the affixed, which you fee here in my arms , come forth like Lightning in a 
 darfi and rainy Plight, and joyn with me in crying fo loud , that our Cries may pier ce the 
 Heavens , to the end the pitifull ear of the Lord may be drawn to hear our heavy lamenta¬ 
 tions, and by them he may know the reafon we have to demand jufiice agamfi this ac- 
 curfed fir anger, as the moft wicked Man that ever was born in the World ; for this abo¬ 
 minable Wretch hath not been contented with Jpoiling us of our Goods, but hath alfo di{ho¬ 
 noured our Families ; wherefore whofoever {hall not with me accompany the God which 1 
 hold in my hands, and water with my tears, in detefiing fo horrible a Crime, let the 
 gluttonous Serpent of the profound Pit of Smoke abridge his days miferably, and tear his 
 Body in pieces at Midnight . This old naans words lo mightily terrified the Aflifiants, 
 and made fo deep an impreflion in their mindes, that in a fhort time fifty thoufand 
 perfons affembled in that place, with fo much fury and deflre of revenge, as was won- 
 dcrfull to behold. Thus the number of the People Bill more and more increafing, 
 they ran thronging flrait to the Kings Palace* with fo horrible a noife, as [truck tetrour 
 into all that heard them. In this diforder, being arrived at the outward Court of the 
 Palace, they cried out fix or feven times with a dreadfull tone 5 G King come out of the 
 place where thou art {hut up, to hearken to the voice of thy God, who demands juflice of 
 thee by the mouth of thy poor People . Ac thefe Cries the King puc forth his head out of 
 the Window, and affrighted with fo firange an Accident, would needs know of them 
 what they would have ? whereunto they all answered unanimoufly with fuch loud Cries, 
 as leemed to pierce the Heavens, Jufiice, jujhce, againfi a wicked Infidel, who to fpoil 
 us of our Goods hath filled our Fathers, our Children , our Brothers, and our Kin(,men « 
 The King having thereupon inquired of them who it was - It is, anfwered they, an ac - 
 curfed Thief, participating with the Workj of the Serpent , who in the Fields of Delight 
 abufed the firfi Man that God created. Is it poffible, faid he unco them, that there 
 fhould be any fuch thing as you tell me ? Whereunto they all replied, This fame is the 
 mofi accurfed Man that ever was born on the Earth, and is fo out of his wicked nature and 
 inclination, wherefore roe all of us befeechthee in the yame of this God of the * {fitted, that 
 bis veins may be as much emptied of his bloud , as Hell is filled vdith his wicked works. 
 At thefe words the King turning towards them thft were abouc him, what do you thinks 
 hereof, faid he unto them ? What am I to do? and how am I to carry my felf inf flrange 
 and extraordinary a matter ? To which rhey all afilwered, tJMy Lord, if thou wilt not 
 hearken to that which this God of the ajfiitted comes to demand of thee, it is to be feared 
 that he will take care m longer to aid thee, and will refufe to fupport thee in thy Dignity. 
 Then the King turning himfelf again to the multitude that were below in the Courr, 
 bade them go to the place where the great Market was kept, and he would give order that 
 the Man whom they required fhould be delivered unto them to be diffofed of at their plea - 
 fure. Whereupon having fenc for the Chirca of Jidtice, who is as the Sovereign Su¬ 
 perintendent thereof above all others, he commanded him to go and apprehend Diego 
 Suarez,, and deliver him bound hand and foot to the People, that they might do juliice 
 upon him, for he feared if he did otherwife, that God would execute it upon 
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 The Chire * of Juftice went immediately to Diego Suarez, his houfe, and told 
 him that the King had fenc for him*, he in che mean time was fo troubled to fee 
 the Chirca come for him, that he remained a pretty while not able to anfvver him, 
 as a man that was almott "befides himfelf, and had loll his underttanding • but at 
 length being fomewhat come to himlelt' again; He earnefily deffred him to diffenfe 
 with him at this time for going with him , in regard of a great pain that he had in his 
 heady and that in acknowledgment of fo good an office , he would give him forty Bijfes of 
 Gold. VVhe eunto the C^rca replied, The offer which thou makeff me is too little 
 for me to take upon m a fiat gHat pain which thou fayeff thou haff m thy head, where¬ 
 fore thou muft go along with me, either by fair means or by force, fwce thou obligefi 
 me to tell thee the truth. Diego Suarez, then, feeing that there was no means to excufe 
 him, would have taken along with him fix or feven of his Servants, and the Chirca 
 not permitting it ; 1 muff, laid he unto him, fulfil the Kings command, which is, that 
 thots Jhalt come alone, and not with fix or feven men, for the time is now paff wherein 
 thou wert wont to go fo well accompanied, as I have ofewimes feen thee do ; all thy fup- 
 port is gone by the death of the Tyrant of Bramaa, who was the quill wherewith thou 
 blowedfi up thy /elf to mfupportable pride , as is apparent by the wicked actions which 
 thou Staff committed, which at ibis prefent accufe thee before the ju (lice of God. This 
 laid, he took him by the b ;nd, and led him along with him, environed with a Guard 
 of three hundred men, whereat we remained very much difmayed. Thus marching 
 from one Street to another, he arrived in the end at the Baz.or , which was a publick 
 place where allkindeof Wares was fold ; but as he was going thither, he met by 
 chance with Balthazar Suarez, his Son, who came from a Merchants houfe, whither 
 his Farber had fenr him that Morning to receive fome Money that was owing to 
 him. The Sod, feeing his Father in this plight, alighted prefently from his Hcrfe, 
 and catting himfelf at his feet; fVhat means this, my Lord , faid he unto him with 
 rears in his eyes, and whence comes it that you are led along in this fort ? t/4sk. it of 
 my Jins, anfwered Diego Suarez,, and they will tell thee, for I protefi unto thee, my Son, 
 that in the cafe I am in, all things feem Dreams unto me. Thereupon embracing one 
 another, and mingling their tears together, they continued fo, untill fuch time as 
 the Chin* commanded Balthaz,ar Suarez, to get him gone, which he would not dOj, 
 being loth to part from his Father; but the Jsdinifters of Juttice haled him away by 
 force, and pufhed him fo rudely, as he fell and broke his head, yea and withall they 
 gave him many blows befides, whereat his Father fell into a Swoun. Being come 
 again to himfelf, he craved a little Water, which he had no fooner taken, but lifting 
 up hi s hands to Heaven, he faid with tears in his eyes, Si iniquitates obfervaberis, Do- 
 mine, Domine quis fuffinebit ? But, O Lord, added he, out of the great confidence 1 
 have in the infinite price of thy precious Bloud,which thou haff Jhedfor me upon the Crofs J 
 I may fay frith more affurance , LMiJencordia* Domini in aternum cantabo. Thus al¬ 
 together defolated 2s he was in this latt aiRi&ion, when he was come in fight of the 
 place whither the King had commanded him to be conduced, it i3 faid, that per¬ 
 ceiving fo many people, he remained fo exceedingly difmayed, that turning himfelf 
 to a Tonugal, who was permitted to accompany him, Jefus, faid he untohim, have 
 allthefe accufed me to the King ? Whereunro the Chirca made him chisAnfWer, 
 It.is no longer time for thee to thinly of this, for thou haff wit enough to know, that the 
 People are of fo unruly a humour, that they always follow evil wheremto they are vatu- 
 rally inclined. It is not that, replied Diego Suarez, with tears in his eyes, for l know 
 that if there be any unrulincfs in them , it proceeds from my fins* Thou feeft thereby, 
 laid the Chirca, that this is the ordinary Recompence which the JVorldis accuffomedto 
 give to them, who during this Life have loft the memory of the divine Juflice, as thou 
 haff done, and God give thee the Grace that in this little time thou haff to live thou 
 mayeft repent thee of the Faults thou haff committed, which pojffbly may avail thee more 
 then all the Gold that thou leavefi behmde thee, for an Inheritance to him , who peradven - 
 lure is the Caufe of thy Death. Here Diego Suarez, falling do.vn on his knees, and 
 
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 lifting up his eyes to Heaven, O Lord Jefus Chrift , cried he, my true Redeemer] I be- 
 feech thee by the Pains which thou haft [uffered upon the Crofts , to permit that the Ac- 
 euftation of thefe hundred thoufand hmger>ftarved Dogs again ft me, may ferve to fa - 
 tisfie the Chafllftement of thy divine Juft Ice in my behalf , to the end that the inefti* 
 mable Price which thou haft Imployed for the Salvation of my Soul , without any Me* 
 nt of mine , may not be unprofitable unto me, This laid, he afcended the Stairs 
 which led to t he ' Market-place, and the ‘Portugal that alliAed him told me, how 
 at every Hep hi killed the Ground, and called upon the Name of J ES U S ; at 
 length when he was come to the top, the t^Alanbogoaa, who held the Idol in his 
 arms, animating the People with s r eac Cries, laid unto them, whofotvcr fhall not 
 for the honour of this God of the tffhtted, whom I have here in my arms , ft one this 
 accurfed Serpent, let him for ever be miferable , and let the Brains of his Children 
 be confumed m the midft of the Night , to the end that by the Punlfhment of fa 
 great a Sin , the righteous Judgement of the Lord above may be juft fted in them . 
 He had no fooner made an end of fpeaking thus, but there tell io great a Shower 
 of Stone? on Pliego Suarez ,> as in lefs then a quarter of an hour be was bu¬ 
 ried under them, and they that flung them at him did it fo indifcreerly, as the 
 moft part of them hurt one anorher therewith. An hour after they drew forth 
 the poor Pliego Suarez, from under the Stones, and with another new Tumult of 
 Cries and Voices they tore him in pieces, with fo much fury and hatred of the 
 whole People in general, as there was not he which did not believe that he did 
 a charitable and holy Work in giving a Reward to the molt mutinous among!! 
 thofe which dragged his Members and Entrails up and down the Streets. This 
 Execution done, the King willing to confilcate his Goods, lent Men to his Home 
 for that purpofe, where the Diforder was fo great, in regard of the extreme 
 Avarice which thefe hungry Dogs had, they left not aTiie unmoved ^ and becaufe 
 they found not fo much as they expe&ed, they put all his Slaves and Servancs 
 to torture, with fuch.an excefs of cruelty, as eight and thirty of them remained 
 dead in the place, amongft which were feventeen Portugdls, who bore the pain 
 of a thing whereof they were not guilty. In al this fpoil tnere were no more then 
 fix hundred Bififes of Gold found, which are in value three hundred thoufand Du- 
 cates, befldes fome Pieces of rich Houfliold-fluff, v ’Ut no precious Stones, nor 
 Jewels at all, which perfwaded men that Diego Suarez, had buried all the red; how- 
 foever it could never be found out, notwichflanding all the fearch that was made 
 fork, and yet it was verified by the judgement of fome who had feen him in his 
 profperity, that he had in means above three Millions of Gold, according to the 
 iupputation of the Country. B:ho:d what was the end of the great Diego Sua¬ 
 rez,, whom Fortune had fo favoured in this Kingdom of Pegu , as fhe hid raifed 
 him up to the degree of the King’s Brother, the higheft and moll abfolure Title of 
 all others, and given himwithall two hundred thoufand Ducates yearly Rent, with 
 the Charge of General of eight hundred thoufand Men, and Sovereign over all the 
 other Governours or Vice-Roys of fourteen Kingdoms, which the King of Bra » 
 man had at that time in his pofleflion. But it is the ordinary courfe of the Goods 
 of this World, efpecially of fuch as are ill gotten, always to ferve for a way to 
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 I return now to the Xemindoo, of whom T hive not fpoken a long time. Where¬ 
 as that Tyrant and avaricious King Xemin de Satan gave daily new increafes to the 
 Cruelties and Tyrannies which he exercifed againft all forts of perfons, never tear¬ 
 ing killing and robbing (indifferently) thofe, who were thought to have Money ; nor 
 fparing any thing that he could lay his hands, his Rapines proceeded fo far, as it 
 was that in the fpace. of feven Moneths onely, wherein he was peaceable Po&fiour 
 of this Kingdom of Pegu, h t put to death fix thoufand very rich Merchants, bc- 
 lides many ancient Lords of the Councry , who by way of Right of Inheritance 
 held their Eftatcs from the Crown. Thefe Extortions rendered him fo odious, as 
 the moft part of thofe that were with him abandoned him to fide with the Xc- 
 mindoo, who had for him at that time the Towns of Digon, Meidoo , Dalaa , and 
 Coulam , even to the Confines of Xaraa, from whence he parted in hatie to go 
 and bedege this Tyrant with an Army of two hundred thoufand men, and five 
 thoufand Elephants. When he was arrived at the City of Pegu, where Xemin de 
 Satan then kept his Court, he invefted it round about with Palifadoes and very 
 ftrong Trenches, yea, and gave fome Affaults to it, but he could notenter itfo 
 eafilyas he believed, in regard of the great refinance he found from them within; 
 wherefore judging it rcq< lice for him to aker his minde, being prudent as he was, 
 he came very fubtilly to a Truce of twenty days with the Tyrant upon certain Con¬ 
 ditions, whereof the principal was, that if within the term of thofe twenty days 
 he gave him a thoufand Bilks of Gold, which are in value five hundred thoufand 
 Ducaces, he would defitt from the pretention and rjght which he had to this King¬ 
 dom; and all this he did (as I have already laid) cunningly, hoping by this means 
 to bring him to his bowe with lets peril. So the time of the Truce beginning to 
 run on, all things remained peaceablt on either fide, and the Befiegers fell to 
 communicate with the Befiegech During this Pacification every Morning two hours 
 before i 8 was day, they of the Xemindoo* s Camp played after their manner upon di¬ 
 vers forts of Inftruments very melodioufly, at the found whereof all they of the 
 City ran to the Walls to fee what the matter was, Whereupon thofe Inftruments 
 ceafing to pky, a Proclamation was made by a Prieft, accounted by every man a 
 holy perfomge, who faid thefe words with a very fad voice, O ye People, ye People ! 
 unto whom Nature hath given ears to hear, hearken to the voice of the holy Captain 
 Xemin doo, of whom Godwin make ufe for the re(l or mg you to your liberty and for¬ 
 mer quiet ; in ord?r rvhereunto he admomfheth you from Quiay Nivmdcl, the God 
 of Battels of the Field Vicau, that none of you be fa hardy as to lift up your hand a- 
 gainHhim, nor againfi this holy Ajfembly which he hath mads, out of a holy z,eal 
 towards ihefe People of Pegu, as Brother , that he is, to the leafi of ail the Poor: 
 Otherwifc whofoever fhall corns againfi the Army of the Servants of God , . or fhall 
 have the will to do them any harm, let him be accurfed for it, and as deformed and 
 vile as the Children of the Night, who foaming with Poyfon make horrible Cries, and 
 be delivered in'o the burning jaws of the Dragon of Difcord , whom the true Lord of 
 all the Gods hath cur fed for ever 5 whereas contrarily, to thofe that fhall be fo happy 
 as to obey this Proclamation, as his holy Brethren and Allies, (kailbe granted in this 
 Life a perpetual Peace, accompanied with a great deal of Wealth and Riches ; and 
 after their Death their Souls fhall be no lefs pure and agreeable to God, then thofe of 
 the Saints which go dancing amidfi the Beams of the Sun in, the cclefiial repofe of the 
 Lord Almighty. This publication made, the Mufick began to pky again with a 
 great noiie as before, which made fuch an imprefiion in the hearcs of cheiruhat heard 
 it, as in leven nights that it continued above threefcore thoufand perfons went and 
 rendered chemfelyes to the Xemindoo; for moft of them which heard thofe words 
 gave as much credit thereunto, as if an Angel from Heaven had fpoken them. In 
 the mean time the befieged Tyrant, feeing that thefe fecret Proclamations of the 
 Enemy were lo prejudicial unto him, as they could not chufe but turn to his utter 
 rume, brake the Truce at cwelyc days end, and deliberated with his Council wh it he 
 
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 fhoulddo, who advifed him by no means to fuffer himfelf to remain any longer be* 
 fieged, for fear lefi the Inhabitants (hould mutiny, and fall from him to the Enemy ; 
 and that the belt and furelt way was, to fight vvich the Xemindoo in the,open Field, be¬ 
 fore he grew to any further lirength. This Refolu.tion being approved of by Zmm 
 de Satan, he prepared himfelf for the execution of it ; tO which eflfcft he two days 
 after, before it was day, Tallied out at five Gates of the City, with fourfcore thoufand 
 men , 5 which then he had, and;charged the Enemies with flrange. fury. They jrhen, in the 
 meantime, who always flood upon their Guard/received them wkh a gteac deal of 
 courage whereupon enfusd fo cruel a Conflict between them, that in lefs then half an 
 hour, for fo long lafled the heat of the Fight, there fell on both Tides above forty 
 thoufand men; but at the endof that time the new King Zenim was bom from his 
 Elephant by an Harquebufe fhor, difcharged at him by a Portugal, named Goncalo Neto, 
 which caufed all the refl to render themfelves,and the City likewife, upon Condition 
 that the Inhabitants fhould have their Goods and Lives laved. By this means the Xc- 
 mindoo entred peaceably into it, and the very fame day, which was a Saturday, the 
 three and twentieth of February, one thoufand five hundred fifty and one, he caufed 
 himfelf to be crowned King of Pegu in the greateft Temple of the City. As for 
 Goncalo Neto, he gave him in recompence for killing the T\ rant twenty Billes of Gold, 
 which are ten thoufand Ducates; and to the other Portugals , being eighty in number, 
 he °ave five thoufand Ducates, befides the Honours and Privi edges which they had in 
 the^Country; he alfo exempted them for three years from paying any Cuflome for their 
 Mcrchandile, which was afterwards very exa&ly obferyed. 
 
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 9 
 
 CHAP. LXXIII. 
 
 which the Xemindoo did, after he was crowned King of Pegu, with the Chau- 
 
 migtems; the King of Bramaa ’s Fofter- Brothers coming again ft him, 
 with an Army ; and divert other memorable things. 
 
 ^T^He Xemindoo feeing himfelf crowned King of Pegu, and peaceable Lord of all 
 J the Kingdom, began to have thoughts far different from thofe which Xcmindc 
 Satan had had, being raifed to the fame Dignity of King; for the firft and pri ncipal 
 thin" wherein he imployed himfelf with all his endeavour, was to maintain his King¬ 
 dom in peace, and to caufe Juftice to flourifh ; as indeed he eHablifhed it with 10 
 much integrity, as no man how great foever he was, durft wrong a leffcr then him- 
 felf: withall in that which concerned the Government of his Kingdom, he proceed¬ 
 ed with fo much virtue and equity, as it filled the Strangers that were there with admi¬ 
 ration, fo that one could not without marvel confider the peace, the quiet, and union 
 of the wills of the People; during the happy and peaceable eftate of this Kingdom, 
 which continued the fpacc of a year, and better; at the end whereof th cChaumigrem, 
 Fofter-Brorher to the fame King of Bramaa , whom Xemin de Satan had flain, as I 
 have before declared, havin received advertifement, that by reafon of the Rebelli¬ 
 ons and Wars, which fince his departure from thence had happened in the King¬ 
 dom of Pegu the principal Men of State there, had loft their Lives; and the 
 Xemindoo who then reigned was unprovided of all things neceffary for his defence; 
 he refolved once again to adventure upon the fame Enterprife which .had formerly 
 been undertaken by his late King. With .this Defign, he entertained into his Pay a 
 mighty Army of Strangers, unto whom he gave aTincal of Gold by the moneth, which 
 is five Ducaces of our Money ; when as he had prepared all things in a readinefs, he 
 departed from Tanguu, the place of his birth: On the ninth day of March, a thou¬ 
 fand five hundred fifty and two, with an Army of three hundred thoufand men, 
 whereof onely fifty thoufand were Bramaa*s, and all the reft Mont, Chaleus, Cala - 
 minhans, Sauanis , P aments, and Auaae$ In the mean time the Xemindoo, the new 
 King of Pegu, having certain intelligence of thefe great Forces, which were coming 
 to fall upon him, made preparation to go and meet them, with a Defign to give them 
 Battel; for which effeft, heatfembled in the fame City where he was, a huge Army 
 of nine hundred thoufand men, which were all PegtPs by Nation, and consequently of 
 a weak conftitution, and lefs warlike then all the others, whereof I have fpoken ; 
 and on Tuefday the fourth of April , about noon, having received advice that the 
 Enemies Army was encamped all along the River of Mcleytay fome twelve leagues 
 from thence, he ufed fuch expedition, as the fame day, and the next night, all his Soul- 
 diers were put into Battel-aray, for whereas they had prepared every thing long be¬ 
 fore, and had alio been trained by their Captains, there needed no great ado to bring 
 them into order. The day enfuing, all thefe Men of War begun about nine of the 
 clock in the morning, to march at the found of an infinite number of warlike Inftru- 
 ments, and went and lodged that night fome two leagues from thence near to the Rivet 
 Potareu. The next day, an hour before Sun-fet the Bramaa Chaumigrem appeared 
 with fo great a Body of Men, as it took up the extent of a league and an half of 
 ground; his Army being compofed of feventy thoufand Horfe, of two hundred and 
 thirty thoufand Foot, and fix thoufand fighting Elephants, befides as many more which 
 carried Baggage and Victuals; and in regard it was almoft nighr, he thought fit to 
 lodge himfelf all along by the Mountain, that he mi"ht be in the greater fafety. Thus 
 the night part with a good Guard, and a ftrange noife that was made on either parr. 
 The day following, which was a Saturday, the feventh of %April, in the year one 
 thoufand five hundred fifty and three, tfbout five of the clock in the morning, thefe 
 two Armies began to move, but with different intentions; for the Defign of the Bra - 
 maa was topafs the Ford, and recover an advantageous piece of Ground, which lay 
 near to another River; and the Xemindoo had a defire to keep him from it, and to ftop his 
 pafTage ; upon this Contention, fome Skirmifhes enfued, which continued moft part of 
 the day, and wherein above five hundred men on the one fide and the other were {lain, 
 
 how- 
 
Of rerdinand Mendez into . 
 
 whtreunto^/preterued^n'dpalTVdalf^the^nSic^th**' bc ; auref,e S aincd tf >« place 
 
 than they inconnwe^one^nother with aUtlief ir S ^h en, '* S ’ W, ’° d ' d ^ > 
 
 to kindle in fuch like cafes the two vunrm I ata cr uc! hatred is accuftomed 
 mongftthetn, fell fohfe I«o7t the ^^ould.e,sa- 
 
 covered with dead bodies,and the Pe ? „e s began to lack cour in! wT’ * tlle . Fle,d w,s 
 doo feeing his men give ground came to fnrrrmr rh • -Whereupon theXm/#- 
 elephants, wherewith three ^fand 
 
 purpofe as the loft all that theu hal «” orfe fo couragioully & to the 
 
 who was better experienced'in the 
 
 what he was to do, to recover all ana,„ m ,j o / W e> knowln g full well 
 vanquished ■ theXe*,"2 the^n ’ ? *i h '”'»f retynng, as if he had been 
 thought of nothing but the viftorv DuKueJ" n ? c th ‘sft r atagem, andthac 
 but incontinently the Bramt.i facinoahmir •, about 3 ft uarter of a league: 
 
 fuch violence and horribleclyes Up0n his cn ' m V ^ 
 
 other elements feemed to femble It ,> p V T b ev T thc v ' f Vearth, and all the 
 fort, as in a httle time the avTe was feen ! heC ° nfi '* " newed ia fucf > 
 
 with bloud- for the Pecru ForrlcmH n , ’ an d the gtound watered all over 
 
 ingagedin the battle a/dl.kellrIf FT T^ 5 ' behotdin g tf 'eir King fo farre 
 
 likedid the pVmluZZZ u '£**•*»" inft«btly to his fuccor . the 
 i^ranonjAray, the BrnmAa, s brother on his fide „;irK r j c 
 
 and two thoufand elenhanrc {X f ho f f h * f * witntoU' ty thoufand men. 
 
 dreadfuil a fight as wo ^nS.w , enfued*bctwixt them fo bioudy and 
 
 faynomore, but that half an hour or there° f r ’ whGrefot,e 1 
 hundred thoufand Ttyues was utterly difrnmfi ^ UC ' b ^ oreSun - fcc > Army of nine 
 thoufand of them were left de~d on the n! ^dfmtwas faid) four hundred 
 
 them, grievouQy wounded -hibS P r ■’ T r 8,1 the reft > or the P*rt of 
 
 efcaped. ThusdiS^^ flcd oucof thc &W. "nd fo 
 
 himlelf to be crowned Kin m * M ™ tot h* ch * M ’»*grem 9 whothereupen caufed 
 triumph, WIth h chef r er 7 41 Enfignes, magnificence, and 
 And in regard it was already nmht^rheTh 0 !? Xtm ! n f S * tan ilew >had formerly been. 
 
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 ed as unwoundc*d,ran to^hVfp^iTof^thedead hod'^° ri °h S fou . ld .^ rs > as wcl1 wound -StU 
 were mightily enriched- for thev found ^ bo< ^ ies i wherewith diversamongft them 
 
 reafon tie cuLme ofthofc Gennlest f a! ILf h ° f G ? ld 3 " d A *Y 
 
 carry all their wealth about thtm tl thc- wl fh. C m h ^ s '«>fore dehvered ) to 
 this particular, thenew KinfiofthismifeaHeir c,Uldiers being well fatisfied in 
 
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 them in this fort My worthy Friends, and valiant Commanders, 1 have caufedyou it 
 come to this holy refling place of the dead, to the end that with a felemn Oath I may dif- 
 cover unto you my intentions *, whereof, with my knees on the ground, and my eyes lift up 
 unto heaven, I take to witnefs Quiay Nivandel ,the God of Battel of the field Vittu, l>e- 
 feeching him to be fudg of this betweenyouand me, and to fir ike me dumb, if I do not tell 
 ynuthe^truth. I very wed remember the promife I made you at Tanguu, which was,to 
 five you the pillage of this tumultuous Citie • as well becaufe I believedyour valor would 
 be Jit were the minifter of my revenge, as in feme fort to fatisfie your avarice, where - 
 unto I know you are naturally very much inclined: Now having given you this promife 
 for a gage of my faith,I ackyowledg that I am altogether obliged not to break my word with 
 you: But when , on the other fide, I come to cenfider the great inconveniences which may 
 accrue to me thereby , and the ftritt account which I Jhall one day render for it before the 
 equitable and rigorous juftice of the Lord above, I muft confeffe unto yon, that lam 
 very much afraid of charging my felfwith fo heavie a burthen : wherefore Reafon ad- 
 vifcs me to render my felf faulty towards men, rather then to fall into the difpleafureof 
 God : Befides, it is not reasonable that the innocent fb&uld pay for the guilty, and of 
 whom I am fuff ciently fat is fed with the death which they have received inthislafi bat¬ 
 tel by your hands. Behold, how I earnefily intreat you, as children that you are of 
 my bowels, that having regard to my good intention,you will not kindle this fire wherein 
 my foul will be burnt.fmce you fee well enough how reafenable that is which I defire of you, 
 and how unjuft it would be for you to refufe itme. Neverthelefs, to the end you may not 
 remain altogether without recompenfe, I do here promife you to contribute thereunto all 
 that Jhallfeem reafonabletoyou , and to fapply this default in part with my own goods , 
 with my Perfon,with my Kingdom,and with my State. Hereupon the Commanders of 
 
 thofe fix Nations hearing the Kings juftification, and the promife which he made 
 them yeelded to agree unto whatfoever he would do: howbeit, they prayed him a- 
 bove all things to have regard unto fouldiers pretenfions, who were not at any hand 
 to bedifeontented, butgreatly to be made account of. Whereunto the King re- 
 plyed. That they had reafon,and that in all things he would endeavour to conform him - 
 felf to whatfoever they fhould judg reafonable. In the mean time, to avoid difputes 
 which might enfue hereupon, it was concluded, that they fhould referr themfelvcs to 
 Arbitrators: for whicheffaft the Mutiners were to name three on their fide, and the 
 King three others on his, which made fix in all, whereof three were to be Religious 
 men^and the reft Strangers, that fo the judgment might be given with lefic fufpicion. 
 ThisrefolutioB being taken between them, they agreed together, that the three Re¬ 
 ligious men fhould be the Menigrepos ofa Pagode,that was named fftuiay Hifaron,thzz 
 is to fay,the God of Povercie ^ and that for the other three Strangers,the King and the 
 Mutiners fhould caft lots, to fee who fhould chufe one or two of them on his fide. 
 ThisEle&ionbeingfallentotheKing, he made a choice of two Portugals, an hun¬ 
 dred and forty that were then in the Citie* whereof the one was Gonjalo Pacheco , 
 the King our Matters Fador for Lacre, a worthie man, and of a good confciencc; 
 and the other a worfhipful Merchant, Earned Nuno Fernandez.Teixeyra, whom the 
 King held in good efteem, as having known him in the life time of the deceafed King, 
 By the fame means the Commanders of the Mutiners eleded another ftranger, whofe 
 name I do not know. Things thus concluded, the Judges deftined for the resoluti¬ 
 on of this Affair were ferit for, becaufe the King was not willing to ftirre out of the 
 place where he was, untill the matter was determined ; to the end he might difmifTe 
 them all peaceably before he entred into the Citie, for fear left if they entered with 
 him, they fhould not keep their word. For this purpofe then the King about mid¬ 
 night fent a Bramaa on horfeback to the Portugals quarter, who were in no leffe fear 
 then the Pegues of being plundered and killed. After that the Bramaa was come 
 intotheCitie, and that he had asked aloud (for fo they ufe to do when they come 
 from the King) where the Captain of the Portugals was, he was prefently conduced 
 to his Lodging, where being arrived. It is a thing (faid he to the Captain) as pro¬ 
 per to the nature of that Lord above, who hath created the firmament and the whole 
 heavens, to make good men for the cenverfeon of the wicked, as it is ordinary with the 
 pcrniciouf Dragon to nourifh in his bofome fpiriti of commotion and tumult , to 
 
Of Ferdinand Kleniesg Pinto , 
 
 bring di [order unto the peace whi cb confcrves tu in the holy Law of the Loyd. J mean 
 hereby (continued he ) that among ft all thofe of your Nation there is out wiefed mm 
 found,vomiting out of his infernal ftcmacf flames of difcord and [edition fy means wher- 
 of he hath can fed t he three [range LI at ions of the Chalons, Meleytes andbzvadkto mv.~ 
 tiniein the Kingmy ABafters Army, whereupon hath enfued fo great a wife bief, that 
 brfidcs almoft the utter mi nc of the Camp,three t h v uf .1 r, ^ B r a m a a i s have been flam, and 
 the King himfelf hath been m fuch danger , as he was fain to retire into a port, where he 
 hath remained three dayes, andftill is there, not daring to come out , bccaufe he cannot 
 put any truft inthofcftrangers. Howbeit, for a remedy offogreat unysictufe, it hath 
 vleafcdGod,who is the true Father of concord, to infpire the Kings heart with patience to 
 endure this injur ie. being prudent a* he is, to the end he way by that means pad fie the tu¬ 
 mult and rebellion of tkefe three turbulent Nations , who inhabit the moft defart parts of 
 the mountains of Mons, and are the moft accurfed of God amongft all people. Now, to 
 make *n entry into this peace and union, a Treaty hath been had between the King and 
 theCommanders of the Aiutiners,whereby it hath been concluded oneither part ,wWh an 
 Oath,That to exempt this City from the plundering which had been promifed to the Soul - 
 diers, the King fhali give them out of his own eftate, as much as fix men , deputed for 
 that purpofe.fmll award-, of which number there are already four-, fothat te make tip the 
 whole fix, there wants none but thee, whom the King hath chofen for him -, and another 
 Portugal, whofc name is written in this paper, whereby th'ju fhalt be ascertained of that 
 which -J have [aid unto thee. Thereupon he delivered a Letter unto him from the 
 King of Bramaa -, which Gonfalo Pacheco received upon his knees, and laid upon Ins 
 head, with exterior complements fo full of civilitie and courrefie, as the Bramaa re¬ 
 mained very much contented and fatisfied therewith, and faid onto him. Surely, the 
 King my Adafter muft needs have a great knowledge of thee, in that he hath chofen thee 
 for a c judge of his Honour and Eflate. Hereupon Gonfalo Pacheco read the Letter a- 
 loudbefore all the Vortugals, who heard it fUnding, with their hats in their hands : 
 Thecontents of it were to tlnscffed, Captain Gonfalo Pacheco, my dear Friend, and 
 that appears beforemy eyes like apreciom Pearl, as being no lefs vertuous in the tran- 
 cjuillitie of thy life,then the holyeft Menigrepos which live in the Defarts -, I, the ancient 
 Chaurnigrem, and now King ef fourteen States,which God hath now put into my hands 
 by the death of the holy King my Adafter, do fend thee a [mile of my mouth, to the end 
 thou may eft be as agreeable to sue, as thofc whom I caufe to fit at my table,in d day of joy 
 andfeafting -. Know then,that I have thought good to take thee for a fudge of the Affair 
 that is in yueftion, and therefore have fent for thee,together with my good Friend, Nuno 
 Fernandez Teixyra, to come prefently unto me for to give an end to this buftnefs,which I 
 wholly commit unto your truft. And for fomuch al concerns the fecurity of your perfons, 
 in regard of the fear you may be in of the late Adutiny,I do engage my word,cF ftwear to 
 you bythefaith which a King oughtto have, whom Godhimfelf hath anointed, that I 
 widtakpyou, and all thofeofyour Nation, with all others that btleeve in your God, into 
 my protection. After that thisLctter was read, to the great aftonifhment of all usthat 
 heard it, we could beleeve no other, but that by Divine permifiion it came from 
 Heaven,for the aflurance of our fives,whereof we ftood in very great doubt until then, 
 Genfalo Pacheco and Nuno Fernandez,, with ten other Vortugals which were chofen for 
 that purpofe,inftantly prepared a Prefent of divers rich Pieces to carry to the King,un- 
 to whom they went that very fame night an hour before day, in the company of the 
 Bramaa who brought the Letter, in regard, the hafte the King was in would brook 
 no delay. 
 
 Gonfalo Pacheco , Nuno Fernandez, and the other Vortugals, arrived at the Camp 
 an hour before Sun-rifing, and the King font to receive them one of the chiefeft 
 Bramaa Commanders that he had, and in whom he very much confided, who waif 
 accompanied with above an hundred horfe,and fix Serjeants at Armesthat carried Ma¬ 
 ces. This fame received the Vortugals, and lead them to the King, who did much 
 honour unto Gonfalo Pacheco, Nuno Fernandez and after he had calked with 
 them of divers matters, he put them in mind of the importance of the bufineffe for 
 which he had fent for them, and willed them by any means to ieane rather to the 
 Comraauders then to him, afluring them that he fhouid be very well contented chere- 
 
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 The Travels, Voyages, and dd'vcntures 
 
 with, and Paid many things to them to chat purpofe, Then he caufcd them to be 
 concluded by the fame Brat# a* Lord to the Tent, where the other four Arbitrators 
 were with the high Treafurer,and two Rcgiftcrs •, when as they had commanded fi- 
 ierce t<"» all that were without-, they fell to debating of the bufineffc for which they 
 were affembled together • whereupon there were many opinions, which took up the 
 moft pa-toffheday, butac laft all fix came toconclude ^ That albeit on the one fide 
 the King, by the promife which he had madeat Tanguuto the forreigne Souldicrs,for 
 to gi v e them the fpoii or pillage of the places which he fhould take by force,was excee¬ 
 dingly obliged to the performance thereof, yet feeing that on the other fide this pro¬ 
 mife was of great and notable prejudice to the innocent, becaufe i& could not be put 
 in execution without greatly offending God •, thefe things confide^ed, they ordained 
 b''their award •, That the King, in regard of the promife which he had made them, 
 fljould pay unto them a thoufand biffes of gold oat of his own treafarc and that upon the 
 Souldters receiving thereof they fhould pajfe over to the other Jiae of the River , and rc~ 
 tireMrtttly intotheir countries •, but that they ffjouldfi^fi be alfo paid all that Yfc as due 
 to them before this mutiny began , and that they fhould be fttmifhed with vitluals fuffici - 
 entfor twenty dates. This award being publifhed was received with much content 
 to either party ; So that the King commanded it to be inltantly and punduaily 
 executed ^ and for a greater tefiimony of his liberality, after he had paid them all 
 this fum of mony, he beftowed upon the commanders and Officers of each Com¬ 
 pany many bountiful! rewards, wherewith they were all of them very wellpleafed, 
 and tatisfied. In this fort were thefe three mutinous nations discharged for the 
 King would by no means t uft, or make ufe ofthem any longer; Howbeit, hewould 
 noc fuffir thefe (h angers to go all away together, but caufcd them to be divided into 
 troups, each of them confining of a thoufand men, to the end that by e his means 
 they fliould give the leffe fufpicio -'in their return, and fhould be Idle able to plun¬ 
 der the open towns, by which they were to paffe •, and thus the next day they de¬ 
 parted. As foi Gonfalo Pacheco, and Nano FernandczTcixyra, the King give them 
 ten biffes of gold, for being his Arbitrators in this affair, whereunto he added a pafs- 
 port written with his own hand, whereby the Portugals were permitted to retire free¬ 
 ly into the Indies , without paying any cuftome or duty for their merchandizei where- 
 of wc made more account then of all the mony could have been given us ^ becaufe that 
 for three years before the precedent Kings had retayned us in this country, with excee¬ 
 ding much vexation and tyranny, whereby we wereoftentimes in great danger of our 
 lives,by reafon ofthefuccefTc of that which I have fpoken heretofore. This done, there 
 wereProclamations made by men on horfdback, to give notice that the day following, 
 the King would enter into the City in a peaceable manner,threatning all fueh as fhould 
 do the contrary,with a cruell death. Accordingly, the next morning at nine of the 
 clock the King parted from cue Pagode, whether he had retired himfelf; and about 
 an hour after arrived at the City, whereinto entring by the chiefcli Gate, he was 
 received by an affcmbly (inform of a Proeeffion) of fix thoufand Prieftsofall the 
 twelve Sects which arc inthisKingdome • by one of whom, called Capizstndo, an ora¬ 
 tion was made unto him, whereof die preface was thus, Blcffed and praifed be that 
 Lord,who ought truly to be acknowledged of all men for fucb,in regard of the holy works 
 which he hath made with his Divine hands, teflifiedto ut by the light of the day,the fhi- 
 ning of the night, and all the ether magnificences of his mercy which he hath produced in 
 ms-, Praifed be he, I fay ,for that by the ejfcttsof his infinite power, which arc agree¬ 
 able unto him, he hath been plcafed to efiablifk thee on the earth above all the Kings that 
 govern it •, and feeing we hold thee for his favorite , we humbly befeech thee our Zford,that 
 thou wilt never more remember the faults and offences which we have committed againfi: 
 thee, to the end that thefe thy affixed people may be comforted with the promife there - 
 of, which they hope thy Mayfly will make them at this prefent. This fame requefl 
 was hkewife made unco him by the fix thoufand Grepos, all proffrated on the ground, 
 and with their hands lifted up to heaven, who wirh a dreadfull tumult of voices faid 
 unto him Grant,our Lord and King,peace andpardon for that ispafi to all the people 
 of this thy Kingdom of Pegu,to the end they may not be troubled with the fear of their 
 offences , which they confejfe publiktly before thee. The King anfwered them, that he 
 
 was 
 
Of ' erdinmd Mende { Tinto. 
 
 W3s contented fo to do, and fwore to them by the head of Quiay Nivandel, the God 
 of Ba , ci:cl oft!,c ^ tit™, for the confirmition thereof: ' Upon this promife ail the 
 people proftrated themfelves with their faces on the ground, and fa id unto f jm • God 
 make thee toprofper for t*finite years in the vittory over tliv enemies, that thou may eft 
 trample their heads under thy feet. Hereupon for a token ofgrcat gladnetfe they fcl to 
 playing on diversinftruments after their manner, though very barbarouflv, and un- 
 tunabiy -and the GrepoCapwndo feton his heads rich Crown of gold and’ precious 
 ftones of the fafhion ofa Mtas, wherewith the King made hi? entry into the City 
 with a great deal of date and triumph, caufing to march before him all the fpoile of 
 the elephants and chariots, as alfo the ftatue ot the Xemindoo , whom he had vanqui- 
 iiicd, bound with a great it on chain, and forty Colours trayled on the pround• As 
 for him, he v/as feated on a very mighty elephant, harneffed with gold, and invironed 
 v/irh lorry Serjeants at armes bearing Maces: there marched like wife all the great 
 Lords and Commanders on foot,with their Scymirars covered with plates of nold 
 which they carried on their fhouldiers, and three thoufand fighting elephants with 
 their Caftles of divers inventions,befidcs a world of other people, as well footashorfe 
 which followed him without number. * 
 
 CHAP. LXX’V. 
 
 The finding of the Xemindoo, and bringing of him to the King . with the manner of 
 - his execution and death •, and other particularities concerning the fame. 
 
 Fter that the King of Bramaa had continued peaceably in thisCitie of Pegu for 
 X ' the fpace of fix and twenty dales, the firft thing he did was to make hirafelf 
 Matter ot the principal places of chis Kingdume, which not knowing the defeat of the 
 Xemindoo, held Hill for him: To this purpofe, having given Commlhon to fome 
 Commanders for it, he wrote to the inhabitants of thofc places divers courteous 
 Letters, wherein he called them hisdear children, andgavethem an abolition ofali 
 that waspatt: He alfo promifed them,by a folcmn oath, to maintain them in peace 
 for the time to come, andalwayeS to minitter juttiee to them, without any Imports 
 or other opprelTion • but thar he w<.-uld(contrari!yJdo them new favours, as to the 
 very Bramaas which ferved him in the Wanes. To thefe words he added many o- 
 tbers, very well accommodated to the time and his defire^ for the better crediting 
 whereof^ they that were already reduced under his obedience wrote their Letters al¬ 
 fo unto them, wherein they made an ample relation of the Franchifes and Immuni¬ 
 ties which the King had granted to them. All this, accompanied with the fame which 
 ran thereof in all parts, wrought fo great a netted-, as all thofc places rendred unto 
 him, and put themfelves under his obedience: fo tbat,in imitation of them al!,the o- 
 Sher Cities, Towns, States and Provinces that were in the Kingdom,did the like* Tor 
 my part, I hold, that this Kingdome whereof the King of Bramaa made at this time a 
 new Conqueft, is the beft, the moft abundant, and richeft in Gold,in Silver, and preci¬ 
 ous Stones,that may be found in any part of the world.Things being thus accomplifticd„ 
 £0 the great advantage of the Bramaa^ he difpatchcs divers Horfemcn with all fpeed in¬ 
 to all parts, to go in queft of the Xemittdao who (as I have already declared'' had 
 efcapcd from the paft Battel, and was fo unhappy, that he was difeovered in a place 
 named Fau/au, a league from the Town ofPoffw,which feparates the Kingdom from 
 Aracam: Prefently whereupon, he was lead with great joy,by a man of bafe conditi¬ 
 on, to this King of Bramaa^ who in recompence thereof gave him thirty thoufand 
 Ducates of yearly rent. Being brought before him, bound as he was with an iron 
 collar, and manades, he faid unto him,in way of dcrifion, Thou art welcome ( King 
 of Pegu )and mat ft well kg fe the ground which thou feefi • for I ajfure thee, J havefet my 
 foot on it • whereby thou may eft perceive how much Jam thy Friend, ft nee Ido thee an 
 honour which thou couldft never imagine. To thefe words the Xemindoo made no an- 
 fwer-, fo that the Kingfailing to jeer this miferablc man anew', who lay before him 
 with his face on the ground, faid unto him, What means this? Art thou amazed to 
 fee me , or to fee thy fclf in fo great honour ? Or what is the matter gloat thou doft not an- 
 fiver to that which I demand of thee ? After this affront, the Xtmindoojrihethei it were 
 
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 r , - tr0 ubled with bismisfortunes, or afhamed of hisdi(honour,anfwered him 
 i" dlls fort • // the clouds of Heaven, the Sun, the Moon,and the other creatures,which 
 (\-prefjc in words that which God hath created for the fervice of man,and for the 
 V \t<nf)wg of theFirmament,which hides from tin the rich treafitres of/us power,could 
 ■‘‘t''rally with the horriblevoice of their dreadful Thunder explain to them which now 
 /nob'upon me, the eft ate ^hereunto 1 fee my felf reduced before thee, and the extreme af- 
 Z then which my foul doth fuffer , they wouldanfwerfor me y and declare the caufe I have 
 ’lobe mute in the condition wherein my fins havefet me.& whereas thou canfi not be fudg 
 Zthat which bfay, being the party that accuftft me, and theminifier of the execution 
 dft kv define, I hold myjelf for-excufed, if J do not make the an anfwer, as / would do 
 Zf/r* that Med Lord who, how faulty foever I could be would have pitie onme,moved 
 
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 m ound and twice together asked for a little water: Whereupon the King of Bramaa, 
 the more to afflift him, commanded that the Xemindoo fiiou'd receive this water 
 from the hand ofa Daughter of his, (held by him j as a fiave) whom he exceedingly 
 Jo ed and had at that time of hisdefeat promifed to the Prince of Nauttr, Son to 
 
 thereof Avaa. The Princcffe no foonerfaw her Father lying m-that manner on 
 tW-ound but ihe caft her felf at his feet, and ftraitiy embracing him*, after (he 
 had kitted him thrice, (he faid to him with her eyes all bathed in tears, O my Father , 
 -.lyL'-rd and wy King, I intreat you, for the extreme affettiojrwhich l have alw ayes 
 horn you ’ and/or that alfo whichyouhave at all times /hewed to me, thatyouwill bep/ea- 
 Zdtc lead me with you, thus imbracingy^u as Ido, to the end that in this fad paffageyou 
 J m p aVe 0 yie to comfort youwith a cup of water, now that for my fins theworld r/efufes 
 
 son that refbett which is due unto you. It is faid, that the Father would fain have an¬ 
 swered to thefe words, yet could not poilibly do it, fomuch was he oppretfed with 
 eriefandanguifh of mind, to fee this Daughter whom he fo dearly loved, in fuch a 
 rak-no- but fell as it were in a fwoun, and fo continued a good while- wherewith 
 fome Lords that were there prefent were fo moved, as the tears came into their eyes - 
 W hich obferved by the King of Bramaa, and that they were Vegues, who had for- 
 merlv been the Xemindoo* s Subjects, fearing left they ftiould betray him in time to 
 comc ‘ he caufed their heads to be prefently ftrucken off, faying with a difdainfuli 
 and fierce countenance, Setingyou have fo great pitie of tbeXemmdQOjour King get 
 you before and prepare a lodging for him,and there hewillpayyouforthzsaffetho* which 
 you telhfic to have for him. After this his wrath redoubled in fuch fort as inftantly 
 
 L caufed this very Daughter to be killed in her Fathers arms- which truly was more 
 
 then a brutifti and favage cruelty, in feeking to hinder the affeftions which nature 
 hath imprinted in us. Then no longer enduring the light of the Xemindoo, he com¬ 
 manded him to be takenfrom thence, and to be carried to a ctofe pnfon, where he 
 pafTed all the night following under a fure guard. 
 
 The next morning. Proclamation was made over all the City,- tor the people to be 
 prefent atthedeath of the unhappy Xemindoo-,now,t he chiefcft rcafon why the Bramaa 
 did this was, that the inhabitants feeing him dead, might for ever lofe all hope of 
 havino him for their King, as all generally defired • for whereas he was their Coun¬ 
 tryman, and the Bramaa a Stranger, they were in extreame fear, left the Bramaa 
 fhould become in time like unto him whom Xemin de Satan flew, and that had been 
 durin° his reign a mortal enemy to the Pegues $ entreating them with fuch extraordi¬ 
 nary cruelty, asthere fcarcely patted a day, wherein he did not execute hundreds of 
 them: and all for matters of fmall importance, and which deferved no punifhment, 
 had they been proceeded againft by the waies of .true Juftice. About ten of the 
 clock the unfortunate Xemindoo was drawn out ofthe dungeon where he was,m the 
 manner eafuing. Before him marched through the Streets, by which he was to paffe, 
 forty men on horfeback with lances in their hands, to picpare and cicar the waies j 
 there were as many behind as before him, which carried naked (words, crying aloud 
 to the people, whereof the number was infinite, to make room : After them follow¬ 
 ed about fifteen hundred harquebuficrs with their matches lighted • next to tbefe jaft, 
 which they of theCountry ufc to call, th cavant ceureurs ofthe Kings wrath, went an 
 hundred and thrcefcorc elephants armed with their Callies, and covered with filk Ta- 
 
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 peftry* marchingby five and five in a rank ^ after them rede in the fame orderly five 
 in a rank, fifteenmenon horfeback, which carried black enfignes ail bloudy •, crying 
 aloud, as it were by way ofPoclamation •, Let thofe miferable wretches, which are 
 the faves of hunger,and are continually perfecated by the difgrace of fortune, hearken to 
 the cry of the arm of wrath,executed on them that have offendedtheir King,tothe end that 
 the afionifhment of the pain, which is ordained them for it , may be deeply imprinted in 
 their memory. Behind thefe fame were other fifteen, clothed with a kind of bloudy 
 garment, which rendred them dreadful and of a bad alped-, whoat thefound of five 
 Bells, which they rung in hafte, faid with fo lamentable a voice, as they chat heard 
 them were moved to weep: This rigorous fuftice is done by the living God, the Lord, 
 cfall truth,of whofe holy body the hairs of our heads are the feet Jt is he that will have 
 the Xemindoop/tf to death,for ufurping the Efiates of the great King of Bramaa, Lord 
 of Tanguu. T hefe Proclamations were anfwered by a troupe of people, which marched 
 thronging before with fuch loud cryes, as would have made one tremble to hear them, 
 faying thefe words ^ Let him die without having pity on him, that hath committed, fuch 
 an offence: Thefe were followed by a company of five hundred Bramaa horfe,and after 
 them came another of foot, whereof (ome held naked fwords and bucklers in their 
 hands, and the reft were armed with corfelets, and coats of maile* In the midft of 
 thefe came the poor Patient, mounted on a lean ill-favoured jade, and the hangman 
 on the crupper behind him, holding him up under both the armes. This miferable 
 Prince was fo poorly clad, that his naked skinne was every where feen. withall,inan 
 exceeding derifion of hisperfon, they had fee upon his head a Crowne of ftraw, like 
 unto an Urinall cafe; which Crowne was garniftied with mufcle-fhells, faftned toge¬ 
 ther with blew thred • and round about his iron collar were a number of onions tyed : 
 Howbeit, though he was reduced to fo deplorable an eftate, and that his face was 
 fear ce like to that of a living man, yet left he not (for all that)from having fomething 
 of I know not what in his eyes, which manifefted the condition of a King. There 
 was befides obferved in him amajefticallfweetnefle, which drew tears from alt that 
 beheld him. About this guard which accompanied him there was another of above 
 a thoufand horfemen, intermingled with many armed elephants: Palling thus tho- 
 row the twelve principal ftreets of the City, where there was a world of people, he 
 arrived at laft at a certain ftrect called Cab am Bainhaa , out of which he went but two 
 and twenty days before,to go and fight with the Bramaa, in fuch pomp and greatnefs, 
 as by the report of them that,faw it, and of which number I was one, it was(without 
 doubt)one ©f the moft marvellous fights that ever hath been feen in the world:, whereof 
 notwithftandingl will make no mention here, either in regard I cannot prosnife to 
 recount rightly how all paft, or for that I fear fome will receive thefe truths for lies 5 
 nevertheleffe mine eyes having been the witnefles of thefe two fuccefles, if I do not 
 fpeakof the greatnefleof the firft, I will at leaftwife declare the miferies of thefecond, 
 totheendby thefe two fo different accidents, happening in fo fhort a time, one 
 may learn whatlittle afTurance is to be put in the profjjerities of the earth, and in all the 
 goods which are given us by inConftant and deceitful Fortune. Whenas the poor Pati¬ 
 ent had paft thatftreet oiCabam Bainhaa , he arrived at a place where Gonfalo Pacheco 
 our Captain was, with above an hundred Portugals in his Company* amongft the 
 which there was one of a very bafe birth, and of a mind yet more vile, who having 
 been robbed of his goods fome years before,as he faid, at fuch time as the Patient reign¬ 
 ed and complained to him of thofe who had done it, he would not vouebfafeto give 
 himaudience- fo that thinking to be revenged on him for it now, with extravagant 
 and unfeemly fpeech *, as foon asthis poor Prince came where Gonfalo Pacheco was, 
 with all the other Portugals, the witlefle fellow faid aloud to him, that ail might hear 
 him O Robber Xe mindoo, remember howwhen I complained to thee of thofe that had 
 robbed me of my goods,then wsuldefi not do mejufiice -,but 1 hope that now thou Jbalt fa~ 
 tisfie what thy works deferve : for I will at [upper eat a piece ofthatfie/b of thine, where - 
 unto I will invite two dogs that I have at home. The fad Patient having heard the 
 words of this hair-baitTd fellow, lifted up his eyes to heaven, and after he had 
 continued awhile penfive, turninghimfelfwith a fevere countenance towards him 
 that uttered them. Friend , faid he unto him, I pray thee,by the great goodnefs of that 
 
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 Godin whom then believeft ,to pardon me that for which thou accufeft me,and to remem¬ 
 ber that it is not the fart of aChriftianin this painful eftate wherein l fee my {elf at this 
 prefent, to put me in mind of that which I have done heretofore • for beftdesthat, thou 
 canft not thereby recover the lofs which thou fayeft then haft fuftained, itwillbut ferve 
 to afflitt and trouble me the more. Pacheco having heard what rhisfellow faid,comman¬ 
 ded him to hold his peace, which immediately he did v whereupon the Xemindoo with 
 a grave countenance made (hew that-thisa&ion pleafed him -, fo that Teeming to be 
 more quiet, it made him to acknowledge that with his mouth which hecould not 0- 
 therwiferequite, Imuftconfefs, fatdheunto him, that 1 could wi/h, if Sod would 
 permit it , I might have one hour longer of life to profefs the excellency of the faith where¬ 
 in you Portugals live -,for, as I have heretofore It car d it [aid, yeur God alone is true, and 
 all other gods are Iyer s. The Hangman had no fooner heard chefe words, buthe gave 
 him fo great a buffet on the face, that his nofe ran out with bloud, fo that the poor 
 Patient Hooping with his hands downward, Brother ( faidheunto him ) fujfer me to 
 favethis blsud,tothe end thou maift not want fame to fry my fiefts with all. So palling on 
 in the fame order as before, he finally arrived at the place where he was ro be executed, 
 with fo little life as he fcarcely thought of anything; When he was mounted on a 
 great Scaffold, which had been exprefly ere&ed for him, theChirca of Juitice fell to 
 reading of his Sentence from an highSeate, where he was placed • the contents where¬ 
 of were in few words thefe {The living God of our heads,Lord of the Crown of the Kingt 
 of Avaa, commands, that the perfidious Xemindoo be executed as the perturb at or eft he 
 people of the earth, and the mortal enemy of r^Bramaa Nation. Thisfaid, he made a 
 ftgn with his hard, and inflantly the Hangman cut off his head at one blow, (hewing 
 it to all the people, which were there without number, and divided his body into 
 eight quarters, fetting his bowels and other interior parts which were put together, 
 in a place by themfelves; then covering all with a yellow cloth, which is a mark off 
 mourning amongft them, they were left there till the going down of the Sun, at which 
 time they were burnt in the manner enfuing. 
 
 'Sift, 2. The eight quarters of the Xemindoo 3 s body were expofed from mid-day till three of 
 
 Clock in the afcernoon,to the view of all the people, whereof there was an infinite 
 company there, for every one came thronging thither, as Well to avoid the punifh- 
 rnent wherewith they had been threatned, asto gainfin fo doing)the Plenary indul¬ 
 gence called by them Axiperan, which their Priefts gave them of their fins, without 
 reilitution of any thing of all the Thieveries by them formerly committed. After,then, 
 that the tumult was appeafed, and that certain men on horfeback had impofed filence 
 on the people by making certain publications, whereby the TranfgrefTors therein were 
 threatned with terrible punifhmcnts, a bell was heard totoll five feveral times • up¬ 
 on this fignall twelve men clothed in black robes, fpocted all over with bloud, hav ing 
 their facescovered, and bearing filver Maces on their (boulders, cameoutofa houfe 
 of wood, made exprefly for that purpofe, and diftantfomc five or fix pacts from the 
 Scaffold; after them followed twelve Priefts, which they call Talagrepcs, being, ai 
 lhavefaid, the moft eminent Dignities amongft: thefe Pagans, and held by them as 
 Saints; then appeared the Xemin Focafftr, the King of Bramaa*s Uncle, who Teem¬ 
 ed to bencar an hundred years old, and was(as the reft)all in mourning, and inviron- 
 ed with twelve little boyes richly apparelled, carrying on their ftioulders Courtelafles 
 curioufly Damasked. After that the Xemin had with a great deal of Ceremonie pro- 
 ftrated himfelf three times on the ground, in way of extraordinary reverence; O 
 holy flc/h(fa.u\ he )which art more to be efteemed then all the Kingdomes of Avaa,r&o# ori- 
 t nt Pearle of as many Carats as there be Atomes in the beams of the Sun,whom God hath 
 placed in an height of Honour,with a Scepter of Sovereign power above that of Kings,1 
 that amtheleajl of thy meiny % & fo unlikethee through my bafenefs as I can fcarcely jet 
 my [elf, fo little I am, do moft humbly befeechthee, O thou Lord of my head, by tbefreftt 
 Meadow where thy foul doth now ncreat thy fclf, to hear that with thy forrowful ears 
 which my mouth fayes to thee in publike, to the end thou maift remain fatisfted for the of¬ 
 fence which hath been done thee in this world. Oretanan Chaumigrem^/jj brother,?rince 
 o/Savady and ranguu ,fendsto intreat thee by methy ftave,that before he departs cut of 
 
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 this life thou wilt pardon him that -which is pafi if he have given thee any difcontent ■ 
 andwithali that thou wilt takepoffcffon of all his Kinpdomcs, becaufe he doth even now 
 yield them up unto thee,without refer ving the leaf: part thereof for him ft If • withall he 
 protefis unto thee by me thy vajjal, that he makes this reconciliation with thee 'Voluntari¬ 
 ly , to the end that th complaints which thou maiefi prefer again f him there above in 
 heaven ,maynot be heard of God: Moreover for a punifhment of the dijbl e a Jure he hathdone 
 thee, he offers to be for thee, during this pilgrimage of life,the Captain and Guardian of 
 this thy Kingdome of Vtgu , for which he does thee homage, with an oath to accompli/b 
 alwaies upon earth whatfoever thou (halt command him from heaven above upon conditi¬ 
 on that thou wilt befiow the proft which fhall arife t hereof upon him as an ulmes for his en¬ 
 tertainment for he knows very well,that otherwife he fhould not be permitted to pojfejs 
 the Kingdome , neither would the Menigrepos ever confent thereunto, nor at the hour of 
 death give him abfolation for fo great a fin. Upon rhefe words, one of the Priefts ch'ac 
 wasprefenr, and chatfeemed to have more authorise then all the reft, made him &n- 
 fwer, as if the deceafed himfeif had fpoken •, Since I fee, 0 my Son , that thou doefi 
 now confeffe thy pafi faults, and cravefi pardon of me for them in this publicly affembly , 
 J do grant it thee with all my heart and it pleajts me to leave thee in this Kingdome for 
 the pafior of this my flocks on condition that thou dofi not violate the faith thou hafi 
 given me by this oath ■ which would be as grenti an offence,as if then fkonidfi now come to 
 lay hands on me without the per mi fit on of Heaven. All the people having heard rhefe 
 words, anfwered thereunto with joyful voices • Perform fo much , my Lord, my Lord. 
 Afterthis, thePrieft being got into the pulpit, began to fpeak thus to the aftiltants • 
 Prefent me with part of the tears of your eyes for the entertainment of my foul, becaufe of 
 the flood news I now bringyou , which is, that by the will of God this Country is felled on 
 our 7v/«^Chaumigrem, without being tyedto make ary refiitution thereof, for which 
 you have all of you good caufe^ to rejoy ce, like good and faithful fervant f as you are. He 
 had fcarctly made an end of fpeaktng thus, when as all thofe of the afTembiy clapping 
 their hands,gave great demonftrationsof joy, and cryed out in a way of thankfgiving. 
 Be thoupraifed, 0 Lord. All this ceremony ended, the Priefts full of devotion and 
 zeal immediately took ail the parts ot this poor King, difmembred in that fort, and 
 with great veneration carried them to a place below, where a great fire was kindled of 
 Sandal, Aloes, and Benjamin, which coft a great deal ^ then three of them raking up 
 of the body of the deceafed, withche bowels, and all the reft, threw it into it, and 
 afterwards with a ftrange ceremony offered many facrifices unto him, whereof the moft 
 part were of fheep. The body burned all that night untill the next morning, and the 
 afhes thereof was put into a filver Urne, wherein, with a very folemn afTembiy of a- 
 bove tenthoufand Priefts, it W3s carried to a Temple, called The God of thoufand 
 Gods, and there was buried in a rich Tomb within a Chappe' gilt all over. Behold 
 what'was the end of the great and mighty Xemindoo King of Pegu , unto whom hrs 
 Sub je&s bore fo great refpeft and honour, during the time of his reign, which was fo 
 flourifhing, that it feemed there was no other Monarch greater then he on the earth- 
 but fuch is the courfe of all the world. 
 
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 My imbarhing in the Kingdome of Pegu to goto Malaca, and from thence to 
 Japan • and afirange accident which arrived there. 
 
 T He death of the good King of Siam, and the adnlterie of the Queen his wife, 
 whereof I have fpoken at large heretofore, were the root and beginning of fo ma¬ 
 ny difeords, and of fo many cruell warres, which hapning in thofe two Kmgdomes of 
 Peru tind Siamjndured three years and an half, with fo much expence of mony and 
 bloud asis horrible to think of. Now the end of ail thofe warres was,that the Chau- 
 tnigrem, King of Bramaa , remained abfolute Lord of the Kingdome of Pegu : how- 
 beit for the prefent I will fpeak no further of him, but will deliver that which arrived 
 in other Countries, untill fuch time as the fame Chaumigrcm King of Bramaa retur¬ 
 ned upon the Kingdome of Siam , with fo mighty an Army, as never any King whac- 
 foever in the Indiacs brought a greater into the field, asconfifting of fetfenceen hun- 
 
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 dred thoufand men, and of fixteen thoufand elephants; whereof nine thoufand were 
 for the carriage of the Baggage, and feven thoufand forfighting an enterprize that 
 wasfo dammageable for us, as I learned afterwards, that it coft us two hundred 
 and fourfeore Portugals. I come nowagainto my defigne, from which I have wan¬ 
 dered a good while. After that thefe commotions, whereof I have fpoken hereto¬ 
 fore, were all appealed, Gonfalo Pacheco departed from the City of Pegu, with all 
 us r he reft of the Portugals which remained there, and whom the new King of Bra- 
 waa had delivered, as I have already declared, caufing their merchandize to be refto- 
 reduntothem, and obliging them with many other courtefies, aswell of Honour, as 
 of Liberty : $o we, an hundred and threescore Portugals as we were, imbarqued 
 our feives in five vdTels, which were at that time in the Port of Cofmin , one of the 
 principal Towns of that Kingdom - and there we divided our feives as pilgrims and 
 travellers to the Indiaes, for to go into divers Countries, according as each of us 
 thought to be moff convenient for him. As for me, I fet fail for Maine a ,with fix and 
 twenty of my companions •, where when we were arrived, I fojourned there one 
 month only, and then imbarqued my felfagain to goto Japan with one Jorge Alva¬ 
 rez,. who in a Ship belonging to Simono de Melh, Captainof the Fortrdfe, went to 
 traffick. Now having been already fix and twenty dayes under fail, in continuing our 
 courfe with a good winde, according to the feafon, we came in fight of an Iland, 
 called Tanixumaa, feme nine Leagues South towards the point of the Land of Japan * 
 i'o - bat turning our prow that way, we went and rode the next day in the midif of 
 the haven of Ganxiroo : In this place the Naataqmn, who was Governour thereof, 
 had the curiofitie to come unto us for to fee a thing which he had never feen before * 
 to which effed he got aboard of us,where amazed with the fafhion and equipage of our 
 vdiel as being the firft that ever arrived in that Country, he feemed to be infinitely 
 glad of our corning, yea, and was very earneft with us to have us trade in that place 
 with him: but Jorge Alvarez and the Merchants cxcufed chemfelves, faying, that: 
 this port was not fa .e for their Ship, if any contrary winde fhou’id happen to arife. 
 The day following, being parted from this p}ace, to go to the Kingdom of Bttngo, 
 Irom whence we were difiant fome hundred Leagues to the Northward- in five 
 da-t es after our departure it plealed God that we arrived in the Port of the Town of 
 Facheo, where we were well received, aswellby theKingas the people, who great¬ 
 ly favoured us in that which concerned the duties of our Merchandize ^ and the King 
 had vet more obliged us, if in the little time that we abode there he had not been 
 miferably flainby a Vafialof hisnamed Fucarandono, a mighty Prince, Lordofmany 
 SubjT&s, and exceeding rich ; adiiafter, which hapnrd as followeth. At the time 
 when we arrived there, there was in the Kingof Btinge*s Court a young man, called 
 Axirandoo^Ue^hQw to theKingof Arimaa, who in regard of the ill intreaty which 
 he had received froru the King his Uncle, had retired himfelfinto this Court, and 
 continued i here above a yeer, with an intent never to return into his Country again: 
 but his good fortune was fuch, as his Uncle coming to die, and having no other to 
 fucceed him, he declared him for his Heir. Whereupon the Fucarandono, of whom 
 1 lately made mention, defiring to marry this Prince to a Daughter of his, intreated 
 the King to mediate this marriage for him, which he eafiiy coridefcended unto. For 
 which effedt i he King one day invited the Prince to go a hunting with hira into a 
 Wood,which was fome two leagues oflf,and where there was great fioreof game,which: 
 he much delighted in. When they were there in private together, he moved this 
 Marriage unso him, and certified how exceedingly it would content him that he 
 would accept of it • which accordingly he did ^ wherewith the King feemed to be 
 extremely fatisfied ^ fo that upon his return unto the Town, he fent for the Fuca* 
 randono , and told him how he had prevailed for the Marriage of his Daughter with 
 the King of Arimaa , and therefore willed him to go and acknowledge unto him 
 with all thanktuinelfe this grace and honour which he did him-, for he allured him 
 on the word of a King, that he himfelt had delired him for his Son-in-Law. Here¬ 
 upon the Fncardndono calf himfelt prefently at theKings feet,and in convenient terms 
 for fo great an obligation, kifledthem, with much lenfeof lbextraodiuary a favour 
 as he had fhefted him. That done, he went home to his Palace, where, with much 
 
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 Joy and contentment, he gave an account of this affair to his Wife, to his Sons, and 
 h'sKinfmen ^ who (hewing themfelves exceedingly fatisfied therewith, congratulated 
 one another for it, as they commonly ufe to do in fuch honourable Matches as this, 
 lu the mean time, the Mothcr'of the Bride, as fhe that had the beft part in this Joy, 
 went unto a Chamber where her Daughter was fewing, with diversother young Maids 
 that lerved her- and taking her by the hand, lead her into the room where her Fa¬ 
 ther, Brethren, and Kinfmen were, who rejoyced with her for fo happy a fortune, 
 and honoured her with the Title otHighncffe, as being already Queen of the King- 
 dome of '* Frimaa • and fo all that day was (pent in Fcafts, Banquets, vjfitsof Ladies, 
 n d pi Lien ting her with many 1 ich Gilts. But whereas the good or evil! of fuch like 
 .Affkits conliivs mot c in th^t wInch folioweth, then in the original thereof, upon th** 
 good and joyful! beginning of this Marriage fuch great difafters enfued, as they al- 
 moti. equalled ch-m of the Kingdome of Sinm, whereof I have fpoken heretofore! 
 which!! flick not to fay, in regard Jean affirm it with truth, as having feen thefe two 
 Succeffes with mine own eyes., and been prefent at them with danger enough of my 
 perfon. All this day was fpenr in the vifits of the principal Perfons of the Kingdom, 
 But in this publickrejoycing there was none fave the Bride alone that was dtfeontent- 
 ed, in regard (lie wasdefperacely in love with a young Gentleman, the Son of one 
 Groge Arum, who wasasa Baron amongftus, but very much different in extraction 
 and quality from the Fucarandono, theFather of the Bride: who, as foon as ic was 
 night, compelled by the violence ©f the love which (he bore to him, fent him word 
 by her whom (he had alwayes fecretly made ufe ofin this Affiir, that (he would have 
 him come and Ilea! her away out ol her Fathers houfe before fome other mifehief 
 arrived. Whereupon the young man, who was no more free from this psffion then 
 (be, failed not to come to her to a place in which they u(ed to meet together, where 
 his Miftreflfe importuned him in fuch manner, as he was confframed to carry her a- 
 way from her Fathers houle, and put her into a Monaftery of Religious women, 
 whereofan Aunt of hers was as it were the Abbeffe ^ in which die continued nine 
 dayes concealed, without the knowledge or privity ofany body. The next morning 
 her Governeffe went into her Chamber where H e had left her the night, before • but 
 not hndiug her there, (he prefently repaired to her Mothers Chamber, imagining that 
 ihe was gone thicher to trick up her felf extraordinarily, inregardof the time, or for 
 fome other fuch like occafion • and nulling of her there too, (he returned to her 
 aed-Chamber, where (lie found one ofthe windows that looked into a Garden, o- 
 pen, together with a (heetfaftned to one of the barrs, and one of her fandals lying 
 below On the ground. Prefently mifdoubting the bufinelTc, (he wcnt,without further 
 delay,toimpart the fad news unto her Mother, who wasftillin her bed, out of which 
 in ail hafte fhe arofe, and diligently fearching all the womens chambers, where fhe 
 conceived (he might be, and not finding her, itwasfaid, that (he was fo overcome 
 with grief, as fhe fell down dead in the place. In the mean time, the Fttcamndono , 
 who as yet underflood nothing of the matter, hiring the noife which the women 
 made, ran in hafte to know the caufe thereof: Whereupon, being affured of the 
 flight of his Daughter, he fent with all fpeed to acquaint his Kinfmen therewith - who 
 amazed with the novelty of fo tnfortunate and unexpected an accident, came in- 
 ftantly urto him : Having confuted then amongft themfelves what they (hould do 
 in this Affair, they refolved co proceed therein with all the rigour that poflibiy cou'd 
 be ufed j fo that prefently beginning with the women of the houfe, they cut off I 
 know not how many of their heads, under pretext of being complices of this rape 
 or flight. After this execution, being of different opinions touching the place where 
 this maid might be, they were all ofthe minde not to proceed any further, until! 
 they had lirft acquainted the King with the bufiuefs ^ which inftantly they did, and 
 withall, very earneftly befought him to permit them to go and fearch the houfes of 
 fome whom they named unto him, where they beleeved fhe was: Which the King 
 refuting, as well to exempt the MaRers of them from fuch an affront, as alfo to pre¬ 
 vent the tumult which thisdiforder might caufe • th zFucarandono offended for that 
 the King did rot grant him his requeft, returned with his Kinfmen to his Palace, 
 wberehe refolved with them to do therein all that in fuch a cafe he thought was for 
 
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 bis honour, alleging that it was onely for men of little worth, and bafe mindes, to 
 proceedby way of juftice in matters which might be carried by force. " This refoJu- 
 tion taken, as it is the cuilome ofthefe peopleof fapan to be more ambitious of ho¬ 
 nour then all the Nations of the world, he determined to bring his defigne to paffe at 
 any price whatsoever, without regard to any thing that might arrive thereupon- fo 
 that giving intelligence thereof t© all his Friends and Kinfmen that were in the Court, 
 theycameall to him thaLnight, and approved of this his refolution, after he had de¬ 
 clared it unto them • infomuch that they went without further delay to the houfes 
 of them where they were perfwaded this Maid lay hid: but they being already for¬ 
 tified and furmihed with men, upon notice given them beforehand of their intent, 
 fuch a rreat and terrible uproar enlued thereupon, as there were above twelve thou- 
 fand perfons killed that night. To this dilorder the King ran in perfon with his guard, 
 to fee if he could pacifieit-, but the quarrell grew fo hot betwixt them, as it was im- 
 poflible toappeafe it •, fo that after they had loft the refped which they owtd to 
 the King, they turned all their fury againft him, and flew the moft part of them that 
 were with him, fo that he was conftrained to retire unto his Palace, where he ga¬ 
 thered unto him as many as pofiibly hecouldupon a fudden • but all that ferved him 
 to little purpefe, for they parlued him thither, and killed him, together with very 
 neer all them that he had drawn to his defence, amounting to the number of feven 
 or emht thouland men ; amongft the which were fix and twenty Portugals of forty 
 thatwere with the King. Butthefe minifters of Satan, not contented wi h having 
 committed fo horrible a Tre Ton, went dirc&ly to the Queens lodging, where having 
 found her lick ia her bed, they moft mercilefly butchered her, with three of her 
 Daughters, and all the women they could meet withall. After this, with anenra- 
 ged fury, they fet fire on the Town in fix or feven places, which kindling by the vio¬ 
 lence of the W»nd, that was very high at that time, it took hold of it in fuch fort, 
 as in leffe then two hours it was almoft burnt down to the ground. Whereupon, we 
 feven and twenty Portugals that remained, retired with much adoe to our VefTel, 
 w ! ere we faved our felves as it were by miracle, leaving our anchor in the fea, and 
 fi tting fail with all the fpeed we could. The next morning the mutiners, who were 
 about • en thoufaud, having facked the Town, divided themfelves into two troops,and 
 retired to a Hill, called Canaphamaa there they fortified themfelves, with an intent 
 tocreatea new Head that fhould govern them, becaule the Fncarandono had been 
 flain with the ftroak of a lance, which he had received in his throat, together with all 
 the reft of his kinfmen, which had given a beginning to this Mutinic. 
 
 Sttt. i. The fame day, after the end of this diforder, advercifemenc was given thereof to 
 the Prince, the Kings Son, who was at that time in the Fort of Ofcjny , fome feven 
 leagues from the Town of Fttchco. This young Prince, extremely affliefted with this 
 newes, would prefendy have gone to the Town with fome of his favorites, which 
 were all the company that he l ad then with him ; but the Fingtindono,h is Governor, 
 was utterly againft it, alledging many reafons to per fwade him not to budge from that 
 place, untiil he had been more amply informed in what termes this Affair flood ^ for 
 it was very credible, that they who durft kill his Father would not ftick to difpatch 
 him out of the way too, fince it lay in their power fo to do, he not being in a con¬ 
 dition to defend himfelf: W herefore he advifed him to aflemble all the forces he could, 
 to the end he might by their means fubdue and chaftife his enemies. The Prince ap¬ 
 proved of this counfell, and having taken order for that which he judged was moft ne- 
 ceffary according to the eftate wherein he was, he commanded fome that were about 
 hira to go and winde the horn, a thing obferved in fapan, which caafed fuch a hurly 
 burly over all thecountry,as words are notablctoexprefFe it. Now the better to un¬ 
 derhand this fame, you rouft know, that by an ancient cuftome of this Kingdome of 
 fapan, all the inhabitants, in whatfoever place they lived,from the lcaft to the greateft, 
 are bound to have in their houfes a horn of a great fea-wincklesftiell, which they are 
 forbidden at any time to winde upon pain of great punifhment, fave in one ofthefe 
 four cafes, namely,a tumult, afire, arobberie, andatreafon^ fo that if one winds 
 ahorn, the caufe of ir isprefently known; becaufe if it be a tumult, one winde ic 
 once •, if a fire-*twice •, if a robberie,thrice •, and if it be a treafon, four times • infomuch. 
 
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 tnat at the firft winding of the horn, all other? arebound upon pain of death to wince 
 theirs, and in iuch fort as the firft hath winded his, to the end that it may be diftindr 
 Iy known what it is, and that there may be no confufion. Now,becaufe this figna! of 
 creafon is not fo ordinary as the others, which arrive very often •, when it happens to 
 be given, all the people are fo affrighted with it, as without further delay, they run 
 thronging to the place where the born was firft winded • fo that by this means, the 
 bruit paffech from one to another with fuch fpecd, as within leffc then an hour/ one 
 is advertifed thcreofabove twenty leagues about. But to return to that which I faid 
 but now • as foon as the Prince had given order for that particular, he retired into a 
 Monartery of Religious Perfons, which flood in the midrt of a wood • there he re¬ 
 mained (hut up threedaies, during the which he did nothing but bewail his Father, 
 Mother, andbifters; and that with exceeding demonftrations of forrow, teftifiedbv 
 hisfighs, and tears. At the end of that time, in regard great numbers'of his fuh- 
 je&s were affembled unto him, hewentoutof that Monaftery to provide for that 
 which he judged neceffary, as well for the fafty of his Kingdome, as for the cha- 
 ftiferaent of the rebels • whofe goods and ertates were immediately confifeated, their 
 houfesdemolifhed, and fuch rerribleProdamations publifhed againft them, as'could 
 not be heard without trembling. Seven daies after this deplorable event, the Prince 
 was counfelled, in regard he had, as already I have faid, great numbers come unto 
 him, to go and befiege the ten thoufand Mutinersin the place of their retreat: Where- 
 upon he parted from the Fort ofO/f«7, and marched diredly to the Town with his 
 Army, which,it was fai d,confifted of very neer an hundred and thirty thoufand men, 
 whereof feventecn thoufand were horfe, and the reft foot, all lufty and well armed* 
 andcapableof executing any high enterprife. Being arrived at the Town, he was 
 wonderfully well received by the people, who tertified a great deal of relentment 
 for the death of the late King his Father : He would not go at firft to the Royal Palace 
 but went,before he part any further,to the Pagode where his Father was buried ; there 
 he took care to make him a Funeral Pomp, with a great deal of coft and Honor ac¬ 
 cording to themanner of the Country, which lafted the two nights following* in 
 conclufion, he was (hewed the fame robe, all bloudy, that his Father had on when he 
 was killed; upon which he took a folemn Oath, never to pardon any of them that 
 fhould be found guilty,no not if they were Bo/tzes-^nd to burn all the Temples where- 
 into thofe traitors had fled for fanduary. The fourth day after his entry into the Town, 
 he wasProdatmed King ) though but with little ceremony andmagnifience, in regard 
 of the general mourning.Thatdone,*ccompanicd,as hewas,with an hundred and threc- 
 fcore thoufand mert, he marched dircdly to the place whither the Mutiners were 
 retired; Now to the end he might the more eafily take them, and keep them from 
 flying away, he befieged them in the mountain where they were, and that for the 
 fpace of nine daies; Butwbcnas theyfaw that they could hold out no longer for. 
 lack of Viduals, and that they had no hope of fuccor, they thought it was better for 
 them to die like valiant men, then to let themfelves be befieged like cowards • with 
 this refoludon, u .der the favor of a very dark and rainy night, they defended from 
 the mountain by four fevcrallwaies,and falling on the Kings Army, which was ready 
 to receive them in battel array, as having been advertifed of their defign, there enfued 
 fodreadfull and furious a fight betwixt them, as it lafted two hours within day, but 
 at length,the conflid ended with the death of feven and thirty thoufand men ; amongft 
 the which, the ten thoufand Mutiners were (lain, not one of them deigning to fave 
 himfelfuponanytermes whatfoever. In the mean time, the death of his men great¬ 
 ly affhded the King, who afeer this pumfhment of the rebels, retiring to the Town,the 
 firft thing he did was to provide for the curing of the hurt men, wherein he fpent a 
 good time, in regard they were very many, and whereof a great number died after¬ 
 wards. 
 
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 G H A P. I.XXVL 
 
 Onr paffin? from the T ew»ofTucheo, to the Port of Hiamangoo - and that which befell 
 w there together with my departure from Malaca, and arrival at Goa. 
 
 A fter chat this revolt had taken an end by the death of fo many men on the one 
 and the other fide, wc few Portugals that remained, as foon as time would per¬ 
 mit us, got to the Port ofche Town, where feeing the Country defolated, the mer¬ 
 chants fled away, and the King refolved to leave the Town, welofl all hope of felling 
 our Commodities, yea and of being fafe in this harbour, which made us fet fail,and go 
 ninety leagues further to another Port, called Hiamangoo, which is in the bay ofCW- 
 gnexnmaa •, there wefojourned two months and an half, not able to fell any thing 
 at all, becaufe theCountry was fofull of Chinefe Commodities, as they fell above half 
 in half in the price : for there was not a Port or Road in all this Hand of Japan, where 
 there were not thirry or forty Junks at anchor, and in fome places above an hun¬ 
 dred fo that in the fame very yes.r, at leaft two thoufand merchants fhips came from 
 China to Japan. No w moft: of this merchandife confined in Silk, which was fold 
 at fo cheap a rate, that the piece of Silk which at that time was worth an hundred 
 Taiesin China, wasfold in Japan for eight and twenty, or thirty at the moft , and 
 that too with much adoc; befidcs, the prices of all other Commodities were fo low, as 
 bolding our felvesutterly undonc,weknew not what refojution or counfeli to take. 
 But whereas th; Lord doth difpofe of things according to his good pleafure, by waics 
 which furpaffe our underft mding ^ he permitted, for reafons only known to himfelf, 
 that on the new Moon in December, being the fifth day of the Month, there arofe fo 
 furious a ccmpefl of Wind and Rain, as all thofe Veffes,faving afew,pcrifhed,in it: fo 
 that the loiTecaufed by this fto r m amounted unto a thoufand, nine hundred, and 
 feventy two Junks - amongft the which were fix and twenty Portugals Ships, where¬ 
 in five hundred and two of our Nation were drowned; be ides, a thoufand C hriftians 
 of other Countries, and eight hundred thoufand Ducares worth of Goods caft away. 
 Of Chinefe Veffcls, according to report,there were a thoufand, nine hundred, thirty 
 aid iix,loft,together with above two Millions of Gold, and an hundred and chreefcore 
 thoufand Pei fons. N from fo miferable a Ship-wrack not above ten or eleven Ships 
 
 efcaped, of which number was that wherein I was imbarqued, and that almoft by 
 miracle ^ byreafon whereof thefe fame fold their Commodities at what price they 
 would.’ As for us, after we had uttered all ours, and prepared our (elves for our 
 departure, we put to Sea on a twelfth day in the morning •, and although we were well 
 enough contented in regard of the profit we had made, yet were wc not a little fad, 
 £o fee things fall out fo to the coft of fomany lives and riches, both of rhofe of our 
 Nation, and ofSErangers^ But when we had weighed anchor, and hoifted our failcs 
 for theprofecutionofourcourfe, theciesof our main fail brake-; by which means, 
 the fail-yard failing down upon the Prow of the Ship, brake all to peices; 
 fo that we were constrained,by this accident, torecoverthe Port again, and to fend 
 a fhaliop on (hore to feck for a fall-yard, and fhipwrightstofit it for us. To this ef- 
 feft, we fent a prefent to the Captain of the place, that he might fuddenly give us ne- 
 ceflary fuccor, as accordingly he did -,fo that the very fame day, the Ship was put in¬ 
 to her femer efiate, and better then before: Nevertheleffe, as we were weighing 
 anchor again, the cable of our anchor broke and becaufe we had but one more in 
 the Ship, we were forced to endeavour all that we might for the recovery thereof, by 
 reafon of the great need we flood in of it-, now, to do this, we lent to land for fuch 
 as could dive, who in confidcrationof ten ducates that we gave them, fell to diving 
 intothcSea, where they found our anchor in fix and tw r enty fathome depth fo chat 
 by the means of the cordage which we faflned unto it, we hoifled it up, hough 
 with a great deal of labour, wherein we all of us beftowed our fclve-s, and fpent the 
 moft part os the night- As foon as it was day, we fet faile, and parting from this 
 river of Hiamangoo, it pleafed God, that in fourteen daies, with a good Wind, we 
 arrived at Chincho, which is own of the moft renowned and richcft Porrs of the Ktng- 
 domeof China-, there we were advertifed, that at the entrance of this river, there 
 
 lay 
 
Of Ferdinand MendesfPinto, 
 
 lay at that time a ramons Pirate, called Cheopecheca, with a mighty fleet, which put 
 /js into fucli a tear, that inallhattcwe got away to Lamau, where we made home 
 provision ofvitttuals, which iatted us untill our arrivall at Maiaca. 
 
 Having ftayedfome time at Malaca, for thedifpatch of certain affaires that I had 
 there, I imbarqued my felffor Goa, with an intent,at length, to return into Portugal , 
 if I cotild meet with {flipping ready to depart from thence at that time- but fome 
 j.evv daics tucei my an ivall mere it happened,that a Portugal named Antonio Ferreira 
 brought a prefentof very rich pieces to the Vice-Roy Don Pedro Mafcarenhas, which 
 the King of Bungo lent him from Japan, together with a letter, whereof the contents 
 were thefe, xltufirious Lord, and of great majefiy, }' ice-Ry of the limits of the In- 
 diaes,the dreadful Lion in the flouds of the fea , by the force of thy /hips and artillerie - 
 I Yacataaandono 7 G'/*£ c/Bungo,Facataa, Omangucha, andtheCountries of the two 
 feas,Lord oft he petty Kings of the //^/tf/Tofa v Xemenarequa, 0 “ Miaygimaa,^ five 
 thee to underfiandby this my letter , that Father Francifco Xavier havingbeen notion g 
 Jince in this Country ,pr caching to them of Omangucha the new law of t hi Creator of ail 
 things , Ifecretly prsmifed to him, that at has return into my Kingdome I would re¬ 
 ceive from his handthe name andwater of holy B apt ifw ,howfoever the novelity offo un~ 
 expected a thing might put me into bad terms with my Subjects . Whereupon, he alfo 
 promifed me on his fide, that if God gave him life, he would come baclg again unto me as 
 fpeedily as he could. And forafwuch as his return hath been longer then I looked for, / 
 have fent thus exprefiy to know both of him,and ef you the cauje of this retardment of 
 his. her efore,my Lora, 1 defire you , that he may haflen away to me wit hall the fpeed 
 
 that the firft fea fin which /hall be proper for navigation, will permit. Forbefides, that 
 
 his arrival in my Kingdome is greatly important fer the fervice of God, it will be alfo 
 very profitable to my felffor the contra Sling of a new league With the great King o/Portu- 
 gal, to the end that by this amitie my Country and his may hereafter be but one thine- . 
 and that his Subjects may in all our Ports and Rivers be as free as they are in your Co- 
 ch\m where you are-, whereforeyour Lord/hip fit all exceedingly oblige me by fendintr one 
 untome, that may be witnefs ofthe defire I have to ferve your King - for I wiltdo it 
 as willingly , as the Sun is ready to hafien his courfe from the morning to the night. Adore - 
 over, Antonio Ferreyra will gyve thee the very fame armes wherewith / vanqmfhed the 
 Kings o/Fiangaa^w^Xemenarequa, andwhich I wore inthe day of battel. J am re a- 
 dy in all things to obey my elder Brother, that invincible King of the other end of the 
 world. Lord of the treafures of great Portugal. The Vice-Roy having read this 
 Letter, lent for one father Belquior, Redor of the Colledg of the Jefuics, and ha¬ 
 ving imparted unto him the King of Bungo* s defire, he told him, that in regard Father 
 Xavier was dead, he could wifhthathe wouldin his Read undertake this voyage to 
 Japan, which in all probalitie would very much redound to the fervice of God^ and 
 the propagation of the Chriftian Faith. The Redor upon the hearing hereof, willing¬ 
 ly imbraced theimployment, wherewiththe Vice-Roy was exceedingly welf pleafed, 
 and very much commended him for fuch his good and pious refolucion. After this* 
 the Vice-Roy confulting with fome of his friends about the chufing of a man, that in 
 qualitie of his Ambaffador might accompany the Father in this expedition • I was no¬ 
 minated unto him, as thcfittetthecould fix upon, in regard of the knowledge I had, 
 both of the Country, and of the then King thereof; whereuponj was immediately alfo 
 fent for, and the Vice-Roy acquainting me with the great defire he had, that I 
 fhould take this negotiation upon me, which he Laid, did fo much import’the ho¬ 
 nor of God, and the King our Matters fervice, he .preft me fo earneftly to it, that 
 I knew not how to refufe him ; although I mutt confefie, I was very unwilling 
 thereunto: So that confenting to what I could not well avoide ; he commanded 
 that all things necefiary for our voyage fhould with all convenient fpeed be pre¬ 
 pared. 
 
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The Travels,Voyages ,and Adventures 
 
 CHAP. LXXVII. 
 
 Father Belquior’s and my departure from the lndiaes to go to Japan • and that which 
 befell us till our arrivall at the Ifland f/Chanipeiloo. 
 
 F ourteen dayes after, namel y on the fixteenth of April , One th'oufand five hundred 
 fifty and four, Fatlwr and I fet fail for Malaca in a (hip, wherein alfo 
 
 was Don Antonio dt Noronha, Son to Don Garcia de Noronha , who had been Vicc- 
 Roy of the lndiaes, that was going to take pofleffion of the Government of the For- 
 treffe there • from the which the Vice-Roy had fent order to difplace A)on zMlvarode 
 Tayda , who was Captain of it, as well for that he would not obey his Commands, 
 as for many other mifdemeanors which he had committed, whereof I will not fpeak 
 in particular here, becaufe they are altogether from my purpofc at this time. The 
 fifeh day of June following, we and the new Captain arrived at Malaca , where the 
 Licentiat Gaffer Jorge Superintendent Generali of the lndiaes, who was the man 
 that profecuted this bufineffe, caufed the people of the Town to aflfemble together 
 upon the tolling of a Bell and having read unto them the Vice-Roys Letters Patents 
 whereby he difplaced Don Alvaro, he examined him upon divers Interrogatories, 
 whereof two Regifters made a verbal procefs, which wasfigned both by them and 
 the faid Superintendent, and the new Captain. After all this. Bon Alvaro was de- 
 pofed from his Government, made aprifoner, and all his eftate confifcated: the 
 like was done to all his partakers who had favoured him in the imprifoning of 
 Gamboa , Superintendent of the Treafure, and in difobeying the Vice-Roys Com- 
 miflions, as alio in many other dilorders that had been committed thereupon : 
 which was executed with fo much rigour, as the moll: part fled to the Mahome¬ 
 tans, whereby the Fortreffe remained fo bare of men, as it was in danger oi: being 
 undone, had not the new Captain provided for ic with a great deal ©f prudence 
 granting a general Abolition unto all, although they returned for all that but with 
 an ill will, Thefe revolutions, and this cxcefs of juftice, which put all the Country 
 into anuproar, were the caufe that Father Belquior and I could not this year pafs 
 unto Japan, as we had refolvcd ^ fo that we were contained to winter at Malaca 
 until following,in the year One thoufand five hundred fifty and five,which was 
 ten months. During that time, the Auditor Gafper Jorge continuing the rigorous 
 executions which he excrcifed day by day, was a Subje< 5 t of great fcandal to all the 
 Country •, wherewith not yet contented,and relyingon the large Com million which 
 theVice-Roy had given him, he would needs intermeddle with the Captain Don 
 Antonio’ s Jurifdidion • and indeed, he incroached fo far on his Authority, as Don 
 Antonio had no more but the name of it, and was no other then as a guard of the 
 Forcrefs. Now though he was very fenfible of this affront, yet he did diffemble 
 and endure it with a great deal of patience : But thefe exceflive rigours of this Au¬ 
 ditor continuing for the fpace of four months- (during the which there were many 
 difeontentments, whereofl will not treat here in particular, becaufe the difeourfe 
 of ic would be infinite ^ JOnedayZ><?» Antonio , feeing the time proper for the exe¬ 
 cution of that which he had formerly refolved on, caufed fome, whom he had de¬ 
 clined for it, to feife on him in the Fortrels, .and carry him to a private houfe- 
 whcrc (according to report) he was ftript ftark naked, and his hands and feet being 
 bound with cords, he was grievoufly whipped : After which, having drop'd fcald- 
 ing oyl on his bare flefh, (which had almoft killed him) and clapt iron on his legs, 
 and manacles on his hands, they pluck'd off all the hair of his beard, leaving him 
 not fo much as one, and did many other fuch like things unto him, as k was’pub- 
 lickly fpoken : fo that the poor Licentiat Gafpar Jorge', who termed himfelf Auditor 
 Generali ofthe lndiaes, great Provifor of the deceafed and Orphelins, and Superin¬ 
 tendent of the Treafure of Malaca, and of the Countriesof the South,’ for the King 
 our Sovereign Lord, was thus handled by Don Antonio, if the report of it be true] 
 Finally, when the feafon of Navigation was come, he was fent, fo manacled as he 
 was, to the lndiaes, with an infamous verball procefs ■ which the Parliament of Gea 
 annulledafterwards: And Don Antonio had thereupon an expre/fe Commandment 
 
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 Oj Ferdinand MendtftftVinlo. 
 
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 from the Vice.Roy Don Pedro de Mafearenhas, who governed the Srateof die Indices 
 at that time, toappear p.rlon.illy berorehim as a Pnloner., for to be confronted in 
 judgment with G ajp'er Jorge, and render an account of his proceeding a gam if him, 
 as indeed Don Antonio tailed not in making his appearance at Cjott accordingly : where 
 being about to jultifie hirr.felf for that which had pnft, he was ordered to anfwer 
 within three da^e, to an ignominious Libel, which Gafter Jorge had exhibited a- 
 gainff him : But forafmuch as Don Antonio was naturally an enemy of Jollifica¬ 
 tions by Anfwers and Replycs, whereby (it wasfaid, ) the Councellors of the Parlia¬ 
 ment intended to furprize him, the report went (at lea ft wife fuch was the fay- 
 ingof Detr.adors ^ for as for me, I neither faw r.oram allured of itj that in Head 
 of imploying the three dayes which had been given him, in making anfwer to tins 
 Libell, he within tour and twenty hours having met accidentally with Gafter 
 Jorge, fenc him to profecuce his Suit in the other World, laying him fo fure-on 
 the ground, as he never rofe again. Howbeit, there arc thofe which recoudt this 
 Affair quite otherwife, and that fay, how in a Feaft, whereunto he was invited, 
 he was poyfoned. By this death of his all this difference was derided, and this 
 bulineffe wholly ceafed • fo that Don Antonio was by Sentence absolutely clear¬ 
 ed, and fent back to his Government.• wherein he continued not above two months 
 and a half, at the end whereof he died of a bloody f lux : and fo were all the 
 {forms of envic and difeord wherewith the Fortrefie.of Malaca had been beaten, 
 appeafed. 
 
 When the feafon was come wherein we might continue our Voyage, on the p r , 
 firff day of April, in the year One thou fand five hundred fifty and five,’we par- Ia 
 
 ted from Malaca, after we had imbarqued our felves in a Carve! belonging to 
 the King our Sovereign Lord, which Don Antonio , the Captain of the FortreiTe,gave 
 us by the exp effe command of the Vice-Roy. Three dayes after our putting to Sea, 
 we arrived ac an Iiland called Pulho Pifan , at the entering into the Streight of 
 Sincaapura, where tbePilot having never navigated that way before, ran us with 
 full fails fo dangeroufly on certain Rocks, as we thought our felves to be utterly loft, 
 without all hope of recovery: In regard whereof, by the advice of all the refh 
 the Father and I were conftrained to get into a Manchua, for ro go and demand 
 fucctfurofonc Luis Dalmeida, who two hours before had palled by us in a Vcffd 
 of his, and lay at anchor two leaguesoff us, by reafon the winde was againft him: 
 
 So the Father and I made to him with peril enough. For whereas all that Country, 
 which appertained to the King of' J ant ana , Grand-childe to him that had been * 
 
 King of Malaca, our mortall Enemy, were at that time in arms, his Batons and 
 Lanchares, that were?,flembled in a Fleet t>f Warr, continually gave us chafe, with 
 an intention to take us • but by Gods providence we efcaped them. Ac length, af¬ 
 ter we had got to this fhip, with no little fear and trouble, he that was Captain 
 ofherfurnillieduswith a Boat and Mariners, and fo we returned to our Carvel 
 asfpeedily as we could, for to fuccour and draw her out of the danger wherein 
 we had lefc her .* But it pleafed the Lord that we found her the day after deli¬ 
 vered from it • though it is true, that fhe took in water abundantly in the prow’s 
 fide-, butin the end we ftanched it at Patana, where we arrived feven dayes af¬ 
 ter. There I went a fhore,with two others, to fee the King . unto whom I deliver¬ 
 ed a Letter from the Captain of Malaca: and being received very gracioufly by 
 Jim, he read it over, whereby lie underftood, that the caufe of our corning thi¬ 
 ther was to provide our felves ofvi&uals, and fomeother things which wc had not 
 taken in at Afalaca; as aifo that we were relolved to proceed on in our courfe 
 diredly to China, and from thence to Japan, where Father Bclquior and others 
 with him were to preach the Chriitian Law to the Gentiles: which the Kirm of 
 Patana having read, after he had mu fed a little, he turned to them thaewerea- 
 bout him, and laid Imilingto them, 0 how much better were it for thfte men, jincc 
 they expoje them/clves to fo many travels , to go to Lhtna andittrich thcmfelves there, 
 then to recount tales'in ftrangc Countrys ? Whereupon, calling the Xabandar to 
 him, Befure, faid he unto him, that thou giveft theft men here all that they Jhall 
 demand oj thee, and that for the love of the Captain of Malaca, who hath greatly re - 
 
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'The 'Travels^oyages^and Jdveniures 
 
 commended them untome: and above all remember. That it is not my cujlom'eto com- 
 m*nd*thin<r twice. When we bad taken-leave of the King, exceedingly content¬ 
 ed wnh the good reception he had given us, we fell prefcntly to buying of Viftu- 
 ak, and other fuch things as we flood in need of-, So that in eight dayes we were 
 .abundantly furnifhed wick whatsoever was neceflary for us. Being departed from 
 this Haven of Patana, we failed two dayes together with a Soutli-calb winde along 
 by theco >ft of L^gor and Siam, traverfing the Barr of Cuy, to go to Pulho Cam- 
 him, and from thence tothelflands of Canton, with an intent thereto attend the 
 conjun&ionof thenew Moon : But it was our ill fortune to be fuprized by Eaft 
 and South-eaft winde, (which reign in that court the moft part of the year) 
 whereof the violence was fo great, that we were in fear to be cart away: fo that 
 to decline the event thereof, we were forced to tack about again to the Coaft of 
 Malaya-, and arriving atan llk'nd; called Pullo Timan , we ran into great danger 
 there, as well by reafon of the temoeft which we had upon the Sea, as in regard of 
 the great treafon of the people of the Country. Now after five dayes that we had 
 continued there, without having either frefh water or Victuals* (becaufe for the 
 eating of our VelTell we had cart oup all into toe Sea ) it pleafed God that we 
 encountred with three Portugal Ship which a?rae from Sunda , by wholearmail 
 we were very much comforted in cur travels: Whereupon bather Belyuior and I 
 be^an to treat with the Captains of thofe Veflfels about that which they thought was 
 requifite we (hould do • and all were of the opinion, that we fhould fend back the 
 Carvel wherein we were to CMalaca-, faying, that there was no likelihood we 
 fhould be able to make fo long a Voyage in her as that of Japan. Having appro¬ 
 ved of this counfel, we p'efentiy imbatqued our felves in the Ship of one Francifco 
 Tifcar.e, a Worfhipfull and rich man , who defrayed our charge during all our 
 Voyage, yea, and moft pare of the time that we were in China, not permitting a- 
 ny ofour Company, to ipend a penny. From this Ifland Pullo Timan we put to Sea, 
 on Friday the feventh of June, in the lame year One tboufand five hundred fifty 
 a ri d five, and dtfovering the firm land of the Kingdome of Champaa, we failed 
 along the Coaft with a North-Wert winde-, and in twelve dayes we arrived at an 
 ]Hand called Pullo champeiloo, in the Streight of Cauchcnchina , where we took in 
 frefh water at a River which defeended from an high Mountain. There 3mt>ngft 
 the Rocks wc perceived a very fair Crofs graven on a great free Stone, and under 
 it i 5 i 8, with fix letters abbreviated, which faid, T>uartCoelho\ Weobferved al- 
 fo towards the River, and on the South-fide , two flight fihot off, threefcore and 
 two men hanged on trees alongft the Strand, betides others that lay on the ground 
 hd, eaten; a thing which leaned to have^been done not above fix or feven dayes 
 before. Upon another tree there hung a great Banner, wherein thefc words were 
 feen in Chinefe letters. Let every Ship or funt^which {hall arrive in this place , he 
 fare to dijlodg cjuickjy from thence after Jhe hath furnifhed her felf with frejh ^water,- 
 whether (he hath time, or hath it not ; on pain of incurring the fame jnfiice as thefe 
 wretches have done, whom the fury of the arm of the fen of the San hath overwhelm¬ 
 ed. We were mightily furprifed with foftrangc an accident, fo that we could make 
 no other judgment of it, but that fome Chinefe Army had arrived there, and meet¬ 
 ing with thofe wretches, had (asPiratcs ufe to do) infreated them as we law, under 
 the fpccious pretext of Juftice. N 
 
 CHAP. LXXVIIL 
 
 Our departure from the Jl and of Champeiloo, and our arrivall at that of Lam- 
 pacau ; rvith a relation of two great difafters which hapnedin Chi¬ 
 na unto two Portugal Colonies -, and of afirange accident 
 that befell in the Country. 
 
 W Hen we were parted from thcllandof Champeiloo, we gotto the Hands of 
 Canton -, fo that on the fifth day of our voyage,it pleafed God that we arrived 
 at one of them, called Lampacan, where at that time the Portugals exercifed them 
 commerce w ith the Qhinefes, which continued untill the year One thoufand five hum* 
 
 dred 
 
Of Ferdinand Aiende^ Tints, 
 
 di ed, fifty and feven -, when as the Mandarins o£ Canton, at the reqdcfl of the Mer¬ 
 chants of cheCouncry, gave us the Port of Macao, where the trade now is • of which 
 piace(that was but a defart jfUnd before Joiir Country men rmdea very goodly planta¬ 
 tion, wherein there were houfes worth three or four thoufand Ducates,together with a 
 Cathedral Church : Moreoverjhis Colony hath its Governor, Auditor, and Officers 
 ofjuftiee^ whereuntol fhalladcfithattheinhabitantsofclfisplaceareinasgrcic fafety 
 there, as if they were in the quiereft part of Portugal. But God grant of his infinite 
 mercy,and goodneffe,that this Colony may beoflongerdurar.ee then that o f Liampoo; 
 which was another of the Portugal?, and whereof [ have fpoken at large heretofore, 
 being two hundred leagues from this fame on the North Coaft. But ill fortune would, 
 that by the diforder of one Portugal it wasdemolifhed in a very little time- in which 
 difafter, I my felf was prefent, and can fay, that the lolTe which was made there, as 
 well of people, as of riches, was ineftimablc. For in this plantation were three 
 thoufand men, whereof twelve hundred were Portugals, and the reft Chriflians of 
 divers nations: Yea, and I have heard marif fay, which fpokc like knowing men there¬ 
 of, that the Portugals trajfick there exceeded three millions of gold ; Now, themoff 
 part ofthistraffick was in lingotsoffilver of Japan, which had been found out nos 
 above two months before, and was fuch as a man doubled his mony three or four times 
 by the commodities which he fent thither. In this Colony there was a Governor, 
 who refided in the Country • there were alfo an Auditor Judges, Sheriffs, Aldermen, 
 a Proviforofthedeccafed and Orphelins, atown-Clark, and all other Officers than 
 are ufually in a Commonwealth -, together with four publick Notaries, .and fix Rer 
 aiders, each of whofe offices were fold for three thoufand Ducates-, yea, and there 
 were feme farre deafer. There were alfo two Holpitals, whereinabove thirty thou¬ 
 fand ducatcs was fpent every yedr, and cheTown-houfe had in revenue fix thoufand 
 per Annum-, So that it was generally faid, 'that this Colony was the richeft, and beft 
 peopled, of any that was in the Indiaes-, befides, for matter of extent, it had notits 
 fellow in all A fa. Furthermore,whentheRegiftersor Secretaries palled any Grant,or 
 when the publick Notaries made any writings,they ordinarily ufedthefetermes- In this 
 meft noble andahvaies faithful town of Liampoo, for the King our Sovereign Lord. 
 Now, having faid fo much ofit,I hold it not amifle to tell you, how and wherefore fo 
 noble and rich a Colony was deftroyed, which arrived in this fort. There was living 
 there-a m m of a good extradion and rank, named Lance-rote Perejra, born at Pont de 
 Lima , a town In Portugal-, it is faid, thit this fame had lent fome thoufand ducateg 
 to certain Chhefes ,who were not men folvent,but became bankrupts, and never paid 
 him any thing, nor could he hear any newes of them afterwards : which was the caufe 
 that defiring to make good this Ioffe, and to recover it of them which were not the oc¬ 
 casion of ic, B heaftemb.l«d for that effed fome eighteen or twenty Portugals , idle fel¬ 
 lows, and oflewddifpofitions, with whom, under the favor of the night, befell upon 
 a village, fome two leagues from thence, where he robbed eleven or twelve labouring 
 men • and withal!, feizing on their wives and children, killed about half a fcore 
 perfons, without any reafon at all fo to do. In the mean time, the A arum being 
 taken up by the whole country roundabout, by reafon of this violence, die inhabi¬ 
 tants went and complained to the Chumbin for Juftice • and having made a verball 
 procefs of the bufinefTc, they prefented it in the nameof the people to the Chaem of 
 the Government, which is as ©ne of the Vicc-Roys of the Kingdome- who immedi¬ 
 ately thereupon,’ difpatched away an Haitau ,who is as an Adrnirall araongfl us, with 
 an Army of three hundred Junks, and fourlcore Vanfons with Oares-, wherein 
 there were threefcore thoufand men, which being allmade ready in feventeen daies, 
 came and fell on this misfortunate Colony • and the matter paffedin foflrange a man¬ 
 ner for them, asl muft confcffe, I have not capacity enough to recount it fufficient- 
 ly, neither underfianding enough to imagine ic • only it (hall fuffice me ro lay, a$ 
 
 one who faw it,that in leffe then the fpace of five hours, (which this dreadful! chafiife- 
 mentofthehandof Godindured) chefe cruel! enemies left not any thing at all in 
 Liampoo to which one could give a name, for they demolifhed and burnt all that they 
 ro aid find they put to death withall twelve hundred Chriflians, amonglVthe which, 
 were eight hundred Portugal, who were all burned alive in five and twenty fhips, 
 
 Kkk 2 and 
 
TheAraVels, Voyages,and Adventures 
 
 and two and forty Juncks. Itis faid, that in this common mine, there was loft td 
 the value of two millions of Gold, as well in Lingots, Pepper, Sandal, Cloves* 
 Mace and Nucmeggs, as in'other Commodities. and all thefc difafters arrived by 
 the iil confcience, and little )udgeme-nt,of an avaricious Portugal. Now, from this 
 misfortune was another farre greater derived^ which was,that we loft our cred?c and re¬ 
 putation fo mightily over all the Country , as the inhabitants would no longer endure 
 the light of us - faying, that we were devils incarnate, ingendred by the maledi&ion of 
 the wrath of God, for the punifhment of Tinners. This hapned in theyear, ©oethou- 
 fand, five hundred forty and two, Martin Alfonfi de Sou fit being Governor of the 
 Jndiaes , and Ruj Vaz, Pcreyra Marramaejut Captain of Maine*. Two years after, 
 the Portugal! defiring to make another new Colony in a Port, called Chirtcbeo , in the 
 fameKingdomeof China, five leagues lower then Liampoo, wich an intention to 
 fettle their trade there, the Merchants of the County coming to conlider what 
 great profic would redound to them thereby, increaced the Mandarins to make fhew 
 of permitting it, and obliged them thereunto with many great prefents; we had com¬ 
 merce then with thofe of the Country about two yeares and an half, untill fuch time 
 as by the expreffe command of Simanode Mello, Captain of the Fortreffe, there was 
 fent into this piace another man of the fame humor as Lancerote Percy a, was of, un¬ 
 to whom the faid Simam de Aiello gave a commiffion to be Governor of this Port of 
 Chincheo, and Provifor of the Dcfeafed : but the bruit went of him, that the extream 
 covetuoufneffe wherewith he was poffeft made him lay hands on all things, with¬ 
 out any the leaft refped to ought whatfoever. It hapned then that in his time there 
 arrived in the Port of Chincheo a ftranger, by nation an Armenian , who was held by 
 every one for a very good Chriftian: This man, who had an eftate of ten or twelve 
 thoufand ducates, and being a Chriftian, as I have faid, and s ftranger, as we were, 
 pafftd out of a Mahometans Junk, wherein he W3s, incothe fhip of a Portugal, na¬ 
 med Lux de MoKtarojo. Now having lived fome fix or feven months very peace¬ 
 ably amongft Qs, and much refpe&ed and favored of every one, he chanced to Tall 
 lick of a feaver, whereof he died •, but before hegavc up the Ghoft, he declared by 
 hisTeftament, i hat he had a wife and children in a Town of Armenia, called Gaborem* 
 and that oi his twelve thoufand ducates eftate he left two thoufand to the Hofpitali 
 at Maided ; and for the reft, he dcfired it might be kept in fa;e hands, un ill there 
 were an opportunity to have conligned it unto his children, as to his lawlull heirs ^ 
 and in cafe they were dead, he left it to the Hofpitali. Behold, what was the Te- 
 ftament of this faithfull Chriftian, who was no fooner buried, but Ajrez Botelho de 
 Soufa, Provifor of the dead, feized on all hiseftare, without making any Inventorie, 
 or other kind of accompt, faying, thatbeforc any farther proceeding therein, they 
 were to fend to make enquiry in Armenia, which wasabove two thoufand leagues from 
 thence, to fee whether there were not fome ingagements, or feizure of Juftice upon 
 it ^ There arrived alfo at the fame time two Chinefe Merchants, who had to the va¬ 
 lue of three thoufand ducates in filk, peeces of damaske, musk, and porcelaines, ap¬ 
 pertaining to the deceafed Armenian : the Provifor arrefted them all,and not con¬ 
 tented therewith, he would needs make the Chinefes beleeve, that all the merehan- 
 dife which they had belonged alfo unto the Armenian-, fo that under the pretext 
 thereof, he took eight thoufand ducacesfrom them, and bid them go to Goa and there 
 demand juftice of the Provifor Generali, by reafon he could do no otherwife then he 
 did:, for that, he was obliged to deal in that fort by the duty of his Charge. Now, 
 notto ftanduponthedelivering ofthe reafons, whichinvain were alledged by them 
 againft this in juftice of his •, I will only fay, that thefe two Merchants returning home 
 without any of their mcrchandife, went with their Wives and Children ; andcafting 
 themfelves at the Chaems feet, reprefented unto him in a Petition the whole bufinefte, 
 asitpaft: informing him, moreover, that we were men quite void ofthe fear of God, 
 The Chaem willing io do juftice then to thefe Merchants, and to many others which 
 had formerly complained againft us, caufcd it to be every where proclaimed, that 
 no man on pain of death fhould converfe with us •, whereupon, the fc-arcity of victuals 
 came to be lb great amongft us,as that which was wont to be bought for fix blanks, was 
 then worth above a ducate, fo that neceffity constrained us to go uatc certain hamlets^ 
 
 where- 
 
Of Ferdinand Mend ?^ Tinto. 
 
 w hereuponcnmed iuch di/ord-rs, as all che Country rofe up againft us with fo much 
 l, * tlcd and jury, chat fixreen da\ after wc were fee upon by an Armvofan hundred 
 c\v, n.y very great Junks, which intreated usin that manner for otir fins,as ofrhir- 
 teen flv.ps which we had in che Pore,there was not one.char was not burnt. andof five 
 Hundred Portugal* which were abiding in theCouncry, thirty only eleaped who had 
 not the wort j oi * penny left them, From thefe.two fad hiftories, recounted by me 
 1 interre,Lfuc it feems the A ff.fi rs which we have nowin China,md the tranquillity and 
 confidence wherewith wchvethere, (fuppofingchtt the treaties of peace which we 
 - >ve wst 1 ti-cm be fi. m and a/fared Jwii laft but til our fins llial ferve for motives ro the 
 inhabitants of the Country to mutine againft us, which God,ofhisinfi'riite mercy per- 
 ^ C rT° C j 1 i C j U!T1C C0 GOme ‘ To return again now to my former dilcourfe • you 
 muft understand, thac aft;er we were arrived ar the Pore of Lampacau. as I have de- 
 c ‘ are ^ beForc > we could not meet with any veifcl that was bound for Japan • fo thac 
 we were coafirained to paffeanother year coo in this Port, with a delicti in May 
 following, which was ten months eff, to continue eur voyage as wc had revi¬ 
 
 ved. 
 
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 Father Belquicr and I perceiving that there was no hope of going to Japan this 
 year, as well ioi that the feafon was part, a'; for other inconveniences that fell out, we 
 wet e iorccd to flay in ths Hand till the time (ho a Id ferve for us to make our voyage 
 thither. Having continued there then til the leventecnth of Fcb.following,certain news 
 came ro us from ,that on the third day of the fame mo th the Province of San- 
 
 /; had been fwallowed up in the manner enfuing.The fit ft day of February, the earth 
 fei a crumbling from eleven til one of the clock at night, and the next day’from mid¬ 
 night til two in the morning • as alfo the day following from one til three; During this 
 trembling it was a dreadful thing to hear the terrible noife which the ftorms and thun¬ 
 der made; After all this luch an horrible inundation of waters broke forth out of 
 the cent! c of the earth, ashman imftancjall the (Country about was fvvallowci up 
 threefeere leagues round, without the faving of any living creature from perifhing, 
 but only of qnc child of feven } ears of age, and which was for a great wonder pre¬ 
 heated to the King of China. In r he mean time this news was no fooner come to the 
 City ofCantan, but all die inhabitants thereof were terrifyed with it, yea and ail 
 ours were fo amazed at ir, that holding it for an unpoilible thing, fourteen of our 
 company wouid needsgo thither to know the tru.h thereof^ which they immediately 
 put in execution, and at their return affirmed, that the matter was very certain, 
 whet eot an atiefiati<>n was made, hgnea by fourteen ocular witneffes, who had been 
 upon the place ; which acccftation was 2. erwards Tent by F r ancifco Fofcano to che 
 King of Portugal ,D n Jsano che thir , of glorious memory. This prodigious event lo 
 affrighted the inhabitants of the City of Cantaw, that all of them generally certified a 
 world of repentance- and although they were Gentiles, yet murt it be acknow¬ 
 ledged that they confounded us Chriftians, who faw how far their devotion extended. 
 Foronthefirft day when the news thereof arrived there, Proclamations were made 
 throughout all the Principal! rtreers of the < iry by fix men on horleback, who in long 
 mourning robes, and with a fad and lamentable voice, rode crying out thefe words * 
 Miferabic creatures asypu are , that ceafe not from iff ending Jay by day, the Lord of all, 
 things: Fleare ^0 heare^the mofl lamentable and dreadful adventure that ever was- 
 For you arc to hyiuw, that for our fins God hath drawn t he fword of his Divine Juftice a - 
 gainfi all the people of Cuy and banfy, overwhelming pell meU with water, fi re, andtem - 
 p J}s from Heaven ^ah t oat great Province of China, none beinafaved but ong only Child 
 which is earned to the Son op the Sun. And thereupon, they rung a little bell thrice, 
 whichcheyhad in their hands- Then all the people prortfating chemfcives on the 
 ground, faid with fearful) cryes. Cod is Juft in all that he doth. After this was part, 
 all the inhabitants retired into their houlcs, which were (hut up for five daies toge- 
 t ilt-, fo that the City was fo defolate, as there was not a living creature leen ftirring 
 inic. At the end of the five daies, theChaem and the Anchajjis of the government, 
 together with all the reft of the people (wherein the men only were comprehended, 
 for as for the women, they hold them incapable of being heard of God, by reafon 
 of the difohedience of che firft fin committed by Eve) went as it were in procef- 
 
 fion 
 
‘Jhe Tayelsfoyaoes, and iddhentures 
 
 Hon thorow the principall Streets of the Citie, white their Priefts, which were 
 above five thoufand in number, cryed with a loud voycc that pierced the very 
 skies O marvellous and pitiful Lord, have no regard to our wickedntjfe^ for if thou, 
 take]} account of them , we fball remain dumb before thee. Whereunco all the peo- 
 n!e,with an other fearfull cry, anfwered, Lord,we confefc our faults before thee. And 
 {■;' t he Proccffion continuing, and ftill going on, they at length arrived at a magnificent 
 Temple, called Nacapyrau, whom they hold for the Queen of Heaven, as I have 
 heretofore related, from thence they went the next day to another Temple, called 
 The God of Jufticc and in this fort they continued fourteen dayes-, during which 
 we r e great Alms generally beftowed, and many prisoners freed • aifo divers Sacrifices 
 
 were made oTthe odoriferous perfumes of Aloes and Benzoin: There were many o- 
 
 therstoo wherein there was good ilorc of blood fhed , and wherein rainy Kine, 
 an d Swine were offered, which were all diftributed in almes to the poor, 
 in purfuance whereof, during the three months that we abode there, they conti¬ 
 nued in doing many other good works, which were performed with fo much 
 chprpe and charity', as it is to be beleeved, that if the Faith ©f Jefus Chrift had 
 been added thereunto, they would have been acceptable unto him. We heard 
 afterwards and this report was univerfall over all the Country, that during the 
 three dayes of that Earth-quake at Sanfy, it had ftill rained blood in the City of 
 Pcquin' where the King oi China's Court was at that time, which made the mdft 
 n rt of the inhabitants to forfake it, and the King to fly to Naneyuin, whe e, it 
 was faid, he gave great aim?, and fet at liberty an infinite many of Slaves • among# 
 the which were five Portugals , who had been retained prifoners in the Town of 
 Pocaffer above twenty years together. When thefe came to Cant an they recount¬ 
 ed unto us divers marvellous things; and among# others, they told us, that the 
 a j mcs w hi c h the King had given upon this occafion, amounted to fix hundred 
 thoufand Ducaces, befides the'magnificent Temples which he built to appeafe the 
 wrath of God-, among# the which he made one in that very City, very fumptu* 
 ous, and of great majefty, under the title of The Love of God. 
 
 CHAP. LXX 1 X. 
 
 Oar arrival in the l&ngdome *f Bungo, and that which vafs’dthere. 
 
 T He feafon being come wherein we might continue our Voyage, wc parted from 
 
 thisllandof La/npacauthe fevenrh day of L^lay , One thoufand fi\e bunured 
 fifty and fix, after we had imbarqued our felves in a Ship, whereof Don Frandfco 
 de Mafcarcnhas , furnamed Pallia , was Captain. So wc proceeded on in our courfe 
 for fourteen dayes together-, at the end whereof we difeovered the firft iflands, 
 at the height of five and thirty degrees • and which by gradation regard the Weft,and 
 North-weft of Tanixuwmaa : Whereupon, the Pilofknowing that it was ill failing 
 there, fleered to the South-weft, to final out the point of the Mountain of Mi- 
 natoo\ We coafted Tanoraa then, and ftill ran along this coaft to the Port of FT 
 nu<raa. And forafmuch as in this Climate the winds are Northerly, and that the 
 current of the water was contrary to them, the Pilot had a very bad opinion of his 
 Navigation-, fo that when he came to know his fault, (although out of an accufto- 
 med obftinacy of Mariners he would not eonfefs it) wc were already paft three- 
 fcore leagues beyond the Port where we meant to arrive; by rcafon whereof, we 
 were fain to tack about for the recovery of it fifteen dayes after, though with 
 fra veil enough, for that the winds were crofle, and (without lying) our goods 
 and lives were in no little jeopardy, by reafon all this Coaft was rifen up again# the 
 King of Bungo our Friend, arid the inhabitants, who were greatly inclined to the 
 Law of the Lord, which had formerly been preached unto them. At length, arccr 
 that by the mercy of God we had got to the Town of Fncheo , whereof 1 have of¬ 
 tentimes fpoken, which is the capital! of the Kingdome of Bungo, where the chiefeil 
 ( hriftiansof all ^p4»donow fiourifh •, all they of the Ship thought it requifite that 
 1 ftiould go totheFortreffe of Ofcjuy, where we heard the King then was : Now 
 chough 1 feared to undertake this Journey, in regard the Country was all up, yet 5 
 
 rdblved 
 
Of Ferdinand Mehde^fPihtd, 
 
 refolvcd for it, at the perAvafion of them of the (hip, who all in gencrall in treated 
 me very edrneftly unto ic. Having prepared my leif then, and received a Prefenc 
 worth five hundred Crowns, which Don Francifco, Captain of the Ship, fent to the 
 King, I took four of my companions with me, and fo went away. After I was land¬ 
 ed attheTowi. Key, thefirft thing I did wascogo to the lioufe of the Admirail G f 
 the Sea, who received me with great demonllratiens of friendfhip, and confirmed 
 me againft the fear I was in • whereupon, havihg given him an account of the caufe 
 of my coming thither * i deiired him to give me horfes ai d men that might conduct 1 
 me to the King ^ which molt willingly he did, and more freely then I required. ^Be¬ 
 ing departed from this Town, the next morning about nine of the clock I arrived 
 ata place called Fin*an, which might be a quarter of a league from the ForcrcfTe 
 of Ojfytty\ There 1 Ant one of thofe of Japan, which I had with me, to let the 
 Captain of the place underfund that I was arrived , and that 1 had an Embaflie 
 to deliver to his Highneffe'from the Vice-Roy of tie Indues: In which regard * I 
 intreatedhimro appoint me fuch atime as he pleafed , that I might ffealy with him: 
 Hereunto he returned me this anfwer by a Son of his. That my Companions and I 
 ■were very welcome, and that the King was in the Jjle of Xeqwa, where he was enter- 
 ,taininghim[elf in the catching a great Fijh, whereof the name was not known and 
 gbich was come thither from the bottom of the Sea, with a great number of many o- 
 ther little fi/hes: and that having cooped him up in a Channel there, it was likely that 
 he would Jpend all the day in that jport, and not return till nifht: But that he would 
 howfoever immediately advertije him of my arrival! Thereupon he fent me to re- 
 poferny fclf in a betcer lodging which he gave me, where I was abundantly fur- 
 nilhed with all chat was neceflary for me ; yea, and he cold me. by way of Com¬ 
 plement, that all this Country was no leffe the King of PortHgals, tlun MaUca 
 Cochin andGca. Thenoneof his followers, whom he had appointed to wait on 
 us, gave us an extraordinary good reception in a Pagode , whereof the Bonzes made 
 us a very fumptuous FcaiK In the mean time, the King having notice of my ar- 
 yall, difpatched away from the Bland where he was catching that great Fish 
 three light Galleys, and in them his Chamberlain, a great Favourite of his na¬ 
 med Oretandano, who abouc evening came to me to the place where I was and ha¬ 
 ving told me that by word of mouth wh ch the King had enjoy ned him, he drew forth 
 a Let er, and having killed it with the Ceremonies and Complements ufed amongT 
 them, he delivered it unto me, wherein 1 found this written, Being at this prefent 
 imployed inan exercife which is very fleafing unto me, I have b?en advertifed of thy 
 arrival in my Country ^herewith i amfo contented, that I protrfi unto thee I would 
 have come away preftntly unto thee, had I not f^oorn that.1 would not part from hence , 
 till I had killed a great Fifb which I hold co'op’d up here : Wmere fore I intreat; thee Is 
 my good Friend, ftnee by reafen thereof I cannot go to thee , that thou wilt come* thy 
 felf to mein this Veffel which I have fent for thee • for on thy coming, and on the death 
 which 1 hope to give to this Fijh , my perfett content depends . Having read this Let¬ 
 ter, I inftantly imbarked my felt" in the Galley wherein Oretandono came for me 
 and my followers in the othet two, with the Prefent they carried. And forasmuch 
 as thofe Galleys were very fwift, we arrived within Idle then an hour at the Bland, 
 which was fome two leagues and an half off. Now we came thither at fuch time as 
 the King, with above two hundred men in boats, with darts in their hands, was pur- 
 fuing a prodigious Whale,which was all together unknown and flrangero them, asha- 
 ving never feen fuch a Fifh before in all that Country. After they had killed and"drawn 
 it to land, the King was fo pleafed therewith, char to recompence all the fifher- 
 men that were imploved in the action, he exempted them from a certain Tiibute 
 which they had accuflomed to pay before: as ajfu conferred new Honours on 
 fome Gentlemen whom he loved, and that were there with him, and gave a thou- 
 fand TVdr'in filver to his Pages: withall, he received me with a finding counte¬ 
 nance, and queftioned me very exaftiy about many particulars- whereunto I an- 
 fweredHie belt that I could, alwaies adding fomething of mine own thereunto as 
 judging it neceffary for the incrcafing of the Portugals reputation, and of the great 
 
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2 jo T he T ravtls,Voyages 'and Adventures 
 
 tfreem wherein we were at that rime in the Country-, for al! the inhabitants held it 
 for mod certain, that the King of Portugal was indeed the only Prince which might 
 terrne himfelf the Monarch of the world, as well for the large extent of his territo¬ 
 ries, as for his power, and mighty treafure • in regard whereofehiefly they of thefe 
 Cotmtrvesm de great account of our amitie. Thefe things done, the King went 
 from thisliand towards Ofcyuj, and about an hour within night he arrived at his 
 Caftle, where he was received with a great deal of rejoycing, and applaued by every 
 one for fo honourable an exploit, as that of killing the Whale, attributing to him 
 alone that which all the rdf had done; whereby one may fee, that this pernici¬ 
 ous vice of flattery reigns fo abfolutely in the Courts of Princes, as it hath edabli- 
 fh?d its fell a place even amongd the very Gentiles and' Infidels. The King ha¬ 
 ving difmiffed all them that had accompanied him, went to Sup with his Wile and 
 Daughters, and would not then be attended on by any body, becaufe the feaif was 
 made at his wives charge. And whereas we were then at a Treafgferes houfc of 
 h;s, where we were appointed to lodg, hefentforus all five, and intreated us that 
 we would eat in his prefence after the manner of our Country, adding, that the 
 Queen did infinitely defirc it. Then having caufed a cable to bee covered for 
 us^ and on it placed llore of excellent good meat and well drelf, which was lerved 
 up by very fair women, we fell to eating after our manner, of all that was fee be¬ 
 fore us, whilefi the jealfs which the Ladies broke upon us, in feeirg us feed lo 
 with our hands, gave more delight to the King and Queers’ then all che Come¬ 
 dies that could have been prefenced before them : for thofe people being accuK- 
 medcofeed with two little dicks, as I have declared elfewhere, they hold it for a 
 great incivilttie, to touch the meat with ones hand, as we ufe to do. Hereupon 
 the Kings Daughter, a marvellous fair Frincefle, and not above fourteen or fifteen 
 years of age, craved leave of the Q^een her Mother, that fhe and fix or feven other 
 companions migh r p efent a certain Play before them concerning the Subjett in que- 
 dion ; which the Queen with the Kit gs confcnt granted her. That done, they 
 withdrew into another room, where they dayeda pretty while, during the which, they 
 that remained m the place d^ove away the time at our cod, by jeering and gibing 
 at us, who were much afhamed, efpecially my four companions, which were buc 
 novices in the Country, and underdood not the language-, for as for me, I had 
 before feen fucb a like Comedy aided at T ainxumaa againd the Portttgals . As we 
 were thus minidring matter for the Company to laugh ac us, and feiting the bed 
 face on it that poffibly we could arnidd thefe affronts, in regard of the great plea- 
 lin e winch vve obferved the King and Queen took rherin, we faw the young Prm-* 
 ceffe come out of the other room difguifed like a Merchant, wearing a Scymitar by 
 her a fide, covered all over with plates of gold • and the red of her habit anlwerable 
 to the perfon which file reprefented. In this equipage falling down on her knees 
 before the King her father, with cherefpeft fhe owed to him, Mofi mighty Lord and. 
 King (faid fhe unto him) albeit this my boldncjfe be worthy of great chaftifement, in 
 regard of the inequalitie which it hath pleafed God to put between your greatnefs and my 
 bafeneffe • yet the necefftty whereunto I find my /elf reduced makes me JbtA my eyes a~ 
 vain ft all that may happen to methereby • For being old as I am, and charged with 
 many Children, which I have had by fever al Wives , with whotn I have been married , 
 my extream poverty, and the define I have not to leave them deftitute of means, hath made 
 me have recourfe to my friends for help,which they have granted me So that having em¬ 
 ployed themony which they have lent me,in a certain Commodity, which I cannot fell in 
 all Japan, 1 have refolded to barter it away for any other whatfoeverit be : And having 
 complained hereof to fome friends that I have at Meacoo, they have affured me that 
 your Highnefs may do me jome good. Wherefore, my Lord , I humbly befeech you, that 
 in conftderation of thefe white hairs, and feeble age, as a Ifo for that I have many 
 Children,and am poor, you will be pleafed to ajft ft me in my need, which will be an almcs 
 very well be flowed, andm ft agreeble to the Chcnchicos, which are lately arrived here 
 in their Ship-, for this'commoditie of mine will accomodate them better then any 
 other, in regard of the want they have continually thereof. Whiled this difeourfe laded, 
 
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Of Ferdinand Meriiic:' Fintb. 
 
 theKing and Queen could not forbear laughi ng, to fee that this old Merchant, who 
 had lb many children, and fo many incommodicies, was the Princefs their Daughter, 
 very young, and exceeding beautifull, but the .King forbearing a little from Lughing, 
 anfwered her with a great deal of gravity, that flu fhould' (hew fome Samples of the 
 Merchandife which fhe had ; and if it were fuch as would accommodate us, he would 
 deiire us to buy ir. Atthefe words, the pretended Merchant, having made a very low 
 obeyfance, retired into the other Room agan. In the mean time, we were fb con¬ 
 founded with what vve heard and faw, as we could not tell what to think, or what fliould 
 be the event of ic; while!! the Women which were in the Room, being about three* 
 fcore in number, (for there were no other Men but we five there) fell to jogging one 
 another, and laughing at us. Hereupon, the Merchant comes in again, bringing with 
 her fix fair young Maids, richly clad, anddifguifed alfo like Merchants, carrying Sam¬ 
 ples of the Merchandife they had to fell: They had Scymkars and Daggers by their 
 fides all gilt, with grave countenances and high looks, being all of them Daughters to 
 the gr ateiv Lords of the Kingdom, whom the Princefs had exprefly choi'en to this 
 Play with her. Each of thefe fix Damfels bare on her fhoulder aFardle of green Taf- 
 fau : and .11 of them together, feeming to be MerchantsSons, danced a Bill to the 
 tune of two Harps and a Viol, and ever and anon lung in Verfe with a very fweer and 
 melodious voice, words of this fubftance, High and mighty Lord , by the Riches which 
 thou-prjfef , we pray thee to thinks of our poverty ; we are nilferable Creatures in this 
 ftrange C ..ntry, and confequtntly deffifea by the Inhabitants thereof , which expofeth m 
 to great Affronts : wherefore we befeech thee by that which thou art , bemwdfiill of oar 
 poverty. Ajfter that thefe young Merchants had finifhed their Dance and Song, they 
 fell all on their knees before the King, and then the eldcft of them having rendered 
 him moft humble thanks for the favour he did them, in helping them away with their 
 Merchandife, they untied all their Fardles, and let fall in the midi! of the Room a 
 great number of woodden Arms with hands, the eldeft of them faying with a very 
 good grace, Since that Nature for our fins hath fubjelled m to fo vilianous amifery, 
 that our hands muft of neceffity fmell always of Flejh or Fifh? or of fuch other Meat as 
 roe % eat with them? this ALerchandife will greatly accommodate us? to the end that whilefi 
 we make ufe of one fort of hands , the other may be wafhed. The King and Queen fed 
 heartily a laughing at this Speech, whereas in the mean time we five were fo alhamed, 
 as the King perceiving it, defired us to take it in good parr, fay ing, That the Princefs 
 his Daughter had done this to no ocher end, bur. for the better entertainment of us, 
 whom fhe refpefted as her Brothers. Whereunto we made anfwer, That we hoped God 
 our Mafter would reward his Highnefs for this honour and grace that he did m ; which we 
 confeffed was very great? and for fuch we would publifh it over all the World as long as we 
 lived : Wherewith the King, Queen and Princefs, (hewed thcmfelves very well facif- 
 fied, giving us thanks, with many Complements after this manner: yea, and the 
 Princefs faid to us moreover, If your God would takS me for his Servant , 1 Jhould en¬ 
 deavour the heft l could to pleafe him , but I hope he will not forget me. At thefe words 
 we prollrated our felves on our knees before her, and killing the Hem of he Garment, 
 we anlwered her, That we hoped no lefs of her , and that in cafe fhe became a Chriflian , 
 we fhould feeder Queen of Portugal. Whereupon the Queen her Mother, and fhe, fell 
 a laughing. Having taken leave then of the King, we returned to our Lodging, and 
 the next morning afloon as it was day, he fent for us again, and quelfioned us very exa& - 
 ly about the coming of Father Belquior? the intention of the Vice-Roy, the Letter 
 which I had brought from him ; our Ship, and the Goods thar were in her; and many 
 other things, wherein we fpent four hours at the leaf! j after which he difmifled us, fay¬ 
 ing, that within fix days he would be at the Town, and that here he would receive the 
 Letier, fee the Father, and make anfwer to all: 
 
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 CHAP, 
 
The Travels, Voyages, and Adventures 
 
 C HAP. LX XX. 
 
 iJVTy Reception by the King of Bungo, as Ambaffadour fromtbc free* 
 
 Roy of the Indiaes. 
 
 A Fter the fix days were pad the King parted from Ofqtty to go to the Town of 
 Ftfcheo , accompanied with a great number of Nobility, and a Guard of fix 
 hundred Foot, and two hundred Horfe, which made a goodly {hew. Being ar¬ 
 rived there, he was received by the People with great demondrations of joy, with 
 Shews, Interludes, and many other Inventions after their manner, that were very 
 cofhy; after which, he went to his Palace, an exceeding fair and magnificent 
 Struaure, whither the next day he fent for me, and bid me bring him the Vice- 
 Roy’s Letter, as being come for no other end buc to receive it, and that after he had 
 read it, he would fpeak with Father Bclqmor touching the matters that were moft im¬ 
 portant, Whereupon I prefently returned to my Lodging, and having made ready 
 all that was nece{Try for me, about two of the Clock in the Afternoon, the King 
 fent the Captain of the Town, and four other of the chtefeft men of the Court for 
 me; who conduced me to the Palace, accompanied with forty Portugals , which 
 marched all on foot, becaufe it is the cuftome of the Country fo to do. All the 
 Srreets through which we part, were very handfomly fee forth, and there was fuch 
 a world of People, as the Officers had much ?do to make way for us. Three Tor- 
 tugals on horfe back carried each of them a piece of the Prefeat* and a little after 
 them followed two curious Spanijh Gennets, with rich Saddles and Trappings, and 
 with fuch Arms as are ufed in J uds. Upon our arrival at the fird Court of the Palace we 
 found the King there on a Scaffold, which had been ere&ed exprefly for him, accom¬ 
 panied with all the Lords of the Kingdom, amongdwhom were the Ambaffadours 
 of three Grange Princes, namely, the firft of the King of th tLequios, thefecondof 
 the King of Chauchim , and Ifle of Tofa,md the third of the Emper our of the Miacoo ; 
 and round about as far as the Court extended, there were above a thoufand Har- 
 quebufers, and four hundred men mounted on good Horfes, beddes a multitude of 
 people wi heut number. After that the forty Portugals and I were come to the 
 Scaifold where the King was, we performed all the Ceremonies and Complements 
 which are ufed to be done to him In fuch cafes; and then approaching a little nearer to 
 him, I delivered him my Letter from the Vice-Roy, which he would not receive buc 
 {landing. Then being fee down again in his place, he gave it to one about him, 
 that was his Secretary, who read it aloud that every one might hear. After it was 
 read, the King quefiioned me before the three drange Ambalfadours, and the great 
 Lords with whom he was accompanied, about certain things which he was curious to 
 know touching our Europe ; whereof one was, how many men, armed cap*ape, and 
 mounted on fuch Horfes as thofe were that I faw there, the King of Portugal could 
 bring into the Field ? Whereupon, fearing led I fhould blufh if I fhould come to tell 
 a Lye, I mud confeft, that I was much troubled how to anlvrerfe which one of my 
 Companions who was near me, perceiving, fpeaking for me, made anfwer; That be 
 could bring an hundred and fixfcore thousand 5 a matter whereat the King was much 
 abafhed, and I too: But the King taking pleafure, as itfeemed, in the marvellous An¬ 
 fwer which this Portugal gave him, bedowed above an hours time in asking him Que- 
 dions. In the mean ieafon, even the King himfelf, and all that were prelent with 
 him, being exceedingly amazed to hear fuch great and drange things delivered, he 
 turned to t em and laid* / faear truly unto you, that / fhould defire nothing fo much in 
 the World, as to fee the Monarchy of this great Country , whereof I have heard fuch 
 wonder full inings, as well concerning the immtufe Treasures, and the infinite number of 
 Ships which he hath 1 for could I but once do this, I fhould live very well contented the rtjl 
 of my days . 1 hereupon havng fent me, and thofe thar accompanied me, aw;y, heTaid 
 
 unto me, jvhen thou (halt thinly it a fit time , thou maift bid the Father come unto me, for he 
 (hall findems ready here to receive him. 
 
 Aften 
 
Of Ferdinand Mende% Tintoi 
 
 After I was retired to my lod°in<> I om* c„..u~ z? / • 
 
 Kings good reception of ml, robber vvifh .ll ,h f I, Z'Tt, , 1CCOl,n J C 0f the 
 firous he was to fee bin • in regard whereof r Lu - L d ,- paH *? cfide! > and ho " de- 
 then together, and io he tllL ' “f 3 " the Pm ** ' veK 
 
 he liked very well of. Ha v£o “ed h mfcl^h l 8 l° ^ OU ' ° f band > whid > 
 
 for the better fetting forth ofSispeZhe^and “ nr aw/"'” tblDgS 
 forty Portugal *, all very weil apparelled L i went away, accompanied with 
 
 Kn^° Ur P^ t[ y boys in caffocks^and hats oftvfdw taffata^and filk°°* < * ®«rfe-wife; 
 brefts, together with a converted fenmms Chriftened 7 d f f ^ C * on tbeir 
 for Interpreter. When we were arrived at the L nr '™ Ma l Fe ™ a » dez >> "> ferve 
 found fome Lords attending us there who with o oi?? ? f C thc K,n ? s P * ,8ce > we 
 ftrations of friendlhip brought the Father and m* atc * c alof courteheand demon- 
 
 Hayed for him, whohavm»tJwiMnTb,^lT T ch ? mber wherc thi Ktng 
 unto him ; Behove ^ 
 
 of the extreme yleafure 1 take , 0 f ce , hlc l,f orc m J m ZZ T/ £ P 
 
 tb'r Xavier , to whom I wifhedas well at ,o min' own Zr' tZZZZTZ' f ‘ e F “' 
 other inner chamber, that was richlv«r fnmi L r u- Q , a< ^ ln & bim intoan- 
 
 made very much of the four little Bovs for that i’ ™ ^ ^ L-° Wn by bim » anc * 
 ver feen in that County before. The Father rend^eTh^ ^ h ^ C °' c'™’ and ne “ 
 the great honour he did him and after rhar d l L 3nks COn f or ™ab!e to 
 
 mongH themfelves, and which Joana Fornax had Hcgh^hL^After IT h° ““ *' 
 tamed him with the principal ranf» nf h,'<. • u ® L . mm * After this, he enter- 
 
 tad fent himexprefl^o and toZwhi h "wV b " the Vi “‘ R °y 
 
 which the King feemed to lik > of hv hie A' t m c . be a ^ ure(J way of falvation ; 
 Father going ^ ^ 
 
 greeable to the bufinefs in hand - and whin, hi u j a, unco hlm > 
 
 pofe. Whereunto the King mad^ this anfaer ^odFth^ /\“ d ‘ ed for , th ‘ ,t pur - 
 frefi the treat content which ItA, ; r ~ > f' 00 “ F fther , 1 know not how to ex- 
 
 that which my cars have heard thee }/y““Zhieh“l do ‘ h f°f e ’ lem ”" g aU 
 
 ’%?£, t:4, A;*t pt.it 
 
 £h;?F a 
 
 feat to him about by Antonio F CI !L, ,Vn Z tuS ’!^ wh!ch 1 
 
 feitt time are reduced to that oafs at 1 j r J ‘ ^ t V °e > “f' - ut l ^ e J ‘ rf 0>e pre- 
 in me, that they will fee any chip 
 
 try, by reafon of the mutinies t,hat have paft here ^dur'ina fh, roh' 7 1 l f ~ 
 
 :axi iz4i&c;4tifzzt. yrf*? 
 
 1:44:: Hfr; 44 -”'?»-- 
 
 m,f.J Ofay! Um , i M hadfmkm, f‘,Lf4LZ,ila'i 
 
 advtfes me by his Letter. Hereunto the Father reDlied ThJ u . ^ , r } 
 
 tifed with hu holy refolution , but he was to reZemlt^ hishfe £ ZFZIZ 
 of men, becaufe they were mortal ; and that if he Jhould chance to die be fore he t 
 Ited it, what would then become of hu foul } To which he anfwered failin'' God 
 knows. The F iber feeing that he could receive no ulwcI 2 0 > lmi l in g> &«* 
 
 King, at that preient, but good words, without mjkin- anv concUF™ fr ° :n the 
 that was 10 important for him, diifembled with him" and r h 1 ” 0Q , amat!CC 
 talk d ro him of o. her things, wherein he knew he took more pleafbrf^So hTi^i 
 
 fpent the mod o,rt of the night with the Father, in queftion ng him abou d”f 
 vers novelties, whereunto he was much iffhAt-rf u A\r 7r j « • n ° nun aDOUC d! " 
 
 terms, with hone that he would^1^^ ChrSlian^ h w nZZ F* P ' M 
 which was then well enough underllooa, and that fufficiently difovere?hh^nte^ 
 non. Toe next day about two a dock in the aCert.oon the Father went to Se 
 
 L 1 1 2 xr 
 
 Kmi: 
 
The Travels, Voyages,and dventmes 
 
 Kifl°a o ain 5 and fetting afide his kind well-coming of him, this Prince never anfwef- 
 ed him to^purpofe $ and within a while after returned to his Fortrefs of 0/?#/,from 
 whence he fent to deftre him to continue abiding where was, and to come iome 
 times and fee him, for that he took extreme pleafure in talking with him of the 
 creat things of Gcd , and perfe&ion of his Law. In the mean fpace above two 
 months and an half part away, without giving in all that time any other fruit of 
 himfelfj then certain kind of hopes, accompanied ever and anon with fomeexcu- 
 fes, which did not much content the Father: fo that hethoughc it requifite for him 
 to return to Goa , as well for the difeharging of the duty of his charge there, as for 
 many other reafons that moved him thereunto. Being refolved then for our depar¬ 
 ture, I went to the Fortrefs of Ofquy to the King, to demand an anfwerof the 
 Letter I brought him from the Vice-Roy of the Indiaes , which he prefently gave me, 
 having made it ready againll my coming ; and in exchange of the Prefent he had recei¬ 
 ved, he fent him very rich Arms, together with two Scymitars garnifhed with gold, an 
 hundred Ventiloes of the Country of the Lequios. In the Letter which he himfelf 
 had writren, were thefe words contained: Lord Vice-Koy of honourable (Jbtajefly, 
 that art feated in the Throne of thofe which render Jufiice by the power of the Scepter : 
 I Yaretandono, King of Bungo, give thee to underfiand % that Ferdinand Mendez Pinto 
 is come to me 9 with a Letter from thy Koyal Lordfhip, and a prefent of Arms, and other 
 pieces very agreeable to my de fire, and which 1 very much efieem , for that they are of a 
 Country in the other end of the world , which we call Chenchicogim, where, through the 
 power of great Armies 5 compofed of divers Nations , reigns the Crowned Lion of Portugal, 
 whofe fervant and fubjett 1 do by thefe prefects declare my felf to be : Wherefore I pray 
 thety that as long as the Sun Jhall not fwerve from the effett for which God hath created, 
 him , mr the Waters of the fea ceafe from rijing and falling on the fhoars fide , thou 
 wilt not forget this homage , which hereby J make to your King , whom I acknowledge 
 for my elder Brother, to the end, that thereby this my obedience may remain the more 
 honour abley as 1 am confident it fhall always be : And 1de fire thou wilt deign to accept of 
 thefe Arms which / fend thee, as a gage and ajfurance of my faith, from this my Terr- 
 trefs fi/Oiquy, the ninth Mamocos of the third LMoon y in the thirty and feventh year of 
 our age . With this Letter, and his ptefent,I returned to our {hip, which rode at anchor 
 fome two leagues off in the Port of Zequa, where I found Father Belquior , and all the 
 reft of our company, already imbarqued, and from thence we 1 ^ lai1 da y after, be¬ 
 ing the fourteenth of November, o»@ tHouiand five hundred fifty and fix* 
 
 CHAP. L X XXI. 
 
 what pafi after our departure from Zequa, till my arrival in the Indiaer, 
 and from thence mto the Kingdom of Portugal. 
 
 F Rom this port of Zequa we continued our courfe with Northerly winds, which 
 were favourable unto us in this feafon; and on the fourth of December we ar¬ 
 rived at the port cf Lampacan , where we met with fix Portugal {hips, whereof 
 was General a certian Merchant, called Francifco CMartinex, , the creature of 
 francifco Barreto , ac that time Governour of the State of the Jndiaes in the place 
 of Don Pedro Mafcarenhas. And becaufe that then the feafon for Navigation into 
 India was almcft paft, our Captain Don Francifco Mafcarenhas flayed no longer 
 there then was neceffary f0r providing of vi&ual. We departed then from this 
 port of Lampacau a little before Chrifimafs , and arrived at Goa the feventeemfa 
 of February. Thefirft thing I did there was to go to Francifco BarretOy unco whom 
 I gave an account oi the Letter which I brought from the King of japan : but he 
 having referred ic to the day following, I failed not to deliver it to him the 
 next morning, together with the Arms, the Scymitars, and the other Prefents which 
 
'{Pinto 
 
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 that Ragan Kipg had fent. Whereupon, after he had Teen all at leafure, addref- 
 ling himfelf unto me, I ajfure you, faid he unto me, that I priz,e thefe Arms which 
 yon have brought me , as much as the Government of India : for 1 hope that by the meant 
 of this Prefent, and this Letter from the King of Japan , I Jhall render my felf agree* 
 able to the King our Sovereign Lord , that I jhall be delivered from the fortune of L if- 
 bon, where almoft all us that govern this State, do go and land for our fins. Then, in 
 acknowledgement of this Voyage, and the great expence I had been at, he made’me 
 many large offers, which I would by no means accept of at that time: Neverthe- 
 lefs I was well contented to juftifie before him by attentions, and afts paft ex- 
 prefly for it, how many times I had been made a Have for the fervice of the King 
 our Mafter$ and how many times alfo I had been robbed of my Merchandize : for 
 I imagined that this would fuffice to keep me, at my return into niy Country, 
 from being refufed that which I believed was due to me for my fervices; as indeed, 
 the Vice-Roy paft me an Ad of all Lhefe things, adding thereunto the Certificates 
 which I prefented unto him withal, he gave me a Letter, addreft to the King, 
 wherein he made fo honourable a mention of me and my Services , that relying on 
 thefe hopes, grounded aschey were on fuch apparant reafons as I had on my fide,* 
 I imbarqued my felf for to return into the Kingdom of Portugal $ fo contented 
 with the papers which I carried along with me , that I counted them the fceft part 
 of my eftate; at leaftwife, I believed fo, becaufeI-was perfwadedthat I ftiould 
 no fooner ask a recompence forfo many fervices, but it would be prefendy granted 
 me. Upon this hope being put to fea, it pleafed our Lord, that I arrived fafely 
 at the City of Lisbon , the two and twentieth day of September, in the Year One 
 thoufand five hundred fifty and eight, at fuch time as the Kingdom was governed 
 by Madam KATHERINA , our Qyeen of happy memory* Having deli¬ 
 vered her the Letter then from the Vice-Roy of the Indiaes , I cold her byword 
 of mouth all than I thought was important for the good of my bufinefs: whete- 
 upon fhe referred me to the Minifter of her State, who had the charge of deal¬ 
 ing in her Affairs: At firft he gave me very good words, but far better hopes, as 
 indeed I held them for moft affured, hearing what he faid unto me : But in ftead 
 of letting me fee the effe& thereof 9 he kept me thefe miferable papers of mine four 
 years and an half ; at the end of which, all the fruit 1 reaped thereby was no other, 
 then the labour and pains which to no purpofe I had imployed in thefe vain follici- 
 cations, and which had been more grievous unco me, then all the troubles I had 
 fuffered during my voyages: Wherefore feeing of what little profit all my paft 
 fervices were untome, notwithftanding all the fuic I could make, I refolved to retire 
 my felf, and remain within the terms of my mifery , which I had brought along 
 with me , and gotten by the means of many misfortunes, which was all that was 
 refting to me of the time and wealth.which I had beftowed in the fervice of this King¬ 
 dom, leaving the judgement of thisprocefs to the Divine Juftice. I put this de- 
 fign of mine then in execution , not a little grieved that I had not done it fooner^ 
 bccaufe I might thereby peradventure have faved a good piece of money. For a con- 
 clufton , behold what the fervices-have been which I have done for the fpaceofore 
 and twenty years, during which time, I was thirteen times a Have, and fold fix- 
 teen times, by reafon of the unlucky events of fo long and painful a voyage, where¬ 
 of I have made mention amply enough in this Book, But although this be fo, yet 
 do I not leave to believe, that the caufe why I remained without the recompence 
 whereunto I pretented for fo many fervices and travels, rather proceeded from the 
 Divine providence, which permitted it to be fo for my fins, then from the neg¬ 
 ligence and fault of him whom the duty of his charge ieemed to oblige to do me 
 right. For it being true, that in all the Kings of this Kingdom, who are the live¬ 
 ly fource from whence all recompence do flow, though many times they ran 
 through pipes more affectionate then reafonablc , there is always found an holy and 
 acknowledging zeal, accompanied with a very ample and great defire, not onely to 
 recompence thole which ferve them, but alfo to confer great eftates on them which 
 render them no fervice at all 5 whereby ic is evident, that if l, and others, hav 
 
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 been fatisfied, the fame happens by the only fault of the pipes, and not of the fource % 
 or rather,it is a work of the Divine Jultice, which cannot fail, and which difpofeth of 
 all things for the belt, and as is molt neceffary for us; in regard whereof, I render in¬ 
 finite thanks to the King of Heaven, whofe pleafure it hath been, that his divine will 
 fhould be this way accomplifhed, and do not complain of the Kings of the earth, fince 
 my fins have me unworthy of meriting more. 
 

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