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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The voyage and travell of M. Caesar Fredericke, Marchant of Venice, into the East India, and beyond the Indies. Wherein are conteined the customes and rites of those countries, the merchandises and commodities, aswell of golde and silver, as spices, drugges, pearles, and other jewels: translated out of Italian by M. Thomas Hickocke. (search)
ian tongue. There I shipped my selfe to goe for Goa, a city in the Indies, in a shippe that had fouadvertise those Marchants that go from Ormus to Goa to shippe themselves in those shippes that carrl the goods they bring. Goa, Diu, and Cambaia. GOA is the principall city tat Cochin for Portugall. Cochin is distant from Goa three hundred miles. The city of Goa is situateGoa is situate in the kingdome of Dialcan a king of the Moores, whose chiefe city is up in the countrey eight day them out of Persia to Ormus, and from Ormus to Goa, where the ship that bringeth twenty horses and the end of two moneths, I determined to go for Goa in the company of two other Portugall Marchantsmade me a walking staffe to carry in my hand to Goa, thinking that I should have gone thither on fohey have good store of Rice which is carried to Goa: and from thence you shall goe to a city calleday the aforesaid custome for my Opium, and from Goa I departed to Cochin in a ship that was for the[29 more...]
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Ormus. (search)
ith his traine, without the consent of the Captaine first had: it behooveth them to doe this, and it is necessary, because of the great trade that is in the city: their proper language is the Persian tongue. There I shipped my selfe to goe for Goa, a city in the Indies, in a shippe that had fourescore horses in her. This is to advertise those Marchants that go from Ormus to Goa to shippe themselves in those shippes that carry horses, because every shippe that carrieth twenty horses or upwars the Persian tongue. There I shipped my selfe to goe for Goa, a city in the Indies, in a shippe that had fourescore horses in her. This is to advertise those Marchants that go from Ormus to Goa to shippe themselves in those shippes that carry horses, because every shippe that carrieth twenty horses or upwards is privileged, that all the marchandise whatsoever they carry shall pay no custome, whereas the shippes that carry no horses are bound to pay eight per cento of all the goods they bring.
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Goa, Diu, and Cambaia. (search)
Goa, Diu, and Cambaia. GOA is the principall city that the Portugals have in the Indies, where is resident the Viceroy with his Court and ministers of the King of Portugall. From Ormus to Goa is nine hundred foure score and ten miles distance, in which passage the first city that you come to in the Indies, isGoa is nine hundred foure score and ten miles distance, in which passage the first city that you come to in the Indies, is called Diu, and is situate in a little Iland in the kingdome of Cambaia, which is the greatest strength that the Portugals have in all the Indies, yet a small city, but of great trade, because there they lade very many great ships for the straights of Mecca and Ormus with marchandise, and these shippes belong to the Moores and Che is great profit. The barks that lade in Cambaietta go for Diu to ade the ships that go from thence for the streights of Mecca and Ormus, and some go to Chaul and Goa: and these ships be very wel appointed, or els are guarded by the Armada of the Portugals, for that there are many Corsaries or Pyrats which goe coursing alongst th
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Of the cities of Chaul, and of the Palmer tree. (search)
tenne or fifteene great shippes laden with great Nuts cured, and with Sugar made of the selfe same Nuts called Giagra: the tree whereon these Nuts doe grow is called the Palmer tree: and thorowout all the Indies, and especially from this place to Goa there is great abundance of them, and it is like to the Date tree. In the whole world there is not a tree more profitable and of more goodnesse then this tree is, neither doe men reape so much benefit of any other tree as they do of this, there is, they are so commodious that they worke with them marvellous well, whose shotte is of stone, and there hath bene of that shot sent unto the king of Portugall for the rarenes of the thing. The city where the king Zamalluco hath his being, is within the land of Chaul seven or eight dayes journey, which city is called Abneger. Threescore and tenne miles from Chaul, towards the Indies, is the port of Dabul, an haven of the king Zamalluco: from thence to Goa is an hundred and fifty miles.
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Goa. (search)
Goa. GOA is the principall city that the Portugals have in the Indies, wherein the Viceroy with hisve or sixe great shippes that come directly for Goa, arrive there ordinarily the sixth or tenth of tugall, and often times they lade one shippe at Goa and the other at Cochin for Portugall. Cochin is distant from Goa three hundred miles. The city of Goa is situate in the kingdome of Dialcan a kinGoa is situate in the kingdome of Dialcan a king of the Moores, whose chiefe city is up in the countrey eight dayes journey, and is called Bisapor this king is of great power, for when I was in Goa in the yeere of our Lord 1570, this king came to give assault to Goa, being encamped neere unto it by a river side with an army of two hundred thoe kingdome of Narsinga eight dayes journey from Goa, within the land, in the company of two other m them out of Persia to Ormus, and from Ormus to Goa, where the ship that bringeth twenty horses andnto of all their goods: and at the going out of Goa the horses pay custome, two and forty pagodies [1 more...]
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Bezeneger. (search)
beganne for to repopulate it, and sent word to Goa to the Merchants, if they had any horses, to br the end of two moneths, I determined to go for Goa in the company of two other Portugall Marchants a very good commodious pace. From Bezeneger to Goa in Summer it is eight dayes journey, but we weneger. The marchandise that went every yere from Goa to Bezeneger were Arabian Horses, Velvets, Damamade me a walking staffe to carry in my hand to Goa, thinking that I should have gone thither on foouble, and so in foure dayes they carried me to Goa, in which time I made hard fare, for the theevey men for Gods sake: and after at my comming to Goa I payed them for every thing royally that I had of them. From Goa I departed for Cochin, which is a voyage of three hundred miles, and betweene thnor. The Holde or Fort that you shall have from Goa to Cochin that belongeth to the Portugals, is chey have good store of Rice which is carried to Goa: and from thence you shall goe to a city called[2 more...]
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Cochin. (search)
Cochin. COCHIN is, next unto Goa, the chiefest place that the Portugales have in the Indies, and there is great trade of Spices, drugges, and all other sortes of merchandize for the kingdome of Portugale, and there within the land is the kingdome of Pepper, which Pepper the Portugales lade in their shippes by bulke, and not in sackes: the Pepper that goeth for Portugale is not so good as that which goeth for Mecca , because that in times past the officers of the king of Portugale made a contract with the king of Cochin, in the name of the king of Portugale, for the prizes of Pepper, and by reason of that agreement betweene them at that time made, the price can neither rise nor fall, which is a very lowe and base price, and for this cause the villaines bring it to the Portugales, greene and full of filthe. The Moores of Mecca that give a better price, have it cleane and drie, and better conditioned. All the Spices and drugs that are brought to Mecca
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Saint Thomas or San Tome. (search)
time. All the marchandize they lade outwards, they emball it well with Oxe hides, so that if it take wet, it can have no great harme. In my voyage, returning in the yeere of our Lord God one thousand, five hundred, sixtie and sixe, I went from Goa unto Malacca, in a shippe or Gallion of the king of Portugal , which went unto Banda for to lade Nutmegs & Maces: from Goa to Malacca are one thousand eight hundred miles, we passed without the Iland Zeilan, and went through the chanell of NicubarGoa to Malacca are one thousand eight hundred miles, we passed without the Iland Zeilan, and went through the chanell of Nicubar, or els through the chanell of Sombrero , which is by the middle of the Iland of Sumatra, called in olde time Taprobana: and from Nicubar to Pegu is as it were a rowe or chaine of an infinite number of Ilands, of which many are inhabited with wilde people, and they call those Ilands the Ilands of Andemaon, and they call their people savage of wilde, because they eate one another: also these Ilands have warre one with another, for they have small Barkes, and with them they take one another, an
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The Citie of Martavan. (search)
ld not continue long. For all this I embarked my selfe in a Galley that went for Goa, meaning there to shippe my selfe for Ormus: but when we came to Goa, the ViceroGoa, the Viceroy would not suffer any Portugal to depart, by reason of the warres. And being in Goa but a small time, I fell sicke of an infirmitie that helde mee foure moneths: wGoa but a small time, I fell sicke of an infirmitie that helde mee foure moneths: which with phisicke and diet cost me eight hundred duckets, and there I was constrained to sell a smal quantitie of Rubies to sustaine my neede: and I solde that for e things, the Viceroy commanded that the custome of the Opium should be paide in Goa, and paying custome there I might cary it whither I would. I shipped my 3. bales of cloth at Chaul in a shippe that went for Cochin, and I went to Goa to pay the aforesaid custome for my Opium, and from Goa I departed to Cochin in a ship that Goa I departed to Cochin in a ship that was for the voyage of Pegu , and went to winter then at S. Tome. When I came to Cochin, I understood that the ship that had my three bales of cloth was cast away and
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Letters concerning the voyage of M. John Newbery and M. Ralph Fitch, made by the way of the Levant Sea to Syria , and overland to Balsara, and thence into the East Indies, and beyond, In the yeere 1583. (search)
o copy out, that came from M. Thomas Stevens in Goa, as also the note you gave mee of Francis Fernah, the Captaine wil send us all in his ship for Goa. The cause why we are taken, as they say, is, fpo. God knoweth how we shall be delt withall in Goa, and therfore if you can procure our masters tod Letter to Maister Leonard Poore, written from Goa. MY last I sent you was from Ormuz , wherby I ccause why the captaine of Ormus did send me for Goa, was, for that the Viceroy would understand of reby they may come the better to my hands. From Goa this 20 day of Januarie. 1584. A Letter written from Goa by Master Ralph Fitch to Master Leonard Poore abovesaid. LOVING friend Master Poore, &c October, and then were shipt for this citie of Goa in the captaines ship, with an 114 horses, and land to water the 20 of November, we arrived at Goa the 29 of the said moneth, where for our better to God, who ever preserve you and us all. From Goa in the East Indies the 25 of Januarie 1584.
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