against the will of our captaine, and hee and 16 of
his company, together with one boat which was all that
we had, and 16 others that were a washing ouer against
our ship, were betrayed of the perfidious Moores,
and in our sight for the most part slaine, we being
not able for want of a boat to yeeld them any succour.
[Sidenote: Zanzibar Iland.] From thence with
heauie hearts we shaped our course for Zanzibar the
7 of Nouember, where shortly after we arriued and made
vs a new boat of such boards as we had within boord,
and rid in the road vntill the 15 of February, where,
during our aboad, we sawe diuers Pangaias or boates,
which are pinned with wooden pinnes, and sowed together
with Palmito cordes, and calked with the husks of
Cocos shels beaten, whereof they made Occam. [Sidenote:
A Portugall Factorie in Zanzibar.] At length a Portugal
Pangaia comming out of the harborow of Zanzibar, where
they haue a small Factorie, sent a Canoa with a Moore
which had bene christened, who brought vs a letter
wherein they desired to know what wee were, and what
we sought. We sent them word we were Englishmen
come from Don Antonio vpon businesse to his friends
in the Indies: with which answere they returned,
and would not any more come at vs. Whereupon
not long after wee manned out our boat and tooke a
Pangaia of the Moores, which had a priest of theirs
in it, which in their language they call a Sherife:
whom we vsed very courteously: which the king
tooke in very good part, hauing his priests in great
estimation, and for his deliuerance furnished vs with
two moneths victuals, during all which time we detained
him with vs. These Moores informed vs of the false
and spitefull dealing of the Portugals towards vs,
[Marginal note: The treason of the Portugals
towards the English.] which made them beleeue that
we were cruell people and men-eaters, and willed them
if they loued their safetie in no case to come neere
vs. Which they did onely to cut us off from all
knowledge of the state and traffique of the countrey.
While we road from the end of Nouember vntil the middle
of February in this harborough, which is sufficient
for a ship of 500 tuns to ride in, we set vpon a Portugall
Pangaia with our boat, but because it was very litle,
and our men not able to stirre in it, we were not
able to take the sayd Pangaia which was armed with
10 good shot like our long fouling pieces. [Sidenote:
An excellent place for refreshing.] This place for
the goodnesse of the harborough and watering, and
plentifull refreshing with fish, whereof we tooke
great store with our nets, and for sundry sorts of
fruits of the countrey, as Cocos and others, which
were brought vs by the Moores as also for oxen and
hennes, is carefully to be sought for by such of our
ships, as shall hereafter passe that way. [Sidenote:
A gallie Frigate.] But our men had need to take good
heed of the Portugals: for while we lay here the
Portugall Admiral of the coast from Melinde to Mozambique,
came to view and betray our boat if he could haue


