caps knit of Spanish wooll, worsted stockings knit,
shooes, veluets, taffataes, chamlets, and silkes,
abundance of suckets, rice, Venice glasses, certaine
paper full of false and counterfeit stones which an
Italian brought from Venice to deceiue the rude Indians
withall, abundance of playing cardes, two or three
packs of French paper. Whatsoeuer became of the
treasure which vsually is brought in roials of plate
in this gallion, we could not find it. After that
the mariners had disordredly pilled this rich shippe,
the Captaine because they would not follow his commandement
to vnlade those excellent wines into the Edward, abandoned
her and let her driue at Sea, taking out of her the
choisest things that she had. [Sidenote: The kingdom
of Iunsaloam.] And doubting the forces of Malaca,
we departed thence to a Baie in the kingdom of Iunsalaom,
which is betweene Malacca and Pegu eight degrees to
the Northward, to seeke for pitch to trimme our ship.
Here we sent our souldier, which the captaine of the
aforesaid galion had left behind him with vs, because
he had the Malaian language, to deale with the people
for pitch, which hee did faithfully, and procured
vs some two or three quintals with promise of more,
and certaine of the people came vnto vs. [Sidenote:
Amber-greese. The hornes of Abath.] We sent commodities
to their king to barter for Amber-griese, and for
the hornes of Abath, whereof the king onely hath the
traffique in his hands. [Sidenote: The female
Vnicorne.] Now this Abath is a beast which hath one
horne onely in her forehead, and is thought to be
the female Vnicorne, and is highly esteemed of all
the Moores in those parts as a most soueraigne remedie
against poyson. We had only two or three of these
hornes which are of the colour of a browne gray, and
some reasonable quantitie of Amber-griese. At
last the king went about to betray our Portugall with
our marchandise: but he to get aboord vs, told
him that we had gilt armour, shirtes of maile and
halberds, which things they greatly desire: for
hope whereof he let him returne aboord, and so he
escaped the danger. [Marginal note: Some small
quantitie hereof may be caried to pleasure those kings.]
Thus we left this coast and went backe againe in sight
of Sumatra, and thence to the Ilands of Nicubar, where
we arriued and found them inhabited with Moores, [Sidenote:
They arriue at the Iles of Nicubar, which are inhabited
by Moores.] and after wee came to an anker, the people
daily came aboord vs in their Canoas, with hennes,
Cocos, plantans, and other fruits: and within
two dayes they brought vnto vs roials of plate, giuing
vs them for Calicut cloth: which roials they nude
by diuing for them in the Sea, which were lost not
long before in two Portugall ships which were bound
for China and were cast away there. They call
in their language the Coco Calambe, the Plantane Pison,
a Hen Iam, a Fish Iccan, a Hog Babee. From thence
we returned the 21 of Nouember to goe for the Iland
of Zeilan, and arriued there about the third of December


