The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . A BRIEF RELATION OF PEGU 1589. )art, goe naked, saving an apron of a span long, and is much in bredth before them, and a lace two fingers )road before them, girded about with a string and no nore: and thus they thinke them as well as we with all )ur trimming. Of the fruits and trees that be here I :annot now speake, for I should make another letter as ong as this. For hith
The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . A BRIEF RELATION OF PEGU 1589. )art, goe naked, saving an apron of a span long, and is much in bredth before them, and a lace two fingers )road before them, girded about with a string and no nore: and thus they thinke them as well as we with all )ur trimming. Of the fruits and trees that be here I :annot now speake, for I should make another letter as ong as this. For hitherto I have not seene a tree here, vhose like I have seene in Europe, the vine excepted, vhich neverthelesse here is to no purpose, so that all the vines are brought out of Portugall. The drinke of his countrey is good water, or wine of the Palme tree, )r of a fruit called Cocos. And this shall suffice for this ime. If God send me my health, I shall have oppor- unity to write to you once againe. Now the length of ny letter compelleth me to take my leave: and thus I vish your most prosperous health. From Goa the tenth )f November, 1 C79. J/y Your loving sonne 1 nomas Stevens. \ briefe relation of the great magn
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