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 . ed 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
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 . ed 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 magnificence and [II. ii. 102.]rich traffike of the kingdome of Pegu beyondthe East India, written by Frey Peter ofLisbon, to his cousin Frey Diego of Lisbon,from Received your letters in the harbour ofDamaon by a caravell of advise thatcame from Malacca, which broughtshot, powder, and other provision forthe furnishing of foure gallies and agreat gallion, which are now in building,to keepe our coast for feare of great;tore of men of warre, being Moores, which trouble us The coast of/ery sore. At that instant when I received your letters India greatly|. was newly come from the kingdome of Pegu, where j^oores. had remained one yeere and an halfe, and from thence. departed to the city of Cochin in October 1587. Thelewes which 1 can certifie you of concerning these VI 385 2B 6 ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 1589. countreys are: That this king of Pegu is the mightiestking of men, & the richest that is in these parts of theworld: for he bringe
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