The great and dangerous piracie vsed in those Seas no man can be ignorant of, that listeth to reade the Iaponish and East Indian historie.
In like maner although the Northerne passage be free at 61 degrees of latitude, and the West Ocean beyond America, vsually called Mar del Zur, knowen to be open at 40.
Also they told vs of the Gabriel, who hauing got thorow from the backside, and Western point of the Queenes foreland, into Frobishers straights, fell into their company about the cape of Good hope.
Then we bare backe againe to goe with the Queenes foreland: and the eighteenth day wee came by two Islands whereon we went on shore, and found where the people had bene: but we saw none of them.
And againe, for that they vnderstoode that they had a law amongst them (as hath bin told you in this historie), y^t it was forbidden to make any wars out of their owne countrie.
It chanced that among those twentie women giuen hym in Potonchan, one of them stoode talking with a seruaunte of Teudilli, bycause she vnderstoode them as menne of hir owne language.
Cortes vnderstoode the matter, or else he had some other intelligence by some that loued him wel.
The third is a Fyerie Vessell, whereby is vnderstoode a partycipation of Loue.
Poliphilus, thou shalt vnderstande that the deuise of these obiects, are more pleasant to bee vnderstoode then behelde, and therefore lette vs enter in heere, to bee satisfied in both.
Shee had no sooner ended her words both pleasant & piercing, but I vnderstoodeit very well and gaue her great thankes.
Nabi, by which woord is signified the prophet Mahumet; and that hevnderstoode that the price to be admitted to the syght of these mysteries should be foure thousande seraphes of golde.
When I vnderstoode this, I confessed freely, that I was a Romane, but professed to the fayth of Mahumet in the citie of Babylon, and there made one of the Mamalukes; whereof he seemed greatly to reioyce and therefore vsed me honourably.
And farther the sayd Anthony affirmed that by men wel practised heevnderstoode that 950.
Certeinlie I maruell much whie they trauell not to come in with Cantaber and Partholonus: but I see perfectlie that this shift should be too grosse for the maintenance of their desired antiquitie.
There is also another called the Marnech, an Iland of a mile in length, and halfe a mile in breadth, low ground also but yet verie fertile.
Finallie, comming to one small chanell aboue Newbridge, it reacheth not aboue six miles yer it fall into the sea.
After this we come to Hamble hauen, or Hamelrish creeke, whose fall is betweene saint Andrewes castell, and Hoke.
Wile, from verie deepe scarrie rockes, before at Askaran) and diuerse other wild rilles not worthie to be remembred.
But sith the author of this report did not flatlie auouch it, I passe ouer that fish as not in season at this time.
Onelie in carps it seemeth to be [Sidenote: Carps a fish late brought into England and later into the Thames.
It is also found by common experience, that the salmon of this riuer is in season, when the like fish to be found in all other riuers is abandoned and out of vse; wherof we of the east parts doo not a little maruell.
Rising therefore in the aforesaid place, it runneth northwest to Snorton, and so to Okehampton, beneath which towne it meeteth with an other water comming from southeast, & riseth not much west from the head of Tawe.
And this is to bee vnderstoode from October forward, for then the time is most subiect to Northeast, and Eastnortheast winds.
This I vnderstoode by a Chinar called Santy of Chinchon, and hee sayde that they lie vnder one and twentie degrees and 3/4.
M535) Afterward I vnderstoode that the cause why they entred in this maner, proceeded of the false reports which had bene made vnto mine Lord Admirall by those which were returned into France in the first shippes.
Whereupon when I sawe with what affection he spake when he pronounced Thimogoa, I vnderstoode what he would say.
I forgat not to demaund of him the place whence the wedge of siluer came which he had giuen me before; whereunto he made me a very sudden answere, which notwithstanding I vnderstoode not, which he well perceiued.
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