Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques Vol 11 8 3
Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques Vol 11 8 3
Hakluyt Richard
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Whereby it should seemethat the will of God for our good is (if our weaknesse could apprehend it)to haue vs communicate with them in those East Indian treasures, and by theerection of a lawfull traffike to better our meanes to aduance truereligion and his holy seruice. The caracke being in burden by theestimation of the wise and experienced no lesse then 1600 tunnes had full900 of those stowed with the grosse bulke of marchandise, the rest of thetunnage being allowed, partly to the ordinance wh...ich were 32 pieces ofbrasse of all sorts, partly to the passengers and the victuals, which couldnot be any small quantity, considering the number of the persons betwixt600 and 700, and the length of the nauigation. To giue you a taste (as itwere) of the commodities, it shall suffice to deliuer you a generallparticularity of them, according to the catalogue taken at Leadenhall the15 of September 1592. [Sidenote: A briefe catalogue of the sundry richcommodities of the Madre de Dios. ] Where vpon good view it was found, thatthe principall wares after the iewels (which were no doubt of great value, though they neuer came to light) consisted of spices, drugges, silks, calicos, quilts, carpets and colours, &c.
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