The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation — volume 05
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation — volume 05
Hakluyt Richard
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And in theMathew Crosse went as Captaine M. Richard Gonson, sonne of old MasterWilliam Gonson, paymaster of the kings nauie. In this first voyage wentWilliam Holstocke (who afterwards was Controuller of her Maiesties Nauie, lately deceased) as page to M. Richard Gonson aforesaid, which M. Gonsondied in Chio in this his first voyage. The ship called the Holy Crosse wasa short shippe, and of burden 160 tunnes. And hauing beene a full yeere atthe sea in performance of this voyage, with great dange...r she returned home, where, vpon her arriual at Blackwall, in the riuer of Thames, her wine andoyle caske was found so weake, that they were not able to hoyse them out ofthe ship, but were constrayned to draw them as they lay, and put their wineand oyle into new vessels, and so to vnlade the shippe. Their chiefefraight, was very excellent Muscatels and red Malmesie, the like whereofwere seeldome seene before in England. They brought home also goodquantitie of sweete oyles, cotton wooles, Turkie Carpets, Galles, Cynamon, and some other spices.
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