The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation — volume 09
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation — volume 09
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Cochin is distant from Goathree hundred miles. The city of Goa is situate in the kingdome of Dialcana king of the Moores, whose chiefe city is vp in the countrey eight dayesiourney, and is called Bisapor: the king is of great power, for when I wasin Goa in the yeere of our Lord 1570, this king came to giue assault toGoa, being encamped neere vnto it by a riuer side with an army of twohundred thousand men of warre, and he lay at this siege foureteene monethsin which time there was peace conclude...d, and as report went amongst hispeople, there was great calamity and mortality which bred amongst them inthe time of Winter, and also killed very many elephants. [Sidenote: A verygood sale for horses. ] Then in the yeere of our Lord 1567, I went from Goato Bezeneger the chiefe city of the king dome of Narsinga eight dayesiourney from Goa, within the land, in the company of two other merchantswhich carried with them three hundred Arabian horses to that king: becausethe horses of that countrey are of a small stature, and they pay well forthe Arabian horses: and is requisite that the merchants sell them well, forthat they stand them in great charges to bring them out of Persia to Ormus, and from Ormus to Goa, where the ship that bringeth twenty horses andvpwards payeth no custome, neither ship nor goods whatsoeuer; whereas ifthey bring no horses, they pay 8 per cento of all their goods: and at thegoing out of Goa the horses pay custome, two and forty pagodies for eueryhorse, which pagody may be of sterling money sixe shillings eight pence, they be pieces of golde of that value.
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Cochin is distant from Goathree hundred miles. The city of Goa is situate in the kingdome of Dialcana king of the Moores, whose chiefe city is vp in the countrey eight dayesiourney, and is called Bisapor: the king is of great power, for when I wasin Goa in the yeere of our Lord 1570, this king came to giue assault toGoa, being encamped neere vnto it by a riuer side with an army of twohundred thousand men of warre, and he lay at this siege foureteene monethsin which time there was peace conclude...d, and as report went amongst hispeople, there was great calamity and mortality which bred amongst them inthe time of Winter, and also killed very many elephants. [Sidenote: A verygood sale for horses. ] Then in the yeere of our Lord 1567, I went from Goato Bezeneger the chiefe city of the king dome of Narsinga eight dayesiourney from Goa, within the land, in the company of two other merchantswhich carried with them three hundred Arabian horses to that king: becausethe horses of that countrey are of a small stature, and they pay well forthe Arabian horses: and is requisite that the merchants sell them well, forthat they stand them in great charges to bring them out of Persia to Ormus, and from Ormus to Goa, where the ship that bringeth twenty horses andvpwards payeth no custome, neither ship nor goods whatsoeuer; whereas ifthey bring no horses, they pay 8 per cento of all their goods: and at thegoing out of Goa the horses pay custome, two and forty pagodies for eueryhorse, which pagody may be of sterling money sixe shillings eight pence, they be pieces of golde of that value.
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