The voyage and trauell of M. Caesar Fredericke, Marchant of Venice, into the East India, and beyond the Indies. Wherein are conteined the cu∣stomes and rites of those countries, the merchandises and commodities, aswell of golde and siluer, as spices, drugges, pearles, and other iewels: translated out of Italian by M. Thomas Hickocke.
Caesar Fredericke to the Reader.
I Hauing (gentle Reader) for the space of eighteene yeeres continually coa∣sted and trauelled,* 1.1 as it were, all the East Indies, and many other countreys beyond the Indies, wherein I haue had both good and ill successe in my tra∣uels: and hauing seene & vnderstood many things woorthy the noting, and to be knowen to all the world, the which were neuer as yet written of any: I thought it good (seeing the Almighty had giuen me grace, after so long pe∣rils in passing such a long voyage to returne into mine owne countrey, the noble city of Ve∣nice) I say, I thought it good, as briefly as I could, to write and set forth this voyage made by me, with the maruellous things I haue seene in my trauels in the Indies: The mighty Princes that gouerne those countreys, their religion and faith that they haue, the rites and customes which they vse, and liue by, of the diuers successe that happened vnto me, and how many of these countreys are abounding with spices, drugs, and iewels, giuing also profitable aduertise∣ment to all those that haue a desire to make such a voyage. And because that the whole world may more commodiously reioyce at this my trauell, I haue caused it to be printed in this order: and now I present it vnto you (gentle & louing Readers) to whom for the varieties of things heerein conteined, I hope that it shall be with great delight receiued. And thus God of his goodnesse keepe you.