Purchas his pilgrimes. part 2 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.

§. I.

The sayling from Goa to Socatora, and into the red Sea, as [ 20] farre as Mazua.

THe one and thirtieth of December, 1540. * 1.1 at Sunne rising, we set saile from the Barre of Goa, the way of the Straights, the wind was off the Land to the East∣ward. Wee coasted along the Coast, bearing but little saile: about ten of the clocke, we came to an anchor at a Riuer, which is called Chaporaa.

The thirteenth of Ianuarie, 1541. in the morning we saw great quantitie of Oze, that growes vpon the Rockes of the Sea, and within a little while wee saw a Snake; the Sunne being vp, wee saw Land of the Iland of Socatora, in search of the which we went, and the Land bare with vs flat South. [ 30]

Now, after we were at anchor in this part, I asked of the most principall Pilots of the Fleet, how farre they made themselues off the Land the day that they saw it, and I found, the chiefe Pilot was ninetie leagues short, when wee saw it; the Pilot of the Galleon Bufora, one hun∣dred and odde; and others, eightie: those which made themselues the least, were seuentie leagues short. In such sort, that my Pilot, which made it sixtie fiue, was the neerest to the Land. And I found among them all, a great wondring and a murmuring, how the errour could be so great; and either because it was so, or because the Pilotes would make their reason good, they all cried out, affirming, that this deceit proceeded, of the way being shorter then the Cards make it. Likewise, the Morish Pilots made good their complaint, affirming, that from Goa to Socatora, there were no more then three hundred leagues.

The Iland of Socatora hath in length, twentie leagues, and nine in breadth; it stands in [ 40] twelue degrees and two third parts, on the North side; the front of the Iland that is opposite to the Septentrionall part, runneth East and West, and somewhat to the North-west and South-east: the Coast of the Sea is all very cleere without any Rocke, or Shoald, or any other im∣pediment that may hinder the Nauigators: the ground in the Road is sand, and in some pla∣ces stonie, but in such qualitie, that it will not cut the Cables. On this side the treuerse wind, or the North wind is so forcible, and bloweth with such a rage, that it raiseth great heapes of sand ouer the Hills, and doth driue them beyond their high and craggie tops. In all the circuit of the Iland, there is not any other place or harbour, where any ship may safely winter. The Coast of the Sea is very high in euery place, and begirt with very great and high Mountaines, with many Pikes, Piramides, and diuers other very faire shewes. In these Coasts of this Iland [ 50] the tides are contrarie to them of India: for, when the Moone riseth, and appeareth in the Ho∣rizon, it is high floud, which the Mariners call, full Sea; and the Moone beginning to ascend in our Hemisphere, the tide begins to ebbe, till it commeth to the Meridian of this Iland; and being in it, it is dead low water; but the Moone descending from the Meridian, it begins to flow, by the same order and degrees that it was set in the great circle of our Horizon, and being set, it is here full Sea. I made this obseruation many dayes by the Sea shoare, and found alwaies the same operation. This Iland of Socatora, (if I be not deceiued) was called in old time, Dioscori∣dis. There was in it a Citie, called also Dioscorides, as it appeareth in Ptolomie, the sixth Table of Asia: but, by the manner that he had in casting it, and the place where he seated it, it appeares [ 60]

that he had euill information of the Trauellers. The Socatorians doe keepe the Law of the Go∣spell; * 1.2 and they were enlightned, and brought to the Faith by the blessed Apostle Saint Thomas, as they themselues beare record. In all the circuit of the Iland are many Churches, in which there is no Oracle, but the Crosse whereon our Sauiour suffered. They pray in the Chaldean Tongue, as I was enformed, they want instruction, but they are very desirous of it, and demand with great efficacie the doctrine and customes of the Romish Church, and all of them doe con∣fesse this alone to be good, and is to be kept; they call themselues by our names, as Iohn, Peter, Andrew, &c. and the women generally Maries. To consider the manner how this People li∣ueth, certainly is worth the noting; for, among them they haue no King, Gouernour, Prelate, or person to obey, or who may gouerne them; but they liue in a manner like the wild beasts, [ 10] without any order of Iustice, or politique life. In all the Iland there is no Citie or great Town, but the greatest part of the People dwelleth in Caues, and some haue little Cottages thatcht, separated the one from the other, liuing a life more then sauage and pastorall. Their food is Flesh and wild Dates, they drinke Milke, and taste the water very seldome. All of them are very deuoted to the Crosse, and for a wonder shall you find one person that doth not weare it a∣bout his necke: this People is of the best disposition in all these parts, they haue their bodies tall and straight, their faces well proportioned, their colour is swarthie, the women are some∣what whiter, and honestly faire. In all the Countrey there is no manner of weapons, offensiue and defensiue, except certaine Swords of dead Iron, very short; the men goe naked, and they couer onely their secret parts with certaine Cloth, which they call Cambolis, of the which they * 1.3 [ 20] make great quantitie in the Iland. The Countrey is naturally poore, and no other merchandise are found then * 1.4 Verdigrease, and Sanguis Draconis. But the Verdigrease is in great abundance, and esteemed aboue all. All this Iland is mountainous, and breedeth all sort of Cattell that is in our parts, of the which there is great abundance. The Countrey neither produceth Wheat nor Rice, nor any maintenance of this kind. I beleeue, this is not the fault of the ground, but want of Industrie and Arte in the Inhabitants; for the Iland within the land is very fresh, and hath many Valleys and Plaines, very conuenient for to receiue all benefit that they will bestow on it. This People hath no manner of Nauigation, neither industrie for to catch the Fish, which by the Coasts of this Iland is infinite; they haue very few Fruit-trees, among the which the Palm∣ttees are esteemed, and nourished, as the principall part of their food to maintaine life: the Coun∣trey [ 30] yeeldeth all manner of Garden-herbs, and medicinable Herbs, the Mountaines are couered with the Herbe Basill, and other smelling Herbs. * 1.5

The seuen and twentieth of Ianuarie, 1541. in the morning, we were very little beyond the Citie of Aden, in such sort, that it was to the North-west of vs, the distance might be about sixe leagues, the wind was at East, and faire, wee sailed West South-west, and wee knew that the Land that wee saw yesterday in the afternoone, and seemed to vs an Iland, was the Moun∣taine of Aden: this Mountaine is very high and faire, on euery side craggie and rough; vpon it there arise some very high pikes and sharpe, in all shewes it is very like, and of the making of the Hill of Sintra, which more then any other thing doth make it noble and famous. This Hill descendeth to the Sea, and with great violence, thrusteth within her waues, a very great and [ 40] long point, and presently withdrawing it selfe a great space inward to the land, there remaine, made two nookes, as faire as compassed, wherein that which lieth on the East side, stands situa∣ted the strong Citie of Aden. This Hill in times past, was called Cabubarra,, and was made fa∣mous * 1.6 by the Nauigators, and the Citie of Aden was knowne for Madoca. This Citie of Aden, within this three yeeres, is come to the power of the Turkes, by Treason which Soliman Bassa, Gouernour of Cairo, did to the King of it, which past in this manner. The Great Turke making a great Armie, at the request of the King of Cambaya, and of all the Inhabitants of the Straights of Mecca, for India. Hee sent the Gouernour of Cairo, called Soliman Bassa Eunuch, with a great Armie of Ships and Galleys for India. This Captaine being come to the Port of Aden, the King and Citizens, fearing the little trueth of the Turkes, denied them the entring into the Citie, but [ 50] they prouided them with all necessaries of victuals and prouisions: Soliman, and also the Souldi∣ers, not shewing any griefe at this hospitalitie, the King assured himselfe, and with many messa∣ges and visitations of great friendship, which past betweene them both, they came to conclude, to meete in the Admirall Galley, that they might intreat together about the Conquest, which newly he went to make in India. The day of the agreement, the King comming to consult with Soliman Bassa, was taken prisoner, and the Turkes, which for this act were prepared, assaulted the gates of the Citie, and being entred, easily possessed themselues thereof; and the day fol∣lowing, the King was hanged before the gates. The Citie being taking by this Treason, Soli∣man * 1.7 leauing a great Garrison within it, made his iourney in all haste toward Dio. [ 60]

On the side of Africa, beginning at the Cape of Guardafui, in other times, called Aromata: and on the other side of Asia, from the Promontorie Siagros, or Cape of Fartaque, which is the same; all the Sea that is contayned vnto the ancient Citie of the Heroes, which now is called Soez, is called the Arabick Gulfe, knowne vulgarly for the Red Sea. The space of Sea that ly∣eth betweene these two Promontories, and diuideth in this place Asia from Africa, may be the

summe of fiftie eight leagues. And from hence, viz. from these Promontories, the Coast of e∣uery * 1.8 side turning to the setting of the Sunne, doe runne almost in the same distance, till they come to two Cities, that is, Aden in Arabia, and Zeila in Ethiopia, or Abexi; and from thence the Coasts begin to streighten very much, and euery time more running with desart Coasts and little winding, till they meete in the place of the Mouth, with two Promontories, that is, Possi∣dium on the Arabian side; and another which lyeth on the contrarie side, that is, of Ethiopia or Abexi, whose name, as well Ancient as Moderne, is not come to my notice; where as farre as these Promontories is the narrowest and streightest passage of the Streight. This streightnesse, of the neighbouring people, and of those which inhabit the Coasts, of the Indian Ocean, is called Albabo, which in the Arabian tongue, do signifie Gates or Mouthes; and in this place and mouth, [ 10] * 1.9 the Land doth neighbor so much, and the shewes which they make of willingnes to ioyne them∣selues, are so knowne, that it seemeth without any doubt, the Sea, much against their wills and perforce, to enterpose it selfe in separating these two parts of the World. For the space which in this place diuideth the Land of the Arabians, from the Coast of the Abexi, is about sixe leagues distance. In this space there lye so many Ilands, little Ilets, and Rocks, that they cause a double, * 1.10 considering this streightnesse without, that some time it was stopped, and so by these streight Sluces and Channels, which are made betweene the one Iland and the other, there entreth such a quantitie of Sea, and maketh within so many and so great Nookes, so many Bayes, so many names of great Gulfes, so many diuersities of Seas, so many Ports, so many Ilands, that it see∣meth not that we saile in a Sea betweene two Lands, but in the deepest and most tempestuous Lake of the great Ocean. Now returning to the Mouthes of the Streight, which is the intent of [ 20] * 1.11 our Description, Wee are to note, that in this place the Land of Arabia stretcheth into the Sea, with a very great and long point, and so for this cause, as because it remayneth out of the Mouth, and a great Nooke from this Point, it seemeth comming from the Sea, that the Land of this Point is some Iland, very distant from the firme Land. This Point is the Promontorie, which Ptolomie calleth Possidium.

Against this Point or Promontorie Possidium, little more then a stones cast standeth a little I∣let, called the Ilet of the Robones. For Roboan, in the Arabian tongue, is as much as Pilot, the which dwelling here did bring in the Ships that came from the Sea, and from thence directed them to the places of their Countrie that they went vnto. This Iland is round and very flat, the [ 30] circuit may comprehend the sixt part of a league, from it to the firme Land yee may passe, the Water being low, but the Tyde beginning once to flow from one quarter flood, it cannot be wa∣ded. To the Sea off this little Iland, opposite to the Coast, about one league, standeth an Iland, which hath in length about a league and a halfe, the which on that side that fronteth the Abexi, hath a very great Hauen and sure from all Windes, where a great Nauie may well bee harboured * 1.12 of Galleyes, but the other front of the Iland which is opposite, and fronteth the Land of the A∣rabian, not onely wanteth a Harbour and Receptacle, but also wanteth a landing place. This Channell is sailed well in the middest North-west and by West, and South-east and by East: through all the Channell is eleuen fathome deepe, we may passe either neere the Iland, or neere the firme Land, or through the middest it is very cleane in euery place without any Flats or [ 40] Shoalds, or any other inconuenience that may disturbe vs; the ground is a soft stone, which they call Corall stone, and scarcely shall yee finde a sandie plot, though you seeke it with great dili∣gence. Being farre within the Channell, and going to seeke the Roade and Hauen, which may harbour vs from the Easterne windes, which in this place are very strong, the depth diminish∣eth somewhat, but it is no lesse then nine fathome. Besides this Channell of the Arabian, there be many other whereby you may goe into the Streight safely, and being many, the mention is made of one onely of them, and they called it, the Channell of the Abexin; because from the Iland of the Gates, vnto the Promontorie opposite to Possidium, which is in the Coasts of Abexin, there may be of distance about fiue leagues, in this space there lye sixe Ilands very great and high, and seeing them from without the Mouth of the Streight, they put the Sailers in great feare [ 50] and doubt, shewing that they forbid the passage that way, but the truth is, that betweene them, there goe very large Channels and of great depth, whereby without any danger wee may make our way, and also if we will, leauing them all on the right hand, wee may passe betweene them and the Mayne of Abexi.

The nine and twentieth of Ianuarie, 1541. at noone, I tooke the Sunne, and being in his grea∣test heighth, it rose ouer the Horizon two and sixtie degrees and three quarters, the declination of this day was fifteene degrees, whence it remayneth that the Mouth of the Streight and Pro∣montorie Possidium, standeth in twelue degrees and one quarter towards the North. The Pilot tooke the same heighth, the which being taken vpon the Land, it cannot choose but be of very * 1.13 great certaintie. [ 60]

That night, two houres after mid-night, wee set saile from the Mouth of the Streight. The thirtieth of Ianuarie, 1541. by day, we saw the Land of both the Coasts, and wee were neerer the Land of Abexi, then to the Arabian; the Wind blew hard at East South-east, till noone; we sailed to the North-west and by West, making the way by a Channell that goeth betweene the

first Ilands, and the Coast of the Abexi, the which vntill this day was vnknowne and strange to the Portugals; the distance wee went from the Land by this Channell, might bee about foure leagues; an houre after Sunne rise, we saw along the Coast a ranke of Ilands, the greatest part of them were low, and as the ranke of Ilands, so the Coast stretched North-west, South-east; the ranke of the Ilands might comprehend about sixtie leagues iourney. Now, sailing by this * 1.14 Channell with a prosperous winde, at whatsoeuer part we cast our eyes, we saw many little I∣lands, as well on the one side as on the other.

By this Channell, which is called of the Abexi, we must not saile by night, and without the * 1.15 winde in the Poope, for if the winde change, we cannot come too and againe, nor come to an an∣chor in any place, till we are so farre forward as the first of the first Ilands, wee shall see to the Sea-ward nine little Ilands, and from thence forward the Sea remayneth free and open, and one∣ly [ 10] to the Land of vs there be a great quantitie of them, and some doe separate themselues from the Coast and the Mayne, about two leagues; but the greatest part of these Ilands doe lye along the Coast; the length of this Channell, which incloseth it selfe in the three first Ilands, and the Land of Abexi, may be about eight leagues: to make a safe voyage, it behoueth to goe neerer to the firme Land, then to the Ilands; but aboue all things, my opinion is, that none doe take it in hand without a Pilot of the Countrey.

The one and thirtieth by day, we came to a shoald, where were sixe fathom water, and to the Sea of it against certaine Ilands, which are called the seuen Sisters, there is a Rocke of stone very dangerous, as the Moorish Pilots told me: so that the good Nauigation in this part is to goe ve∣ry * 1.16 neere the firme Land; and in no case goe to the Sea of this shoald. At night wee came to an [ 20] anchor within a Hauen, which is called Sarbo, in nine fathome and a halfe water, all this day very close to the Coast we saw great quantitie of little Ilands.

The first of Februarie, I went on Land in the Iland, and Port of Sarbo, carrying the Pilot with me and the Master, that we all might take the Sunne: and in his greatest heighth it was ri∣sen ouer the Horizon one and sixtie degrees scarse: the declination of this day, was thirteene degrees and sixe and fiftie minutes; whence it remayneth manifest, this Iland and the Port of Sarbo, to be in fifteene degrees and seuen minutes, towards the North side.

About foure and twentie leagues short of Macua, and distant from the Coast of the Abexi * 1.17 foure leagues, in fifteene degrees of heighth, there is a great Archipellago of Ilands, some of which lye so low, that they rise very little aboue the superficies of the Sea, and others doe rise [ 30] so high, that they seeme to touch the Cloudes, and betweene the one and the other, there are so many Bayes, Ports, Harbours, as no winde can annoy vs; all of them want water, except one very high, which the Portugals call. The Iland of the Whale, because it resembleth one very much, and there is water, and plentie of Cattell, and here is a great Hauen where Ships may * 1.18 winter. Of all these, that which is most to the Sea, is one that in Arabique is called Sorbo, where at this present we lye at anchor. This Iland of Sarbo, is of length about a league, and almost halfe a league broade, the Land of it is very low, it hath many Trees but very low and barren, all the Plaine is full of grasse, in euery place yee finde the footing of Men and Cattell, but there was onely one Camell seene, for the which occasion, they called it, The Iland of the Camell; in all the circuit of the Iland, we found no water, though we sought it very diligently, [ 40] except one Well digged in a stone, which according to the appearance of it, was to receiue the raine waters. Betweene these Ilands doe enter many 〈…〉〈…〉es of the Sea, Reaches and Channels.

The fourth of Februarie, 1541. at Sunne rise, we set saile from the Port of Sorbo, Februarie the seuenth, we sailed along many Ilands, which are distant from the firme Land about three or foure leagues; the greatest part of them are very low and flat with the Sea. Wee went to the Sea of them all about a league, and about euen-song time, we saw to Sea of vs a ranke of Ilands very long, which seemed to take some fiue leagues distance, there was from vs to them about some foure leagues, all of them lay North-west and South-east, as farre as I could discerne. The Coast which all this day we saw, stretched North-west and by West, and South-east and by East. So that this Channell, wherein this day we sailed, hath in breadth about fiue leagues, reckoning [ 50] the space that lyeth betweene the one Iland and the other: the greatest part of this day I com∣manded to cast the Lead, and I found alwayes fiue and twentie fathome water, and the ground Ozie.

The eight of Februarie, 1541. two houres after the Sunne rose, wee set saile. Most of this time we sailed to the North-west, at Sunne set we were almost entred into the Channell, that goeth betweene the Point of Dallaqua, which looketh to the firme Land, and an Iland, which * 1.19 is called Xamea, but hauing respect that hight began to come on, and that many Galleons re∣mayned tarre off, and it would bee difficult to hit the Channell, and also considering, how at this time the winde was alreadie scarse, we tooke in our sailes, and with our fore-sailes we went rummore, sailing to the South-east; and two houres within night we came to an anchor in for∣tie [ 60] fathome water, the ground Osie. All this day wee saw along the Coast many Ilands, so flat, that they and the Sea seemed to haue one superficies. The Coast that shewed it selfe to vs, stret∣ched North-west and South-east, to a low Point, which is as farre forward as the Iland of Dal∣laqua.

Doubling this Point, the Land maketh a great Nooke, that entreth ten or twelue leagues into it.

The Iland of Dallaqua is a very low Land, and almost flat with the Sea, without rising in it, Mountayne, Pike, or any other heighth; it hath in length, according to the common opinion, * 1.20 fiue and twentie leagues, and twelue in breadth; the side of this Iland, which is opposite to the South, stretcheth East South-east, and West North-west, that is, all the Coast which I could comprehend with the sight, and along the Coast lye great quantitie of little Ilands, all very low, and beare the same course of the Coast. I onely coasted this side of the Iland seuen leagues, and two distant from the Land, and casting many times the Lead, neuer found ground. The Me∣tropolitan Citie, is situated almost in the Point of the Iland, which lyeth on the West side a [ 10] frontier to Abexi, it is called Dallaca, whence the Iland tooke the name, which is to say in the Arabique tongue, ten leques, and this, because in times past, the Custome-house thereof, yeelded so much euery yeere to the King. Euery Arabian leque is worth ten thousand Seraphins, and e∣uery Seraphin Arabique two Tangas larinas; in sort that ten Arabian leques, are worth in our money fortie thousand Cruzados. The Point of this Iland on the West side, and opposite to the Abexi, is distant from the firme Land about sixe or seuen Leagues, and in this space of Sea, there lye fiue Ilands, very flat; the first is distant from this Point one league, it is called Xamoa, it * 1.21 hath in compasse two leagues, in it there be some Springs and Wells, and betweene this Iland of Xamoa, and the Westerne Point of Dallaqua, is the principall Channell and most current for to goe to Maçua. In this Channell there are seuentie fathome water, the Land of this Iland is red; [ 20] it produceth few Trees, and great abundance of Herbs. The King of it is a Moore, and all the People, he is resident the most part of the yeere in Maçua, because of the traffique he hath with the Abexins. This Iland at this present yeeldeth little; for after the rising of Suaquen, Maçua, Aden, and Iudaa, it lost the traffique, and with the traffique the reputation.

The twelfth, the Nauie of Galleons came into the Port of Maçua. Maçua is a small Iland, very flat, and in it in old time was built the Citie Ptolomaida, of the wilde beasts. This Iland hath in length about the fift part of a league, and of breadth a Caliuer shot, it lyeth in a great and crooked Nooke, very neere the Point of the Nooke that is on the North-west side. The space of Sea that diuideth this Iland from the firme Land, is about a Faucon shot, and in some parts not so much; in this distance, to wit, betweene the Iland and the firme Land is the Hauen, in the [ 30] which the Sea is not troubled with any weather, and the Current is very little, and all windes * 1.22 come ouer the Land, the depth is eight or nine farhome water, the ground is Ozie. The entrance of this Port lyeth on the North-east side, by the middest of the Channell betweene the Land and the Iland, because that from the Point which turneth to the East North-east, there goeth out a Shoald toward the Land, and the Point of the Nooke casteth another against the Point of the Iland, for the which they force the Ships to beware of the extremes of the Mouth of the Chan∣nell, and to seeke the middest of it. The Channell is very streight, it runneth North-east and South-west: very neere to this Iland of Maçua, toward the South and South-west, lye other two Ilands, the neerest to the firme Land is somewhat the bigger of them, and that which is more to the Sea, and lyeth toward the South-west, is the lesser, and very round. These three I∣lands [ 40] stand in a triangle forme, they are all very flat and barren, there is no springing water in any of them, onely in Maçua are many Cisternes, whereof the Inhabitants doe drinke and liue. Betweene these Ilands are scattered many Shoalds, but through the middest of them goeth a * 1.23 Channell where Gallies and rowing Vessels may passe at a full Sea. This Iland of Maçua was a little while since of the Signiorie of Preste Iohn, with all the Coast, contayned from the Cape of Guardafui to the Citie of Suaquen; but within these few yeeres, the King of Dallaqua hath v∣surped it, and is resident in it the most part of the yeere, because of the traffique he hath with the Abexines, of whom he hath great quanti〈…〉〈…〉e of Gold and Iuorie. The ayre is vnhealthfull in the moneths of May and Iune, and very vntemperate through great and intollerable calmes, in such sort that as well the King as the Inhabitants, doe auoid it, and leaue it emptie these two mo∣neths, [ 50] and goe to Dallaqua. The firme Land of the Nooke, wherein standeth this Iland of Ma∣çua, till yee come to a place of many Wells of water, called Arquito, by the Sea side, is very high and mountaynous, but from thence forward, the Sea coast is more open and cleere, and betweene the Hills and the Sea are great Fields and Plaines. There may bee from Arquito to Maçua a league. Arquito standeth to the South from the Iland: through all these Mountaines and Fields, are great number of wilde beasts of diuers kinds, to wit, Elephants, Tygres, Woolues, wilde Boares, Stagges, Elkes, and many other formes of Beasts, not knowne vnto vs; whence, * 1.24 with much reason, it is called Ptolomaida, of the wilde Beasts. And that Maçua and Ptolomaida, be one and the selfe same thing, the eleuation of the Pole doth testifie in this behalfe. [ 60]

Notes

• * 1.1

  This Voyage being occasio∣ned, by sen∣ding the Pa∣triarch Bermu∣dez to Ethiopia, and relating how that State decayed, in∣uaded by the Moores, and embroyled with eiuill dis∣contents: con∣tayning also a more full intel∣ligence of the red Sea, then any other Rut∣ter which I haue seene, I haue here ad∣ded; and next to it, Bermudez owne report, translated, it seemeth by the same hand (not the most refined in his English phrase, which yet durst not be too busie with, wanting the Originall) and reduced to our method; here and there amending the English, which yet in part was done, as I thinke, and many margi∣nall notes ad∣ded by Sir Walter Raleigh himselfe. For prolixitie we haue omitted the way hitherto. A Snake. Socatora Iland. From Goa to Socatora is 300. leagues, as the Moores account. The Iland of Socatora is in length 20. leagues and nine in breadth. The tides here con∣trarie to them of India, being alwaies full Sea, when the Moone appeareth here in the Horizon. Dioscoridis Insula, in which in times past was an ancient Citie, called Dioscorides.
• * 1.2

  The Socatorians conuerted to the Faith of Christ by Saint Thomas the A∣postle. Since this was written, the Moores of Ara∣bia ru••e here as in many Eng∣lish Iournals of later times you may read. See Finch and o∣thers in the 3. and 4. Bookes.
• * 1.3

  Cloth called, Camboles.
• * 1.4

  I thinke he meaneth Aloe Socatrina, Ver∣digrease, and Sanguis Draco∣nis, merchan∣dises in this Iland.
• * 1.5

  Basill, sweet herbs in the Mountaines. The like Alua∣rez relateth of Ethiopia. The Moun∣taine of Aden.
• * 1.6

  The situation of Aden. Cabubarra. Madocha Citie. Aden brought in subiection of the Turke by Treason Basha. See hereof Dam. à Goes Bell. in a speci∣all Treatise called Diensis oppugnatio.
• * 1.7

  Cape of Guar∣dafui. Aromata Pro∣montorie. Syagros Pro∣montorie, or Cape Fartaque Gulfe.
• * 1.8

  Arabique signe or Gulfe, or Red Sea. Aden. Zeila, in Abexij or Ethiopia. Possidium Pro∣montorie.
• * 1.9

  Albabo.
• * 1.10

  The Streight, sixe leagues broad.
• * 1.11

  Pego.
• * 1.12

  See Sir Henrie Middleton, Cap. Downton, Cap. Saris, and other English Iournalls, of their voyages to Moha. Eleuen fa∣thoms in all the Channell. Eastern winds raine in this place.
• * 1.13

  The Mouth of the Streight of the Red Sea, twelue de∣grees one quatter.
• * 1.14

  Many little Ilands.
• * 1.15

  Annotations, how we are to saile by this Channell.
• * 1.16

  Moorish Pi∣lors. The seuen sisters. Little Ilands.
• * 1.17

  The descripti∣on of the Iland and Port of Sarbo.
• * 1.18

  A good Har∣bour for ships.
• * 1.19

  The Point of Dallaqua. Xamea Insula.
• * 1.20

  The descripti∣on of the I∣land of Dalla∣qua. This Iland is fiue and twen∣tie leagues long, and twelue in breadth. The Metropo∣litan Citie cal∣led Dallaqua.
• * 1.21

  Xamoa Insula, in which are Springs or Wells of wa∣ter. Seuentie fa∣thome water. The King of Dallaqua, a Moore. The descripti∣on of the Iland and Port of Maçua.
• * 1.22

  The Citie of Ptolomaida, sometimes built here.
• * 1.23

  In Nadyuel I∣land are many Cisternes of water.
• * 1.24

  Wilde Beasts.