Volume 1
An English garner ... / [Rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe].
- Date:
- 1903-1904
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: An English garner ... / [Rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![We arrived in Ceylon the 6th of March : where we stayed five days to water, and to furnish ourselves with other neces- sary provision. The nth of March, we sailed from Ceylon; and so doubled Cape Cormorin. From thence, we passed by Coulan [Quilon]^ which is a fort of the Portuguese : whence cometh great store of pepper, which cometh for Portugal. Oftentimes, one of the carracks of Portugal ladeth there. Thus passing the coast, we arrived in Cochin, the 22nd of March. I remained in Cochin until the 2nd of November, which was eight months; for there was no passage in all that time. If I had come two days sooner, I had found a passage pre- sently [at once]. From Cochin, I went to Goa; where I remained three days. [A rather risky^ visit /] From Goa, I went to Chaul, where I remained twenty-three days. And there making my provision of things necessary for the ship, I departed from thence to Ormus: where I stayed for a passage to Balsora, fifty days. From Ormus, I went to Balsora or Basora; and from Basora to Babylon [Bagdad] : and we passed the most part of the way up the Tigris by the strength of men by hauling the boat up the river with a long cord. From Babylon, I came by land to Mosul, which standeth near to Nineveh, which is all ruinated and destroyed. It standeth fast by the river Tigris. From Mosul, I went to Merdin [Mardin]^ which is in the country of the Armenians: but now a people, which they call Kurds, dwell in that place. From Merdin, I went to Orpha [Urfah], which is a very fair town; and it hath a goodly fountain full of fish; where the Moors hold many great ceremonies and opinions concerning Abraham. For they say, he did once dwell there. From thence, I went to Bir, and so passed the river Euphrates. From Bir I went to Aleppo, where I stayed certain months for company, and then, I went to Tripolis; where finding English shipping, I came, with a prosperous voyage to London: where, by GOD’s assistance, I safely arrived the 2gth of April, 1591: having been eight years out of my native country.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24871503_0001_0364.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
