er of shipping, or els very fine mats. And then the first rinde
of the Nut they stampe, and make thereof perfect Ockam to calke shippes,
great and small: and of the hard barke thereof they make spoones and other
vessels for meat, in such wise that there is no part thereof throwen away
or cast to the fire. When these Mats be greene they are full of an
excellent sweet water to drinke: and if a man be thirsty, with the liquour
of one of the Mats he may satisfie himselfe: and as this Nut ripeneth, the
liquour thereof turneth all to kernell. There goeth out of Chaul for
Mallaca, for the Indies, for Macao, for Portugall, for the coasts of
Melinde, for Ormus, as it were an infinite number and quantity of goods and
merchandise that come out of the kingdome of Cambaia, as cloth of bumbast
white, painted, printed, great quantity of Indico, Opium, Cotton, Silke of
euery sort, great store of Boraso in Paste, great store of Fetida, great
store of yron, corne, and other merchandise. [Sidenote: Great ordinance
made in pieces, and yet seruiceable.] The Moore king Zamalluco is of great
power, as one that at need may command, and hath in his camp, two hundred
thousand men of warre, and hath great store of artillery, some of them made
in pieces, which for their greatnesse can not bee carried to and fro: yet
although they bee made in pieces, they are so commodious that they worke
with them maruellous well, whose shotte is of stone, and there hath bene of
that shot sent vnto the king of Portugall for the rarenes of the thing. The
city where the king Zamalluco hath his being, is within the land of Chaul
seuen or eight dayes iourney, which city is called Abneger. Three score and
tenne miles from Chaul, towards the Indies, is the port of Dabul, an hauen
of the king Zamalluco: from thence to Goa is an hundred and fifty miles.

Goa.

[Sidenote: The chiefe place the Portugals have in the Indies.] Goa is the
principall city that the Portugals haue in the Indies, wherein the Viceroy
with his royall Court is resident, and is in an Iland which may be in
circuit fiue and twenty or thirty miles: and the city with the boroughs is
reasonable bigge, and for a citie of the Indies it is reasonable faire, but
the Iland is farre more fairer: for it is as it were full of goodly
gardens, replenished with diuers trees and with the Palmer trees as is
aforesayd. This city is of great trafique for all sorts of marchandise
which they trade withall in those parts: a