y the king
of Pegu should come with his power to hurt him.

[Sidenote: The commodities that goe from Chatigan to the Indies.] From the
great port of Chatigan they cary for the Indies great store of rice, very
great quantitie of Bombast cloth of euery sort, Suger, corne, and money,
with other marchandize. And by reason of the warres in Chatigan, the
Portugall ships taried there so long, that they arriued not at Cochin so
soone as they were wont to doe other yeeres. For which cause the fleete
that was at Cochin [Marginal note: The Portugal ships depart toward
Portugall out of the harbor of Cochin.] was departed for Portugal before
they arriued there, and I being in one of the small shippes before the
fleete, in discouering of Cochin, we also discouered the last shippe of the
Fleete that went from Cochin to Portugall, where shee made saile, for which
I was marueilously discomforted, because that all the yeere following,
there was no going for Portugale, and when we arriued at Cochin I was fully
determined to goe for Venice by the way of Ormus, [Sidenote: Goa was
besieged.] and at that time the Citie of Goa was besieged by the people of
Dialcan, but the Citizens forced not this assault, because they supposed
that it would not continue long. For all this I embarked my selfe in a
Galley that went for Goa, meaning there to shippe my selfe for Ormus: but
when we came to Goa, the Viceroy would not suffer any Portugal to depart,
by reason of the warres. And being in Goa but a small time, I fell sicke of
an infirmitie that helde mee foure moneths: which with phisicke and diet
cost me eight hundreth duckets, and there I was constrained to sell a smal
quantitie of Rubies to sustaine my neede: and I solde that for fiue
hundreth duckets, that was worth a thousand. And when I beganne to waxe
well of my disease, I had but little of that money left, euery thing was so
scarse: For euery chicken (and yet not good) cost mee seuen or eight
Liuers, which is sixe shillings, or sixe shillings eight pence. Beside this
great charges, the Apothecaries with their medicines were no small charge
to me. At the ende of sixe moneths they raised the siege, and then I
beganne to worke, for Iewels were risen in their prices: for whereas before
I sold a few of refused Rubies, I determined then to sell the rest of all
my Iewels that I had there, and to make an other voyage to Pegu. [Sidenote:
Opium a good commoditie in Pegu.] And for because that at my departu