day before mee; so that Opium which was before
very deare, was now at a base price: so that which was sold for fiftie
Bizze before, was solde for 2. Bizze and an halfe, there was such quantitie
came in that ship; so that I was glad to stay two yeres in Pegu vnlesse I
would haue giuen away my commoditie: and at the end of two yeres of my
2100. duckets which I bestowed in Cambaya, I made but a thousand duckets.
Then I departed againe from Pegu to goe for the Indies for Chaul, and from
Chaul to Cochin, and from Cochin to Pegu. Once more I lost occasion to make
me riche, for whereas I might haue brought good store of Opium againe, I
brought but a little, being fearefull of my other voyage before. In this
small quantitie I made good profite. And now againe I determined to go for
my Countrey, and departing from Pegu, I tarried and wintered in Cochin, and
then I left the Indies and came for Ormus.

I thinke it very necessary before I ende my voyage, to reason somewhat, and
to shewe what fruits the Indies do yeeld and bring forth. First, In the
Indies and other East parts of India there is Peper and ginger, which
groweth in all parts of India. And in some parts of the Indies, the
greatest quantitie of peper groweth amongst wilde bushes, without any maner
of labour: sauing, that when it is ripe they goe and gather it. The tree
that the peper groweth on is like to our Iuie, which runneth vp to the tops
of trees wheresoeuer it groweth: and if it should not take holde of some
tree, it would lie flat and rot on the ground. This peper tree hath his
floure and berry like in all parts to our Iuie berry, and those berries be
graines of peper: so that when they gather them they be greene, and then
they lay them in the Sunne, and they become blacke.

The Ginger groweth in this wise: the land is tilled and sowen, and the
herbe is like to Panizzo, and the roote is the ginger. These two spices
grow in diuers places.

The Cloues come all from the Moluccas, which Moluccas are two Islands, not
very great, and the tree that they grow on is like to our Lawrell tree.

The Nutmegs and Maces, which grow both together, are brought from the
Island of Banda, whose tree is like to our walnut tree, but not so big.

All the good white Sandol is brought from the Island of Timor. Canfora
being compound commeth all from China, and all that which groweth in canes
commeth from Borneo, and I thinke that this Canfora commeth not into these
parts: for that in