in which they get down to business…. “I concluded with captaine Audassee, captaine of the China quarter heere, for his howse, to paie 95 Royalls of 8 for the Monson of 6 monethes, hee to repaire it at present, and wee to repaier it heerafter, and alter what wee pleased, hee to furnish all convenient roomes, with matts accordinge to the fashion of theire countrie.” (p.153)
“This daie our shipp was soe pestered with people, as that I was enforced to send to the kinge for a Guardian to cleere them out. Many thinges, being stolne, but I more doubted our people then the naturalles. There came in a fleminge in one of the Countrie boates which had bene at the Island Mashma, where hee had sould good store of pepper, Broade cloth, and Elephants teeth, but would not be knowne vnto vs, to have sould anie thinge, yet brought nothinge backe in the boate with him. But the Iapans his waterman tould vs the truth, viz. that hee had sould good quantitie of Goods, at a Mart there, and returned Barres of Silver, which they kept verie secretlie.” (p. 154)
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