diuers colours
which those people delight much in, and esteeme them of great price.] cloth
of euery sort, painted, which is a rare thing, because those kinde of
clothes shew as they were gilded, with diuers colours, and the more they be
washed, the liuelier the colours will shew. Also there is other cloth of
Bumbast which is wouen with diuers colours, and is of great value: also
they make in Sant Tome great store of red Yarne, which they die with a
roote called Saia, and this colour will neuer waste, but the more it is
washed, the more redder it will shew: they lade this yarne the greatest
part of it for Pegu, because that there they worke and weaue it to make
cloth according to their owne fashion, and with lesser charges. It is a
maruelous thing to them which haue not seene the lading and vnlading of men
and marchandize in S. Tome as they do: it is a place so dangerous, that a
man cannot bee serued with small barkes, neither can they doe their
businesse with the boates of the shippes, because they would be beaten in a
thousand pieces, but they make certaine barkes (of purpose) high, which
they call Masadie, they be made of litle boards; one board being sowed to
another with small cordes, and in this order are they made. And when they
are thus made, and the owners will embarke any thing in them, either men or
goods, they lade them on land, and when they are laden, the Barke-men
thrust the boate with her lading into the streame, and with great speed
they make haste all that they are able to rowe out against the huge waues
of the sea that are on that shore, vntill that they carie them to the
ships: and in like maner they lade these Masadies at the shippes with
merchandise and men. When they come neere the shore, the Barke-men leap out
of the Barke into the Sea to keepe the Barke right that she cast not
athwart the shore, and being kept right, the Suffe of the Sea setteth her
lading dry on land without any hurt or danger, and sometimes there are some
of them that are ouerthrowen, but there can be no great losse, because they
lade but a litle at a time. All the marchandize they lade outwards, they
emball it well with Oxe hides, so that if it take wet, it can haue no great
harme.

[Sidenote: In the Iland of Banda they lade Nutmegs for there they grow.] In
my voyage, returning in the yeere of our Lord God one thousand, fiue
hundred, sixtie and sixe, I went from Goa vnto Malacca, in a shippe or
Gallion of the king of Portugal,