of them, and it is like to the Date tree.  In the whole world there is not a tree more profitable and of more goodnesse then this tree is, neither doe men reape so much benefit of any other tree as they doe of this, there is not any part of it but serueth for some vse, and none of it is woorthy to be burnt.  With the timber of this tree they make shippes without the mixture of any other tree, and with the leaues thereof they make sailes, and with the fruit thereof, which be a kinde of Nuts, they make wine, and of the wine they make Sugar and Placetto, which wine they gather in the spring of the yeere:  out of the middle of the tree where continually there goeth or runneth out white liquour like vnto water, in that time of the yeere they put a vessel vnder euery tree, and euery euening and morning they take it away full, and then distilling it with fire it maketh a very strong liquour:  and then they put it into buts, with a quantity of Zibibbo, white or blacke and in short time it is made a perfect wine.  After this they make of the Nuts great store of oile:  of the tree they make great quantity of boordes and quarters for buildings.  Of the barke of this tree they make cables, ropes, and other furniture for shippes, and, as they say, these ropes be better then they that are made of Hempe.  They make of the bowes, bedsteds, after the Indies fashion, and Scauasches for merchandise.  The leaues they cut very small, and weaue them, and so make sailes of them, for all maner 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.