I learned here that the king of Juanni [Joanna or Hinzuan] was sovereign of this island, but entrusted its government to the sultan, who resides here.  The 29th, a vessel arrived at Doman from Gangamora, in the island of Madagascar, and I was desired by the general to examine what were its commodities, which I found to consist of rice, and a kind of cloth manufactured of the barks of trees, which makes very cool garments.  I enquired from the pilot, who spoke good Portuguese, respecting Captain Rowles and the other Englishmen who were betrayed on that island.  He knew nothing of all this, but said that two or three years before, an English boy was at Gangamora along with the Portuguese, whom he now thought dead, but knew not how he came there.  This town of Doman contains about an hundred houses, strongly built of stone and lime, and its inhabitants are orderly and civil.  They carry on trade with the coasts of Melinda, Magadoxa, Mombaza, Arabia, and Madagascar, carrying slaves taken in their wars, which they sell for nine or ten dollars each, and which are sold afterwards in Portugal for 100 dollars a-head.  At Mombaza and Magadoxa, they have considerable trade in elephants teeth and drugs; and it was therefore agreed to advise the honourable company of this, that they might consider of sending a pinnace yearly to make trial of this trade.  In Mohelia, we bought two or three bullocks for a bar of iron of between twenty and twenty-five pounds weight.  We bought in all 200 head of cattle, and forty goats, besides poultry, fruits, &c.

“Malalia [Mohelia] is one of the Commora islands, the other three being Angazesia, [Comoro] Juanny, [Joanna or Hinzuan] and Mayotta, stretching almost east and west from each other. Angazesia [Comoro] bears N. by W. from Mohelia, and is the highest land I ever saw.  It is inhabited by Moors trading with the main and the other three eastern islands, bartering their cattle and fruits for calicoes and other cloths for garments.  It is governed by ten petty kings, and has abundance of cattle, goats, oranges, and lemons.  The people are reckoned false and treacherous. Hinzuan lies east from Mohelia and Mayotta.  All these three islands are well stored with refreshments, but chiefly Mohelia, and next to it Hinzuan.  Here lived an old woman who was sultaness of all these islands, and under her there were three deputies in Mohelia, who were all her sons.  The sultan in whose quarter we anchored is so absolute, that none of his people dared to sell a single cocoa-nut without his leave.  Four boats were sent to his town to desire this liberty, which was granted.  Captain Newport went ashore with forty men, and found the governor sitting on a mat, under the side of a junk which was then building, and attended by fifty men.  He was dressed in a mantle of blue and red calico, wrapped about him to his knees, his legs and feet bare, and his head covered by a close cap of checquer work.  Being presented