[Footnote 434:  John Huighen van Linschoten, the author of the book respecting the East Indies, formerly quoted, and from which a second quotation will be given in this supplement.—­E.]

[Footnote 435:  This is he whose letter to his father from Goa has been already inserted, and who was sometime of New College in Oxford.—­Hakluyt.]

We remained many days in prison at Ormus, and were a long while at sea coming hither.  Immediately on our arrival at this place we were sent to prison, whence next day we were brought before the chief justice or veedor, to be examined, after which we were remanded to prison.  When we had been thirteen days in prison, James Storie, the painter who accompanied us, went into the monastery of St Paul, where he remains, being made one of the company, which life he seems to like[436].  Upon St Thomas day, 12th December, 22 days after our arrival here, I was liberated from prison, and the next day Ralph Fitch and William Bets[437] came out.

[Footnote 436:  It will appear afterwards that he did not continue.—­E.]

[Footnote 437:  In the narrative of Fitch no such name occurs, but William Leedes jeweller, is named as one of the party.  Perhaps he ought to have been named by Fitch, William Bets of Leeds.—­E.]

If these troubles had not occurred, I think I was in a fair way of making as good a voyage as was ever made with such a sum of money.  Many of our things I sold very well, both here and at Ormus while in prison, although the captain of Ormus wished me to have sold all I had before I embarked; so, by his permission, I went sundry times from the castle in the mornings, accompanied by officers, and sold things, and returned again at night to prison.  They wrote down every thing that I sold; and at my embarking, the captain directed me to deliver all my money and goods into the hands of the scrivano or purser of the ship, which I did, and the scrivano left an acknowledgement with the captain, that myself with the money and goods should be delivered up to the veedor general in India.  But on our arrival here, the veedor would not meddle with either money or goods, seeing that no crime was substantiated against us:  Wherefore the goods remained in the ship nine or ten days after our arrival; and then, as the ship was to sail from thence, the scrivano sent the goods on shore, where they remained a day and a night without any one to receive them.  In the end, they permitted the bearer of this letter to receive them, who put them into a house which he hired for me, in which they remained four or five days.  When afterwards they ought to have delivered the money, it was ordered by the veedor, that both the money and goods should be given into the custody of the positor, where they remained for fourteen days after I was liberated from prison.