"This Voyage Being Occasioned By
Sending The Patriarch Bermudez To Ethiopia, And Relating How That
State Decayed, Invaded By The
Moores, and embroiled with civil
discontents, contayning also a more full intelligence of the Red Sea,
than any other Rutter
Which I have seene, I have here added; and next
to it, Bermudez own report, translated, it seemeth, by the same hand
(not the most refined in his English phrase, which yet I durst not be
too busie with, wanting the original) and reduced to our method; here
and there amending, the English, which yet in part was done, as I
thinke, and many marginall notes added, by Sir Walter Raleigh
himselfe." - In the present edition, while we have adhered closely to
that of Purchas, with the assistance of that in Astleys Collection, we
have endeavoured, little more busy than Purchas, to reduce the
language to a more intelligible modern standard; and have divided it
into Sections, in imitation of the editor of Astleys Collection of
Voyages and Travels. On purpose to carry on the series of events, we
have inserted as a necessary introduction, an account of the Portuguese
Transactions in India, from the discontinuance of the siege of Diu and
retreat of Solyman Pacha in November 1538, to the commencement of the
expedition of Don Stefano de Gama to the Red Sea in December 1540, when
the journal of Don Juan de Castro begins; which first section of this
chapter is taken from the Portuguese Asia of De Faria.
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