Their Island Is Both Rich And Fruitful; Rich In Gold, Silver, Copper, And Sulphur, Wherein They Seem Skilful And Expert, Not Only To Try The Same, But In Working It Also Artificially Into Any Form And Fashion That Pleaseth Them.

Their fruits be divers and plentiful; as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, /figu/, /sagu/, with divers other sorts.

And among all the rest we had one fruit, in bigness, form and husk, like a bay berry, hard of substance and pleasant of taste, which being sudden becometh soft, and is a most good and wholesome victual; whereof we took reasonable store, as we did also of the other fruits and spices. So that to confess a truth, since the time that we first set out of our country of England, we happened upon no place, Ternate only excepted, wherein we found more comforts and better means of refreshing.

At our departure from Barateve, we set our course for Java Major; where arriving, we found great courtesy, and honourable entertainment. This island is governed by five kings, whom they call Rajah; as Rajah Donaw, and Rajah Mang Bange, and Rajah Cabuccapollo, which live as having one spirit and one mind. Of these five we had four a-shipboard at once, and two or three often. They are wonderfully delighted in coloured clothes, as red and green; the upper part of their bodies are naked, save their heads, whereupon they wear a Turkish roll as do the Maluccians. From the middle downward they wear a /pintado/ of silk, trailing upon the ground, in colour as they best like.

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