CONCISE NOTES

Of an

EAST-INDIAN VOYAGE;

Conducted from England, with 3 Ships:

the Samaritan, the Thomas, and

the Thomasine.

In the Year 1614.

Described by Johan Milward,

Merchant on the Thomas.

A large decorative drop-cap 'D' contains an engraving of a figure seated in a landscape with trees and a distant building.

1614

Arrives at Saldania.

On the 10th of May 1614, we came to anchor at Gore-end.
On the 3rd of October, we arrived in the Bay of Saldania, where we bought 140 sheep and 10 oxen, though we could have obtained more had we needed them.

Inhabitants described therein.

Their lack of religion.

Clothing.

And their cattle.

The inhabitants of that land are a very miserable people who, as far as we could discern, have no religion or civility at all. Their speech is more of a clicking than a language. They go naked, except that they hang a skin, like a short coat, about their shoulders, and a fox skin for their modesty. They have but one testicle, though whether that is natural or according to their custom, I do not know. They eat that which dogs would find difficult to digest. They demanded an unreasonably high price for their cattle, which, according to our estimation, came from the Cories a name used by the English for the indigenous Khoikhoi people, who, having been in England, had made them aware that copper and iron were of little value to us; they wanted