J.H. van Linschoten his discours of voyages into ye East and West Indies, in foure bookes / [Translated by William Phillip].
- Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
- Date:
- 1598
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: J.H. van Linschoten his discours of voyages into ye East and West Indies, in foure bookes / [Translated by William Phillip]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![‘trauatle further, pet ko want ol the Spanish meanes a great contention and debate hap⸗ ned as then in Portingale 5 by reaſon that the (aid Ring by his Mill and Teſtament, made Phillip King ol Spaine, his Sitters Portingal. ot withſtanding 5 Poꝛtingals (alwaies deadly enemies to the Spantards,) were wholly againſt it, and elected fo2 their king, Don Antonio, Prior de Ocrato, hʒo⸗ pꝛeſently prepared himſelle in perfor to goe fending before him the Dune ol Alua, with à troupe of men to ceaſe their ſtrife. and paci⸗ lozce, and partly by mony, hee bꝛought the Countrie under his fubtection. Whereup⸗ on diuers men went out sf Siuill and other plates into Portingale ; àt it is commonlie ſeene that men are olten addicted to changes and ne lu alterations, among the which my Bꝛother by other mens counſols was one: Firſt trauelling to the boꝛders of Spaine, be⸗ ing a cittie called Badaios, ſtanding in the ſrontiers ot Portingale, where they hoped to finde ſome better meanes, and they were no ſooner ariued there, but they heard neos that all was quiet in Portingale, and that ‘Don Antonio twas dʒiuen out of the caus trie, and Phillip by conſent of the Land res Hortingale, and entred into ſeruice with an Amballadoꝛ, that on the Kings bebalfe was Annotatio D, Pall. eale called Tauardilha, which at that time raigned thꝛoughout the whole Countrie of Spaine, tubereof many thoufands died: and among the reſt my Brother was one. This ficknefle being very contagious, raigned not onely in Spaine, but alſo in J talie, Fermam, and almoft throughout all Chriltendome, whereof] my ſelfe was ficke being as then in Irale, and by them it was called Caccolucie, becauſe fuch as were troubled therewith, were no other wife troubled then in the throat, like vn-⸗ e Palen haue the pip, after the which followed many peſtilent feuers, The, 1. Booke, ‘es i * Not long beloꝛe, the plague was fo. 15 af in Portingale, that in thus peres (pace there diſeaſe enſued, which wʒought great deſtrue⸗ tion thzoughout the whole Countrie ok aine, » as 5 us Pie * The filt day ol Juguſt in the fame peare, hauing ſome bnderſtanding in the Spanity tongue „J placed my ſelle with a Dutch Portingal, to ſe the countrie, and with him ſtaped to take a moze conuenient time fo2 my pꝛetended vopage. Uppon the firſt of September kollo wing This was Court. At the ſame time died Anne de Au⸗ {tria Queene ol Spaine, (Siſter to the Em⸗ perour Rodulphus, and Daughter ta the Emperour Maximilian) the Rings fourth and lat wife, koꝛ whom great ſoꝛrow was made though all Spa ine; her body was conuated from Badaios fo the Clopſter of Saint Laurence in Eſcuriall, where with great ſolemnitie it was buried. Me hauing med bros ther decea fed, from thente, and pafled thꝛough a Tolone called Eluas about two 02 thee miles ott, be⸗ ing the firſt towne in the kingdome ol Por · tingale, fo2 that betwerne it and Badaios, the boꝛders of Spaine and Portingale are limited: from thence we trauailed into diuers other places of Port ingale, and at the laſt a⸗ riued at Lisbone, about the twenty ol Sep⸗ tember lollowing, where at that time wee found the Duke of Alua beeing Gouernour there loꝛ the Ring of Spaine, the whole Cit⸗ nation of the King, according to the cuſtome thꝛough the change ol aire, and coꝛruption ol the countrie J fell ſicke, and during my ficks nes was ſeauen times let blend, vet by Gods uing much pꝛeferment vnder the gentlemart, Alef his ſeruice, and placed my ſelle with a Marchant vntill J might attaine to better meanes. About the fame time the plague not long beloze newlp begunne, began againe to ceaſe, fo2 the which cauſe the King till then had deferred his enterance into Lisbone, tubieh wholly cealcd vppon the firſt dap of May, Anno 158 1 hee entred with great triumph and magnificence into the cittie ol](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30333118_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
