For, At Our First Coming, The Current Set
Westerly, And On The 28th It Set Easterly, And So Continued During Our
Stay, Which Was Six Days, But We Went Away Before Trial Could Be
Perfectly Made Of This Report.
I learned here that the king of Juanni [Joanna or Hinzuan] was
sovereign of this island, but entrusted its government to the sultan,
who resides here.
The 29th, a vessel arrived at Doman from
Gangamora, in the island of Madagascar, and I was desired by the
general to examine what were its commodities, which I found to consist
of rice, and a kind of cloth manufactured of the barks of trees, which
makes very cool garments. I enquired from the pilot, who spoke good
Portuguese, respecting Captain Rowles and the other Englishmen who were
betrayed on that island. He knew nothing of all this, but said that two
or three years before, an English boy was at Gangamora along with the
Portuguese, whom he now thought dead, but knew not how he came there.
This town of Doman contains about an hundred houses, strongly built of
stone and lime, and its inhabitants are orderly and civil. They carry
on trade with the coasts of Melinda, Magadoxa, Mombaza, Arabia, and
Madagascar, carrying slaves taken in their wars, which they sell for
nine or ten dollars each, and which are sold afterwards in Portugal for
100 dollars a-head. At Mombaza and Magadoxa, they have considerable
trade in elephants teeth and drugs; and it was therefore agreed to
advise the honourable company of this, that they might consider of
sending a pinnace yearly to make trial of this trade.
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