So we went to another place to supper, called Tuchiama,[158] where we were forced to stay all night by meanes of the rayny wether. Our charges at Tuchiama was, viz.:—
| ta. | m. | co. | |
| To goodman of house for all our diet | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| To servantes of howse 300 gins. |
August 15.—We dyned at Camiama,[159] and cost to howse 2 ta., and to servantes of howse 100 gins. And we went to bed to Shrock.[160] And, the wether seeming to be good, we hired 2 barkes to carry our goodes in; and about 10 a clock at night did embark our selves to have passed an arme of the sea of som 21 leages, to have shortened our journey as also to save chargis. But about midnight the sea began to rise with a stiffe gale wind easterly, soe that we altered our determenation and put downe into the cod of the bay to a place called Meea,[161] where we arived the morrow after nowne, not without much danger, haveing had an extreme gust of wynd, with much lightnyng and thunder, accompanid with rayne, so that it might be accompted a tuffon. One of our barkes which carid our goodes lagged behind, and so got not in the mornyng tide, as we did, soe that she ran a greate risge to have byn cast away by laysynesse of the barkmen. But our bongew, with Goresano jurebasso, behaved them selves so that they got the bark into a creeke (not without much danger, runing over sholes), being assisted with the men and marreners of one of the Emperours barkes, which la endocked in the same creeke.
This night began the feast of the dead, and candels hanged out all night.
August 16.—This mornyng close, overcast wether, with a stiff gale wynd easterly, verying more southerly, with greate store rayne sowne after most parte of the day, but espetially in the after nowne; and towardes night proved a tuffon, very extreme wether, yet dry wether all night following and not much wynd. We could not know this night whether our goodes be much wet or no, the villanous barkmen are occation that we got not all ashore before the tuffon came, as we did out of our barke.
August 17.—We fownd our goodes not so bad wett as we thought, soe, haveing opened the fardelles and new packt them, we got to bed this night to a place called Ocasaqui,[162] it being 7½ leagues. We gave the host at Mia for our diet a bar Oban, with 200 jins to the howse, and spent 400 jins per way.
The ould Emperour was borne in this towne of Ocasaqui, in which place their is a very greate castell.
August 18.—We dyned this day at Yosenda,[163] and paid howse 3 : 0 : 0, and the servantes 100 gins. And we went to bed to Aray.[164]
Here we had news how Calsa Samme hath cut his belly, being attaynted of treason against his father and brother to have destroid them and set up Fidaia Samme, his enemie. It is thought it will goe hard with Masamone Dono, his father-in-law; and speeches are geven out that the Jesuistes and other padres are the fyre brands and setters on of all this, in provoking children against parents and subjects against their naturall princes.