I lent the China Capt., Andrea Dittis, fyve silk keremons with silk watta, of them geven me at Japon Cort. The occation he borrowed them is for that he sendes his doughter to Langasaque to be betrothed to Goquans son, and geves her 50 keremons, with other matters amounting to above 300 tais, as China manor is.
Aprill 1.—Skiemon Dono took the bar plate that should have gone to cabokes (or dansing beares), being 4 ta. 3 m., and sent them but 3 tais small plate. Soe he kept 2 tais wanting 4 condrins to hym selfe. Which coming to my knowledg, I caused restetution.
There was 2 tais small plate with 6 cattis gunpolder geven to two Chinas for making fireworkes.
We bought 1484 fagottes of wood, every faggot being ½ a tatta in the band, and 20 fagg. for a mas.
Aprill 2.—Our host of the China howse at Langasaque came to vizet me, and brought me a present of a live phaisant cock and 10 loves of bread.
The China Capt. Whow wrot me he understood our junckes were arived at Goto, wherin Capt. Adames and
others went; but that is a tale, etc. Also here is speeches that Shongo Samme, themperour of Japon, is dead; but this is Japon newes, etc.
Aprill 3.—I rec. a letter from Ed. Sayer, dated at Narra in Goto, the 25th ultimo, how they put in there with the junk the 18th ditto, and, the grownd being bad, were driven upon the rockes, lost their ruther, and split the sterne post it was hanged at, and were in danger to have lost all; yet, per the pleasure of God, got her affe, recoverd the rother, and mended that which was amis, and put to sea againe the 26th ultimo.
He writes me that another junk of Shiquan, a China, bownd for Manillas, put into an other roade of Gota, and was driven agrownd, yet saved in the end, and hope to goe on their voyage.
He also wrot how all the junkes which put out of Langasaque of late, with the 2 went out of Firando, are all driven ether into Goto or Xaxma. God send them a good voyage.