 In this town are merchants of all Nations and many Moors and Gentiles. Here is very great trade of all sorts of spices, drugs, silk, cloth of silk, fine tapestry of Persia*, great store of pearls, which come from the Isle of Baharim and are the best pearls...  Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society - Page 941863Full view - About this book
 | Henry Swainson Cowper - 1894 - 518 pages
...describes it as the " driest island in the world " ; and tells us that there is a Portuguese castle, wherein "there is a captain for the King of Portugal,...part remain in the castle, and some in the town." There is also " a very great trade in all sorts of spices, drugs, silk, cloth of silk, fine tapestry... | |
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