ABSTRACT
Any captain along the coast may in a little space join two hundred, three hundred, even to a thousand ships, if he stand in need of them for to fight. And there is no small town along the river that is not plentiful in small and great ships. Along the city of Cantam, is so great a multitude of ships that it is a wonderful thing to see them; and that which is most to wonder is that the multitude never decreaseth nor faileth almost all the year, as many do come in again. And that which showeth much the nobleness of the country, is, that all the ships bringing great store of merchandise of cloths, silks, provisions and other goods, some do go into the land, others come from within the land, and nothing cometh from without China, neither goeth out of it.
