Cruises in the 1500's

At the port of Dickson

Sep 22, 1526

We are getting ready to leave the port of dickson and on our way down the coast to Malacca to get spices in trade for money that we got from dickson. I am leaving with 9 cerw members and 4 passengers that are going to malacca to stay there they are paying me 5 gold coins a peice for making me take them there.

day at sea

Oct 1, 1526

We are an our 5th day of our voyage we have lots of gold that we are going to ues to buy . The weather has been great untill today we are forced to stop sailing and ancore the ship in a nearby coast line and waight out the storm. We have 2 crew members that are sick and will be removed from the boat when we get to malacca

3rd day in Malacca

Oct 4, 1526

It is our in malacca and we are having a gerat time we have recived lots of spices that we are looking forward to use to trade with. I lost a few of my crew memders to death and marrage so I went around and recruted a few strong loyal men that respected me. We hava decided to got to the spice islands but dont knoow withc one yet.

day at sea

Oct 25, 1526

Its been 20 days since we left the beautiful port of malacca with our spices. We our on our way to The Airabu islands also known as part of the spice islands with our spices and jeweles from Malacca and a couple of passengers that taged along with us. they want to get spices from the islands and see if they can get some of the plants that they grow.

Day at sea

Jan 1, 1527

Today is the new year and there have been some rumors that there is going to be an attempt to kill me some thime soon. After I cut rations and kicked a crew member off the ship some of the other crew members didnt really like me kicking there friend off the ship in the middle of the ocean. We have had 4 people died from sicknesses and we are down to 5 members and 1 passenger.

At The Pulua Airabu islands

May 25, 1527

After 7 months at sea we finall arived at the spice islands we are going to go to the Airabu islands first. The island is not what we expected that it would be it is not a "happy" place there are people killing people all over the place and the spices are not what we are looking for. but they do thave great food here it is amazing and there is a bunch of posible crew members that want to join my crew. Ant the reef is amazing it is full of life and color and I am thinking about useing it to trade

Day at sea

Jun 7, 1527

We are leaving The Pulua Airabu Islands and heading to the philippines to see what they have that we can trade for. We got a lot of money for our spices from Malacca. I picked up a bunch of recruits and we are now up to 22 crew members we also got 35 passengers that are going to the philipines. I am charging them 300 gold gold coins.

at sea

Nov 25, 1527

I am writing in the name of the captan I was the co-captan before the captan was killed. We were fed up with the captan and his reduced rations and bringing of "passengers" although they pay, ts dumb. We will be taking all there money and belongings that they brought and kicking them off the ship in the morning.

at the port of sarawak

Nov 26, 1527

We ported at sarawak to kick off some of the crew members that my friends dont like and to recruit some more. We kicked off the "passengers" off this mornong we had to shoot a couple of them cause they werent going.