1590 boat story

look, we can get jobs as deck washers on the voyage to Goa India! we will be deck washers, givin our position.

how much would we make? im done living this fishing life!

1000 Reis per month, but we don't get food. that's only for the higher ups.

I'll have to convince my parents, I know my brothers won't want to go.

William told me that there is some jobs open on a ship for a voyage to Goa, India. please let me go!

I don't think that's a good idea, what about the famines and sicknesses aboard that ship?

your mothers right, besides we need you here to fish.

How much money? What would you even use it for? And what boat will you be aboard? What would your position even be?

Please! it will bring in more money.

And what about how long you'll be gone?

i will travel on the Armadas de India ships. I will most likely be a deck washer, it will take us 316 days. as we have to detour around the southern tip of India.

i will be making around 1000 Reis per month. with that money, i will bring it back and help our family with our fishing business father and mother.

i cant get any other job on the ship, as we are just peasents. no peasent can be a captin, Able marniner,or a master aboard a shipso great.

What will this ship even be taking to India? How many other people will there be? And what about all the hazards the ship will face?

The ship will be taking tomatoes, potatoes, and chilies. We want to establish a monopoly over the spice trade. around 1,500 people on the ships. the hazards are famines, storms on the ocean.

And what belongings do you need to take with you?

I will only take a set of clothes and that's all.

The ships will bring back pepper and other fancy spices from India. I will get to see the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Arabia, Africa, Madagascar, and other places on the ships!

But I will need to leave with William tomorrow, the ships need people to help prepare them for the voyage.

I only have two conditions. You have to write to us, every month you're gone. And that when you come back, I want some Indian silk to make a new dress.

I agree to that! I will leave tomorrow with William.