Caravan, Saffian, Shmatte, Aquavitae & Braga (c. 1560)

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EARLY VOYAGES AND TRAVELS TO RUSSIA AND PERSIA
BY ANTHONY JENKINSON AND OTHER ENGLISHMEN
edited by E. Delmar Morgan and C. H. Coote
London: Hakluyt Society, 1886
New York: Burt Franklin, Publisher 1967 (? on Bobcat--ed.)

   OED cites this material for "maelstrom," "invoice," and "turban."  "Maelstrom" went from "c1560" and "1589" to "a1589."  Most of the material here is "c1560."
   There's a nice "marchpane" here, but I mistakenly though OED had much earlier.

THE TRAVELS OF ANTHONY JENKINSON.
(From Nov. 1553--ed.)

Pg. 38 (Footnote, of possible F. Shapiro interest):  In England, women were also barbarously treated, if we may believe an old distich:
   "A wife, a spaniel, a walnut-tree,
    The more you beat them the better they be."

Pg. 39:  They vse sadles made of wood and sinewes, with the tree gilded wt damaske work, and the seate couered with cloth, sometimes of golde, and the rest _Saphia_* leather, well stiched.
*_Saphian_ (pronounced _Saffian_), Russian for leather made from goatskin.
(OED has 1591--ed.)

Pg. 59:  ..._Shamackie_*
*The silk of Shemakha (see p. 131) was at one time considered the best in Persia, and its manufacture was the chief occupation of the inhabitants.  But the miserable state of the country, owing to wars, interfered with the silk industry, and closed many of the factories.--Semconof, art. "Shemakha."
(Related to "Shmatte," Yiddish for "rags"?--ed.)

Pp. 76-77:  ..._Carauan_...
(Cited four times on these two pages.  OED has 1599 from HAKLUYT VOY.??--ed.)

Pg. 83:  ...authoritie to goe into any mans house, to searche if hee haue either _Aquauita_, wine, or brage...
(OED has only "braga-beaker--ed.)