LAURENCE MADOC 



A.D. 



I 594- 



barks within the river to such places, where as they have 

 great store of golde. And in all these places hereabouts, A ruh tra / e 

 where we use to trade, they have no Fort, Castle, or ftf **? 

 place of strength, but onely trading by the Negros safe- 

 conduct and permission. And the most part of the 

 Spaniards and Portugals that be resident in these places 

 be banished men or fugitives, for committing most 

 hainous crimes and incestuous acts, their life & conversa- 

 tion being agreeable ; and they are of the basest behaviour 

 that we have ever seene of these nations in any other 

 countrey. 



A bricfe relation concerning the estate of the 

 cities and provinces of Tombuto and Gago 

 written in Marocco the first of August 1594, 

 and sent to M. Anthony Dassel marchant of 

 London. 



Y hearty commendations premised : your 

 letter of late I received, and found that 

 you would have me discover unto you 

 the estate & quality of the countreyes 

 of Tombuto and Gago. And that you 

 may not thinke me to slumber in this 

 action, wherin you would be truely and 

 perfectly resolved, you shall understand, that not ten 

 dayes past here came a Cahaia of the Andoluzes home 

 from Gago, and another principall Moore, whom the 

 king sent thither at the first with Alcaide Hamode, and 

 they brought with them thirty mules laden with gold. 

 I saw the same come into the Alcasava with mine owne 

 eies : and these men themselves came not poore, but with 

 such wealth, that they came away without the kings 

 commandement : and for that cause the king will pay 

 them no wages for the time they have beene there. On 

 the other side they dare not aske the king for any wages. 

 And when Alcaide Hamode saw that the Cahaia of the 

 Andoluzes would not stay in Gago with him, he thought 



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