STEPHEN BURROUGH a.d. 



1556. 



and went a shore. At their comming ashore, Gabriel 

 and Keril were at unconvenient words, and by the 

 eares, as I understand : the cause was because the 

 one had better enterteinment then the other : but 

 you shal understand that Gabriel was not able to 

 make his party good, because there were 17 lodias 

 of the Kerils company who tooke his part, and but 

 2 of Gabriels company. 



The next high water Gabriel and his company Twentie eight 

 departed from thence, and rowed to their former Lodias belong- 

 company and neighbours, which were in number 28 . **& oa ' 

 at the least, and all of them belonging to the river 

 Cola. 



And as I understood Keril made reckoning that the 27 

 hawser which was fast in his anker should have bene 

 his owne, and at first would not deliver it to our 

 boat, insomuch that I sent him worde that I would 

 complaine upon him, whereupon he delivered the 

 hawser to my company. 



The next day being Saturday, I sent our boat on 

 shore to fetch fresh water and wood, and at their 

 comming on shore this Keril welcomed our men 

 most gently, and also banketed them : and in the 

 meane time caused some of his men to fill our 

 baricoes with water, and to help our men to beare 

 wood into their boat : and then he put on his best 

 silke coate, and his coller of pearles, and came aboord 

 againe, & brought his present with him : and thus 

 having more respect unto his present then to his 

 person, because I perceived him to be vainglorious, 

 I bade him welcome, and gave him a dish of figs : 

 and then he declared unto me that his father was a 

 gentleman, and that he was able to shew me pleasure, 

 and not Gabriel, who was but a priests sonne. 



After their departure from us we weied, and plyed 28 

 all the ebbe to the windewards, the winde being 

 Northerly, & towards night it waxed very stormie, 

 so that of force we were constrained to go roome 



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