SIR JOHN HAWKINS ad. 



1564. 

 and other necessaries: and the 29 wee came to Cape Cape Verde 

 Verde, which lieth in 14 degrees, and a halfe. These '^n n^ degrees. 

 people are all blacke, and are called Negros, without 

 any apparell, saving before their privities : of stature 

 goodly men, and well liking by reason of their food, 

 which passeth all other Guyneans for kine, goats, pullin, 

 rise, fruits, and fish. Here wee tooke fishes with heads 

 like conies, and teeth nothing varying, of a jolly 

 thickenesse, but not past a foote long, and is not to 

 be eaten without flaying or cutting off his head. To 

 speake somewhat of the sundry sortes of these Guyneans : 

 the people of Cape Verde are called Leophares, and Leophares. 

 counted the goodliest men of all other, saving the 

 Congoes, which do inhabite on this side the cape de 

 Buena Esperan^a. These Leophares have warres against 

 the lelofFes, which are borderers by them : their weapons leloffes. 

 are bowes and arrowes, targets, and short daggers, 

 darts also, but varying from other Negros : for whereas 

 the other use a long dart to fight with in their hands, 

 they cary five or sixe small ones a peece, which they 

 cast with. These men also are more civill then any 

 other, because of their dayly trafficke with the French- The trafficke 

 men, and are of nature very gentle and loving: : for ^ French 

 while we were there, we tooke m a l^renchman, who y^^^^ 

 was one of the 19 that going to Brasile, in a Barke 

 of Diepe, of 60 tunnes, and being a sea boord of 

 Cape Verde, 200 leagues, the plankes of their Barke 

 with a sea brake out upon them so suddenly, that 

 much a doe they had to save themselves in their boats : 

 but by Gods providence, the wind being Westerly, 

 which is rarely seene there, they got to the shore, to 

 the Isle Brava, and in great penurie gotte to Cape 

 Verde, where they remained sixe weekes, and had meate 

 and drinke of the same people. The said Frenchman 

 having forsaken his fellowes, which were three leagues 

 off from the shore, and wandring with the Negros 

 too and fro, fortuned to come to the waters side : and 

 communing with certaine of his countreymen, which were 



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