SIR JOHN HAWKINS a.d. 



1564. 



finde their townes, and also not knowing how to goe 



into Rio grande, for want of a Pilote, which was the Rio gi-ande, 



very occasion of our comming thither: and finding so 



many sholes, feared with our great ships to goe in, 



and therefore departed on our pretended way to the 



Idols. The Idols. 



The 10 of December, we had a Northeast winde, 



with raine and storme, which weather continuing two 



dayes together, was the occasion that the Salomon, 



and Tygre loste our companie : for whereas the Jesus, 



and pinnesse ankered at one of the Islands called Sambula, The Island 



the twelfth day, the Salomon and Tygre came not ^„ 7 , 

 1-1 -n 1 T 1 • T 1 J 1 • Sambula. 



tnither till the 14. In this Island we stayed certaine The Samboses. 



daies, going every day on shore to take the Inhabitants, 

 with burning and spoiling their townes, who before 

 were Sapies, and were conquered by the Samboses, Sapies. 

 Inhabitants beyond Sierra Leona. These Samboses had 

 inhabited there three yeres before our comming thither, 

 and in so short space have so planted the ground, 

 that they had great plentie of Mil, Rise, Rootes, 

 Pompions, Pullin, goates, of small frye dried, every 

 house full of the Countrey fruite planted by Gods 

 providence, as Palmito trees, fruites like dates, and 

 sundry other in no place in all that Countrey so 

 aboundantly, whereby they lived more deliciously then 

 other. These inhabitants have diverse of the Sapies, 

 which they tooke in the warres as their slaves, whome 

 onely they kept to till the ground, in that they neither 

 have the knowledge thereof, nor yet will worke them- 

 selves, of whome wee tooke many in that place, but 

 of the Samboses none at all, for they fled into the maine. 

 All the Samboses have white teeth as we have, farre 

 unlike to the Sapies which doe inhabite about Rio 

 grande, for their teeth are all filed, which they doe 

 for a braverie, to set out themselves, and doe jagge 

 their flesh, both legges, armes, and bodies, as worke- 

 manlike, as a Jerkinmaker with us pinketh a jerkin. 

 These Sapies be more civill then the Samboses: for 

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