A.D. 



1564. 



The Samboses 

 man-eaters. 



The Sapies 

 burie their 

 dead with 

 gslde. 



The Canoas 

 of Affrica. 



The forme of 

 their townes. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



whereas the Samboses live most by the spoile of their 

 enemies, both in taking their victuals, and eating them 

 also. The Sapies doe not eate mans flesh, unlesse in the 

 warre they be driven by necessitie thereunto, which 

 they have not used but by the example of the Samboses, 

 but live onely with fruites, and cattell, whereof they 

 have great store. This plentie is the occasion that the 

 Sapies desire not warre, except they be therunto 

 provoked by the invasions of the Samboses, whereas 

 the Samboses for want of foode are inforced thereunto, 

 and therefore are not woont onely to take them that 

 they kill, but also keepe those that they take, untill 

 such time as they want meate, and then they kill them. 

 There is also another occasion that provoketh the 

 Samboses to warre against the Sapies which is for covet- 

 ousnes of their riches. For whereas the Sapies have 

 an order to burie their dead in certaine places appointed 

 for that purpose, with their golde about them, the 

 Samboses digge up the ground, to have the same treasure: 

 for the Samboses have not the like store of golde, that 

 the Sapies have. In this Island of Sambula we found 

 about 50 boates called Almadyes, or Canoas, which are 

 made of one peece of wood, digged out like a trough 

 but of a good proportion, being about 8 yards long, and 

 one in breadth, having a beakhead and a sterne very 

 proportionably made, and on the out side artifically 

 carved, and painted red and blewe : they are able to 

 cary twenty or thirty men, but they are about the 

 coast able to cary threescore and upward. In these 

 canoas they rowe standing upright, with an oare some- 

 what longer then a man, the ende whereof is made about 

 the breadth and length of a mans hand, of the largest 

 sort. They row very swift, and in some of them foure 

 rowers and one to steere make as much way, as a 

 paire of oares in the Thames of London. 



Their Townes are pretily divided with a maine streete 

 at the entring in, that goeth thorough their Towne, 

 and another overthwart street, which maketh their townes 



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