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but the forepart of the shoare, which is white like 

 chalke or sand, and very deepe unto the hard shoare : 

 there immediatly we began to fish, and found great 

 store of a kinde of fish which the Portugals commonly 

 fish for upon that coast, which they cal Pergosses, the 

 Frenchmen call them Saders, and our men salt-water 

 breames. Before the clearing up of the fogge, the 

 shippe which we followed shaped us such a course that 

 we could see her no more, by reason of our shooting 

 ofF to finde the Hinde againe. This part of the coast 

 of Barbary, by our Pilots reckoning, is about 16. leagues 

 River del Oro. to the Eastwards of the river del Oro. 



The 13. day in the afternoone wee spyed a saile 

 comming towards us, which wee judged to be the saile 

 that wee sawe the day before, and as soone as we 

 spied him, wee caused the Hinde to way her ancre and 

 to goe towardes him, and manned out our SkifFe in 

 like case to lay him aboorde, or to discerne what hee 

 was, and wee our selves within halfe an houre after 

 wayed also : but after the saile had espied us, hee kept 

 about, and turned backe againe, and shortly after there 

 fell such another fogge, that wee coulde not see him : 

 which fogges continued all that night, so that we were 

 constrained to leave the chase. This afternoone the 

 winde came about, and wee went our course Southwest 

 and by West, to goe cleare off the coast, wee ranne 

 that night sixteene leagues. 



The foureteenth day in the morning was very foggie : 

 but about twelve a clocke wee espied a Carvell of 60. 

 tunne which was fishing, and we sent our SkifFe to him 

 with five men, and all without any weapon saving 

 their Oares. The Carvell for haste let slippe her ancre, 

 and set saile ; and they seeing that, fearing that they 

 should not fetch her, would tary for no weapons, and 

 A Carvell in the ende overtooke the Carvell, and made her to 

 taken. strike saile, and brought her away, although they had 



foureteene or fifteene men aboord, & every man his 

 weapon, but they had not the hearts to resist our men. 



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