a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1555. 



come to Cape Trepointes, the land riseth still higher and 



higher, untill you come to Cape Trepointes, Also before 



you come to the said Cape, after other 5 leagues to the 



Northwest part of it, there is certaine broken ground, 



with two great rockes, and within them in the bight of a 



The castle of Da y } is a castle called Arra, perteining to the king of 



Portugall. You shall know it by the said rockes that lie 



off it : for there is none such from Cape de las Palmas to 



Cape Trepointes. This coast lieth East and by North, 



West and by South. From Cape de las Palmas to the 



said castle is fourescore and fifteene leagues. And the 



coast lieth from the said castle to the Westermost point 



of Trepoyntes, Southeast and by South, Northwest and 



by North. Also the Westermost point of Trepoyntes 



is a low lande, lying halfe a mile out in the sea : and 



[II. ii. 17.] upon the innermost necke, to the land-ward, is a tuft 



of trees, and there we arrived the eleventh day of 



January. 



The towne of The 1 2 day of January we came to a towne called 



Samma. Samma or Samva, being 8 leagues from Cape Trepointes 



toward Eastnortheast. Betweene Cape Trepointes and 



the towne of Samva is a great ledge of rockes a great 



way out in the sea. We continued foure dayes at that 



Towne, and the Captaine thereof would needs have a 



The pledge pledge a shore. But when they received the pledge, 



ms sir John they j ce p t hi m st ij^ an j WO uld traffike no more, but 



Nephew snot °^ tne ^ r ordinance at us. They have two or three 



pieces of ordinance and no more. 



The sixteenth day of the said month we made reckon- 



Cape Corea. ing to come to a place called Cape Corea, where captaine 



Don John dwelleth, whose men entertained us friendly. 



The castle of This Cape Corea is foure leagues Eastwarde of the castle 



Mina pertein- f ]y[ ma) otherwise called La mina, or Castello de mina, 



ingto t e ing ^^g we arr i ve d the 1 8 day of the moneth. Here we 

 oj Portugall. J 



made sale or all our cloth, saving two or three packes. 



The 26 day of the same moneth we weighed anker, 



and departed from thence to the Trinitie, which was 



seven leagues Eastward of us, where she solde her wares. 



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