A.D. 



1555- 



Diago the 

 name of a 

 Captaine. 



The latitude 

 ofS. Vincent 

 river is 4. 

 degrees and a 

 halfe. 



Leaves of ex- 

 ceeding length. 



Long pease 

 stalkes. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Captaine sent for us, I required the Master to goe on 

 shoare, and sent the rest of our Marchants with him, 

 and taried aboord my selfe by reason that the last day he 

 esteemed our things so litle : so when the Master and the 

 rest came into the river, the captaine with divers others 

 came to them, and brought Graines with them, & after 

 that he saw that I was not there, he made signes to know 

 where I was, and they made signes to him againe that 

 I was in the ships : and then hee made signes to know 

 who was Captaine by the name of Diago, for so they call 

 their Captaine, & they pointed to the master of the ship : 

 then he began to shew his Graines, but he held them 

 so unreasonably, that there was no profit to be made of 

 them : which things the Master perceiving, and seeing 

 that they had no store of Graines, came away, and tooke 

 not above 50. pound waight of Graines. Then he went 

 a shoare to the litle Towne where we were the day before, 

 & one of them plucked a Gourd, wherewith the Negroes 

 were offended, & came many of them to our men with 

 their darts and great targets, and made signes to them 

 to depart : which our men did, having but one bow and 

 two or three swords, and went aboord the boate and 

 came away from them : and assoone as they were come 

 aboord we wayed and set saile, but the winde was off the 

 Sea, so that we could not get out cleare of certaine rocks, 

 and therefore we came to an ancre againe. 



This river is called River S. Vincent, standing in 4. 

 degrees and a halfe, and it ebbeth and floweth there 

 every 12. houres, but not much water when it ebbeth 

 the most : while wee were there, it ebbed one fadome and 

 a halfe water. 



This countrey as farre as we could perceive is alto- 

 gether woody, and al strange trees, whereof wee knewe 

 none, and they were of many sorts, with great leaves like 

 great dockes, which bee higher then any man is able to 

 reach the top of them. 



There are certaine peason by the Sea side, which grow 

 upon great and very long stalkes, one of the stalkes I 



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