WILLIAM TOWERSON ad. 



1555. 

 that we were not able to runne above sixe leagues : and 

 this day there came some Negroes to us, as there had 

 done other times. 



The 22. wee ranne all day and night to double a The point oj 

 point, called Das palmas, and ranne sixteene leagues. Palmas. 



The 23. day about 3. of the clocke we were thwart of 

 the point, & before we came to the Westermost part of it, 

 we saw a great ledge of rocks, which lie West from the 

 Cape about 3. leagues and a league or more from the 

 land. Shortly after we had sight of the Eastermost part 

 of the Cape, which lieth 4. leagues from the Westermost 

 part, and upon the very corner thereof lie two greene 

 places, as it were closes, and to the Westwards of the 

 Cape the land parted from the Cape, as it were a Bay, 

 whereby it may well be knowen. Foure leagues more 

 beyonde that there lieth a head-land in the sea, and about 

 two leagues beyond the head-land there goeth in a great 

 Bay, as it were a river, before which place we ankered all 

 that night, which wee did, least in the night wee should 

 overrunne a river, where the *last yeere they had all * 'That was 

 their Elephants teeth. ^^1554. 



This Cape Das palmas lieth under foure degrees and a 

 halfe, and betwixt the said Cape, and the river de Sestos 

 is the greatest store of Graines to be had, and being past 

 the said Cape, there is no great store else where. 



Where we ankered this night, we found that the tide, The tides 

 which before ran alwayes to the Westward, from this ™ nmn g 

 Cape runneth all to the Eastward : this day we ranne rjj n 2 gn 

 some 16. leagues. 



The 24. day running our course, about eight of the 

 clock there came forth to us certaine boats, which brought 

 with them small egges, which were soft without shels, 

 and they made us signes, that there was within the land 

 fresh water, and Goates : and the Master thinking that it 

 was the river which we sought, cast ancker and sent the 

 boate on shoare, with one that knew the river, and 

 comming neere the shoare, hee perceived that it was not 

 the river, and so came backe againe, and went along the 



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