ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1555. 



shoare, with their oares and saile, and wee weyed and 

 ranne along the shoare also : and being thirteene leagues 

 beyond the Cape, the Master perceived a place which he 

 judged to be the river, when wee were in deede two 

 miles shot past it : yet the boate came from the shoare, 

 and they that were in her saide, that there was no river : 

 notwithstanding wee came to an ancker, and the Master 

 and I tooke five men with us in the boat, and when hee 

 came neere the shoare, hee perceived that it was the same 

 river which hee did seeke : so we rowed in, and found 

 the entrance very ill, by reason that the sea goeth so 

 high : and being entred, divers boates came to us, and 

 shewed us that they had Elephants teeth, and they 

 brought us one of about eight pound, & a little one of a 

 pound, which we bought : then they brought certaine 

 teeth to the river side, making signes, that if the next 

 day we would come againe, they would sell us them : so 

 we gave unto two Captaines, to either of them a manillio, 

 and so we departed, and came aboord, and sent out the 

 other boate to another place, where certaine boates that 

 came into the sea, made us signes that there was fresh 



A Towne. water : and being come thither, they found a towne, but 

 no river, yet the people brought them fresh water, and 

 shewed them an Elephants tooth, making signes that the 

 next day they would sel them teeth, and so they came 

 aboord. 



This river lieth by the Carde thirteene leagues from 

 the Cape Das palmas, and there lieth to the Westwards of 

 the same a rocke about a league in the sea, and the river 

 it selfe hath a point of lande comming out into the Sea, 

 whereupon grow five trees, which may well bee discerned 

 two or three leagues off, comming from the Westward, 

 but the river cannot bee perceived untill such time as a 

 man be hard by it, and then a man may perceive a litle 

 Towne on ech side the river, and to ech Towne there 

 belongeth a Captaine. The river is but small, but the 

 water is good and fresh. 



Two miles beyond the river, where the other towne is, 



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