WILLIAM TOWERSON a.d. 



1556. 



From these two hils aforesaid, about two leagues to 

 the Eastward, lie out into the Sea almost two miles 

 a ledge of rockes, and beyond that a great Bay, which 

 runneth into the North Northwestward, and the land 

 in this place lieth North Northeast along the shoare : 

 but the uttermost point of land in that place that we [II. ii. 30.] 

 could see, lay Northeast, and by East from us. 



After that we were with a small gale of winde runne 

 past that uttermost head-land, we sawe a great red cliffe, 

 which the Master againe judged to be the towne of S. 

 Johns, and then wee tooke our boate with marchandize, 

 and went thither, and when we came thither, we per- 

 ceived that there was a towne upon the toppe of the 

 hill, and so wee went toward it, and when we were hard 

 by it, the people of the towne came together a great 

 sort of them, and waved us to come in, with a peece 

 of cloth, and so we went into a very faire Bay, which 

 lieth to the Eastward of the cliffe, whereupon the towne 

 standeth, and being within the cliffe, wee let fall our 

 grapnell, and after that we had taried there a good 

 space, they sent a boate aboord of us, to shewe us that 

 they had golde, and they shewed us a peece about halfe 

 a crowne weight, and required to know our measure, 

 & our weight, that they might shewe their Captaine 

 thereof: and wee gave them a measure of two elles, and 

 a waight of two Angels to shew unto him, which they 

 tooke, and went on shoare, and shewed it unto their 

 Captaine, and then they brought us a measure of two 

 elles, one quarter and a halfe, and one Crusado-weight 

 of gold, making us signes that so much they would give 

 for the like measure, and lesse they would not have. 

 After this, we taried there about an houre, and when 

 we sawe that they would doe no otherwise, and withall 

 understood, that all the best places were before us, wee 

 departed to our shippes and wayed, and ranne along the 

 shoare, and went before with our boate, and having sailed 

 about a league, we came to a point where there lay foorth 

 a ledge of rockes, like to the others before spoken of, 



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