ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1556. 



nether would hee suffer the towne to buy any thing, 

 but the basons of brasse : so that wee solde that day 74. 

 basons unto the men of the towne, for about halfe an 

 Angel weight, one with another, and nine white basons, 

 which we solde for a quarter of an Angell a peece, or 

 thereabouts. 



We shewed them all our other things which we had, 

 but they did not esteeme them. 



About two of the clocke, the Captaine who did depart 

 in the morning from us, came againe, and brought with 

 him to present mee withall, a henne, and two great 

 rootes, which I received, and after made me signes that 

 the countrey would come to his towne that night, and 

 bring great store of gold, which in deed about 4. of the 

 clocke they did: for there came about 100. men under 

 3. Captaines, well appointed with their darts and bowes, 

 and when they came to us, every man sticked downe 

 his dart upon the shoare, and the Captaines had stooles 

 brought them, and they sate downe, and sent a young 

 man aboord of us, which brought a measure with him 

 of an ell, and one fourth part, and one sixteenth part, 

 and he would have that foure times for a waight of 

 one Angell and twelve graines : I offered him two elles, 

 as I had done before for two Angels weight, which he 

 esteemed nothing, but still stucke at his foure measures 

 aforesaid : yet in the ende, when it grew very late, and 

 I made him signes that I would depart, he came to foure 

 elles for the weight abovesaid, and otherwise he would 

 not deale, and so we departed. This day we tooke for 

 basons sixe ounces and a halfe and one eight part. 



The sixt day in the morning we manned our boates 

 and the skiffe well, for feare of the Portugals which 

 the last yeere had taken away a man from the other ships, 

 and went on shoare, and landed, because they had no 

 boates to come to us, and so the young man which was 

 with us the night before was sent aboord, who seemed 

 to have dealt and bargained before with the Portugals for 

 he could speake a litle Portuguise, and was perfect in 



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