ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1556. 



The land here is in some places low and in some 

 high, and full of wood altogether. 



The towne of Don John is but litle, of about 

 twentie houses, and the most part of the towne is 

 walled in with a wall of a mans height, made with 

 reede or sedge, or some such thing. Here we staied 

 two or three houres after we had ankered, to see if any 

 man would come unto us : and seeing that none did 

 come, we manned our boates and put in marchandize, 

 and went and ankered with our boates neere to the 

 shoare : then they sent out a man to us who made us 

 signes that that was the towne of Don John, and that 

 he himselfe was in the Countrey, and would be at home 

 at the going downe of the Sunne, and when he had 

 done, he required a reward, as the most part of them 

 will doe which come first aboord, and I gave him one 

 ell of cloth and he departed, and that night we heard 

 no more of him. 



The ninth day in the morning we went againe with 

 our boates to the shoare, and there came foorth a boate 

 to us, who made signes that Don John was not come 

 home, but would be at home this day : and to that 

 place also came another boate from the other towne a 

 mile from this, which is called Don Devis, and brought 

 with him gold to shew us, making signes that we should 

 come thither. I then left in this place John Savill, and 

 John Makeworth, and tooke the Hinde, and went to 

 the other towne and there ankered, and tooke cloth and 

 went to shore with the boate, and by and by the boates 

 came to us and brought a measure of foure yards long 

 & a halfe, and shewed us a weight of an angell and 

 twelve graines, which they would give for so much, and 

 not otherwise : so I staied and made no bargaine. And 

 [II. ii. 33.] all this day the barke lay at Don Johns towne, and did 

 nothing, having answere that he was not come home. 



The tenth day we went againe to the shoare, and 

 there came out a boat with good store of gold, and 

 having driven the matter off a long time, and having 



