WILLIAM TOWERSON a.d. 



1556. 



brought the measure to a nayle lesse then three elles, 

 and their weight to an angell and twentie graines, and 

 could not bring them to more, I did conclude with them 

 and solde, and within one quarter of an houre I tooke 

 one pound and a quarter of an ounce of golde : and 

 then they made me signes to tary, till they had parted 

 their cloth upon the shoare as their manner is, and they 

 would come againe, and so they went away, and layde 

 the cloth all abroad upon the sande peece by peece, and 

 by and by one came running downe from the towne to 

 them, and spake unto them, and foorthwith every man 

 made as much haste as he could away, and went into 

 the woods to hide his golde and his cloth : we mis- 

 trusted some knavery, and being waved by them to 

 come a shoare, yet we would not, but went aboorde the 

 Hinde, and perceived upon the hill 30 men which we 

 judged to be Portugals : and they went up to the toppe of 

 the hill and there mustered and shewed themselves, having 

 a flagge with them. Then I being desirous to knowe 

 what the Hart did, tooke the Hindes boate and went 

 towards her, and when I came neere to them they 

 shot off two pieces of ordinance which I marveiled at : 

 I made as much haste as I could to her, and met her 

 boate and skiffe comming from the shoare in all haste, 

 and we met aboord together. They shewed me that 

 they had beene a shoare all that day, and had given 

 to the two sonnes of Don John, to either of them 

 three yardes and a halfe of cloth, and three basons 

 betwixt them, and had delivered him 3 yards of cloth 

 more and the weight of an angell and 12 graines, and 

 being on land did tarie for his answere, and in the 

 meane time the Portugals came running from the hill The Portu- 



upon them, whereof the Negroes a litle before had given g * vjTL. 

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them warning, and bad them to go away but they per- i„ va ded our 



ceived it not. The sonne of Don John conspired with men. 



the Portugales against them, so that they were almost 



upon them, but yet they recovered their boate and set 



off from the shoare, and the Portugales shot their 



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