WILLIAM TOWERSON a.d. 



1556. 

 boate, but they would not give us one of theirs, so we 

 tooke our man againe, and there tarried for the mar- 

 chants : and shortly after one came downe arrayed like 

 their Captaine with a great traine after him, who saluted 

 us friendly, and one of the chiefest of them went and sate 

 downe under a tree, where the last yere the Captaine was 

 wont to sit : and at last we perceived a great many of 

 them to stand at the ende of a hollow way, and behinde 

 them the Portugales had planted a base, who suddenly 

 shotte at us but overshot us, and yet we were in a 

 manner hard by them, and they shot at us againe before 

 we could ship our oares to get away but did no hurt. 

 Then the Negroes came to the rocks hard by us, and 

 discharged calievers at us, and againe the Portugales shot 

 off their base twise more, and then our ship shot at them, 

 but the rockes and hilles defended them. 



Then we went aboord to goe from this place, seeing Master Robert 

 the Negroes bent against us, because that the last yeere Gainshe * v °y- 

 M. Gainsh did take away the Captaines sonne and three ^ e an ° no ^f* 

 others from this place with their golde, and all that they 

 had about them : which was the cause that they became 

 friends with the Portugales, whom before they hated, as 

 did appeare the last yeere by the courteous intertainement 

 which the Trinitie had there, when the Captaine came The English 

 aboord the shippe, and brought them, to his towne, were offered to 

 and offered them ground to build a Castle in, and there m n f towne 

 they had good sales. 



The 14 day we wayed and plyed backe againe to seeke 

 the Hinde, which in the morning we met, and so we 

 turned both backe to the Eastwardes to see what we could 

 doe at that place where the Trinitie did sell her eight 

 frises the last yeere. The Hinde had taken eighteene 

 ounces and a halfe more of golde of other Negroes, 

 the day after that we left them. This day about one of 

 the clocke we espied certaine boates upon the sand and 

 men by them and went to them with marchandizes, 

 and tooke three ounces of gold for 18 fuffs of cloth, 

 every fuffe three yards and a halfe after one angell and 1 2 



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