brought home 

 by our me?i. 



Robert 

 Gaynsh. 



WILLIAM TOWERSON a.d. 



1557- 



very well received, and the people were very glad of our 

 Negros, specially one of their brothers wives, and one The Negros 

 of their aunts, which received them with much joy, and 

 so did all the rest of the people, as if they had bene 

 their naturall brethren : we comforted the captaine and 

 told him that hee should not feare the Portugals, for wee 

 would defend him from them : whereupon we caused our 

 boats to shoote off their bases and harquebusses, and 

 caused our men to come on shore with their long bowes, 

 and they shot before the captaine, which he, with all the 

 rest of the people, wondred much at, specially to see 

 them shoot so farre as they did, and assaied to draw their 

 bowes but could not. When it grew to be late, we de- 

 parted to our ships, for we looked every houre for the 

 Portugals. * And here the Negros shewed us that there * Note, 

 was an English ship at the Mina, which had brought 

 one of the Negros againe, which Robert Gaynsh tooke 

 away. 



The 1 8 day we went into the river with no lesse 

 strength then before, and concluded with the Negros to 

 give them for every Fuffe two yards and three nailes of 

 Cloth, and to take for it one angel-duckat : so that we 

 tooke in all 70 Duckats, whereof the Frenchmen had 

 fortie, and wee thirtie. 



The nineteenth day wee went a shore every man for 

 himselfe, and tooke a good quantitie of gold, and I for 

 my part tooke foure pound and two ounces and a halfe 

 of gold, and our Hartes boate tooke one and twentie 

 ounces. At night the Negros shewed us that the next 

 day the Portugals would be with us by land or by Sea : 

 and when wee were ready to depart, we heard divers 

 harquebusses shoote off in the woods by us which wee 

 knew to bee Portugals, which durst come no nearer to us, 

 but shot off in the woods to see if they could feare us 

 and so make us to leave our traffique. 



The 20 day we manned our five boats, and also a 

 great boat of the Frenchmens with our men and the 

 Admirals, 12 of them in their murrians and corslets, and 



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