WILLIAM TOWERSON a.d. 



1577- 



were of very high rocks, being full of divers sorts of 



sea-foule, and of pigeons, with other sorts of land- 



foules, and so many, that the whole Hand was covered 



with the dung thereof, and seemed so white as if the 



whole Hand had bene of chalke ; and within those 



Hands was a very faire bay, and hard aboord the rocks 



eighteene fadom water, and faire ground. And when A S reai trade 



we perceived the bay, and understanding: that the °f theFr ™ ch - 

 -r^ i 11 ji 1 • i men at Cape 



frenchmen had a great trade there, which we were ver d e . 



desirous to know, we came to an ancre with the Tyger. 



And after that the Minion and the Christopher ancred 



in like case : then we caused the pinnesse to runne 



beyond another Cape of land, to see if there were any 



place to trade in there. 



It being neere night I tooke our cocke and the 

 Tygers skiffe, and went to the Hand, where we got 

 certaine foules like unto Gannards : and then I came 

 aboord againe and tooke two of the Gannards which 

 we had taken, and caried them to the captaine of the 

 Christopher, and when I had talked with him, I found 

 him not willing to tary there, neither was I desirous to 

 spend any long time there, but onely to attempt what 

 was to be done. The Master of the Christopher tolde 

 me he would not tary, being not bound for that place. 



The 27 the Captaine of the Tyger and Edward 

 Selman came to me, and John Makeworth from the 

 Christopher, and then we agreed to take the pinnesse, 

 & to come along the shore, because that where we 

 rid no Negros came to us, and the night before our 

 pinnesse brought us word that there was a very faire 4 faire Hand 

 Iland. And when I came beyond the point I found it ™ here the 

 so, and withall a goodly bay, and we saw upon the maine 

 certaine Negros which waved us on shore, and then we 

 came to an ancre with the pinnesse, and went a shore with 

 our cocke, and they shewed us where their trade was, 

 and that they had Elephants teeth, muske, & hides, and Elephants 

 offered us to fetch downe their Captaine, if we would *"j 7 h "™ ke 

 send a man with them, and they would leave a pledge for 



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