a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1577 



The 1 5 the Minion came to us, and the next day we 



went a shore with our boats, and tooke but one ounce 



of golde. 



The 1 9 day having set saile we came to an ancre before 



Mozvre. Mowre, and there we tarried two dayes, but tooke not 



an ounce of golde. 



[II. ii. 49.] The 21 we came to an ancre before Don Johns 

 towne. 



The 22 we manned our boats and went to shore, but 

 the Negros would not come at us ; then the Captaine of 

 the Christopher and I tooke a skiffe and eight men with 

 us, and went and talked with the Negros, and they sayd 



The great fa^ t ^ e y WO uld send a man to the great towne, where 



John ° n D° n J on n himselfe lay, to advertise him of our comming. 

 The 23 we went a shore againe, and the Negros tolde 

 us that this day the marchants of Don John would come 

 downe : so we tarried there untill night, and no man 

 would come to us : but divers of the Negros made us 

 signes to depart. 



The 24 the Captaine of the Christopher tooke his boat 

 & went to Mowre, and when he came thither, certaine 

 Negros came to him to know the price of his wares, but 

 in the end there came an Almade, which he judged came 

 from the castle, and caused all the Negros to depart from 

 him : and when he saw they would come no more to 

 him, he went a shore and tooke certaine men with him, 

 and then the Negros cast stones at them, & would not 

 suffer them to come up to their towne. And when they 

 saw that, they tooke certaine of the Almades, and put 

 them to the sea, and afterwards departed. The same 

 morning I went a shore at Don Johns towne, and tooke 

 a white flag with me, but none of the Negros could come 

 to me, which caused us to judge that the Portugals were 

 in the towne. After this, our boat came to us well 

 manned, and I sent one man up to the towne with a 

 white flag in his hand, but when he was come thither, 

 all the Negros went away & would not speake with him. 

 Then I sent one alone into the woods after them, but 



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