WILLIAM RUTTER ad. 



1562. 

 should tary by us eight dayes, and suffer us quietly to 

 traffike, wherewith they were not well pleased. Where- 

 upon the next morning they departed from us, sailing 

 alongst the coast to the Eastward towards Potis, which he 

 did to hinder our traffike that way : wherefore the 

 marchants of the Minion & we concluded (forasmuch as 

 at that present we understood that there were no sailes 

 past alongst) that we should go before, to the end we 

 might not be hindred of our traffike by the Frenchmen ; 

 which thing we did : and at our comming thither we 

 found the Frenchman in traffike to the West of Potis, by 

 whom we passed, & arrived at Rio de Potis the 1 2 of Rio de Potis. 

 April, where we remained in traffike untill the 1 5 of the 

 sayd moneth, and then departed from thence along the 

 coast toward Sant Andre, where we appointed by agree- Rio de S. 

 ment to tary for the Minion: and the 17 at night we Andre - 

 came to the river of S. Andre ; in which very day the 

 Minion came unto us, telling us that they met at cavo das Cavo d as 

 Palmas a great ship and a carvell of the king of Portugals P almas - 

 bound to the Mina, who gave chase unto them, and shot 

 freely at them, and the Minion in her defence returned 

 her the like : but God be praised the Minion had no 

 hurt for that time. In the end we concluded to hasten 

 towards cavo de tres puntas to have put them from the Cam de tres 

 castle, if by any meanes wee might ; and when wee P untas - 

 were come to the Cape, we lay a hull one night and 

 two dayes, and doubting they had bene past, the Minion 

 went neere the shore, and sent her merchants to a place 

 called Anta, where beforetime we had traffike, and the Anta. 

 next morning very early being the 2 1 of the sayd moneth, 

 we againe had sight of the ship and the caravell a good 

 way to sea-boord of us. Then we presently set saile, 

 and bare with the formost of them, hoping to have got 

 betweene the castle and them, but we came short of our 

 purpose, which was no small griefe unto us all ; and when 

 they had gotten the castle to friend, they shot at us freely, 

 and we at them, and the castle at us ; but we profited 

 litle. In the afternoone we set saile & came to the town 



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