JAMES WELSH ad. 



1589. 

 Manillios or bracelets of copper, glasse beades, and 

 corrall. 



The commodities that we brought home were pepper 

 and Elephants teeth, oyle of palme, cloth made of 

 Cotton wooll very curiously woven, and cloth made of 

 the barke of palme trees. Their money is pretie white [II. ii. 129.] 

 shels, for golde and silver we saw none. They have 

 also great store of cotton growing : their bread is a kind 

 of roots, they call it Inamia, and when it is well sodden Inamia,akind 

 I would leave our bread to eat of it, it is pleasant in °f br f adm 

 eating, and light of digestion, the roote thereof is as 

 bigge as a mans arme. Our men upon fish-dayes had 

 rather eate the rootes with oyle and vineger, then to 

 eate good stockfish. There are great store of palme 

 trees, out of the which they gather great store of wine, Wine °f polm 

 which wine is white and very pleasant, & we should buy irees ' 

 two gallons of it for 20 shels. They have good store 

 of sope, and it smelleth like beaten violets. Also many 

 pretie fine mats and baskets that they make, and spoones 

 of Elephants teeth very curiously wrought with divers 

 proportions of foules and beasts made upon them. There 

 is upon the coast wonderfull great lightning and thunder, 

 in so much as I never hard the like in no Countrey, 

 for it would make the decke or hatches tremble under 

 our feete, and before we were well acquainted with it, we 

 were fearefull, but God be thanked we had no harme. 

 The people are very gentle and loving, and they goe 

 naked both men and women untill they be married, and 

 then they goe covered from the middle downe to the Abundance of 

 knees. They would bring our men earthen pottes of hony. 

 the quantitie of two gallons, full of hony and hony This preser- 

 combes for 100 shelles. They would also bring great vaitve * 5 

 store of Oranges and Plantans which is a fruit that ^tin? into an 

 groweth upon a tree, and is very like unto a Cucumber hogshead of 

 but very pleasant in eating. It hath pleased God of w ^ter on 

 his merceifull goodnesse to give me the knowledge how h £ nd f ul °f 

 to preserve fresh water with little cost, which did serve tfowtho^told 

 us sixe moneths at the sea, & when we came into Plim- me. 



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