ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1556. 



graines the fuffe, and then they made me signes that the 

 next day I should have golde enough : so the Master 

 tooke the Hinde with John Savill and John Makeworth, 

 and went to seeke the place aforesaid, & I with Richard 

 Pakeman remained in this place to see what we could do 

 the next day : and when the Negroes perceived our ship 

 to go away, they feared that the other would follow, & so 

 sent forth 2 boats to us with 4 men in them, requiring us 

 to tary & to give them one man for a pledge, and 2 of 

 them should tary with us for him, so Edward M. Morleis 

 [II. ii. 35.] servant seeing these men so earnest therein offered him- 

 selfe to be pledge, and we let him goe for two of them, 

 one whereof had his waights and scales, and a chaine 

 of golde aboute his necke, and another about his arme. 

 They did eate of such things as we had and were 

 well contented. In the night the Negroes kept a light 

 upon the shoare thwart of us, and about one of the clocke 

 we heard and saw the light of a base which shot off twise 

 at the said light, and by and by discharged two calievers, 

 A Portugale which in the end we perceived to be the Portugals 

 Brigandme. brigandine which followed us from place to place, to give 

 warning to the people of the countrey, that they should 

 not deale with us. 



The 1 5 day in the morning the Captaine came downe 

 with 100 men with him, and brought his wife, and many 

 others brought their wives also, because their towne was 8 

 miles up in the countrey, and they determined to lie 

 by the sea side till they had bought what they would. 

 When he was come he sent our man aboord, and required 

 to have two men pledges, and he himselfe would come 

 aboord, and I sent him two, of whom he tooke but one, 

 and so came aboord us, he and his wife with divers of his 

 friends, and brought me a goate and two great rootes, and 

 I gave him againe a latten bason, a white bason, 6 

 manillios, and a bottell of Malmesie, and to his wife a 

 small casket. After this we began to make our measure 

 and weight : and he had a weight of his owne which held 

 one angell and 14 graines, and required a measure of 4 



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