A.D. 



1596. 



Gaine of ten 

 ihousavd 

 ducats for the 

 laying out of 

 one thousand. 



A trade of 

 buying Negros 

 in Angola. 



Broad cloth 

 excellently 

 well solde. 

 Vineger. 

 [III. 708.] 



Olives. 



Taffataes. 



Velvets. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



thousand ducats of Spanish commodities will gaine tenne 

 thousand ducats. Thus I hope in God to make more 

 profit and gaine this voyage, then in two voyages to 

 Angola : for I have solde most of my hats for two duckets 

 and a halfe and for three ducats. The rest I will cary to 

 Angola, to helpe to sell the rest of my commodities, which 

 I cannot sell in this river. And I have solde an hundred 

 cubits of broad cloth for five hundred and five hundred 

 and fifty and sixe hundred reys the cubit. If I would 

 have solde all my cloth for ready money tolde downe 

 for foure hundred and fifty and five hundred reyes, 

 the merchants would have bought it all of me : but I 

 would sell no more, because I meant to exchange it in 

 Angola for Negros. Howbeit with ready money in hand 

 in Angola a man shall buy better Negros, and better 

 cheape. The captaine of our ship solde all his cloth for 

 ready money for foure hundred & fifty reys the cubit, 

 and thought that he had made a good market : but he 

 hath deceived himselfe. I solde six broad clothes for five 

 hundred and fifty reys the cubit : and I was offered thirty 

 thousand reys for a cloth. Vineger is solde for two and 

 thirty, and sixe and thirty, and forty reals a jarre, by 

 reason there is great store of limmons and orenges 

 in the countrey : but in Angola it is more woorth. 

 Olives are solde for halfe a reall a piece : wherefore I 

 hope to sell the hogshead for twenty thousand reys. In 

 taffataes and velvets there will be gotten two hundred 

 and fifty and three hundred for one hundred. If I had 

 brought great store, I could have solde it all at this 

 rate. I have already gotten good store of reals of 

 plate : for it is tolde mee that money is a good com- 

 modity in Angola. But I must imploy some in meale, 

 which is in the grinding. All the rest of my money 

 I will send you by billes of exchange, and some part 

 I will imploy in sugars : for I have sent order to Baia 

 for that purpose. For from this place there is no 

 shipping that doth go that way. So these letters I 

 do send by the way of Fernambuc, and have directed 



42 



