A.D. 

 530-32. 



The second 

 voyage of M. 

 IVilliam 

 Haukins to 

 Brasil. 

 A king 0/ 

 Brasil 

 brought into 

 England. 



[III. 701.] 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



with the Negros, and tooke of them Elephants teeth, 

 and other commodities which that place yeeldeth : and 

 so arriving on the coast of Brasil, he used there such 

 discretion, and behaved himself so wisely with those 

 savage people, that he grew into great familiarity and 

 friendship with them. Insomuch that in his second 

 voyage, one of the savage kings of the countrey of 

 Brasil, was contented to take ship with him, and to be 

 transported hither into England : whereunto M. Haukins 

 agreed, leaving behinde in the Countery as a pledge for 

 his safetie and returne againe, one Martin Cockeram of 

 Plimmouth. This Brasilian king being arrived, was 

 brought up to London and presented to K. Henry 

 the 8, lying as then at White-hall: at the sight of 

 whom the King and all the Nobilitie did not a litle 

 marvaile, and not without cause : for in his cheekes 

 were holes made according to their savage maner, and 

 therein small bones were planted, standing an inch out 

 from the said holes, which in his owne Countrey was 

 reputed for a great braverie. He had also another 

 hole in his nether lip, wherein was set a precious 

 stone about the bignes of a pease : All his apparel, 

 behaviour, and gesture, were very strange to the 

 beholders. 



Having remained here the space almost of a whole 

 yeere, and the king with his sight fully satisfied, M. 

 Hawkins according to his promise and appointment, 

 purposed to convey him againe into his countrey : but 

 it fell out in the way, that by change of aire and 

 alteration of diet, the said Savage king died at sea, 

 which was feared would turn to the losse of the 

 life of Martin Cockeram his pledge. Neverthelesse, 

 the Savages being fully perswaded of the honest deal- 

 ing of our men with their prince, restored againe the 

 said pledge, without any harme to him, or any man 

 of the company : which pledge of theirs they brought 

 home againe into England, with their ship fraighted, 

 and furnished with the commodities of the countrey. 



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