A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



spies ; and although divers slaves came running from 

 their men to us, by which we understood much of their 

 working & pretences, yet the admirall would enterteine 

 few of them. 



In this meane time that we began to worke, the 

 Portugals with the country people were not idle, for 

 seeing us so busie, about sixe nights after our comming 

 in, they privily in the night cast up a trench in the 

 sands about a sacar shot from our ships, minding 

 there to plant ordinance, which would have offended 

 our ships greatly ; & they would not have bene able 

 to have rode there to take in their lading, which now 

 began to go aboord of them. The admirall hear- 

 [III. 713.] ing this, about 3 of the clocke in the after noone 

 marshalled our men, and he and all the rest of the 

 captaines marched toward them. The Portugals & 

 Indians perceiving our comming, began to withdraw 

 themselves within the trench, meaning (as it should 

 appeare) to fight it out there : but we made no 

 stand, neither did it behove us, but presently 

 approched the trenches with our muskets & pikes, 

 afore their trenches were thorowly finished : so that 

 by Gods helpe we entered them. And the Portugals & 

 Indians left the place, & left unto us 4 good peeces of 

 brasse ordinance, with powder and shot & divers other 

 necessaries, and among the rest 5 smal carts of that 

 countrey, which to us were more worth then al the rest we 

 tooke, for the lading of our goods from the towne to the 

 waters side : for without them we could not have told 

 what to have done, much of our goods being so heavie, 

 that without carts, we were not able to weyld them : all 

 these things we brought away & destroyed al those plat- 

 forms that they had made, and then we had rest with 

 them for certaine dayes, in which we went forward, 

 deviding our marchandize with captaine Venner according 

 to our consort, and went daily lading them abord, every 

 ships company according as their turnes fell out, but only 

 the three Dutch ships : for the goods being put into their 



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