WITHRINGTON AND LISTER ad. 



1586. 



came downe two poore men, and one of them spake 

 good Spanish, and told our Captaine, that certaine 

 Frenchmen used to come thither, and laded some oxe Trade of the 

 hides, and goats hides, but other commoditie there was ^^f^^^Q^^ 

 none. We departed thence the 27 day, & the last day rm -,-,q j' 

 of the moneth being calme we went abord our General, 

 & there consented to goe for Sierra Leona, to wood and 

 water. From thence till the 10. of October wee were 

 much becalmed with extreeme hot weather, much light- 

 ning, and great store of raine. This 10. day we sounded, 

 finding a great current as we supposed by the ripling 

 water, which after wee found to bee an ordinary tide, 

 the flood setting to the Northwest, and the ebb South- 

 east, and here we had but 18. fathome water, and no 

 lande to bee scene : it was on the Southermost part of 

 the showles that lie in about 11. degrees, but hailing 

 South off againe, it presently deeped unto 50. fathome, 

 and after hailing Southeast and by East, and East south- 

 east, we sounded, but had no ground in 120. fathome. 



The 2 1 , of October wee fell with land upon the coast 

 of Guinea, in the height of 8. degrees, a very high land, 

 but of no great length : it was the high land over Sierra Sierra Leona, 

 Leona. Wee drewe in to the land, and found neere the 

 shoare more water then in the ofBng : at the Northern 

 end of the high land we anckered about a mile, and some- 

 what more from the shoare in 11. fathome. To goe 

 into the harbor of Sierra Leona we did borrow upon the 

 South side, having no ground in 10. fathome, halfe a 

 mile from the shoare. 



Upon the Northside of this harbour is very shoale 

 water, but on the Southside no feare, more then is to 

 be scene. 



The 23. day being Sunday wee came to an ancker in 

 the bay of fresh water, and going ashoare with our boate, 

 wee spake with a Portugal, who tolde us that not farre 

 off there were Negros inhabiting, and that in giving to 

 the king a Botija of wine, and some linnen cloth, hee 

 would suffer us to water and wood at our pleasure. But 



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