A.D. 



1586. 



A towne of the 

 Negros, 



A strange 



monster. 



Another great 

 and fine tozvne 

 of the I^egros. 



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our Captaines thinking it not good to give any thing 

 for that which they might take freely, landed, and cer- 

 taine of our men with them, whereupon the Portugall 

 and the Negros ranne all away into the woods. Then 

 wee returned againe into our boates, and presently went 

 and landed in another place, thinking to have fetcht a 

 walke, and so to come to our boats againe. But wander- 

 ing through a little wood, we were suddenly and unawares 

 upon a towne of the Negros, whereupon they strooke up 

 their drumme, giving withall a great showt, and off went 

 their arrowes as thicke as haile. Wee were in number 

 about 30. caleevers, and 20. with our v/eapons, which wee 

 also let flie into the woods among them, and what hurt 

 we did, we know not. 



Then wee returned to our boates, and tooke wood and 

 water at our pleasure, and reasonable store of fish, and 

 amongst the rest we hailed up a great foule monster, 

 whose head and backe were so hard, that no sword could 

 enter it : but being thrust in under the belly in divers 

 places, and much wounded, hee bowed a sword in his 

 mouth, as a man would do a girdle of leather about 

 his hande, and likewise the yron of a boare speare. He 

 was in length about nine foote, and had nothing in his 

 belly, but a certaine quantitie of small stones, to the 

 value of a pottell. 



The fourth of November wee went on shore to a towne 

 of the Negros, which stoode on the Southeast side of 

 the harbour, about a Sacar shot from the roade, which 

 we found to be but lately built : it was of about two 

 hundreth houses, and walled about with mightie great 

 trees, and stakes so thicke, that a rat could hardly get 

 in or out. But as it chanced, wee came directly upon 

 a port which was not shut up, where wee entred with 

 such fiercenesse, that the people fled all out of the towne, 

 which we found to bee finely built after their fashion, 

 and the streetes of it so intricate, that it was difficult for 

 us to finde the way out, that we came in at. Wee found 

 their houses and streets so finely and cleanly kept, that 



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