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1586. 

 spoyle wee would, which was but litle, but al the people 

 fled : and in our retiring aboord in a very litle plaine at 

 their townes ende they shot their arrowes at us out of the 

 woods, and hurt 3. or 4. of our men ; their arrowes were Poysoned 

 poysoned, but yet none of our men miscaryed at that time, ^^^'°'^'^^- 

 thanked be God. Their towne is marveilous artificially T}^ descrip- 

 builded with mudde walles, and built round, with their ^^^" of their 

 yards paled in and kept very cleane as well in their 

 streetes as in their houses. These Negros use good 

 obedience to their king, as one of our men sayd, which 

 was with them in pawne for the Negros which came first. 

 There were in their towne by estimation about one 

 hundred houses. 



The first of September there went many of our men on September. 

 shore at the watering place, and did wash shirts very 

 quietly all the day : and the second day they went againe, 

 and the Negros were in ambush round about the place : 

 and the carpenter of the Admiral going into the wood 

 to doe some speciall businesse, espied them by good 

 fortune. But the Negros rushed out upon our men 

 so suddenly, that in retiring to our boates, many of them ^'^^^^y (fo'^^ 

 were hurt : among whom one William Pickman a souldier "!^" ^^^'^ ^y 

 was shot into the thigh, who plucking the arrow out, ^* 



broke it, and left the head behinde; and he told the 

 Chirurgions that he plucked out all the arrow, because he 

 would not have them lance his thigh : whereupon the 

 poyson wrought so that night, that hee was marveilously 

 swollen, and all his belly and privie parts were as blacke 

 as ynke, and the next morning he died, the peece of ^^'^^^^^^^ P'^ck- 

 the arrow with the poyson being plucked out of his '^-^"^ ^^^^^ ^f ^ 

 thigh. .^rrozv. 



The third day of the sayd moneth, divers of our fleete This poyson is 

 went up 4 myles within the harbour with our boate, thejuyceofan 

 and caught great store of fish, and went on shore and ^^'^^"^''• 

 tooke Limmons from the trees, and comming aboord 

 againe, saw two Buffes. %f^'^T 



The 6. day we departed from Sierra leona, and went out ture fmn 

 of the harborough, and stayed one tide 3. leagues from the Sierra leona. 



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