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transactions that the rest of the men in the two ships began 

 to die four or five a day from all sorts of maladies, con- 

 tracted generally through their imprudence. The result was 

 that Windham lost his head completely. He smashed up 

 Pinteado's cabin, broke open his chests, and when he came 

 on board he deprived him of his rank and treated him like 

 a felon, so that on the return voyage he died of a broken 

 heart. 



Tn the following year (1554) the Trinity^ the Bartholomew^ 

 and the John Evangelist (the first and the last of one hundred 

 and forty tons burden) sailed from London for Guinea on 

 October nth. The captain of this expedition was Mr. John 

 Lok, and there went with him Sir George Barn and Sir John 

 York and other gentlemen. On December 21st they found 

 themselves close to Cape Mesurado, which is described as 

 *' like a porpoise head." The latitude of it was fixed fairly 

 correctly. The next day they came to the Cestos River, where 

 they collected a ton of grains of Paradise. Then on to the 

 " Rio Dulce." The mouth of the River Cestos is described as " a 

 good harborow, but very narrow in the entrance into the river. 

 There is also a rock in the haven's mouth right as you enter." 

 The high land which lay between the Cestos River and the 

 River Dulce was called Cakeado, and in this land were two 

 notable places of call for fresh water, Shawgro and Shyawe or 

 Shavo. They called at the St. Vincent or Dulce River (.'' Sino), 

 and experienced the dangers from submerged rocks. Cape Palmas 

 is described as " a fair high land, but some low places thereof 

 by the waterside look like red cliffs with white streaks like 

 highways." These two ships went on to the Gold Coast, and 

 traded very advantageously in gold, ivory, and pepper, and 

 apparently returned without misadventure to England, bringing 

 back with them five black slaves. 



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