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rnoft mutinous of their mafters and pilots, and confined 

 them clofe below in heavy irons. 



Vasques himfelf, taking hold of the rudder, continued 

 to fteer the fhip with his own hand, and Hood out to fea, 

 to the aftonifliment of the bravell feaman on board. The 

 ftorm lafted two days, without having in the leaft fhaken 

 the refolution of the admiral, who, on the 20th of Novem- 

 ber, faw his conftancy rewarded by doubling that Cape, 

 which he did, as it were, in triumph, founding his trum- 

 pets, beating his drums, and permitting to his people all forts 

 of pailimes which might banifh from their minds former 

 apprehenfions, and induce them to agree with him, that 

 ^the point had ver^' aptly been called the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



On the 25th they anchored in a creek called Angra dc 

 Saint Blaze. Soon after their arrival there appeared a num- 

 ber of the inhabitants on the mountains, and on the Ihore. 

 The general, fearing fome furprife, landed his men armed. 

 But, firft, he ordered fmall brafs bells, and other trinkets, to 

 be thrown out of the boats on fhore, which the blacks gree- 

 dily took up, and ventured fo near as to take one of them 

 out of the general's own hand. Upon his landing, he was 

 welcomed with the found of flutes and fmging. Vafques, 

 on his part, ordered his trumpets to found, and his men to 

 dance round them. 



All along from St Blaze, for more than fixty leagues, 

 they found the coafl remarkably pleafant, full of high and 

 fair trees. On Chriftmas day they made land, and entered 

 a river which they called the river of the ki>/gs ; and all the 



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