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moil mutinous of their mailers and pilots, and confined 

 them clofe below in heavy irons. 



Vasques himfelf, taking hold of the rudder, continued 

 to fleer the fhip with his own hand, and flood out to fea, 

 to the altonifhment of the bravell feaman on board. The 

 florm lafted two days, without having in the leafl fhakea 

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

 ber, faw his conflancy 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 very aptly been called the .Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



XDn the 25th they anchored in a creek called Angra de 

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

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

 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 more, 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 finging. 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 coaft remarkably pleafant, full of high and 

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

 a river which they called the river of the kings; and all the 



diflance 



