Of Capt. HowEL DAriS. i8i 



6itipioyM in that Trade, was acquainted With the 

 Coaft : He told them, that there was a great d^al 

 of Money always kept in Gambia Caftle, and that it 

 wouM be worth their while to make an Attempt 

 upon it. They ask'd him how it was poffible, fiace 

 it was garrifbned ? He defired they would leave the 

 Managem<3nt of it to him, and he would undertake 

 to make them Mafters of it. They began now to 

 conceive fo high an Opinion of his.Conduft, as well 

 as Courage, that they thought nothing impoHible 

 to him, therefore they agreed to obey him, without 

 enquiring further into his Defign. 



Having come within Sight of the Place, he or- 

 dered all his Men under Deck, except as many as 

 were abfolutely neceffary for working the Ship, 

 that thofe from the Fort feeing a Ship with fo few 

 Hands, might have no Sufpicion of her being any 

 other than a trading Veffel then he ran clofe un- 

 der the Fort, and there caft Aixhor • and havnig 

 ordered/ out the Boat, he commanded fix Men in 

 her, in old ordinary Jackets, while he himfelf^ with 

 the Mafter and Do£tor, dreiTed themfelvesi like 

 Gentlemen his Defign being, that the Wlqu fhould 

 look like common Sailors, and they like Merchants. 

 In rowing afhore he gave his Men Inftruftions 

 what to fiy in Cafe any Queftioiis ihould be asked 

 them. 



Being come to the landing Place, he was recei- 

 ved by a File of Mufqueteers, and conduced into 

 the Fortj where the Governor accofling them civil- 

 ly, askM them who they were, and whence they 

 came / They anfv/ered they were of Liverpooly 

 bound for the River of Sinnegat^ to trade for Guna 

 and Elephants Teeth, but that they were chaced 

 on that Coaft by two French Men of War, and nar- 

 rowly efcaped being' taken, having a little the 

 Heels of them \ but now they were refblved to 

 make the beft of a bad Market, and would Trade 



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