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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04494	The golden trade: or, A discouery of the riuer Gambra, and the golden trade of the Aethiopians Also, the commerce with a great blacke merchant, called Buckor Sano, and his report of the houses couered with gold, and other strange obseruations for the good of our owne countrey; set downe as they were collected in trauelling, part of the yeares, 1620. and 1621. By Richard Iobson, Gentleman.	Jobson, Richard, fl. 1620-1623.	1623 (1623)	STC 14623; ESTC S107773	101,832	172

they met with diuerse drie and sandy deserts to passe wherein as many were lost and ouer-whelmed so againe the parching heate and continuall droughth was cause of the perishing of many others and inforced their returne without any satisfaction The selfe same causes continue still for which we neede not search written bookes but talke or discourse with any Marchant of this City of London who haue yearely trade and commerse in Barbary being the nearest parts of Affrica adioyning vnto vs and many times from our Country into their principall Harbours runne in twelue dayes and in the like time againe from them to vs and inquire of them whence the Moore of Barbary hath that rich gold he makes his Chequens of and they will tell you there is no gold growing within the confines of Morocco or Fesse at least that is knowne or made vse of but that the great aboundance of that rich gold they haue is fetcht and brought into the Country by the naturall inhabitants for which they vndergo great trauailes onely by land wherein they do passe great desertes of sand with much danger as appeares by the losse they receiue many yeares of diuerse both of their people and Cammels yet so commodious is their trade and followed with such great dilligence and gouernment that amongst themselues none are admitted but principall persons and by especiall order without entertaining any other nation what respect or familiarity so euer they haue gained amongst them This in effect hath beene the sole ground to attaine vnto that knowledg which I presume here to write for my Countries seruice wherein duety especially requires me to manifest the care and dilligence of those noble and worthy Gentlemen who are the grounds and originals of this hopefull worke vnto whom these my labours as their owne proper rights are dedicated whose vertues ayming at good actions in this our blessed and peacefull time and cessation from those sea affaires they were wont to be bufied in summond them vp to in quire and make search after the goldnest hopes and vpon good grounded conferances with such principall Merchants of Barbary as their wisdomes could make choyse of attaine some better satisfaction to their former knowledge of the Moore of Barbarios Marchandizing as I lightly haue toucht before wherein their practise and true vnderstanding in the Mathematiques assured them the Moors vnknowne trauaile must be to the South-west if other wayes our Quotidian trade into all and euery part of the Mediterrane sea must needes haue had some or other intelligence And theresore vniting themselues together concluded vpon a lawfull and warrant-able course to vndergo the search of this golden trade by the South-parts and to aduenture vppon those promising riuers that fall into the maine Ocean on the South-west side wherein it now requires I should briefly relate the manner of their proceeding In the yeare 1618. in the month of September they set forth a ship called the Catherine burthen 120. tun and in her imployd on George Thompson a man about fifty yeares of age who had liued many years a Marchant in Barbary the carcazon of goods hee carried with him amounted vnto 1856 f. 19 s̄ 2d. hauing his instructions from the Gouernour and Company to enter in the Riuer of Gambra and with such shallops as hee had and were thought conuenient for him to follow his trade and to discouer vp the Riuer leauing the shippe in a secured Harborough All which in his part being carefully performed in his absence through the ouermuch trust of our English hearts and faire familiarity wee vse to all nations with whom we are in amity the shippe was betrayde and euery man left in her his throat cut by a few poore deiected Portingals and Melatos whom they gaue free recourse aboord being onely banisht people and for the most runnagados from their Country as when I come more particularly to write of them will more fitly be deliuered Thompson vpon intelligence being gotten farre vppe into the Riuer and finding the inhabitants to vse him curteously with the Kings allowance of the Country seated himselfe vppon the land and thorough the kindnesse of the inhabitants neere those parts where the shippe was lost some of the English who came downe from Thompson where safely conueighed many dayes trauaile ouer land vntill they found meanes to meete with shipping to transport them home with their woefull tidings Whereupon the noble Aduenturers with all expedition set forth a Pinnace of fifty tunnes called the S. Iohn and in her a new supply of goods and direction to Thompson either for his repaire withall his Company home or as he did affect his trade or had hope of his discouery to make vse of those goods and abide there He vtterly refused to come away and therefore sent away the S. Iohn who for that they came in an vnseasonable time which then experience made them vnderstand and thorough some other abuses which more conueniently else where I shall set downe which losse of many of her men returned and as little comfort of gaine to the Aduenturers onely hopefull letters from Thompson inuiting them to a new supply and by the next season to send vnto him a shippe and pinnace with some especiall commodity hee made mention of confidently affirming they should no wayes doubt of a hopefull discouery where the Moores of Barbary traded and a valewable returne for their losses sustained promising in the meane time which such company as he had left with him being in all onely eight persons in his small boate to search vp the Riuer which hee attempted in a payre of Oares takeing onely two of his owne Company with him the rest people of the Country which whom hee past vp the Riuer and got to Tinda a place hee aymed at in hope to haue had conference with a blacke Merchant called Buckor Sano of whom I shall haue cause to speake in the Relation of my owne trauailes fayling of him for that hee was then in his trauailes within the land hee stayd not many houres aboue how-be-it in that time hee receiued such intelligence of the trade hee lookt after that such an extasie of ioy possest him as it is and hath beene aleadged against him that growing more peremptory then he was wont and seeming to gouerne with more contempt by a quarrell falling out amongst them one of his Company slew him to the vtter losse of what he had attaind vnto who in regard of emulation in striuing to keepe others hee affected not in ignorance committed nothing to paper so as all his endeauours and labours were lost with him These things I haue presumed to write that it may appeare what rubs haue beene in the infancy of this discouery and may partly make answere to the question may bee propounded by any that shal bee pleased to read ouer my insuing discourse why so hopefull and promising abusinesse should bee neglected And now I returne to the worthy Aduenturers