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land_n	deep_a	fathom_n	league_n	3,088	5	9.6883	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41375	The Golden coast, or, A description of Guinney 1. In it's air and situation, 2. In the commodities imported thither, and exported thence, 3. In their way of traffick, their laws and customes, together with a relation of such persons, as got wonderful estates by their trade thither.		1665 (1665)	Wing G1014; ESTC R6926	52,146	96

them or whether they be broken and for the least hole that they spy in them they lay them away and desire to have others for them and also if they be but a little foul or greasie they will have none of them and for quantity and quality they make trial of all other Wares as curiously as is done in Europe CHAP. III. The first Voyage from England to Guinney August 12. 1553. There sailed from Ports-mouth two goodly Ships the Primrose and the Lyon with a pinnace called the Moon and sevenscore lusty men under two expert Pilots and politick Captains to one whereof the King of Portugal had committed the custody of Guinney against the French happy was that man that could go with them in seventeen daies they arrived at the Coast of Madera an Island that standeth thirty two degrees distant from the Aequinoctial line and seventy leagues from the Isle of Tenariffe Northwestward and Southwestward from Hercules Pillars called Madera quasi Materia by Anacham that first discovered it from the abundance of Trees in the Coast where they had abundance of Pears Apples Plums wilde Dates Peaches Mellons Batalas Oranges Lemmons Pomgranates Citrons Figs sixteen Sugar-Houses and incomparable Wines wherewith they stored their Ships Here they met with a Man of War that was ordered to obstruct all Trade on those Coast but especially to secure the Castle Mina hence there happening a difference between the two Captains so that the Marriners cast off one of them they sailed forward till they came to the Canaries called in old time the Fortunate Islands twelve Leagues long and as many broad called so not from the two Dogs wherewith Juba planted it but from the Canes wherewith it is replenished Here they saw how Sugar is made 1 The Fruits brings forth a Bud called Plants 2 That is laid along in the furrows so as a sluce may water it being covered with Earth 3 This Root springeth into Canes 4 It groweth two years whatever the French Geographer Thevet suggested to the contrary 5 Then are they cut close to the ground the leaves being lopped off and the Canes bound into bundles like Faggots 6 Being carried to the Sugar-House called Ingenio these sticks are ground in a Mill whence the juice of them is conveighed to a great vessel for that purpose 7 There it is boyled thick then it s put into a Furnace of Earthen pots of the mold of a Sugar-loaf 8 Then it is carried into another House called a Purging-House where it is placed to Purge the blackness with a certain clay that is laid thereon 9 Of the remainder in the Cauldron is made a second sort called Escumas and of the purging liquor that droppeth from the White-Sugar is made a third sort and the remainder is called Panela or Netas the refuse of all the purging is called Remial or Malasses and then of another is made Refinado When this first-fruit is in this sort gathered called Planta then the Cane-field where it grew is burned over with Sugar straws to the stumps of the first Canes and being Husbanded Watred and Trimmed at the end of other two years it yieldeth the second fruit called Zoca and the third called Tertia Zoca and the fourth called Quarta Zoca and so orderly the rest till age causeth the old Canes to be planted again Here they went to Civitas Palmarum as Batutas Mellons Pears Apples Oranges Lemmons Pomgranats Figs and Peaches especially the Plantano fruits which groweth like Cucumbers on a tree which is nothing but folded leaves black and delicate as any conserve twenty seven degrees from Aequator Thence they continued their course to St. Nicholas where they victualled themselves with fresh Mear wilde Goats Sheep Hens Ducks great Partridges c. From Canary they followed on their course taking the desart Islands here and there in their way because they would not come to Guinney when it was too hot The 19th day at twelve a clock wee had sight of the Isle of Palmes and Teneriffa The Isle of Palme riseth round and lyeth South east and North west and the North west part is lowest In the South is a round hill over the Head land and another round hill above that in the Land There are between the South east part of the Isle of Madera and the North west part of the Isle of Palme seven and fifty Leagues The Isle of Palme lyeth in eight and twenty degrees and their course from Madera to the Isle of Palme was South and South by West so that they had fight of Teneriffa The South east part of the Isle of Palme and the North east part of Teneriffa lye South east and North west and between them are twenty Leagues Teneriffa and the west part of Porteventura stand in seven and twenty degrees and a half Gomera is a fair Island but very ragged and lyeth West South west of Teneriffa and whosoever will come between those two Islands must come South and by East and in the fouth part of Gomera is a Town and a good Rode in the said part of the Island and it standeth in seven and twenty degrees and three terces Teneriffa is a High Land with a great high Pike like a Sugar-loaf and upon the said Pike is Snow throughout all the whole year and by reason of that Pike it may be known above all other Islands and there they were becalmed the twentieth day of November from six of the clock in the morning untill four in the afternoon The two and twentieth day of November under the Tropick of Cancer the Sun goeth down West and by South upon the Coast of Barbary five and twenty Leagues by North Cape-Blank at three Leagues off the Main there are fifteen fathomes and good shelly Ground and sand among and no streams and two small Islands standing in two and twenty degrees and a terce From Gomera to Cape de las Barbas is an hundred Leagues and their course was South and by East The said Cape standeth in two and twenty and a half and all that Coast is flat sixteen or seventeen fathome deep Seven or eight Leagues off from the River Del Oro to Cape de las Barbas there use many to trade for Fishing during the month of November and all that Coast is very low Lands Also they went from Cape de las Barbas South South west and South West and by South till they brought themselves in twenty degrees and a half reckoning themselves seven Leagues off and there were the least sholes of Cape-Blank Then they went South till they brought themselves in thirteen degrees reckoning themselves five and twenty Leagues off And in fifteen degrees they did rear their Crossiers and they might have reared them sooner if they had looked for them They are not right a cross in the month of November by reason that the nights are short there nevertheless they had the sight of them the twenty nineth day of the said month at night The first

of December being in thirteen degrees they set their course South and by East untill the fourth day of December at twelve of the clock the same day then they were in nine degrees and a terce reckoning themselves thirty Leagues off the River called Rio Grande being West South west of them the which sholes be thirty Leagues long The fourth of December they began to set their course South East they being in six degrees and a half The nineth of December they set their course East South East the fourteenth day of the said month they set their course East they being in five degrees and a half reckoning themselves thirty six Leagues from the Coast of Guinney The nineteenth of the said month they set their course East and by North reckoning themselves seventeen Leagues distant from Cape Mensurado the said Cape being East North East off them and the River of Sesto being East The one and twentieth day of the said month they fell with Cape Mensurado to the South East about two Leagues off this Cape may be easily known by reason the rising of it is like a Porpose-head also toward the South east there are three Trees whereof the Eastermost tree is the highest and the middlemost is like a high stack and the Southermost is like unto a ginet and upon the main are four or five high Hills rising one after another like round Hommocks or Hillocks and the South east of the three trees Brandiernwise and all the Coast along is white sand the said Cape standeth within a little in six degrees The two and twentieth of December they came to the River of Sesto and remained there untill the nine and twentieth day of the said month Here they thought it best to send before them the Pinnace to the River Dulce called Rio Dulce that they might have the beginning of the Market before the coming of the John Evangelist At the River of Sesto they had a Tun of Grains this River standeth in six degrees lacking a terce From the River Sesto to Rio Dulce is five and twenty Leagues Rio Dulce standeth in five degrees and a half the River of Sesto is easie to be known by reason there is a ledge of Rocks on the South east part of the rode and at the entring into the Haven are five or six Trees that bear no Leaves this is a good Harbour but very narrow at the entrance into the River there is also a Rock in the Havens mouth right as you enter and all that Coast between Cape de Monte and Cape de las Palmas lyeth South East and by East North West and by West being three Leagues off the shore and you shall have in some places Rocks two Leagues off and between the River Seste and Cape de las Palmas Between the River of Sesto and the River Dulce are five and twenty Leagues and the High Land that is between them both is called Catreado being eight Leagues from the River of Sesto and to the South Eastward of it is a place called Shawgro and another called Shyaw or Shavo where you may get fresh water Off this Shyaw lyeth a ledge of Rocks and to the South eastward lyeth a Head land called Crotre between Catreado and Crotre are nine or ten Leagues To the South eastward of it is a Harbour called St. Vincent right over against St. Vincent is a Rock under the water two Leagues and a half off the shore To the South eastward of that Rock you shall see an Island about three or fourscore Leagues off this Island is not past a League off the shore To the East South East of this Island is a Rock that lyeth above the water and by that Rock goeth in the River Dulce which you shall know by the said River and Rock the North west side of the Haven is flat Sand and the South east side thereof is like an Island and a bare plat without any trees and so is it not in any other place In the rode you shall ride in thirteen or fourteen fathomes good Oare and Sand being the marks of the rode to bring the Island and the North east Land together and there they Anchored the last of December The third of January they came from the River Dulce Note that Cape de las Palmas is a fair High Land but some Low places thereof by the water side look like red cliffs with white statues like High waies and a Cable length a peece and this is the East part of the Cape This Cape is the Southermost part in all the Coast of Guinney and standeth in four degrees and a terce The Coast from Cape de las Palmas to Cape Trepointes or de Tres Puntos is fair and clear without Rock or other danger Twenty and five Leagues from Cape de las Palmas the Land is higher than in any place untill you come to Cape Trepointes and about ten Leagues before you come to Cape Trepointes the Land riseth still higher and higher until you do come to Cape Trepointes also before you come to the said Cape after other five Leagues to the North west part of it there is certain broken ground with two great Rocks and within them in the bight of a bay is a Castle called Arra pertaining to the King of Portugal you shall know it by the said Rocks that lye off it for there is none such from Cape de las Palmas to Cape Trepointes This Coast lyeth East and by North West and by South From Cape de las Palmas to the said Castle is fourscore fifteen Leagues the Coast lyeth from the said Castle to the Westermost point of Trepointes South East and by South North West and by North. Also the Westermost point of Trepointes is a low Land lying half a mile out in the Sea and upon the innermost neck to the land-ward is a tuff of trees and there they arrived the eleventh day of January The twelf day of January they came to a town called Samma or Samua being eight Leagues from Cape Trepointes towards East North East Between Cape Trepointes and the town of Samua is a great ledge of Rocks a great way out in the Sea they continued four daies at that Town and the Captain thereof would needs have a pledge a shore But when they received the pledge they kept him still and would traffick no more but shot off their Ordnance at us they have two or three peeces of Ordnance and no more The sixteenth day of the said month they made reckoning to come to a place called Cape Corea where Captain Don John dwelleth whose men entertained them friendly This Cape Corea is four Leagues Eastward off the Castle of Mina otherwise called La Mina or Castello de Mina where they arrived the eighteenth day of the month here they made Sale of all their Cloath saving two or three Packs The twenty sixth day of the same month they weighed Anchor and departed from thence to