Having Filled Our Water Casks Here, We Set Sail To The Eastward.
On The 10th We Had A Conference With Captain Blondel, The Admiral Of The
French Ships, Jerome Baudet His Vice-Admiral, And Jean De Orleans,
Master Of The Ship Of 70 Tons.
We agreed to traffic in friendly accord,
so as not to hurt each others market, certain persons being appointed to
make a price for the whole, and then one boat from every ship to make
sales on the agreed terms.
On the 11th, at a place called _Allow_[262],
we got only half an angel weight and 4 grains of gold, which was taken
by hand, the natives having no weights.
[Footnote 262: Rather Lu how or La hu. - Astl. I 163. b. - The river
called Jack Lahows river, in Long. 4 deg. 14' W. - E.]
On the 14th we came within _Saker_ shot of the castle of Mina, whence an
Almadia was sent out to see what we were, but seeing that we were not
Portuguese, she went immediately back to the large negroe town of
_Dondou_ close by the castle. Without this there lie two great rocks
like islands, and the castle stands on a point resembling an island. At
some distance to the westwards the land for 5 or 6 leagues was high, but
for 7 leagues from thence to the castle the land is low, after which it
becomes high again. The castle of Mina is about 5 leagues east from Cape
Three-points[263]. Here I took the boat with our negroes, and, went
along the coast till I came to the cape, where I found two small towns
having no canoes, neither could we have any trade.
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