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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

those countries put them to Some few of these sorting themselues together in one time of the yeare haue vsed to go vp this Riuer in a boate or small barke as farre as Setico and there to remaine in trade from whence it is certainely knowne they haue returned much gold aboue which place they neuer attempted which is not halfe the way we haue already gone vp since our trading there With these in their places of dwelling wee are very conuersant notwithstanding we receiued such a horrible treachery from them as is set downe in my beginning in regarde they tell vs those that were the Actors thereof are banished from amongst them as being hated and detested for the fact Howsoeuer wee hope and desire it may stand for all our Nations warning neuer to let them haue the like occasion but beleeue euer they will doe as they say in telling vs they do loue and wish vs wel prouided they may neuer haue vs vnder their power to be able to doe vs ill which it behooneth vs to take especiall care of The conditions they liue subiect vnto vnder the blacke Kings makes it appeare they haue litle comfort in any Christian countrey or else themselues are very carelesse what becommeth of their posteritie for whensoeuer the husband father or maister of the familie dies if hee be of any worth the King seizeth vpon what hee hath without respect either to wife children or seruant except they haue warning to prouide before or are capable of themselues to looke out for the future time whereby we finde in some those few places we trade with them poore distressed children left who as it were exposed to the charitie of the country become in a manner naturalized and as they grow vp apply themselues to buy and sell one thing for another as the whole country doth still reseruing carefully the vse of the Portingall tongue and with a kinde of an affectionate zeale the name of Christians taking it in a great disdaine be they neuer so blacke to be called a Negro and these for the most part are the Portingalls which liue within this Riuer who since they see we haue followed a trade and begunne to settle vpon it in regard they much doubt wee waite but an oportunitie as they say amongst themselues to haue a valuable satisfaction for the wrong their Nation began with knowing the Englishmen doe not ordinarily digest such horrible abuses it hath made such as were of worth and dwelling vpon the coast who were woont to looke into the Riuer forbeare that recourse and also those that were of the best and most ablest estates to quit their dwellings and to seeke out else-where leauing none but a few poore snakes who for feare rather then loue offer themselues to do vs any maner of seruice which feare of theirs is the more increased because the naturall blacke people out of their morall vnderstanding and were some of them spectators of their bloody murther the shippe then riding before the Towne when the fact was done and by them rightly vnderstood to be treacherously done in betraying our faithfull trust contrary to the great protestations and obligements before these inhabitants made and confirmed did not onely vtterly disallow of the fact but exclaiming against them caused them to forsake their dwellings in that Towne neither haue they at this time any habitations there notwithstanding they had had continuance for many yeares before And further when some of our people who were aboue in the Riuer not knowing of this euill accident and were vpon occasions returning to the shippe whom they found so miserably lost and carried away the people of the Towne especially some principall and most powerfull men tooke such compassion vpon them that they fed them and lodged them with a great deale of louing care and that for no small time vntill they had deuised and concluded amongst themselues what course to take and hauing resolued to take a tedious iourney by Land in seeking to crosse the country to the North-ward vntill they came to Cape de Verde where they were fure to meete with shipping they not onely fitted them with such necessaries as they could but also fent of their owne people as guides with them and being in that manner commended from one King to another were louingly entertained lodged and fed and with new guides still conueyed neuer leauing them vntill their desire was satisfied and they safely arriued where they found conuenient shipping and still the commendations that went alongst with them from one blacke King to another was in regard their shippe was betraied and taken away by the Portingall whereby they found such compassion that in some places they had horses to ride on and in other places were entreated to rest and recreate themselues longer then they were willing And thus much is said for those people of the country amongst whom the Portingalls dwelt had their aboade and all familiar commerce but for those blacke people who are dwelling aboue in the Riuer where these Portingalls neuer had any habitation onely as I sayd a trade in their boates vp some part of the Riuer and amongest whom wee haue setled our selues with great league and testification of much amitie as I must deliuer when I come vnto them these I say when there was only fiue of our men dwelling amongst them their houses seated by the Riuer side and that ceraine Portingals in a smalbark or Boat were to passe by them in following their Trade to Setico being a matter of some 16 leagues aboue the place our men liued at these people when they saw our men make ready their armes prepare their peeces to standon their guard being so sew of them not daring to trust the Portingals flattering promises did not only put thēselues in companies for their defence but likewise animated our men to set vpon them promising if they would giue the ou-set they would prosecute it to the confusion of all and euery man of them in the same manner as they before had dealt with vs with great vehemency pressing them as a thing they were especially bound to do which our men refusing they inthemselues did carry towards them a kind of sullen and insolent behauiour so as their bloody act wherewith they thought to daunt and discourage vs in seeking or following of any trade here and more securely to settle themselues hath no doubt by Gods prouidence if it be carefully considered and dilligently obserued by a timely following of what doth offer it selfe turned to the cleane contrary and through their owne guilt enforc'd them to auoyde the place leauing it of their owne accords whereby if wee imbrace the occasion many good and profitable ends may bee made and this haue I truely related the Portingal who as he sees we prepare with earnestnesse to follow this Trade with the like earnestnesse will prepare to leaue the Riuer which preparations as I hope and desire may speedily