Derde reys, gedaan voor de Engelsche Maatschappy na Oost-Indien, met drie scheepen, de Draak, Hector, en ...

on board—for which we had to leave one of our own in hostage for two of theirs—who acted more politely and indicated by signs that I should send some of my men inland, while they wished to remain on our ship as hostages. Hereupon, I sent Edward Bukbury and my servant Willem Cotterel ashore with a gift of a coarse shirt, a piece of an iron rod of three feet, a few glass beads, and two knives. They returned on board towards night, bringing from the captain a small golden earring worth 7, 8, or 9 shillings sterling; but as it was late, the hostages did not wish to go ashore but remained on the ship the entire night, without any of our men needing to stay on land.

I also had my boat fetch five barrels of fresh water, which was very good and easy to obtain.

They fish here.

On the 11th, I went to the beach to fish, where the inhabitants came to us with their wives, but they feared we would take their belongings. I gave them some trifles, and we bought 200 lemons from them for a poor knife. At that time, the wind was East.

Buy for a piece of iron an elephant tusk, weighing 63 pounds,

On the 12th, I went ashore again but caught little fish. The wind was now North-West by South, and the weather rainy. On the 13th, it rained without ceasing, and we caught enough fish to eat once. I bought an elephant tusk weighing sixty-three pounds, English weight, for five yards of blue calico and seven or eight pounds of bar iron. On the 14th, I stayed on board as it rained all day.

and catch a great many fish.

On the 15th, I went to the beach and caught, in the time of an hour and a half, six thousand small but good fish, called cavalles a type of scad or horse mackerel; and in the afternoon, I went with Captain Hawkins and a sufficient bodyguard to the village, where we bought two or three thousand lemons. We considered it a beautiful day when we had over three hours of dryness. On the 16th, I gave our
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