Sakere, sakere, ho! ho! 
   Sakere, sakere, ho! ho!

And with these words they kept leaping, dancing and clapping their hands.  The only animals we saw among them were two goats, a few small dogs, and some hens.  Having seen these things, we went on board our ships; and on seeing us depart, the chief of the other town sent two of his servants after us with a basket of grains, making signs to us that when we had slept, or next day, we should have plenty of grains if we came for them:  Then shewing us his grains, he went away.  Accordingly, next morning being the 17th, thinking that some business might be done with the negroes as the captain sent for us, I sent the master with the rest of the merchants on shore, remaining myself on board, because they had esteemed our goods so lightly the day before.  The captain accordingly came to our people after they went up the river, bringing grains with him, but not seeing me he made signs to know where I was, and was answered in the same manner that I was on board ship.  He then inquired by signs who was captain, or Diago as they call it, and the master of the ship being pointed out to him, he began to shew his grains, but held them so unreasonably dear that no profit could be made of them; on which, and because they seemed to have no store, the master came away with only about 50 pounds of grains.  Going on shore at the small town on their way back to the ships, some one of our people plucked a gourd which gave great offence to the negroes, on which many of them came with their darts and large targets, making signs for our men to depart; which our men did, as they had only one bow and two or three swords among them.  As soon as they were on board we weighed and set sail, but the wind was from the sea, so that we could not clear certain rocks, for which reason we came again to anchor.

This river called St Vincent is in lat. 4 deg. 30’ N[234].  The tide at this place ebbs and flows every twelve hours, but while we were there the rise and fall did not exceed 9 feet.  So far as we could see, the whole country was altogether covered with wood, all the kinds of trees being unknown to us, and of many different sorts, some having large leaves like gigantic docks, so high that a tall man is unable to reach their tops.  By the sea-side there grow certain pease upon great and long stalks, one of which I measured and it was 27 paces long.  These grow on the sand like trees, and so very near the sea that we could distinctly perceive by the water marks that the sea sometimes flows into the woods.  All the trees and other plants of this country are continually green.  Some of the women have exceedingly long breasts, but they are not all so.  All day the wind blows from the sea, and all night from the land, though we found this to differ sometimes, at which our master was much surprised.

[Footnote 234:  This latitude would bring us to a river about half way between the Grand Sesters and Cape Palmas; but which does not agree with the former circumstances, as they could hardly have been so far to the S.E. without seeing Cape Palmas.  The river Sangwin, which we have before supposed might be the St Vincent, is in lat. 5 deg. 20’ N. almost a degree farther north.—­E.]