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A. 1 6 i 8. " dally finding the same openly op-

‘ c pugn’d, both by their States-men,and Men of War, as the Writings ofCretins, and the taking of JohnBrown, the last Year, may testify;« f Yet this Acknowledgment of a Rightand Due was no Exclusion of Grace‘‘ and Favour, and that the People of* ( this Country paying that small "Tri-bute, upon every one of their Busies,(which is not so much as disputed by« s any other Nation, whatsoever) such‘ f was His Majesty’s Well-wifhing to‘ { this State, that I presumed of His« f Permission to suffer them to continuetheir Course of Fisliing, which theymight use thereby with more Free-" dom, and less Apprehension of Mo-" lestation and Let than before, andthereby spare the Cost of some of^ their Men os War, which they year-ly send out, to maintain that by Force" which they might have by Courtesy.<s The Prince answered, he would do" His best Endeavours to procure His" Majesty Contentment, but he doubt-“ ed the Hollanders would apprehend" the same Effect: in their Payment forFisliing, as they found in the Passage" of the Sound, where, at first, an easy" Matter was demanded by the King" of Denmark, but now more exacted" than they can possibly bear. And" touching their Men of War, he said" they must still be at the same Charge" with them, because of the Pirats. Heask’d me, whether this Freedom of" Fishing might not be redeemed with" a Sum of Mony. To which I an-“ swered, It was a Matter of Royalty“ more than Utility, tho’ Princes were" not to neglect th dr Profit.

The fame Ambassador wrote Homeafterwards, " That the States had ac-" knowledged their Commissioners in" England had gone beyond their In-tc Enactions, in Using the Term of" Immemorial Pojsejfon .” But this Dis-pute drop’d, and nothing came of it, inKing James'' s Reign, except a VerbalAcknowledgment of His Dominion inthe Britijh Seas, with which this Kingsatisfied himself; And his Easiness en-couraged our Neighbours to contemnthe Authority of His Successor, as weshall see below.

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W' P- 384. joBSoNb Voyage of Discovery to the Ri-

from the I. of James, L to the Revolution.

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' of Gambra.

The English Rjr^ary-Merchants hav-ing enquired of the Moors, from whence

they had that Gold, of which they 1618,made their Chequins, and being assured,that there was none to be found in Mo-rocco or Fez ; But that it was brought bythe Natives over great Desarts of Sand,by Land, Concluded that it must comefrom Ethiopia, and, therefore resolvedto fit out some Ships to seek for thisGolden Trade, in some of those Ri-vers that fall into the Ocean on theSouth-W est- Side.

To this Purpose, in September, 1718. Captainthey sent one George Thompson, in a VKom 5 ori'§Ship, to enter into the River Gambra, De P arture °and to sail up that River with such Shal-lops as he had. This he did, and, inhis Absence, the Ship was taken bysome vagrant Portuguese, who were ad-mitted freely to come on Board, and allthe Englishmen left in her were killed ; He, and hisAnd Thomson himself, having got up Company,the River as far as Tinda, and being full f lain -of Golden Hopes, was kill's in a Quar-rel, by one of his own Company.

T homsojs being kill's in March 1619 . CaptalnJo ywhereby all his Labours were lost, the son’s Depar-Adventurers in October, (Purchas fays ture -the fifth of QSlober, 1620.) sent out aShip of two Hundred Tuns, and a Pin-nace of fifty Tuns, with Mr. Jobson> j rt - tva pwho run in twenty Days, from Dart-mouth, to the River Gambra, and castAnchor four Leagues within the Mouthof it. Here they traded with the In - And Trade >habitants for. Elephants Teeth, Cotton,and some other Commodities; But I donot find they got any Gold, the Commo-dity they chiefly went in Quest of; Noris any Mention made, when and howthey come Home again.

A prosperous Voyage to New England.

In 1.^19. several Ships were made Harris'* Cohready, to set Sail from Plymouth to New p - f P- s 1 -England j But Disagreement among the Hip.ofvsg.Proprietors, was again the Occasion that p. 229.only one went. This Ship made so -d pMp e -good Work of it in six or seven MonthsTime (from the Time they went out to gland,the Time they returned) that every Sai-lor, who had but a single Share, had,besides his Charges, seventeen Poundclear Mony in his Pocket. With thisShip went for New England the worthyCaptain Dormer , who was of very good - .

Service to Trade, as well there as in Dormer’,-Virginia and Newfoundland. He pro- Discoveriessecured a Northern Discovery with ex- an d Death.cellent Success, finding out many good-

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