the appointment of
those Indian Merchants of Porta Nova we carried with us, to whom those
Goods belonged, they were put ashore, and we minded our Business to
set another Main-mast, and repair our other Dammages we had sustained
by the late Storm.

[They were not jealous of the People, being very courteous.] At our
first coming thither, we were shy and jealous of the People of the
Place, by reason our Nation never had any Commerce or Dealing with
them. But now having been there some Twenty days, and going a Shore and
coming on Board at our Pleasure without any molestation, the Governor
of the Place also telling us, that we were welcom, as we seemed to
our selves to be, we began to lay aside all suspitious thoughts of the
People dwelling thereabouts, who had very kindly entertained us for our
Moneys with such Provisions and Refreshings as those Parts afforded.

[A pretended Message to the Captain from the King.] By this time the
King of the Countrey had notice of our being there, and as I suppose
grew suspicious of us, not having all that while by any Message made
him acquainted with our intent and purpose in coming. Thereupon
he dispatched down a Dissauva or General with his Army to us. Who
immediately sent a Messenger on Board to acquaint the Captain with his
coming, and desired him to come ashore to him, pretending a Letter to
him from the King. We saluted the Message with firing of Guns, and my
Father the Captain ordered me with Mr. John Loveland, Merchant of the
Ship, to go on shore and wait upon him. When we were come before him,
he demanded who we were, and how long we should stay? We told him,
We were English, and not to stay above twenty or thirty days, and
desired Permission to Trade in his Majestie's Port. His answer was,
the King was glad to hear that the English were come to his Countrey,
and had commanded him to assist us as we should desire, and had sent
a Letter to be delivered to none, but to the Captain himself.

We were then some twelve Miles from the Sea-side. Our reply was, That
the Captain could not leave his Ship to come so far, but if he pleased
to come down to the Sea-side himself, the Captain would immediately
wait upon him to receive the Letter. Upon which the Dissauva desired
us to stay that day, and on the morrow he would go down with us.

Which being a small request, and we unwilling to displease him,
consented to.

[The beginning of their Suspition.] The same day at Evening, the
Dissau