Sidenote: Seuenteene knights of the Bath created by king Richard.
And in browne flaxe and hempe I haue bought seuenteene bercouites, sixe podes and sixteene pound, which cost 28.
Therefore these are to let you vnderstand that there went with Alcaide Hamode for those parts seuenteenehundred men: who passing ouer the sands, for want of water perished one third part of them: [Sidenote: Tombuto taken.
The said Cape standeth in two and twentie and a halfe: and all that coast is flatte, sixteene orseuenteene fadome deepe.
The nineteenth of the said moneth we set our course East and by North, reckoning our selues seuenteene leagues distant from Cape Mensurado, the said Cape being Eastnortheast of vs, and the riuer of Sesto being East.
There perished in all (as some saie) thirteene knights, seuenteene yoong gentlemen, and to the number of two hundred footmen.
And in the nether end of the same hall toward the middle of the same pane, a pantrie & butterie, euerie of them in length twentie foot, and in breadth seuenteene foot.
They sailed downe the Riuer seuenteene daies, which may be two hundred and fifty leagues iourney, little more or lesse: and neere vnto the Sea the Riuer is diuided into two armes; each of them is a league and an halfe broad.
Those that were left me of mine owne company were about sixeteene or seuenteene that coulde beare armes, and all of them poore and leane: the rest were sicke and maymed in the conflict which my Lieutenant had against Vtina.
The eight of this Moneth wee entred into the Rode of Saint Iohn, where wee founde seuenteene Shippes of fishers.
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