English Seamen; Howard, Clifford, Hawkins, Drake, Cavendish
English Seamen; Howard, Clifford, Hawkins, Drake, Cavendish
Southey Robert
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Some, however, came to cheapen, but showed such a disposition to bring down the price, that Hawkins sent for the principal of the town, and made show as if he would depart, saying he was sorry that he had troubled them, as also that he had sent for the governor. For it was not only a licence to sell that he sought, but profit also, which he saw was not to be had there ; and, therefore, he would seek farther. And he showed them his papers, that they might see what he had paid for his negroes ; a...nd de- clared, also, " the great charge he was at in his shipping and in wages". The Spaniards, who wanted slaves, and hoped to get them cheap, did not like to hear of his departure : they " put him in comfort to sell better there than in any other place " ; and went so far as to say that, if licence were refused, he should not lose his labour in tarrying, for they would buy without it. * The details are curious, because this voyage led the way to those hostilities in the New World, which made the English name so formidable there, and so odious, and which * Hakluyt, 509.
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