The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : Together With the True Travels, Adventures And Observations, And a Sea Grammar
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : Together With the True Travels, Adventures And Observations, And a Sea Grammar
Smith, John, 1580-1631
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They sayled by many low lies, and saw many more of those muddy rockes, and nothing else but salt water, till they came betwixt Susax and Curuske, only two white townes at the entrance of the river Bruapo appeared: In six or seven dayes saile, he saw foure or five seeming strong castles of stone, with flat tops and V. 11 145 K Digitized by Google A,D. THE TRUE TRAVELS 1593.1629. battlements about them, but arriving at Gambia, he was (according to their custome) well used. The river was there mor...e than halfe a mile broad. The Castle was of a large circumference, fourteene or fifteene foot thicke, in the foundation some six foot from the wall, is a Paliizado, and then a Ditch of about fortie foot broad full of water. On the west side of it, is a Towne all of low flat houses ; which as he conceived could bee of no great strength, yet it keepes all them barbarous Countreyes about it in admiration and subjection. After he had stayed there three dayes ; it was two dayes more before his guides brought him to Nalbrits, where the Tymor then was resident, in a great vast stonie Castle with many great Courts about it, invironed with high stone wals, where was quartered their Armes, when they first subjected those Countreyes, which onely live to labour for those tyrannicall Turkes.
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