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swaded of the honest dealing of our men with their prince,
restored againe the said pledge, without any harme to him
or any man of the company. . . .” We have no knowledge of
Cockeram’s experiences in his year as the only white man
among the Indians of this Iocahty; but we may suspect that
he had not been idle, and had persuaded the natives to work
for him as the Portuguese factors did at Pernambuco, for
small beer: since the
Paul seems to have sailed straightway
for England, “fraighted, and furnished with the commodi-
ties of the countrey.” Sir John Hawkins assured Richard
Hakluyt before the latter published the 1589 edition of his
Principal Navigations that Cockeram “was living within
these few yeeres.”10 It was this Martin Cockeram, inci-
dentally, to whom Kingsley assigned a role in his
Westward
Ho!

There was another English voyage to Brazil in 1540. The
Barbara of London sailed from Portsmouth on March 10,
having been warned by the mayor of that city “that they
should do no rθbery but folowe the vyage like honeste men”:
he must have known his men. They were Captain John
Philips, Pilot John Nycoll (of Dieppe), and a crew of about
a hundred men, including twelve Frenchmen; and they com-
mitted acts of piracy from Portsmouth to Brazil and back
again, by way of the West Indies. They landed at Fernando
de Noronha, which they named “Phelippe and Jacobbe’s
Ilande”—according to one, “because ther wer no people in-
habitying therein,” and according to another, perhaps more
credible witness in the Admiralty Court, because they had
landed there on the feast of SS. Philip and James, the first of
May. In three more days they had made Cape San Roque,
where they traded with the natives; and from thence to the
east in a search for brazilwood that met with little success.



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