_ 117 _ not show us the place, and we walked till dawn and then returned to the ships. In the afternoon we again set out with the same pilot and as we came up to the watering place, there were along the shore some twenty of them skirmishing with their assegais in their hands to deny us access to the fresh water, and the captain-major ordered bombards to be fired upon them to force them to clear the place whereon we might land. And as we landed, they hid in the bush while we took as much fresh water as we wished, and returning to the ships at sundown, we found that a Negro belonging to the pilot Joham de Coinbra had run away. Item: Saturday, the twenty-fourth day of the month of March, the eve of Lady Day, in the morning, there came a Moor straight to the ships saying that if we desired fresh water, we could go to fetch it but that there we would find men who would make us turn back. When the captain-major saw this, he resolved that we would go there to show them that we could do them harm if we so had it in mind, whereupon the long-boats were armed and bombards placed in the poops and we set out for the village. And the Moors had built thick palisades and set up planking closely bound, so that we could not see the men
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