The 5th June We Came To Anchor In Saldanha Bay, Having Only Buried Three
Or Four Men Since Leaving England, Out Of Our Whole Fleet, And Had Now
About Thirty Sick, For Whom We Erected Five Tents Ashore.
Corey[162]
came down and welcomed us after his manner, by whose means the savages
were not so fearful or thievish as at other times.
They brought us
cattle in great abundance, which we bought for shreds of copper. Corey
shewed his house and his wife and children to some of our people, his
dwelling being at a town or craal of about an hundred houses, five
English miles from the landing place. Most of these savages can say Sir
Thomas Smith's English ships, which they often repeat with much pride.
Their wives and children came often down to see us, whom we gratified
with bugles, or such trifles; and two or three of them expressed a
desire to go with us to England, seeing that Corey had sped so well, and
returned so rich, with his copper suit, which he preserves at his house
with much care. Corey also proposed to return with us, accompanied by
one of his sons, when our ships are homeward-bound. On the east side of
the Table mountain there is another village of ten small houses, built
round like bee-hives, and covered with mats woven of bent grass.
[Footnote 162: Corey, or Coree, was a savage, or Hottentot chief; who
had been in England.
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