@gold_coast_world: Of the dealings of the Portuguese with the natives in
these earlier years we know nothing. It is said that they
treated them with great cruelty ; but as such stories were
only related by the English, French, and Dutch, who were
trying to oust the Portuguese from their possessions, they
must be received with great caution, and, as far as can be
now ascertained, the natives appear to have been well able
to take care of themselves