90 DISCOVERIES, &c. 1^77/ 



/ can doe for you. I have aboord, of theirs, a 

 man a xeoman and a child, which I am contented to 

 deliver for you, but the man which I carried away 

 from hence the last yeere is dead in Eiigland, 

 Moreover you may declare unto them, that if they 

 deliver you not I zvill not leave a man alive in 

 their countrey. And thus, if one of you can come 

 to speake with mee, they shall have either the man, 

 woman or childe in pawneforyou. And thus unto 

 God whom I trust you doe serve, in hast I leave 

 you, and to him wee will daily pray for you. This 

 Tuesday morning the seventh of August, 1577-" 



The men however never appeared, and as the 

 season was far advanced and the general's com- 

 mission directed him to search for gold ore, and 

 to defer the further discovery of the passage till 

 another time, they set about the lading of the 

 ships, and in the space of twenty days, with the 

 help of a few gentlemen and soldiers, got on 

 board almost two hundred tons of ore. On the 

 22d August, after making bonefires on the 

 highest mount on this island, and firing a volley 

 for a farewell " in honour of the Right Honourable 

 Lady Anne, Countess of Warwicke, whose name 

 it beareth," they set sail homewards, and after 

 a stormy passage they all arrived safe in different 

 ports of Great Britain, with the loss only of one- 

 man by sickness, and another who was washed 

 overboard.^ 



* Hakluyt's Voyages, vol. iii. p. 32, 



