1587. JOHN DAvrs. 1 1<) 



agaync retourne for then it was not to be doubted, 

 but shiping with trade might safely bee conueied to 

 China and the parts of Asia. We departed from 

 Dartmouth, and ariving unto the south part of tlic 

 cost of Desolation costed the same upon his west 

 shore to the lat. of 66. degres, and there an cored 

 among the ylls bordering upon the same, where 

 wee refreshed our selues, the people of this place 

 came likewise vnto vs, by whome I vnderstood 

 through their signes that towardes the North the 

 Sea was large. At this place the chiefe shipe 

 wherupon I trusted, called the Mermayd of Dart- 

 mouth, found many occasions of discontentment, 

 and being unwilling to proceede she there forsooke 

 me. Then considering howe I had giuen my fayth 

 and most constant promise to my worshipfull good 

 friend master William Sanderson, wdio of all men 

 was the greatest aduenturer in that action, and 

 tooke such care for the perfourmance thereof that 

 hee hath to my knowledge at one time disbursed 

 as much money as any fiue others whatsoeuer out 

 of his owne purse, when some of the company 

 haue bin slacke in giuing in their aduenture. And 

 also knowing that I should lose the fauour of 

 master Secretory, if I should shrinke from his 

 direction, in one small barke of thirty tonnes, 

 whereof master Sanderson was owner, alone with- 

 out farther comfort or company I proceeded on 

 my voyage, and ariuing unto this straights fol- 

 lowed the same eigbtie leages vntill I came among 



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