AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1564. 



recompence of which presents I sent him two whole 

 sutes of apparellj with certaine cutting hookes or 

 hatchets. 



After these things therefore in this sort passed, about 

 the tenth of this moneth, Captaine Bourdet determined 

 to leave mee and to returne into France. Then I 

 requested him, yea rather was exceeding importunate 

 with him, to carry home with him some sixe or seven 

 Souldiers, whom I coulde not trust by any meanes : 

 which hee did for my sake, and would not charge him- 

 selfe with Genre, which offered him a great summe of 

 money, if it would please him to carry him into France : 

 hee transported him onely to the other side of the River. 

 One cfhis Three dayes after his departure thirteene Mariners which 

 Barks stoke \ j^^^ brought out of France, suborned by certaine other 

 ^Mariners ^^ Mariners which Captaine Bourdet had left me, stole 

 away my Barkes in maner following. These Mariners 

 of Captaine Bourdet put mine in the head, that if they 

 had such Barkes as mine were, they might gaine very 

 much in the Isles of the Antilles, and make an exceed- 

 ing profitable voyage. Hereupon they beganne to devise 

 howe they might steale away my Barkes, and consulted 

 that when I should command them to goe unto the 

 The village of village of Sarauahi distant about a league and an halfe 

 Sarauahi. from Our Fort, and situated upon an arme of the River, 

 (whither according to my maner I sent them dayly to 

 seeke clay, to make bricke and morter for our houses) 

 they would returne no more, but would furnish them- 

 selves with victuals as well as they might possibly : 

 and then would embarke themselves all in one vessell, 

 Another of his and would goe their way : as indeede they did. And 

 Barks stolne ^\^2it which was worse, two Flemish Carpenters, which 

 away by two ^^^ ^^-^^ Bourdet had left mee, stole away the other 

 Barke, and before their departure cut the cables of 

 the Barke, and of the shipboate, that it might goe away 

 with the tyde, that I might not pursue them : so that 

 I remained without either Barke or boate, which fell 

 out as unluckily for mee as was possible. For 1 was 



Carpenters. 



