AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1564. 



it selfe in the haven. The governour being fine and 

 subtile, seeing himselfe brought unto the place which he 

 desired and where he commanded, obtained so much by 

 his faire words, that they which had taken him let him 

 put two little boyes which were taken with him into a 

 little cocke boat, and send them to his wife into the 

 village, to advertise her that she should make provision of 

 victuals to send unto him. But in stead of writing unto 

 his wife, he spake unto the boyes secretly that with all 

 diligence she should send the vessels that were in the 

 havens neere that place to succour and rescue him. 

 Which she did so cunningly, that on a morning about the 

 breake of the day, as our seditious companions were at the 

 havens mouth (which reacheth above two leagues up 

 Malgualire a within the land) there came out of the haven a malgualire 

 ktndeofvessdl which maketh saile both forward and backward, and then 

 that will saile ^^^ ^^^^ shippes, which mig^ht be ech of them of foure- 



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backward. score or an hundred tunnes a piece, with good store of 

 ordinance, and well furnished with men : at whose 

 comming our mutinous fellowes were surprised, being not 

 able to see them when they came, aswell because of the 

 darknesse of the weather, as also by reason of the length 

 of the haven, considering also they mistrusted nothing. 

 True it is that five or six & twenty that were in the 

 brigantine discovered these ships when they were nere 

 them, which seeing themselves pressed for want of leasure 

 to weigh their anker, cut their cable, and the trumpeter 

 which was in it advertised the rest : whereupon the Span- 

 yards seeing themselves descried, discharged a volley of 

 canon shot against the French men, which they followed 

 by the space of three leagues, and recovered their own 

 ships : the brigantine which escaped away, passed in the 



The Cape of sight of the Cape des Aigrettes, and the Cape of S. 



5. Antony in Anthony situate in the Isle of Cuba, & from thence 



^,' passed within the sight of Havana ; but Trenchant their 



Havana. ^ ., , , ° , . , . r 



pilot, and the trumpeter, and certame other manners or 



this brigantine, which were led away by force in this 



voyage (as elswhere we have declared) desired nothing 



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