A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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runne along the outward Westerne coast, and to see 



what it was, if it pleased God. Here we rested our 

 selves, and eat of the plummes and fruits called Pithaias : 

 They arrive and wee entred into the port of Santa Cruz on Sunday 

 at the haven ^^ jg ^f October and stayed there eight daies to take 

 Crux ^ ^^^ wood and water resting our selves all that while, that 



our men might strengthen and refresh themselves. Our 

 captaine determined to divide amongst us certain gar- 

 ments of taffata, with clokes and saies, and a piece of 

 taffata, and likewise ordained, that wee should goe on land 

 to catch a couple of Indians, that they might talke with 

 our interpreter, and that we might come to the knowledge 

 of their language. Whereupon thirteene of us went out 

 [III. 405.] of our ship by night, and lay in ambush in a place which 

 is called The well of Grijalva, where we stayed untill 

 noone betweene certaine secret wayes, and could never 

 see or descrie any one Indian : wherefore wee returned 

 The Spaniards to our ships, with two mastive-dogs which we caried with 

 use masttves ^g ^-q catch the Indians with more ease : and in our 

 returne we found two Indians hidden in certaine thickets, 

 which were come thither to spie what wee did : but 

 because wee and our dogs were weary, and thought 

 not on them, these Indians issued out of the thickets, 

 and fled away, and wee ranne after them, and our 

 dogges saw them not : wherefore by reason of the 

 Reade more of thicknes of the wilde thistles, and of the thornes and 

 these staves bryars, and because we were weary, we could never 

 cap. 10. overtake them : they left behinde them certaine staves 



so finely wrought that they were very beautifull to 

 behold, considering how cunningly they were made with 

 a handle and a corde to fling them. 



The nine and twentieth of October being Wednesday, 

 we set sayle out of this haven of Santa Cruz with little 

 winde, and in sayling downe the chanell our shippe called 

 the Trinitie came on ground upon certaine sholdes : this 

 was at noone at a low water, and with all the remedy 

 that we could use wee could not draw her off, where- 

 upon wee were constrained to underprop her, and to stay 



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to take the 

 Indians. 



