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not to leave off this enterprise which we had begunne, 

 and that though we were left alone we should deserve 

 the greater commendation and credite : whereupon wee 

 all answered him, that wee would not have him thinke 

 that any of us would ever be discouraged, but that we 

 would follow him untill hee should thinke it reason- 

 able that we should not proceede any further in the 

 enterprise, and that we were in danger of perishing, and 

 that untill then wee would bee at his commandement : 

 but withall we perswaded him that after he had scene 

 any great difficulty to proceede any further, he should 

 doe well to returne backe to make relation of our 

 successe to the R. H. lord the Marques de valle. 

 Hereupon he made an Oration unto us wherein he 

 told us, that he could not beleeve, much lesse could 

 imagine, wherefore the shippe called the Trinitie should 

 returne into Newe Spaine, nor why she should willingly 

 depart from us, and goe unto any other place, and that he 

 thought by all reason, that some current had caried her 

 out of our sight, and that through contrary weather and 

 tempests she could not fetch us up, and that notwith- 

 standing all that which we had done in the voyage, he 

 had an instruction, that if by chance we were separated 

 one from the other, wee were to take this course to meete 

 againe together, namely to returne backe eight or tenne 

 leagues to seeke one another, beyond certaine head-lands 

 which lay out into the sea, and that therefore we should 

 doe well to returne to seeke her up. This sentence 

 pleased us all, and so returning to seeke her, we espied 

 her two leagues distant from us, comming toward us with 

 a fresh gale of winde, whereat we greatly rejoyced. 



Thus being come together we ankered for that day, 

 because the weather seemed very contrary, and the Cap- 

 taine chid them for their negligence in sayling, because 

 they had in such sort lost our company ; and they ex- 

 cused themselves, that they could doe no lesse, because 



J current, a current had caried them away above three leagues, 

 whereby they could never reach unto us. The next day 



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