A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1540. 



the swifter ship, and better appointed then the other, it 

 was concluded, that it should be provided in the best 

 maner that might be, & that the General should 

 proceed on his journey in her with such companie as 

 he should make choise of, and that the rest should 

 returne at their good leisure. Wherefore upon this 

 determination we went under a point of this Island, 

 because it was a fit place to carene the ship : & in 

 recovering the same we spent Wednesday, Thursday, and 

 Friday till noone, and yet for all that wee could not wel 

 double it, until Easter day about noone. Here we 

 ankered very neere the shore, and in a valley we found 

 very excellent fresh water, wherof we made no smal 

 account, & here stayed all the Easter-holidayes, to set 

 our selves about the furnishing up of the Trinity : and 

 [III. 424.] after the worke was taken in hand by the two Masters 

 which were very sufficient calkers (one of which was 

 Juan Castiliano chiefe Pilot, and the other Peruccio de 

 Bermes) they finished the same so well in fives dayes, 

 as it was wonderfull; for no man could perceive how 

 any droppe of water could enter into any of the seames. 

 Afterward they mended the other ship from Saturday 

 till Munday, during which time all those were shriven 

 that had not confessed, and received the communion, 

 and it was resolved by charge of the confessors, that all 

 those seale-skins which they had taken from the Indians 

 should bee restored againe ; and the Generall gave 

 charge to Francis Preciado to restore them all, charging 

 him on his conscience so to doe. Thus they gathered 

 them together, and delivered them into the hands of the 

 fathers, to bee kept untill they returned to the place. 

 The Santa where they were to restore them. After this maner on 

 ^^\iy~ Munday before noone we tooke our leaves of the 

 New-spaine Generall Francis Ulloa, and of the people that stayed 

 the 5. of with him, who at our departure shed no small number 

 Jpril. of teares, and we chose for our captaine in the Santa 



Agueda master Juan Castiliano the chiefe pilot, as well 

 of the ship, as of us all, and set saile the same day 



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