ROBERT TOMSON ad. 



1555. 

 hard by laden with sugers, and drove the Spaniards that 

 were in her under hatches, & presently let slip her cables 

 and ankers, and set saile & carried her cleane away, and 

 after this sort deceived them : And they thinking or 

 fearing that we were the like, did shoote at us as they did. 

 This being past, the next day after our arrivall in the 

 sayd port, wee did unbarke our selves and went on 

 lande up to the citie or head towne of the great Canaria, 

 where we remained 18. or 20. dayes : and there found 

 certaine Englishmen marchants servants of one Anthony English/actors 

 Hickman and Edward Castelin, marchants of the citie 'q^^^^J'^'''^ 

 of London that lay there in traffique, of whom wee 

 received great courtesie and much good cheere. After 

 the which 20. dayes being past, in the which we had 

 scene the countrey, the people, and the disposition 

 thereof, wee departed from thence, and passed to the 

 next He of the Canaries 18. leagues off, called Teneriffe, 

 and being come on land, went up to the citie called La 

 Laguna, where we remained 7. moneths, attending the 

 comming of the whole fleete, which in the ende came, 

 and there having taken that which they had neede of, 

 wee shipped our selves in a ship of Cadiz, being one of 

 the saide fleete, which was belonging to an Englishman John Sweeting 

 maried in the citie of Cadiz in Spaine, whose name was J^^j.].^- Jj^^ 

 John Sweeting, and there came in the sayd ship for Cadiz,sendeth 

 captain also an Englishman maried in Cadiz, and sonne a ship of his 

 in law to the sayde John Sweeting, whose name was °'^"^ ^^^^ f^^ 

 Leonard Chilton: there came also in the said ship ^^^^ ^h^^^ n 

 another Englishman which had bene a marchant of duct of his 

 the citie of Exeter, one of 50. yeeres or thereabout, whose sonne in lazve 

 name was Ralph Sarre. So that wee departed from Leonard Chil- 

 the sayd Hands in the moneth of October the fore- ^^^^^.^ ^^^^^ 

 sayd yeere, 8. ships in our companie, and so directed 

 our course towards the bay of Mexico, and by the 

 way towardes the Hand of S. Domingo, otherwise called 

 Hispaniola. So that within 32. dayes after we departed 

 from the Hes of Canaries wee arrived with our ship 

 at the port of S. Domingo, and went in over the 



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