MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1567. 



sayling in company together upon our voyage untill 

 the tenth of the same moneth, an extreeme storme 

 then tooke us neere unto Cape Finister, which dured 

 for the space of foure dayes, and so separated our 

 ships, that wee had lost one another, and our Generall 

 finding the Jesus to bee but in ill case, was in minde 

 to give over the voyage, and to returne home. How- 

 beit the eleventh of the same moneth the Seas waxing 

 calme, and the winde comming faire hee altered his 

 purpose, and held on the former entended voyage : 

 And so comming to the yland of Gomera being one of 

 the ylands of the Canaries, where according to an order 

 before appointed, we met with all our ships which 

 were before dispersed, wee then tooke in fresh water 

 and departed from thence the fourth of November, and 

 holding on our course, upon the eightenth day of the 

 same moneth wee came to an ancker upon the coast of 

 Africa, at Cape Verde in twelve fadome water ; and 

 here our Generall landed certaine of our men, to the 

 number of 160. or thereabout, seeking to take some 

 Negros. And they going up into the Countrey for 

 the space of sixe miles, were encountred with a great 

 number of the Negros : who with their invenomed arrowes 

 did hurt a great number of our men, so that they were 

 inforced to retire to the ships, in which conflict they 

 recovered but a fewe Negros, and of these our men 

 which were hurt with their envenomed arrowes, there 

 died to the number of seven or eight in very strange 

 maner, with their mouths shut, so that wee were 

 forced to put stickes and other things into their 

 mouths to keepe them open, and so afterward passing 

 the time upon the coast of Guinea, untill the twelfth 

 of January, wee obteined by that time the number of 

 150. Negros. And being ready to depart from the 

 Sea coast, there was a Negro sent as an Ambassadour 

 to our Generall, from a King of the Negros, which 

 was oppressed with other Kings his bordering neigh- 

 bours, desiring our Generall to graunt him succour and 



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