AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1580-82. 



being Imbarked kept our course and ranne Southward 

 towards Panama, keeping still as nigh the shore as we 

 could, and leaving the land upon our left hand, and 

 having coasted thus for the space of eighteene or twentie 

 dayes, and being more to the South then Guatimala, we 

 met at last with other ships which came from Panama, of 

 whom we were certainely informed that he was cleane 

 gone off the coast more then a moneth before : and so we 

 returned backe to Acapulco againe, and there landed, our 

 Captaine being thereunto forced, because his men were 

 very sore sea-sicke : All the while that I was at Sea, with 

 them, I was a glad man, for I hoped that if we met with 

 master Drake, we should all be taken, so that then I 

 should have beene freed out of that danger and miserie 

 wherein I lived, and should returne to mine owne countrey 

 of England againe. But missing thereof, when I sawe 

 there was no remedie but that we must needes come on 

 land againe, little doeth any man know the sorow and 

 griefe that inwardly I felt, although outwardly I was con- 

 strained to make faire weather of it. And so being 

 landed, ye next morow after, we began our journey 

 towardes Mexico, and past these townes of name in 

 Tuatepec, our way, as first the towne of Tuatepec, 50 leagues from 

 Washaca, Te- Mexico, from thence to Washaca, 40 leagues from 

 ^d^T^ J^^ 1° Mexico: from thence to Tepiaca 24 leagues from Mexico, 

 Siapelapa. ' ^^^ from thence to Pueblo de los Angeles, where is a 

 high hill which casteth out fire three times a day, which 

 hill is 1 8 leagues in maner directly West from Mexico, 

 from thence we went to Stapelapa, 8 leagues from Mexico, 

 and there our captaine and most of his men tooke boat, 

 and came to Mexico againe, having bene foorth about the 

 space of seven weekes or thereabouts. Our captaine 

 made report to the Viceroy what he had done, and how 

 farre he had travelled, and that for certaine he was in- 

 formed that captaine Drake was not to be heard of. To 

 The Spanish ^j^j^h the Viceroy replied and said. Surely we shall have 

 phecied but ^^"^ shortly come into our hands driven a land through 

 falsely, necessitie in some one place or other, for he being now in 



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