A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1568. 



Tenerif, there our Generall heard that his Vice-admirall 

 with the Swallow, and the William and John were at the 

 Hand called Gomera, where finding his Vice-admirall, he 

 anchored, tooke in fresh water, and set saile for Cape 

 Blank, where in the way wee tooke a Portugal caravel, 

 laden with fish called Mullets : from thence we sailed to 

 cape Verde. In our course thither we met a Frenchman 

 of Rochel called captaine Bland, who had taken a Portugal 

 caravel, whom our vice admiral chased and tooke. Cap- 

 taine Drake, now Sir Francis Drake was made master & 

 captaine of the Caravel, and so we kept our way till we 

 came to Cape Verde, and there we anchored, tooke our 

 boates, & set souldiers on shore. Our Generall was the 

 first that leapt on land, & with him Captaine Dudley : 

 there we tooke certaine Negroes, but not without damage 

 to our selves. For our Generall, Captaine Dudley, & 8. 

 other of our company were hurt with poysoned arrowes : 

 about nine dayes after, the 8. that were wounded died* 

 Our general was taught by a Negro, to draw the poyson 

 A remedie out of his wound with a clove of garlike, whereby he was 

 against poy- cured. From thence wee went to Sierra leona, where be 

 monstrous fishes called Sharkes, which will devoure men. 

 I amongst others was sent in the Angell with two Pin- 

 The river of nesses into the river called Calousa, to seeke two Caravels 

 L.aousa. ^j^^^ were there trading with the Negros : wee tooke one 



of them with the Negros, and brought them away. 

 In this river in ye night time we had one of our pin- 

 [III. 488.] nesses bulged by a sea-horse, so that our men swimming 

 about the river, were all taken into the other pinnesses, 

 except two that tooke hold one of another, and were 

 caried away by the sea-horse. This monster hath the 

 just proportion of a horse, saving that his legs be short, 

 his teeth very great, and a span in length: hee useth in 

 the night to goe on land into the woods, seeking at 

 unawares to devoure the Negroes in their cabbins, whom 

 they by their vigilancie prevent, and kill him in this 

 maner. The Negroes keepe watch, and diligently attend 

 their comming, and when they are gone into the woods, 



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