A.D. 



1568. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



and found there seven Portugal Carvels, which made 

 great fight with us. In the ende by Gods helpe wee 

 wonne the victory, and drove them to the shore, from 

 whence with the Negroes they fled, and we fetcht the 

 carvels from the shore into the river. The next morning 

 M. Francis Drake with his carvel, the Swallow, and the 

 William and John came into the river, with captaine 

 Dudley and his souldiers, who landed being but a hun- 

 dred souldiers, and fought with seven thousand Negroes, 

 burned the towne, and returned to our Generall with the 

 losse of one man. 



In that place there be many muske-cats, which breed in 

 hollow trees : the Negroes take them in a net, & put 

 them in a cage, & nourish them very daintily, & take the 

 muske from them with a spoone. 



Now we directed our course from Guinea towards the 

 West Indies. 



And by the way died Captaine Dudley. 



In sayling towards the Indies, the first land that we 



Dominica, escryed, was the Hand called Dominica, where at our 

 comming we ancored, & tooke in fresh water and wood 

 for our provision : which done, we sayled towards the 



Margarita. Hand called Margarita, where our Generall in despite of 

 the Spaniards anchored, landed, & tooke in fresh victuals. 

 A mile off the Hand there is a rocke in the sea, wherein 

 doe breede many fowles like unto Barnacles : in the night 

 we went out in our boates, and with cudgels we killed 

 many of them, and brought them with many of their egs 

 aboord with us : their egges be as bigge as Turkies egges, 

 and speckled like them. We did eate them, and found 

 them very good meate. 



Burhoroata. From thence wee sayled to Burboroata, which is in 

 the maine land of the West Indies : there we came in, 

 mored our ships, and taried two moneths trimming and 

 dressing our ships, and in the meane time traded with 

 certaine Spanyards of that countrey. There our Generall 

 sent us unto a towne called Placencia, (which stood on a 

 high hil) to have intreated a Bishop that dwelt there for 



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