A.D. 

 1568. 



[III. 491.] 



About an hun- 

 dred English- 

 men landed. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



mast stroke over boord with a chaine shot that came from 

 the shore, wherefore he ankered, fired his ship, tooke his 

 pinnesse with all his men, and came aboord the Jesus of 

 Lubek to our Generall, who said unto him, that he thought 

 he would not have runne away from him : he answered, 

 that he was not minded to have run away from him, but 

 his intent was to have turned up, and to have laid the 

 weathermost ship of the Spanish fleete aboord, and fired 

 his ship in hope therewith to have set on fire the Spanish 

 fleete, hee said if he had done so he had done well. 

 With this, night came on. Our Generall commanded the 

 Minion, for safegard of her masts to be brought under 

 the Jesus of Lubecks lee : he willed M. Francis Drake 

 to come in with the Judith, and to lay the Minion 

 aboord, to take in men and other things needefull, and 

 to goe out, and so he did. 



At night when the wind came off the shore, wee set 

 sayle, and went out in despite of the Spanyards and their 

 shot, where wee ankered, with two ankers under the 

 Island, the wind being Northerly, which was wonderfuU 

 dangerous, and wee feared every houre to be driven with 

 the lee shore. In the end when the wind came larger, we 

 waied anker, and set saile, seeking the river of Panuco 

 for water, whereof we had very little, and victuals were 

 so scarce, that we were driven to eate hides, cats, rats, 

 parrats, munkies, and dogges : wherefore our Generall 

 was forced to divide his company into two parts, for there 

 was a mutinie among them for want of victuals : and 

 some said that they had rather be on the shore to shift 

 for themselves amongst the enemies, then to sterve on 

 ship-boord. He asked them who would go on shore, 

 and who would tarry on ship-boord, those that would goe 

 on shore, he willed to goe on foremast, and those that 



would tarrie, on baft mast 

 us were willing to depart 

 every one of us sixe yards 

 to them that demanded it. 

 came unto us, where friendly 



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fourescore and sixteene of 



Our Generall gave unto 



of Roane cloth, and money 



When we were landed, he 



imbracing every one of 



