A.D. 



1591 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



particular note of the Indian fleet, expected 

 to have come into Spaine this present yeere 

 of 1 59 1. with the number of shippes that are 

 perished of the same : according to the ex- 

 amination of certaine Spaniards lately taken 

 and brought into England by the ships of 

 London. 



He fleete of Nova Hispania, at their first 

 gathering together and setting foorth, 

 were two and fiftie sailes. The Admirall 

 was of sixe hundred tunnes, and the 

 Vice Admirall of the same burthen. 

 I Foure or five of the shippes were of 

 nine hundred and 1000 tunnes a peece, 

 some five hundred, and some foure hundred and the 

 least of two hundred tuns. Of this fleet 19 were cast 

 away, and in them 2600 men by estimation, which was 

 done along the coast of Nova Hispania, so that of the 

 same fleet there came to the Havana but 23 sailes. 



The fleete of Terra Firma were, at their first departure 

 from Spaine, fiftie sailes, which were bound for Nombre 

 de Dios, where they did discharge their lading, and 

 thence returned to Cartagena, for their healths sake, untill 

 the time the treasure was readie they should take in, 

 at the said Nombre de Dios. But before this fleete 

 departed, some were gone by one or two at a time, so 

 that onely 23 sayles of this fleete arrived in the Havana. 



22 sailes of Nova Hispania. 



23 sailes of Terra Firma. 

 12 sailes of San Domingo. 



9 sailes of the Hunduras. 



The whole 77 shippes, joyned and set sailes all to- 

 gether at the Havana, the 17 of July, according to our 

 account, and kept together untill they came into the 

 height of thirtie five degrees, which was about the tenth 



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At the Havana 

 there met 



