A.D. 



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THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The casting away of the Tobie neere Cape Es- 

 partel corruptly called Cape Sprat without the 

 Straight of Gibraltar on the coast of Barbaric 



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He Tobie of London a ship of 250 

 tunnes manned with fiftie men, the 

 owner whereof was the worshipfull M. 

 Richard Staper, being bound for Livorno, 

 Zante and Patras in Morea, being laden 

 with marchandize to the value of 1 r or 

 12 thousand pounds sterling, set sayle 

 from Black-wall the 16 day of August 1593, and we 

 went thence to Portesmouth where we tooke in great 

 quantitie of wheate, and set sayle foorth of Stokes bay 

 in the Isle of Wight, the 6. day of October, the 

 winde being faire : and the 16 of the same moneth we 

 were in the heigth of Cape S. Vincent, where on the 

 next morning we descried a sayle which lay in try right 

 a head off us, to which we gave chase with very much 

 winde, the sayle being a Spaniard, which wee found in 

 fine so good of sayle that we were faine to leave her 

 and give her over. Two dayes after this we had sight 

 of mount Chiego, which is the first high-land which 

 we descrie on the Spanish coast at the entrance of the 

 Straight of Gibraltar, where we had very foule weather 

 and the winde scant two dayes together. Here we lay 

 off to the sea. The Master, whose name was George 

 Goodlay, being a young man, and one which never 

 tooke charge before for those parts, was very proud of 

 that charge which he was litle able to discharge, neither 

 would take any counsel of any of his company, but did 

 as he thought best himselfe, & in the end of the two 

 dayes of foule weather cast about, and the winde being 

 faire, bare in with the straights mouth. The 19 day 

 at night he thinking that he was farther off the land 

 then he was, bare sayle all that night, & an houre and 



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