A.D. 



1578. 



Our entring 

 the coastes 

 dangerous. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



also cables, some botes, some Pinnisses : some anchor, 

 cables, boates and Pinnisses. 



This boystrous storme so severed us from one another, 

 that one shippe knewe not what was become of another. 

 The Admirall knewe not where to finde the Viceadmirall 

 or Rearadmirall, or any other ship of our company. Our 

 Generall being on land in Beares sound could not come to 

 his Shippe, but was compelled to goe aboord the Gabriel 

 where he continued all the way homeward : for the boy- 

 strous blasts continued so extreamely and so long a time, 

 that they sent us homewarde (which was Gods favour 

 towardes us) will we, nill we, in such haste, as not any 

 one of us were able to keepe in company with other, but 

 were separated. And if by chance any one Shippe did 

 overtake other, by swiftnesse of sayle, or mette, as they 

 often did : yet was the rigour of the wind so hidious, 

 that they could not continue company together the space 

 of one whole night. 



Thus our journey outward was not so pleasant, but 

 our comming thither, entering the coasts and countrey, by 

 narrow Streights, perillous yce, and swift tides, our times 

 of aboade there in snowe and stormes, and our departure 

 from thence the 3 1 . of August with dangerous blustering 

 windes and tempests, which that night arose, was as un- 

 comfortable : separating us so as wee sayled, that not 

 any of us mette together, untill the 28. of September, 

 which day we fell on the English coastes, betweene Sylley 

 and the landes ende, and passed the channell, untill our 

 arrivall in the river of Thames. 



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