A.D. 



1578. 



Bestes bless- 

 ing. 



Anne Francis 

 in danger. 



The Moone in 

 har borough. 



[III. 89.] 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



hap, called after his owne name, Bestes blessing, and with 

 these good tydings returning aboord his Ship the ninth 

 of August about tenne of the clocke at night, hee was 

 joyfully welcommed of his company, who before were 

 discomforted, and greatly expected some better fortune 

 at his handes. 



The next day being the tenth of August, the weather 

 reasonably fayre, they put into the foresayde Har- 

 borough, having their Boate for their better securitie 

 sounding before their Shippe. But for all the care and 

 diligence that could bee taken in sounding the Channell 

 over and over againe, the Anne Francis came aground 

 upon a suncken Rocke within the Harborough, and lay 

 thereon more then halfe drye untill the next flood, when 

 by Gods Almighty providence, contrary almost to all 

 expectation, they came afloat againe, being forced all that 

 time to undersette their Shippe with their mayne Yarde, 

 which otherwise was likely to overset and put thereby in 

 danger the whole company. They had above two 

 thousand strokes together at the Pumpe, before they 

 could make their Shippe free of the water againe, so sore 

 shee was brused by lying upon the Rockes. The Moone 

 came safely, and roade at anchor by the Anne Francis, 

 whose helpe in their necessitie they could not well have 

 missed. 



Now whilest the Mariners were romaging their Shippes, 

 and mending that which was amisse, the Miners followed 

 their labour for getting together of sufficient quantitie of 

 Ore, and the Carpenters indevoured to doe their best for 

 the making up of the Boate or Pinnesse : which to bring 

 to passe, they wanted two speciall and most necessarie 

 things, that is, certaine principall tymbers that are called 

 Knees, which are the chiefest strength of any Boate, and 

 also nayles, wherewithall to joyne the plancks together. 

 Whereupon having by chance a Smyth amongst them, 

 (and yet unfurnished of his necessary tooles to worke and 

 make nayles withall) they were faine of a gunne chamber 

 to make an Anvile to worke upon, and to use a pickaxe 



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