ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 



afterwards spoken, if contrary fortune should happen him 

 (Lo he hath followed his owne opinion and desperate 

 resolutions, and so thereafter it is befallen him) calling 

 the Master and Mariners of best judgement together, 

 declared unto them how much the cause imported him 

 in his credite to seeke out the Generall, as well to con- 

 ferre with him of some causes of weight, as otherwise 

 to make due examination and tryall of the goodnesse of 

 the Ore, whereof they had no assurance but by gesse of 

 the eye, and it was well like the other : which so to cary 

 home, not knowing the goodnesse thereof, might be as 

 much as if they should bring so many stones. And 

 therefore hee desired them to deliver their plaine and 

 honest opinion, whether the Pinnesse were sufficient for 

 him so to adventure in or no. It was answered, that by 

 carefull heede taking thereunto amongst the yce, and the 

 foule weather, the Pinnesse might suffice. And here- 

 upon the Masters mate of the Anne Francis called John 

 Gray, manfully and honestly offering himselfe unto his 

 Captaine in this adventure and service, gave cause to 

 others of his Mariners to follow the attempt. 



And upon the nineteenth of August the sayd Captaine 



being accompanied with Captaine Upcote of the Moone, 



and eighteene persons in the small Pinnesse, having con- 



Tkey adven- venient portion of victuals and things necessary, departed 



ture by the U p 0n the sayd pretended Voyage, leaving their shippe at 



weake pln^ ancnor * n a good readinesse for the taking in of their 



nesse. fraight. And having little winde to sayle withall, they 



plyed alongst the Souther shore, and passed above 30. 



leagues, having the onely helpe of mans labour with 



Oares, and so intending to keepe that shore aboord until 



they were got up to the farthest and narrowest of the 



streights, minded there to crosse over, and to search 



likewise alongst the Northerland unto the Countesses 



sound, and from thence to passe all that coast along, 



whereby if any of the Fleete had bene distressed by 



wrecke of rocke or yce, by that meanes they might be 



perceived of them, and so they thereby to give them such 



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