A.D. 



1586. 



[III. 109.] 



May. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



unto the poore men, and preserve them, if it be his 

 blessed will. 



I have now experience of much of the Northwest part 

 of the world, & have brought the passage to that likeli- 

 hood, as that I am assured it must bee in one of foure 

 places, or els not at all. And further I can assure you 

 upon the perill of my life, that this voyage may be 

 performed without further charge, nay with certaine 

 profite to the adventurers, if I may have but your favour 

 in the action. I hope I shall finde favour with you to 

 see your Card. I pray God it be so true as the Card 

 shal be which I will bring you : and I hope in God, that 

 your skill in Navigation shall be gaineful unto you, 

 although at the first it hath not proved so. And thus with 

 my humble commendations I commit you to God, desiring 

 no longer to live, then I shall be yours most faithfully to 

 command. Exon this fourteenth of October. 1586. 



Yours to command 



John Davis. 



The relation of the course which the Sunshine 

 a barke of fiftie tunnes, and the Northstarre 

 a small pinnesse, being two vessels of the fleete 

 of M. John Davis, helde after hee had sent 

 them from him to discover the passage be- 

 tweene Groenland and Island, written by 

 Henry Morgan servant to M. William Sander- 

 son of London. 



He seventh day of May 1586. wee 

 departed out of Dartmouth haven foure 

 sailes, to wit, the Mermaid, the Sunshine, 

 the Mooneshine, & the Northstarre. In 

 the Sunshine were sixteene men, whose 

 names were these : Richard Pope Master, 

 Marke Carter Masters mate, Henry 

 Morgan Purser, George Draward, John Mandie, Hugh 

 Broken, Philip Jane, Hugh Hempson, Richard Borden, 



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