A.D. 



I587. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The third voyage Northwestward, made by M. 

 John Davis Gentleman, as chiefe captaine & 

 Pilot generall, for the discovery of a passage 

 to the Isles of the Moluccas, or the coast of 

 China, in the yeere 1587. Written by M. 

 John Janes. 



May. 



He 19. of this present 

 midnight wee weyed our 



moneth about 

 ankers, set 



sayle, and departed from Dartmouth with 

 two Barkes and a Clincher, the one 

 named the Elizabeth of Dartmouth, the 

 other the Sunneshine of London, and the 

 Clincher called the Helene of London : 

 thus in Gods name we set forwards with the wind at 

 Northeast a good fresh gale. About 3. houres after our 

 departure, the night being somewhat thicke with dark- 

 nesse, we had lost the pinnesse : the Captaine imagining 

 that the men had runne away with her, willed the Master 

 of the Sunshine to stand to Seawards, and see if we could 

 descry them, we bearing in with the shore for Plimmouth. 

 At length we descried her, bare with her, and demanded 

 what the cause was : they answered that the tiller of their 

 helme was burst. So shaping our course Westsouthwest, 

 we went forward, hoping that a hard beginning would 

 make a good ending, yet some of us were doubtfull of it, 

 falling in reckoning that she was a Clincher ; neverthe- 

 lesse we put our trust in God. 



The 2 1 . we met with the Red Lion of London, which 

 came from the coast of Spaine, which was afrayd that we 

 had bene men of warre, but we hailed them, and after a 

 little conference, we desired the Master to carie our 

 letters for London directed to my uncle Sanderson, who 

 promised us a safe deliverie. And after wee had heaved 

 them a lead and a line, whereunto wee had made fast our 



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