a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1587. 



because by all likelihood it was the place and passage by 



The 2. voyage, us laboured for. In this second attempt the marchants 

 of Exeter, and other places of the West became adven- 

 turers in the action, so that being sufficiently furnished 

 for sixe moneths, and having direction to search these 

 straights, untill we found the same to fall into another 

 sea upon the West side of this part of America, we 

 should againe returne : for then it was not to be doubted, 

 but shipping with trade might safely be conveied to 

 China, and the parts of Asia. We departed from Dart- 

 mouth, and ariving upon the South part of the coast of 

 Desolation coasted the same upon his West shore to the 

 latitude of sixetie sixe degrees, and there ancored among 

 the Isles bordering upon the same, where we refreshed 

 our selves, the people of this place came likewise unto 

 us, by whom I understood through their signes that 

 towards the North the sea was large. At this place the 

 chiefe ship whereupon I trusted, called the Mermayd of 

 Dartmouth, found many occasions of discontentment, and 

 being unwilling to proceed, shee there forsook me. Then 

 considering how I had given my faith and most constant 

 promise to my worshipfull good friend master William 

 Sanderson, who of all men was the greatest adventurer 

 in that action, and tooke such care for the performance 



[III. 120.] thereof, that he hath to my knowledge at one time dis- 

 bursed as much money as any five others whatsoever, 

 out of his owne purse, when some of the companie have 

 bene slacke in giving in their adventure : And also 

 knowing that I should loose the favor of M. Secretary 

 Walsingham, if I should shrink from his direction ; in 

 one small barke of 30 Tunnes, whereof M. Sanderson 

 was owner, alone without farther company I proceeded 

 on my voyage, and arriving at these straights followed 

 the same 80. leagues, untill I came among many Islands, 

 where the water did ebbe and flow sixe fadome upright, 

 and where there had bene great trade of people to make 

 traine. But by such things as there we found, wee knew 

 that they were not Christians of Europe that had used 



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