ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1556. 



7 Also in calme weather and at other times when 

 you shall fortune to come to anker in the seas during 

 the voyage, you shall for the companies profite, and 

 for the good husbanding of the victuals aboord, call 

 upon the Boateswaine and other of the company to 

 use such hookes and other engines as they have aboord 

 to take fish with, that such fish so taken may bee eaten 

 for the cause aforesayd : and if there bee no such engines 

 aboord, then to provide some before you goe from hence. 



8 And when God shall send you in safetie into the 

 Bay of S. Nicholas at an anker, you shall goe a shore 

 with the first boate that shall depart from the ship, 



[I. 274.] taking with you such letters as you have to deliver to 

 the Agent there : and if he be not there at your comming 

 a land, then send the companies letters to Colmogro to 

 him by some sure mariner or otherwise, as the master 

 and you shall thinke best, but goe not your selfe at 

 any hand, nor yet from aboord the ship, unlesse it bee 

 a shore to treate with the Agent for the lading of the 

 ship that you be appointed in, which you shall applie 

 diligently to have done so speedily as may be. And 

 for the discharging of the goods therein in the Bay, 

 to be carried from thence, see that you doe looke well 

 to the unlading thereof, that there be none other goods 

 sent a shore then the companies, and according to the 

 notes entred in your booke as is aforesaid : if there be, 

 inquire diligently for whom they bee, and what goods 

 they be, noting who is the receiver of the sayd goods, 

 in such sort that the company may have the true 

 knowledge thereof at your comming home. 



9 Also there a shore, and likewise aboord, you shall 

 spie and search as secretly as you may, to learne and 

 know what bargaining, buying and selling there is with 

 the master and the mariners of the shippe and the 

 busses, or with the companies servants there : and that 

 which you shall perceive and learne, you shall keepe a 

 note thereof in your booke secretly to your selfe, which 

 you shall open and disclose at your comming home to 



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