STEPHEN BURHOUGH ad. 



1556. 

 saile that went into the sayd creeke, the wind being 

 at the Northeast. We had indifferent good landfang. 



This afternoone Gabriel came aboord with his skiffe, 

 and then I rewarded him for the good company that 

 he kept with us over the shoales with two small 

 ivory combes, and a Steele glasse, with two or three 

 trifles more, for which he was not ungratefull. But 

 notwithstanding, his first company had gotten further 

 to the Northwards. 



Wednesday being Midsummer day, we sent our 24 

 skiffe aland to sound the creeke, where they found 

 it almost drie at a low water. And all the Lodais 

 within were on ground. 



Although the harborough were evil, yet the stormie 

 similitude of Northerly winds tempted us to set our 

 sayles, & we let slip a cable and an anker, and bare 

 with the harborough, for it was then neere a high 

 water : and as alwaies in such journeis varieties do 

 chance, when we came upon the barre in the entrance 

 of the creeke, the wind did shrink so suddenly upon 

 us, that we were not able to lead it in, and before we 

 could have flatted the shippe before the winde, we 

 should have bene on ground on the lee shore, so 

 that we were constrained to let fall an anker under 

 our sailes, and rode in a very breach, thinking to 

 have warpt in. Gabriel came out with his skiffe, 

 and so did sundry others also, shewing their good 

 will to helpe us, but all to no purpose, for they 

 were likely to have bene drowned for their labour, 

 in so much that I desired Gabriel to lend me his 

 anker, because our owne ankers were two big for our 

 skiffe to lay out, who sent me his owne, and bor- 

 rowed another also and sent it us. Then we layd 

 out one of those ankers, with a hawser which he had 

 of 140 fadom long, thinking to have warpt in, but it 

 would not be : for as we shorted upon ye said warpe 

 the anker came home, so that we were faine to beare 

 the end of the warpe, that we rushed in upon the 



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