PERT AND SEBASTIAN CABOT ad. 



1516. 

 & negotiare con suoi danari & mercantie. Hora quivi 

 hebbero alcune vettovaglie, & in compensa essi diedero 

 &: pagarono in certi stagni lavorati & altre cose. Et 

 poi si partirono alia volta d'Europa, dove si crede, che 

 non gungessero, perche non se ne seppe piu nuova 

 mai. This extract importeth thus much in English, 

 to wit: That in the yeere 1517. an English Rover 

 under the colour of travelling to discover, came with 

 a great shippe unto the parts of Brasill on the coast 

 of the firme land, and from thence he crossed over 

 unto this Hand of Hispaniola, and arrived neere 

 unto the mouth of the haven of this citie of S. 

 Domingo, and sent his shipboate full of men on 

 shoare, and demaunded leave to enter into this haven, 

 saying that hee came with marchandise to traffique. 

 But at that very instant the governour of the 

 castle Francis de Tapia caused a tire of ordinance to 

 be shot from the castle at the ship, for she bare in 

 directly with the haven. When the Englishmen sawe 

 this, they withdrew themselves out, and those that were 

 in the shipboate, got themselves with all speede on ship- 

 boord. And in trueth the warden of the castle committed 

 an oversight : for if the shippe had entred into the 

 haven the men thereof could not have come on lande 

 without leave both of the citie and of the castle. There- 

 fore the people of the ship seeing how they were received, 

 sayled toward the Hand of S. John, and entring into 

 the port of S. Germaine, the English men parled with 

 those of the towne, requiring victuals and things needefull 

 to furnish their ship, and complained of the inhabitants 

 of the city of S. Domingo, saying that they came not 

 to doe any harme, but to trade and traffique for their 

 money and merchandise. In this place they had certaine 

 victuals, and for recompence they gave and paid them 

 with certain vessell of wrought tinne and other things. 

 And afterward they departed toward Europe, where it 

 is thought they arrived not : for wee never heard any 

 more newes of them. Thus farre proceedeth Gonsalvo 



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