A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1562. 



roome: in which small fleete M. Hawkins tooke with 

 him not above 100. men for feare of sicknesse and other 

 inconveniences, whereunto men in long voyages are 

 commonly subject. 



With this companie he put off and departed from 

 the coast of England in the moneth of October 1562. 

 and in his course touched first at Teneriffe, where hee 

 received friendly intertainement. From thence he passed 

 Sierra Leona to Sierra Leona, upon the coast of Guinea, which place 

 called ^y ^^Q people of the countrey is called Tagarin, where 



agann. ^^ Stayed some good time, and got into his possession, 

 partly by the sworde, and partly by other meanes, to 

 the number of 300. Negros at the least, besides other 

 merchandises which that countrey yeeldeth. With this 

 praye hee sayled over the Ocean sea unto the Hand 

 of Hispaniola, and arrived first at the port of Isabella : 

 and there hee had reasonable utterance of his English 

 commodities, as also of some part of his Negros, trusting 

 the Spaniards no further, then that by his owne strength 

 he was able still to master them. From the port of 

 Isabella he went to Puerto de Plata, where he made like 

 sales, standing alwaies upon his guard : from thence also 

 hee sayled to Monte Christi another port on the North 

 side of Hispaniola, and the last place of his touching, 

 where he had peaceable trafiique, and made vent of the 

 whole number of his Negros : for which he received 

 in those 3. places by way of exchange such quantitie of 

 merchandise, that hee did not onely lade his owne 3. 

 shippes with hides, ginger, sugars, and some quantitie 

 of pearles, but he fraighted also two other hulkes with 

 hides and other like commodities, which hee sent into 

 Spaine. And thus leaving the Hand, he returned and 

 T/ie Iks of disemboqued, passing out by the Hands of the Caycos, 

 Ca-jCQs. without further entring into the bay of Mexico, in this 



his first voyage to the West India. And so with 

 prosperous successe and much gaine to himselfe and 

 the aforesayde adventurers, he came home, and arrived 

 in the moneth of September 1563. 



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