SIR JOHN HAWKINS a.d. 



1564. 



dine being at her sterne) and immediatly, to the great 



losse of the owners, and most horrible sight to the 



beholders, she sunke before their eyes. 



The 20. day of the moneth M. Hawkins with his 

 consorts and companie of the Minion, having nowe both 

 the brigandines at her sterne, wayed anker, and set saile 

 on their voyage, having a prosperous winde thereunto. 



The fourth of November they had sight of the Hand 

 of Madera, and the sixt day of Teneriffe, which they 

 thought to have beene the Canarie, in that they supposed 

 themselves to have beene to the Eastward of Teneriffe, 

 and were not : but the Minion being three or foure 

 leagues ahead of us, kept on her course to Teneriffe, 

 having better sight thereof then the other had, and by 

 that meanes they parted companie. For M. Hawkins 

 and his companie went more to the West, upon which 

 course having sayled a while, hee espied another Hand, 

 which hee thought to bee Teneriffe, and being not able 

 by meanes of the fogge upon the hils, to discerne the 

 same, nor yet to fetch it by night, went roomer untill the 

 morning, being the seventh of November, which as yet 

 hee could not discerne, but sayled along the coast the [m. 502.] 

 space of two houres, to perceive some certaine marke of 

 Teneriffe, and found no likelyhood thereof at all, 

 accompting that to bee, as it was in deede, the He of The Ik of 

 Palmes : and so sayling forwards, espied another Hand P^^^^^- 

 called Gomera, and also Teneriffe, with the which hee j'^^^f^f^ 

 made, and sayling all night, came in the morning the 

 next day to the port of Adecia, where he found his 

 pinnesse which had departed from him the sixt of the 

 moneth, being in the weather of him, and espying the 

 pike of Teneriffe all a high, bare thither. At his arrivall 

 somewhat before hee came to anker, hee hoysed out his 

 shippes pinnesse rowing a shoare, intending to have sent 

 one with a letter to Peter de ponte, one of the governours 

 of the Hand, who dwelt a league from the shoare : but as 

 hee pretended to have landed, suddenly there appeared 

 upon the two points of the roade, men levelling of bases 



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