A.D. 

 1565. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Island. 



Margarita 



Island. 



The tenth day at night, we departed from thence, 

 and the fifteenth had sight of nine Islands, called the 



The Testigos Testigos : and the sixteenth of an Island, called 

 Margarita, where wee were entertained by the Alcalde, 

 and had both Beeves and sheepe given us, for the 

 refreshing of our men : but the Governour of the 

 Island, would neither come to speake with our 

 Captaine, neither yet give him any licence to trafficke : 

 and to displease us the more, whereas wee had hired 

 a Pilote to have gone with us, they would not onely 

 not suffer him to goe with us, but also sent word by 

 a Caravel out of hand, to Santo Domingo, to the Vice- 

 roy, who doeth represent the kings person, of our 

 arrivall in those partes, which had like to have turned 

 us to great displeasure, by the meanes that the same 

 Vice-roy did send word to Cape de la Vela, and to 

 other places along the coast, commanding them that by 

 the vertue of his authoritie, and by the obedience that 

 they owe to their Prince, no man should trafficke with 

 us, but should resist us with all the force they could. 

 In this Island, notwithstanding that wee were not 

 within foure leagues of the Towne, yet were they so 

 afraid, that not onely the Governour himselfe, but also 

 all the inhabitants forsooke their Towne, assembling all 

 the Indians to them and fled into the mountaines, as 

 wee were partly certified, and also sawe the experience 

 our selves, by some of the Indians comming to see us 

 who by three Spaniards a horsebacke passing hard by 

 us, went unto the Indians, having every one of them 

 their bowes, and arrowes, procuring them away, who 

 before were conversant with us. 



Here perceiving no trafficke to be had with them, 

 nor yet water for the refreshing of our men, we were 

 driven to depart the twentieth day, and the 2 and 

 twentieth we came to a place in the maine called 



Cumana. Cumana, whither the Captaine going in his Pinnisse, 

 spake with certaine Spaniards, of whom he demanded 

 trafficke, but they made him answere, they were but 



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