SIR JOHN HAWKINS a.d. 



1565. 

 by no meanes would answere, and the other, because it 

 was not his due debt, woulde not molest him for it, but 

 was content to remit it untill another time, and therefore 

 departed, causing the two Barkes which rode neere the 

 shore to weigh and go under saile, which was done 

 because that our Captaine demanding a testimonial! of 

 his good behaviour there, could not have the same untill 

 hee were under saile ready to depart : and therefore at 

 night he went for the same againe, & received it at the 

 treasurers hand, of whom very courteously he tooke his 

 leave and departed, shooting off the bases of his boat for 

 his farewell, and the townesmen also shot off foure Faul- 

 cons and 30. harquebuzes, and this was the first time 

 that he knew of the conveyance of their Faulcons. 



The 31. of May wee departed, keeping our course Z.:' 

 to Hispaniola, and the fourth of June wee had sight 

 of an yland, which wee made to be Jamaica, marvelling 

 that by the vehement course of the Seas we should be 

 driven so farre to leeward : for setting our course to 

 the West end of Hispaniola we fel with the middle 

 of Jamaica, notwithstanding that to al mens sight it 

 shewed a headland, but they were all deceived by the 

 clouds that lay upon the land two dayes together, in 

 such sort that we thought it to be the head land of 

 the said yland. And a Spaniard being in the ship, 

 who was a Marchant, and inhabitant in Jamaica, having [III. 514.] 

 occasion to go to Guinie, and being by treason taken 

 of the Negros, & afterwards bought by the Tangomangos, 

 was by our Captaine brought from thence, and had 

 his passage to go into his countrey, who perceiving 

 the land, made as though he knew every place thereof, 

 and pointed to certaine places which he named to be 

 such a place, and such a mans ground, and that behinde 

 such a point was the harborow, but in the ende he 

 pointed so from one point to another, that we were 

 a leeboord of all places, and found our selves at the 

 West end of Jamaica before we were aware of it, and 

 being once to leeward, there was no getting up againe, 



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