AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



so that by trusting of the Spaniards knowledge, our 

 Captaine sought not to speake with any of the inhabitants, 

 which if he had not made himselfe sure of, he wpuld 

 have done as his custome was in other places : but this 

 man was a plague not onely to our Captaine, who made 

 him loose by overshooting the place 2000. pounds by 

 hides, which hee might have gotten, but also to himselfe, 

 who being three yeeres out of his Countrey, and in 

 great misery in Guinie, both among the Negros and 

 Tangomangos, and in hope to come to his wife and 

 friendes, as he made sure accompt, in that at his going 

 into the pinnesse, when he went to shore he put on 

 his new clothes, and for joy flung away his old, could 

 not afterwards finde any habitation, neither there nor 

 in all Cuba, which we sailed all along, but it fell out 

 ever by one occasion or other, that wee were put beside 

 the same, so that he was faine to be brought into 

 England, and it happened to him as it did to a duke 

 of Samaria, when the Israelites were besieged, and were 

 in great misery with hunger, & being tolde by the 

 Prophet Elizaeus, that a bushell of flower should be sold 

 for a sickle, would not beleeve him, but thought it un- 

 possible : and for that cause Elizaeus prophesied hee 

 should see the same done, but hee should not eate 

 thereof: so this man being absent three yeeres, and 

 not ever thinking to have seene his owne Countrey, 

 did see the same, went upon it, and yet was it not 

 his fortune to come to it, or to any habitation, whereby 

 to remaine with his friends according to his desire. 

 •^««^' Thus having sailed along the coast two dayes, we 



departed the seventh of June, being made to beleeve by 

 the Spaniard that it was not Jamaica, but rather His- 

 paniola, of which opinion the Captaine also was, because 

 that which hee made Jamaica seemed to be but a piece of 

 the land, and thereby tooke it rather to be Hispaniola, by 

 The dece'itfull ^^ ^7^"^ °^ the coast, and also for that being ignorant 

 force of the o^ the force of the current, he could not beleeve he was so 

 current. farre driven to leeward, and therfore setting his course to 



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