A.D. 



1567. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The third troublesome voyage made with the 

 Jesus of Lubeck, the Minion, and foure other 

 ships, to the parts of Guinea, and the West 

 Indies, in the yeeres 1567 and 1568 by M. 

 John Hawkins. 



A storme. 



He ships departed from Plimmouth, the 

 second day of October, Anno 1567 

 and had reasonable weather untill the 

 seventh day, at which time fortie 

 leagues North from Cape Finister, there 

 arose an extreme storme, which con- 

 tinued foure dayes, in such sort, that 

 the fieete was dispersed, and all our great boats lost, 

 and the Jesus our chiefe shippe, in such case, as not 

 thought able to serve the voyage : whereupon in the 

 same storme we set our course homeward, determining 

 to give over the voyage : but the eleventh day of the 

 same moneth, the winde changed with faire weather, 

 whereby we were animated to foUowe our enterprise, 

 and so did, directing our course with the Hands of the 

 Canaries, where according to an order before pre- 

 scribed, all our shippes before dispersed, met at one 

 Gomera, of those Hands, called Gomera, where we tooke water, 

 and departed from thence the fourth day of November, 

 towards the coast of Guinea, and arrived at Cape 

 Verde, the eighteenth of November : where we landed 

 150 men, hoping to obtaine some Negros, where we 

 got but fewe, and those with great hurt and damage 

 Envenomed to our men, which chiefly proceeded of their en- 

 venomed arrowes : and although in the beginning 

 they seemed to be but small hurts, yet there hardly 

 escaped any that had blood drawen of them, but died 

 in strange sort, with their mouthes shut some tenne 

 dayes before they died, and after their wounds were 

 whole ; where I my selfe had one of the greatest 



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