AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



wee shaped our course over the maine Ocean toward 



The hie of the West Indies, and arrived happily at the Island of 

 Trinidad. Xrinidad, and had conference with certaine Indians 

 inhabitants thereof, who gave us very friendly and 

 courteous entertainement : and here we set up a 

 pinnesse which we caried forth in the Ragged stafFe, 

 and traffiqued with the foresayd Indians for victuals. 

 And after we had spent sixe dayes in this place we 

 The Isle of departed, and arrived next at the Isle of Margarita, 

 Margarita, ^j^^j-g ^g tooke a small Spanish ship having in her 

 certaine pitch and 30 tuns of Canarie wines whereof 

 we reserved 4 or 5 tunnes to our selves, dismissing 

 them without any further damage. Thence (having 

 The Isle of remained there a day) wee set saile to the Island of 

 Curazao. Curazao, where we remained a day & a night, & tooke 

 in fresh water, at what time by the inhabitants of 

 that Island (being few of them Spaniards, & the most 

 part Indians) 14 of our men were treacherously hurt, 

 but none slaine. And from thence we departed for 

 the maine land Southwards, to a certain bay, and there 

 we abode 3 daies, but nothing of any reckoning was 

 Cape de la there atchieved. From thence we arrived at Cape de 

 la Vela, where grewe a contention betweene our Captaine 

 M. Andrew Barker, and his Master Philip Roche, upon 

 comparisons made betweene them concerning the know- 

 ledge of Navigation, and about other quarels, which 

 quarels afterward were an occasion of further mischiefe. 

 Tulu. Hence we sailed to the bay of Tulu (which is about 



18 leagues Southwestward from Carthagena) where wee 

 tooke a Frigat and certaine treasure therein to the 

 value of 500 pound, namely barres of gold, and lingots 

 of silver, and some quantity of corriento or coyne in 

 rials of plate, and certaine greene stones called 

 Emerauds, whereof one very great, being set in gold, 

 was found tied secretly about the thigh of a frier. 

 Here having stayed three dayes, and now being 

 pursued by Spanish men of warre, wee departed with 

 the sayd treasure, and left the Frigat behind us, all 



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