A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



this readie and willing disposition of theirs both in them 

 and in others by their example against any other time of 

 like occasion. But because it may bee supposed that 

 heerein wee forgette not the private benefite of our selves, 

 and are thereby the rather mooved to incline our selves to 

 this composition, wee doe therefore thinke good for the 

 clearing of our selves of all such suspition, to declare 

 heereby, that what part or portion soever it bee of this 

 ransome or composition for Cartagena, which should come 

 unto us, wee doe freely give and bestowe the same wholy 

 upon the poore men, who have remayned with us in the 

 Voyage, meaning as well the Sayler as the Souldier, 

 wishing with all our hearts it were such or so much as 

 might seeme a sufficient rewarde for their painefull in- 

 devour. And for the firme confirmation thereof, we have 

 thought meete to subsigne these presents with our owne 

 hands in the place and time aforesayd. 



Captaine Christopher Carliell Lieutenant Generall. 

 Captaine Goring. Captaine Sampson. 

 Captaine Powell &c. 



But while wee were yet there, it happened one day, 

 that our watch called the Centinell, upon the Church- 

 steeple, had discovered in the Sea a couple of small Barkes 

 or Boates, making in with the Harbour of Cartagena, 

 whereupon Captaine Moone and Captaine Varney, with 

 John Grant the Master of the Tyger, and some other Sea- 

 men, embarked themselves in a couple of small Pinnesses, 

 to take them before they should come nigh the shore, at 

 the mouth of the Harbour, lest by some stragling Span- 

 yardes from the Lande, they might bee warned by signes 

 from comming in : which fell out accordingly, notwith- 

 standing all the diligence that our men could use ; for 

 the Spanish Boates, upon the sight of our Pinnesses com- 

 ming towardes them, ranne themselves ashore, and so 

 their men presently hidde themselves in bushes hard by 

 the Sea side, amongst some others that had called them 

 by signes thither. Our men presently without any due 



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