A.D. 

 1586. 



A most com- 

 mendable 

 example of 

 diligence in 

 Generall. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



up by making pits in a plot of marrish ground, some 

 three hundred pases from the sea side. 



I doe wrong if I should forget the good example of the 

 Generall at this place, who to encourage others, and to 

 hasten the getting of fresh water aboord the ships, tooke 

 no lesse paine himselfe then the meanest; as also at S. 

 Domingo, Cartagena, and all other places, having alwayes 

 so vigilant a care and foresight in the good ordering of 

 his Fleete, accompanying them, as it is sayde, with such 

 wonderfull travell of body, as doubtlesse had he bene the 

 meanest person, as hee was the chiefest, he had yet 

 deserved the first place of honour : and no lesse happy 

 doe we account him, for being associated with Master 

 Carliel his Lieutenant generall, by whose experience, 

 prudent counsell, and gallant performance he atchieved 

 so many and happy enterprises of the warre, by whom 

 also he was very greatly assisted, in setting downe the 

 needfull orders, lawes, and course of justice, and the due 

 administration of the same upon all occasions. 



After three dayes spent in watering our Ships, wee 

 departed now the second time from this Cape of S. 

 Anthony the thirteenth of May, and proceeding about 

 the Cape of Florida, wee never touched any where ; but 

 coasting alongst Florida, and keeping the shore still in 

 sight, the 28. of May early in the Morning wee descried 

 on the shore a place built like a Beacon, which was in 

 deede a scaffold upon foure long mastes raised on ende, 

 for men to discover to the seaward, being in the latitude 

 of thirtie degrees, or very neere thereunto. Our Pin- 

 nesses manned, and comming to the shore, wee marched 

 up alongst the river side, to see what place the enemie 

 held there : for none amongst us had any knowledge 

 thereof at all. 



Here the Generall tooke occasion to march with the 

 companies himselfe in person, the Lieutenant generall 

 having the Vantguard ; and going a mile up or somewhat 

 more by the river side, we might discerne on the other 

 side of the river over against us, a Fort which newly had 



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