A.D. 



1587. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



that go up the said River, as also that doe come 

 downe the said River. 



And therefore if it might please your majestie to 

 command, that Puerto Bello might be inhabited, and 

 the towne made neerer the Rivers side, every thing- 

 would be a great deale better cheape, if the commodi- 

 ties were caryed up the River : for it is a great danger 

 to cary them up by land, for it is daily scene that the 

 mules do many times fall and breake their neckes with 

 their lading upon their backs, as well the treasure as 

 other kinde of commodities, because it is such a bad 

 way. And your majestie might be at this charges and 

 spend your revenewes of Nombre de Dios and Panama, 

 which do yerely yield 12 or 14 thousand pezos, & this 

 being once done it would be a great ayd and benefit to 

 those, which doe trade and trafficke, and to those mer- 

 chantes which doe send their goods over-land, and ease 

 them much of paine and purse, because the other is a 

 most filthy way, as any is in the world. 



A briefe remembrance of a voyage made in the 

 yeere 1589 by William Michelson Captaine, 

 and William Mace of RatclifFe, Master of a ship 

 called the Dogge, to the Bay of Mexico in the 

 West India. 



He aforesaide ship called the Dogge, of 

 the burthen of threescore and ten tunnes 

 was furnished, and armed forth with the 

 number of fortie men : it departed from 

 the coast of England in the moneth of 

 May, directly for the West India : It 

 fell with the Bay of Mexico, and there 

 met with divers Spanish ships at sundry times, whereof 

 three fel into her lapse and were forced to yeeld unto the 

 mercie of the English : the last that they met within the 

 Bay was a Spanish man of warre, whom the English 

 chased, and after three severall fightes, upon three divers 



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