CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT a.d. 



1591. 



Our place of meeting should have beene at the Tor- 

 tugas neere unto the point of Florida, but the Golden 

 dragon and the Prudence were put to leeward of this 

 place : neverthelesse wee fell with certeine islands within 

 the point of Florida, where the captaine of the Dragon 

 M. Christopher Newport sent his pinnesse on shore with 

 certeine shot to seeke for fresh water, where wee found 

 none ; but found the Savages very courteous unto us, 

 who came brest high into the sea, and brought us a 

 line to hall in our boat on shore, and shewed us that 

 up into the land Northward was fresh water, and much 

 golde. And one Michael Bagge of Ipswich boatswaines 

 mate of the Dragon, had given him by one of the Savages 

 for an olde rusty hatchet, a piece of golde wound hollow, 

 and about the bignesse and value of an English angell, 

 which the Savage ware hanging about his knee, with two 

 pieces of fine silver plate, whereof one the sayd Savage 

 gave John Locke, masters mate of the Dragon, being 

 foureteene groats in value, for an olde knife : the other 

 piece he gave to one William Wright a sailer, for an olde 

 knife : which pieces of silver were in forme like unto the 

 bosse of a bridle. These Savages were farre more civill 

 than those of Dominica : for besides their courtesie, they 

 covered their privities with a platted mat of greene straw, 

 about three handfuls deepe, which came round about their 

 waste, with the bush hanging downe behinde. 



The next day in the morning very early, there came a 

 frigat of the iland of Cuba of 30 tunnes, put in by 

 weather, which was bound for Havana, wherein were fifty 

 hogges ; to which we gave chase all that day, passing the 

 gulfe of Bahama, and about five of the clocke in the after- 

 noone, after a shot or two made at her, shee yeelded unto 

 us : wee hoisted out our boat, and went aboord, where 

 we found some five Spanyards, five and fifty hogs, and 

 about some two hundred weight of excellent tabacco 

 rolled up in seynes. We lightened them of their hogges 

 and tabacco, and sent the men away with their frigat. 



In this voyage we tooke and sacked foure townes, 



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