A.D. 

 I59I, 



[III. 570.] 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



seventeene frigats, and two ships, whereof eight were 

 taken in the bay of the Honduras ; of all which we brought 

 but two into England : the rest we sunke, burnt, and 

 one of them we sent away with their men. And to make 

 up the full number of twenty, the Spanyards themselves 

 set one on fire in the bay of the Honduras, lest we should 

 be masters of it. 



We shaped our course from Florida homeward by the 

 isle of Flores one of the Azores, where we watered, 

 finding sir John Burgh there, who tooke us to be Span- 

 yards, and made up unto us ; with whom wee joyned in 

 the taking the mighty Portugall caracke called Madre de 

 Dios, and our captaine M. Christopher Newport with 

 divers of us was placed in her as captaine by the Generall 

 sir John Burgh to conduct her into England, where we 

 arrived in Dartmouth the seventh of September 1592. 



The voyage made to the bay of Mexico by M. 

 WiUiam King Captaine, M. Moore, M. Hov^, 

 and M. Boreman Ow^ners, v^ith the Salomon 

 of 200 tunnes, and the Jane Bonaventure of 

 40 tunnes of Sir Henry Palmer, from Ratcliffe 

 the 26 of January 15,92. 



He Salomon was manned with an hundred 

 men, all mariners, and the Jane with sixe 

 and twenty, all like wise mariners. Wee 

 came first to the Downes in Kent, and 

 never strooke saile in passing thence, 

 untill we came to Cape S. Vincent on the 

 coast of Portugall. From thence we 

 shaped our course to Lancerota one of the Canarie islands, 

 where we landed threescore men, and fetched a caravell 

 out of an harborow on the South side, and from a small 

 Island we tooke a demy-canon of brasse in despight of 

 the inhabitants, which played upon us with their small 

 shot at our first landing : of whom we slew three ; and 

 gave them the repulse. Thence we went to the Grand 



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