A.D. 



I59I. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



A Portugall 

 ship taken. 



They double 

 the cape of 

 Buena Espe- 

 ranza. 



briefe note of a voyage to the East Indies, 

 begun the 10 of April 1591, wherein were 

 three tall ships, the Penelope of Captaine 

 Raimond, Admirall, the Merchant royall, 

 whereof was Captaine, Samuel Foxcroft, Vice- 

 admirall, the Edward Bonaventure, whereof 

 was Captaine, M. James Lancaster, Rere- 

 admirall, with a small pinnesse. Written by 

 Henry May, who in his returne homeward 

 by the West Indies, suffred shipwracke upon 

 the isle of Bermuda, wherof here is annexed 

 a large description. 



He tenth of April 1591 we departed from 

 Plymmouth with the ships aforesayd. In 

 May following wee arrived at Grand 

 Canaria one of the fortunate Islands. 

 Also toward the end of this moneth we 

 tooke a Portugall shippe being bound 

 for Brasil, within three degrees to the 

 Northward of the Equinoctiall, which served greatly to 

 our refreshing. The 29 of July following we came to 

 Aguada Saldania a good harbour neere the cape of Buona 

 Speranza, where we stayed about a moneth with the 

 Merchant royall, which by reason of sicknesse in our 

 fleet was sent home for England with divers weake men. 

 Here we bought an oxe for a knife of three pence, a 

 sheepe for a broken knife or any other odde trifle, of the 

 people which were Negros, clad in cloaks or mantles of 

 raw hides, both men and women. The 8 of September 

 the Penelope & the Edward Bonaventure weyed anker, 

 and that day we doubled the cape of Buona Speranza. 

 The 12 following we were taken with an extreame 

 tempest or huricano. This evening we saw a great 

 sea breake over our admirall the Penelope, and their 

 light strooke out : and after that we never saw them 



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