A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1593- 



our company, Edmund Barker our lieutenant, and one 



John West, and Richard Lucland one of the mutinous 

 crew. The which I told the Frenchman of; & he could 

 not deny, but that there was such a thing pretended. 

 Then I was put into the French pinnesse to seeke their 

 boat : and in the meane time they would go to see if 

 they could overtake our shippe. And the next day we 

 should meet againe at Cape S. Nicolas : so the next 

 morning we met together all three of us, but heard no 

 newes of his boat. So he having Spanyards and Negros 

 aboord of us, requested to have them. Our captaine 

 desired him to send his boat aboord our shippe, and he 

 should have them with all his heart. So with much adoe 

 he sent his boat and had them. Then he demanded of 

 them, if his boat were not aboord the ship. They 

 answered no. So that then Monsieur de la Barbotiere 

 was satisfied: and then we were great friends againe, 

 to all our joyes. 



The 12 of August 1593 our captaine was sent aboord 

 our ship : but before his departure he requested the 

 captaine of the French ship that he would give mee 

 passage home with him, to certifie the owners what had 

 passed in all the voyage, as also of the unrulinesse of the 

 company. And this day we tooke our leaves the one 

 of the other ; the Edward for England : and we bare 

 in for Gonnavy, where afterwards we found the French- 

 mans boat. 



The last of November 1593 Monsieur de la Barbotiere 



departed from a port called Laguna in Hispaniola. The 



17 of December next insuing it was his fortune to have 



They wracked his ship cast away upon the Northwest part of the isle of 



upon Bermuda Bermuda about midnight; the pilots making themselves 



[LllJ/rrs^~ at noone to be to the Southward of the island twelve 



cemberi^()1. -r a ^ • 1 i r n 



leagues, certified the captame that they were out or all 



danger. So they demanded of him their wine of heigth : 



the which they had. And being, as it should seeme, 



after they had their wine, carelesse of their charge which 



they tooke in hand, being as it were drunken, through 



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