HENRY MAY 



some of their ducks. Here we stayed not above foure 

 houres, and so departed. This should seeme to be a very 

 good countrey. And we saw very fine champion ground, 

 and woods. From this place we ranne for the banke of 

 Newfoundland, whereas we met with divers, but none 

 would take in a man of us, untill it pleased God that 

 wee met with a barke of Falmouth, which received us all 

 for a little time ; and with her we tooke a French ship, 

 wherein I left capitan de la Barbotier my deere friend, 

 and all his company, and stayed my selfe aboord the 

 English barke : and having passage in the same, in 

 the moneth of August I arrived at Falmouth 1594. 



A voyage of the honourable Gentleman M. Robert 

 Duddeley, now knight, to the isle of Trinidad, 

 and the coast of Paria : w^ith his returne home 

 by the Isles of Granata, Santa Cruz, Sant Juan 

 de puerto rico, Mona, Zacheo, the shoalds 

 called Abreojos, and the isle of Bermuda. In 

 which voyage he and his company tooke and 

 sunke nine Spanish ships, wherof one was an 

 armada of 600 tunnes. Written at the request 

 of M. Richard Hakluyt. 



Aving ever since I could conceive of 

 any thing bene delighted with the dis- 

 coveries of navigation, I fostered in my 

 selfe that disposition till I was of more 

 yeres and better ability to undertake 

 such a matter. To this purpose I called 

 to me the advise of sufficient seamen, 

 and principally undertooke a voyage for the South seas ; 

 but by reason that many before had miscaried in the 

 same enterprise, I could not be suffered to hazard more 

 of her Majesties subjects upon so uncerteine a ground 

 as my desire : which made me by constraint (great 

 charges already by me defrayed) to prepare another 



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