SIR ROBERT DUDLEY a.d. 



1595- 

 England with two prizes. The second expectation fell 



out to our great comfort : for I tooke two very fine 

 Caravels under the calmes of Tenerif and Palma, 

 which both refreshed and amended my company, and 

 made me a Fleete of 3. sailes. In the one Caravel 

 called The Intent, I made Benjamin Wood Captaine, ThisM.Ben- 

 in the other, one Captaine Wentworth. Thus cheared {^J/^^^^'f^^ 

 as a desolate traveller with the company of my small ^/-^^^ ^^^^ 

 and newe erected Fleete, I continued my purpose for 1596./^;// 

 the West Indies, and first for Cape Blanco in Africa M^h with tzvo 

 upon the deserts of Libya. My last hope was to meete ^^^py ^^^ <^^^- 

 my lost ship, and withall to renue my victuals upon Zm avoTage 

 the Canthers, which are Portugal fishermen : but the for the South 

 Canthers had bene so frighted by Frenchmen, as I ^^^^ and for 

 could get none. Riding under this White Cape two ^^^^^^ ^^^^f 

 daies, and walking on shore to view the countrey, I \^nGurabIe 

 found it a waste, desolate, barren, and sandie place, gentleman 

 the sand running in drifts like snow and being very ^^r Robert 

 stony; for so is all the countrey sand upon stone (like ^^^^h- 

 Arabia deserta, and Petrea) and full of blacke venemous 

 lizards, with some wilde beasts and people which be ^ description 

 tawny Moores, so wilde, as they would but call to my ^fCapeBlanco 

 Caravels from the shore, who road very neere it. But ^^ ' 



not desirous to make any longer aboad in this place, 

 by reason of the most infectious serenas or dewes that 

 fall all along these coasts of Africa, I caused my 

 Master Abraham Kendall to shape his course directly 

 for the isle of Trinidad in the West Indies ; which ^-^^ v^^ of 

 after 22. dayes we descried, and the first of February ^7^^^'^^ ^'^•^■ 

 came to an anker under a point thereof called Curiapan, p^^^'^ ^^ 

 in a bay which was very full of pelicans, and I called Curiapan. 

 it Pelicans bay. About 3. leagues to the Eastwards of 

 this place we found a mine of Marcazites which 

 glister like golde (but all is not gold that glistereth) 

 for so we found the same nothing worth, though the 

 Indians did assure us it was Calvori, which signifieth 

 gold with them. These Indians are a fine shaped and 

 a gentle people, al naked & painted red, their com- 



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