A.D. 

 1595. 



The yies of 

 Santa Cruz 

 and Infierno. 

 Cape Roxo. 



They disem- 

 boque by the 

 yle of Zacheo. 



The sholds 

 called 

 Abreojos, 

 that isy Open 

 thine eyes, or 

 Locke out. 

 Bermuda. 



Flores and 

 Cuervo. 



A fight of two 

 dayes with a 

 Spanish Ar- 

 mada of 600 

 tunnes. 



They arrive 

 at S. Ives in 

 Cornwall in 

 May 1595. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



refreshed us well : yet meaning to sel her at the yle 

 of Sant Juan de Puerto rico, and shaping our course 

 thither by the ylands of Santa Cruz and Infierno, I 

 coasted all the South side of the said yle of S. John, till 

 I came to an ancker at Cape Roxo : where riding 14. 

 dayes to expect S. Domingo men, which oftentimes fall 

 with the yland of Mona, and finding none (neither would 

 the Spaniards of S. Juan de puerto rico buy my prize) 

 I unladed her, tooke in the goods, and after burned her. 

 This ended, I disemboqued (where fewe Englishmen had 

 done before, by reason of the great dangers betweene this 

 yland of S. Juan de puerto rico and Hispaniola) by a 

 little yland called Zacheo. And after carefully doubling 

 the shouldes of Abreojos, I caused the Master, (hearing 

 by a Pilote, that the Spanish fleete ment now to put out 

 of Havana) to beare for the Meridian of the yle of 

 Bermuda, hoping there to finde the fleete dispersed. 

 The fleete I found not, but foule weather enough to 

 scatter many fleetes ; which companion left mee not in 

 greatest extremitie, till I came to the yles of Flores and 

 Cuervo : whither I made the more haste, hoping to 

 meete some great Fleete of her Majestie my sovereigne, 

 as 1 had intelligence, and to give them advise of this rich 

 Spanish fleet : but finding none, and my victuals almost 

 spent, I directed my course for England. 



Returning alone, and worse manned by halfe then 

 I went foorth, my fortune was to meete a great Armada 

 of this fleete of some 600. tunnes well appointed, with 

 whom I fought board and board for two dayes, being no 

 way able in all possibilitie with fiftie men to board a man 

 of warre of sixe hundreth tunnes. And having spent all 

 my powder I was constrained to leave her, yet in such 

 distresse without sailes and mastes, and hull so often shot 

 through with my great Ordinance betweene winde and 

 water, that being three hundred leagues from land, I dare 

 say, it was impossible for her to escape sinking. Thus 

 leaving her by necessitie in this miserable estate, I made 

 for England, where I arrived at S. Ives in Cornewall 



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