AMIAS PRESTON AND GEORGE SOMMERS 



A.D. 

 1595. 



The victorious voyage of Captaine Amias Preston 

 now knight, and Captaine George Sommers 

 to the West India, begun in March 1595. 

 Wherein the yle of Puerto Santo, the yle of 

 Coche neere Margarita, the fort and towne 

 of Coro, the stately city of S. lago de Leon 

 were taken sacked and burned, and the towne 

 of Cumana ransomed, & Jamaica entred. 

 Written by Robert Davie one of the company. 



Aptaine Amias Preston, and captaine 

 Sommers, both valiant gentlemen & 

 discreet commanders, lying ready with 

 two tall ships, the Ascension and the 

 Gift, and a small pinnesse at Plimmouth, 

 for the space of a moneth attending 

 the comming of captaine Jones their 



consort, which in al that time, through the bad dealing of 

 those which he put in trust, could not make his ship 

 in readines, according to his appointment, the 12. of 

 March 1595. set forward on their voyage for the West 

 Indies. We with captaine Jones in the Derling, and 

 Captaine Prowse in the Angel, followed after them the 

 19. of the said moneth. The last of March, captaine 

 Preston by giving chase to a saile, was separated from 

 captaine Sommers, and his pinnesse, so that they utterly 

 lost sight ech of other : whereupon captain Preston in 

 his ship alone, resolved to surprise the yle of Puerto 

 santo, and shortly after came before the same. This 

 yland standeth in the Northerly latitude of 33. degrees, 

 and lieth to the Northward of the yle of Madera, and 

 is inhabited by old souldiers, which the kings of Portugal 

 were wont to reward for their former olde services, 

 by placing of them there. This yland is rich in corne, 

 wine, & oile : and hath good store of sheep, asses, goats 

 & kine : they have also plenty of foules, fishes, & fruits. 



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