AMIAS PRESTON AND GEORGE SOMMERS ad. 



1595. 



commodity. And so with small pillage and great honour 



he retired in safetie and all his small company with him, 

 from the conquered yland unto his ship. But we in our 

 ship met not with him, untill the 12. of April following. 

 We therefore in the Derling pursuing our voyage, had [III. 579.] 

 sight of the yles of the Canaries the 6 of April, and 

 the 8 of the same, we watered on the Southeast side T^hey water 

 of the grand Canaria. There we met with capt. ^P'^^hejrand 

 Sommers, & his pinnesse, & 3 ships of Hampton, in 

 one whereof was cap. Willis. The 9 of April we al 

 departed for Tenerif to seeke captaine Preston : and 

 standing over towards Tenerif, the 9 day at night I 

 came into captaine Sommers ship. The 10 in the 

 morning we brake our maine yard, yet we recovered 

 Tenerif, & the same day towards night we ankered under 

 the southside of the same. There I went aland in our 

 boat, & found 3 or 4 fisher boats, and brought one of 

 them off. The rest bulged themselves. Here we rode 

 to mend our yard til the 1 1 at night : then we set saile 

 to find captaine Amias Preston : and standing towards 

 Gomera, the 12 in the morning we had sight of him. 

 Then we thought to have landed in Gomera: but the 

 wind blew so much, that we could not. So we departed 

 altogether with joy the 13 of April, & set our course 

 for the West Indies. And the 8 of May next ensuing, 

 we arrived at the yland of Dominica. In all which time Dominica. 

 nothing happened unto us saving this, that the 1 8 day of 

 April at midnight, our admiral lost her long boat in 

 towing. We staied at Dominica til the 14 of May, to 

 refresh our sicke men. Here the Indians came unto 

 us in canoas made of an whole tree, in some wherof 

 were 3 men, in some 4 or 6, & in others 12 or 14, 

 and brought in them plantans, pinos, and potatos, and 

 trucked with us, for hatchets, knives, & small bead- 

 stones. Here in refreshing of our men, we found an An excellent 



hot bath hard ioynins: to a cold river side : wherein our ^j^^^^J^^^/ '^f. 

 • 1 1 ^1 J ^1 1 J J bath found tn 



Sick men bathed themselves, and were soone recovered D^^i^ica 



of their sicknesses. This is a goodly yland, and some- 



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