AMIAS PRESTON AND GEORGE SOMMERS ad. 



1595- 

 day of June in the morning wee departed from thence : 

 but before our departure, wee overthrew on the one 

 side of the steepe hill two bases of yron, which we found 

 there planted by the enemie, and so set forward toward 

 our ships, and by 12 of the clocke came to the waters 

 side, and there remayned in the fort which wee had taken 

 before, untill the fift day at night : in which time we laded 

 some small quantity of hides, and Salsa-perilla, which 

 we found there at our first landing. So the fift day at 

 night we departed from thence, to goe to a towne called 

 Coro : but before wee departed, wee set fire in the fort, Afortandcer- 

 and all the Indians houses that were about it, and burnt ^^ . ^^ 

 them. Then we set sayle, and standing along the coast, waters side 

 our Spanish guide signified unto us, that there were burnt. 

 foure sayles of ships about five leagues from thence, in [m* 5 8 2.] 

 a place called Checherebiche, and Caio, and Maio. So 

 the 6 day in the morning we were thwart of the place, 

 and there our generall sent away his long boate with 

 captaine Sommers, unto those places, where they found 

 3 of the ships : but the Spaniards had conveyed their 

 sailes ashore into the woodes, so that they could not 

 bring them off, but set fire in them and burnt them. T^hree Spanish 

 From hence we stood along the shore, sailing untill the ^ ^^^ "^' 

 ninth day of June, on which day toward the evening we 

 imbarked our selves in our pinnesses and small caravels, 

 to land at Coros : but we had none that knew the place 

 certainely : wherefore we ankored that night some two 

 leagues to the Eastward of it, and in the morning I went 

 on land, and nine more with me, to see if we could 

 discover the towne, but we could not, wee went above 

 a league up into the countrey, but could not see any 

 village or towne. So returning backe, wee met our 

 Generall, with divers others which came ashore with 

 him, with whom we marched into the countrey againe, 

 but could see nothing, & so returned. At the water 

 side captaine Prowse died. There we remained all that 

 day on land, by reason the wind blew so much that wee 

 could not get aboord untill the evening. After our 



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