LAST VOYAGE OF DRAKE AND HAWKINS ad. 



1595 

 then we stoode away Southwest and by South for the 

 coast of Spaine. 



The 8 of September we tooke two small Flemish 

 fliboats bound for Barbary ; which we caried a while 

 with us and afterward dismissed them without doing 

 them any harme : only wee learned newes of them, 

 and stayed them from discrying our fleete to the enemie. 



The 26 we saw Forteventura, being one of the Islands 

 of the Canaries. 



The 27 being Saturday by breake of day we had 

 over-shot the chiefe towne of Grand Canaria to the 

 Northeast, and then stood about for it againe, and by 

 nine of the clocke were at anker fay re before the fort 

 to the Eastward of the towne some league. At one 

 of the clocke wee offred to land one thousand and foure 

 hundreth men in the sandie bay betwixt the fort and 

 the towne : But by our detracting of the time they 

 had made a bulwarke in the sandie bay and planted 

 Ordinance : so that by reason thereof, and the great 

 breach of the sea that went then on shore we were not 

 able to land without endangering our whole forces, which 

 our General would not doe. There were of Spaniards 

 horsemen and footmen some 900, which played upon 

 us out of their trenches, most of them being shot. At 

 the time of our landing there went by commandement 

 of our Generals within musket shot of the shore, & 

 rode there at ankor some three hours, the Salomon, 

 the Bonaventure, the Elizabeth Constance, the Phenix, 

 the Juell, the Little John, the Delight, the Pegasus, 

 the Exchange, the Francis, the caravell, and the two 

 catches : But when the Generall sir Francis Drake gave 

 over the landing being in his barge, the ships weighed 

 being in some danger, and stoode off againe to the 

 great ships. Then we went to the West end of the 

 Island and there watered : where captaine Grimston 

 going up the hill with 6 or 7 in his company was set 

 upon by the herdmen, who with their dogs and staves 

 killed the captaine and three or foure of his company : 



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