A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



the rest were sore wounded : the Salomons Chirurgian 

 taken prisoner, who disclosed our pretended voyage as 

 much as in him lay : so as the Viceroy sent a caravel 

 of adviso into the Indies, unto all such places as wee 

 did pretend to goe to. Howbeit they had intelligence 

 from the king of all our voyage the eight of August, 

 which was three weekes before we set foorth of England : 

 as also by a Fleming that had seene all our provision 

 at London. 



The 28 being Sunday at ten of the clocke at night wee 

 set saile, and stood away Southwest and Southsouthwest 

 some 200 leagues, untill we came in the height of the 

 Islands of Cape Verde, and then more Westerly for 

 Martinino, one of the Islands of the West Indies, 

 which we saw the 27 of October : but the night before 

 we had a storme, in which sir Francis with foure or 

 five other ships bearing on head of the fleete was 

 Dominica, separated. Then we stood for Dominica, an Island 

 full of inhabitants of the race of the Canibals, not past 

 ten leagues distant from Martinino. In it groweth great 

 store of Tabacco : where most of our English and 

 French men barter knives, hatchets, sawes, and such 

 like yron tooles in trucke of Tabacco. 



Before we came to Dominica our Generall Sir Francis 

 Drake altered his course, and went for Marigalante, 

 which we had sight of the 28 day, and came to an 

 anker on the Northeast side a saker shot off the shore 

 in 13 fathomes water faire sholding. There the Generall 

 went on shore in his barge, and by chance met a Canoa 

 of Dominicans, to the people whereof he gave a yellow 

 [III. 584.] wastcoate of flanell and an hankerchiefe ; and they gave 

 him such fruits as they had, and the Dominicanes rowed 

 to Dominica againe. They came thither to fetch some 

 fruits which they sowe and plant in divers places of that 

 Island, which they keepe like gardens. 



The next morning by breake of day we weyed and 

 stoode betweene the Todos Santos, which are 4 or 5 

 little Islands betweene Guadalupe and Dominica. There 



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