LAST VOYAGE OF DRAKE AND HAWKINS a.d. 



1596. 



to get more : which considerations caused sir Thomas to 

 returne and give over his attempt. As he marched 

 thitherward he tooke an Indian and sent him to Nombre 

 de Dios with letters of his returne and proceeding. 



The 5 we set saile at 12 of the clocke, and stood 

 to the Westward. 



The 10 day we saw an Hand lying Westward some The lie of 

 30 leagues called Escudo, where wee came to anker ^^cudo. 

 on the Southside in 12 fadoms water, faire sand and 

 good ankorage. If you come into the Easterne point, 

 give it a birth, because of a ledge of rockes, that 

 lyeth out there from the end of the Island : comming 

 to anker we sawe a roader, who seeing us, set sayle, but 

 that night with our Pinnesses we tooke him, he had 

 nothing in him but a little maiz. The men being 

 examined by the Generall confessed him to be an 

 Advisor sent from Nombre de Dios to all the ports 

 along the coast Westward. This Hand lyeth 9 or 10 [III. 588.] 

 leagues from the maine, & is not past two leagues long 

 fuU of wood, and hath great store of fresh water in 

 every part of the Hand, and that very good. It is a 

 sickly climat also, and given to much raine : here 

 we washed our ships, and set up the rest of our 

 Pinnesses. 



The 15 day Captaine Plat died of sicknesse, and then 

 sir Francis Drake began to keepe his cabin, and to 

 complaine of a scowring or fluxe. 



The 23 we set saile and stood up again for Puerto 

 Bello, which is but 3 leagues to the Westwards of 

 Nombre de Dios. 



The 28 at 4 of the clocke in the morning our Generall The death of 

 sir Francis Drake departed this life, having bene ^'ir Francis 

 extremely sicke of a fluxe, which began the night before ^'*^^^- 

 to stop on him. He used some speeches at or a little 

 before his death, rising and apparelling himselfe, but 

 being brought to bed againe within one houre died. 

 He made his brother Thomas Drake and captaine Jonas 

 Bodenham executors, and M. Thomas Drakes sonne 



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