LAST VOYAGE OF DRAKE AND HAWKINS ad. 



1596. 



and much raine but large. And then all the rest of 

 our fleete fell a sterne except the Hope, which bare 

 a head : so that there kept no more with the Admirall, 

 but the Defiance, the Adventure, and the Phenix. 



The 28 we were in 39 degrees, and stood away for 

 Flores, which the 8 of Aprill we saw, and the 9 came to 

 an anker on the Southside, where we watered because the 

 Defiance when we came in had but two buts of water. 

 We bartered with the Portugals for some fresh victuals, 

 and set here on shore at our comming away out of the 

 Admirall our two Portugall Pilots ; which sir Francis 

 Drake caried out of England with him. 



The 10 being Easter-eve at night we set saile the winde 

 serving us to lie some slent in our course. That night 

 and Easter day we had much raine : the winde came up at 

 Northeast, wee beate it up some 30 leagues to the East- 

 ward, & then about to the West, and so againe to the 

 East, and tryed, and the next boord to the West. On 

 Thursday towards night, being the 16 wee had sight 

 of Corvo againe, we tryed all that night : and on Friday 

 towards night we came to an anker to the Westward 

 of the point of Santa Cruz under Flores: but before 

 midnight we drave, and set saile the next day standing 

 away Northeast. About three of the clocke in the 

 afternoone the winde came up againe at North. On 

 Sunday the 19 by two of the clocke in the afternoone 

 we had made 20 leagues an East way : and then the 

 winde came up a good gale at Northwest, and so 

 Northeast with a flowne sheete we made the best 

 way we could : but being dispersed by bad weather 

 we arrived about the beginning of May in the West 

 parts of England. And the last ships which came in 

 together to Plimmouth were the Defiance, the Garland, 

 the Adventure, and the Phenix. 



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