AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



West India : but before we came thither our men 

 fell generally downe, so that the hole could not relieve 

 the sicke, the disease was so vile that men grew lothsome 

 unto themselves, franticke and desperately raving, among 

 whom our good Generals part was not the least ; for 

 his disease was vehement, the griefe of his mind, the 

 lamentation of his men, and the losse of those whom he 

 loved were to him torments more then durable : all which 

 with patience and humilitie in prayer he humbled himselfe 

 unto. But had not his mind bene invincible and his 

 desires above the ordinary course of men, it had bene im- 

 possible that life should now have rested in him : but 

 God (I hope) hath preserved him to some exceeding 

 good purpose. 

 Dominica. Arriving at Dominica the seventeenth of October, with 



Tzuo excellent all our men sicke and feeble, wee found there two bote 

 hote bathes. bathes, wherein our weake men washing themselves were 

 greatly comforted : and the Indians of this place used us 

 with great kindnesse, so that we were all perfectly well 

 before we departed from this place. For here we stayed 

 Margarita. untill the 25 of November. From Dominica we sayled to 

 Margarita, betweene the Isle and the maine, thinking 

 to meete with the perle dredgers, but wee found them 

 not. And comming to the point of Araia in the road of 

 Cumana, we sawe a Flemish ship riding ; the marchant 

 and men whereof came aboord us, and brought with 

 them my lord Admirals passe. By which meanes 

 our General would in no sort meddle with them, 

 yet they were very rich. Departing thence by Cape 

 Coadera, going for Cape de la Vela at the Isle Buenaire 

 our Fliboat was cast away, & some of the men lost, but 

 the most part saved. Coasting all the shore from Cape 

 de la Vela, being bound for S. Martha, we tooke a 

 small frigat laden with Guiny corne, the eleventh of 

 September : she had in her money to the valew of 500 

 [III. 601.] pound, linnen cloth and China silke, all which our 

 General bestowed upon his company to comfort them 

 after their long sustained miseries : Out of which 



272 



