AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1597- 



unholsomenesse of this ayre, and our victuals so wasted, 

 as that we were desperate how to recover our countrey. 

 Theirretume, Whereupon with most unwilling minds we returned to 

 our shipping, and with all possible expedition weyed, & 

 so laboured upon the tacke to turne out of this very 

 deepe bay, being 60 leagues within the point of land. 

 Being out of the bay, wee shaped our course for Cape 

 S. Anthony. Our General, whose restles spirit con- 

 tinually laboured to avoide the frownes of fortune, had 

 now plotted with the Bevice and Galeon to goe for 

 Newfoundland, and there to revictual, and to have 

 fresh men, of which we stood in good assurance, & so 

 to depart for the streits of Magellan, and so by his 

 very good policie would have concluded his voyage in 

 the East India, which plat I thinke it unnecessary here 

 to reveale, being put in principall trust by him. 



Being thwart Havana, by what chance I know not, 

 but all his ships forsooke him the 13 of May, and 

 here in a desperate place hee was left desperately alone. 

 The George departed by consent with his letters, the 

 Galeon I know not how : but our misery in the 

 Admirall was very great, for there was not one in the 

 ship that was ever before in the Indies, besides our 

 miserable want of victuals, the danger of the place, and 

 the furious current of the chanel. Notwithstanding we 

 were enforced without stay to disemboque : which happily 

 being performed, we shaped our course for Newfound- 

 land. And by Gods mercy we arrived there the fifteenth 

 of June, not having one houres victuals to spare, and 

 there by our countreymen we were well refreshed : where 

 we stayed till the 24 of June, still expecting the Galeon, 

 for the execution of this his last purpose : but she not 

 comming, and that plat overthrowen, we returned for 

 England, where we found the right honourable the Erie 

 of Essex bound to the seas, with whom wee presently 

 departed in his lordships ship, to doe him our humble 

 service. 



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