A.D. 



1597- 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



which we likewise tooke, where wee found Champeche- 

 wood good to dye withall, with waxe, and hony. This 

 done we left this coast, and turned up to Cape de 

 Cotoche againe, and ankored every day at noone, be- 

 cause of the brizes, and in turning up I lost my barke 

 called the Adventure, which was taken by 2 frigats of 

 warre, which were manned out from Campeche : wherein 

 Captaine Hen and thirteen of my men were taken, and 

 afterward executed, as since we understand by some 

 Spanish prisoners that were taken in those parts. After 

 we had stayed five weekes on this coast, wee shaped 

 our course for Havana, where finding nothing, we dis- 

 emboqued, and came along by the Isle of Bermuda, and 

 crossed over to The banke neere Cape Race in 22 

 fadomes : and from thence sayling for England, we fel 

 with Sillie about the first of July, and within two dayes 

 after arrived at Plimmouth, where we found the Right 

 honorable the Erie of Essex setting forth with a great 

 fleet for the Isles of the Azores. 



[III. 604.] 



An excellent ruttier for the Islands of the West 

 Indies, and for Tierra firma, and Nueva 

 Espanna. 



F a man depart from the barre of S. Lucar 

 in Summer time, hee must steere South- 

 west until hee hath sight of Punta de 

 Naga, which is in the Isle of Tenerif. 

 The markes to know it be these. An 

 high point sloping to the sea, & at the 

 Easter point it hath two down falles 

 like particions, and they shew to be separated from 

 the maine of the Island & stand in 28 degrees & a 

 halfe. And if thou wilt have sight of the Grand Canaria, 

 and findest thy selfe with Punta de Naga, thou shalt 

 then steere Southwest and by South, and so thou shalt 

 have sight of Canaria which standeth in 28 degrees. 

 And thou must come to ankor on the Southeast side 



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