A.D. 

 1596. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Numen, & omen inest numeris. Fatale sit illi : 



Et nobis virtus sit recidiva, precor. 

 Gualtero patefacta via est duce & auspice Ralegh 



Mense uno : 6 factum hoc nomine quo celebrem ? 

 Nocte dieque; datis velis, remisque laborans, 



Exegit summae dexteritatis opus. 

 Scilicet expensis magnis non ille pepercit, 



Communi natus consuluisse bono. 

 Providus excubuit simili discrimine Joseph : 



Sic fratreSj fratrem deseruere suum : 

 Fama coloratam designet sibona, vestem : 



Vestis Scissa malis sic fuit ilia modis. 

 Mira leges. Auresque animumque tuum arrige. Tellus 



Haec aurum, & gemmas graminis instar, habet. 

 Ver ibi perpetuum est : ibi prodiga terra quotannis 



Luxuriat, sola fertilitate nocens. 

 Anglia nostra licet dives sit, & undique fcelix: 



Anglia, si confers, indigna frugis erit. 

 Expertes capitum, volucres piscesque ferasque; 



Praetereo : baud prosunt, quae novitate, placent. 

 Est ibi, vel nusquam, quod quasrimus. Ergo petanius : 



Det Deus, banc Canaan possideamus. Amen. 



Tui Amantiss. L. K. 



They fall 

 with the 

 Canary Isles. 



Cape Verde. 



The second voyage to Guiana. 



Unday the 26. of January, in the 



yeere 

 from 



of our Lord 1596. we departed 

 Portland road, in the Darling of London, 

 having in company the Discoverer, a small 

 pinnesse, whom we lost at sea, in foule 

 weather, the Thursday next following. 

 Friday, the 13. of February, wee fell with 

 the Canarie Islands, where we expected our pinnesse, 

 according to our appoyntment, seven or eight dayes. 

 Here T^e tooke two boats, the one a passenger, we bulged, 

 the other wee towed at our shippe sterne, steering South- 

 southwest for the Islands of Cape Verde. Therehence we 

 set saile the 28. of Februarie, keeping a Westsouthwest 



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