;A.D. 



c 1550. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



heigth where the foresayd trees growe. It is woonder 

 to see the conveyance of the water to the Ingenios by 

 Mines through the mountaines. 



In the mid way betweene Tenerif and the Hand of 

 Madera standeth a litle solitarie Hand called the Salvages, 

 which may bee about one league in compasse, which hath 

 neither tree nor fruit, but is onely food for Goates. 



The originall of the first voyage for traffique into 

 the kingdom of Marocco in Barbarie, begun 

 in the yeere 1 55 1 . with a tall ship called the 

 Lion of London, whereof went as captaine 

 Master Thomas Windam, as appeareth by this 

 extract of a letter of James Aldaie, to the 

 worshipfull master Michael Locke, which 

 Aldaie professeth himselfe to have bene the 

 first inventer of this trade. 



Orshipful Sir, having lately bene ac- 

 quainted with your intent to prosecute 

 the olde intermitted discoverie for Catai, 

 if therein with my knowledge, travell or 

 industrie I may doe you service, I am 

 readie to doe it, and therein to adven- 

 ture my life to the uttermost point. 

 Trueth it is, that I have bene by some men (not my 

 friends) evill spoken of at London, saying that although 

 I be a man of knowledge in the Arte of Navigation and 

 Cosmographie, and that I have bene the inventer of some 

 voyages that be now growen to great effect ; yet say 

 they maliciously and without just cause, that I have not 

 bene willing at any season to proceed in those voyages 

 that I have taken in hand, taking example especially of 

 two voyages. The one was when I was master in the 

 great Barke Aucher for the Levant, in which voyage I 

 went not, but the causes they did not know of my let 

 from the same, nor of the other. But first the very 



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