ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1553- 

 Brasi/e. the king of Portugall, and to whom the coasts of Brasile 



Guinea, and Guinea were committed to be kept from the French- 



men, to whom he was a terrour on the Sea in those parts, 

 and was furthermore a gentleman of the king his masters 

 house. But as fortune in maner never favoureth but 

 flattereth, never promiseth but deceiveth, never raiseth 

 but casteth downe againe : and as great wealth & favour 

 have alwaies companions, emulation and envie, he was 

 after many adversities & quarels made against him, 

 inforced to come into England : where in this golden 

 voyage he was evil matched with an unequal companion, 

 and unlike match of most sundry qualities & conditions, 

 with vertues few or none adorned. Thus departed these 

 noble ships under saile on their voyage : But first 

 captaine Windam putting forth of his ship at Portsmouth 

 a kinsman of one of the head marchants, and shewing 

 herein a muster of the tragicall partes hee had conceived 

 in his braine, and with such small beginnings nourished 

 so monstrous a birth, that more happy, yea and blessed 

 was that yong man being left behind, then if he had bene 

 taken with them, as some do wish he had done the like 

 by theirs. Thus sailed they on their voyage, untill they 

 The Hands of came to the Hand of Madera, where they tooke in 

 Madera. certaine wines for the store of their ships, and paid for 

 them as they agreed of the price. At these Hands they 

 met with a great Galion of the king of Portugall, full of 

 men and ordinance : yet such as could not have prevailed 

 if it had attempted to withstand or resist our ships, for 

 the which cause it was set foorth, not onely to let and 

 interrupt these our shippes of their purposed voiage, but 

 al other that should attempt the like : yet chiefly to 

 frustrate our voiage. For the king of Portugall was 

 sinisterly informed, that our ships were armed to his 

 The castle of castle of Mina in those parties, whereas nothing lesse 

 Mina. was ment# 



After that our ships departed from the Hand of 

 Madera forward on their voiage, began this worthy 

 captaine Pinteados sorow, as a man tormented with the 



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