a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1344. 



And because his lover was sea-sicke, he went on land 

 with some of his company, and the shippe with a good 

 winde made saile away, and the woman died for thought. 

 Macham made Macham, which loved her dearely, built a chapell, or 

 Vamlngl? 61 ' nermita g e > to bury her in, calling it by the name of 

 Jesus chapell Jesus, and caused his name and hers to be written or 

 graven upon the stone of her tombe, and the occasion 

 of their arrivall there. And afterward he ordeined a boat 

 made of one tree (for there be trees of a great compasse 

 about) and went to sea in it, with those men that he 

 had, and were left behinde with him, and came upon 

 the coast of Afrike, without saile or oare. And the 

 Moores which saw it tooke it to be a marvellous thing, 

 and presented him unto the king of that countrey for 

 a woonder, and that king also sent him and his com- 

 panions for a miracle unto the king of Castile. 



In the yeere 1395, King Henry the third of that name 

 reigning in Castile, the information which Macham gave 

 of this Hand, and also the ship of his company, mooved 

 many of France and Castile to go and discover it, and 

 also the great Canaria, &c. 



In the yeere 141 7, King John the second reigning in 

 Castile, and his mother Lady Katherine being Regent, 

 one Monsieur Ruben of Bracamont, which was Admiral! 

 of France, demanding the conquest of the Hands of the 

 Canaries, with the title of King, for a kinsman of his 

 named Monsieur John Betancourt, after that the Queene 

 hath given him them, and holpen him, he departed from 

 Sivil with a good army. And they affirme also, that the 

 principall cause which moved him to this, was to discover 

 the Hand of Madera, which Macham had found, &c. 

 ibidem pag. 2. of Anthonio Galvano. 



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