against Spaine. 



JAMES LANCASTER a.d 



with civill warres, which the Moores have against the 

 Gentiles : for the kings here are up in armes all the 

 countrey over. Here is an Indian which is counted a A prophesie 

 Prophet, which hath prophesied that there will a Dragon °f™ l"f**^ 

 arise in a strange countrey, which will do great hurt to 

 Spaine. How it will fall out, onely God doth know. 

 And thus I rest: from this monastery of Cochin the 28 

 of December, 1589. 



Your good cousin and assured friend 

 frier Peter of Lisbon. 



A voyage with three tall ships, the Penelope 

 Admirall, the Marchant royall Viceadmirall, 

 and the Edward Bonaventure Rereadmirall, 

 to the East Indies, by the Cape of Buona 

 Speransa, to Quitangone neere Mosambique, 

 to the lies of Comoro and Zanzibar on the 

 backeside of Africa, and beyond Cape Comori 

 in India, to the lies of Nicubar and of Gomes 

 Polo within two leagues of Sumatra, to the 

 Hands of Pulo Pinaom, and thence to the 

 maine land of Malacca, begunne by M. 

 George Raymond, in the yeere 1 59 1 , and 

 performed by M. James Lancaster, and written 

 from the mouth of Edmund Barker of 

 Ipswich, his lieutenant in the sayd voyage, 

 by M. Richard Hakluyt. 



Ur fleet of the three tall ships above- 

 named departed from Plimmouth the 10 

 of April 1 59 1, and arrived at the Canarie- 

 ilands the 25 of the same, from whence 

 we departed the 29 of April. The 

 second of May we were in the height of 

 Cape Blanco. The fift we passed the 

 tropique of Cancer. The eight we were in the height 

 of Cape Verde. All this time we went with a faire winde 



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