A.D. 

 1592. 



A ship of 

 Negapatan 

 taken. 



A ship of 

 S. Thome. 



The galeon of 

 Malacca of 

 700 taken. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



which are some five and fortie leagues Northward of 

 the citie of Malacca, to which Hands the Portugals must 

 needs come from Goa or S. Thome, for the Malucos, 

 China, and Japan. And when wee were there arrived, 

 we lay too and agayne for such shipping as should come 

 that way. Thus having spent some five dayes, upon a 

 Sunday we espied a saile which was a Portugall ship 

 that came from Negapatan a towne on the maine of 

 India over-against the Northeast part of the He of 

 Zeilan ; and that night we tooke her being of 250 

 tunnes : she was laden with Rice for Malacca. Captaine 

 Lancaster commanded their captaine and master aboord 

 our shippe, and sent Edmund Barker his lieutenant and 

 seven more to keepe this prize, who being aboord the 

 same, came to an anker in thirtie fadomes water : for in 

 that chanell three or foure leagues from the shore you 

 shall finde good ankorage. Being thus at an anker and 

 keeping out a light for the Edward, another Portugall 

 ship of Sant Thome of foure hundred tunnes, came and 

 ankered hard by us. The Edward being put to Lee- 

 ward for lacke of helpe of men to handle her sailes, 

 was not able the next morning to fetch her up, until 

 we which were in the prize with our boate, went to 

 helpe to man our shippe. Then comming aboord we 

 went toward the shippe of Sant Thome, but our ship was 

 so foule that shee escaped us. After we had taken out 

 of our Portugall prize what we thought good, we turned 

 her and all her men away except a Pilot and foure 

 Moores. We continued here untill the sixt of October, 

 at which time we met with the ship of the captaine 

 of Malacca of seven hundred tunnes which came from 

 Goa : we shot at her many shot, and at last shooting 

 her maine-yard through, she came to an anker and 

 yeelded. We commaunded her Captaine, Master, Pilot 

 and Purser to come aboord us. But the Captaine 

 accompanied with one souldier onely came, and after 

 certaine conference with him, he made excuse to fetch 

 the Master and Purser, which he sayd would not come 



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