ad THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1593- 



ing to have had lesse winde and safer passage. But in 

 The ship lost the night about twelve of the clocke our ship did drive 

 by driving awav with five men and a boy onely in it, our carpenter 

 secretly cut their owne cable, leaving nineteene of us on 

 land without boate or any thing, to our great discomfort. 

 In the middest of these miseries reposing our trust in 

 the goodnesse of God, which many times before had 

 succoured us in our greatest extremities, we contented 

 our selves with our poore estate, and sought meanes 

 to preserve our lives. And because one place was not 

 able to sustaine us, we tooke our leaves one of another, 

 dividing our selves into severall companies. The 

 Great famine, greatest reliefe that we sixe which were with the Captaine 

 could flnde for the space of nine and twentie dayes was 

 the stalkes of purselaine boyled in water, and nowe and 

 then a pompion, which we found in the garden of the 

 olde Indian, who upon this our second arrivall with his 

 three sonnes stole from us, and kept himselfe continually 

 aloft in the mountaines. After the ende of nine and 

 twentie dayes we espied a French shippe, which after- 

 warde we understood to be of Diepe, called the Luisa, 

 whose Captaine was one Mounsieur Felix, unto whom 

 wee made a fire, at sight whereof he tooke in his top- 

 sayles, bare in with the land, and shewed us his flagge, 

 whereby we judged him French : so comming along 

 to the Westerne ende of the Island there be ankered, 

 we making downe with all speede unto him. At this 

 time the Indian and his three sonnes came done to our 

 Captaine Master James Lancaster, and went along with 

 Two ships of him to the shippe. This night he went aboord the 

 Diepe. French man, who gave him good entertainement, and the 



next day fetched eleven more of us aboord entreating 

 us all very courteously. This day came another French 

 shippe of the same towne of Diepe which remayned there 

 untill night expecting our other seven mens comming 

 downe : who, albeit we caused certaine pieces of ordi- 

 nance to be shot off to call them, yet came not downe. 

 Whereupon we departed thence, being devided sixe into 



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