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ad THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



[II. ii. 112.] The confession of William Bends Masters Mate 

 in the Edward Cotton, the 21 of October, 

 Ann. 1584. 



E sayth, that the 17 day of July, Anno 1583. having 

 some lacke of fresh water, they put roome upon the 

 coast of Guinie, where they were set upon a sand about 

 8 leagues from the shore, and this Examinate, with 29 

 more, got into the pinnesse, who arrived in an Island, 

 being desolate of people, and five miles in compasse, 

 where they rested 18 dayes through force of weather, 

 having nought to eate but grasse. The rest of the 

 company the ship being splitted in two, and in quarters, 

 got them into one of the after quarters, and by the helpe 

 of raftes came also a shore into another Island neere to 

 Rio grande. Rj grande, where they all died as he supposeth. 



The other 30 in the pinnesse, at the end of 18 dayes, 

 departed that Island, and came to Saint Domingo, where 

 comming on shore, they were taken of the Moores, & 

 stripped naked. And they buried one Coxe an olde 

 man alive, notwithstanding his pitifull lamentation and 

 alive by the skrikings : the rest having Rice and water allowed them, 

 Moores of Rio lived there a certaine time. This Examinate was at last 

 grande in so [^ to a Portugall, with whom he dwelt the space of a 

 quarter of a yere, and in the end, a Portugall Caravel 

 comming thither, his master laded the same with 

 Negroes, and he obtained leave of his master to goe in 

 the same Caravell, & by that meanes arrived at Lisbone, 

 and from thence came into England the 17 of October, 

 1584, leaving behinde him of his companie alive, Richard 

 Hacker, John Baker, John Mathew, and a boy, with 

 two others which were gone beyond Saint Domingo : all 

 which, as he saith, were so sicke and diseased, that he 

 judgeth them to be long before this time dead. 



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One Coxe an 

 old English 

 man buried 



Guinea. 



