JAMES WELSH 



which did not only keepe us good companie, but also 

 sent us sixe fresh men aboord, without whose helpe, 

 we should surely have tasted of many inconveniences. 

 But by this good meanes we are now at the last 

 arrived in Plimouth, this 9 day of September : and 

 for want of better health at this time, I referre the 

 further knowledge of more particularities, till my com- 

 ming to London. 



Yours to commaund 



Anthony Ingram. 



The second voyage to Benin, set foorth by Master 

 John Newton, and Master John Bird Mar- 

 chants of London in the yeere 1590 with a 

 ship called the Richard of Arundell of the 

 burthen of one hundreth tunnes, and a small 

 pinnesse, in which voyage Master James Welsh 

 was chiefe Maister. 



A.D. 



1590. 



He third of September 1590 we set saile 

 from RatclifFe, and the 18 of the said 

 moneth we came into Plimouth sound, 

 and the two and twentieth we put to 

 sea againe, and at midnight we were 

 off the Lisart, and so passed on our 

 voyage untill the 14 of October, on 

 which day we had sight of Forteventura one of the 

 Canarie Islands, which appeared very ragged as we sailed 

 by it. 



The 16 of October, in the latitude of 24 degrees and 

 nine minutes we met with a great hollow sea, the like 

 whereof I never saw on this coast, and this day there 

 came to the ships side a monstrous great fish (I thinke 

 it was a Gobarto) which put up his head to the steepe 

 tubs where ye cooke was in shifting the victuals, whom 

 I thought the fish would have caried away. 



The 21 in this latitude of 18 degrees we met with 

 a countersea out of the North boord, and the last 



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