JAMES LANCASTER a.d 



1595- 

 unto it by the generals good gifts bestowed among them, 

 and kind usage of the rest of the commanders, not 

 without great care of the captaine for the safety of 

 them all, by keeping good watch : yet one negligent 

 fellow, which had no knowledge of the countrey, stray- 

 ing from his company, was by the Portugals taken, & 

 very kindly used, and brought againe unto us : for 

 which good the generall rewarded them well with gifts 

 very acceptable, which they tooke as kindly. While 

 wee were thus busily imployed about the foresayd galley, 

 we descried at sea foure sailes, which we had good 

 hope would have proved Indies m.en, or some to have 

 brought us what wee looked for : but they proved 

 captaine Venner with his fleet, as aforesayd, who, seeing 

 us at anker, ankered also ; where spending some time, 

 and being acquainted with our generals determination 

 for landing, consorted with us, & their bils, according 

 to the maner of the sea, were made and signed on either 

 part, we to have three parts, & he the fourth, of all 

 that should be taken, wherby our strength was increased, 

 to all our comforts. Three weeks or thereabouts we 

 stayd in this place before the gaily was finished ; which 

 done, putting men into her, and fitting her with oares, 

 having foureteene banks on a side, a mast and saile, the 

 commandement of her was committed unto M. Wats, 

 an honest skilfull mariner. 



From thence we put againe to sea, and went for the 

 lie Brava, where we watered : which done, we made no 

 long stay after, but bent our course as directly as we 

 could for the place, making our first fall with the land 

 to the Southward of Cape S. Augustine ; from whence Cape S. 

 wee plied still to our desired port of Fernambuck, and ^^g^^^^^' 

 did so much, that about midnight we came before the rj^j^^ ^y * 

 harbour ; where some plied up and downe, holding that March, 

 the best policy, to forbeare the entring till day might 

 give them light, the harborow being hard, and there- 

 fore the more perillous. Our ships being in safety well [III. 710.] 

 arrived, God was praised : and the generall in his boat 



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