STEPHEN HARE a.d. 



1581. 

 our ship of the harmes and leakes which the wormes had ^^^^[ ^'^ the 

 made in her while wee ridde at the yland of S. Sebastian, ^^^^^^ ^^'^^^ 

 and in the meane time we departed from before the ^ "' ^''^^^' 

 towne of Santos, Our Master sent his skiffe from the 

 barre of Santos, thinking to have brought Thomas 

 Babington and William Euet with the Pilot, which wee 

 had tarried for three dayes : and as the skiffe was going, 

 William Euet being by the Rivers side, called to our 

 pinnesse, and sent a letter to our ^Master, which Thomas *^hose name 

 Babington had written, wherein were no newes, but that ^-^ ^^^phen 

 the Ministrador was arrived at Santos from the River of 

 Jenero, and would speake with our Master, but he willed 

 that whatsoever Thomas Babington did write, no credit 

 should be given to it. And further he wished us pre- 

 sently to depart for Sant Sebastian, and there to 

 dispatch our businesse, and then to sende backe for 

 Babington and himselfe to Guaybea, where he (if he were [HI- 706-] 

 well) would give his attendance to come abord. 



As we rid two leagues a sea-bord the barre of Santos ^^^^^ ^^- 

 wee broke a cable in the open sea, which happened the P^^^^^P^^- 

 15. day of this moneth. 



We arrived at S. Sebastian the 15. day, and there 

 shifted our balast, and had in stones, and hailed our ship 

 a ground to stop our leakes, & caried our caske a shoare 

 to be hooped for water, which indeed might better have 

 bene done in Santos, before the Ministrador came thither : 

 yet we finished all things pertaining to our ship, by 

 the 22. of this moneth, at S. Sebastian. 



The first day of July Thomas Babington came abord 

 with William' Euet, in our pinnesse, and the rest of our 

 men that went for them : but there was no Pilot brought 

 according to promise to cary us to Baya. 



The things that we observed and noted in the time of 

 our being at Santos, were these. 



All such wares and marchandizes as owe no custome 

 in Brasill, their use is, to set a price upon the same, how 

 they shalbe sold : which is done by the magistrates of 

 the towne, according to the ordinances of their king. 



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