DRAKE'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION a.d. 



1578. 

 warres, as by their order of ranging a few men, might 

 appeare. These people would not of a long time receive 

 any thing at our handes ; yet at length our Generall being 

 ashore, and they dauncing after their accustomed maner 

 about him, and hee once turning his backe towards them, 

 one leapt suddenly to him, and tooke his cap with his 

 golde band off his head, and ran a litle distance from him 

 and shared it with his fellow, the cap to the one, and the 

 band to the other. 



Having dispatched all our businesse in this place, wee 

 departed and set sayle, and immediatly upon our setting 

 foorth we lost our Canter which was absent three or foure 

 dayes : but when our General had her againe, he tooke 

 out the necessaries, and so gave her over neere to the 

 Cape of Good hope. T'he cape of 



The next day after being the twentieth of June, wee ^ood hope. 

 harboured our selves againe in a very good harborough, 

 called by Magellan Port S. Julian, where we found a Ports. Julian. 

 gibbet standing upon the maine, which we supposed to be 

 the place where Magellan did execution upon some of 

 his disobedient and rebellious company. 



The two and twentieth day our Generall went ashore 

 to the maine, and in his companie, John Thomas, and 

 Robert Winterhie, Oliver the Master gunner, John 

 Brewer, Thomas Hood, and Thomas Drake, and entring 

 on land, they presently met with two or three of the 

 countrey people, and Robert Winterhie having in his 

 hands a bowe and arrowes, went about to make a shoote 

 of pleasure, and in his draught his bowstring brake, 

 which the rude Savages taking as a token of warre, began 

 to bend the force of their bowes against our company, 

 and drove them to their shifts very narrowly. 



In this Port our Generall began to enquire diligently 

 of the actions of M. Thomas Doughtie, and found them 

 not to be such as he looked for, but tending rather 

 to contention or mutinie, or some other disorder, whereby 

 (without redresse) the successe of the voyage might 

 greatly have bene hazarded : whereupon the company 



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