The third voyage set forth by sir Walter Ralegh 

 to Guiana^ with a pinnesse called The Watte, 

 in the yeere 1596. Written by M. Thomas 

 Masham a gentleman of the companie. 



Pon Thursday the 14. of October 1596. 

 we set saile from Limehouse upon the 

 river of Thames, and through much 

 contrarietie of winds and other acci- 

 dents, we made it the 27. of December, 

 before we could get out of Waimouth. 

 The 25. of Januarie in the morning we 



came to the North side of the Island of Grand Canaria, 

 where we hoped to have gotten a boate to serve us upon 

 the coast of Guiana, but the winde was so great, that we 

 could not lanch our shalope : so we past along by the 

 roade and the towne, and at length saw a boate lying on 

 shoare, which being too bigge for us, wee ripped up, and 

 wooded our selves with her. That day wee descryed a 

 saile, which at length wee found to be a flieboate of Dart- 

 mouth, of 200. tunnes, bound to the Island of Mayo for 

 sake. Wee fell in consort with her, and that night 

 stoode for the Southermost part of the Island there to 

 water, where wee stayed all the next day, and watered at 

 the Southsouthwest part thereof That night wee weyed 

 and stoode away together Southsoutheast, and South 

 and by East, purposing by their perswasion to goe for 

 the river Doro. The 28. of Januarie wee made the 

 furthermost part of Barbarie ; and this morning we ^^. y^/j^ ^^^^/^ 

 met with M. Benjamin Wood with his fleete of 3 sailes sea. 



XI I A 



M. Benjamin 

 Wood bound 



