LOPEZ VAZ AD. 



1572-87. 

 fell out in our hulke, which being devided from us in ^-^^ hulke of 

 a calme, fell afire by some great negligence, and per- ^^^^l^^fj^T^^ 

 ished by that meanes in the seas, wee being not able ^^^ ^^ „^^/^-. 

 any wayes to helpe the ship, or to save the men. geme. 



The 4 day of September, we had brought our selves 

 into the height of 41 degrees & 20 minutes, somewhat 

 to the Northwards of the Islands of the Azores : and 

 thus bulting up and downe with contrary winds, the 

 29 of the same moneth, we reached the coast of Eng- 

 land, and so made an end of the voyage. 



A discourse of the West Indies and South sea 

 w^ritten by Lopez Vaz a Portugal, borne in 

 the citie of Elvas, continued unto the yere 

 1587. Wherein among divers rare things not 

 hitherto delivered by any other writer, cer- 

 taine voyages of our Englishmen are truely 

 reported: w^hich w^as intercepted w^ith the 

 author thereof at the river of Plate, by 

 Captaine Withrington and Captaine Christo- 

 pher Lister, in the fleete set foorth by the 

 right Honorable the Erie of Cumberland for 

 the South sea in the yeere 1586. 



Rancis Drake an Englishman being on This voyage 

 the sea, and having knowledge of the ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ 

 small strength of the towne of Nombre ,trj^^ 

 de Dies, came into the harborough on 

 a night with foure pinnesses, and landed 

 an hundreth and fifty men : and leaving 

 one halfe of his men with a trumpet 

 in a fort which was there, hee with the rest entred the 

 towne without doing any harme till hee came at the 

 market place : and there his company discharging their 

 calivers, and sounding their trumpets (which made a 

 great noyse in the towne) were answered by their 

 fellowes in the forte, who discharged and sounded in 



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