AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 



weather, as I sayd before : and likewise thinking to 

 goe on land to fill certaine vessels with fresh water, 

 they durst not venture, for they saw people on all sides 

 of the shore : so that in the ende they returned againe 

 without hearing of the other ships : being there, they 

 tooke all the ordinance out of their ship, and new 

 dressed and rigged her : which done, they put a small 

 peece of ordinance into the pinnesse, wherewith they set 

 saile againe, following on their course. 



Having sailed thirteene dayes, they came to an 

 Island lying about the shotte of a base from the land, 

 where they ankered, and there they found foure Indian 

 fishermen in two Canoas who told them that on the 

 firme land they might have fresh water, but they 

 understanding that there was not much, and that it 

 was somewhat within the land, would not spend any 

 time about it, but set saile againe, leaving the 

 fishermen with their Canoas, following on their course 

 along by the shore. 



The next day being somewhat further, they espied 

 certaine Indian fishermen that were upon the land in 

 their houses, which the English captaine perceiving, 

 presently entred into his pinnesse, and rowed on land, 

 where he tooke three of the said fishermen, taking 

 with him halfe of the fish that lay packed upon the 

 shore ready to be laden, with the which Indians and 

 booty, they came on boord againe. 



The next day following, they saw a barke laden with 

 fish, that belonged to the Spaniards, with foure Indians 

 in it. This barke with the Indians and the fish they 

 tooke, and bound the Spanish ship to their sterne, and 

 so drewe it after them, leaving the said Indians within 

 it, who by night unbound the barke, and secretly made 

 away with barke and fish, and were no more scene. 

 The next day the Captaine went into the pinnesse, 

 and because he saw certaine houses upon the shore, 

 he made thither, and being on land, he found two men 

 in them, one whereof he tooke, leaving the other 



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