A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



reason ot the night which then was neere at hand, wee 

 could hardly come to them. Yet at last we hailed one 

 of the biggest of them, & they tolde us that they were 

 al of Hamborough : but another saide shee was of Den- 

 marke, so that indeede they knew neither what to say, 

 nor what to do. Our Admirall being more desirous to 

 folow his course, then to linger by chasing the hulks, 

 called us from pursuing them with his trumpet, and a 

 piece of Ordinance, or else wee would have seene what 

 they had bene, and wherewith they had bene laden. 



The 22. day because of contrary winde wee put into 

 Dartmouth all 4. of us, and taried there seven dayes. 



The 29. we departed thence and put out to Sea, and 

 began our voyage, thinking at the first to have runne 

 along the coast of Spaine, to see if wee could have 

 mette with some good prize to have sent home to my 

 Lord : but our Captaine thought it not the best course 

 at the last, but rather kept off in the sea from the coast. 

 And upon Saturday the 17. of September wee fell with 

 the coast of Barbaric, and the 18. hailed in with the roade 

 of Santa Cruz. The 21. day wee fell with one of the 

 ylands of the Canaries, called Forteventura. In running 

 alongst this yland, we espied upon a hill by the water 

 side, one waving with a white flagge, whereupon wee 

 manned both our boates, and sent them towards the 

 shoare, to understand what newes. They found them 

 to bee two ragged knaves and one horseman, and they 

 Lanzarota tolde US that Lanzarota was taken, and spoyled in August 

 spoiled by the j^^ ^j^^ Turkes : when we saw they had nothing else to 

 ^^" * say, we left them, and proceeded on our course, and fell 



againe with the coast of Barbarie. 



The 25. day of September about 10. of the clocke we 

 RiodelOro.in fg^ ^jth Rio del Oro, standing just under our Tropike : 



2 Z. degrees ^^ anckered in the mouth of it in 8. fadom, the entrance 

 and a halte. ^ . . , , a 1 1 j 



of It IS about 2. leagues over. And the next day our 



Captaine with the boate searched the river, and found it 



to be as broad 14. or 15. leagues up, as at the entrie of 



it, but found no towne nor habitation, saving that there 



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