WITHRINGTON AND LISTER ad. 



1587. 

 consort of this Portugall, and to him also we gave chase, Another 

 and tooke him the same day : Hee was of the burthen ^°^^^Z^^ ^^'^P 

 of the other, and had in him good store of sugar, Mar- 

 malade, and Succats, with divers other things, which 

 we noted downe our booke. In this ship also we 

 found about 1^^. Negro women, and foure or five friers, 

 of which one was an Irish man, of the age of three or An Irish fj-ier 

 foure and twentie yeeres, and two Portugal women ^^ 

 also, which were borne in the river of Jenero. Both 

 these ships were bought in Brasil, by a yong man 

 which was Factor for the bishop of Tucaman, and ^^^ ^^^^'^P ^f 

 the friers were sent for by that bishop to possesse a J'^^^^^ ^J 

 new Monasterie, which the bishop was then a build- pi^te. 

 ing. The bookes, beads, and pictures in her, cost 

 (as one of the Portugals confessed) above 1000. 

 duckats. 



Of these ships we learned, that M. John Drake, who T^he nezves 

 went in consort with M. Fenton, had his Barke cast '^{^^^'/'^^^ 

 away a little short of the River of Plate, where they 

 were taken captives by the Savages, all saving them 

 which were slaine in the taking : the Savages kept them 

 for a time, and used them very hardly, yet at the last 

 John Drake and Richard Faireweather, and two or three ^^^kard 

 more of their company with them got a Canoa, and ^^^^'^'^'^^i^^^'- 

 escaped, and came to the first towne of the Spaniards. 

 Faireweather is maried in one of the townes, but John 

 Drake was carried to Tucaman by the Pilot of this ship, 

 and was living, and in good health the last yeere. Con- 

 cerning this voyage of the Portugals they tolde us that 

 it was the thirde voyage that was made into the River 

 of Plate these 30. yeeres. 



The 12. of January wee came to Scale yland, and the Seak-y lands 

 14. day to the Greene yland, where going in we found ^nd Green- 

 hard abord the maine 8. fathome, 7. and 6. and never ^ ^^ ' 

 lesse then five fathome. There lies a ledge of rocks in 

 the faire way, betwixt the yland and the maine, so that 

 you must bee sure to borrow hard abord the maine, 

 and leave the ledge on the larbord side. 



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