A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1579- 



the which were the letters of the king of Spaine, sent to 

 Sea-charts of the governour of the Philippinas, as also the sea-cards 

 \ 1 f ^^^ wherewith they should make their voyage, and direct 

 themselves in their course. 



And so sailing untill the sixt of Aprill, about evening 

 they discovered a shippe that held two leagues to seaward 

 from the land : and before the next day in the morning 

 they were hard by her, and suddenly fell upon her while 

 her men slept, and presently made the men enter into 

 their ship, among the which was one Don Francisco 

 Xarate. Which done, they follow^ed on their course with 

 the sayd ship, out of the which they tooke certaine packes 

 and other wares, but I know not what it was. They like- 

 wise tooke a Negro out of it, and three dayes after they 

 both let the ship and men goe whether they woulde, set- 

 ting therein the two saylers that should goe for China, 

 which they had taken in the frigate, keeping onely one 

 sailer to shewe them where they should find fresh water, 

 to the which ende they tooke the emptie vessels with 

 them to fill with water, and so kept on their course to the 

 They arrive haven of Guatulco, where they put in, being upon Mun- 

 "^ApriUi^^' ^'^'^ ^^ thirteenth of Aprill, and having ankered, they 

 Stilo novo. Stayed there till the sixe and twentie of Aprill : and about 

 three or foure houres within the night, they set sayle, 

 holding their course Westward, and an houre or two 

 NunodaSilva before they let Nuno da Silva goe, putting him into 

 set on land. another ship, that lay in the haven of Guatulco. 



From thence forward the Englishmen passed on their 

 voyage, to the Islands of Malucos, and from thence they 

 passed by the Cape de Buena Esperanza, and so to Eng- 

 land, as it is well knowen, so that this is onely the descrip- 

 tion of the voyage that they made, while the said pilote 

 Nuno da Silva was with them. 



Hereafter followeth the copie of a letter written by sir 



[III. 74.8.] Francis Drake (being in the South sea of New Spaine, in 



his ship called The Pellican or the Golden Hinde with the 



ship of Sant John de Anton, which hee had taken) to his 



companions in the other shippes that were of his company, 



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