A.D. THE enc;lish voyages 



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wey, and drive downe to them, who required mee to 

 goe first and anker on their quarter, and he would 

 follow, and anker on their bowes. I weyed, and went 

 downe, and ankered by them ; yet not so nere as I 

 meant, for the ebbe put me off to the Northwards. 

 There rid I alone, spending shot at them, and they 

 both at me, foure houres, before our admiralls anker 

 would come up ; during which time I had some spoile 

 done; but when our admirall came, she had her part, 

 and eased me very well. 



At length our admirall began to warpe away, and 

 being come without me, set saile, and began to stand 

 out into the sea : I went aboord of him to know his 

 pleasure. Who determined to get out of shot ; but 

 could not, because the winde scanted on them. The 

 Edward before she could get up her ankers, endured 

 many more shot, after the gallion was further off a 

 good way then she, and sometimic the gallion had two 

 or three. Thus we ended about two of the clocke after 

 noone : the rest of this day and part of the night, we 

 spent in mending, fitting, and putting our ordinance 

 and furniture in order for the next morning, thinking 

 they would have bene with us. 



The 26 day in the morning we could not see them, 

 because they were gone up the river : wee manned our 

 boats and pinnesses, and weyed two ankers and one 

 cable, that they let slip the night before : as our men 

 were weying the third anker, the bwoy-rope brake, and 

 so we lost that anker. Our admirall had an anker of 

 twelve hundred, and a good cable of eleven inches, and 

 we had an anker about sixe hundred, with a piece of a 

 basse cable, and bwoy-rope nothing worth. 



After dinner I went aboord the admirall, to confer 

 with him, who determined to go off to sea, and 

 thither I caried Senor Pinto to interpret the Indian 

 language, with an Indian named Peter, which fled from 

 the bay where we rid in a canoa, and brought with him 

 a Spaniards caliver, flaske, and touch boxe, to goe with 



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