A.D. 

 1587. 



The bay of 

 Pise a in 13. 



An Hand of 

 Seaks. 



The Hugh 



Gallant lost 

 companie of 

 the fee te, 

 and met not 

 untill the 

 seventeenth. 

 [III. 811.] 



400 hags of 

 meale found. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Pisca, where some of us landed and tooke certaine houses, 

 wherein was bread, whie, figs and hennes : but the sea 

 went so high, that wee could not land at the best of the 

 townes without sinking of our boats, and great hazard 

 of us all. This place standeth in thirteene degrees and § 

 to the Southward of the line. 



The fift of May wee departed from this harbour, 

 leaving the Content our viceadmirall within at an Hand of 

 seales, by which meanes at that time wee lost her companie. 



The ninth wee gave chase to a saile, namely. Our 

 admirall, The Hugh Gallant, and The George which wee 

 had taken before comming out of the roade of Arica ; The 

 Content which was our viceadmirall being still lost : but 

 wee could not fetch it. The George made after it, but 

 lost it that night. 



The tenth day the Hugh Gallant (in which barke I 

 Francis Pretie was) lost companie of our admirall. 



The eleventh we which were in the Hugh Gallant 

 put into a bay which standeth in 12 degrees -|, in 

 which bay wee found a river of fresh water about 

 eight of the clocke at night ; and though we were but 

 of small force, and no more but one barke and 18 

 men in it, yet wee went on shoare to fill water ; 

 where having filled one boates lading, while our boate 

 was in going aboord, two or three of our companie 

 which were on shoare, as they were going a little from 

 the watering place with their furniture about them, 

 espied where there were foure or five hundred bagges 

 of meale on an heape covered with a fewe reedes. So 

 that night we filled water and tooke as much meale as 

 wee thought good : which fell out well for us that 

 were then lost and stoode in neede of victuals : and 

 by breake of day in the morning wee came aboord, 

 and there stayed and rode untill the afternoone. In 

 which meane time the towne seeing us ride there still, 

 brought downe much cattell to the sea side to have 

 intised us to come on shoare : but wee sawe their intent, 

 and weyed anker and departed the twelft day. 



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