CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION a.d. 



1587. 



The 13 day at night wee put into a bay which ^ bay in (^. 

 standeth in 9 degrees and J, where wee sawe horsemen : ^^i^'^^^ ^^^ h 

 and that night wee landed, namely, M. Bruer Captaine, 

 my selfe Francis Pretie, Arthur Warford, John Way J°^^ ^^1 ^ 

 Preacher, John Newman, Andrew Wyght, William P''^'^'^- 

 Gargetield, and Henry Hilliard. And we 8 onely, 

 having every man his harquebuze and his furniture 

 about him, marched three quarters of a mile along the 

 sea side, where wee found a boate of five or sixe tunnes 

 haled up drie on the shoare about a cables length from 

 the water : and with extreme labour wee lanched the 

 barke ; when it was on flote, Captaine Bruer and I 

 went in, while the rest of our companie were fetching 

 their things : but suddenly it was readie to sinke : And 

 the Captaine and I stoode up to the knees lading out 

 water with our targets ; but it sunke downe faster then 

 wee were able to free it, insomuch as in the end wee 

 had much adoe to save our selves from drowning. 

 When wee were out, wee stood in great feare that our 

 owne boate wherein wee came on shoare was sunke : 

 for wee could no where see it. Howbeit the Captaine 

 commanded them, to keepe it off, for feare of the great 

 surge that went by the shoare. Yet in the end wee 

 spied it, and went aboord by two and two, and were 

 driven to wade up to the arme-holes 60 paces into the 

 sea before wee could get into the boate, by reason of 

 the shoaldnesse : and then departed the foureteenth day 

 in the morning. 



The 16 wee tooke with the Hugh Gallant, being but 

 sixteene men of us in it, a great shippe which came ^ ^hip of^oo 

 from Guaianil, which was called The Lewis, and was ^^^^^^ ^^^/^ 

 of the burthen of three hundred tuns, having foure and %ures fi^ht.^ 

 twentie men in it, wherein was pilot one Gonsalvo de 

 Ribas, whom wee carried along with us, and a Negro 

 called Emmanuel. The shippe was laden with nothing 

 but timber and victuals : wherefore wee left her seven Seven degrees 

 leagues from the land very leake and ready to sinke ^f^^^^jerly 

 in 7 degrees to the Southward of the line : wee sunke 



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