CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION 



and his stuffe abourd. And whereas I say he was a 

 Mestizo, it is to be understood that a Mestizo is one 

 which hath a Spaniard to his father and an Indian to 

 his mother. 



The second day of August, we had watered, and 

 examined the said Mestizo, and set him on shore 

 againe and departed from the port of Aguatulco the 

 same night, which standeth as I sayd before in 15 degrees 

 and 40 minuts to the Northward of the lyne. 



Here wee overslipped the haven of Acapulco, from 

 whence the shippes are set foorth for the Phiiippinas. 



The foure and twentieth day of August, our Generall 

 with 30 of us went with the pinnesse unto an haven called 

 Puerto de Natividad, where wee had intelligence by 

 Michael Sancius that there should bee a pinnesse, but 

 before wee could get thither the sayde pinnesse was gone 

 to fish for pearles 1 2 leagues farther, as we were informed 

 by certaine Indians which we found there. We tooke a 

 mullato in this place, in his bedde, which was sent with 

 letters of advise concerning us along the coast, of Nueva 

 Galicia, whose horse wee killed, tooke his letters, left him 

 behinde, set fire on the houses, and burnt two newe 

 shippes of 200 tunnes the piece, which were in building 

 there on the stockes, and came abourd of our shippes 

 againe. 



The sixe and twentie day of August, wee came into the 

 bay of S. lago, where wee watered at a fresh River, along 

 which river many plantans are growing : here is great 

 abundance of fresh fish. Heere also certaine of our 

 companie dragged for pearles and caught some quantitie. 



The second of September wee departed from Sant lago 

 at foure of the clccke in the evening. This bay of Sant 

 lago standeth in nineteene degrees and eighteene minuts 

 to the Northward of the lyne. 



The 3 of September wee arrived in a litle bay a league 

 to the Westwarde off Port de Natividad called Malacca, 

 which is a very good place to ride in : and the same day 

 about twelve of the clocke our Generall landed with 



A.D. 



1587. 



[III. 815.] 



Ourdeparture 

 from Agua- 

 tulco. 



Puerto de 

 Natividad in 

 19 degrees. 



The third poste 



of advise 



taken. 



Puerto de 



Natividad 



burnt. 



Tzvo new ships 



burnt. 



The river of 

 Sant lago. 



Pearles taken. 



The bay of 

 Malacca. 



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