A.D. 



1588. 



Capul adjoyn- 

 ing upon the 

 South isle of 

 Manilla. 



The North- 

 west passage. 

 50 leagues 

 from Manilla. 



The Spanish 

 Pilote hanged 

 for his 

 trecherie. 



The maner of 

 the people of 

 Capul. 



A strange 

 thing. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



people on shore, taking himselfe away perforce. There- 

 fore he willed them that they should make strong 

 their bulwarks with their two Gallies, and all such pro- 

 vision as they could possibly make. He farther signified, 

 that wee were riding at an island called Capul, which 

 was at the end of the island of Manilla, being but 

 one shippe with small force in it, and that the other 

 ship, as he supposed, was gone for the North-west 

 passage, standing in 55 degrees: and that if they could 

 use any meanes to surprize us being there at an anker, 

 they should dispatch it : for our force was but small, 

 and our men but weake, and that the place where we 

 roade was but 50 leagues from them. Otherwise if 

 they let us escape, within fewe yeeres they must make 

 account to have their towne besieged and sacked with 

 an armie of English. This information being given, our 

 Generall called for him, and charged him with these 

 things, which at the first he utterly denyed : but in the 

 ende, the matter being made manifest and knowen of 

 certaintie by especiall tryall and proofes, the next morn- 

 ing our General willed that he should be hanged : 

 which was accordingly performed the 16 of January. 



We roade for the space of nine dayes about this island 

 of Capul, where we had diverse kindes of fresh victuals, 

 with excellent fresh water in every bay, and great store 

 of wood. The people of this island go almost all naked 

 and are tawny of colour. The men weare onely a 

 stroope about their wastes, of some kinde of linnen of 

 their owne weaving, which is made of plantan leaves, 

 and another stroope comming from their backe under 

 their twistes, which covereth their privie parts, and is 

 made fast to their girdles at their navels. 



These people use a strange kinde of order among them, 

 which is this. Every man and man-childe among them 

 hath a nayle of Tynne thrust quite through the head 

 of his privie part, being split in the lower ende and 

 rivetted, and on the head of the nayle is as it were a 

 crowne : which is driven through their privities when 



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