AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1588. 



be very lowe land, and by all likelihood is very 



fruitfiill. 

 Their depar- The 29 day of January aboute sixe of the clocke in 

 ^!tV-r"^ ^^^ the morning we set saile, sending our boate before until 



Phtlipptnas. . r 1 1 1 • 1 r • n 



It was two or the clock in the arternoone, passing all 

 this time as it were through a straight betwixt the said 

 2 islands of Panama, and the island of Negros, and 

 about 1 6 leagues off we espied a fayre opening, trending 

 Southwest and by South, at which time our boate came 

 aboord, and our Generall sent commendations to the 

 Spanish captaine which wee came from the evening before 

 by the Spaniard which we tooke, and willed him to pro- 

 vide good store of gold : for he meant for to see him 

 with his company at Manilla within fewe yeeres, and 

 that he did but want a bigger boate to have landed his 

 men, or else hee would have scene him then: and so 

 caused him to be set on shore. 



The 8 day of February by 8 of the clocke in the 



Batochina. morning we espied an island neere Gilolo, called Bato- 



china, which standeth in one degree from the Equinoctial 



line Northward. 



\\ or 12 small The 1 4 day of February we fell with 11 or 12 very 



ylands tn 3 small islands, lying very low and flat, full of trees, and 



min to the Passed by some islands which be suncke and have the 



Southward, dry sands lying in the maine sea. These islands neere 



the Malucoes, stand in 3 degrees and 10 min. to the 



South-ward of the lyne. 



On the 17 day, one John Gameford a Cooper dyed, 



which had bene sicke of an olde disease a long time. 



Idands in 4 The 20 day wee fell with certaine other islands which 



^egi'^^^ ^°^ih- ]^a^ many small islands among them, standing 4 degrees 



Itne ^^ ^^ South-ward of the lyne. On the 21 day of 



The death of Februarie, being Ashwednesday Captaine Havers dyed 



captaine of a most fervent and pestilent ague, which held him 



Havers. furiously some 7 or 8 dayes, to the no small griefe of 



our Generall and of all the rest of the company, who 



caused two Falcons and one Sacre to be shot off, with 



[III. 821]. all the small shotte in the ship, who after he was shrowded 



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