A.D. 

 1590. 



The yle ofS. 

 Sebastian ifi 

 24. ciegr. of 

 southerly lati- 

 tude on the 

 coast of 

 Brasil. 



They land at 

 Monville de 

 Hage 8. miles 

 West of Cher- 

 bourg. 



The zvracke of 

 the ship by the 

 malice of the 

 Normans. 



They arrive 

 in England. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



the yland of S. Sebastian and the maine land. But we 

 for want of a good boat, and by reason of the foule 

 weather, were neither able to bord her, nor to goe on 

 shore. Thence in extreeme misery we shaped our course 

 for the yles of Cape Verde, and so passing to the yles 

 of The Azores, the Canaries being something out of our 

 course ; the first land that wee mette withall in our 

 Narrow sea was The yle of Alderney. And having now 

 but sixe men of all our company left alive, the Master 

 and his two mates and chiefe Mariners being dead, wee 

 ran in with Monville de Hage eight miles to the west 

 of Cherbourg in Normandie. Where the next day after 

 our comming to an ancker, having but one in all left, 

 being the last of August 1590. by the foule weather that 

 rose the ancker came home, and our ship drave on the 

 rocks : And the Normans which were commanded by the 

 governor of Cherbourg (who came downe to us that 

 night) to have layd out another ancker for her, neglect- 

 ing his commandement, suffered her miserably to be 

 splitted, with desire to enrich themselves by her wracke. 

 Within few dayes after this last mischance foure of us 

 being Englishmen departed from Cherbourgh, and passed 

 home for England in a barke of Weymouth, leaving 

 the two strangers there behinde us. 



The names of us sixe that returned of all our company 

 were these. 



William Magoths of Bristol. 

 Richard Bush. 

 John Reade. 



Richard Hodgkins of Westburie neere Bristol. 

 The two strangers. 



5 Gabriel Valerosa a Portugal. 



6 Peter, a Briton. 



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