A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1590- 



found them, wee doe not despaire in Gods mercie, but 

 that in our returne home-ward, hee will send us pur- 

 chase sufficient, if wee would joyne our selves together 

 in prayer, and love one another. And thus doing (as 

 wee shalbe bound) even so wee will also heartily pray 

 for the continuance of your good estate, and wel-fare, 

 and for the length of your dayes, to the pleasure of 

 Almightie God. 



Lastly, wee doe most humbly beseech you to con- 

 sider, that (after the losse of so many men and all the 

 casualties aforesaid, as we were taking in of water by 

 Port Famine, our boate-swaine, the hooper, and William 

 Magoths being on shoare) Matthew Hawlse did hallow 

 to have them in all the haste come on-bord : saying 

 therewithall these words : He that will come in this 

 voyage, must not make any reckoning to leave two or 

 three men on shore behinde him, whereas we had so 

 lately lost all the foresaide men, having then but sixe 

 sailers left us on-bord. Also the saide Matthew Hawlse 

 did cary a pistoll for the space of two dayes secretly 

 under his gowne, intending therewithall to have mur- 

 thered Andrew Stoning, and William Combe, as by 

 confession of Hawlse his man, William Martin, it is 

 manifest : for the saide William Martine reported unto 

 two of his friends, viz. Richard Hungate, and Emanuel 

 Dornel, that he kneeled upon his knees one whole houre 

 before Matthew Hawlse in his owne cabin, desiring him, 

 for Gods cause, not to kill either of them, especially 

 because the saide Stoning and Martin came both out of 

 one towne. Also the said Hawlse, at our second time 

 of watering in the place aforesaid, came into the Gunners 

 roome to speake with you (your selfe with the master 

 Gunner Thomas Browne, and his mate William Frier 

 being then present) demanding of you, if he should 

 send certaine men to Port famine being two leagues 

 from the ship by land. Thomas Browne answered him 

 [III. 842.] presently, that he should send none, for feare least the 

 wind might arise, and by that meanes we should loose 



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