JOHN CHIDLEY 



A.D. 

 I59I. 



SO many of our men more : to whom Matthew Hawlse 



replied that it was not material, for that he had made 



choyce of a company for the very same purpose, whose 



names were Emmanuel Dornel, Richard Hungate, Paul 



Carie, John Davis, Gabriel Valerosa, a Portugall, and 



Peter a Britaine, and the Spaniard which we had taken T^he Spaniard 



in at the same place, at our first time of watering. pj.^^pl^l„^ 



And thus we end, desiring God to sende us well into 



our native countrey. In v/itnesse whereof wee have 



subscribed our names. ^^ o ^ ,,. ^ n .^^ 



1 homas Browne, Uunner, 



John Morrice, &c. 



The last voyage of the v^orshipfull M. Thomas 

 Candish esquire, intended for the South sea, 

 the Philippinas, and the coast of China, with 

 3. tall ships, and two barks: Written by M. 

 John Jane, a man of good observation, im- 

 ployed in the same, and many other voyages. 



He 26. of August 1 591, wee departed 

 from Plimmouth with 3. tall ships, and 

 two barkes, The Galeon wherein M. 

 Candish went himselfe being Admiral, 

 The Roebucke vice admirall whereof M. 

 Cocke was Captaine, The Desire Rere- 

 admirail whereof was Captaine M. John 



Davis (with whom and for whose sake 1 went this voyage) 

 The Blacke pinnesse, and a barke of M. Adrian Gilbert, 

 whereof M. Randolfe Cotton was Captaine. 



The 29. of November wee fell with the bay of Salvador ^^y^ dc Sal- 

 upon the coast of Brasil 12. leagues on this side Cabo 

 Frio, where wee were becalmed untiil the second of 

 Decemiber: at which time wee tooke a small barke bound J barke taken. 

 for the River of Plate with sugar, haberdash wares, and 

 Negros. The Master of this barke brought us unto an ^^^^ ^^.^ 

 yle called Placencia thirtie leagues West from Cabo Frio, y^/^ ^^ 

 where wee arrived the fift of December, and rifled sixe or placencia. 



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