A.D. 

 1588. 



Flentie of 

 sv!tne. 



Our departure 

 from S. 

 Helena. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



an asse, with a maine like an horse and a beard hanging 

 downe to the very ground : they will clime up the clifFes 

 which are so steepe that a man would thinke it a thing 

 unpossible for any living thing to goe there. We tooke 

 and killed many of them for all their swiftnes : for there 

 be thousands of them upon the mountaines. 



Here are in like maner great store of swine which be 

 very wilde and very fat, and of a marveilous bignes : they 

 keepe altogether upon the mountaines, and will very 

 seldome abide any man to come neere them, except it 

 be by meere chance when they be found asleepe, or other- 

 wise, according to their kinde, be taken layed in the mire. 



We found in the houses at our comming 3. slaves 

 which were Negros, & one which was borne in the yland 

 of Java, which tolde us that the East Indian fleete, which 

 were in number 5. sailes, the least whereof were in burthen 

 8. or 900. tunnes, all laden with spices and Calicut cloth, 

 with store of treasure and very rich stones and pearles, 

 were gone from the saide yland of S. Helena but 20. dayes 

 before we came thither. 



This yland hath bene found of long time by the Por- 

 tugals, and hath bene altogether planted by them, for 

 their refreshing as they come from the East Indies. And 

 when they come they have all things plentiful for their 

 reliefe, by reason that they suffer none to inhabit there 

 that might spend up the fruit of the yland, except some 

 very few sicke persons in their company, which they 

 stand in doubt will not live untill they come home, whom 

 they leave there to refresh themselves, and take away 

 the yeere following the other Fleete if they live so long. 

 They touch here rather in their comming home from the 

 East Indies, then at their going thither, because they 

 are throughly furnished with corne when they set out 

 of Portugal, but are but meanely victualled at their 

 comming from the Indies, where there groweth little 

 corne. 



The 20. day of June having taken in wood & water and 

 refreshed our selves with such things as we found there, 



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