AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1591. 



seven houses inhabited by Portugales. The 1 1 . wee 

 departed from this place, and the fourteenth we arrived 

 hla de 5. Se- at the yle of S. Sebastian : from whence M. Cocke and 

 bastian. Captaine Davis presently departed with The Desire and 



the blacke pinnesse, for the taking of the towne of Santos. 

 The 15. at evening we anckered at the barre of Santos, 

 from whence we departed with our boates to the towne ; 

 and the next morning about nine of the clocke wee came 

 to Santos, where being discovered, wee were inforced to 

 land with 24. gentlemen, our long boat being farre a 

 Sterne, by which expedition wee tooke all the people or 

 the towne at Masse both men and women, whom wee 

 kept all that day in the Church as prisoners. The cause 

 why master Candish desired to take this towne was to 

 The towne of supply his great wants : For being in Santos, and having 

 Santos taken. -^ '^^ quiet possession, wee stood in assurance to supply all 

 our needes in great abundance. But such was the neg- 

 ligence of our governour master Cocke, that the Indians 

 were suffered to carry out of the towne whatsover they 

 would in open viewe, and no man did controll them : 

 and the next day after wee had wonne the towne, our 

 prisoners were all set at libertie, onely foure poore olde 

 men were kept as pawnes to supply our wants. Thus in 

 three dayes the towne that was able to furnish such 

 another Fleete with all kinde of necessaries, was left unto 

 us nakedly bare, without people and provision. 



Eight or tenne dayes after master Candish himselfe 

 came thither, where hee remained untill the 22. of 

 January, seeking by intreatie to have that, whereof we 

 were once possessed. But in conclusion wee departed 

 out of the towne through extreeme want of victuall, not 

 being able any longer to live there, and were glad to 

 receive a fewe canisters or baskets of Cassavi meale ; so 

 that in every condition wee went worse furnished from 

 the towne, then when wee came unto it. The 22. of 

 The towne of January we departed from Santos, and burnt Sant Vincent 

 5. i^tncent ^^ ^j^^ ground. The 24. we set saile, shaping our course 

 for the Streights of Magellan. 



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