LAST VOYAGE OF THOMAS CANDISH ad. 



1592. 



Buena Esperanza. The company answered, that if it 

 pleased him, they did desire to stay Gods favour for a 

 winde, and to indure all hardnesse whatsoever, rather then 

 to give over the voyage, considering they had bene here 

 but a smal time, and because they were within fourtie 

 leagues of the South sea, it grieved them now to returne ; 

 notwithstanding what hee purposed that they would 

 performe. So hee concluded to goe for the Cape of Buena 

 Esperanza, and to give over this voyage. Then our 

 Captaine, after master Candish was come abord The 

 Desire from talking with the company, tolde him, that 

 if it pleased him to consider the great extremitie of his 

 estate, the slendernesse of his provisions, with the weake- 

 nesse of his men, it was no course for him to proceed in 

 that newe enterprize : for if the rest of your shippes (said 

 hee) bee furnished answerable to this, it is impossible 

 to performe your determination : for wee have no more 

 sailes then mastes, no victuals, no ground-tackling, no 

 cordage more then is over head, and among seventie and 

 five persons, there is but the Master alone that can order 

 the shippe, and but foureteene saylers. The rest are 

 gentlemen, servingmen, and artificers. Therefore it will 

 be a desperate case to take so hard an enterprize in hand. 

 These perswasions did our Captaine not onely use to 

 master Candish, but also to master Cocke. In fine upon a 

 petition delivered in writing by the chiefe of the whole 

 company, the Generall determined to depart out of The 

 Streights of Magellan, and to returne againe for Santos 

 in Brasil. 



So the 15. of May wee set saile, the Generall then The^ returne 

 being in the Galeon. The eighteenth wee were free ^^ o!^. - L f 

 the Streights, but at Cape Froward it was our hard hap Magellan. 

 to have our boat sunke at our sterne in the night, and 

 to be split and sore spoiled, and to loose all our ores. 



The twentieth of May being thwart of Port Desire, in The occasion of 



the nigfht the Generall altered his course, as we suppose, J!^^ „ 

 , 1 P, . , , . r • 1 • 1 Generall. 



by which occasion wee lost him : tor in the evening he 



stood close by a winde to seaward, having the winde at 



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