AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1592. 



Northnortheast, and wee standing the same way, the winde 



not altering, could not the next day see him : so that 



[III. 844.] we then perswaded our selves, that hee was gone for 



Port Desire to relieve himselfe, or that hee had sustained 



some mischance at Sea, and was gone thither to remedy it. 



Whereupon our Captaine called the Generals men unto 



him, with the rest, and asked their opinion what was to 



bee done. Every one sayde, that they thought that the 



Generall was gone for Port Desire. Then the Master 



being the Generals man, and carefull of his masters 



service, as also of good judgement in Sea-matters, tolde 



the company howe dangerous it was to goe for Port 



Desire, if wee shoulde there misse the Generall : for (saide 



hee) wee have no boate to lande our selves, nor any 



cables nor anckers that I dare trust in so quicke streames 



as are there : yet in all likelyhood concluding that the 



Generall was gone thither, wee stayed our course for 



Port Desire, and by chance mette with the Blacke 



pinnesse, which had likewise lost the Fleete, being in 



very miserable case : so wee both concluded to seeke 



the Generall at Port Desire. 



The^ come The sixe and twentieth day of May we came to Port 



Iti^'^^ ^ T Desire, where not finding our Generall, as we hoped, 



ofMa-^ being most slenderly victualled, without sailes, boate, 



ores, nailes, cordage, and all other necessaries for our 



reliefe, wee were strooken into a deadly sorrow. But 



referring all to the providence and fatherly protection of 



the Almightie, wee entered the harbour, and by Gods 



A quiet road, favour found a place of quiet roade, which before wee 



knewe not. Having mored our shippe with the pinnesses 



boate, wee landed upon the South shore, where wee found 



A pook of a s<-anding poole of fresh water, which by estimation might 



fresh water on ^qIJ^ some tenne tunnes, whereby wee were greatly 



ofPortDesire comforted. From this poole wee fet more then fortie 



tunnes of water, and yet we left the poole as full as wee 



found it. And because at our first being in this harbour 



wee were at this place and found no water, we perswaded 



our selves that God had sent it for our reliefe. Also 



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