380 TiMEHRI. 



Relation, which was published in 1613, and is reprinted 

 in Volume III, of the Harleian Miscellany^ Harcourt 

 says :— 



" When I came a-board, we weighed anchor, and steered 

 away from (for?) the island of Trinidado ; and, upon 

 the eighteenth day in the morning, we arrived at Punta de 

 Galea, where we found three English ships at anchor 

 which was no small comfort unto us, considering our 

 great defe6ls and wants. One of these ships was called 

 the Diana, belonging to Mr. LUL, a Dutch merchant, 

 dwelling in London : the other two, the Penelope, and 

 Endeavour, belonging to Mr. Hall, a merchant also of 

 London. We staid at this place six days to mend our 

 bad casks, and to take fresh water, during which time I 

 was kindly treated and feasted by the merchants, and 

 had supply of all such things as I stood in need of, which 

 courtesy I requited in the best manner I could for the 

 present. 



Upon Sunday the twenty-fourth of September we 

 weighed anchor; so likewise did the Diana, the other 

 two ships being gone two or three days before us ; but 

 the wind shifting to the north-east, forced us back again 

 almost to the same place from whence we departed. The 

 twenty-fifth we weighed again, and plied along the shore 

 towards Cape Brea, about three leagues. The Cape is 

 so called of the pitch which is there gotten in the earth, 

 whereof there is such abundance, that all places on this 

 side of the world may be stored therewith. 



It is a most excellent pitch for trimming of ships that 

 pass into these regions and hot countries, for it melteth 

 not with the sun as other pitch doth. 



The twenty-sixth day we stood long again, the wind 



