lok's voyage. 
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troyed his medicine chests, carried off his sailing 
instruments, and his very clothes. But in the 
midst of these outrages, he was himself seized 
with the fever, which hurried him to the grave. 
Pinteado, however, returning, did not find his situ- 
ation at all amended. The mariners mutinying, 
treated him with every species of insult, calling 
him a Jew, who had brought them thither to kill 
them. They then instantly weighed anchor, with- 
out regarding the entreaties of Pinteado, or wait- 
ing for several of their companions who had not 
yet arrived, though they were thus obliged to sink 
one of the ships for want of hands to navigate her. 
Pinteado died in a few days of a broken heart ; 
and of a hundred and forty seamen who had sail- 
ed, scarcely forty reached Plymouth. 
The deplorable issue of this voyage, occasion- 
ed, as it visibly was, by the flagrant misconduct 
of those intrusted with it, did not cause any dis- 
couragement to the English merchants. In 1554 
they equipped three other vessels, the command 
of which was given to Captain John Lok.* The 
narrative is written by Robert Gaynsh, one of the 
masters. Lok, after touching at Madeira and 
TenerifFe, reached the African coast near Cape 
Barbas, and sailed along till he came to the mouth 
* Hakluyt, Vol. II. Part II. p. 14. 
