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diff --git a/2991.txt b/2991.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e75d318 --- /dev/null +++ b/2991.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1330 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the +World, by Francis Pretty + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World + +Author: Francis Pretty + +Release Date: March 31, 2006 [EBook #2991] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIR FRANCIS DRAKE *** + + + + +Produced by Dagny; John Bickers + + + + + +SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S FAMOUS VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD + + +Narrative By Francis Pretty, + +One Of Drake's Gentlemen At Arms. + + + PREPARER'S NOTE + This text was prepared from a 1910 edition, published by P F + Collier & Son Company, New York. + + + + The FAMOUS VOYAGE of Sir FRANCIS DRAKE into the South Sea, and + therehence about the whole Globe of the Earth, begun in the year + of our Lord 1577. + + + +The 15th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1577, Master Francis +Drake, with a fleet of five ships and barks, and to the number of 164 +men, gentlemen and sailors, departed from Plymouth, giving out his +pretended voyage for Alexandria. But the wind falling contrary, he was +forced the next morning to put into Falmouth Haven, in Cornwall, where +such and so terrible a tempest took us, as few men have seen the like, +and was indeed so vehement that all our ships were like to have gone +to wrack. But it pleased God to preserve us from that extremity and to +afflict us only for that present with these two particulars: the mast of +our Admiral, which was the Pelican, was cut overboard for the safeguard +of the ship, and the Marigold was driven ashore, and somewhat bruised. +For the repairing of which damages we returned again to Plymouth; and +having recovered those harms, and brought the ships again to good state, +we set forth the second time from Plymouth, and set sail the 13th day of +December following. + +The 25th day of the same month we fell with the Cape Cantin, upon the +coast of Barbary; and coasting along, the 27th day we found an island +called Mogador, lying one mile distant from the main. Between which +island and the main we found a very good and safe harbour for our ships +to ride in, as also very good entrance, and void of any danger. On this +island our General erected a pinnace, whereof he brought out of England +with him four already framed. While these things were in doing, there +came to the water's side some of the inhabitants of the country, shewing +forth their flags of truce; which being seen of our General, he sent his +ship's boat to the shore to know what they would. They being willing to +come aboard, our men left there one man of our company for a pledge, and +brought two of theirs aboard our ship; which by signs shewed our General +that the next day they would bring some provision, as sheep, capons, and +hens, and such like. Whereupon our General bestowed amongst them some +linen cloth and shoes, and a javelin, which they very joyfully received, +and departed for that time. The next morning they failed not to come +again to the water's side. And our General again setting out our boat, +one of our men leaping over-rashly ashore, and offering friendly to +embrace them, they set violent hands on him, offering a dagger to his +throat if he had made any resistance; and so laying him on a horse +carried him away. So that a man cannot be too circumspect and wary of +himself among such miscreants. Our pinnace being finished, we departed +from this place the 30th and last day of December, and coasting along +the shore we did descry, not contrary to our expectation, certain +_canters_, which were Spanish fishermen; to whom we gave chase and took +three of them. And proceeding further we met with three carvels, and +took them also. + +The 17th day of January we arrived at Cape Blanco, where we found a ship +riding at anchor, within the Cape, and but two simple mariners in her. +Which ship we took and carried her further into the harbour, where we +remained four days; and in that space our General mustered and trained +his men on land in warlike manner, to make them fit for all occasions. +In this place we took of the fishermen such necessaries as we wanted, +and they could yield us; and leaving here one of our little barks, +called the Benedict, we took with us one of theirs which they called +_canters_, being of the burden of 40 tons or thereabouts. All these +things being finished we departed this harbour the 22nd of January, +carrying along with us one of the Portugal carvels, which was bound to +the islands of Cape Verde for salt, whereof good store is made in one +of those islands. The master or pilot of that carvel did advertise our +General that upon one of those islands, called Mayo, there was great +store of dried _cabritos_ (goats), which a few inhabitants there +dwelling did yearly make ready for such of the king's ships as did there +touch, being bound for his country of Brazil or elsewhere. We fell with +this island the 27th of January, but the inhabitants would in no case +traffic with us, being thereof forbidden by the king's edict. Yet the +next day our General sent to view the island, and the likelihoods that +might be there of the provision of victuals, about threescore and +two men under the conduct and government of Master Winter and Master +Doughty. And marching towards the chief place of habitation in this +island (as by the Portugal we were informed), having travelled to the +mountains the space of three miles, and arriving there somewhat before +the daybreak, we arrested ourselves, to see day before us. Which +appearing, we found the inhabitants to be fled; but the place, by reason +that it was manured, we found to be more fruitful than the other part, +especially the valleys among the hills. + +Here we gave ourselves a little refreshing, as by very ripe and sweet +grapes, which the fruitfulness of the earth at that season of winter, +it may seems strange that those fruits were then there growing. But the +reason thereof is this, because they being between the tropic and the +equinoctial, the sun passeth twice in the year through their zenith over +their heads, by means whereof they have two summers; and being so near +the heat of the line they never lose the heat of the sun so much, but +the fruits have their increase and continuance in the midst of winter. +The island is wonderfully stored with goats and wild hens; and it hath +salt also, without labour, save only that the people gather it into +heaps; which continually in greater quantity is increased upon the sands +by the flowing of the sea, and the receiving heat of the sun kerning the +same. So that of the increase thereof they keep a continual traffic with +their neighbours. + +Amongst other things we found here a kind of fruit called _cocos_, which +because it is not commonly known with us in England, I thought good to +make some description of it. The tree beareth no leaves nor branches, +but at the very top the fruit groweth in clusters, hard at the top of +the stem of the tree, as big every several fruit as a man's head; but +having taken off the uttermost bark, which you shall find to be very +full of strings or sinews, as I may term them, you shall come to a hard +shell, which may hold a quantity of liquor a pint commonly, or some +a quart, and some less. Within that shell, of the thickness of +half-an-inch good, you shall have a kind of hard substance and very +white, no less good and sweet than almonds; within that again, a certain +clear liquor which being drunk, you shall not only find it very delicate +and sweet, but most comfortable and cordial. + +After we had satisfied ourselves with some of these fruits, we marched +further into the island, and saw great store of _cabritos_ alive, which +were so chased by the inhabitants that we could do no good towards our +provision; but they had laid out, as it were to stop our mouths withal, +certain old dried _cabritos_, which being but ill, and small and few, +we made no account of. Being returned to our ships, our General departed +hence the 31st of this month, and sailed by the island of Santiago, but +far enough from the danger of the inhabitants, who shot and discharged +at us three pieces; but they all fell short of us, and did us no harm. +The island is fair and large, and, as it seemeth, rich and fruitful, +and inhabited by the Portugals; but the mountains and high places of the +island are said to be possessed by the Moors, who having been slaves to +the Portugals, to ease themselves, made escape to the desert places +of the island, where they abide with great strength. Being before this +island, we espied two ships under sail, to the one of which we gave +chase, and in the end boarded her with a ship-boat without resistance; +which we found to be a good prize, and she yielded unto us good store +of wine. Which prize our General committed to the custody of Master +Doughty; and retaining the pilot, sent the rest away with his pinnace, +giving them a butt of wine and some victuals, and their wearing clothes, +and so they departed. The same night we came with the island called by +the Portugals _Ilha do Fogo_, that is, the burning island; in the north +side whereof is a consuming fire. The matter is said to be of sulphur, +but, notwithstanding, it is like to be a commodious island, because the +Portugals have built, and do inhabit there. Upon the south side thereof +lieth a most pleasant and sweet island, the trees whereof are always +green and fair to look upon; in respect whereof they call it _Ilha +Brava_, that is, the brave island. From the banks thereof into the sea +do run in many places reasonable streams of fresh water easy to come by, +but there was no convenient road for our ships; for such was the depth +that no ground could be had for anchoring. And it is reported that +ground was never found in that place; so that the tops of _Fogo_ burn +not so high in the air, but the roots of _Brava_ are quenched as low in +the sea. + +Being departed from these islands, we drew towards the line, where we +were becalmed the space of three weeks, but yet subject to divers great +storms, terrible lightnings and much thunder. But with this misery we +had the commodity of great store of fish, as dolphins, bonitos, and +flying-fishes, whereof some fell into our ships; wherehence they could +not rise again for want of moisture, for when their wings are dry they +cannot fly. + +From the first day of our departure from the islands of Cape Verde, we +sailed 54 days without sight of land. And the first land that we fell +with was the coast of Brazil, which we saw the fifth of April, in the +height of 33 degrees towards the pole Antarctic. And being discovered +at sea by the inhabitants of the country, they made upon the coast great +fires for a sacrifice (as we learned) to the devils; about which they +use conjurations, making heaps of sand, and other ceremonies, that when +any ship shall go about to stay upon their coast, not only sands may +be gathered together in shoals in every place, but also that storms and +tempests may arise, to the casting away of ships and men, whereof, as it +is reported, there have been divers experiments. + +The 7th day in a mighty great storm, both of lightning, rain, and +thunder, we lost the canter, which we called the Christopher. But the +eleventh day after, by our General's great care in dispersing his ships, +we found her again, and the place where we met our General called the +Cape of Joy, where every ship took in some water. Here we found a good +temperature and sweet air, a very fair and pleasant country with an +exceeding fruitful soil, where were great store of large and mighty +deer, but we came not to the sight of any people; but travelling further +into the country we perceived the footing of people in the clay ground, +shewing that they were men of great stature. Being returned to our ships +we weighed anchor, and ran somewhat further, and harboured ourselves +between the rock and the main; where by means of the rock that brake the +force of the sea, we rid very safe. And upon this rock we killed for our +provision certain sea-wolves, commonly called with us seals. From hence +we went our course to 36 degrees, and entered the great river of Plate, +and ran into 54 and 53 1/2 fathoms of fresh water, where we filled +our water by the ship's side; but our General finding here no good +harborough, as he thought he should, bare out again to sea the 27th of +April, and in bearing out we lost sight of our fly-boat wherein Master +Doughty was. But we, sailing along, found a fair and reasonable good +bay, wherein were many and the same profitable islands; one whereof had +so many seals as would at the least have laden all our ships, and +the rest of the islands are, as it were, laden with fowls, which is +wonderful to see, and they of divers sorts. It is a place very plentiful +of victuals, and hath in it no want of fresh water. Our General, after +certain days of his abode in this place, being on shore in an island, +the people of the country shewed themselves unto him, leaping and +dancing, and entered into traffic with him, but they would not receive +anything at any man's hands, but the same must be cast upon the ground. +They are of clean, comely, and strong bodies, swift on foot, and seem to +be very active. + +The 18th of May, our General thought it needful to have a care of such +ships as were absent; and therefore endeavouring to seek the fly-boat +wherein Master Doughty was, we espied her again the next day. And +whereas certain of our ships were sent to discover the coast and to +search an harbour, the Marigold and the canter being employed in that +business, came unto us and gave us understanding of a safe harbour that +they had found. Wherewith all our ships bare, and entered it; where we +watered and made new provision of victuals, as by seals, whereof we slew +to the number of 200 or 300 in the space of an hour. Here our General in +the Admiral rid close aboard the fly-boat, and took out of her all the +provision of victuals and what else was in her, and hauling her to the +land, set fire to her, and so burnt her to save the iron work. Which +being a-doing, there came down of the country certain of the people +naked, saving only about their waist the skin of some beast, with the +fur or hair on, and something also wreathed on their heads. Their faces +were painted with divers colours, and some of them had on their heads +the similitude of horns, every man his bow, which was an ell in length, +and a couple of arrows. They were very agile people and quick to +deliver, and seemed not to be ignorant in the feats of wars, as by their +order of ranging a few men might appear. These people would not of a +long time receive anything at our hands; yet at length our General being +ashore, and they dancing after their accustomed manner about him, and he +once turning his back towards them, one leaped suddenly to him, and took +his cap with his gold band off his head, and ran a little distance from +him, and shared it with his fellow, the cap to one and the band to the +other. Having despatched all our business in this place, we departed +and set sail. And immediately upon our setting forth we lost our canter, +which was absent three or four days; but when our General had her again, +he took out the necessaries, and so gave her over, near to the Cape +of Good Hope. The next day after, being the 20th of June, we harboured +ourselves again in a very good harborough, called by Magellan, Port +St. Julian, where we found a gibbet standing upon the main; which we +supposed to be the place where Magellan did execution upon some of his +disobedient and rebellious company. + +The two and twentieth day our General went ashore to the main, and in +his company John Thomas, and Robert Winterhie, Oliver the master-gunner, +John Brewer, Thomas Hood, and Thomas Drake. And entering on land, +they presently met with two or three of the country people. And Robert +Winterhie having in his hands a bow and arrows, went about to make a +shoot of pleasure, and, in his draught, his bowstring brake; which the +rude savages taking as a token of war, began to bend the force of their +bows against our company, and drove them to their shifts very narrowly. + +In this port our General began to enquire diligently of the actions of +Master Thomas Doughty, and found them not to be such as he looked for, +but tending rather of contention or mutiny, or some other disorder, +whereby, without redress, the success of the voyage might greatly +have been hazarded. Whereupon the company was called together and made +acquainted with the particulars of the cause, which were found, partly +by Master Doughty's own confession, and partly by the evidence of the +fact, to be true. Which when our General saw, although his private +affection to Master Doughty, as he then in the presence of us all +sacredly protested, was great, yet the care he had of the state of the +voyage, of the expectation of her Majesty, and of the honour of his +country did more touch him, as indeed it ought, than the private respect +of one man. So that the cause being thoroughly heard, and all things +done in good order as near as might be to the course of our laws in +England, it was concluded that Master Doughty should receive punishment +according to the quality of the offence. And he, seeing no remedy but +patience for himself, desired before his death to receive the communion, +which he did at the hands of Master Fletcher, our minister, and our +General himself accompanied him in that holy action. Which being done, +and the place of execution made ready, he having embraced our General, +and taken his leave of all the company, with prayers for the Queen's +Majesty and our realm, in quiet sort laid his head to the block, where +he ended his life. This being done, our General made divers speeches to +the whole company, persuading us to unity, obedience, love, and regard +of our voyage; and for the better confirmation thereof, willed every +many in the next Sunday following to prepare himself to the communion, +as Christian brethren and friends ought to do. Which was done in very +reverent sort; and so with good contentment every man went about his +business. + +The 17th of August we departed the port of St. Julian, and the 20th day +we fell with the Strait of Magellan, going into the South Sea; at the +cape or headland whereof we found the body of a dead man, whose flesh +was clean consumed. The 21st day we entered the Strait, which we found +to have many turnings, and as it were shuttings-up, as if there were no +passage at all. By means whereof we had the wind often against us; so +that some of the fleet recovering a cape or point of land, others should +be forced to turn back again, and to come to an anchor where they could. +In this Strait there be many fair harbours, with store of fresh water. +But yet they lack their best commodity, for the water there is of such +depth, that no man shall find ground to anchor in except it be in some +narrow river or corner, or between some rocks; so that if any extreme +blasts or contrary winds do come, whereunto the place is much subject, +it carrieth with it no small danger. The land on both sides is very huge +and mountainous; the lower mountains whereof, although they be monstrous +and wonderful to look upon for their height, yet there are others which +in height exceed them in a strange manner, reaching themselves above +their fellows so high, that between them did appear three regions of +clouds. These mountains are covered with snow. At both the southerly and +easterly parts of the Strait there are islands, among which the sea hath +his indraught into the Straits, even as it hath in the main entrance of +the frete. This Strait is extreme cold, with frost and snow continually; +the trees seem to stoop with the burden of the weather, and yet are +green continually, and many good and sweet herbs do very plentifully +grow and increase under them. The breadth of the Strait is in some +places a league, in some other places two leagues and three leagues, and +in some other four leagues; but the narrowest place hath a league over. + +The 24th of August we arrived at an island in the Straits, where we +found great store of fowl which could not fly, of the bigness of geese; +whereof we killed in less than one day 3,000, and victualled ourselves +thoroughly therewith. The 6th day of September we entered the South Sea +at the cape or head shore. The 7th day we were driven by a great storm +from the entering into the South Sea, 200 leagues and odd in longitude, +and one degree to the southward of the Strait; in which height, and so +many leagues to the westward, the 15th day of September, fell out +the eclipse of the moon at the hour of six of the clock at night. But +neither did the ecliptical conflict of the moon impair our state, nor +her clearing again amend us a whit; but the accustomed eclipse of +the sea continued in his force, we being darkened more than the moon +sevenfold.[*] + + [*] In this storm the Marigold went down with all hands. + +From the bay which we called the Bay of Severing of Friends, we were +driven back to the southward of the Straits in 57 degrees and a tierce; +in which height we came to an anchor among the islands, having there +fresh and very good water, with herbs of singular virtue. Not far from +hence we entered another bay, where we found people, both men and women, +in their canoes naked, and ranging from one island to another to seek +their meat; who entered traffic with us for such things as they had. +We returning hence northward again, found the third of October three +islands, in one of which was such plenty of birds as is scant +credible to report. The 8th day of October we lost sight of one of our +consorts,[*] wherein Master Winter was; who, as then we supposed, was +put by a storm into the Straits again. Which at our return home we found +to be true, and he not perished, as some of our company feared. Thus +being come into the height of the Straits again, we ran, supposing the +coast of Chili to lie as the general maps have described it, namely +north-west; which we found to lie and trend to the north-east and +eastwards. Whereby it appeareth that this part of Chili hath not been +truly hitherto discovered, or at the least not truly reported, for the +space of twelve degrees at the least; being set down either of purpose +to deceive, or of ignorant conjecture. + + [*] The Elizabeth. Winter, having slight of the Admiral, + sailed home. The Golden Hind was thus left to pursue her + voyage alone. + +We continuing our course, fell the 29th of November with an island +called La Mocha, where we cast anchor; and our General, hoisting out our +boat, went with ten of our company to shore. Where we found people whom +the cruel and extreme dealings of the Spaniards have forced, for their +own safety and liberty, to flee from the main, and to fortify themselves +in this island. We being on land, the people came down to us to the +water side with show of great courtesy, bringing to us potatoes, roots, +and two very fat sheep; which our General received, and gave them other +things for them, and had promised to have water there. But the next day +repairing again to the shore, and sending two men a-land with barrels +to fill water, the people taking them for Spaniards (to whom they use to +show no favour if they take them) laid violent hands on them, and, as we +think, slew them. Our General seeing this, stayed there no longer, but +weighed anchor, and set sail towards the coast of Chili. And drawing +towards it, we met near the shore an Indian in a _canoa_, who thinking +us to have been Spaniards, came to us and told us, that at a place +called Santiago, there was a great Spanish ship laden from the kingdom +of Peru; for which good news our General gave him divers trifles. +Whereof he was glad, and went along with us and brought us to the place, +which is called the port of Valparaiso. When we came thither we found, +indeed, the ship riding at anchor, having in her eight Spaniards and +three negroes; who, thinking us to have been Spaniards, and their +friends, welcomed us with a drum, and made ready a _botija_ of wine of +Chili to drink to us. But as soon as we were entered, one of our +company called Thomas Moon began to lay about him, and struck one of the +Spaniards, and said unto him, _Abaxo perro!_ that is in English, 'Go +down, dog!' One of these Spaniards, seeing persons of that quality in +those seas, crossed and blessed himself. But, to be short, we stowed +them under hatches, all save one Spaniard, who suddenly and desperately +leapt overboard into the sea, and swam ashore to the town of Santiago, +to give them warning of our arrival. + +They of the town, being not above nine households, presently fled away +and abandoned the town. Our General manned his boat and the Spanish +ship's boat, and went to the town; and, being come to it, we rifled it, +and came to a small chapel, which we entered, and found therein a silver +chalice, two cruets, and one altar-cloth, the spoil whereof our General +gave to Master Fletcher, his minister. We found also in this town a +warehouse stored with wine of Chili and many boards of cedar-wood; all +which wine we brought away with us, and certain of the boards to burn +for firewood. And so, being come aboard, we departed the haven, having +first set all the Spaniards on land, saving one John Griego, a Greek +born, whom our General carried with him as pilot to bring him into the +haven of Lima. + +When we were at sea our General rifled the ship, and found in her good +store of the wine of Chili, and 25,000 pesos of very pure and fine gold +of Valdivia, amounting in value to 37,000 ducats of Spanish money, +and above. So, going on our course, we arrived next at a place called +Coquimbo, where our General sent fourteen of his men on land to fetch +water. But they were espied by the Spaniards, who came with 300 horsemen +and 200 footmen, and slew one of our men with a piece. The rest came +aboard in safety, and the Spaniards departed. We went on shore again and +buried our man, and the Spaniards came down again with a flag of truce; +but we set sail, and would not trust them. From hence we went to a +certain port called Tarapaca; where, being landed, we found by the sea +side a Spaniard lying asleep, who had lying by him thirteen bars of +silver, which weighed 4,000 ducats Spanish. We took the silver and left +the man. Not far from hence, going on land for fresh water, we met with +a Spaniard and an Indian boy driving eight llamas or sheep of Peru, +which are as big as asses; every of which sheep had on his back two bags +of leather, each bag containing 50 lb. weight of fine silver. So that, +bringing both the sheep and their burthen to the ships, we found in all +the bags eight hundred weight of silver. + +Herehence we sailed to a place called Arica; and, being entered the +port, we found there three small barks, which we rifled, and found in +one of them fifty-seven wedges of silver, each of them weighing about 20 +lb. weight, and every of these wedges were of the fashion and bigness of +a brickbat. In all these three barks, we found not one person. For +they, mistrusting no strangers, were all gone a-land to the town, which +consisteth of about twenty houses; which we would have ransacked if our +company had been better and more in number. But our General, contented +with the spoil of the ships, left the town and put off again to sea, +and set sail for Lima, and, by the way, met with a small bark, which he +boarded, and found in her good store of linen cloth. Whereof taking some +quantity, he let her go. + +To Lima we came the 13th of February; and, being entered the haven, we +found there about twelve sail of ships lying fast moored at an anchor, +having all their sails carried on shore; for the masters and merchants +were here most secure, having never been assaulted by enemies, and +at this time feared the approach of none such as we were. Our General +rifled these ships, and found in one of them a chest full of reals of +plate, and good store of silks and linen cloth; and took the chest into +his own ship, and good store of the silks and linen. In which ship he +had news of another ship called the Cacafuego, which was gone towards +Payta, and that the same ship was laden with treasure. Whereupon we +stayed no longer here, but, cutting all the cables of the ships in the +haven, we let them drive wither they would, either to sea or to the +shore; and with all speed we followed the Cacafuego toward Payta, +thinking there to have found her. But before we arrived there she was +gone from thence towards Panama; whom our General still pursued, and by +the way met with a bark laden with ropes and tackle for ships, which +he boarded and searched, and found in her 80 lb. weight of gold, and a +crucifix of gold with goodly great emeralds set in it, which he took, +and some of the cordage also for his own ship. From hence we departed, +still following the Cacafuego; and our General promised our company that +whosoever should first descry her should have his chain of gold for his +good news. It fortuned that John Drake, going up into the top, descried +her about three of the clock. And about six of the clock we came to her +and boarded her, and shot at her three pieces of ordnance, and strake +down her mizen; and, being entered, we found in her great riches, as +jewels and precious stones, thirteen chests full of reals of plate, +fourscore pound weight of gold, and six-and-twenty ton of silver. The +place where we took this prize was called Cape de San Francisco, about +150 leagues [south] from Panama. The pilot's name of this ship was +Francisco; and amongst other plate that our General found in this ship +he found two very fair gilt bowls of silver, which were the pilot's. To +whom our General said, _Senor Pilot, you have here two silver cups, but +I must needs have one of them_; which the pilot, because he could not +otherwise choose, yielded unto, and gave the other to the steward of our +General's ship. When this pilot departed from us, his boy said thus unto +our General: _Captain, our ship shall be called no more the Cacafuego, +but the Cacaplata, and your ship shall be called the Cacafuego_. Which +pretty speech of the pilot's boy ministered matter of laughter to us, +both then and long after. When our General had done what he would with +this Cacafuego, he cast her off, and we went on our course still towards +the west; and not long after met with a ship laden with linen cloth and +fine China dishes of white earth, and great store of China silks, of all +which things we took as we listed. The owner himself of this ship was in +her, who was a Spanish gentleman, from whom our General took a falcon of +gold, with a great emerald in the breast thereof; and the pilot of the +ship he took also with him, and so cast the ship off. + +This pilot brought us to the haven of Guatulco, the town whereof, as +he told us, had but 17 Spaniards in it. As soon as we were entered this +haven, we landed, and went presently to the town and to the town-house; +where we found a judge sitting in judgment, being associated with three +other officers, upon three negroes that had conspired the burning of +the town. Both which judges and prisoners we took, and brought them +a-shipboard, and caused the chief judge to write his letter to the town +to command all the townsmen to avoid, that we might safely water there. +Which being done, and they departed, we ransacked the town; and in one +house we found a pot, of the quantity of a bushel, full of reals of +plate, which we brought to our ship. And here one Thomas Moon, one of +our company, took a Spanish gentleman as he was flying out of the +town; and, searching him, he found a chain of gold about him, and other +jewels, which he took, and so let him go. At this place our General, +among other Spaniards, set ashore his Portugal pilot which he took at +the islands of Cape Verde out of a ship of St. Mary port, of Portugal. +And having set them ashore we departed hence, and sailed to the island +of Canno; where our General landed, and brought to shore his own ship, +and discharged her, mended and graved her, and furnished our ship with +water and wood sufficiently. + +And while we were here we espied a ship and set sail after her, and took +her, and found in her two pilots and a Spanish governor, going for the +islands of the Philippinas. We searched the ship, and took some of her +merchandises, and so let her go. Our General at this place and time, +thinking himself, both in respect of his private injuries received from +the Spaniards, as also of their contempts and indignities offered to our +country and prince in general, sufficiently satisfied and revenged; and +supposing that her Majesty at his return would rest contented with this +service, purposed to continue no longer upon the Spanish coast, but +began to consider and to consult of the best way for his country. + +He thought it not good to return by the Straits, for two special causes; +the one, lest the Spaniards should there wait and attend for him in +great number and strength, whose hands, he, being left but one ship, +could not possibly escape. The other cause was the dangerous situation +of the mouth of the Straits in the South Sea; where continual storms +reigning and blustering, as he found by experience, besides the shoals +and sands upon the coast, he thought it not a good course to adventure +that way. He resolved, therefore, to avoid these hazards, to go forward +to the Islands of the Malucos, and therehence to sail the course of the +Portugals by the Cape of Buena Esperanza. Upon this resolution he began +to think of his best way to the Malucos, and finding himself, where he +now was, becalmed, he saw that of necessity he must be forced to take a +Spanish course; namely, to sail somewhat northerly to get a good wind. +We therefore set sail, and sailed 600 leagues at the least for a good +wind; and thus much we sailed from the 16th of April till the third of +June. + +The fifth of June, being in 43 degrees towards the pole Arctic, we found +the air so cold, that our men being grievously pinched with the same, +complained of the extremity thereof; and the further we went, the more +the cold increased upon us. Whereupon we thought it best for that time +to seek the land, and did so; finding it not mountainous but low plain +land, till we came within 38 degrees towards the line. In which height +it pleased God to send us into a fair and good bay, with a good wind to +enter the same. In this bay we anchored; and the people of the country, +having their houses close by the water's side, shewed themselves unto +us, and sent a present to our General. When they came unto us, they +greatly wondered at the things that we brought. But our General, +according to his natural and accustomed humanity, courteously intreated +them, and liberally bestowed on them necessary things to cover their +nakedness; whereupon they supposed us to be gods, and would not be +persuaded to the contrary. The presents which they sent to our General, +were feathers, and cauls of network. Their houses are digged round about +with earth, and have from the uttermost brims of the circle, clifts +of wood set upon them, joining close together at the top like a spire +steeple, which by reason of that closeness are very warm. Their bed is +the ground with rushes strowed on it; and lying about the house, [they] +have the fire in the midst. The men go naked; the women take bulrushes, +and kemb them after the manner of hemp, and thereof make their loose +garments, which being knit about their middles, hang down about their +hips, having also about their shoulders a skin of deer, with the +hair upon it. These women are very obedient and serviceable to their +husbands. + +After they were departed from us, they came and visited us the second +time, and brought with them feathers and bags of _tabacco_ for presents. +And when they came to the top of the hill, at the bottom whereof we +had pitched our tents, they stayed themselves; where one appointed for +speaker wearied himself with making a long oration; which done, they +left their bows upon the hill, and came down with their presents. In +the meantime the women, remaining upon the hill, tormented themselves +lamentably, tearing their flesh from their cheeks, whereby we perceived +that they were about a sacrifice. In the meantime our General with +his company went to prayer, and to reading of the Scriptures, at which +exercise they were attentive, and seemed greatly to be affected with +it; but when they were come unto us, they restored again unto us those +things which before we bestowed upon them. The news of our being there +being spread through the country, the people that inhabited round about +came down, and amongst them the king himself, a man of a goodly stature, +and comely personage, and with many other tall and warlike men; before +whose coming were sent two ambassadors to our General, to signify that +their king was coming, in doing of which message, their speech was +continued about half an hour. This ended, they by signs requested our +General to send something by their hand to their king, as a token that +his coming might be in peace. Wherein our General having satisfied them, +they returned with glad tidings to their king, who marched to us with a +princely majesty, the people crying continually after their manner; and +as they drew near unto us, so did they strive to behave themselves in +their actions with comeliness. In the fore-front was a man of goodly +personage, who bare the sceptre or mace before the king; whereupon +hanged two crowns, a less and a bigger, with three chains of a +marvellous length. The crowns were made of knit work, wrought +artificially with feathers of divers colours. The chains were made of a +bony substance, and few be the persons among them that are admitted to +wear them; and of that number also the persons are stinted, as some ten, +some twelve, etc. Next unto him which bare the sceptre, was the king +himself, with his guard about his person, clad with coney skins, and +other skins. After them followed the naked common sort of people, every +one having his face painted, some with white, some with black, and other +colours, and having in their hands one thing or another for a present. +Not so much as their children, but they also brought their presents. + +In the meantime our General gathered his men together, and marched +within his fenced place, making, against their approaching, a very +warlike show. They being trooped together in their order, and a general +salutation being made, there was presently a general silence. Then he +that bare the sceptre before the king, being informed by another, whom +they assigned to that office, with a manly and lofty voice proclaimed +that which the other spake to him in secret, continuing half an hour. +Which ended, and a general _Amen_, as it were, given, the king with the +whole number of men and women, the children excepted, came down without +any weapon; who, descending to the foot of the hill, set themselves +in order. In coming towards our bulwarks and tents, the sceptre-bearer +began a song, observing his measures in a dance, and that with a stately +countenance; whom the king with his guard, and every degree of persons, +following, did in like manner sing and dance, saving only the women, +which danced and kept silence. The General permitted them to enter +within our bulwark, where they continued their song and dance a +reasonable time. When they had satisfied themselves, they made signs to +our General to sit down; to whom the king and divers others made several +orations, or rather supplications, that he would take their province +and kingdom into his hand, and become their king, making signs that +they would resign unto him their right and title of the whole land, and +become his subjects. In which, to persuade us the better, the king and +the rest, with one consent, and with great reverence, joyfully singing a +song, did set the crown upon his head, enriched his neck with all their +chains, and offered him many other things, honouring him by the name of +_Hioh_, adding thereunto, as it seemed, a sign of triumph; which thing +our General thought not meet to reject, because he knew not what honour +and profit it might be to our country. Wherefore in the name, and to the +use of her Majesty, he took the sceptre, crown, and dignity of the said +country into his hands, wishing that the riches and treasure thereof +might so conveniently be transported to the enriching of her kingdom at +home, as it aboundeth in the same. + +The common sort of people, leaving the king and his guard with our +General, scattered themselves together with their sacrifices among our +people, taking a diligent view of every person: and such as pleased +their fancy (which were the youngest), they enclosing them about offered +their sacrifices unto them with lamentable weeping, scratching and +tearing their flesh from their faces with their nails, whereof issued +abundance of blood. But we used signs to them of disliking this, and +stayed their hands from force, and directed them upwards to the living +God, whom only they ought to worship. They shewed unto us their wounds, +and craved help of them at our hands; whereupon we gave them lotions, +plaisters, and ointments agreeing to the state of their griefs, +beseeching God to cure their diseases. Every third day they brought +their sacrifices unto us, until they understood our meaning, that we +had no pleasure in them; yet they could not be long absent from us, +but daily frequented our company to the hour of our departure, which +departure seemed so grievous unto them, that their joy was turned into +sorrow. They entreated us, that being absent we would remember them, and +by stealth provided a sacrifice, which we misliked. + +Our necessary business being ended, our General with his company +travelled up into the country to their villages, where we found herds of +deer by a thousand in a company, being most large, and fat of body. +We found the whole country to be a warren of a strange kind of coneys; +their bodies in bigness as be the Barbary coneys, their heads as the +heads of ours, the feet of a want [mole], and the tail of a rat, being +of great length. Under her chin is on either side a bag, into the which +she gathereth her meat, when she hath filled her belly abroad. The +people eat their bodies, and make great account of their skins, for +their king's coat was made of them. Our General called this country Nova +Albion, and that for two causes; the one in respect of the white banks +and cliffs, which lie towards the sea, and the other, because it might +have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so +called. There is no part of earth here to be taken up, wherein there is +not some probable show of gold or silver. + +At our departure hence our General set up a monument of our being there, +as also of her Majesty's right and title to the same; namely a plate, +nailed upon a fair great post, whereupon was engraved her Majesty's +name, the day and year of our arrival there, with the free giving up +of the province and people into her Majesty's hands, together with her +Highness' picture and arms, in a piece of six pence of current English +money, under the plate, whereunder was also written the name of our +General. + +It seemeth that the Spaniards hitherto had never been in this part of +the country, neither did ever discover the land by many degrees to the +southwards of this place. + +After we had set sail from hence, we continued without sight of land +till the 13th day of October following, which day in the morning we fell +with certain islands eight degrees to the northward of the line, from +which islands came in a great number of _canoas_, having in some of them +four, in some six, and in some also fourteen men, bringing with them +cocos and other fruits. Their _canoas_ were hollow within and cut with +great art and cunning, being very smooth within and without, and bearing +a gloss as if it were a horn daintily burnished, having a prow and a +stern of one sort, yielding inward circle-wise, being of a great height, +and full of certain white shells for a bravery; and on each side of them +lie out two pieces of timber about a yard and a half long, more or less, +according to the smallness or bigness of the boat. These people have the +nether part of their ears cut into a round circle, hanging down very low +upon their cheeks, whereon they hang things of a reasonable weight. +The nails of their hands are an inch long, their teeth are as black as +pitch, and they renew them often, by eating of an herb with a kind +of powder, which they always carry about them in a cane for the same +purpose. + +Leaving this island the night after we fell with it, the 18th of +October we lighted upon divers others, some whereof made a great show of +inhabitants. We continued our course by the islands of Tagulanda, Zelon, +and Zewarra, being friends to the Portugals, the first whereof hath +growing in it great store of cinnamon. The 14th of November we fell +in with the islands of Maluco. Which day at night (having directed +our course to run with Tidore) in coasting along the island of Mutyr, +belonging to the king of Ternate, his deputy or vice-king seeing us at +sea, come with his _canoa_ to us without all fear, and came aboard; and +after some conference with our General, willed him in any wise to run in +with Ternate, and not with Tidore, assuring him that the king would be +glad of his coming, and would be ready to do what he would require, for +which purpose he himself would that night be with the king, and tell him +the news. With whom if he once dealt, we should find that if he went to +Tidore before he came to Ternate, the king would have nothing to do with +us, because he held the Portugal as his enemy. Whereupon our General +resolved to run with Ternate. Where the next morning early we came to +anchor; at which time our General sent a messenger to the king, with a +velvet cloak for a present and token of his coming to lie in peace, +and that he required nothing but traffic and exchange of merchandise, +whereof he had good store, in such things as he wanted. + +In the meantime the vice-king had been with the king according to his +promise, signifying unto him what good things he might receive from us +by traffic. Whereby the king was moved with great liking towards us, +and sent to our General, with special message, that he should have +what things he needed and would require, with peace and friendship; and +moreover that he would yield himself and the right of his island to be +at the pleasure and commandment of so famous a prince as we served. In +token whereof he sent to our General a signet; and within short time +after came in his own person, with boats and _canoas_, to our ship, to +bring her into a better and safer road than she was in at that present. +In the meantime, our General's messenger, being come to the Court, was +met by certain noble personages with great solemnity, and brought to the +king, at whose hands he was most friendly and graciously entertained. + +The king, purposing to come to our ship, sent before four great and +large _canoas_, in every one whereof were certain of his greatest states +(men of property or estate) that were about him, attired in white lawn +of cloth of Calicut, having over their heads, from the one end of the +_canoa_ to the other, a covering of thin perfumed mats, borne up with a +frame made of reeds for the same use; under which every one did sit in +his order according to his dignity, to keep him from the heat of the +sun; divers of whom being of good age and gravity, did make an ancient +and fatherly show. There were also divers young and comely men attired +in white, as were the others; the rest were soldiers, which stood in +comely order round about on both sides. Without whom sat the rowers in +certain galleries; which being three on a side all along the _canoas_, +did lie off from the side thereof three or four yards, one being orderly +builded lower than another, in every of which galleries were the +number of fourscore rowers. These _canoas_ were furnished with warlike +munition, every man for the most part having his sword and target, with +his dagger, beside other weapons, as lances, calivers, darts, bows and +arrows; also every _canoa_ had a small cast base mounted at the least +one full yard upon a stock set upright. Thus coming near our ship, in +order, they rowed about us one after another, and passing by, did their +homage with great solemnity; the great personages beginning with great +gravity and fatherly countenances, signifying that the king had sent +them to conduct our ship into a better road. Soon after the king himself +repaired, accompanied with six grave and ancient persons, who did their +obeisance with marvellous humility. The king was a man of tall stature, +and seemed to be much delighted with the sound of our music; to whom, +as also to his nobility, our General gave presents, wherewith they were +passing well contented. + +At length the king craved leave of our General to depart, promising the +next day to come aboard, and in the meantime to send us such victuals as +were necessary for our provision. So that the same night we received of +them meal, which they call _sagu_, made of the tops of certain trees, +tasting in the mouth like sour curds, but melteth like sugar, whereof +they make certain cakes, which may be kept the space of ten years, and +yet then good to be eaten. We had of them store of rice, hens, unperfect +and liquid sugar, sugar-canes, and a fruit which they call _figo_ +(plantains), with store of cloves. + +The king having promised to come aboard, brake his promise, but sent his +brother to make his excuse, and to entreat our General to come on shore, +offering himself pawn aboard for his safe return. Whereunto our General +consented not, upon mislike conceived of the breach of his promise; the +whole company also utterly refusing it. But to satisfy him, our General +sent certain of his gentlemen to the Court, to accompany the king's +brother, reserving the vice-king for their safe return. They were +received of another brother of the king's, and other states, and were +conducted with great honour to the castle. The place that they were +brought unto was a large and fair house, where were at the least a +thousand persons assembled. + +The king being yet absent, there sat in their places 60 grave +personages, all which were said to be of the king's council. There were +besides four grave persons, apparelled all in red, down to the ground, +and attired on their heads like the Turks; and these were said to be +Romans [probably Greeks] and ligiers [resident agents] there to keep +continual traffic with the people of Ternate. There were also two Turks +ligiers in this place, and one Italian. The king at last came in guarded +with twelve lances, covered over with a rich canopy with embossed gold. +Our men, accompanied with one of their captains called Moro, rising to +meet him, he graciously did welcome and entertain them. He was attired +after the manner of the country, but more sumptuously than the rest. +From his waist down to the ground was all cloth of gold, and the same +very rich; his legs were bare, but on his feet were a pair of shoes, +made of Cordovan skin. In the attire of his head were finely wreathed +hooped rings of gold, and about his neck he had a chain of perfect gold, +the links whereof were great, and one fold double. On his fingers he had +six very fair jewels; and sitting in his chair of state, at his right +hand stood a page with a fan in his hand, breathing and gathering the +air to the king. The same was in length two foot, and in breadth one +foot, set with eight sapphires richly embroidered, and knit to a staff +three foot in length, by the which the page did hold and move it. Our +gentlemen having delivered their message and received order accordingly, +were licensed to depart, being safely conducted back again by one of the +king's council. This island is the chief of all the islands of Maluco, +and the king hereof is king of 70 islands besides. The king with +his people are Moors in religion, observing certain new moons, with +fastings; during which fasts they neither eat nor drink in the day, but +in the night. + +After that our gentlemen were returned, and that we had here by the +favour of the king received all necessary things that the place could +yield us; our General considering the great distance, and how far he was +yet off from his country, thought it not best here to linger the time +any longer, but weighing his anchors, set out of the island, and sailed +to a certain little island to the southwards of Celebes, where we graved +our ship, and continued there, in that and other businesses, 26 days. +This island is thoroughly grown with wood of a large and high growth, +very straight, and without boughs, save only in the head or top, whose +leaves are not much differing from our broom in England. Amongst these +trees night by night, through the whole land, did shew themselves an +infinite swarm of fiery worms flying in the air, whose bodies being no +bigger than our common English flies, make such a show and light as if +every twig or tree had been a burning candle. In this place breedeth +also wonderful store of bats, as big as large hens. Of crayfishes also +here wanted no plenty, and they of exceeding bigness, one whereof was +sufficient for four hungry stomachs at a dinner, being also very good +and restoring meat, whereof we had experience: and they dig themselves +holes in the earth like coneys. + +When we had ended our business here we weighed, and set sail to run for +the Malucos. But having at that time a bad wind, and being amongst +the islands, with much difficulty we recovered to the northward of +the island of Celebes; where by reason of contrary winds, not able to +continue our course to run westwards, we were enforced to alter the same +to the southward again, finding that course also to be very hard and +dangerous for us, by reason of infinite shoals which lie off and among +the islands; whereof we had too much trial, to the hazard and danger of +our ship and lives. For, of all other days, upon the 9th of January, in +the year 1579 [1580], we ran suddenly upon a rock, where we stuck fast +from eight of the clock at night till four of the clock in the afternoon +the next day, being indeed out of all hope to escape the danger. But our +General, as he had always hitherto shewed himself courageous, and of a +good confidence in the mercy and protection of God, so now he continued +in the same. And lest he should seem to perish wilfully, both he and +we did our best endeavour to save ourselves; which it pleased God so to +bless, that in the end we cleared ourselves most happily of the danger. + +We lighted our ship upon the rocks of three tons of cloves, eight pieces +of ordnance, and certain meal and beans; and then the wind, as it were +in a moment by the special grace of God, changing from the starboard to +the larboard of the ship, we hoisted our sails, and the happy gale drove +our ship off the rock into the sea again, to the no little comfort of +all our hearts, for which we gave God such praise and thanks, as so +great a benefit required. + +The 8th of February following, we fell with the fruitful island of +Barateve, having in the mean time suffered many dangers by winds and +shoals. The people of this island are comely in body and stature, and of +a civil behaviour, just in dealing, and courteous to strangers; whereof +we had the experience sundry ways, they being most glad of our presence, +and very ready to relieve our wants in those things which their country +did yield. The men go naked, saving their heads and loins, every man +having something or other hanging at their ears. Their women are covered +from the middle down to the foot, wearing a great number of bracelets +upon their arms; for some had eight upon each arm, being made some of +bone, some of horn, and some of brass, the lightest whereof, by our +estimation, weighed two ounces apiece. With this people linen-cloth is +good merchandise, and of good request; whereof they make rolls for their +heads, and girdles to wear about them. Their island is both rich and +fruitful; rich in gold, silver, copper, and sulphur, wherein they seem +skilful and expert, not only to try the same, but in working it also +artificially into any form and fashion that pleaseth them. Their fruits +be divers and plentiful; as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, +cucumbers, cocos, _figu_, _sagu_, with divers other sorts. And among all +the rest we had one fruit, in bigness, form and husk, like a bay berry, +hard of substance and pleasant of taste, which being sudden becometh +soft, and is a most good and wholesome victual; whereof we took +reasonable store, as we did also of the other fruits and spices. So that +to confess a truth, since the time that we first set out of our country +of England, we happened upon no place, Ternate only excepted, wherein we +found more comforts and better means of refreshing. + +At our departure from Barateve, we set our course for Java Major; where +arriving, we found great courtesy, and honourable entertainment. This +island is governed by five kings, whom they call Rajah; as Rajah Donaw, +and Rajah Mang Bange, and Rajah Cabuccapollo, which live as having one +spirit and one mind. Of these five we had four a-shipboard at once, and +two or three often. They are wonderfully delighted in coloured clothes, +as red and green; the upper part of their bodies are naked, save their +heads, whereupon they wear a Turkish roll as do the Maluccians. From the +middle downward they wear a _pintado_ of silk, trailing upon the ground, +in colour as they best like. The Maluccians hate that their women should +be seen of strangers; but these offer them of high courtesy, yea, the +kings themselves. The people are of goodly stature and warlike, well +provided of swords and targets, with daggers, all being of their own +work, and most artificially done, both in tempering their metal, as also +in the form; whereof we bought reasonable store. They have an house in +every village for their common assembly; every day they meet twice, +men, women, and children, bringing with them such victuals as they think +good, some fruits, some rice boiled, some hens roasted, some _sagu_, +having a table made three foot from the ground, whereon they set their +meat, that every person sitting at the table may eat, one rejoicing in +the company of another. They boil their rice in an earthen pot, made in +form of a sugar loaf, being full of holes, as our pots which we water +our gardens withal, and it is open at the great end, wherein they get +their rice dry, without any moisture. In the mean time they have ready +another great earthen pot, as set fast in a furnace, boiling full of +water, whereinto they put their pot with rice, by such measure, that +they swelling become soft at the first, and by their swelling stopping +the holes of the pot, admit no more water to enter, but the more they +are boiled, the harder and more firm substance they become. So that in +the end they are a firm and good bread, of the which with oil, butter, +sugar, and other spices, they make divers sorts of meats very pleasant +of taste, and nourishing to nature. + +Not long before our departure, they told us that not far off there were +such great ships as ours, wishing us to beware; upon this our captain +would stay no longer. From Java Major we sailed for the Cape of Good +Hope, which was the first land we fell withal; neither did we touch with +it, or any other land, until we came to Sierra Leona, upon the coast of +Guinea; notwithstanding we ran hard aboard the cape, finding the +report of the Portugals to be most false who affirm that it is the +most dangerous cape of the world, never without intolerable storms and +present danger to travellers which come near the same. This cape is +a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole +circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 18th of June. From +thence we continued our course to Sierra Leona, on the coast of Guinea, +where we arrived the 22nd of July, and found necessary provisions, great +store of elephants, oysters upon trees of one kind [mangrove], spawning +and increasing infinitely, the oyster suffering no bud to grow. 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