The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation Volume X Part 26

The eighth of Ianuary, foure of the said 5. newcome s.h.i.+ppes (G.o.d send them a prosperous voyage) set saile toward the Moluccas.

Moreouer our foure s.h.i.+ppes being well and richly laden at Bantam made saile homewarde the eleuenth of Ianuary, and the thirteenth, wee were shot as farre as the Isles of Sumatra.

The nineteenth, we proceeded thence on our voige, and the same day, to the great griefe of vs all died the Pilot of our Admirall.

The third of Aprill, we descried the land of Capo de buona esperanza.

The eighth, wee doubled the same Cape, thence shaping our course for the Island of Saint Helena, where the twenty sixt we happily arriued, and departed from thence vpon the fourth of Maie.

The tenth of Maie, wee sailed by the Isle of Ascension.

The seuenteenth, we pa.s.sed the Equinoctiall line.

The twenty one, we saw the North starre.

The ninth and tenth of Iune, we had sight of the Canaries.

The twenty seauen, wee sayled vpon the Spanish Sea.

The twenty nine, we were in fortie four degrees.

The fourth of Iuly, we saw behind vs two sailes, one before the other, which were the first that we had seene for a long time.

The sixt of Iuly our Admirall had both his foremast and mainemast blowne ouer boord.

The eleuenth, we pa.s.sed the Sorlings, the thirteenth, Falmouth, Plimmouth and the Quasquets.

The seauenteenth, we came before Dover.

The nineteenth, wee had foule and stormy weather, at what time by G.o.ds good blessing wee arriued in our natiue countrey at Texell in Holland, hauing performed in the short s.p.a.ce of one yeare, two moneths and nineteene daies, almost as long a voiage, as if we should haue compa.s.sed the globe of the earth, and bringing home with vs our full fraight of rich and gainfull Marchandize.

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