The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . ge with three tall ships, the PenelopeAdmirall, the Marchant royall Viceadmirall,and the Edward Bonaventure Rereadmirall,to the East Indies, by the Cape of BuonaSperansa, to Quitangone neere Mosambique,to the lies of Comoro and Zanzibar on thebackeside of Africa, and beyond Cape Comoriin India, to the lies of Nicubar and of GomesPolo within two leagues of Sumatra, to theHands o
The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . ge with three tall ships, the PenelopeAdmirall, the Marchant royall Viceadmirall,and the Edward Bonaventure Rereadmirall,to the East Indies, by the Cape of BuonaSperansa, to Quitangone neere Mosambique,to the lies of Comoro and Zanzibar on thebackeside of Africa, and beyond Cape Comoriin India, to the lies of Nicubar and of GomesPolo within two leagues of Sumatra, to theHands of Pulo Pinaom, and thence to themaine land of Malacca, begunne by Raymond, in the yeere 1591, andperformed by M. James Lancaster, and writtenfrom the mouth of Edmund Barker ofIpswich, his lieutenant in the sayd voyage,by M. Richard Hakluyt. Ur fleet of the three tall ships above-named departed from Plimmouth the 10of April 1591, and arrived at the Canarie-ilands the 25 of the same, from whencewe departed the 29 of April. Thesecond of May we were in the height ofCape Blanco. The fift we passed theopique of Cancer. The eight we were in the height^ : Cape Verde. All this time we went with a faire winde 387. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 1591. at Northeast, alwayes before the winde untill the 13 oithe same moneth, when we came within 8 degrees of theEquinoctiall line, where we met with a contrary we lay off and on in the sea untill the sixt of June, |on which day we passed the sayd line. While we lay! s[II. ii. 103.] thus off and on, we tooke a Portugal Caravel laden b)|rmarchants of Lisbon for Brasile, in which Caravel we had Ifsome 60 tunnes of wine, 1200 jarres of oyle, about iocjoujarres of olives, certaine barrels of capers, three fats oilpeason, with divers other necessaries fit for our voyage j|which wine, oyle, olives and capers were better to us ther ^Three gold. We had two men died before wee passed the line i occasions of anj divers s{c^ which tooke their
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