. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. aBrigandine, with some two or three Frigats, with apurpose to assault us ; but beeing better advised theywould never come neere us. When he heard that Ihad taken Porto bello, one of the chiefest places of theWest Indies, with so small forces, he pulled his beard,and sware that he would give his Mules lade of silver, butto have a fight of mee and my companie. From this Bay Virtus in hosteof Sambo wee stood over for the Hand of Jamaica, and so ^au^an^
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. aBrigandine, with some two or three Frigats, with apurpose to assault us ; but beeing better advised theywould never come neere us. When he heard that Ihad taken Porto bello, one of the chiefest places of theWest Indies, with so small forces, he pulled his beard,and sware that he would give his Mules lade of silver, butto have a fight of mee and my companie. From this Bay Virtus in hosteof Sambo wee stood over for the Hand of Jamaica, and so ^au^an^ the Cape of Saint Antonio, beeing the mostWesterly part of Cuba, and disimboked through theGulfe of Bahama, the last of March 1602. and camewith good weather to the lies of the Acores, wherevictualling my Vice-admirall and two Pinnasses out ofmine owne ship for two moneths, and leaving them atSea to take some farther purchase, with mine owne ship Itooke my course for Plimmouth, and arrived there insafetie the sixt of May 1602. 297 l60I. [IV. vi. 1246.] GrandCanarie. Puntadelaraya. S. Vincents. Boinara. Aruba. Seven PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES Chap. X. Certaine Notes of a Voyage made by mee DavidMiddleton into the West Indies with CaptaineMichael Geare, An. Dom. 1601. He five and twentieth day of May, wee setsaile from the Lyzard, and the tenth dayof June we fell with the Grand Canarie:the Towne standeth on the North-eastpoint of the Hand, and the Road is oneleague to the Northward of it. Thatnight we stood of South the five and twentieth day of June we were inthe latitude of twentie two degrees thirtie minutes. The sixe and twentieth day of June wee came incompanie of seven saile of Hollanders that were boundfor the West Indies, to Punta delaraya to lode Salt, andthe seven and twentieth day we lost sight of them. The second day of Julie we fell with Saint you came from Saint Vincent to the Testogos, youmust make the way South-west b
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