. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. rle thus attended and furnished (chieflyat his owne charges) set saile with this Fleet from Ports-mouth the sixt of March. But you shall have a betterRelator. His Lordship having had the spoile of all things athis pleasure, prepared for the sending aboard the Ordnance,Munitions, Bels, Ginger, Sugar, &c. of brasse Ordnancehee tooke above sixtie peeces: setting saile for EnglandJuly 16. In which returne his Lordship lost a Barge,by his commandement sunke
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. rle thus attended and furnished (chieflyat his owne charges) set saile with this Fleet from Ports-mouth the sixt of March. But you shall have a betterRelator. His Lordship having had the spoile of all things athis pleasure, prepared for the sending aboard the Ordnance,Munitions, Bels, Ginger, Sugar, &c. of brasse Ordnancehee tooke above sixtie peeces: setting saile for EnglandJuly 16. In which returne his Lordship lost a Barge,by his commandement sunke in the Haven to the preju-dice of the Enemie. Another Barge cast away in astorme at the Bermudas. The Pegasus wracked uponGoodwin Sands, and the old Frigot upon Ushent, withthe losse of about seven hundred men, whereof sixhundred dyed of the bloudie flix and Calenture at Porto 28 THE EARL OF CUMBERLAND ad 1596. Rico: sixtie slaine in fight, and fortic drowned in thewracks of the old Frigot and Pegasus. Chap. II. [IV. vi. The Voyage to Saint John de Porto Rico, by theRight Honorable, George, Earle of Cumber-land, written by Orthiest of your Sexe, my chiefe Com- 1596. mandresse, to give content to your wish in bare plainnesse. I have set downe the courses and fortunes of my late performed journey. The sixth day of March, with my whole Fleet I set saile out of the Sound of Plimouth, the winde being prosperous though much. Wee kept altogether till the when the faire passage put mee in hope that God had prepared this an unlooked for fortune, if it were well handled, in getting upon the Coast of Spaine sure intelligence whether the Carricks were gone, and how neere they were readie if not gone. The doing of which His purpose undiscovered, though I knew was hard ; yet not impossible frustrated. for him that could well worke: And considering the mightie importance, I tooke the course to doe it my selfe, taking with me Guiana and the Skout; which two I meant should onely be
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