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 . out of the river of Benin the [II. ii. 133.]irst day of Aprill 1591. and it is at this day (being the7 of June 1592.) to be seen aboord the ship as clearemd as sweet as any fountaine can yeeld. In this voiage we sailed 350 leagues within halfe a It is moreiegree of the equinoctiall line, and there we found it temPerate urj-nore temperate, then where we rode. And under the noct-
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 . out of the river of Benin the [II. ii. 133.]irst day of Aprill 1591. and it is at this day (being the7 of June 1592.) to be seen aboord the ship as clearemd as sweet as any fountaine can yeeld. In this voiage we sailed 350 leagues within halfe a It is moreiegree of the equinoctiall line, and there we found it temPerate urj-nore temperate, then where we rode. And under the noct-lan %enine wee did kill great store of small Dolphines, and on the coast ofnany other good fishes, and so did we all the way, Guinie y/vhich was a very great refreshing unto us, and the fish Bentn-lever forsooke us, until we were to the Northwards of:he Hands of Azores, and then we could see no moreish, but God be thanked wee met with good company)f our countrey ships which were great comfort unto us,Deing five moneths before at Sea without any companie. By me James Welsh master of the Richardof Arundell, in both these voyages tothe river of 1591, THE ENGLISH VOYAGES Paulo DiasGovernour The king ofMatamba. 114 Portugalsslain inAngola. Amasanguanothe Portugalsabode inAngola. An Advertisement sent to Philip the second kingof Spaine from Angola by one Baltazar Almeidade Sousa, touching the state of the foresaydcountrey, written the 21 of May, 1591. He 26 of July I certified your majestie by-John Frere de Bendanha your majestiespay-master and commissioner, with thegovernour Paulo Dias, which is latelydeceased, of all things that happenedthe 28 of December in the yere lastpast 1590. Now 1 thought it con-Jvenient to advertise your majestie what hath fallen outsince that time, which is as foloweth. The governourLuis Serrano encamped himselfe eight leagues fromCabasa, where the Negro king dwelleth, with 350 Portu-gal souldiers: & afterward being there encamped
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