. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. kington,gratifie him with some thing : for hee used mee kindlyat my departure. Beare with this scribling: for Iprotest, I am scant able to hold a pen in my hand. Chap. VII. The admirable adventures and strange fortunes ofMaster Antonie Knivet, which went withMaster Thomas Candish in his second voyageto the South Sea. i 591. §• 1. What befell in their voyage to the Straits, andafter, till he was taken by the Portugals. E departed from Plimmouth with fiv
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. kington,gratifie him with some thing : for hee used mee kindlyat my departure. Beare with this scribling: for Iprotest, I am scant able to hold a pen in my hand. Chap. VII. The admirable adventures and strange fortunes ofMaster Antonie Knivet, which went withMaster Thomas Candish in his second voyageto the South Sea. i 591. §• 1. What befell in their voyage to the Straits, andafter, till he was taken by the Portugals. E departed from Plimmouth with five saileof ships, determining to goe for the SouthSea (the names of our Ships were these)the Gallion Leicester, which was ourAdmirall; the Roe-bucke, Vice-admirall;the Desire, the Daintie, and the BlackePinnasse. Sixe or seven dayes after thatwee were departed from the Coast of England, we metwith nineteene saile of Flemmings in the night. Notregarding what they were, our Vice-admirall tooke one Fmmisfl_of them, and all the rest escaped. In the morning the \^M £„j[s\Master of our Flemmish prize was brought before the 177 M. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES Generall, and of him wee had newes of a fleet of ships,,that was departed out of Lisbone for Brasile, the which [IV. vi. newes we were very glad of. The Flemmish ship was 1202.] laden with Salt, whereof the Generall tooke three Tunnefor his provision. This Flemming also shewed us alicence that hee had to passe the Seas, under her Majestieshand and seale, the which as our Generall had seene hepresently commanded, that every man should returne allsuch things as they had taken from the Flemming, andhee himselfe payed for the Salt that he had taken, andso we departed from them with a faire winde, holdingour course from the Coast of Portugall to the Islandsof Canarie. Thus in twentie dayes we had sight of thesaid Hands, which when our Generall knew of troth tobe the same, he commanded his two smallest ships, theDaint
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