. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. he ships which we left behinde us,in number ten, saving two ships of Captaine Mogerownes,which scaped by their swift sayling, and that they them-selves being ashoare with their Boat made an escape fromPonitra, and so came to us at Porto Rico, which is onehundred and threescore leagues, where wee refreshed ourselves with fresh water and Oranges. The ninth of November being Saturday, wee disem-bogued from Porto Rico. The two and twentieth ofDecember we s
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. he ships which we left behinde us,in number ten, saving two ships of Captaine Mogerownes,which scaped by their swift sayling, and that they them-selves being ashoare with their Boat made an escape fromPonitra, and so came to us at Porto Rico, which is onehundred and threescore leagues, where wee refreshed ourselves with fresh water and Oranges. The ninth of November being Saturday, wee disem-bogued from Porto Rico. The two and twentieth ofDecember we saw Flores, one of the Hands of theAsores. [Chap. l608. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES 23. March,1608. The Rose. Chap. XVI. A Relation of a voyage to Guiana performedby Robert Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt inthe Countie of Oxford Esquire. To PrinceCharles. N the yeere of our Lord 1608. and the March, when I had furnished my selfewith one ship of fourscore tunnes, calledthe Rose; a Pinnasse of sixe and thirtietunnes, called the Patience; and a Shallopof nine tunnes, called the Lilly, which Ibuilt at Dartmouth ; and had finished my. The Lilly. Land-men sixtie. They set salle the 23. of March, They arrive atJlegranza. other businesse there, and prepared all things in readi-nesse to begin my voyage, the winde reasonably serving,I then imbarked my companie, as followeth. In the Rose, I was accompanied with Captaine EdwardFisher, Captaine Edward Harvey, Master Edward GifFord,and my Cousin Thomas Harcourt : and besides them, Ihad of Gentlemen and others one and thirtie Land-men,two Indians, and three and twentie Mariners and the Patience, my brother Captaine Michael Harcourt,had with him of Gentlemen and others twentie Land-men,and eleven Mariners and Saylers. In the Lilly, JasperLilly the Master, had one Land-man, and two Saylers: sothat my just number (too great for so few ships of nogreater burden) was in all fourscore and seventeene,whereof threesco
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