. 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 . to my heart, and the more, JDecause foreseeing the same, I should be so leud, as yeelding, to have runne into the danger thereof, and i:herefore I have absolutely determined with my selfe not o goe this voyage. Howbeit if in a seasonable time of :he yeere I had but one ship sufficient, though much esse by the halfe, I would not refuse (as triall being made hereof should appea
. 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 . to my heart, and the more, JDecause foreseeing the same, I should be so leud, as yeelding, to have runne into the danger thereof, and i:herefore I have absolutely determined with my selfe not o goe this voyage. Howbeit if in a seasonable time of :he yeere I had but one ship sufficient, though much esse by the halfe, I would not refuse (as triall being made hereof should appeare) or if I had ability of my selfe 0 venture so much, it should well be seene. And this Ipeake to give you to understand that I refuse not thisTor feare: If you purpose to proceed heerein, send some|>ne whom you please; to whom I will not onely deliver 1 he articles which I have received, but also will givejome particular notes which I have noted in theffaires which you have committed unto mee, withhe best helpe and counsell I can. Thus the living God : j :eepe your worships all. Bristoll this 11 of December 561. Your worships to comand to his powerJohn Lok. [The relationvi 257 R I562. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES. The relation of one William Rutter to Hickman his master touching avoyage set out to Guinea in the yeere 1562,by Sir William Gerard, Sir William Chester,M. Thomas Lodge, the sayd Antony Hick-man, and Edward Castelin: which voyage isalso written in verse by Robert Baker. Orshipfull sir, my duty remembred, thisshalbe to declare unto you the discourseof this our voyage, since our departureout of England from Dartmouth; atwhich time I gave you to understand ofour departure, which was the 25 ofFebruary 1562. Then having a prosper-ous winde we departed from thence, and sailed on ourCape verde. voyage untill we arrived at Cavo verde the 20 of March,making no abode there, but sailed along the coast to ourRio de Sestos. first appointed port Rio de sestos, at which p
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