. 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 compasse of these 1600 yeeres. ^^^^ ofa calme, fell afire by some great negligence, and per- ^^^^^^^i^^^^^ished by that meanes in the seas, wee being not able ^^^^ ^„ „g„ii_any wayes to helpe the ship, or to save the men. gence. The 4 day of September, we had brought our selvesinto the height of 41 degrees & 20 minutes, somewhatto the Northwards of the Islands of the Azores: andthus bulting up and downe wit
. 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 compasse of these 1600 yeeres. ^^^^ ofa calme, fell afire by some great negligence, and per- ^^^^^^^i^^^^^ished by that meanes in the seas, wee being not able ^^^^ ^„ „g„ii_any wayes to helpe the ship, or to save the men. gence. The 4 day of September, we had brought our selvesinto the height of 41 degrees & 20 minutes, somewhatto the Northwards of the Islands of the Azores: andthus bulting up and downe with contrary winds, the29 of the same moneth, we reached the coast of Eng-land, and so made an end of the voyage. A discourse of the West Indies and South seawritten by Lopez Vaz a Portugal, borne inthe citie of Elvas, continued unto the yere1587. Wherein among divers rare things nothitherto delivered by any other w^riter, cer-taine voyages of our Englishmen are truelyreported: w^hich was intercepted with theauthor thereof at the river of Plate, byCaptaine Withrington and Captaine Christo-pher Lister, in the fleete set foorth by theright Honorable the Erie of Cumberland forthe South sea in the yeere Rancis Drake an Englishman being on This voyagethe sea, and having knowledge of the ^^^ ^^^^ ^small strength of the towne of Nombre ^tj^^^de Dios, came into the harborough ona night with foure pinnesses, and landedan hundreth and fifty men: and leavingone halfe of his men with a trumpetin a fort which was there, hee with the rest entred thetowne without doing any harme till hee came at themarket place: and there his company discharging theircalivers, and sounding their trumpets (which made agreat noyse in the towne) were answered by theirfellowes in the forte, who discharged and sounded in 227 AD THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 1572-87. like maner. This attempt put the townesmen in suchextreme feare, that leaving their houses, they fled intothe mountaines, and there bethought themsel
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