. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . on, and four other ships to the parts of Guinea i?i tlie years 1567 and 1568, by yOHN Ha wkjns. He ships departed from Plymouth, the 2ndday of October, anno 1567 ; and had reason-able weather until the 7th day, at whichtime, some 40 leagues north from CapeFinisterre, there arose an extreme storm,which continued four days, in such sortthat the fleet was dispersed, and all our^rtat boats lost, and the Jesus, our chiefship, in such case as not thought able to serve the voyage :whereupon, in the same storm, we set our course homew
. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . on, and four other ships to the parts of Guinea i?i tlie years 1567 and 1568, by yOHN Ha wkjns. He ships departed from Plymouth, the 2ndday of October, anno 1567 ; and had reason-able weather until the 7th day, at whichtime, some 40 leagues north from CapeFinisterre, there arose an extreme storm,which continued four days, in such sortthat the fleet was dispersed, and all our^rtat boats lost, and the Jesus, our chiefship, in such case as not thought able to serve the voyage :whereupon, in the same storm, we set our course homeward,determining to give over the voyage. But the nth day ofthe same month, the wind changed, with fair weather :whereby we were animated to follow our enterprise; and sodid, directing our course to the isles of the Grand Canaries ;where, according to an order before prescribed, all our ships,i)efore dispersed, met in one of those islands, called we took water, and departed from thence, the 4thday of November, towards the coast of Guinea ; and arrived. 2i6 Kidnapping on the African Coast, p^prbrlseg: at Cape de Verde the i8th day of November, where welanded 150 men, hoping to obtain some Negroes: wherewe got but few, and those with great hurt and damage to ourmen, which chiefly proceeded of their envenomed although in the beginning, they seemed to be but smallhurts: yet there hardly escaped any that had blood drawn ofthem, but died in strange sort, with their mouths shut someten days before they died, and after their wounds were I myself had one of the greatest wounds ; yet, thanksbe to GOD ! escaped. From thence, we passed the time upon the coast of Guinea,searching with all diligence the rivers, from Rio Grande untoSierra Leone, till the 12th of January [1568] ; in which time,we had not got together 150 Negrose [Nc/^Toes] : yet, not-withstanding the sickness of our men, and the late time ofthe year commanded us away. Thus having nothing wher
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