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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02826	The observations of Sir Richard Havvkins Knight, in his voiage into the South Sea. Anno Domini 1593	Hawkins, Richard, Sir, 1562?-1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 12962; ESTC S119816	156,176	182

THE OBSERVATIONS OF S IR RICHARD HAVVKINS KNIGHT IN HIS VOIAGE INTO THE South Sea Anno Domini 1593. Per varios Casus Artem Experientia fecit Exemplo monstrante viam Manil. li. 1. PRINCEPS SVBDITORUM INCOLVMITATEM PROCVRANS ID LONDON Printed by I.D. for IOHN IAGGARD and are to be sold at his shop at the Hand and Starre in Fleete-streete neere the Temple Gate 1622. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS AND MOST EXCELLENT Prince CHARLES Prince of Wales DVKE of CORNEWALL EARLE of CHESTER c. AMongst other Neglects preiudiciall to this State I haue observed that many the worthy and Heroyque Acts of our Nation haue beene buried and forgotten The Actors themselues being desirous to shunne emulation in publishing them and those which ouerlived them fearefull to adde or to dimnish from the Actors worth Iudgement and valour haue forborne to write them By which succeeding ages haue beene deprived of the Fruits which might haue beene gathered out of their Experience had they beene committed to Record To avoyd this Neglect and for the Good of my Country I haue thought it my duty to publish the Observations of my South-sea-Voyage and for that vnto your Highnesse you Heires and Successors it is most likely to be advantagious hauing brought on me nothing but losse and misery I am bold to vse your Name a protection vnto it and to offer it with all humblenes and duty to your Highnesse approbation which if it purchase I haue attained my desire which shall ever ayme to performe dutie Your Highnesse humble and devoted servant RICHARD HAVVKINS ❧ To the Reader HAd that worthie Knight the Authour lived to haue seene this his Treatise published he would perhaps himselfe haue giuen the account thereof For by his owne directions it was put to the Presse though it pleased God to take him to his mercy during the time of the Impression His purpose was to haue recommended both it and himselfe vnto our most Excellent Prince CHARLES and himselfe wrote the Dedication which being imparted vnto me I conceited that it stood not with my dutie to suppresse it Touching the discourse it selfe as it is out of my element to iudge so it is out of my purpose to say much of it This onely I may boldly promise that you shall heere find an expert Sea man in his owne Dialect deliver a true relation of an vnfortunat Voyage which howsoever it proved lamentable and fatall to the Actors may yet proue pleasing to the Readers it being an itch in our natures to delight in newnes and varietie be the subiect never so grievous This if there were no more were yet worthy your perusall and is as much as others haue with good acceptance afforded in relations of this nature Howbeit besides the bare series and Context of the storie you shall heere finde interweaved sundry exact descriptions of Countries Townes Capes Promontories Rivers Creekes Harbors and the like not vnprofitable for Navigators besides many notable observations the fruites of a long experience that may giue light touching Marine accidents even to the best Captaines and Commaunders who if they desire to learne by precepts shall here finde store but if examples prevaile more with them here are also aliena pericula if you believe mee not reade and iudge Farewell THE OBSERVATIONS OF S IR RICHARD HAWKINS KNIGHT in his VOYAGE into the South SEA ANNO DOMINI 1593. SECT I. WITH the COVNSELS consent and helpe of my Father Sir Iohn Hawkins Knight I resolved a Voyage to be made for the Ilands of Iapan of the Phillippinas and Molueas the Kingdomes of China and East Indies by the way of the Straites of Magelan and the South Sea The principall end of our Designements was to make a perfect Discovery of all those parts where I should arriue as well knowne as vnknowne with their Longitudes and Latitudes the lying of their Coasts their Head-lands their Pons and Bayes their Citties Townes and Peoplings their manner of Government with the Commodities which the Countries yeelded and of which they haue want and are in necessitie For this purpose in the end of Anno 1588. returning from the iourney against the Spanish Armado I caused a Ship to be builded in the river of Thames betwixt three and foure hundred tunnes which was finished in that perfection as could be required For shee was pleasing to the eye profitable for Stowage good of Sayle and well conditioned The day of her Lanching being appoynted the Lady Hawkins my Mother in Law craued the naming of the Ship which was easily granted her who knowing what Voyage was pretended to be vndertaken named her the Repentance what her thoughts were was kept secret to her selfe And although many times I expostulated with her to declare the reason for giving her that vncouth name I could never haue any other satisfaction then that repentance was the safest Ship we could sayle in to purchase the haven of Heaven Well I know shee was no Prophetesse though a religious and most vertuous Lady and of a very good vnderstanding Yet too propheticall it fell out by Gods secret Iudgementes which in his Wisedome was pleased to reveale vnto vs by so vnknowne a way and was sufficient for the present to cause me to desist from the Enterprise and to leaue the Ship to my Father who willingly tooke her and paid the entire charge of the building and furnishing of her which I had concorted or paid And this I did not for any superstition I haue in names or for that I thinke them able to further or hinder any thing for that all immediately dependeth vpon the Providence of Almightie God and is disposed by him alone Yet advise I all persons ever as neere as they can by all meanes and in all occasions to presage vnto themselues the good they can and in giving names to terrestriall Workes especially to Ships not to giue such as meerly represent the celestiall Character for few haue I knowne or seene come to a good end which haue had such attributes As was plainely seene in the Revenge which was ever the vnfortunatest Ship the late Queenes Maiestie had during her Raigne for comming out of Ireland with Sir Iohn Parrot shee was like to be cast away vpon the Kentish Coast. After in the Voyage of Sir Iohn Hawkins my Father Anno 1586. shee strucke aground comming into Plimouth before her going to Sea Vpon the coast of Spaine shee left her Fleete readie to sinke with a great Leake At her returne into the Harbour of Plimouth shee beate vpon Winter stone and after in the same Voyage going out of Portsmouth Haven shee ranne twice a-ground and in the latter of them lay twentie two houres beating vpon the shore and at length with eight foote of water in hold shee was forced off and presently ranne vpon the Oose and was cause that shee remained there with other three Ships of her Maiesties six moneths till the Spring of the yeare