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A37432	Sir Francis Drake revived who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts : being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies ... / collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake, Mastet [sic] Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers, and notes of divers other gentlemen (who went on the said voyages) carefully compared together.	Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637. World encompassed by Sir Francis Drake.; Nichols, Philip.; Fletcher, Francis, 16th cent.; Bigges, Walter, d. 1586.; R. D.	1653 (1653)	Wing D84; Wing W3586; ESTC R1410	171,639	266

when we were all gathered together upon the Plaine some two little miles from the Towne the Lievetenant Generall thought good not to make attempt till day light because there was not one that could serve for Guide or giving knowledge at all of the place And therefore after having well rested even halfe an houre before day he commanded the Army to be divided into three speciall parts such as he appointed whereas before we had marched by severall Companies being thereunto forced by the naughtinesse of the way as is aforesaid Now by the time we were thus ranged in a very brave order daylight began to appeare and being advanced hard to the Wall we saw no Enemie to resist whereupon the Lieuetenant Generall appointed Captaine Sampson with thirty shot and Captaine Barton with other thirty to go downe into the Towne which stood in the Valley under us and might very plainly be viewed all over from that place where the whole Army was now arrived and presently after these Captaines was sent the great Ensigne which had nothing in it but the plaine English Crosse to be placed tovvards the Sea that our Fleet might see Saint Georges crosse florish in the Enemies fortresse Order was given that all the Ordinance throughout the town and upon all the Platformes which vvas above fifty Peeces all ready charged should be shot off in honour of the Queenes Majesties Coronation day being the seventeenth of November after the yeerly custome of England which was so answered againe by the Ordinance out of all the Ships in the Fleet which now was come neere as it was strange to hear such a thundering noise last so long together In this meane while the Lieutenant Generall held still the most part of his Force on the hill top till such time as the Towne was quartered out for the lodging of the whole army which being done every Captain tooke his owne quarter and in the evening was placed such sufficient guard upon every part of the Towne that we had no cause to feare any present Enemie Thus we continued in the City the space of fourteene dayes taking such spoyles as the place yeelded which were for the most part Wine Oyle Meale and some such like things for Victual as Vinegar Olives and some such other trash as Merchandise for their Indian trades But there was not found any Treasure at all or any thing else of worth besides The scituation of Saint Jago is somewhat strange in forme like to a triangle having on the East and West sides two Mountaines of Rocke and Cliffie as it were hanging over it upon the top of which two Mountaines was builded certaine fortifications to preserve the Towne from any harme that might be offered as in this Plot is plainly shewed From thence on the South side of the Towne is the maine Sea and on the North side the valley lying betweene the foresaid Mountaines wherein the Towne standeth the said Valley and Towne both doe grow very narrow insomuch that the space betweene the two cliffes of this end of the Towne is estimated not to be above ●en●e or twelve score over In the midst of the Valley commeth downe a riveret Rill or Brook of fresh Water which hard by the Sea side maketh a Pond or Poole whereout our Ships were watered vvith very great ease and pleasure Somewhat above the Towne on the North side betweene the two Mountaines the valley waxeth somewhat larger then at the Townes end which Valley is wholly converted into Gardens and Orchards vvell replenished with diverse sorts of Fruites Herbes and Trees as Lymons Oranges Sugar Canes Cochars or Cochos-Nuts Plantens Potato-●oots Cocombers small and round Onyons Garlike and some other things not now remembred amongst which the Chochos-nuts and Plantens are very pleasant Fruits the said Cochos having a hard shell and a greene Huske over it as hath our Walnut but it farre exceedeth in greatnesse for this Cochos in his greene huske is bigger then any mans two Fists of the hard shell many drinking Cups are made here in England and set in Silver as I have often seen Next within this hard shell is a white rine resembling in shew very much even as any thing may doe to the white of an Egge when it is hard boyled And within this white of the Nut lyeth a water which is whitish and very cleere to the quantity of halfe a pint or there abouts which water and white rine before spoken of are both of a very coole fresh taste and as pleasing as any thing may be I have heard some hold opinion that it is very restorative The Planten groweth in Cods somewhat like to Beans but is bigger and longer and much more thicke together on the stalke and when it waxeth ripe the meate which filleth the rine of the Cod becometh yellow and is exceeding sweet and pleasant In this time of our being there hapned to come a Portugall to the Westermost Fort with a Flag of truce to whom Captaine Sampson was sent with Captain Goring who comming to the said Messenger he first asked them what Nation they were they answered Englishmen he then desired to know if Warres were betweene England and Speine to which they answered that they knew not but if he would goe to their Generall he could best resolve him of such particulars and for his assurance of passage and repasse these Captains made offer to ingage their credits which he refused for that he was not sent from his Governour Then they told him if his Governour did desire to take a course for the common benefit of the People and Countrey his best way were to come and present himselfe unto our Noble and mercifull Governour Sir Francis Drake whereby he might be assured to finde favour both for himselfe and the Inhabitants Otherwise within three dayes we should March over the Land and consume with fire all inhabited places and put to the Sword all such living soules as we should chance upon so thus much he tooke for the conclusion of his answer and departing he promised to returne the next day but we never heard more of him Upon the foure and twentieth of November the Generall accompanied with the Lievetenant Generall and six hundred men marched forth to a Village twelve Miles within the Land called Sancto Domingo where the Governour and the Bishop with all the better sort were lodged and by eight of the Clocke we came to it finding the place abandoned and the people fled into the Mountaines so we made a stand a while to ease our selves and partly to see if any would come to speake to us After we had well rested our selves the Generall commanded the Troops to match away homewards in which retreat the Enemy shewed themselves both Horse and Foot though not such Force as durst encounter us and so in passing some time at the gase with them it waxed late and towards night before we could recover home to Saint Jago On Munday the six and

Jonas out of the Whales belly and heareth all those that call upon him faithfully in their distres looked down from heaven beheld our tears and heard our humble petitions joyned with holy vows Even God whom not the winds and seas alone but even the Divels themselves and powers of hell obey did so wonderfully free us and make our way open before us as it were by his holy Angels stil guiding and conducting us that more then the affright and amaze of this estate we received no part of damage in all the things that belonged unto us But escaping from these straites and miseries as it were through the needlesey that God might have the greater glory in our delivery by the great and effectuall care and travell of our Generall the Lords instrument therein we could now no longer forbeare but must needs find some place of refuge aswell to provide water wood and other necessaries as to comfort our men thus worn and tyred out by so many and so long intollerable toyls the like whereof it to be supposed no traveller hath felt neither hath their ever been such a tempest that any records make mention of so violent and of such continuance since Noahs flood for as hath been said it lasted from September 7. to October 28. full 52. dayes Not many leagues therefore to the southwards of our former anchoring we ran in again among these Islands where we had once more better likelihood to rest in peace and so much the rather for that we found the people of the country travelling for their living from one Island to another in their canows both men women and young infants wrapt in skins and hanging at their mothers backs with whom he had trafique for such things as they had as chains of certain shels and such other trifles here the Lord gave us three days to breath our selves and to provide such things as we wanted albeit the same was with continuall care and troubles to avoid imminent dangers which the troubled seas and blustering winds did every hour threaten unto us But when we seemed to have stayed there too two long we more rigorously assaulted by the not formerly ended but now more violently renewed storm and driven them also with no small danger leaving behind us the greater part of our cable with the anchor being chased along by the winds and buffeted incessantly in each quarter by the seas which our Generall interpreted as though God had sent them of purpose to the end which ensued till at length we fell with the uttermost part of land towards the south pole and had certainly discovered how far the same doth reach southward from the coast of America aforenamed The uttermost Cape or hedland of all these Islands stands neere in the 56. deg without which there is no main nor Iland to be seen to the southwards but that the Atlantick Ocean and the south sea meet in a most large and free scope It hath been a dreame through many ages that these Islands have been a maine and that it hath been terra incognita wherein many strange monsters lived Indeed it might truly before this time be called incognota for howsoever the maps generall descriptions of Cosmographers either upon the deceiveable reports of other men or the deceitfull imaginations of themselves supposing never herein to be corrected have set it down yet it is true that before this time it was never discovered or certainly known by any traveller that we have heard of And here as in a fit place it shall not be a misse to remove that error in opinion which hath been held by many of the impossible return out of Mar del zur into the West Ocean by reason of the supposed Eastern current and leavant winds which say they speedily carry any thither but suffer no return They are herein likewise altogether deceived for neither did we meet with any such current neither had we any such certain winds with any such speed to carry us through but at all times in our passage there we found more opportunity to return back again into the west Ocean then to goe forward into Mar del zur by meanes either of current or winds to hinder us whereof we had experience more then we wished being glad oftentimes to alter our course and to fall a stern again with francke wind without any impediment of any such surmised current farther in one afternoon then we could fetch up or recover again in a whole day with a reasonable gale And in that they allege the narrownesse of the frete and want of sea-rome to be the cause of this violent current they are herein no lesse deceived then they were in the other without reason for besides that it cannot be said that there is one only passage but rather innumerable it is most certain that a sea-board all these Islands there is one large and main sea wherein if any will not be satisfied nor believe the report of our experience and eyesight he should be advised to suspend his judgment till he hath either tryed it himself by his own travell or shall understand by other travellers more particulars to confirm his mind therein Now as we were fallen to the uttermost part of these Ilands October 28. our troubles did make an end the storm ceased and all our calamities only the absence of our friends excepted were removed as if God all this while by his secret providence had led us to make his discouery which being made according to his will he stayed his hand as pleased his majesty therein and refreshed us as his servants At these Southerly parts we found the night in the latter end of October to be but 2. houres long the Sun being yet above 7. degrees distant from the Tropick so that it seemeth being in the Tropick to leave very little or no night at all in that place There be few of all these Islands but have some inhabitants whose manners apparel houses Cannows and meanes of livings is like unto those formerly spoken of a little before our departure out of the Straight To all these Islands did our Generall give one name to wit Elizabethides After two daies stay which we made in and about these Ilands the 30. of October we set saile shaping our course right Northwest to coast along the parts of Peru for so the generall maps set out the land to lie both for that we might wi●h convenient speed sal with the height of 30. deg being the place appointed for the rest of our fleet to re-assemble as also that no opportunity might be lost in the mean time to finde them out if it seemed good to God to direct them to us In this course we chanced the next day with two Islands being as it were store-houses of most liberall provision of victuals for us of birds yeiding not only sufficient and plentiful store for us who were present but enough to have served all the rest also which

〈…〉 not daring as we had great experience to 〈…〉 so much as once to arise from their 〈…〉 layed till it with all the rest be 〈…〉 strength of nature able to help it self 〈…〉 hath nature afforded them that the heat of their own bodies being exceeding great it perfecteth the creature with greater expedition and in shorter time then is to be found in many other places As for the causes of this extremity they seem not to be so deeply hidden but that they may at least in part be guessed at the chief●● of which we conceive to be the large spreading of the Asian and American continent which somewhat northward of these parts if they be not fully joyned yet seem they to come very neer one to the other From whose high and snow-covered mountains the north and northwest winds the constant visitants of those coasts send abroad their frozen nimphs to the infecting of the whole aire with this insufferable sharpnes not permitting the Sun no not in the pride of his heat to dissolve that congealed matter and snow which they have breathed out so nigh the Sun and so many degrees distant from themselves And that the north and north-west winds are here constant in June and July as the north wind alone is in August and September we not only found it by our own experience but were fully confirm'd in the opinion there of by the continued observations of the Spaniards Hence comes the generall squalidness and barranness of the country hence comes it that in the mid'st of their summer the snow hardly departeth even from their very doors but is never taken away from their hils at all hence comes those thick mists and most stinking foggs which increase so much the more by how much higher the pole is raised wherein a blind pilot is as good as the best director of a course For the Sun striving to perform his naturall office in elevating the vapors out of these inferiour bodies draweth necessarily abundance of moisture out of the sea but the nipping cold from the former causes meeting opposing the Suns indeavors forces him to give over his work imperfect and instead of higher elevation to leave in the lowest region wandring upon the face of the earth and waters as it were a second sea through which its own beams cannot possibly pierce unlesse sometimes when the suddain violence of the winds doth help to scatter and breake through it which thing happeneth very seldom and when it happeneth is of no continuance Some of our marriners in this voyage had formerly been at Wardhouse in 72 deg of north lat who yet affirmed that they felt no such niping cold there in the end of summer when they departed thence as they did here in those hottest moneths of June and July And also from these reasons we conjecture that either there is no passage at all through these northern coasts which is most likely or if there be that yet it is unna●igable Adde hereunto that though we searched the coast diligently even unto the 48. deg yet found we not the land to trend so much as one point in any place towards the East but rather running on continually northwest as if it went directly to meet with Asia and even in that height when we had a franke wind to have carried us through had there been a passage yet we had a smooth and calm sea with ordinary flowing and reflowing which could not have been had there been a Frete of which we rather infallibly concluded then conjectured that there was none But to return The next day after our coming to anchor in the aforesaid harbor the people of the country shewed themselves sending off a man with great expedition to us in a canow Who being yet but a little from the shore and a great way from our ship spake to us continually as he came rowing on And at last at a reasonable distance staying himself he began more solemnly a long and tedious oration after his manner using in the delivery thereof many gestures and signs moving his hands turning his head and body many wayes and after his oration ended with great shew of reverence and submission returned back to shoar again He shortly came again the second time in like manner and so the third time when he brought with him as a present from the rest a bunch of Feathers much like the Feathers of a black crow very neatly and artificially gathered upon a string and drawn together into a round bundle being very clean finely cut and bearing ●n length an equall proportion one with another a speciall cognizance as we afterwards observed which they that guard their Kings person weare on their heads With this also he brought a little basket made of rushes and filled with an herb which they called Tabah Both which being tyed to a short rod he cast into a boat Our generall intended to have recompenced him immediately with many good things he would have bestowed on him but entring into the boat to deliver the same he could not be drawn to receive them by any means save one hat which being cast into the water out of the ship he took up refusing utterly to meddle with any other thing though it were upon a board put off unto him and so presently made his return After which time our boat could row no way but wondring at us as at gods they would follow the same with admiration The 3. day following viz. the 21 our ship having received a leake at sea was brought to anchor neer the shoar that her goods being landed she might be repaired but for that we were to prevent any danger that might chance against our safety our generall first of all landed his men with all necessary provision to build tents and make a fort for the defence of our selves and goods and that we might under the shelter of it with more safety whatever should befall end our business which when the people of the country perceived us doing as men set on fire to war in defence of their country in great hast and companies with such weapons as they had they came down unto us yet with no hostile meaning or intent to hurt us standing when they drew neere as men ravished in their mindes with the sight of such things as they never had seen or heard off before that time their errand being rather with submission and feare to worship us as gods then to have any war with us as with mortal men Which thing as it did partly shew it self at that instant so did it more and more manifest it self afterwards during the whole time of our abode amonst them At this time being willed by signs to lay from them there bowes and arrows they did as they were directed and so did all the rest as they came more and more by companies unto them growing in a little while to a great number both of men and women To the intent

28 degrees and are distant one from the other 4 or 5 leagues Inhabited only by a savage people These Islands from the Grand Canadoes are distant ten leagues The twenty sixt of September we anchored in the aforesaid port of Canadoes otherwise called S. John Decrus and about ten of the clock in the forenoone we were imbarked into Boats and Pinnaces endeavoring with the greatest celerity to attain to land but were frustrated of our intentions by the Enemies vigilancy who waiting our comming had intrenched themselves in the very place where we should have put to shore who upon our approach plyed us so fast with great and small shot both from the Castle and towne and from the other side of us that we were constrained to retire with the losse of some few men unto our Ships againe The Enemy were in number betweene three or foure hundred strong The same day being all imbarked in our Ships againe we departed to a certaine place where we watered it lyeth West and by North from the towne and was in times past a great and famous River But now it is overgrown with grasse it commeth from the Rocks and runneth to the Sea The people of this Island being a barbarous people and Mountaneers vve had slaine at this watering place by them of our men which stragled into the Countrey amongst whom vvas Captaine Grinston and foure more with him the which were wounded very sore and torne with dogges which they keepe of purpose to destroy our men when any of them come there to water This Iland yeeldeth much Wine as Canadoe Wine and divers kind of graine as Wheat and such like great store of Conies and Partredges and Tresse which have a joyce like Milk but rank poyson This Iland hath many mighty Rocks in it there is about twenty leagues distant from this Island another Island called the Tenereffe or Peak of Tenereffe It is a mighty high land Sunday the twenty eight of September a little before night we departed from the aforesaid watering place towards the Orientall Indies we tooke our course South West and by West Septemb. 29 being Michaelmas day we sayled South west and by South the thirtieth we sayled South vvest the first of October we sayled West and by South the thirteenth we sayled West in the height of sixteenth degr the fourteenth the wind was southernly the five and twentieth of this Moneth the Hope and the Adventure fell foule on one another about ten of the clocke in the night so that they of the Adventure were constrained to cut downe their Nisson Maste and to fling it overboord The night being very darke and there arising a great tempest of Haile and Raine at the same time they were in extream Jeopardy of their lives which caused in them a very great terror The twenty seventh of October we espyed the Island of Martinino which lay from us towards the West This Island is inhabited by a Barbarous people called Canibals We vvere thirty dayes sayling between the Canadoes and Martinino From this Island we sayled towards an Island called Dominica where is great store of Tobacco It is distant from Martinino about ten or twelve of our English miles and beareth West and by North. The people of this Island be not altogether so rude as other peopl are for they would traffick with us for hatched Knives such like Commodities in exchange for their Tobacco which is the chiefest commodity this Island yeeldeth The Weapons used by these people are Bowes and Arrowes made of a Reed with a sharp peece of Braseilon the end thereof they to use wear their haire very long cut round by their shoulders The thirtieth of this instant October we came to another Island called Gordelowpa which is distant from that of Dominica ten leagues we went unto a certaine River of that Island on the West side there be many Rivers issuing out of the Mountaines with great force into the Sea This Island is not inhabited but is a very Wildernesse wherein are many wilde Beasts amongst the rest there is one worthy of your observation in shape of a Serpent We continued there from the thirtieth of October to the fourth of November From thence we sayled towards the River della hatch and struke our course North West and by North. The seventh of November vve descried three Islands of the Trigonies vvhich lyeth between Gordelowpa and Saint John de Portrizo the first is called Mononalla the second Rotmido the third Savoa we sayled within three or four leagues of them vvhere vve found it in depth sometimes five otherwhiles eight fathome the shoal beareth from us North east The eight of November our Generall set on shoar all the Land-men to the end that every Captaine might know his owne men The tenth of November vve departed from that Harbour to another three or four English miles distant vvhere vve continued untill tuesday the eleventh of November and then set sayle for Saint John de Portrizo West and by North. These Islands belonging to Virginia be many in number vve cannot name them because they be without Inhabitants there are many faire Harbours in them in some whereof one thousand Ships may ride at anchor on every side the Mountaines are very high Thence we went to some passages not farre of The twelfth of November being Wednesday we anchored within three or foure English miles of the Towne of Portricho against a great Fort where was placed a great peece of Ordnance which plyed us with shot divers times The same day Sir John Hawkins dyed at the place aforesaid whose death in regard that he was one of our chiefe Commanders a wise discreet and carefull Man for his Company was no little grief● unto us all The same day also was Sir Nicholas Clifford Captaine Stratford Master Brutt Browne were wounded with the same peece of Ordnance from the said Fort all at one time sitting at Supper with our Generall Sir Francis Drake and Sir Thomas Baskerfield the stoole that Sir Francis Drake sat on was struke from under him as he was drinking of a cup of Beere yet by Gods providence he escaped with all the rest but onely them three before mentioned the same night Sir Nicholas Clifford dyed of the same wound and the same night we went against the Towne where we anchored The next day which was thursday the 13. of November our Generall called a Councell The night following about nine of the clocke in the night certaine shott being appointed to be imbarked in our Pinnaces and Boats with Gunners and Fire-workes there were to the number of five hundred Men which went within the Harbour to burne the five Men of Warre which rode within the Harbour one of them was of the burthen of foure hundred tunne the rest not so big in this Ship was planted great store of great Ordnance which played upon our Men exceedingly besides great store of small shott likewise great store of great shott from the shore with