The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
The 30. of August we departed from this harborough towards England, and the
wind tooke vs contrary, so that we were faine to go to another harborough
the same day at 11. of the clocke. And there came to vs 39. of the people,
and brought vs 13. Seale skins, and after we receiued these skins of them,
the Master sent the carpenter to change one of our boates which wee had
bought of them before, and they would haue taken the boate from him
perforce, and when they sawe they could not take it from vs, they shot with
their dartes at vs, and stroke one of our men with one of their dartes, and
Iohn Philpe shot one of them into the brest with an arrow. [Sidenote: A
skirmish between the Sauages and our men.] And they came to vs againe, and
foure of our men went into the shipboate, and they shot with their dartes
at our men: but our men tooke one of their people in his boate into the
shipboate, and he hurt one of them with his knife, but we killed three of
them in their boates: two of them were hurt with arrowes in the brests, and
he that was aboord our boat, was shot in with an arrow, and hurt with a
sword, and beaten with staues, whome our men cast ouerboord, but the people
caught him and carried him on shore vpon their boates, and the other two
also, and so departed from vs. And three of them went on shore hard by vs,
where they had their dogs, and those three came away from their dogs, and
presently one of their dogs came swimming towards vs hard aboord the ship,
whereupon our Master caused the Gunner to shoote off one of the great
pieces towards the people, and so the dog turned backe to land and within
an noure after there came of the people hard aboord the ship, but they
would not come to vs as they did come before.
The 31. of August we departed from Gylberts sound for England, and when we
came out of the harborough there came after vs 17. of the people looking
which way we went.
The 2. of September we lost sight of the land at 12. of the clocke at
noone.
[Sidenote: The pinnesse neuer returned home.] The third day at Night we
lost sight of the Northstarre our pinnesse in a very great storme, and lay
a hull tarying for them the 4. day, but could heare no more of them. Thus
we shaped our course the 5. day Southsoutheast, and sayling vntill the 27.
of the sayd moneth, we came in sight of Cape Clere in Ireland.
The 30. day we entred our owne chanell.
The 2. of October we had sight of the Isle of Wight.
The 3. we coasted all along the shore, and the 4. and 5.
The 6. of the said moneth of October wee came into the riuer of Thames as
high as Ratcliffe in safetie God be thanked.
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The third voyage Northwestward, made by M. Iohn Dauis Gentleman, as chiefe
captaine and Pilot generall, for the discouery of a passage to the Isles
of the Moluccas, or the coast of China, in the yeere 1587. Written by M.
Iohn Ianes.
May.
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