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 28. day therefore of the same Iuly we assayed, and with little trouble
(God be praysed) we passed the dangers by day light. [Sidenote: The time of
our setting forward, &c.] Then night falling on the face of the earth, wee
hulled in the cleare, til the chearefull light of the day had chased away
the noysome darkenesse of the night: at which time we set forward towards
our wished Port: by the 30. day wee obteined our expected desire, where we
found the Iudith, and the Michael: which brought no smal ioy vnto the
General, and great consolation to the heauie hearts of those wearied
wights.
The 30. day of Iuly we brought our ships into the Countesse of Warwicks
sound, and moared them, namely these ships, The Admirall, the Rearadmirall,
the Francis of Foy, the Beare Armenel, the Salomon, and the Busse of
Bridgewater: which being done, our Generall commaunded vs all to come a
shore vpon the Countesses Iland, where he set his Miners to worke vpon the
Mine, giuing charge with expedition to dispatch with their lading.
Our Generall himselfe, accompanied with his Gentlemen, diuers times made
rodes into sundry partes of the Countrey, as well to finde new Mines, as
also to finde out and see the people of the Countrey. [Sidenote: The
Countesse of Sussex Iland.] He found out one Mine vpon an Island by Beares
sound, and named it the Countesse of Sussex Island. [Sidenote: Winters
Fornace.] One other was found in Winters Fornace, with diuers others, to
which the ships were sent sunderly to be laden. [Sidenote: Dauids Sound.]
In the same rodes he mette with diuers of the people of the Countrey at
sundry times, as once at a place called Dauids sound: who shot at our men,
and very desperately gaue them the onset, being not aboue three or foure in
number, there being of our Countrey men aboue a dozen: but seeing
themselues not able to preuaile, they tooke themselues to flight; whom our
men pursued, but being not vsed to such craggie cliffes, they soone lost
the sight of them, and so in vaine returned.
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