The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
The two and twentie day of April our Master and Thomas Babington hauing
some talke and conference with the Padres of Santos, they (our men being
ready to go to the Riuer of Ienero) tolde them, that they were sorry for
our banishment from the Church, and that the Ministrador had written
from Rio de Ienero, that forasmuch as these twentie yeres or more the
English nation had denied the Church of Rome and her proceedings,
therefore the Ministrador commanded that none of vs should come to their
Church: the Padres willed vs herein to haue patience, and to take it in
good part, and promised to stand our friends in their word and writing,
both to the Ministrador and to the bishop at Baya, and further requested
all our English company to haue no ill opinion of them.
The 28. of April we laded sugars into our ship.
The 21. of May we tooke in fresh victuals from Santos.
The 10. day of Iune we gratified one Iosto Thorno, dwelling in Santos,
with some of our English victuals, and intertained him in good sort in
our ship, and this day wee were promised to haue a Pilot at Santos to
cary vs to Baya.
[Sidenote: Leaks in the Minion made by wormes.] The 11. day we went to
fish, to make prouision for our ship and men, and from that time til the
eighteenth day wee fet water, and cut wood for our fire, and trimmed our
ship of the harmes and leakes which the wormes had made in her while wee
ridde at the yland of S. Sebastian, and in the meane time we departed
from before the towne of Santos. Our Master sent his skiffe from the
barre of Santos, thinking to haue brought Thomas Babington and William
Euet with the Pilot, which wee had tarried for three dayes: and as the
skiffe was going, William Euet being by the Riuers side, called to our
pinnesse, and sent a letter to our Master, [Sidenote: Whose name
was Stephen Hare.] which Thomas Babington had written, wherein were no
newes, but that the Ministrador was arriued at Santos from the Riuer of
Ienero, and would speake with our Master, but he willed that whatsoeuer
Thomas Babington did write, no credit should be giuen to it. And further
he wished vs presently to depart for Sant Sebastian, and there to
dispatch our businesse, and then to sende backe for Babington and
himselfe to Guaybea, where he (if he were well) would giue his
attendance to come abord.
[Sidenote: Their departure from Santos.] As we rid two leagues a
sea-bord the barre of Santos, wee broke a cable in the open sea, which
happened the 15. day of this moneth.
We arriued at S. Sebastian the 15. day, and there shifted our balast,
and had in stones, and halled our ship a ground to stop our leakes, and
caried our casks a shoare to be hooped for water, which indeed might
better haue bene done in Santos, before the Ministrador came thither:
yet we finished all things pertaining to our ship, by the 22 of this
moneth, at S. Sebastian.
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