The 3rd day at night we lost sight of the _North Star_, our pinnace, in a very great storm, and lay a-hull tarrying for them the 4th day, but could hear no more of them. Thus we shaped our course the 5th day south-south-east, and sailing unto the 27th of the said month, we came in sight of Cape Clear in Ireland. The 30th day we entered into our own Channel. The 2nd of October we had sight of the Isle of Wight. The 3rd we coasted all along the shore, and the 4th and 5th. The 6th of the said month of October we came into the River of Thames as high as Ratcliffe in safety, God be thanked! THE THIRD VOYAGE NORTH-WESTWARD, MADE BY JOHN DAVIS, _Gentleman_, _as chief captain and pilot general for the discovery of a passage to the Isles of the Molucca_, _or the coast of China_, _in the year_ 1587. _Written by John Janes_, _servant to the aforesaid Master William Sanderson_. May.--The 19th of this present month, about midnight, we weighed our anchors, set sail and departed from Dartmouth with two barques and a clincher, the one named the _Elizabeth_, of Dartmouth, the other the _Sunshine_, of London, and the clincher called the _Ellin_, of London; thus, in God's name, we set forwards with wind at north-east, a good fresh gale. About three hours after our departure, the night being somewhat thick with darkness, we had lost the pinnace. The captain, imagining that the men had run away with her, willed the master of the _Sunshine_ to stand to seawards and see if we could descry them, we bearing in with the shore for Plymouth. At length we descried her, bore with her, and demanded what the cause was; they answered that the tiller of their helm was burst, so shaping our course west-south-west, we went forward, hoping that a hard beginning would make a good ending; yet some of us were doubtful of it, failing in reckoning that she was a clincher; nevertheless, we put our trust in God. The 21st we met with the _Red Lion_ of London, which came from the coast of Spain, which was afraid that we had been men-of-war; but we hailed them, and after a little conference we desired the master to carry our letters for London, directed to my uncle Sanderson, who promised us safe delivery. And after we had heaved them a lead and a line, whereunto we had made fast our letters, before they could get them into the ship they fell into the sea, and so all our labour and theirs also was lost; notwithstanding, they promised to certify our departure at London, and so we departed, and the same day we had sight of Scilly. The 22nd the wind was at north-east by east, with fair weather, and so the 23rd and 24th the like. The 25th we laid our ships on the lee for the _Sunshine_, who was a-rummaging for a leak; they had 500 strokes at the pump in a watch, with the wind at north-west.