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The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains thespelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt's 16th-century original. In thisversion, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscriptabbreviations have been silently expanded:
- vowels with macrons = vowel + 'n' or 'm'- q; = -que (in the Latin)- y[e] = the; y[t] = that; w[t] = with
This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes. Most footnotesare added by the editor. They follow modern (19th-century) spellingconventions. Those that don't are Hakluyt's (and are not alwayssystematically marked as such by the editor). The sidenotes are Hakluyt'sown. Summarizing sidenotes are labelled [Sidenote: ] and placed before thesentence to which they apply. Sidenotes that are keyed with a symbol arelabeled [Marginal note: ] and placed at the point of the symbol, except inpoetry, where they are placed at a convenient point. Additional notes oncorrections, etc. are signed 'KTH'
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Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques,
Discoveries
of
Collected by
RICHARD HAKLUYT, Preacher.
Edited by
A voyage to the Azores with two pinases, the one called the Serpent, and the other the Mary Sparke of Plimouth, both of them belonging to Sir Walter Raleigh, written by John Euesham Gentleman, wherein were taken the gouernour, of the Isle of Sainct Michael, and Pedro Sarmiento gouernour of the Straits of Magalanes, in the yeere 1586.
[Sidenote: The gouernour of S. Michael taken prisoner.] The 10. of June1586. we departed from Plimouth with two Pinases, the one named theSerpent, of the burden of 35. Tunnes and the other the Mary Sparke ofPlimouth of the burthen of 50. Tuns, both of them belonging to sir WalterRaleigh knight; and directing our course towards the coast of Spaine, andfrom thence towards the Isles of the Azores, we tooke a small barke ladenwith Sumacke and other commodities, wherein was the gouernour of S.Michaels Island, being a Portugal, having other Portugals and Spaniardswith him. And from thence we sailed to the Island of Graciosa, to theWestward of the Island of Tercera, where we discried a saile, and bearingwith her wee found her to be a Spaniard: But at the first not greatlyrespecting whom we tooke, so that we might haue enriched ourselves, whichwas the cause of this our trauaile, and for that we would not bee knowen ofwhat nation we were, wee displayed a white silke ensigne in our mainetoppe, which they seeing, made accompt that we had bene some of the king ofSpaines Armadas, lying in wait for English men of war: but when we camewithin shot of her, we tooke downe our white flagge, and spread abroad theCrosse of S. George, which when they saw, it made them to flie as fast asthey might, but all their haste was in vaine, for our shippes were swifterof saile then they, which they fearing, did presently cast their ordinanceand small sh