siain with our shot, the rest fled into the woods. The next morning, with the light horseman and one canoe, taking twenty-five with the colonel of the Chesepians, and the ser jeant-major, I went to Desamonquepeio; and being landed, sent Pemisapan word by one of his own savages who met me at the shore, that I was going to Croatoan, and meant to take him in the way, to complain unto him of Osocon, who the night past was conveying away my prisoner, whom I had there present tied in an handlock. Hereupon the king did abide my coming to him: and, finding myself amid seven or eight of his principal Weroances and followers, (not regarding any of the common sort) I gave the watch-word agreed upon, (which was, Christ our victory) and immediately those his chief men and himself had, by the mercy of God for our deliverance, that which they had purposed for us. The king himself being shot through by the colonel with a pistol, lying on the ground for dead, and I looking as watchfully for the saving of Manteo's friends, as others were busy that none of the rest should escape, suddenly he started up, and ran away as though he had not been touched, insomuch as he overran all the company, being by the way shot through the buttocks by my Irish boy with my petronal. In the end, an Irishman serving me, one Nugent, and the deputy provost, undertook" him; and following him in the woods, overtook him; and, I in some doubt lest we had lost both the king and my man by our own negligence to have been intercepted by the savages, we met him returning out of the woods with Pemisapan's head in his hand.

This fell out the 1st of June 1586, and the 8th of the same came advertisement to me from Captain Stafford, lying at my Lord Admiral's island, that he had discovered a great fleet of 23 sail; but whether they were friends or foes he could not yet discern. He advised me to stand upon as good guard as I could, The 9th of the said month he himself came unto me, having that night before, and that same day travelled by land VOL. II.

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twenty miles; and I must truly report of him, from the first to the last, he was the gentleman that never spared labour or peril either by land or water, fair weather or foul, to perform any service committed unto him. He brought me a letter from the general, Sir Francis Drake, with a most bountiful and honourable offer for the supply of our necessities to the performance of the action we were entered into; and that not only of victuals, ammunition, and clothing, but also of barks, pinnaces, and boats; they also by him to be victualled, manned, and furnished to my contentation. The tenth day he arrived in the road of our bad harbour; and coming there to an anchor, the eleventh day I came to him, whom I found in deeds most honourably to perform that which in writing and message he had most courteously offered, he having aforehand propounded the matter to all the captains of his fleet, and got their liking and consent thereto.

With such thanks unto him and his captains for his care both of us and of our action, not as the matter deserved, but as I could both for my company and myself, I (being afore hand prepared what I would desire) craved at his hands, that it would please him to take with him into England a number of weak and unfit men for my good action, which I would deliver to him; and in place of them to supply me of his com pany with ore-men, artificers, and others. That he would leave us so much shipping and victual, as about August then next following would carry me and all my company into England, when we had discovered somewhat, that, for lack of needful provision in time left with us, as yet remained undone. That it would please him withal to leave some sufficient masters, not only to carry us into England, when time should be, but also to search the coast for some better har bour, if there were any, and especially to help us to some small boats and ore-men. Also for a supply of calivers, hand

weapons, match and lead, tools, apparel, and such like.

He having received these my requests, according to his

tisual commendable manner of government (as it was told me) calling his captains to counsel; the resolution was, that I should send such of my officers of my company as I used in* such matters, with their notes, to go aboard with him; which were the master of the victuals, the keeper of the store, and the vice-treasurer; to whom he appointed forthwith for me the Francis, being a very proper bark of seventy tons, and took present order for bringing of victual aboard her for 100 men for four months, with all my other demands whatsoever to the uttermost. And farther, he appointed for me two pinnaces, and four small boats; and, that which was to perform all his former liberality toward us was, that he had gotten the full assents of two of as sufficient experimented masters as were any in his fleet, by judgment of them that knew them, with very sufficient gangs, to tarry with me, and to employ themselves most earnestly in the action, as I should appoint them, until the term which I promised of our return into England again. The names of one of those masters was Abraham Kendall, the other Griffith Herne.

While these things were in hand, the provission aforesaid being brought and in bringing aboard, my said masters being also gone aboard, my said barks having accepted of their charge, and my own officers, with others in like sort of my company with them, (all which was dispatched by the said. general the 12th of the said month), the 13th of the same there arose such an unwonted storm, and continued four days, that had like to have driven all on shore, if the Lord had not held his holy hand over them, and the general very providently foreseen the worst himself, then about my dispatch putting himself aboard. But in the end having driven sundry of the fleet to put to sea, the Francis also with all my provisions, my two masters, and my company aboard, she was seen to be free from the same, and to put clear to sea.

This storm having continued from the 13th to the 16th of the month, and thus my bark put away as aforesaid, the gen

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eral coming ashore made a new proffer unto me.

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a ship of 170 tons, called the Bark Bonner, with a sufficient master and guide to tarry with me the time appointed, and victualled sufficiently to carry me and my company into England, with all provifions as before. But he told me that he would not for any thing undertake to have her brought into our harbour, and therefore he was to leave her in the road, and to leave the care of the rest unto myself, and advised me to consider with my company of our case, and to deliver presently unto him in writing what I would require him to do for us; which, being within his power, he did assure me, as well for his captains as for himself, should be most willingly performed.

Hereupon calling such captains and gentlemen of my company as then were at hand, who were all as privy as msyelf to the general's offer, their whole request was to me; that considering the case that we stood in, the weakness of our company, the small number of the same, the carrying away of our first appointed bark, with those two especial masters, with our principal provisions in the same, by the very hand of God, as it seemed stretched out to take us from thence ; considering also, that his second offer, though most honourable of his part, yet of ours not to be taken, insomuch as there was no possibility for her, with any safety, to be brought into the harbour; seeing, farthermore, our hope for supply with Sir Richard Greenville, so undoubtedly promised us before Easter, not yet come, neither then likely to come this year; considering the doings in England for Flanders, and also for America; that therefore I would resolve myself with my company to go into England in that fleet, and accordingly to make request to the general in all our names, that he would be pleased to give us present passage with him. Which request of ours by myself delivered unto him, he most readily assented unto. And so he sending immediately his pinnaces unto our island for the fetching away of a few that there were left with our baggage, the weather was so boisterous, and

the pinnaces so often on ground, that the most of all we had with all our charts, books, and writings, were by the sailor cast overboard; the greater number of the fleet being much aggrieved with their long and dangerous abode in that miserable road.

From whence the general, in the name of the Almighty, weighing his anchors (having bestowed us among his fleet, for the relief of whom, he had in that storm sustained more peril of wreck than in all his former most honourable actions against the Spaniards), with praises unto God for all, set sail June 19, 1586, and arrived in Portsmouth July 27th the same year.'

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A VOYAGE TO THE AZORES WITH TWO PINNACES, THE ONE CALLED THE SERPENT, AND THE OTHER THE MARY SPARK OF PLYMOUTH, BOTH OF THEM BELONGING TO SIR WALTER RALEGH, WRITTEN BY JOHN EVESHAM, GENTLEMAN, WHEREIN WERE TAKEN THE GOVERNOR OF THE ISLE OF ST. MICHAEL, AND PEDRO SARMIENTO, GOVERNOR OF THE STRAITS OF MAGALANES, IN THE YEAR 1586.

The 10th of June 1596, we departed from Plymouth with two pinnaces, the one named the Serpent, of the burden of thirty-five tons, and the other the Mary Spark of Plymouth, of the burden of fifty tons, both of them belonging to Sir Walter Ralegh, knight; and directing our course toward the coast of Spain, and from thence toward the isles of the Azores, we took a small bark laden with summack and other commodities, wherein was the governor of St. Michael's isl