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CaribbeeIJlands.

1590. They sailed round by the Western They sought about the Shoar for theirSail by the and Caribbee-\ Hands, not having then Boats, but could find none, no moreWestern and f ounc j an y nea l-er Way: For tho’ they than they could the Ordnance whicheanbbee werg skilled in Navigation, and under- were left them. At Length* the Sailorsstood the Use of the Globes, yet did found several Chests, which had beenExample so much prevail upon them, hidden under Ground, but were dug upthat they chose to Sail a ThousandLeagues about, rather than attempt amore direct: Passage’ This round aboutPassage proved, however, as it happen

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SeveralSpanishPrizes ta-ken.

again, and the Goods scattered up and ^ (

down, very much spoiled. Among jj 0U J es andthe Rest, Nit. White found three Chests Goods spoil'belonging to him ; But the Books, Pic- ed -

ed, the best Part of their Voyage; For tures, and every Thing else spoiled

Being now assured, that the Colonywas removed to Croatan , they designedto Sail to them thither, in their Ships -strom theirBut a Storm, arising in the mean while, Anchors tolay so hard upon them, that their Ca- Sea ‘bles broke; They lost three of theirAnchors, and were forced to Sea.

Having now but one Anchor for R e soivetoeach Ship, and their Provisions near winter stspent, they relolved to go to St. John's! 0 ™ 6 v

They arrive

they took several Spanish Prizes, amongthe Islands, which served to bear, atleast some Part, if not all, theCharge ofthe Expedition : Tho’ some will haveit, it was the Overthrow 6f the Design.

Private Interest prevailing, after thisIncident, over the Publick Good, andbeing more the Occasion of their suddenReturn, than the Storm which was the

Pretext of it. -t-- i . -(i an ds.

Towards the Middle of August, Isle, Hifpaniola, or Trinidada, to refresh don the Coast I^po. they arrived upon the Coast, and themselves, and seek for Purchase, thates Virginia; the fifteenth at Cape Hattorask, and Winter, and to come again the nextwent to search upon the Island of Roan- Spring to seek their Colony. Thenock, for the People they had left Vice-Admiral, however, would notthere, in 1587. As they saw a Smoak, come into this Resolution j But sailedwhen they made the Coast, at the very directly for England, leaving the RestPlace where they had left them, they to purliie their Course for Trinidada.did not doubt but they should have The Vice-Admiral, in his Passage,found them there. They, therefore, took and plundered several Spanishsent the next Morning, Captain Cook Ships: Among others, he wet, nearand Captain Spicer, with two Boats, on Cape St. Anthony, two Ships, belongingShoar, But they return’d, without seing to the Continent, coming from Mexico,any Signs of them. The next Day, the bound for Havana, with which he hadsame Captains went again, when one of a sharp Engagement. His Lieutenantthe Boats over setting, Spicer, with six was killed, and the Captain lost hisof their bestMen, were drowned. They right Arm. Four of his Men were kil-went a third Time, when they found led, and sixteen wounded. Heboard-by the Letters CRO cut upon theTrees, ed, however, in the End, and took one severdthat the Colony was removed to Croatan, of these Spanish Ships. But she was so Prizes t&'one of the Islands forming the Sound, pierced with Shot under Water, that,and Southward of Roannock, about twen- before they could take out the Treasure,ty Leagues, but no Sign of Distress ; As, she funk, with thirteen Pipes of Silver,by Agreement they were to have signi- and a great Quantity of rich Merchan- jgredfied, if they had been in any, by plac- dizes ; And the other hardly escaped, T r eafr reing a Cross over the Name of the having nine Shot under Water. Two funk- *Place. Days afterwards, the Wind changing,

They then went to the Place where the Admiral was obliged, likewise, toFindthe Co- t ^ ie 7 had Eft some Houses, the former alter his Course for the Western Islands,lonyremov- Voyage 5 But they found them all taken where they found, the twenty-third ofed from the down, and the Place strongly inclosed, September, their Companion again, with^besiest Ere w hh a high Palifado, like a Fort, and several of the Queen’s Ships, and somethem on one of the chief Posts, carved in fair others. They now, likewise, gave overCapital Letters, CR OAT AN, without all farther Thoughts of seeking the Co-any Sign of Distress. They found, like- l° n y, and so returned Home, without eshey re jwise, many Bars of Iron, with two Pigs ever going near those poor People a -tores'of Lead, four Fowling-pieces, some I- gain, for sixteen Years following: And H orne ’ron Shot, and such like heavy Things,, it is supposed, that the Indians, seingthrown at Random, here and there, them forsaken by their Country, andall overgrown with Grafs and Weeds, unfurnislied of their expected Supplies,

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