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" that only now, by his mere Mercy," we expect Relief, tho’ otherwise we" are hopeless of Comfort, yet because" the wonderful Works of God, in his“ exceeding great Favour towards us“ his Creatures are far beyond the Scope" of Man’s Capacity, therefore by him" we hope to have Deliverance in this" our deep Distress. Also forasmuch“ as those upon whom God will bestow" the Favour of Life, with Return" Home to their Country, may not{< only themselves remain blameless," but also manifest the Truth of our" Actions, we have thought good, inChristian Charity, to lay down, under" our Hands, the Truth of all our Pro-ceedings, even ’till the Time of this" our Distress. Given as above.

To this Testimonial is added the Con-tinuance of their Adventures at Sea, af-ter they were separated from the Admi-ral, in which they were as unfortunateas he, having pasted theStreight of Ma-gellan, and entered the South-Sea, threeseveral Times, and yet were forced byStress of Weather to repast the Streight.After numberless Misfortunes, and beingreduced to the greatest Distress, theShip, with all that were left of thisunhappy Company, which were butsixteen, and of them only five thatwere in a Capacity to move, or doany Service in the Ship, and they notable to take in or heave out a Sail, ar-rived, the eleventh of June, 1593. atBear-baven , in Ireland.

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Raymond and Lancaster’s' Expedition to the Last-Indies.

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Raymondand Lanca-ster set outfor the EastIndies:

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HIS Year, likewise, was be-gun an Expedition, under theCommand of Captain GeorgeRaimond, an able Sea-man,and Captain James Lancaster , to theEa/l-Indies.

They set Sail from Plymouth, onthe tenth of April, with three large. Ships, the Penelope, Admiral, the Mer-chant-Royal, Vice-Admiral, and theEdward-Bonatienture, Rear-Admiral.They arrived at the Canaries, the fiveand twentieth, and departed thence thenine and twentieth. The second ofMay, they were the Height of CapeBlanco, the fifth, passed the Tropick ofCancer, and the eighth got the Heigthof Cape Verd. The sixth of June, theypassed the Line, but being obliged, bycontrary Wind, to beat the Sea for someTime before, they met and took a Por-tuguese Caravel, bound for Brafil, withsixty Tuns of Wine, twelve Hundredjars of Oyl, one Hundred Jars of O-lives, and other Provisions, which werevery acceptable. The first of August,their Men being very sickly, they wereobliged to put into the Bay of Agoadade Saldanha, fifteen Leagues North-ward, on the hither Side of the Cape :Hence they sent back the Royal Mer-chant, with about fifty of their disabledMen for England, and reserved oneHundred and ninety-eight Men, for

the other two Vestels. Here they stay-ed about a Month, and found suchPlenty of Provisions, that they boughta Bullock, for a Knife of three PenceValue, and a Sheep for a broken Knife,or any other odd Trifle.

Soon after they had the good For-tune to double the Cape of Good Hope, Rand proceeded to Cape Corientes . Ray- lo psmond, in the Admiral-Ship, was there Jseparated from the other Ship in aStorm,and never heard of more. She proba-bly foundered at once; For, in theEvening they saw a great Sea-breakover her, and immediately her Lightwas extinguished.

This Storm was followed by suchfrightful Thunder and Lightning, thatfour Seamen, who were in the" otherShip, had their Necks so distorted, bythe Force of the Lightning, that theyinstantly died; And, of ninety-fourmore, some were struck blind, and o-thers lame, besides some who were seizyed with horrible Pains, and voiding ofBlood, and others stretched out atLength, as if they had been racked.

Their Main-mast was torn from theTop to the Deck, and some Spikes>which were ten Inches in the Timber,were melted. ^

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