Chap. LY. during the Reign of §tyeen Elizabeth.

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i $96. with another Ship, laid the Ascension onSpanish Board, one on the Bow, and the other\ h ssss- l s ' on the Quarter} Upon which an En-theJ a ^ gagement, which was carried on withgreat Fury and Resolution, on bothSides, ensued. The Spaniards leapedinto the Fore- and Main-chains, think-ing to have entered the Ship; But werebravely repulsed by the English, whoseing afterwards a Crowd of them got to-4 harp En- g- e ther, under the Admiral’s Half-deck,%ement. y £n( . a p arce l Q f Cafe-lhot among them,which killed and wounded a great Num-• her of them. This, with the warmReception they had before met with, inAttempting to board th qA scension, madethem so sick of the Attack, that theywere content to fall off. Of the English,two and twenty were killed and wound-\

ed in this Action} And it having been 1^96.observed, that some of the Men had hid The Spani-themselves from the Fight, to prevent worfi-it in the Continuance of the Engage-ment, the Surgeon, Carpenter and Coo-per were put into the Hold, and thenthe Hatches were shut down.

The Spanish Admiral bore to themagain, and made a Shew as if he had aMind to renew the Fight; But findingthe English were in a Readiness to re-ceive him, he tacked about,, and madethe best of his Way for Lisbon.

The Ascenson continued on the Coast, The Earl’s’till site had but fourteen Days Provision returmleft, and then returned, without anyPrize to make good the Damage andLoss she had sustained.

CHAP. LV.

Eeymis’j 1 Voyage in Search of the Gold Mines of Guiana.

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5 e ymis de- c .Parts with a “ omsp andjnnace .

H E Ships designed for this Voy-age were only the Darlings. Shipof London, and the Discoverer,a small Pinnace. They set Sail,Portland- Road, on the six andtwentieth of January, and, four Days

after the Pinnace was seperated in ar e Pinnace ,

hparated. Storm. .

The thirteenth of February, the Ship

fell in with the Canary- Islands, whereshe lay seven or eight Days, in Hopesthe Pinnace would have rejoined her,according to Appointment, in Cafe ofSeparation; But in vain. Here they tookkk° BoatS two Boats, one of which they bulged,en ’ and towed the other, at the Ships Stern, >to the Iflands of Cape-Verd. Fromthence they departed, the eight andtwentieth of February , and,'the sixth ofApril came to an Anchor within theMouth of the River Oronoque, whichgo up they called Raleana, having spent threeV River c/ a nd twenty Days in Discovery on thatCoast. Here they had several Confer-^ ences with the Indians who were Ra-

high’ s Friends, -and had for some Monthsexpected his Return, with a consider-able Force, to protect them against theSpaniards. They likewise' went severalDays Journy up the Rivers, and gotwhat Information they could of theNatives; concerning the Gold Mines ;Of the River, at the Bottom of whichthey found Grains of Gold; And of the

Mountains of White Stone, which SirWalter Raleigh had made several Essaysof, in England, and found to be rich inGold.

Returning back to the Mouth ofthe River, they there found their Pin-nace, which had been separated fromthem, at their Departure from England,and which had, since their Arrival onthose Coasts, been up, and visited theBanks, of four considerable Rivers. ThisPinnace being so far disabled, that shewas no longer fit for Service, they tookher Provisions and Hands out of her,and then set Fire to her.

> From thence, they sailed to Punt a deGal er a, the North-Eastermost Part ofTr.inidada, r and afichored under theNorth-side of ! the Island. From thisPlace, they set Sail for Santa Lucia, butfell with Granata, and at Length cameto Dominicaf where they endeavouredto get some Tobacco, but were disap-pointed. As this Voyage was chieflydesigned for Discovery, so it ended, theShip returning to Portland Road, onthe nine and -twentieth of june, withouthaving effected any Thing else.

W e have in Hackluyf, Mr. Keymis\Account at large of the Discoveries hemade, in this Vovage, not only of theCountries which border that great Ri-ver; and it’s numerous' Branches, withtheir Product} But of the Inhabitants,

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At their Re-turn to theMouth ofthe River,they findtheir Pin-nace }

Which theyburn .

The Shipreturns.