☞ The seconde vyage to Guinea.
AS in the fyrst vyage I haue declared rathe•• the order of the hystory thē the course of the nauigation, whereof at that tyme I coulde haue no perfecte information, so in the dis∣cription of this seconde vyage my chiefe in∣tent hath byn to shew the course of the same accordynge to the obseruation and ordinarie custome of them aryners, and as I receaued it at the handes of an experte pylot beinge one of the chiefe in this viage, who also with his owne handes wrote a briefe declaration of the same as he founde and tryed all thynges not by coniecture, but by the arte of saylynge and instrumentes perteynynge to the mariners facultie. Not therfore assuminge to my selfe the commendations dewe to other, neyther so boulde as in anye parte to chaunge or otherwise dispose the order of this vyag•• so wel obserued by art and experience, I haue thowght good to set furth the same in such sorte and phrase of speache as is commonly vsed amonge them, and as I receaued it of the said pylot as I haue sayde. Take it therfore as, foloweth.
In the yeare of owre lorde .M.D.LIIII. the .xi. day of October, wee d••parted the ryuer of Temmes with three goodly shyppes, thone cauled the Trinitie, a shyppe of the bur¦den of seuen score toonne: Thother cauled the Barthelmewe a shyppe of the burden of .lxxxx. The thyrde was the Iohn Euangelist a shyppe of seuen score toonne. With the sayde