The voyage made to the bay of Mexico by M. William King Captaine, M. Moore, M. How, and M. Boreman Owners, with the Salomon of 200 tunnes, and the Iane Bonauenture of 40 tunnes of Sir Henry Palmer, from Ratcliffe the 26 of Ianuary 1592.
The Salomon was manned with an hundred men, all mariners,
and the Iane with sixe and twenty, all likewise mariners. Wee
came first to the Downes in Kent, and neuer strooke saile in
passing thence, vntill we came to Cape S. Vincent on the coast
of Portugall. From thence we shaped our course to Lancerota
one of the Canarie islands, where we landed three score men,
and fetched a carauell out of an harborow on the South side, and
from a small Island we tooke a demy-canon of brasse in despight
of the inhabitants, which played vpon vs with their small shot at
our first landing: of whom we slew three; and gaue them the
repulse. Thence we went to the Grand Canaria, where we
boorded a barke lying at anker: out of which wee were driuen by
great store of shot from the Island. From thence wee directed
our course for the West Indies, and fell with the isle of Dominica
about the tenth of April. There at a watering place we tooke a
shippe of an hundred tunnes come from Guiny, laden with two
hundred and seuenty Negros, which we caried with vs to S. Iuan
de Puerto Rico, and there comming thorow El passaje, we gaue
chase to a frigat which went in to S. Iuan de Puerto Rico, and in
the night we sent in our shallope with foureteene men. And out
of the harborow wee tooke away an English shippe of seuenty
tunnes, laden with threescore tunnes of Canary-wines, in despight
of the castle and two new bulwarks, being within caliuer shot.
These two prizes we caried away to the Westermost part of the
island, and put the Negros, except fifteene, all on land in a
Spanish carauell which the Iane Bonauenture tooke: and we
caried away one of the former prizes, and set fire on the other.
We passed thence by the isle of Mona, where we watered, and
refreshed our selues with potatos and plantans, and so came to
the isle of Saona: and from thence arriued at the mouth of the
riuer of Santo Domingo. And as we sailed to Cape Tiburon,
three leagues to the Westward of Santo Domingo we tooke a
boat of fifteene tunnes, which had certeine iarres of malosses
or vnrefined sugar, with three men; which men with their boat
