Acapulco is the hauen whence they set foorth to the Philippinas.
Good watering at the Ladrones. in to water, sayling betweene Acapulco and the Philippinas: in which isles of Ladrones, they finde fresh water, plantans, and potato rootes: howbeit the people be very rude and heathens.
The winde Eastnortheast.
The Content whereof Steuen Hare was master, left behind in the road.
The 19 day of
Nouember aforesaid, about 3 of the clock in the afternoone,
our General caused the kings shippe to be set
on fire, which hauing to the quantitie of 500 tunnes of
goods in her we saw burnt vnto the water, and then gaue
them a piece of ordinance and set sayle ioyfully homewards towards
England with a fayre winde, which by this time was come about
to Eastnortheast: and night growing neere, we left
the Content a sterne of vs, which was not as yet come
out of the road. And here thinking she would haue
ouertaken vs, we lost her companie and neuer saw
her after. Wee were sayling from this hauen of
Aguada Segura in California vnto the iles of Ladrones
the rest of Nouember, and all December, and so forth vntil the
3 of Januarie 1588, with a faire winde for the space 45 dayes:
and we esteemed it to be between 17 and 18 hundred
leagues.
The island of Guana one of the Ladrones in 13 degrees and two-thirds. Commodities of the isles of Ladrones. The 3 day of Ianuary by sixe of the clocke in the morning wee had sight of one of the islands of Ladrones called the island of Guana, standing in 13 degrees 2/3 toward the North, an sayling with a gentle gale before the winde by 1 or 2 of the clocke in the afternoone, wee were come vp within 2 leagues of the island, where we met with 60 or 70 sailes of canoas full of Sauages, who came off to sea vnto vs, and brought with them in their plantans, cocos, potato rootes, and fresh fish, which they had caught at sea, and helde them vp vnto vs for to truck or exchange with vs; which when we perceiued, we made fast litle pieces of old iron vpon small cords and fishing lines, and so vered the iron vnto their canoas, and they caught hold of them and tooke off the iron, and in exchange of it they would make fast vnto the same line either a potato roote, or a bundle of plantans, which we haled in: and thus our company exchanged with them vntil they had satisfied themselues with as much as did content them: yet we could not be rid of them. For afterward they were so thicke about the ship, that it stemmed and brake 1 or 2 of their canoas: but the men saued themselues
