In The Midst Of Our Distress, It Pleased God
That We Should Meet Your Ship The _Barke Burre_ On This Side The North
Cape, Which Not Only Kept Company With Us, But Sent Us Six Fresh Men On
Board, Without Whose Assistance We Must Have Been In A Sad Condition.
By
this providential aid we are now arrived at Plymouth, this 9th
September; and, for want of better health at this present.
I must refer
you for farther particulars till my arrival in London. - Yours to
command,
ANTHONY INGRAM.
SECTION XVII.
_Second Voyage of James Welsh to Benin, in 1590_[317].
In the employment of the same merchants, John Bird and John Newton, and
with the same ship as in the former voyage, the Richard of Arundel,
accompanied by a small pinnace, we set sail from Ratclif on the 3d
September 1590, and came to Plymouth Sound on the 18th of that month. We
put to sea again on the 22d, and on the 14th October got sight of
Fuertaventura, one of the Canary islands, which appeared very rugged as
we sailed past. The 16th of October, in the lat. of 24 deg. 9' N. we met a
prodigious hollow sea, such as I had never seen before on this coast;
and this day a monstrous great fish, which I think is called a
_gobarto_[318], put up his head to the steep-tubs where the cook was
shifting the victuals, whom I thought the fish would have carried away.
The 21st, being in lat.
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