The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt, in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593 / Reprinted from the Edition of 1622

by Sir Richard Hawkins

SECTION VI.

Now presently I began to prepare for my dispatch, and to hasten my departure; and finding that my ship which I expected from the Straites, came not, and that shee was to goe to London to discharge, and uncertaine how long shee might stay, I resolved to take another of mine owne in her place, though lesser, called the Hawke, onely for a victualler; purposing in the coast of Brasill, or in the Straites,[23] to take out her men and victualls, and to cast her off.

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