MAY.
The sixteenth, Simon Ferdinando, Master of our Admiral, lewdly forsook our fly-boat, leaving her distressed in the bay of Portugal.
JUNE.
The nineteenth we fell with Dominica, and the same evening we sailed between it and Guadaloupe.
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The twenty-eighth we weighed anchor at Cottea and presently came to St. John’s in Mosquito’s Bay, where we spent three days unprofitable in taking in fresh water, spending in the mean time more beer than the quantity of water came unto.
JULY.
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About the sixteenth of July we fell with the main of Virginia, which Simon Ferdinando took to be the Island of Croatan, where we came to anchor and rode there two or three days: but finding himself deceived, he weighed, and bore along the coast.
The two-and-twentieth of July we arrived safe at Hatarask.…