Seeing Well That It Was
Too Late, He Would Goe No Further, So Brought Us Back To The Place From
Whence Wee Came, Where Wee Were Welcome, Although With Great Losse Of Goods
& Hope, But The Last Was Not Quite Lost.
Wee were promissed 2 shipps for a
second voyage.
They were made fit and ready, and being the season of the
yeare was not yet come to be gone, one of them 2 shipps was sent to the
Isle of Sand, there to fish for the Basse [Footnote: This fishing
expedition was to the well-known Sable Island. In 1676 "The King granted
Medard Chouart, Sieur des Grozelliers, and Pierre Esprit, Sieur des
Radision, the privilege of establishing fisheries for white porpoises and
seal in the river St. Lawrence in New France."] to make Oyle of it, where
wee came in very bad weather, and the ship was lost in that Island, but the
men were saved. The expectation of that ship made us loose our 2nd voyage,
which did very much discourage the merchants with whom wee had to doe. They
went to law with us to make us recant the bargaine that wee had made with
them. After wee had disputed a long time it was found that the right was on
our side, and wee innocent of what they did accuse us. So they endeavoured
to come to an agreement, but wee were betrayed by our own Party. In the
meantime the Commissioners of the King of Great Brittain arrived in that
place, and one of them would have us goe with him to New Yorke, and the
other advised us to come to England and offer our selves to the King, which
wee did.
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