Pilg. I. 440. - The relation of this voyage in the
Pilgrims is said to have been written by Mr John Davy, the master of
the ship: Probably the same John Davis, or Davies, formerly
mentioned as having frequently sailed as master to India in these early
voyages, and from whose pen Purchas published a Rutter, or brief book
of instructions for sailing to India. On the present occasion, this
voyage has been considerably abbreviated, especially in the nautical
remarks, which are now in a great degree obsolete and useless, and have
been already sufficiently enlarged upon in the former voyages to
India. - E.]
[Footnote 69: From some indistinct notices, in the commencement of this
voyage, the Dragon and Hosiander appear to have belonged to the tenth
voyage of the East India Company, and the Solomon to the eleventh
voyage; and that these three ships sailed from England at the same time
with the James, which belonged to the ninth voyage. - E.]
[Footnote 70: This seemeth the island of Martin Vaz. - Purch. The
island of Trinidad, or Martin Vaz, is only in lat. 20 deg. 15' S. and long.
29 deg. 32' W. from Greenwich. - E.]
We saw the island of St Lawrence on the 29th June, and anchored in five
fathoms water in the bay of St Augustine on the 28th at night. Next day
we weighed, and brought the ship to anchor in the river, one anchor
being in thirty-five and the other in ten fathoms.
