Many Also
Of Our Small Pinnaces And Boats Were Lost In This Storm.
Notwithstanding, after all this, the General offered them, with
consent of his captains, another ship with some provisions, although
not such a one for their turns as might have been spared them before,
this being unable to be brought into their harbour:
Or else, if they
would, to give them passage into England, although he knew he should
perform it with greater difficulty than he might have done before. But
Master Lane, with those of the chiefest of his company which he had
then with him, considering what should be best for them to do, made
request unto the General under their hands, that they might have
passage for England: the which being granted, and the rest sent for
out of the country and shipped, we departed from that coast the 18th
of June. And so, God be thanked, both they and we in good safety
arrived at Portsmouth the 28th of July, 1586, to the great glory of
God, and to no small honour to our Prince, our country, and ourselves.
The total value of that which was got in this voyage is esteemed at
three score thousand pounds, whereof the companies which have
travailed in the voyage were to have twenty thousand pounds, the
adventurers the other forty. Of which twenty thousand pounds (as I can
judge) will redound some six pounds to the single share. We lost some
750 men in the voyage; above three parts of them only by sickness.
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