The Setting Forth Of This Action Was
Committed By The Adventurers Especially To The Care Of Master
William Sanderson, Merchant
Of London, who was so forward therein,
that besides his travel, which was not small, he became the greatest
adventurer
With his purse, and commended unto the rest of the
company one Master John Davis, a man very well grounded in the
principles of the art of navigation, for captain and chief pilot of
this exploit.
Thus, therefore, all things being put in a readiness, we departed
from Dartmouth the 7th of June towards the discovery of the
aforesaid North-West Passage with two barques, the one being of
fifty tons, named the Sunshine, of London, and the other being
thirty-five tons, named the Moonshine, of Dartmouth. In the
Sunshine we had twenty-three persons, whose names are these
following: Master John Davis, captain; William Eston, master;
Richard Pope, master's mate; John Jane, merchant; Henry Davie,
gunner; William Crosse, boatswain; John Bagge, Walter Arthur, Luke
Adams, Robert Coxworthie, John Ellis, John Kelly, Edward Helman,
William Dicke, Andrew Maddocke, Thomas Hill, Robert Wats, carpenter,
William Russell, Christopher Gorney, boy; James Cole, Francis
Ridley, John Russel, Robert Cornish, musicians.
The Moonshine had nineteen persons, William Bruton, captain; John
Ellis, master; the rest mariners.
The 7th of June the captain and the master drew out a proportion for
the continuance of our victuals.
The 8th day, the wind being at south-west and west-south-west, we
put in for Falmouth, where we remained until the 13th.
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