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MEETING MANY SHIPS.
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the great Susan1 of London, a ship of 3 hundrethe tun ;
and thare was the Riall Defence of Brstoll. The laste of
this monthe cam in thare the martchante Boniventur.
MARCHE 1599.
The firste of Marche came in a litle shipe caled the
Diamon.
In this contrie is verrie good muscadine,- and thar is also
som Currante. This harbur is verrie good ; what wether
so ever blow, a ship is without dainger thare. On the
weste sid dothe stand a pretie toune caled Luksere3; on
the easte, a Castell. When we wente to sea from hence
we weare in Company eighte ships ; beinge 4 or 5 leages
at sea, the wynde came contrarie, and like to be foule
wether, so that we returned againe to the same harber; in
the morninge the wynde came fair againe, and we sett
saile againe.
The sixte daye we paste the Gulfe of Venis, the which
daye the wynde came all southe weste a smale gale, so
that we could not keepe our course ; but as we weare
Caplaynes names". The Hector is given in this list as of 300 tons, and
under the command of Captain Harris. The Bonaventure was also 300
tons, Captain Childie. Dallam here distinguishes between the
merchant ship Bonaventure and the Queen's ship Edward Bona-
venture : this latter ship and the Swallow were both probably those
engaged in the destruction of the Spanish Armada, when the Bona-
venture was commanded by Captain Kegmon and the Swallow by
Captain Hawkins. The Bonaventure appears in the list of many of
the expeditions of the time under Frobisher and Sir Francis Drake.
(Archccologia, vol. xxxiv.)
1 Perhaps the ship Susan which in 1581 carried our first Ambas-
sador to the Porte, Mr. Harbone, to Constantinople.
2 Ital. nioseato,n name given in those days to several sweet Italian
and French wines.
" QuafPd off the muscadel."
(Taming 0/the Shrew, iii, 2.)
3 Lixure, in Bay of Argostoli in Cephalonia.
91
the great Susan1 of London, a ship of 3 hundrethe tun ;
and thare was the Riall Defence of Brstoll. The laste of
this monthe cam in thare the martchante Boniventur.
MARCHE 1599.
The firste of Marche came in a litle shipe caled the
Diamon.
In this contrie is verrie good muscadine,- and thar is also
som Currante. This harbur is verrie good ; what wether
so ever blow, a ship is without dainger thare. On the
weste sid dothe stand a pretie toune caled Luksere3; on
the easte, a Castell. When we wente to sea from hence
we weare in Company eighte ships ; beinge 4 or 5 leages
at sea, the wynde came contrarie, and like to be foule
wether, so that we returned againe to the same harber; in
the morninge the wynde came fair againe, and we sett
saile againe.
The sixte daye we paste the Gulfe of Venis, the which
daye the wynde came all southe weste a smale gale, so
that we could not keepe our course ; but as we weare
Caplaynes names". The Hector is given in this list as of 300 tons, and
under the command of Captain Harris. The Bonaventure was also 300
tons, Captain Childie. Dallam here distinguishes between the
merchant ship Bonaventure and the Queen's ship Edward Bona-
venture : this latter ship and the Swallow were both probably those
engaged in the destruction of the Spanish Armada, when the Bona-
venture was commanded by Captain Kegmon and the Swallow by
Captain Hawkins. The Bonaventure appears in the list of many of
the expeditions of the time under Frobisher and Sir Francis Drake.
(Archccologia, vol. xxxiv.)
1 Perhaps the ship Susan which in 1581 carried our first Ambas-
sador to the Porte, Mr. Harbone, to Constantinople.
2 Ital. nioseato,n name given in those days to several sweet Italian
and French wines.
" QuafPd off the muscadel."
(Taming 0/the Shrew, iii, 2.)
3 Lixure, in Bay of Argostoli in Cephalonia.