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KIRBY S WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
pany, not intending to have come hither (as he said,) but to
a place called India, when tempestuous weather brought him
and his companions upon this coast, where falling among the
rocks, his ship split all in pieces, the whole company perish-
ing in the waters, saving only him and four women, which by
means of a broken piece of that ship, by divine assistance,
got on land. What after passed (said he) during my grand-
father’s life, I shall show you in a relation thereof written
by his own hand, which he delivered to my father, being his
eldest spn, charging him to have a special care thereof, and
assuring him, that time would bring some people or other
thither to whom he would have him to impart it, that the truth
of our first planting here might not be quite lost, which, his
commands, my father dutifully obeyed ; but no one coming,
he, at his death, delivered the same, with the like charge, to
me, and you being the first people, which (besides ourselves)
ever set footing in this island, I shall, therefore, in obedience
to my grandfather’s and father’s commands, willingly impart
the same unto you. Then stepping into a kind of inner
room, which, as we conceived, was his lodging chamber, he
brought forth two sheets of paper fairly written in English
(being the same relation which you had printed with you at
London,) and very distinctly read the same over unto us,
which we hearkened unto with great delight and admiration,
freely proffering us a copy of the same, which we afterwards
took, and brought away along with us ; which copy hereafter
follow'eth :
<£ A way to the East Indias being lately discovered by sea
to the south of Affrick by certain Portugals, far more safe
and profitable than had been heretofore, certain English
merchants encouraged by the great advantages arising from the
eastern commodities, to settle a factory there for the advantage
of trade. And having to that purpose obtained the Queen’s
royal license, Anno Dom. 1569. IL or 12. of Eliz. furnisht
out for those parts four ships, my master being sent as factor
to deal and negociate for them, and to settle there, took with
KIRBY S WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
pany, not intending to have come hither (as he said,) but to
a place called India, when tempestuous weather brought him
and his companions upon this coast, where falling among the
rocks, his ship split all in pieces, the whole company perish-
ing in the waters, saving only him and four women, which by
means of a broken piece of that ship, by divine assistance,
got on land. What after passed (said he) during my grand-
father’s life, I shall show you in a relation thereof written
by his own hand, which he delivered to my father, being his
eldest spn, charging him to have a special care thereof, and
assuring him, that time would bring some people or other
thither to whom he would have him to impart it, that the truth
of our first planting here might not be quite lost, which, his
commands, my father dutifully obeyed ; but no one coming,
he, at his death, delivered the same, with the like charge, to
me, and you being the first people, which (besides ourselves)
ever set footing in this island, I shall, therefore, in obedience
to my grandfather’s and father’s commands, willingly impart
the same unto you. Then stepping into a kind of inner
room, which, as we conceived, was his lodging chamber, he
brought forth two sheets of paper fairly written in English
(being the same relation which you had printed with you at
London,) and very distinctly read the same over unto us,
which we hearkened unto with great delight and admiration,
freely proffering us a copy of the same, which we afterwards
took, and brought away along with us ; which copy hereafter
follow'eth :
<£ A way to the East Indias being lately discovered by sea
to the south of Affrick by certain Portugals, far more safe
and profitable than had been heretofore, certain English
merchants encouraged by the great advantages arising from the
eastern commodities, to settle a factory there for the advantage
of trade. And having to that purpose obtained the Queen’s
royal license, Anno Dom. 1569. IL or 12. of Eliz. furnisht
out for those parts four ships, my master being sent as factor
to deal and negociate for them, and to settle there, took with