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Identifier: magazineofamericv9stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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ed to England ; Hawkins promising to return thenext year and bring them off. When it was first proposed to divide thecrew, the idea struck the sailors with much favor; yet, when the momentcame to carry it into execution, many changed their minds, so that in theend the occasion led to great cruelty. Miles Phillips, one of the party, writes,in Hakluyt, as follows : For the more contentation of all mens Mindes, and to take away alloccasions of offense, to take this order : First hee made choyce of suche per-sons of service and account as were neede full to stay, and that being done,of those that were willing to go hee appointed such as he thought might bebest spared, and presently appointed that by the boate they should be set INGRAMS JOURNEY THROUGH NORTH AMERICA IN 1567-69 169 on shoare. . . . Heere agayne it would haue caused any stony heart tohave relented to hearr the pitifull mone that many did make, and how loththey were to depart: the weather was then somewhat stormey and tempes-
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SIR JOHN HAWKINS.(Facsimile of an old copperplate.) tuous, and therefore we were to passe with great danger, yet notwithstand-ing theere was no remedy, but we that were appointed to go away, must ofnecessitie doe so. Howbeit those that went in the first boat were safely setashoare, but of them that went in the second boat, of which number I my- 170 INGRAMS JOURNEY THROUGH NORTH AMERICA IN 1567-69 self was one, the seas wrought so high, that we could not attayne to theshoare, and therefore we were constrained, through the cruel dealing of JohnHampton, Gaptaine of the Minion, and John Sanders boatswaine of theJesus, and Thomas Pollard his mate, to leape out of the boate into the mainesea, having more than a mile to shoare, and so to shift for our selves, andeither to sinke or swimme. And of those that so were throwen out andcompelled to leape into the Sea, there were two drowned. They wereprobably left on the bar in shallow water and obliged to wade to land, oc-casionally swimming. Job

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