Volume 1

An English garner ... / [Rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe].

Date:
1903-1904
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Credit: An English garner ... / [Rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    difficulty from the catastrophe at San Juan), in order to save the remaining hundred; and the stories of these three survivors are given in vol. i. pp. 161-242. Ingram’s record,^ the most fabulous but fortunately the shortest of the three, was omitted from Hakluyt’s final edition of 1599- 1600—although in some points ‘this Examinate’s’ testi- mony is certainly worth preserving—‘ the reward of lying,’ as Purchas complains, ‘ being not to be believed in truths ’ {PilgrimeSy vol iv. p. 1179, ed. of 1625; book vi. ch. 4). It is from Hartop, a gunner of the JesuSy not from Hawkins himself, that we learn of the reprisals under- taken by the English squadron against the Portuguese, during the first stage of the voyage, off West Africa. Hartop also is the only one who tells us how, at Margarita island in the West Indies, ‘our general, in despite of the Spaniards, landed and took in fresh victuals’; how at Placentia the bishop [and people] ‘ hearing of our coming for fear forsook the town ’; how at Rio de la Hacha Drake cut out, ran ashore, and seized as prize a Spanish ‘caravel of advice,’ or official despatch boat, from the Vice- roy at San Domingo. Speaking in 1591, Hartop had no motive to conceal anything. As to Hawkins’ tempest-tost career in the Gulf of Mexico and the harbour of San Juan de Ulua (‘Ulloa’), an interesting and valuable commentary on the Hawkins narratives may be found in Robert Tomson’s account - of his journey in 1555-58,^ and in John Chilton’s Travels ^ It must be very seriously doubted whether David Ingram ever made such an extensive journey in the interior of North America as he claims—from the Gulf of Mexico to within fifty leagues or thereabouts of Cape Breton. * The Voyage of Robert Tomsofty merchant, into Nova Hispania (1555-8); see vol. i. pp. 7-23 ; for Chilton’s Travels, see pp. 265-80. Both these are from the Hakluyt of 1589. 1.^4
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