r of ranging a few men might appear. These people would not of a
long time receive anything at our hands; yet at length our General being
ashore, and they dancing after their accustomed manner about him, and he
once turning his back towards them, one leaped suddenly to him, and took
his cap with his gold band off his head, and ran a little distance from
him, and shared it with his fellow, the cap to one and the band to the
other. Having despatched all our business in this place, we departed
and set sail. And immediately upon our setting forth we lost our canter,
which was absent three or four days; but when our General had her again,
he took out the necessaries, and so gave her over, near to the Cape
of Good Hope. The next day after, being the 20th of June, we harboured
ourselves again in a very good harborough, called by Magellan, Port
St. Julian, where we found a gibbet standing upon the main; which we
supposed to be the place where Magellan did execution upon some of his
disobedient and rebellious company.

The two and twentieth day our General went ashore to the main, and in
his company John Thomas, and Robert Winterhie, Oliver the master-gunner,
John Brewer, Thomas Hood, and Thomas Drake. And entering on land,
they presently met with two or three of the country people. And Robert
Winterhie having in his hands a bow and arrows, went about to make a
shoot of pleasure, and, in his draught, his bowstring brake; which the
rude savages taking as a token of war, began to bend the force of their
bows against our company, and drove them to their shifts very narrowly.

In this port our General began to enquire diligently of the actions of
Master Thomas Doughty, and found them not to be such as he looked for,
but tending rather of contention or mutiny, or some other disorder,
whereby, without redress, the success of the voyage might greatly
have been hazarded. Whereupon the company was called together and made
acquainted with the particulars of the cause, which were found, partly
by Master Doughty's own confession, and partly by the evidence of the
fact, to be true. Which when our General saw, although his private
affection to Master Doughty, as he then in the presence of us all
sacredly protested, was great, yet the care he had of the state of the
voyage, of the expectation of her Majesty, and of the honour of his
country did more touch him, as indeed it ought, than the private respect
of one man. So that the cause being tho