A voyage with three tall ships—the Penelope, Admirall; the Marchant Royal, Vice-Admirall; and the Edward Bonaventure, Rere-admirall, —to the East Indies, by the Cape of Buona Speransa, to Quitangone, neere Mosambique, to the lies of Comoro and Zanzibar, on the backeside of Africa, and beyond Cape Comori in India, to the lies of Nicubar and of Gomes Pulo, within two leagues of Sumatra, to the Hands of Pulo Pinaorn, and thence to the maine land of Malacca, begunne by M. George Raymond, in the yeere 1591, and performed by M. James Lancaster, and written from the mouth of Edmund Barker, of Ipswich, his lieutenant, in sayd voyage, by M. Richard Hakluyt.

Our fleet of the three tall ships above named departed from Plimmouth the 10th of April, 1591, and arrived at the Canarie-islands the 25 of the same, frō whence we departed the 29 of April. The second of May we were in the height of Cape Blanco. The fift we passed the tropique of Cancer. The eight we were in the height of Oape Yerde. All this time we went with a faire winde at north-east, always before the winde untill the 13 of the same nioneth, when we came within 8 degrees of the Equinoctiall line, where we met with a contrary winde. Here we lay off and on in the sea untill the sixi of June, on which day we passed the sayd line.