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night drawing on the Master and company th … night drawing on the Master and company thought it [?safer] to stand out<br />
to sea till the next day, and noe body then appearing to enquire the way of,<br />
and the sayd ffare not being able to direct them, the Master and Company by<br />
helpe of a Dutch booke on board called the Waggoner which showed the topps and<br />
formes of the land and the names of them did with<br />
much labour and trouble<br />
shape their course according as the sayd booke and their owne judgment<br />
guided them towards druntam aforesayd, but<br />
were many dayes getting thither more then they needed to have bin<br />
if the saud Richard ffare had bin able and sufficient in knowledge and<br />
experience of the way, which hee was not, as further by this deponents<br />
deposition to the ensuing articles may appeare, And further saving<br />
his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 7th and 8th articles hee saith that soe ignorant the sayd Richard<br />
ffare was and insufficient to pilott the sayd shipp to drantam aforesayd,<br />
that when the sayd Master and Company had by helpe of the sayd booke and<br />
their owne industry sayled the sayd shipp neere the month of the<br />
River of druntam, and lay off a little at sea to see if they could light<br />
of any shipp or boate that might directe them, and none for a while<br />
appearing the sayd Master did againe aske the sayd ffaire where or<br />
neere what land theshipp then was, and what goods mooreings there were neere<br />
druntam Byt the sayd ffaire knew not nor could give any certaine accompt where hee then was nor of<br />
the way into the River of druntam or what mooreings there were therein<br />
which the Master and Company seeing were much troubled at<br />
but hee saith that shortly after it pleased God the Master and<br />
Company espied a ffisherboate and made toward it and made signes to<br />
them in her to come aboard which hee did, and soe by their meanes and direction<br />
the sayd shipp was guided into the River of druntam and brought to a<br />
safe place of Anchorage in the sayd river, which is very scarce<br />
there the river being very deepe, except in some few places, And<br />
further to theses articles hee cannot depose saving hee saith the sayd<br />
River of druntam is a very longe river and druntam scituate<br />
many leagues from the mouth of it And further hee cannot depose/
To the 9th hee saith that in the sayd shipps course homewards towards<br />
the downes shee met with fowle weather and Crosse windes whereby<br />
shee was put somwhat out of her direct course and driven towards<br />
the Coast of holland but without the Master (having had former experience ofhe Master (having had former experience of +
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