Narratives of Voyages Towards the North West in Search of a Passage to Cathay a
Narratives of Voyages Towards the North West in Search of a Passage to Cathay a
Thomas Rundall
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9. 23b the waie : if your Shippes within the Streights should sever, we think Diggs Island for the good Rode and plentie of refreshing that is there wilbe youi- fittest Rande- vous. And if it should fall out that the Winter growe v^ppou you before your finding a thoroughfare into the South Sea, we think your safest waie Avilbe to seeke southward for some place to winter in, for we assure oru* self by Gods grace you will not rcturne, without either the good Newes of a passage, or sufficient assu...rance of an impossibihty. VOYAGE OF SIR THOMAS BUTTON. 85 10. You must be careful to prevent all Mutynie amongst yo"" people, and to preserve tliem as muclie as male be from the Ti'eaclierie and \dllanie of tlie Saluages, and other East- erne [?] people; where ever you arrive have as little to doe with them as maye be, onlie if the straights it self afford noe sufficient strength [?], you shalbe happie in finding out some convenient parte on the back of America or some Island in the South Sea for a haven or stacon for our shippes and mar- chandizes hereafter ; but yet spend as little time as male be in this or any other searche, saving of the passage till you have dispatched the Pynnace w'^' advertisement of your entrie into the South Sea, w*^"^ must be done as sone as you shalbe thereof assured.
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