our distress; and he now said, there was nothing in his ship but what he would spare for our assistance; so we agreed with him for some canvass.  He said likewise, if we would accompany him to a harbour called Gonnavy,[26] to the northward of Tiberoon, that he would procure us plenty of fresh provisions.  I went back to our ship, and reported this to our captain, who made it known to the company, and it was unanimously agreed to go there, which was done accordingly.  We remained there fifteen days along with the Frenchman, but could get very small refreshment, as the Spaniards were in great fear of the Frenchman, supposing him a man of war, and that our ship was Portuguese, which he had captured, and could not be persuaded to the contrary by any thing he could say.  Thus staying long, and procuring very little refreshment, our people begun to grow mutinous, pretending that the captain and I went on board the Frenchman to make good chear ourselves, taking no care of them; but I protest before God that our sole care was to procure victuals that we might leave him.

[Footnote 26:  Hakluyt, on the margin, gives Guanaba as a synonime:  it was probably Gonaives’ Bay, in the northern part of the west end of Hispaniola.—­E.]

In the mean time a great part of our people entered into a conspiracy to seize the Frenchman’s pinnace, and with her to board the French ship; but while this was concerting among them, one of themselves went on board the Frenchman, and revealed the plot.  Upon this Monsieur de la Barbotiere sent for the captain and me to dine with him.  We went accordingly, and remained all the afternoon, being invited likewise to supper.  While we were at supper the French captain did not come to us for a long time, and when he at length came into the cabin, he told us we must either leave him, or he must go seek another port.  Informing Captain Lancaster of this, he desired me to say, that rather as be any hindrance to him we would depart.  While we were thus talking together, the Frenchman weighed and set sail, which we perceived, and asked what he meant.  He said he proposed to keep us as his sureties, because our men had plotted to seize his ship, as before mentioned.

When the French ship came athwart ours, it blowing then a stiff breeze, their boat, which was astern, and had in her two Moors and two Peguers, whom we had given to them, broke away.  The French captain was now worse than before, and threatened sore to make us pay for his voyage.  Seeing us pass, the Edward weighed and set sail, meaning to go for England; and the people shared among them all the captain’s victuals and mine, when they saw us kept as prisoners.

Next morning the French ship went in search of her pinnace, which was at Laguna, and on firing a gun she came off, having three of our people on board, Edmund Barker our lieutenant, one John West, and Richard Lackland, one of our mutineers.  Of this I told the French captain, which Lackland could not deny but that such a scheme was intended.  I was then put into the French pinnace to seek their boat, while they went to see if they could overtake our ship.