All that day Monday we followed the Spaniards with a long and great fight, wherein there was great valour showed generally by our company.
– John Hawkins
In this river we saw many Crocodils..His nature is ever when he would have his prey, to cry and sob like a Christian body, to provoke them to come to him, and then he snatcheth at them.
– John Hawkins
Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.
– John Hawkins
The men have long been unpaid and need relief.
– John Hawkins
This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.