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I hope I shall find favour with you to see your card.
I pray God it be so true as the card shall be which I will bring to you, and I hope in God that your skill in navigation shall be gainful unto you, although at the first it hath not proved so.
And thus with my most humble commendations I commit you to God, desiring no longer to live than I shall be yours most faithfully to command.
From this 14th of October, 1586. Yours with my heart, body and life to command, JOHN DAVIS. * * * * * _The relation of the course which the_ "_Sunshine_," _a barque of fifty tons_, _and the_ "_North Star_," _a small pinnace_, _being two vessels of the fleet of Master John Davis_, _held after he had sent them from him to discover the passage between Greenland and Iceland_.
_Written by Henry Morgan_, _servant to Master William Sanderson of London_. The 7th day of May, 1586, we departed out of Dartmouth Haven four sails, to wit, the _Mermaid_, the _Sunshine_, the _Moonshine_, and the _North Star_.
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