_Shewing my journey from the Towne of_ Petapa, _into_ England; _and some chiefe passages in the way._
The chiefe thing which troubled me in my resolved purpose to come home, was the choice of the safest way; which made me utterly forsake the Gulfe (though the easiest way of all, and that sea neerest to the place where I lived) for that I knew I should meet there with many of my acquaintance, and the setting out of the ships was so uncertain, that before they departed, order might come from _Guatemala_ to stop me; if I should go by land through _Comayagua_ to _Truxillo_, and there wait for the ships, likewise I feared lest the Governour of that place by some item from the President of _Guatemala_ might examine me, and send me backe, and that the Masters of the ships might have charge given them not to receive me into their ships. If I should goe backe to _Mexico_ and _Vera Cruz_, then I called to mind, how I was troubled in that long journey, when I came first to _Chiapa_ in company of friends, and that now alone I should certainly be much put to it, for I would not carry _Miguel Dalva_ so far by land with me. Wherefore rejecting these three wayes, I chose the fourth, which was by _Nicaragua_ and the Lake of _Granada_; and therefore I deferred my journey till the week after _Christmas_, knowing that the time of the frigats setting out from that lake to the _Havana_ was commonly after the middle of _January_, or at _Candlemas_ at the furthest, whither I hoped to reach in very good time. Now that I might by no means be suspected to have taken this way; before I went I left by the hand of _Miguel Dalva_ a letter to a friend of his to be delivered to the Provinciall in _Guatemala_, foure dayes after my departure, wherein I kindly tooke my leave of him, desiring him not to blame me nor to seeke after me; and whereas I had a sufficient Licence from _Rome_, and could not get his, that I thought I might with a safe Conscience goe where I was born, leaving Linguists enough to supply my place amongst the _Indians_. And because he should not make enquiry after me by _Nicaragua_, I dated and subscribed my letter to him from the Towne of _St. Antonio Suchutepeques_, which was the way to _Mexico_ and quite contrary to _Nicaragua_.