Being provided of all things necessary for so long a voyage, with leave taken of the governor, and others of the committees, we departed from Gravesend the twenty-fifth of March, being Sunday at night, and the Tuesday following came to the Downs, where the general, before we came to an anchor, gave order to the purser to call the company, and take their names—which being done, there was found forty men lacking of the copelment [complement] of our ship, so that we were forced thereby to come to anchor to tarry for them. The general gave order presently the pinnace should be manned, and sent the master, with his brother and the purser, for better despatch, to Sandwich; where they escaped very near drowning. The Ascension's pinnace likewise put off to set their pilot a-land, and so was cast away; which, when the general heard of, he was exceeding angry with captain Stiles, that he would offer to go a-land at such a time without his order. The last of March, the master, captain Middleton, and the master's mate, came aboard.