"After we had driven half a day under sail from Riga, then the Skipper, Bernhard Schultz of Luebeck, called us together according to custom and made the usual speech to us, who were forty-seven all told, to the following purport: 'Seeing that we are now at the mercy of God and the elements, each shall henceforth be held equal to his fellows, without respect of persons. And because, on this voyage, we are in jeopardy of sudden tempests, pirates, monsters of the deep and other perils, therefore we cannot navigate the ship without strict government. Wherefore I do hereby most earnestly warn and instantly beseech every man, all and singular, that we hear first of all a reading of God's word from the Scriptures, both text and notes; and then that we approach God steadfastly with prayer and hymn that He may vouchsafe us fair winds and a prosperous journey."
T. D. Wunderer (1590) [Fichard, Frankfurtisches Archiv, Band II, S. 245].
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