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moneths ; but whether the baker, brewer, butcher, 

 and others were masters of their arts or professions 

 or no, I know not ; but this I am sure of, I had 

 excellent fat beefe, strong beere, good wheaten 

 bread, good Iseland ling, butter and cheese of the 

 best, admirable sacke and aqua-vitse, pease, oat- 

 meale, wheat-meale, oyle, spice, suger, fruit, and 

 rice; with chyrurgerie, as sirrups, juleps, condits, 

 trechissis, antidotes, balsoms, gummes, unguents, 

 implaisters, oyles, potions, suppositors, and purging 

 pils, &;c." And on taking leave he received, he 

 says, from the King " a mappe of all my prede- 

 cessors discoveries, His Majesty's instructions, 

 with a letter to the Emperour of Japan."* 



The merchants of Bristol, determined not to be 

 out-done by those of London in manifesting a 

 spirit of enterprize, fitted out the same year, and 

 for the same object, a ship called the Maria, the 

 command of which was given to Captain Thomas 

 James. 



Fox left Deptford on the ,5th May, passed Cape 

 Farewell in a fog and drizzhng mists on the 13th 

 June, and, on the weather clearing, observed a 

 shoal of grampusses following their leader, which, 

 he tells us, brought to his recollection '' Mr. Wil- 

 liam Browne in his Britaines Pastorals, where he 

 writes ' the Tritons wafted Thetis along the British 

 shores.'" On the 20th he got sight of the land 



* North-west Fox. 



