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saile without her mast until we arrived in the said haven. 

 From the port of Acapulco to this haven of Colima wee 

 were sayling the space of 20. dayes. Here wee stayed 

 to mende our mast and to take in certaine victuals, 

 water, and wood, the space of 27. dayes. And wee 

 departed from the saide haven the 23. of August, and 

 The hies of sayling by the Isles of Xalisco the 27. or 28. of the 

 Xaasco. saide moneth wee were taken with an extreame tempest 



wherein wee thought we should have perished, and 

 being tossed and weather-beaten, wee ranne as farre as 

 Guajaval. the river of Guajaval in the Province of Culiacan. In 

 this storme wee lost the pinnesse called Sant Thomas, 

 and because wee had lost her wee crossed over to the 

 Santa Crux, port of Santa Cruz in California : for while wee were 

 ^^^j[i.^^!^^^f so beaten in the former tempest, the pilot of the 

 Barke signified unto us, that he perceived she beganne 

 to leake, and that already she had received in much 

 water, insomuch that she beganne to founder: where- 

 upon, to helpe her neede, and that wee might meete 

 together in a knowen haven, if by chance the tempest 

 should separate us, as it did indeed, we willed him to 

 repaire to the haven of Santa Cruz, where we meant 

 to repaire his harmes and our owne. Wherefore being 

 all arrived in this place of Santa Cruz, wee stayed there 

 five dayes and tooke in water, wherein we heard no 

 newes of our Barke which we had lost : Whereupon the 

 Captaine resolved to follow on our voyage; wherefore 

 we set saile the 12. of September, and as wee sailed wee 

 Three Hands, saw along the coast of the saide haven 3. Islands, where- 

 of the Captaine made no great accompt, thinking there 

 coulde be no great good found in any of them. These 

 Islands seemed not to be great ; wherefore he commanded 

 the Masters and pilotes to proceed on their voyage, 

 and not to leese time without any profit. So sailing 

 over the gulfe of California, in two dayes and an halfe 

 Rio de san we came to the river of S. Peter and S. Paul, finding 

 p^f? "^ ^^^ before we entred into the same a small Island in the 

 mouth of the River, being 4. or 5. miles distant from 



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