A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



^539- 



creeke there. This Friday at night wee sayled alto- 

 gether with a fresh gale, and at breake of day wee 

 Another were betweene the maine land, and an Island on our 

 Island, jg£^ hand, which v/as somewhat big, as farre as we could 

 discerne. There was a great bay in the firme land, 

 and before it was a point which stretched farre into 

 the sea. The firme land seemed to bee much fresher 

 and pleasanter then those lands which we had passed, 

 having many bankes and hilles of indifferent height, 

 and beautifull to behold. 



The countrey (as farre as wee could discerne) was so 

 pleasant and delightfull, that wee all desired to goe on 

 shore, and to search up into it two or three dayes 

 journey, to see whether it were inhabited or not. 

 Wee saw within the land of that bay two fires. The 

 night following being Saturday we sailed continually 

 with a prosperous and fresh gale, and the wind was so 

 great that we drew our bonet to our maine sayle, and 

 sayled so till the morning. 



On Sunday the twelfth of October we found our 

 selves altogether inclosed with land, on the right hand 

 with the maine, which compassed us before and behinde, 

 and on the left hand with an Island of a league and 

 a halfe ; and betweene the maine and the Island in 

 the midst of the sea there lay a small Islet, and also 

 betweene the sayd maine and the Island there were 

 two mouthes, through which there appeared a passage 

 whereby afterward we passed through. This maine was 

 much more fresh and greene then the other which wee 

 had passed, and had certaine plaines and points of 

 mountaines of pleasant view, and full of greene grasse. 

 Here all this night we saw two or three villages 

 which were very great, and at breake of day we saw 

 a Canoa or boate made of canes, which came from the 

 land out of a creeke, and wee stood still untill it came 

 neere unto us in the ship, and they began to speake 

 in their language which no man understood, whose 

 pronuntiation was like to the Flemings, and being 



220 



