A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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the winde continued contrary, although but very weake. 

 The night following wee were becalmed a little beyond 

 the point of this haven ; but about midnight wee began 

 to have a fresh gale, and on Wednesday in the morning 

 wee were seven leagues distant from that point. This 

 countrey shewed (as it was indeede) more plaine then the 

 rest, with certaine small woody hilles, and within the 

 other point which was before descried, the situation 

 seemed to be more pleasant and delightsome then the 

 rest which we had passed. And at the uttermost end 

 of the point were two small Islets. The sayd Wednes- 

 day about nine of the clocke the winde blew a good 

 gale, and we sayled by evening between seven and eight 

 leagues, and came over against a land not very high, 

 where wee saw certaine creekes or breaches not very 

 ragged, into every of which a river seemed to fall, 

 because the soyle was very greene, and had certaine 

 trees growing on it farre bigger then those which we 

 had found before. Here the Captaine with five or sixe 

 men went on shore, and taking possession passed up 

 one of those rivers, and found the footing of many 

 Indians upon the sand. On the bankes of that river 

 they saw many fruitful trees, as cherry-trees and little 

 apple-trees, and other white trees : they found also in 

 the wood three or foure beasts called Adibes, which 

 are a kind of dogs. The same night wee set sayle 

 with the winde off the land, which blew so freshly, that 

 it made us to strike our foresayle ; and on the sixeteenth 

 of October at nine of the clocke we came neere unto 

 a point of certaine high mountaines, on which day being 

 Thursday we made little way, because the winde ceased, 

 but it rose againe in the night, whereupon by the breake 

 of day on Friday wee came before the sayd point being 

 sixe or seven leagues off. The land seemed to bee very 

 mountainous with certaine sharpe points not greatly clad 

 with grasse, but somewhat bare. On our left hand wee 

 saw two Islands, the one of a league and a halfe, the 

 other not so much, and it seemed that we drew neere 



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