FRANCIS DE ULLOA a.d. 



1539- 



the remedies and beneEte of the shore to avoide perils. 

 In this Countrey which we discovered the 26 day we 

 alwayes saw (as I have said) along the shore, and within 

 the land, goodly plaines without any tree, in the midst 

 wherof was a lake or gathering together of the Sea- 

 water, which (to our judgement) was above 12 leagues 

 in com passe, and the sea-coast reached to the mountaines 

 before mentioned. And this day we saw our ship called 

 the Trinitie, which rode 2 leagues distant from us, which 

 so soone as she saw us, set saile, and we came together 

 and rejoyced greatly. They brought us great quantity A wonderfull 

 of gray fishes, and of another kinde : for at the point -^f ^^/j^'' 

 of those mountaines they found a fishing which was very jQ^^^iand. 

 wonderfull, for they suffered themselves to be taken by 

 hand : and they were so great that every one had much 

 adoe to finde roome to lay his fish in. They found 

 also on the said point a fountaine of fresh water which 

 descended from those hilles, and they told us that at 

 the same place they had found a narrow passage, whereby 

 the Sea entered into the said lake. They comforted us 

 much with the report of these things, and in telling us 

 that the lande trended to the West ; for the chiefe Pilot 

 thought, and the other Pilot was of the same opinion, 

 that we should finde a good Countrey. This night we 

 set saile to goe to that point to take in fresh water 

 which we wanted, and to see this lake, and to put some 

 men on shore : and after midnight the winde came upon 

 us so forcibly at the North that we could not stay there : 

 whereupon wee were constrained to put further into the 

 Sea, and returned the same way backe againe unto the 

 shore with much adoe, and came to an anker a great 

 way short of the place from whence we were driven : 

 and there we rode untill Thursday at noone with this 

 bitter North winde, and on Friday about noone, when we 

 most thought it would have ceased, it beganne to increase 

 againe, which grieved us not a little seeing the weather 

 so contrary, hoping alwayes that it would cease, and 

 that some winde would blow from the shore, whereby 



233 



