FRANCIS DE ULLOA ad. 



1539- 



Chap. 1 1 . 



At the point of the Trinitie they spend three dayes 

 in fishing, and in other pastime : after which set- 

 ting sayle they discover pleasant countries, and 

 mountaines voide of grasse, and an Hand afterward 

 called Isla de los Cedros, or the He of Cedars, 

 neere which they suffer sharpe colde and raine, and 

 to save themselves they returne thither. 



IMmediatly we set saile to joyne with the ship Santa 

 Agueda, which was above halfe a league in the high 

 sea from us, and this was on the Wednesday the 

 seventeenth of December. Being come together because 

 the windes were contrary, we drew neere to a head- 

 land, which wee called Punta de la Trinidad, and here 

 wee stayed fishing, and solacing our selves two or 

 three dayes, although we had alwayes great store of 

 raine. Afterward we beganne to sayle very slowly, and 

 at night we rode over against those mountaines where 

 we had left our ankers, and upon knowledge of the 

 place we received great contentment seeing we had 

 sailed some five and thirtie leagues from the place 

 where we had taken in water : neither was it any 

 marvell that wee so rejoyced, because that the feare 

 which we had of contrary windes caused us to be so 

 well appayd of the way which we had made. The 

 day of the holy Nativitie of our Lord, which was on 

 the Thursday the five and twentieth of the said 

 moneth, God of his mercy beganne to shewe us 

 favour in giving us a fresh winde almost in the poope, 

 which carried us beyond those mountaines, for the 

 space of tenne or twelve leagues, finding the coast 

 alwayes plaine : and two leagues within the land, which 

 we coasted along, and betweene these mountaines, there 

 was a great space of plaine ground, which we might 

 easily discerne with our eyes, although others were 

 of another opinion. We beganne from Christmas day 

 to saile slowly with certaine small land-windes, and 



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