FKANCIS DE ULLOA a.d. 



1540. 

 those burnt white and red mountaines which have neither 

 any grasse nor tree upon them, whereat we marvelled 

 not a little. This Newyeares day we sawe neere the Tzvo small 

 maine two small Hands, and rejoyced greatly to see ^^''^tj'^^^^'^ihe 

 them ; for we stood in great feare, that contrary windes 

 would drive us as farre backe in one day, as we had 

 sayled in tenne, which if they had taken us, we could 

 not have withstood them. Wee ranne from the first of 

 January untill Munday which were five dayes, and the 

 land alwayes stretched Northwest from the mountaines 

 aforesaid. 



And on the Sunday we saw a farre off a-head of us 

 a high land somewhat severed from the maine shore, 

 and all of us beganne to dispute whether it were the 

 land which trended toward the Northwest, for that way 

 the Pilots hoped to discover a better countrey : and 

 the said Munday the fift of Januarie we came to 

 this high land beforesaid, and it was two Hands the one 

 a small one and the other a great one : we coasted these 

 two Hands some sixe leagues, which were greene, and 

 had on the toppe of them many high slender trees ; and 

 the great Hand was twentie leagues in compasse. We isla. de los Ce- 

 coasted in 6 leagues in length without seeing or dis- ^p^ ^^^^i^^^d 

 covering any other things, but we saw before us high ^^ ei^c ap. 

 land which stretched eight or tenne leagues Northward, 

 where we rode on Munday at night. From Thursday 

 being Newyeares day untill the next Munday we sayled 

 about ^iS leagues. And in this course we felt great The land 

 cold, which grieved us much, especially being assailed ^^ j^^^ ^^^, 

 by two or three windie showers which pinched us much i^^zues 

 with colde. We rode over against this land two or 

 three nights, having it neere unto us, alwayes keeping 

 watch by equall houres, one while mariners, and another 

 souldiers, all the night long with great vigilancie. On 

 Tuesday being Twelfe day we came within two or three 

 leagues of this land, which we had descryed the day 

 before, seeming to us very pleasant for it shewed greene 

 with greene trees of an ordinary bignesse, and we saw 



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