A.D. 



1540. 



Funta de 

 Balenas. 



Read more of 

 these weedes 

 cap. 13. 



5ant lago de 

 Buena esper- 

 anza in 19 

 degrees. 



Cabo del En- 

 ganno in 30 

 degrees ^ a 

 halfe. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



the point of this port, our captaine thought it good to 

 lanch foorth into the maine Ocean : yet although we ran 

 a swift course, above 500 whales came athwart of us 

 in 2 or 3 skulles within one houres space, which were 

 so huge, as it was wonderfull, and some of them came 

 so neere unto the ship, that they swam under the same 

 from one side to another, whereupon we were in great 

 feare, lest they should doe us some hurt, but they could 

 not because the ship had a prosperous and good winde, 

 and made much way, whereby it could receive no harme, 

 although they touched and strooke the same. 



Among these Islands are such abundance of those 

 weedes, that if at any time wee were inforced to sayle 

 over them they hindred the course of our ships. They 

 growe fourteene or fifteene fadome deepe under the water, 

 their tops reaching foure or five fadome above the water. 

 They are of the colour of yellow waxe, & their stalke 

 groweth great proportionably. This weede is much more 

 beautifull then it is set foorth, and no marvell, for the 

 naturall painter and creator thereof is most excellent. 



This relation was taken out of that which Francis 

 Preciado brought with him. 



After this ship the Santa Agueda departed from the 

 Generall Ulloa, and returned backe the 5 of April, she 

 arrived in the port of Sant lago de buena esperan9a 

 the 18 of the said moneth, and after she had stayed 

 there foure or five dayes, she departed for Acapulco : 

 howbeit untill this present seventeenth of May in the 

 yeere 1540, I have heard no tidings nor newes of her. 



Moreover after the departure of the Santa Agueda 

 for Nueva Espanna, the General Francis Ulloa in the 

 ship called the Trinitie proceeding on his discovery 

 coasted the land untill he came to a point called Cabo 

 del Enganno standing in thirty degrees and a halfe of 

 Northerly latitude, and then returned backe to Newspaine, 

 because he found the winds very contrary, and his 

 victuals failed him. 



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