A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



wee sawe them not, notwithstanding by the height and 

 depth of the water we knew we were past them. 



Being past As Ilhas fermosas, or the faire Hands, wee 

 helde our course East, and East and by North, for two 

 hundred and sixtie leagues, untill we were past the length 



Lequeos, of the Hands Lequeos, sayling about fiftie leagues from 



them : the said Chinar tolde me, that those Hands 

 called Lequeos are very many, and that they have many 

 and very good havens, and that the people and inhabitants 

 thereof have their faces and bodies painted like the 

 Bysayas of the Hands of Lu9on or Philippinas and are 



Mines of gold, apparelled like the Bysayas, and that there also are mines 

 of gold : Hee sayd likewise that they did often come 

 with small shippes and barkes laden with Bucks and 

 Harts-hides, and with golde in graines or very small 

 pieces, to traffique with them of the coast of China, 

 which hee assured mee to bee most true, saying that 

 hee had bene nine times in the small Hands, bringing 

 of the same wares with him to China : which I beleeved 



[III. 44.6.] to bee true, for that afterwarde I enquired thereof in 

 Macao, and upon the coast of China, and found that 

 hee sayde true. The furthest or uttermost of these 

 Hands stretching Northwarde and Eastwarde, lie under 

 nine and twentie degrees. 



Being past these Hands, then you come to the Hands 

 of Japon, whereof the first lying West and South, is 



Firando. the Iland of Firando, where the Portugals use to 



traffique : they are in length altogether an hundred and 

 thirtie leagues, and the furthest Eastward lieth under 

 two and thirtie degrees : we ranne still East, and East 

 and by North, untill we were past the sayd hundred 

 and thirtie leagues. 



All this information I had of the aforesayd Chinar, 

 as also that there I should see some mines of brimstone 

 or fierie hilles, being seventie leagues beyond them, 

 and thirtie leagues further I should finde foure Hands 

 lying together, which I likewise found, as hee had tolde 

 mee : And that being in Japon, he sayd hee had there 



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