AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



^even and Spaine, under seven and thirtie degrees and \, wee 

 ?/?'^*^^^ passed by a very high and faire lande with many trees, 

 ^Read Francis wholly without snowe, and foure leagues from the lande, 

 UlloachapA6. you finde thereabouts many drifts of rootes, leaves of 

 trees, reeds, and other leaves like ^ggt leaves, the like 

 whereof wee found in great abundance in the countrey 

 of Japon, which they eate : and some of those that wee 

 found, 1 caused to bee sodden with flesh, and being 

 sodden, they eate like Coleworts : there likewise wee 

 found great store of Seales : whereby it is to bee pre- 

 sumed and certainely to bee beleeved, that there are 

 many rivers, bayes, and havens along by those coastes 

 to the haven of Acapulco. 



From thence wee ranne Southeast, Southeast and by 



South, and Southeast and by East, as wee found the 



Cabo de San winde, to the point called El Cabo de Sant Lucas, which 



Lucas in 22. jg the beginning of the lande of California, on the North- 



^^' west side, lying under two and twentie degrees, being 



five hundred leagues distant from Cape Mendocino. 



In this way of the aforesayde five hundred leagues 

 along by the coast, are many Ilands : and although they 

 bee but small, yet without doubt there are in them some 

 Havens lately good havens, as also in the firme land, where you have 

 found out. these havens following, now lately found out, as that 

 of the He of Sant Augustine, lying under thirtie degrees 

 and £. and the Hand called Isla de Cedros, scarce under 

 eight & twentie deg. and J. and the Hand lying beneath 

 Saint Martyn, under three and twentie degrees and ^. 

 All this coast and countrey, as I thinke, is inhabited, 

 and sheweth to be a very good countrey: for there by 

 night wee sawe fire, and by day smoke, which is a 

 most sure token that they are inhabited. 



From the poynt or hooke of Saint Lucas, to the 

 Southeast side of California, wee helde our course East- 

 southeast, for the space of 80. leagues, to the point 

 called El cabo de las corrientes, that is, the Cape of the 

 streames lying under 19. degrees and f. And running 

 this course. Northward about a league from us wee sawe 



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