a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



Eston espied three Canoas lying under a rocke, and 

 went unto them : there were in them skinnes, darts, 

 with divers superstitious toyes, whereof wee diminished 

 nothing, but left upon every boat a silke point, a bullet 

 of lead, and a pinne. The next day being the sixt of 

 August, the people came unto us without feare, and did 

 barter with us for skinnes, as the other people did : 

 they differ not from the other, neither in their Canoas 

 nor apparel, yet is their pronuntiation more plaine then 

 the others, and nothing hollow in the throat. Our 

 Savage aboord us kept himselfe close, and made shew 

 that he would faine have another companion. Thus 

 being provided, I departed from this lande the twelft of 

 August at sixe of the clocke in the morning, where I left 

 the Mermayd at an anker : the foureteenth sailing West 

 about fiftie leagues, we discovered land, being in latitude 



66. degrees 66. degrees 19 minuts : this land is 70. leagues from the 



19. minutes, other from whence we came. This fourteenth day from 

 nine a clocke at night till three a clocke in the morning, 

 wee ankered by an Hand of yce, twelve leagues off the 

 shore, being mored to the yce. 



The fifteenth day at three a clocke in the morning 

 we departed from this land to the South, and the 

 eighteenth of August we discovered land Northwest 

 from us in the morning, being a very faire promontory, 

 in latitude 6$. degrees, having no land on the South. 



Great hope of Here wee had great hope of a through passage. 



a passage. This day at three a clocke in the afternoone wee 



againe discovered lande Southwest and by South from 

 us, where at night wee were becalmed. The nineteenth 

 of this moneth at noone, by observation, we were in 



64. degr. 20. 64. degrees 20. minuts. From the eighteenth day at 



mn ' noone unto the nineteenth at noone, by precise ordinary 



care, wee had sailed 15. leagues South and by West, 

 yet by art and more exact observation, we found our 

 course to be Southwest, so that we plainely perceived 



rent™ the ~ a g reat current striking to the West. 



jy esL This land is nothing in sight but Isles, which in- 



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