A.D. 



c. 1380-90. 



He returned 

 from Estoti- 

 land to Fris- 

 land. 



Zichmni 

 minded to send 

 M. Antonio 

 Zcno with a 

 fleete towards 

 those parts of 

 Estotiland. 



The 4 letter. 

 The fisherman 

 dyed that 

 should have 

 bene inter- 

 preter. 

 Certaine 

 mariners 

 taken in his 

 steede, zvhich 

 came with him 

 from Estoti- 

 land. 



Isle Ilofe. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



to the sea side, and asking them of what countrey they 

 were ; they answered of Estotiland, whereat he was 

 exceeding glad, and requested that they would take him 

 in to them, which they did very willingly, and for that 

 he had the language of the countrey, and there was none 

 that could speake it, they used him for their interpreter. 



And afterward he frequented that trade with them in 

 such sort, that he became very rich, and so furnishing 

 out a barke of his owne, he returned into Frislande, 

 where he made reporte unto this Lord of that wealthy 

 countrey. 



And he is throughly credited because of the mariners, 

 who approve many strange things, that he reporteth to 

 be true. Wherfore this Lord is resolved to send me 

 forth with a fleet towards those parts, and there are so 

 many that desire to go in the voyage, for the noveltie 

 and strangenesse of the thing, that I thinke we shall be 

 very strongly appointed, without any publike expence at 

 all. And this is the tenor of the letter before mentioned, 

 which I have here set downe to give intelligence of 

 another voyage that M. Antonio made, being set out 

 with many barkes, and men, notwithstanding he was not 

 captaine, as he had thought at the first he should : for 

 Zichmni went in his owne person : and concerning that 

 matter I have a letter in forme following. 



One great preparation for the voyage of Estotiland was 

 begun in an unlucky houre : for three dayes before our 

 departure the fisherman died that should have bene our 

 guide : notwithstanding this Lord would not give over 

 the enterprize, but instead of the fisherman tooke certaine 

 mariners that returned out of the Island with him : and 

 so making our Navigation to the Westwards, we dis- 

 covered certaine Islands subject to Frisland, and having 

 passed certaine shelves we stayed at Ledovo for the space 

 of 7 daies to refresh our selves, and to furnish the fleet 

 with necessarie provision. Departing from thence we 

 arrived the first of July at the Isle of Ilofe : and for that 

 the wind made for us, we stayed not there, but passed 



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