NICHOLAS AND ANTONIO ZENO ad. 



c. 1380-90. 

 determination was frustrate : for the people more like 

 unto beasts then men, stood continually in armes with 

 intent to beat us back, if we should come on land. 

 Wherefore Zichmni seeing he could not prevaile, and 

 thinking if he should have persevered and followed 

 obstinately his purpose, their victuals would have failed 

 them, he departed with a fayre wind and sailed sixe daies 

 to the Westwards, but the winde changing to the South- 

 west, and the sea waxing rough, wee sayling 4 dayes 

 with the wind the powp, and at length discovering land, 

 were afraid to approch nere unto it, the sea being growen, 

 and we not knowing what land it was : but God so 

 provided for us, that the winde ceasing there came a great 

 calme. Wherefore some of our company rowing to land 

 with oares, returned & brought us newes to our great 

 comfort, that they had found a very good countery and a 

 better harborough : upon which newes we towed our 

 ships and smal barks to land, and being entred into the 

 harborough, we saw a farre off a great mountain, that cast 

 forth smoke, which gave us good hope that we should 

 finde some inhabitants in the Island, neither would 

 Zichmni rest, although it were a great way ofF, but sent 

 100 souldiers to search the countrey and bring report 100 men sent 

 what people they were that inhabited it, & in the meane t0 dlscne the 

 time they tooke in wood and water for the provision of c 

 the fleet, and catcht great store of fish and sea foule and 

 found such aboundance of birds egges, that our men that 

 were halfe famished, were filled therewithall. Whiles we 

 were riding here, began the moneth of June, at which 

 time the aire in the Island was so temperate and pleasant [III. 127.] 

 as is impossible to expresse : but when we could see no 

 people at al, we suspected greatly that this pleasant place 

 was desolate and dishabited. We gave name to the d - iers returne j 

 heaven calling it Trin, and the point that stretched out which had 

 into the sea, we called Capo de Trin. The 100 souldiers bene through 

 that were sent forth, 8 dayes after returned, and brought the lslan< j, 

 word that they had bene through the Island and at the '///' ' ™ w a and 

 mountaine, and that the smoke was a naturall thing pro- found. 



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