WILLIAM TOWERSON 



overtooke the course of the Sunne, so that they had it 

 North from them at noone, the 14. day of March. 

 And to have said thus much of these voyages, it may 

 suffice. 



A.D, 



1555' 



The first voyage made by Master William 

 Towrson Marchant of London, to the coast 

 of Guinea, with two Ships, in the yeere 1555. 



Pon Munday the thirtieth day of Sep- September. 

 tember wee departed from the Isle of 

 Wight, out of the haven of Neuport 

 with two good shippes, the one called 

 the Hart, the other the Hinde, both of 

 London, and the Masters of them were 

 John Ralph, and William Carter, for 

 a voyage to bee made unto the River de Sestos in 

 Guinea, and to other havens thereabout. 



It fell out by the varietie of windes, that it was the 

 foureteenth day of October before wee coulde fetch October. 

 Dartmouth : and being there arrived wee continued in 

 that roade sixe dayes, and the 20. of October we warpt 

 out of the haven, and set saile, directing our course 

 towards the Southwest, and the next morning we were 

 runne by estimation thirty leagues. 



The first of November we found ourselves to be in November. 

 31. degrees of latitude by the reckoning of our Master. 

 This day we ranne about 40. leagues also. 

 The second day we ranne 36. leagues. 



The third day we had sight of Porto Santo, which is Porto Santo. 

 a small Island lying in the sea, about three leagues long, 

 and a league & a halfe broad, & is possessed by 

 Portugals. It riseth as we came from the Northnorth- 

 west like two small hilles neere together. The East 

 end of the same Island is a high land like a saddle 

 with a valley, which makes it to beare that forme. 

 The West ende of it is lower with certaine small round 

 hillocks. This Island lyeth in thirty and three degrees, 

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