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we were neere the shoare within lesse then 2. leagues: 

 and then we kept about and sounded, and found 18. 

 fadom water. Afterwards we saw a light towards the 

 shoare, which we thought to have bene a ship, and 

 thereby judged it to be the river de Sestos, which light 

 as soone as we espied, we came to an anker & armed 

 our tops, and made all things ready to fight, because 

 we doubted that it might be some Portugal or French 

 man : this night we remained at an anker, but in the 

 morning we saw no man, only we espied 4. rockes 

 about 2. English miles from us, one great rocke, and 

 the 3. other smal ones, which when we sawe, we sup- 

 posed that the light came from the shore, and so 

 wayed and set saile East Southeast along the shoare, 

 because the Master did not well know the place, but 

 thought that we were not so farre to the East as the 

 river de Sestos. 



This land all a long is a low land, and full of very 

 high trees all along the shoare, so that it is not possible 

 to know the place that a man doth fall withall, except 

 it be by the latitude : In these 24. houres I thinke 

 we ran 16. leagues, for all the night we had a great 

 gale as we were under saile, and had withall store of 

 thunder and lightnings. 



The 13. day for the most part we ran East South- 

 east all along the shoare, within two leagues alwayes of 

 the same, and found the land all as at the first, ful 

 of woods and great rocks hard aboord the shoare, and 

 the billow beating so sore, that the seas brake upon the 

 shoare as white as snow, and the water mounted so 

 high that a man might easily discerne it 4. leagues 

 off, in such wise that no boate could land there. Thus 

 we ran until 12. of the clocke, and then they tooke 

 the Sunne and after judged themselves to be 24. 

 leagues past the river de Sestos to the Eastwards, by 

 reason whereof we hailed into the shoare within two 

 English miles, and there ancred and found fifteene 

 fadom water, and all off from the shoare the sea so 



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