WILLIAM TOWERSON a.d. 



1555. 

 smooth, that we might wel have rid by an Hawser. All 

 that after-noone we trimmed our boate and made her a 

 saile, to the ende that she might go along by the shoore 

 to seeke some place to water in : for wee could not 

 goe backe againe to the river de Sestos, because the 

 winde blowes alwayes contrary, and the Currant run- The . Currant 

 neth alwayes to the Eastwards, which was also against s £**j> 

 us. 



The 14. day we set saile & went back againe along 

 the coast, and sent our boats hard aboord the shoare to 

 seeke a watering place, which they found about 12. of 

 the clock, and we being farre into the sea, met with 

 divers boats of the Countrey, small, long and narrow, 

 & in every boate one man and no more : we gave them 

 bread which they did eat, & were very glad of it. About 

 4 of the clocke our boats came to us with fresh water : 

 and this night we ankered against a River. 



The 15. day we wayed and set saile to goe neere the 

 shoare, and with our leade wee sounded all the way, 

 and found sometimes rockes, and sometimes faire ground, 

 and at the shallowest found 7. fadoms alwayes at the 

 least. So in fine we found 7. fadom and a halfe within 

 an English mile of the shoare, and there we ankered in 

 a maner before the mouth of the River, and then wee 

 sent our boats into the River for water, which went about 

 a mile within the River, where they had very good water. Riv ' r & Vtn ' 

 This River lieth by estimation 8. leagues beyond the cent ' 

 River de Sestos, and is called in the Carde River S. 

 Vincent, but it is so hard to finde, that a boat being 

 within halfe a mile of it shall not be able to discerne 

 that it is a River: by reason that directly before the 

 mouth of it there lyeth a ledge of rockes, which is 

 much broader then the River, so that a boate must 

 runne in along the shoare a good way betwixt the 

 rockes and the shoare before it come to the mouth of 

 the River, and being within it, it is a great River and 

 divers other Rivers fall into it: The going into it is 

 somewhat ill, because that at the entring the seas do 



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