A.D. 



I567. 



They returne. 

 March. 



Aprill. 



Woad, 



May. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



of goates and many trees, but there are not passing three 

 or foure persons dwelling in it. 



The 25 day of February we departed towardes the 

 Islands of Azores: and on the 23 day of March we 

 had sight of one of them called Flores, and then wee 

 might see another Island to the Northward of it called 

 Cuervo, lying two leagues or thereabouts off the other. 



The 27 we came to an anker in Cuervo over against 

 a village of about twelve simple houses ; but in the night 

 by a gale of winde, which caused us to drawe our anker 

 after us, we hoysed sayle and went to the aforesayd Island 

 of Flores, where we sawe strange stream es of water 

 running downe from the high cliffes by reason of the 

 great abundance of raine that had suddenly fallen. 



The 29 day we came againe to Cuervo and cast anker, 

 but a storme arose and continued seven or eight houres 

 together, so that we let slip a cable and anker, and after 

 the storme was alayed we came againe thinking to have 

 recovered the same, but the Portugals had either taken it, 

 or spoiled it : the cable was new and never wet before, 

 and both the cable and anker were better worth then 40 

 li. So that we accompt our selves much beholding to 

 the honest Portugales. 



The 1 8 day of April we tooke in water at the Island of 

 Flores, and having ankered, our cable was fretted in 

 sunder with a rocke and so burst, where wee lost that 

 cable and anker also, and so departed to our coast. 



Then wee set sayle to an Islande named Faial, about 

 the which lie three other Islands, the one called Pico, the 

 other Saint George, and the other Graciosa, which we had 

 sight of on the eight and twentieth day. 



The 29 we came to an anker in the Southwest side of 

 Faial in a faire bay, and 22 fadom water against a litle 

 towne where we had both fresh water and fresh victuall. 

 In this Island by the report of the inhabitants, there 

 groweth certaine greene woad, which by their speeches is 

 farre better then the woad of S. Michael or of Tercera. 



The 8 day of May we came to Tercera where we met 



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