WILLIAM TOWERSON a.d. 



1556. 



along the shoare, as well upon the cliffes, as otherwise, 



full of wood : within a mile of the said great cliffe there 



is a river to the Eastwards, and no cliffes that we 



could see, except one small cliffe, which is hard by 



it. We ran this day and night 12. leagues. 



The windes that wee had in this place by the reports 

 of the people and of those that have bene there, have 

 not bene usuall, but in the night, at North off the 

 lande, and in the day South off the sea, and most 

 commonly Northwest, and Southwest. 



The 3 1 . day we went our course by the shoare 

 Northwards : this land is al along a low shoare, and full 

 of wood, as all the coast is for the most part, and no 

 rockes. This morning came out many boates which went 

 a fishing, which bee greater boates then those which we 

 sawe before, so that in some of them there sate 5. men, 

 but the fashion of the boats is all one. In the after- 

 noone about three of the clocke wee had sight of a 

 Towne by the sea side, which our Pilots judged to 

 be 25. leagues to the Westwards of the Cape Tres 

 puntas. 



The third of January in the morning we fell with 

 the Cape Tres puntas, and in the night passed, as our Cape Tres 

 Pilots saide, by one of the Portugals castles, which is 8. P untas - 

 leagues to the Westwards of the Cape : upon the first 

 sight of the Cape wee discerned it a very high land, 

 and all growen over with trees, and comming neere to 

 it, we perceived two head lands, as it were two Bayes 

 betwixt them, which opened right to the Westward, and 

 the uttermost of them is the Easterne Cape, there we 

 perceived the middle Cape, and the Eastermost Cape: 

 the middle Cape standeth not above a league from the 

 West Cape, although the Card sheweth them to be 3. 

 leagues one from the other : and that middle Cape hath 

 right before the point of it a small rocke so neere to 

 it, that it cannot be discerned from the Cape, except a 

 man be neere to the shoare, and upon the same Cape 

 standeth a great heape of trees, and when a man is thwart 

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