THE SECOND VOYAGE TO GUINEA a.d. 



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 hands wrote a briefe declaration of the same, as he found 

 and tried all things, not by conjecture, but by the art 

 of sayling, and instruments perteining to the mariners 

 facultie. Not therefore assuming to my selfe the com- 

 mendations due unto other, neither so bold as in any 

 part to change or otherwise dispose the order of this 

 voyage so well observed by art and experience, I have 

 thought good to set forth the same, in such sort and 

 phrase of speech as is commonly used among them, and 

 as 1 received it of the said Pilot, as I have said. Take 

 it therefore as followeth. 



In the yeere of our Lord 1554 the eleventh day of 

 October, we departed the river of Thames with three [II. ii. 15.] 

 goodly ships, the one called the Trinitie, a ship of the 

 burden of seven-score tunne, the other called the Bartho- 

 lomew, a ship of the burden of ninetie, the third was the 

 John Evangelist, a ship of seven score tunne. With RobertGainsh 

 the sayd ships and two pinnesses (wherof the one was was master °f 

 drowned on the coast of England) we went forward on J- * n V[ 

 our voyage, and stayed at Dover fourteene dayes. We 

 staied also at Rie three or foure dayes. Moreover last 

 of all we touched at Dartmouth. 



The first day of November at nine of the clocke at 

 night, departing from the coast of England, we set ofF 

 the Start, bearing Southwest all that night in the sea, and 

 the next day all day, and the next night after, untill the 

 third day of the said moneth about noone, making our 

 way good, did runne threescore leagues. 



The 1 7 day in the morning we had sight of the He The lie of 

 of Madera, which doth rise to him that commeth in the Madera. 

 Northnortheast part upright land in the west part of it, 

 and very high : and to the Southsoutheast a low long 

 land, and a long point, with a saddle thorow the middest 

 of it, standing in two and thirtie degrees : and in the 

 West part, many springs of water running downe from 

 the mountaine, and many white fieldes like unto corne 

 fields, & some white houses to the Southeast part of 

 it : and the toppe of the mountaine sheweth very ragged, 



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