THE SECOND VOYAGE TO GUINEA 



A.D. 



1554- 



Oro. 



The crossiers 

 or crosse stars. 



maine, there are rlfteene fadomes and good shelly ground, 

 and sande among and no streames, and two small Hands 

 standing in two and twentie degrees and a terce. 



From Gomera to Cape de las Barbas is an hundred 

 leagues, and our course was South and by East. The 

 said Cape standeth in two and twentie and a halfe : and 

 all that coast is flatte, sixteene or seventeene fadome 

 deepe. Seven or eight leagues off from the river del Tit river del 

 Oro to Cape de las Barbas, there use many Spaniardes 

 and Portugals to trade for fishing, during the moneth 

 of November : and all that coast is very low lands. Also 

 we went from Cape de las Barbas Southsouthwest, and 

 Southwest and by South, till we brought our selves in 

 twentie degrees and a halfe, reckoning our selves seven 

 leagues off: and there were the least sholes of Cape 

 Blanke. 



Then we went South untill we brought our selves 

 in 13 degrees, reckoning our selves five and twentie 

 leagues off. And in 15 degrees we did reare the Cros- 

 siers, and we might have reared them sooner if we had 

 looked for them. They are not right a crosse in the 

 moneth of November, by reason that the nights are short 

 there. Neverthelesse we had the sight of them the 29 

 day of the said moneth at night. 



The first of December, being in 13 degrees we set our 

 course South and by East, untill the fourth day of 

 December at 12 of the clocke the same day. Then we 

 were in nine degrees and a terce, reckoning our selves 

 30 leagues off the sholes of the river called Rio Grande, Rio Grande. 

 being Westsouthwest off them, the which sholes be 30 

 leagues long. 



The fourth of December we beganne to set our course 

 Southeast, we being in sixe degrees and a halfe. 



The ninth day of December we set our course East- [II. ii. 16.] 

 southeast : the fourteenth day of the sayde moneth we 

 set our course East, we being in five degrees and a halfe, 

 reckoning our selves thirty and sixe leagues from the 

 coast of Guinea. 



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