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our selves so abused, we agreed to cast about againe, and 

 to lie as neere the winde as we could, to fetch the line. 



S. Thome The seventh of July we had sight of the He of S. 



Hand. Thome, and thought to have sought the road to have 



ancred there : but the next morning the winde came 

 about, and we kept our course. 



The ninth, the winde varying, we kept about againe, 

 and fell with the Hand of S. Thome, and seeking the 

 road, were becalmed neere the Hand, and with the currant 

 were put neere the shore, but could have no ground to 

 ancre : so that we were forced to hoise out our pinnesse, 

 and the other ships their skifs to towe from the Hand, 

 which did litle good, but in the end the winde put us 

 three leagues off the shore. 



The tenth day the Christopher and the Tyger cast 

 about, whereby we judged them to have agreed together, 

 to goe seeke some ships in the road, and to leave us : 

 our men were not willing to goe after them, for feare of 

 running in with the Hand againe, and of putting our 

 selves into the same danger that we were in the night 

 before : but we shot off a piece, and put out two lights, 

 and they answered us with lights againe : whereupon we 

 kept our course, and thought that they had followed us, 

 but in the morning we could not see them, so that they 

 left us willingly, and we determined to follow them no 

 more. But the eleventh day we altered our opinion and 

 course, and consented to cast about againe for the Hand, 

 to seeke our ships ; and about foure of the clocke in the 

 afternoone we met with them. 



The 13 we fell againe with the Hand of S. Thome; 

 and the same night we found our selves directly under 

 the line. 



The descrip- This Hand is a very high Hand, and being upon the 



tl n J l ^'Vh ?f West side of it, you shall see a very high pike, which is 

 very small, and streight, as it were the steeple of a church, 

 which pike lieth directly under the line, and at the same 

 South end of the Hand to the Westward thereof lieth a 

 small Hand, about a mile from the great Hand. 



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