ad THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1591. 



at Northeast, alwayes before the winde untill the 13 of 



the same moneth, when we came within 8 degrees of the 



Equinoctiall line, where we met with a contrary winde. 



Here we lay off and on in the sea untill the sixt of June, 



on which day we passed the sayd line. While we lay 



[II. ii. 103.] thus off and on, we tooke a Portugal Caravel laden by 



marchants of Lisbon for Brasile, in which Caravel we had 



some 60 tunnes of wine, 1200 jarres of oyle, about 100 



jarres of olives, certaine barrels of capers, three fats of 



peason, with divers other necessaries fit for our voyage : 



which wine, oyle, olives and capers were better to us then 



Three gold. We had two men died before wee passed the line, 



occasions of an j di vers s i c k e , which tooke their sicknesse in those 



the line note climates : for they be wonderful unholesome from 



8 degrees of Northerly latitude unto the line, at that 



time of the yeere : for we had nothing but Ternados, 



with such thunder, lightning, and raine, that we could 



not keep our men drie 3 houres together, which was an 



occasion of the infection among them, and their eating 



of salt victuals, with lacke of clothes to shift them. After 



we passed the line, we had the wind still at Eastsoutheast, 



which caried us along the coast of Brasil 100 leagues 



from the maine, til we came in 26 degrees to the 



Southward of the line, where the wind came up to the 



North, at which time we did account, that the Cape of 



Buona esperansa did beare off us East and by South, 



betwixt 900 and 1000 leagues. Passing this gulfe from 



the coast of Brasil unto the Cape we had the wind often 



variable as it is upon our coast, but for the most part 



so, that we might lie our course. The 28 of July we 



had sight of the foresayd Cape of Buona esperansa : 



untill the 3 1 wee lay off and on with the wind contrary 



to double the Cape, hoping to double it, & so to have 



gone seventie leagues further to a place called Agoada 



de S. Bras, before we would have sought to have put 



into any harbour. But our men being weake and sicke 



in all our shippes, we thought good to seeke some place 



to refresh them. With which consent we bare up with 



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