JAMES WELSH a.d. 



1589. 



ten leagues from thence we ankered againe and stayed 

 all that night in ten fadom water. 



The 9 we set saile, and all alongst the shore were 

 very thicke woodes, and in the afternoone we were thwart 

 a river, & to the Eastward of the river a litle way off Rio de Lagos. 

 was a great high bush-tree as though it had no leaves, 

 and at night we ankered with faire and temperate weather. 



The 10 we set sayle and went East, and East and 

 by South 14 leagues along the shoare, which was so full 

 of thicke woods, that in my judgement a man should 

 have much to doe to passe through them, and towards 

 night we ankered in 7 fadome with faire weather. 



The 1 1 we sayled East and by South, and three leagues 

 from the shore We had but 5 fadome water, and all the 

 wood upon the land was as even as if it had beene cut 

 with a paire of gardeners sheeres, and in running of two 

 leagues we descerned a high tuft of trees upon the brow 

 of a land, which shewed like a Porpose head, and when 

 wee came at it, it was but part of the lande, and a league 

 further we saw a head-land very low and full of trees, 

 and a great way from the land we had very shallow water, Very shallow 

 then we lay South into the sea, because of the sands for water - 

 to get into the deepe water, and when we found it deepe, 

 we ankered in five fadom thwart the river of Jaya, in 

 the rivers mouth. 



The 12 in the morning we road still in the rivers 

 mouth. This day we sent the pinnesse and the boat on 

 land with the marchants, but they came not againe untill 

 the next morning. The shallowest part of this river is 

 toward the West, where there is but 4 fadom and a 

 halfe, and it is very broad. The next morning came the 

 boate aboord, and they also said it was Rio de Jaya. Rio de Jaya. 

 Here the currant setteth Westward, and the Eastermost 

 land is higher then the Westermost. 



Thursday the 13 we set saile, and lay South Southeast 

 along the shore, where the trees are wonderfull even, and 

 the East shore is higher then the West shore, and when 

 wee had sayled 1 8 leagues we had sight of a great river, 



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