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the aire, or thinking himselfe out of danger, returneth 

 into the water, the Albocore meeteth with him : but 

 sometimes his other enemy the sea-crow, catcheth him 

 *. before he falleth. With these and like sights, but 



alwayes making our supplications to God for good 

 weather and salvation of the ship, we came at length 

 unto the point, so famous & feared of all men : but we 

 found there no tempest, only great waves, where our 

 Pilot was a little overseene : for whereas commonly al 

 other never come within sight of land, but seeing signes 

 ordinary, and finding bottome, go their way sure and 

 safe, he thinking himselfe to have winde at will, shot 

 so nigh the land that the winde turning into the South, 

 and the waves being exceeding great, rolled us so nere the 

 land, that the ship stood in lesse then 14 fadoms of water, 

 no more then sixe miles from the Cape, which is called 

 Das Agulias, and there we stood as utterly cast away : 

 for under us were rocks of maine stone so sharpe, and 

 cutting, that no ancre could hold the ship, the shore so 

 evill, that nothing could take land, and the land itselfe so 

 full of Tigers, and people that are savage, and killers 

 of all strangers, that we had no hope of life nor com- 

 fort, but onely in God and a good conscience. Notwith- 

 standing, after we had lost ancres, hoising up the sailes 

 for to get the ship a coast in some safer place, or when 

 it should please God, it pleased his mercy suddenly, 

 where no man looked for helpe, to fill our sailes with 

 wind from the land, & so we escaped, thanks be to 

 God. And the day following, being in the place where 

 they are alwayes wont to catch fish, we also fell a fishing, 

 and so many they tooke, that they served all the ship for 

 that day, and part of the next. And one of them pulled 

 up a corall of great bignesse and price. For there they 

 01.] say (as we saw by experience) that the corals doe grow in 

 the maner of stalks upon the rocks in the bottome, and 

 ~ waxe hard and red. The day of perill was the nine and 



beyond ye cape twentieth of July. And you shall understand that, the 

 of Good hope. Cape passed, there be two wayes to India: one within 



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