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They com- i n five, I meane when they saile the inner way. But 

 monly mile these fishes were not signe of land, but rather of deepe 

 to Goa in ; sea * At length we tooke a couple of birds, which were 

 moneths. a kinde of Hawks, whereof they joyed much, thinking 



that they had bene of India, but indeed they were of 

 Arabia, as we found afterward. And we that thought we 

 had bene neere India, were in the same latitude neere 

 Zocotoro, an He in the mouth of the Red sea. But there 

 God sent us great winds from the Northeast or North- 

 northeast, whereupon unwillingly they bare up toward the 

 East, and thus we went tenne dayes without seeing signe 

 of land, whereby they perceived their errour : for they had 

 directed their course before alwayes Northeast, coveting 

 to multiply degrees of latitude, but partly the difference 

 Running seas of the Needle, and most of all the running seas, which 

 very dan- at tnat t j me ran Northwest, had drawen us to this other 

 set US ' danger, had not God sent us this winde, which at length 



waxed larger, and restored us to our right course. These 

 running seas be so perillous that they deceive the most 

 part of the governours, and some be so little curious, 

 contenting themselves with ordinary experience, that they 

 care not to seeke out any meanes to know when they 

 swarve, neither by the compasse, nor by any other trial!. 

 The first signe of land were certaine fowles which they 

 knew to be of India : the second, boughes of palmes and 

 sedges : the third, snakes swimming on the water, and 

 a substance which they call by the name of a coine of 

 money, as broad and as round as a groat, woonderfully 

 printed and stamped of nature, like unto some coine. 

 Certaine signs And these two last signes be so certaine, that the next 

 of land. ^ a y a f ter? if tne w i n de serve, they see land, which we 



did to our great joy, when all our water (for you know 

 they make no beere in those parts) and victuals began 

 They arrived to fal\ e us> And to Goa we came the foure and twentieth 

 7f Octol r 2 * ^ a y°^ October, there being received with passing great 

 charity. The people be tawny, but not disfigured in their 

 lips & noses, as the Moores and Cafres of Ethiopia. 

 They that be not of reputation, or at least the most 



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