A.D. 



I 593- 

 Baia de Agoa. 



They double 

 the Cape of 

 Buona 

 Speransa. 



S. Helena. 



John Sega?' an 

 Englishman 

 left 1 8 moneths 

 alone in the 

 lie ofsanta 

 Helena. 



A miraculous 

 effect of ex- 

 treme fear e or 

 extreme joy. 



The descrip- 

 tion of the 

 commodities of 

 the He of santa 

 Helena. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Africa at a place called Baia de Agoa some ioo leagues to 

 the Northeast of the Cape of Good Hope : and finding 

 the winds contrary, we spent a moneth or five weekes 

 before we could double the Cape. After wee had doubled 

 it in March folowing, wee directed our course for the 

 Hand of Santa Helena, and arrived there the third day 

 of Aprill, where wee staied to our great comfort nineteene 

 dayes : in which meane space some one man of us tooke 

 thirtie goodly Congers in one day, and other rockie 

 fishe and some Bonitos. After our arrivall at Santa 

 Helena, I Edmund Barker went on shore with foure 

 or five Peguins or men of Pegu which we had taken, 

 and our Surgion, where in an house by the Chappell 

 I found an Englishman one John Segar of Burie in 

 SufFolke, who was left there eighteene moneths before 

 by Abraham Kendall, who put in there with the Roiall 

 marchant, and left him there to refresh him on the 

 Hand, being otherwise like to have perished on ship- 

 boord : and at our comming wee found him as fresh 

 in colour and in as good plight of body to our seeming 

 as might be, but crazed in minde and halfe out of 

 his wits, as afterward wee perceived : for whether he 

 were put in fright of us, not knowing at first what 

 we were, whether friends or foes, or of sudden joy when 

 he understood we were his olde consorts and countrey- 

 men, hee became idle-headed, and for eight dayes space 

 neither night nor day tooke any naturall rest, and so 

 at length died for lacke of sleepe. Here two of our men, 

 whereof the one was diseased with the skurvie, and the 

 other had bene nine moneths sicke of the fluxe, in short 

 time while they were on the Hand, recovered their perfect 

 health. We found in this place great store of very hole- 

 some and excellent good greene figs, orenges, and lemons 

 very faire, abundance of goates and hogs, and great plentie 

 of partriges, Guiniecocks, and other wilde foules. Our 

 mariners somewhat discontented being now watered and 

 having some provision of fish, contrary to the will of the 

 capitaine, would straight home. The capitaine because 



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