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And in the meane space there arrived a French ship 

 of Cane in which was capitaine one Monsieur de 

 Barbaterre 5 of whom wee bought some two buts of wine 

 and bread, and other victuals. Then wee watered and 

 fitted our shippe, and stopped a great leake which broke 

 on us as we were beating out of the gulfe of Paria. 

 And having thus made ready our ship to goe to Sea, 

 we determined to goe directly for New-found-land. 

 But before wee departed, there arose a storme the winde 

 being Northerly, which put us from an anker and forced 

 us to the Southward of Santo Domingo. This night we 

 were in danger of shipwracke upon an Hand called 

 The lie ofSa- Savona, which is environed with flats lying 4 or 5 miles 

 vona environed Q ff . yet ; t p l easec i Qod to cleare us of them, & so 

 ^ a> we directed our course Westward along the Hand of 



Cape de Santo Domingo, and doubled Cape Tiberon, and passed 



Ttberon. through the old chanell betweene S. Domingo and Cuba 



for the cape of Florida : And here we met againe with 

 the French ship of Caen, whose Captaine could spare 

 us no more victuals, as he said, but only hides which he 

 had taken by traffike upon those Hands, wherewith we 

 were content and gave him for them to his good satis- 

 faction. After this, passing the Cape of Florida, and 

 The old chanel cleere of the chanell of Bahama, we directed our course 

 passed. f Qr ^ b an k e f Newfound-land. Thus running to 



the height of 36 degrees, and as farre to the East as 

 the Isle of Bermuda the 17 of September finding the 

 winds there very variable, contrarie to our expectation 

 and all mens writings, we lay there a day or two the 

 winde being northerly, and increasing continually more 

 and more, it grewe to be a storme and a great frete 

 of wind : which continued with us some 24 houres, with 

 such extremitie, as it caried not onely our sayles away 

 being furled, but also made much water in our shippe, 

 so that wee had sixe foote water in holde, and having 

 freed our ship thereof with baling, the winde shifted 

 to the Northwest and became dullerd : but presently 

 upon it the extremitie of the storme was such that with 



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