a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1590. 



voyage in this very place we had the countersea out of 



the South, being very calme weather as now it is also. 



The 24 we had sight of Cavo Verde, and the 25 



we met with a great hollow sea out of the North, which 



A token of a is a common signe that the winde will be Northerly, 



Northerly an j SQ ft p rooV ed. 



The 15 of November we met with three currants 

 out of the West and Northwest, one after another, with 

 an houres time betweene each currant. This was in 

 the latitude of 6 degrees and 42 minutes. 



Great cur- The 1 8 day we met with two other great currants 



rant5 ' out of the Southwest, and the 20 we saw another 



current out of the Northeast, and the 24 we had a great 

 current out of the Southsouthwest, and at 6 of the 

 clocke towards night we had 3 currents more. 



The 27 we thought that we had gone at the least 

 2 leagues and a halfe every watch, and it fell out that 

 we sailed but one league every watch for the space of 

 24 hours, by meanes of a great billow and current that 

 came still out of the South. 



[II. ii. 131.] The 5 of December in setting the watch we cast 

 about and lay East Northeast, and Northeast, and here 

 in 5 degrees and a halfe our pinnesse lost us wilfully. 

 The 7 at the going downe of the Sunne we saw a 

 great blacke spot in the Sunne, and the 8. day both 

 at rising and setting we saw the like, which spot to 

 our seeming was about the bignesse of a shilling, being 

 in 5 degrees of latitude, and still there came a great 

 billow out of the southerboord. 



The 14 we sounded and had 15 fadom water and 

 grosse red sand, and 2 leagues from the shore the 

 currant set Southeast along the shore with a billow 

 still out of the southerboord. 



The 15 we were thwart a rocke somewhat like the 

 Mewstone in England, it was 2 leagues from us, here 

 we sounded and had 27 fadom, but the rocke is not 



Two rocks. above a mile from the shore, and a mile farther we 

 saw another rocke, and betweene them both broken 



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