AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1553- 

 [II. i. 1 06.] from the shippe, and all this while the shippe lay on 

 staies. I hardly beleeve they would have made such 

 haste and meanes if one of the company had bene in 

 the like perill. They made the more haste because it 

 was the patrons cat. This I have written onely to note 

 the estimation that cats are in, among the Italians, for 

 generally they esteeme their cattes, as in England we 

 esteeme a good Spaniell. The same night about tenne 

 of the clocke the winde calmed, and because none of the 

 shippe knewe where we were, we let fall an anker about 

 6 mile from the place we were at before, and there wee 

 had muddie ground at twelve fathome. 



The 20 it was still calme, and the current so strong still 

 one way, that we were not able to stemme the streame : 

 moreover we knew not where we were, whereupon 

 doubting whither wee were past, or short of our port, 

 the Master, Pilot, and other Officers of the shippe 

 entered into counsell what was best to doe, whereupon 

 they agreed to sende the bote on lande againe, to seeke 

 some man to speake with all, but they returned as wise as 

 they went. Then we set sayle againe and sounded every 

 mile or halfe mile, and found still one depth, so we not 

 knowing where we were, came againe to an anker, seven 

 or eight miles by West from the place we were at. Thus 

 still doubting where we were, the bote went on land 

 againe, and brought newes that wee were short 80 miles 

 of the place, whereas we thought wee had beene overshot 

 by east fiftie miles. Thus in these doubts we lost foure 

 dayes, and never a man in the shippe able to tell where 

 we were, notwithstanding there were diverse in the shippe 

 They met mth ^^^t had beene there before. Then sayd the Pylot, that 

 on land ^ ^^ ^^^ comming to the shore, by chance he saw two way- 

 faring men, which were Moores, and he cryed to them 

 in Turkish, insomuch that the Moores, partly for feare, 

 and partly for lacke of understanding, (seeing them to 

 be Christians) beganne to flie, yet in the end with much 

 a doe, they stayed to speake with them, which men when 

 they came together, were not able to understand ech 



