A.D. 



1553- 



The pilgrimes 

 retiirne from 

 Jerusalem. 



Mount 

 Carmel. 



Pesce colmn- 

 hin'i. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



pariterque adoravit. In quorum fidem, ego frater 

 Anthonius de Bemamo ordinis fratrum miiiorum rep^u- 

 laris observantias, provincias divi Anthonii Sacri conventus 

 montis Sion vicarius (licet indignus) necnon aliorum 

 locorum terrae Sanctae, apostolica authoritate comlssarius 

 & rector, has Sigillo maiori nostri officii nostraque sub- 

 scriptione muniri volui. Datum Hierosolymis apud 

 sacratissimum domini coenaculum in saepe memorato 

 monte Sion, Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo, 

 quinquagesimo tertio, die vero sexto mensis Septembris. 



Frater Antonius qui supra. 



THe 15. of September being come from our pil- 

 grimage, we went aborde our shippe, and set saile, 

 and kept our course West toward the Island of Ciprus, 

 but al that night it was calme, and the 16. the winde 

 freshed, and we passed by Mount Carmel. 



The 17. the winde was very scant, yet we kept the 

 sea, and towards night wee had a guste of raine whereby 

 wee were constrained to strike our sailes, but it was not 

 very stormie, nor lasted very long. 



The 18. 19. 20. and 21. we kept still the sea and 

 saw no land because we had very litle winde, and that 

 not very favourable. 



The 22. at noone the Boatswaine sent some of the 

 Mariners into the boat, (which we toed asterne from 

 Jaffa) for certaine necessaries belonging to the ship, 

 wherein the Mariners found a certaine fish in proportion 

 like a Dace, about 6. inches long (yet the Mariners said 

 they had scene the like a foote long and more) the which 

 fish had on every side a wing, and toward the taile two 

 other lesser as it were finnes, on either side one, but in 

 proportion they were wings and of a good length. These 

 wings grow out betweene the gils and the carkasse of 

 the same fish. They are called in the Italian tongue 

 Pesce columbini, for in deede, the wings being spred it 

 is like to a flying dove, they say it will flie farre, and 

 very high. So it seemeth that being weary of her flight, 



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