A.D. 



1580. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



M. Stephen 

 Hare was 

 Captaine in 

 this voyage. 



The yle o/S. 

 Sebastian. 



They/e o/S. 

 Catelina. 



[III. 705.] 



Certaine notes of the voyage to Brasill with the 

 Minion of London aforesaid, in the yere 1580. 

 written by Thomas Grigs Purser of the said 

 ship. 



He thirde day of November in the yeere 

 abovesaid we departed in the Minion of 

 London from Harwich, from which time 

 no great thing worth the knowledge or 

 regard of others happened until the 22. 

 of December the next moneth, which day 

 for our owne learning & use wee ob- 

 served the setting of the Sunne, which was West south- 

 west, we then being under the line Equinoctiall, where 

 we found the air very temperate, and the winde for 

 the most part Southeast and East southeast. The same 

 day we also observed the rising of the moone, being 

 one day after the full, which rose at East northeast. 



The first land that wee fell with upon the coast of 

 Brasill was the yland of S. Sebastian, where we arrived 

 the 14. day of January in the yeere 1581. 



The 16. day Thomas Babington, and others in our 

 pinnesse, went a shoare to Guaybea, where they met with 

 John Whithall his father and mother in lawe, who having 

 received letters from thence to be delivered at Santos, 

 came abord, and then we weyed and set saile, and the 

 28. day wee arrived at the yland of Santa Catelina, 

 neere the entrance of Santos. 



Our course from S. Sebastian was Southwest and by 

 West, and betwixt the Southwest and by West, and 

 West southwest. 



This yland of Santa Catelina seemeth at the first to 

 be a part of the yland of Girybia. Wee ankered at nine 

 fathome blacke osie ground. 



Upon the yland there grow many Palmito-trees, but no 

 fresh water is there to be found. 



The third day of February we arrived before the towne 



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