A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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 J prize, and good Store of wine : which prize our General committed 

 NunodaSiha ^^ ^j^^ custodie of Master Doughtie, and reteining the 

 %ilotMken. Pilot, sent the rest away with his Pinnesse, giving them 

 a Butte of wine and some victuals, and their wearing 

 clothes, and so they departed. 

 The hie of The same night wee came with the Island called by 



^ogo. |.|^g Portugals, Ilha del fogo, that is, the burning Island : 



in the Northside whereof is a consuming fire, the 

 matter is sayde to be of Sulphure, but notwithstanding 

 it is like to bee a commodious Island, because the 

 Portugals have built, and doe inhabite there. 



Upon the South side thereof lyeth a most pleasant 

 and sweete Island, the trees whereof are alwayes greene 

 and faire to looke upon, in respect whereof they call it 

 Ilha Brava, that is, the brave Island. From the bankes 

 thereof into the sea doe run in many places reasonable 

 streames of fresh waters easie to be come by, but there 

 was no convenient roade for ou'- ships : for such was 

 the depth, that no ground could bee had for anchoring, 

 and it is reported, that ground was never found in 

 that place, so that the tops of Fogo burne not so high 

 in the ayre, but the rootes of Brava are quenched as 

 low in the sea. 



Being departed from these Islands, we drew towards 

 the line, where wee were becalmed the space of 3. 

 weekes, but yet subject to divers great stormes, terrible 

 lightnings and much thunder : but with this miserie 

 we had the commoditie of great store of fish, as 

 Dolphins, Bonitos, and flying fishes, whereof some fell 

 into our shippes, wherehence they could not rise againe 

 for want of moisture, for when their wings are drie, 

 they cannot flie. 



From the first day of our departure from the Islands 



of Cape Verde, wee sayled 54. dayes without sight of 



land, and the first land that we fell with was the coast 



Aprill of Brasil, which we saw the fift of April in ye height 



33- Degrees, of 33. degrees towards the pole Antarctike, and being 



discovered at sea by the inhabitants of the countrey, 



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