THOMAS MASHAM ad 



1597- 

 night the other two French shippes that came from 

 Sal with us (as it seemeth of purpose, because their 

 consorts were not with them) lost us. The next morn- 

 ing wee sawe Maio. So wee and the flieboate of 

 Dartmouth compassed the Northermost part of the 

 Island, and master Benjamin Wood in the China-fleete, 

 the Southermost, and came all to an anker together at 

 the Southwest part thereof: where rode sixe sayles of 3^ ^^^^^^ ^/ 

 Flemmings lading sake ; who had brought their horses ^^^^^W ^J 

 and cartes, and wheele-barrowes, and plankes for their ^^ J ^ ^^ 

 barrowes to runne upon. Here is abundance of salte 

 in this Island made by Gods hande without mans labour. 

 These tolde us that there were thirtie sayles more, which 

 fell to leeward of Fogo, who, as I heard since, beat it 

 up with much adoe, & came thither also for salte. This 

 trade may bee very beneficiall to England, considering 

 the dearnesse of salte. Of goates on this Island there 

 is such store, as is incredible, but to those that have 

 seene them : and it is a wonder howe they live one by 

 the other, the ground being stonie and barren. It is 

 thought that there are dwelling in it some twentie 

 Mountainiers, which got one of the Flemmings men 

 stragling, and God knoweth what they did with him : 

 for they sawe him no more. This Island is somewhat 

 lowe and round, having no great mountaines upon it. 



Here ended our determination concerning the invading 

 of Fogo. And here wee left the flieboat of Dartmouth 

 lading salte, and the China-fleete to refresh themselves 

 with goates, who as I have heard since had at the village 

 (from whence the Mountainiers were fledde into the 

 furthest partes of the Island and rocks) great store of 

 dryed goates which they carried along with them : which 

 were like to bee a great helpe unto them in their long 

 voyage. So upon Saturday the 12 of Februarie at 

 night wee set saile and stood for the coast of Wiana, 

 which wee were bound for. 



Upon Sunday the twentieth of Februarie wee came 

 into the maine current that setteth from the Cape of 



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