A.D. 

 1579. 



The isle of 

 8 ant Sebastian 

 about the 

 Trop'icke of 

 Capricome. 



Cape Sant 

 Augustine. 



The isle of 

 Fernando de 

 Loronha. 



The sea of 

 Weedes, neere 

 the Tropicke of 

 Cancer, 



Their arrivall 

 at llfoord- 

 combe in 

 Devonshire. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



pledge on land. After that we went to an iland called 

 the isle of Sant Sebastian ; where wee tooke fish. Here 

 the Portugals had betrayed us, if a Brasillian one of their 

 slaves had not bene. For he stole from them, & shewed 

 unto us by signes, that the Portugals were comming with 

 their canoas to take us, as it fell out in deed : for the next 

 morning they shewed themselves with 12 or 16 canoas, 

 some of them having 40 men in them. The same night 

 two of our men ran away with our boat to the Portugals. 

 And thus wee came away from thence toward our 

 owne countrey the 17 of March : and had sight of 

 the Cape of sant Augustine, lying in 8 degrees to the 

 Southward of the line. After that we had sight of an 

 island lying within 3 degrees of the Equinoctial, called the 

 isle of Fernando de Loronha. We crossed the Equinoc- 

 tial the 13 of April, and had sight of the North starre the 

 19 of the sayd moneth. 



The I, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of May, wee sayled through the 

 sea of Weedes, about the space of 100 leagues, being under 

 the Tropicke of Cancer. From whence wee kept our course 

 towards the North-east, untill wee had the pole raysed 47 

 degrees. The 22 of May we ranne Eastnortheast. 



The 29 we sounded and had 70 fathomes with white 

 oaze ; having the North pole raysed 51 degrees. The 30 

 of May wee had sight of S. Ives on the North side 

 of Corne-wall, and the 2 of June 1579 we arrived at 

 Ilfoord-combe in Devon-shire. 



And thus after our manifold troubles and great dangers 

 in having passed The streights of Magellan into the South 

 Sea with our Generall M. Francis Drake, and having bene 

 driven with him downe to the Southerly latitude of 

 57 degrees, and afterward passing backe by the same 

 streights againe, it pleased God to bring us safe into 

 our owne native countrey to enjoy the presence of our 

 deare friendes and kinsefolkes, to whom bee prayse, 

 honour, and glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 



Edward Cliffe, 

 Mariner. 

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