NUNO DA SILVA a.d. 



1578. 



men (that they found in her) with them, and so 



departed from that haven, which lyeth under 32 The haven of 



depfrees and a halfe, running alons^ by the coast till ^; ^^^ ^^ Y 

 1 J J ^iT- i.- J ^u- .• J degrees and a 



they came under one and thirtie, and thirtie degrees : ^j}^^ 



which was the place where they had appointed to [in. 745.] 



meete, and there to stay for ech other, if by tempest 



or fouie weather they chanced to be separated, and 



so loose eche others company. 



And comming under thirtie degrees, they found a 

 very good haven, whereinto they entred, and ankered 

 at sixe fathome deepe, the shot of a great peece from 

 the land, which was right over against a river, where 

 they tooke in sixe pipes of fresh water : and to defend 

 them that fetched the water, they set twelve men upon 

 the land, and being busied in filling of their water, they 

 espied a company of men comming towards them, 

 whereof halfe of them were Spaniards, being about 

 two hundred and fifty horsemen, and as many foote- 

 men, but they had no sooner espied them, but they 

 presently entred into the boat, and escaped away, 

 loosing but one man. 



The same night they set saile againe with both 

 their ships, running along the coast about ten leagues 

 farther, where they tooke in some fresh water, but 

 because they perceived certaine horsemen, they departed 

 without lading any more water. 



From thence they followed on their course along the 

 coast for the space of 30. leagues, where they entred 

 into a desert or unhabited haven : yet they went not 

 on land, for every day they saw people upon the 

 shore, & there they made out a smal pinnesse, the 

 peeces wherof they brought ready framed out of England, 

 and having prepared it, they launched it into the water, 

 wherein the Captaine with fifteene men entred with 

 the chiefe boatesman called John the Greeke, (being 

 Master of the ship which they had taken in the haven 

 of S. lago,) wherewith they went to see if they could 

 find the two shippes that they had lost by stormie 



139 



