A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1583. 



windes, & so til the 4. of April : which day we saw 4. 

 birds with long tailes, which hovered about the ship, and 

 in the afternoone we saw and tooke up many weedes 

 which drave thicke in the sea, which we judged to be 

 driven with the East windes from the yles of Cape 

 verde. 



[III. 768.] From this day till the 11. day we went our course 



sometime Northeast, sometime Northwest according to 

 the winds: upon this 11. day George Coxe one of our 

 Carpenters, having the night before broken up the hold, 

 and stolne wine, and drunken himselfe drunke, being 



A desperate taken in the roome, lept overbord out of the beake head 



^^^' and so drowned himselfe. 



The 12. day wee spied our foremast to be perished in 

 the hownes, and durst not beare our foretop saile upon 

 it, but went hence with our sailes, next hand, North all 

 day and night. 



From hence to the 20. day we went Northeast and 



Variation of by North. This day I observed the variation of the 



the Compasse. ^ompasse : and I noted that the South point of the 

 compasse caried more then halfe a point to the West- 

 wards. 



The 25. day of May wee went betweene the East north- 

 east, and the Northeast with a small gale till five a clocke in 

 the afternoone : then had we sight of land, which rose 

 ragged to the Northwards like broken land, we being about 

 five leagues off: that yle bare Northeast by North of us, 

 and the Northermost part bare North by East of us, with 

 a rocke a sea bord : we then sounded and had fiftie and 

 five fadome grey sand, and maze great store in it : so 

 wee stood in Northeast till eight a clocke, and then 

 behelde it againe being within foure leagues of it, bearing 

 as before, but wee coulde not make it, for some thought 

 it to bee the foreland of Fontenay, some judged it the yle 

 of Ussant: then we sounded againe in 55. fadome browne 

 sand, and little maze in it: at eight a clocke at night we 

 went about, and stoode off South southwest one watch, 

 then the wind shrinked to the Southwest, that we could 



