JOHN WINTER ad. 



1578. 

 Within the sayd Cape Blanco wee tooke one ship 

 more, all the men being fled away, save two. We 

 brought this ship with all the rest which wee had taken 

 before, into our harbour, 5 leagues within the Cape, 

 where we washed and trimmed our ships, and went to 

 sea againe the 22 of Januarie, leaving all the Spaniards 

 there with their ships, saving one Cantar, for which our 

 Generall gave them the Benedict. In which course wee 

 ran continually to the Southwest, untill the 26 day, when 

 wee found the North pole raysed 15 degrees 15 min. 

 having the winde Northeast or Eastnortheast, which is 

 com.mon on that coast. For it doeth blow for the 

 most part continually from the shore : and we kept the 

 sayd course, untill wee came neere the island Bonavista, 

 within 2 leagues off the shore ; so that wee haled off 

 againe Northwest, the space of one houre, and then ran 

 Southwest againe, till day light the 27 of Januarie : 

 from which time wee ran Southsouthwest, untill 3 of the 

 clocke in the afternoone, at which time we approched 

 neere the island of Mayo, being high and hilly land. The isle of 

 saving that the North part of the island stretcheth out ^^^°' 

 it selfe, a league into the sea very lowe. Wee came to 

 anker under the West part of this island the 28 day 

 of Januarie, and stayed there untill the 30 of the same. 

 During which time, our General appointed M. John 

 Winter and M. Thomas Doughtie, to goe over to the 

 East part of the island with 70 men, to get some fresh 

 victuals. And as wee marched through the island, about 

 the middest thereof, we found one house having a garden 

 belonging to it, in which wee found ripe grapes, also Ripe grapes in 

 ripe gourds, and melons, in the most dead time of our J^f^^^^'i^- 

 Winter. Wee found also a tree which beareth the fruite 

 Cocos, which is bigger then a mans head, having within The Cocos 

 the utter coate, which is about 3 inches thicke, a certaine ^^"^^• 

 nut as bigge as two fists, and hath within a white sub- 

 stance, cleaving fast to the shell, which is halfe an inche 

 thick, very pleasant to taste, and within that a certaine 

 hollownesse or voyde place, wherein is contained a pure 



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