A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 



and pleasant water in taste, and as some thinke, mar- 

 vellous comfortable. As we passed through this island 

 the inhabitants fledde into the mountaines, so that we 

 could have no talke with them. 



But we understood by the Portugals which came with 

 us, that they were but servants to those of S. lago, to 

 keepe their cattell and goates, which bee very plentifull 

 in this island : but we found them so wilde, that we 

 could take none saving some yong kiddes : wherefore 

 wee returned backe againe to our shippes. The Por- 

 tugals had salted their Welles neere to the sea, so that 

 we could not water. 



Then our Generall commanded every man aboord: 

 afterward we weighed, and ranne over to Sant lago the 

 same night, being 10 leagues distant from thence: which 

 [III. 750.] seemed to bee a fruitefull island and well peopled. For 

 wee sawe 3 townes on the shore : two of which shot at 

 us, as we passed along. Our General made a shot at 

 one of them againe. And sayling along the shore, at 

 the South part of the island, wee tooke a Portugal shippe 

 laden with wine and other commodities. This island 

 hath 15 degrees in latitude. 

 The hie of From hence wee ran Southsouthwest to the isle of 

 Togo. Fogo, so called, because it casteth continually flames of 



fire and smoake out of the top thereof, all the whole 

 island being one high mountaine. Two leagues West 

 Brava. from the isle of Fogo, is another island called Brava, 

 where the sea is above 120 fathoms deepe neere to the 

 shore, so that we could not anker for the depth of the 

 sea, by reason whereof we were constrained to depart 

 without water. Here the Generall discharged the Por- 

 tugals, giving unto them our Pinnesse which we built 

 at Mogador : with wine, breade, and fish, and so dis- 

 missed them the first of Februarie, taking one of their 

 Nonnez de companie along with him, called Nonnez de Silva. The 

 Mva. 2 of February wee set off from Brava, and directed our 



course Southsoutheast, running so untill the 9 of Feb- 

 ruary, being within 4 degrees of the Equinoctial: at 



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