JOHN WINTER ad. 



1578. 

 which time, wee had the ayre troubled with thunder 

 and lightning, notwithstanding calme with extreme 

 heate, and divers times great showers of raine. 



The 17 day wee were right under the line, which is 

 the most fervent place of the burnt Zone : where in the 

 middest of February we susteined such heat, with often 

 thunder and lightnings, that wee did sweate for the 

 most part continually, as though wee had bene in a 

 stove, or hote-house. Here we saw flying fishes in Flyhgjishes. 

 great abundance, some a foote long, some lesse. Their 

 fynnes wherewith they flye be as long as their bodies. 

 They be greatly pursued by the Dolphine and Bonitoes, 

 whom as soone as the flying fishes espie, immediatly they 

 mount out of the sea in great numbers, and fly as long 

 as their fynnes continue moyst : and when they bee dry, 

 they fall downe into the sea againe. And here is to bee 

 noted, that after we came within 4 degrees of the Equi- Continuall 

 noctial, untill we were so much past it, no day did passe ^^^^.J .^^ ^ ^ 

 without great store of raine. ^g^s neere the 



From hence wee directed our course towards the Equinoctial 

 Southsouthwest untill the 5 of Aprill ; at which time, 

 wee had a very sweet smell from the land. The same 

 day at noone wee sounded, and found the sea to be 

 32 fathomes deepe, the ground being soft oaze : and 

 shortly after we had but 28 fathomes, being 31 degrees Land h 7,1 

 and 30 min. beyond the Equinoctial, towarde the South • ^^^'J^ 

 pole : and wee had sight of the land about 3 of the 5^^^/^ Qf^f^^ 

 clocke in the afternoone the same day. This land is Equinoctial. 

 very lowe neere the sea ; and hie mountaines up within 

 the countrje. 



From hence we ran towardes the Southsouthwest, 

 untill the 14 of Aprill; when wee found a little island, 

 lying neere the maine land of Cape Sant Marie, by Cape Sant 

 which is the enterance into the river of Plate, being in T ^I/l^^ 

 35 degrees of Southerly latitude. From this island wee jn^er of 

 ran 7 or 8 leagues along the maine, where we came to Plate. 

 an anker under a Cape, which our General called Cape 

 Joy. Here every ship tooke in fresh water. Then we 



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