AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1582. 



seven fathom oaze, where they tooke fish with hookes, 

 while hee stayed for the boates. 



The 4 all the afternoone wee ran along the coast 

 (which lyeth Northwest and by North, and Southeast by 

 South) West, and within a point one way or the other, 

 seeing the lande under our lee three or foure leagues 

 off, and all night likewise. 



The 9 at three a clock in the morning our Admiral 



shot off a peece, and at foure wee weyed and went hence 



They arrive Northeast. At five in the morning wee saw the land 



tn the river of along, and the Island which wee saw the night before, 



eona. ^^^^ divers other Islands about it, & so ran in Northeast 



untill we had brought our selves thwart of the river, and 



then ran in East about sixe at night, being a league 



within the river. Our Admirall shot off a peece, and 



there wee ankered in eight fathom sand. Being at anker, 



I manned our boate and would have gone aboord the 



Admirall, but could not, the flood was bent so strong, 



and she rode halfe a mile beneath us in the tyde, but 



we had no tyde. 



The 10 in the morning at five a clocke I sent our 

 skiffe with our pilot in her to find a roade, and a watring 

 place : in the meane time at sixe a clocke we set saile with 

 our ship, and being calme wee towed with our boat untill 

 ten, and then ankered a mile short of the watering place. 

 After dinner I went on land with my skiffe to finde 

 timber to fish our maste, and searching along the shoare 

 we found a good watring place : and further seeking in 

 the wood, which all the countrey is full of, and of divers 

 Trees hung sorts, wee found Limmon trees full of fruits : also trees 

 with oysters, growing by the water side with the stalkes hung full of 

 oysters and great periwinkles, and crabs amongst them : 

 wee found drie pomegranates with many other fruits un- 

 knowen to us. In the meane time our Admirall and the 

 Edward with the barkes, having a gale at West, set saile, 

 and ran up and ankered in the rode before the accus- 

 tomed watering place. 



The 22 day certaine Portugals which had bene with 



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