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1582. 

 scarlet caps, and other things to their content, who 

 finding themselves well pleased, departed away in the 

 Gundall, and we having little winde, got downe thwart 

 of the fishing bay, and there came to anker about nine 

 a clocke the same forenoone. 



The third day about two a clocke in the morning 

 wee set saile, and went hence Southwest by West till 

 two in the afternoone then being little wind : at five wee 

 ankered sixe leagues Eastsoutheast of the Southermost [III. 760.] 

 part of the land in fifteene fathom, and there wee rode 

 till eight a clocke at night, and set saile with a stifFe 

 gale at Northeast, which sometime blewe, and sometime 

 was little winde, and so continued all night. 



The first day of November in the forenoone, wee 

 tooke in our maine saile to mend it : in the meane 

 time, the Admirall came up by us, and desiring mee 

 with my Master, and M. Blackcoller to come aboord 

 to him about certaine conference, hee sent his boate for 

 us, where by him was propounded, whether it were 

 best for us to stand on with the coast of Brasil as wee 

 did, or else to stand about starboord tacked to the East- 

 wards : whereupon divers of their charts and reckonings 

 were shewed : by some it appeared, wee were a hundred 

 and fifteene leagues, by some a hundred and fiftie leagues, 

 by some a hundred and fortie leagues, and some a great 

 deale further short of Brasil, next hand Northeast of us : 

 but all agreed to bee within twentie minutes of the 

 line, some to the North, some to the South of the 

 line. 



After many debatements, it was agreed by most con- 

 sent to stand on for the coast of Brasil, except the wind 

 changed, and there to doe, as weather should compell 

 us. In this consultation, wee had speaches of courses, 

 and places of meeting, if by misfortune wee should bee 

 separated, wherein was no full order concluded, but that 

 we should speake every night with the Admirall, if wee 

 conveniently might, and so to appoint our course from 

 time to time, if wee lost companie, to stay fifteene dayes 



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