CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION 



This cape of Buena Esperanza is set down and accomp- 

 ted for two thousand leagues from the yland of Java 

 in the Portugall sea carts : but it is not so much almost 

 by an hundred and fiftie leagues, as we found by the 

 running of our ship. We were in running of these 

 ei^hteene hundred and fiftie leagues just nine weekes. 



^The eighth day of June by breake of day we fel in 

 sight of the yland of S. Helena, seven or eight leagues 

 short of it, having but a small gale of winde, or almost 

 none at all: insomuch as we could not get into it that 

 day, but stood off and on all that night. 



The next day being the 9. of June having a pretie 

 easie gale of wind we stood in with the shore, our boat 

 being sent away before to make the harborough ; and 

 about one of the clocke in the afternoone we came unto 

 an ancker in 12. fathoms water two or three cables length 

 from the shore, in a very faire and smooth bay under 

 the Northwest side of the yland. 



This yland is very high land, and lieth in the maine 

 sea standing as it were in the middest of the sea betweene 

 the maine land of Africa, and the maine of Brasilia and 

 the coast of Guinea : And is in 15. degrees and 48. minuts 

 to the Southward of the Equinoctiall line, and is distant 

 from the Cape of Buena Esperanza betweene 5. and 6. 

 hundreth leagues. 



The same day about two or three of the clocke in the 

 afternoone wee went on shore, where wee found a mar- 

 veilous faire & pleasant valley, wherein divers handsome 

 buildings and houses were set up, and especially one which 

 was a Church, which was tyled & whited on the outside 

 very faire, and made with a porch, and within the Church 

 at the upper end was set an altar, whereon stood a very 

 large table set in a frame having in it the picture of our 

 Saviour Christ upon the Crosse and the image of our 

 Lady praying, with divers other histories curiously painted 

 in the same. The sides of the Church were all hanged 

 with stained clothes having many devises drawen in 

 them. 



343 



A.D. 

 1588. 



From Java to 

 the Cape of 

 Bona 



Speranza is 

 but 1850. 

 leagues, 



June 1588. 



They anker at 

 the yland ofS. 

 Helena the 9. 

 of June. 



S. Helena is in 

 the latitude of 

 I 5 . degrees 

 48. min. to the 

 Southward. 



