CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION ad. 



1587. 

 North side : and from that Cape unto the mouth of the 

 Streights the course lyeth Northwest and by West, and 

 Northwest. Betweene which place and the mouth of the 

 Streights to the Southward we lay in Harborough untill 

 the three and twentieth of Februarie, by reason of con- F^bruarie 

 trary windes and most vile and filthie fowle weather, with ^^^^* 

 such rayne and vehement stormie windes which came 

 downe from the mountaines and high hilles, that they 

 hazarded the best cables and anchors that we had for to 

 holde, which if they had fayled, wee had bene in great 

 danger to have bene cast away, or at the least famished. 

 For during this time, which was a full moneth, we fedde 

 almost altogether upon muskles and limpits, and birds, or 

 such as we could get on shore, seeking every day for 

 them, as the fowles of the ayre doe, where they can finde 

 foode, in continuall raynie weather. 



There is at every myle or two myles ende an Har- 

 borough on both sides of the land. And there are 

 betweene the river of Saint Jerome and the mouth of the 

 Streights going into the South sea about 34. leagues by 

 estimation. So that the length of the whole Streights The streights 

 is about 90. leagues. And the said mouth of the Streights ^f^^S^^^^^ 

 standeth in the same height that the entrance standeth in ^//ameTlonz 

 when we passe out of the North sea, which is about 52. The Westerne 

 degrees and f to the Southward of the line. mouth of the 



The 24. day of February wee entred into the South ^f''^^S^^^^ ^^ ^» 

 sea: and on the South side of the going out of the ll^'^^\^^j^^ 

 Streights is a faire high Cape with a lowe poynt adjoyning Their entrance 

 unto it : and on the North side are 4. or 5. Hands, which '^nto the South 

 lye 6. leagues off the mayne, and much broken and ^^^ '^'^ H rf 

 sunken ground about them : by noone the same day iianTslnthe 

 wee had brought these Hands East of us 5. leagues off; South seacalkd 

 the winde being Southerly. LasAnegadas. 



The first of March a storme tooke us at North, which March i . 

 night the ships lost the company of the Hugh Gallant, 

 beeing in 49. \ and 45. leagues from the land. This ^^^^J"^^ ^^»- 

 storme continued 3. or 4. dayes, and for that time we ^Caliant b^^a 

 in the Hugh Gallant being separated from the other 2. great kake. 



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