CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION ad. 



1586. 

 caske on shore : our coopers made hoopes, and so we 

 remayned there untill the 23. day of the same moneth : in 

 which time we fitted our things, built our Pinnesse, and 

 filled our fresh water. And while our Pinnesse was in 

 building, there came a Canoa from the river of Jenero, ^^he river of 

 meaning to goe to S. Vincent, wherein were sixe naked •^^^^^"^• 

 slaves of the Countrey people, which did rowe the 

 Canoa, and one Portugal. And the Portugal knewe 

 Christopher Hare Master of the Admirall, for that 

 Master Hare had bene at Saint Vincent in the Minion of 

 London in the yeere 1581. And thinking to have John 

 Whithal the Englishman which dwelleth at Saint Vincent 

 come unto us, which is twentie leagues from this Har- 

 borough with some other, thereby to have had some fresh 

 victuals, we suffered the Portugal to goe with a letter unto 

 him, who promised to returne or send some answere 

 within ten dayes, for that we told him we were Marchants, 

 and would traffique with them : but we never received 

 answere from him any more ; and seeing that he came not 

 according to appoyntment, our businesse being dispatched 

 wee weyed anchor, and set sayle from S. Sebastian on the 

 23. of November. 



The 1 6. day of December we fell with the coast of [HI. 805.] 

 America in 47. degrees \. the land bearing West from us ^^^^^^^^• 

 about 6. leagues off: from which place we ran along 

 the shore, untill we came into 48. degrees. It is a steepe 4.8 Degrees. 

 beach all along. 



The 17. day of December in the afternoone we entred 

 into an harborough, where our Admirall went in first : 

 wherefore our Generall named the said harborough Port Port Desire. 

 Desire : in which harborough is an Hand or two, where 

 there is wonderful great store of Scales, and another Hand 

 of birds which are grey guls. These Scales are of a ^^^^^^ strange 

 wonderful great bignesse, huge, and monstrous of ^/^ ^^^^^ ^"^ 

 shape, and for the fore-part of their bodies cannot be com- 

 pared to any thing better then to a lion : their head, 

 and necke, and fore-parts of their bodies are full of rough 

 haire : their feete are in maner of a finne, and in forme like 



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