CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION a.d. 



1587. 



of Cancer : It is a very great river within, but it is barred 

 at the mouth : and upon the North side of the barre 

 without, is good fresh water : but there is very evill 

 fining of it ; because at a lowe water it is shoald halfe a 

 mile off the shoare. There is great store of fresh fish in 

 that bay : and good fruites up into the countrey, whereof 

 wee had some, though not without danger. 



The seven and twentieth day of September, wee de- 

 parted from the roade of Massatlan and ran to an island "^^ ^^^^^^ ^ 

 which is a league to the Northward the sayd Massatlan, ^^^^^^ ^V'^^~ 

 where wee trimmed our ships and new built our UassJlan. 

 pinnesse : and there is a litle island a quarter of a 

 league from it, on which are scales : where a Spanish T'he escape of 



prisoner, whose name was Domingo, being: sent to wash ^^'^ ^^^^»f^» 



u- ^ -^u C ^ 1 u- J a Spaniard. 



snirtes with one or our men to keep him, made a scape, 



& swam to the maine, which was an English mile distant : 



at which place we had seen 30 or 40 Spaniards & 



Indians, which were horsemen, and kept watch there, [HI. 816.] 



which came from a towne called Chiametla, which was 1 1 Ckiametla. 



leagues up into the countrey, as Michael Sancius told us. 



We found upon the island where we trimmed our 



pinnesse, fresh water by the assistance of God in that our 



great neede by digging two or three foote deepe in 



the sande, where no water nor signe of water was before 



to be perceived. Otherwise we had gone backe 20 or 30 



leagues to water : which might have bene occasion that 



we might have missed our prey wee had long wayted for. 



But God raysed one Flores a Spaniard, which was also a 



prisoner with us, to make a motion to digge in the sands. 



Now our Generall having had experience ones before 



of the like, commanded to put his motion in practise, 



and in digging three foote deepe wee found very good Fresh water 



and fresh water. So we watered our ships, and might "^^ ^ ^'' 3>^^^ 



have filled a thousand tunnes more, if we had would. ^^^^^ ^^ ^ ^ 



We stayed in this island untill the 9 day of October, 



at which time we departed at night for the cape of 



S. Lucar, which is on the West side of the point of 



California. 



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