CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION ad. 



1588. 



considering they were made and contrived without any 



edge-toole. They are not above halfe a yard in bredth 



and in length some seven or eight yardes, and their heades 



and sternes are both alike, they are made out with raftes 



of canes and reedes on the starrebordside, with maste and 



sayle : their sayle is made of mattes of sedges, square 



or triangle wise : and they saile as well right against the Canoassayling 



winde, as before the winde : These Savages followed us ^j^^^ against 



so long, that we could not be ridde of them : untill in ^ 



the end our General commanded some halfe dozen harque- 



buzes to be made ready ; and himselfe strooke one of 



them and the rest shot at them : but they were so yare 



and nimble, that we could not discerne whether they ^^^ nimble- 



were killed or no, because they could fall backward into ^^^ ^/ / . 

 , - ' - .y. people of the 



the sea and prevent us by divmg. Ladrones. 



The 14 day of January lying at hull with our ship 

 all the middle watch, from 12 at night until foure in 

 the morning, by the breake of day wee fell with an head- 

 land of the isles of the Philippinas, which is called Cabo C^f^o del 

 del Spirito Santo which is of very great bignes and length, ^P^^^^° ^antOy 

 high land in the middest of it, and very low land as ^r^^^ PhUit- 

 the Cape lyeth East and West, trending farre into the phas in 1 3 

 sea to the westward. This cape or island is distant from degrees. 

 the ile of Guana, one of the Ladrones, 310 leagues. We ^^'^^^^^J^ 

 were in sayling of this course eleven dayes with skant \ad7lnes tc 

 windes and some foule weather, bearing no sayle two or Cabo del 

 three nights. This island' standeth in 13 degrees, and Spirito Santo 

 is a place much peopled with heathen people, and all ^n^o^^^g"^^- 

 woodie through the whole land : and it is short of the 

 chiefest island of the Philippinas called Manilla about 

 60 leagues. Manilla is well planted and inhabited with ^^^ descri/>- 

 Spaniards to the number of sixe or seven hundred ^^^^^J^ 

 persons : which dwell in a towne unwalled, which hath Manilla. 

 3 or 4 small blocke houses, part made of wood, and 

 part of stone beeing indeede of no great strength : they 

 have one or two small Gallies belong to the towne. It is Trade from 

 a very rich place of golde and many other commodities ; ^^^"!;° ^^ 

 and they have yeerely trafficke from Acapulco in Nueva 



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