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A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1588. 



Also about 7. or eight leagues off the Cape lyeth a 

 long should next hand Southwest and by South off the 

 Cape. 



[III. 827.] Soundings on the coast of Guiny. 



Tern, Going unto Sierra Leona, having the cape East- 

 northeast off you, 7. leagues off, you shall have 22 

 fadome browne sand. And hailing in you shall finde 

 very faire shoalding. You may be bold to borrow on 

 the Southermost shore : but take heed of a rocke that 

 lieth in the faire way a good birth off the shore, but 

 there is no feare of it : for it lieth above the water, 

 and is distant two miles off the South shore. 



Item, You may be bolde to borrow hard by the rocke ; 

 for on the North side going in there lieth one long 

 sand which runneth Southeast and Northwest, and lieth 

 distant from the South shore 2 leagues. And you shall 

 anker in 14 or 15 fadoms hard by the shore. 



Also going unto the island called Illha Verde, the 

 which iland lieth 10 leagues to the Southward of Sierra 

 Leona, the course is Southsouthwest, and Northnorth- 

 east : and you shall have betweene them 9 or 10 fadome. 

 And if you will anker at the sayd iland, you shall have 

 5 or 6 fadome hard by the shore. 



Also you must have especiall care of a great current 

 that setteth alongst the coast of Guiny to the Eastward. 

 Item, And if you be bound unto the Southwards, 

 you must go Westsouthwest off, for feare of the 

 shoald that is called Madera Bomba, the which shoald 

 is to the Southwards of the iland. 



Soundings on the coast of Brasil. 



ITem, Unto the Northwards of Cape Frio, the cape 

 bearing southwest off you, about 17 or 18 leagues 

 off, you shall have 45 fadoms streamy ground : and 

 running Southwest, you shall find 32 fadoms blacke 

 sand : and then running Westsouthwest into a deepe 

 bay, which lieth tenne leagues to the Northwards of the 



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