H>'nR()(;K.\IMlKK's i:»KPARTMKNT OF THE ADMIRALTY. 381 



And when yiui come ujxm any coast where y<ni find floods and ebbs, 

 do you diligently note tlie time of tlie highest and lowest water in every 

 place, and the slake or still water of full sea, and low water, and also 

 which way the Hood doth nni, how the tides do set, how much water it 

 liietli. and what force the tide hath to drive a ship in one hour, or in the 

 whole tide, as near as you can judge it. and what difference in time you 

 find Iietween the running of the flood, and the ebb. And if you find upon 

 any coast the current to run always one way. do you also note the same 

 iluly. how it setteth in every ))lace. and observe what force it liath to 

 drive a ship in one hour. etc. 



Item, as often and wheii as you ma\ conveniently come upon any land, 

 to make observation for the latitude and variation, etc., do you also (if you 

 may) with your instrument, for trying of distances observe the platform of 

 the place, and of as man\- things (worth the noting) as you may then 

 conveniently see from time to ihne. These orders if you diligently observe, 

 yoti may therel)y perfectly set down in the plats, that T have given you your 

 ■whole travel, and description of your discovery, which is a thing that will 

 t>e chiefly expected at your hands. Hut withal you may not forget to note 

 as nmch as you can learn, understand or perceive of the manner of the 

 soil, or fruitfulness of every i)lace and country you shall come in. and of 

 the manner, shape, attire and disposition of the people, and of the commo- 

 dities they have, .and wJiat they most covet and desire of the commodities 

 you carry with )ou. It behoveth you to give trifling things unto such 

 people as you shall hai)pen to see, and to offer them all courtesy and 

 friendship yon may or can, to win their love and favour towards you, not 

 doing or offering them any wrong or hurt. And though you should be 

 offered wrong at their hands, yet not to revenge the same lightly, l)ut by 

 all means possible seek to win them yet always dealing wisely and with 

 such circumspection that you keep yourselves out of their dangers. 



Tims 1 beseech God Almighty to bless you and prosper your voyage 

 witli good and happy success, and send you safely to return home again, 

 to the great joy and rejoicing of the adventurers with you. ;ind all \our 

 friends, and our whole countrv. Amen. 



Al'l'l-:.\l iX II. 



Paiiipicr's approach to the L ape of Good Hope. 

 l'o\a(je.\. I'ol. I J. p. 409. 



Two days before I made the Cape of (j. Hope, my variation was 7 deg. 

 58 min. West. T was then in 43 deg. 2J min. East Longit. from C. Salva- 

 dor, being in Lat. 35 deg. ,30 min. This was the first of June. The second 

 of June I saw a large black fowl, with a whitish flat bill, fly past us, and 

 took great notice of it, because in the East-Tndia Waggoner, or Pilot-book, 

 there is mention nuidc of large fowds. as big as ravens, with white flat 

 bills and black feathers, that fly not above 30 leagues from the Cape, and 

 are looked on as a sign of one's being near it. My reckoning made me then 

 tlu'nk myself above 90 leagues from the Cape, according to the longitude 

 which the Cape hath in the common sea-charts ; so that 1 was in some 

 doulit whether these were the right fowls spoken of in the Waggoner, 01 

 wliether these fowls might not (ly farther off shore than is there men- 

 tioned ; or wliether, as it proved 1 might not be nearer the Cape than I rec- 

 koned myself to be, for I found, s(K)n after that I was not then above 

 ^5 or 30 leagues at most from tiie Cape. Whether the fault were in the 

 charts laying down the Cape too much to the B^st from Brazil, or were 

 rather in our reckoning, i could not tell; but our reckonings are liable to 

 much uncertainties from steerage, log, currents, half-minute glasses, and 

 sometimes want of care, as in so h)ng a run cause often a difference of 

 ^lany leagues in, the whole account. 



