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" Reckonings kept in our course from Cape Race towards Cape Briton 

 and the Island of Sahlon to the time and place where we lost our Admirall : 



August 22 



August 29 



Summe of these leagues 117". 



(By the mate's reckoning, however, they had run 121 leagues. He 

 adds) : 



" Our course we helde in clearing us of these flats was east southeast 

 and southeast, and south 14 leagues with a marvellous scant * winde." 



" The manner how our Admirall Avas lost. 



" Upon Tewsdaye, the 27 of August, toward the evening our Generall 

 caused them in his fiigat to sownd, who found white sande at 35 fathome, 

 being then in latitude about 44 degrees. 



" Wensday towards night the winde came South, and we bare with 

 the lande all that night "Westnorthwest contrary to the mind of Master 

 Coxe ; neverthelefse wee followed the Admirall, depriued of power to 

 auoide a mischiefe, which by no contradiction coulde he holde other 

 course, alleaging they could not make the shippe to work better, nor to 

 lye otherwaies. 



" The ewening was faire and pleasant, yet not without token of 

 storme to ensue, and most part of this Wednesday night, like the Swanne 

 that singeth before her death, they in the Admirall or "Delight," 

 continued in sounding of Trumpets, with Drummes and Fifes ; also wind- 

 ing the Cornets, Haughtboyes ; and in the end of their iolitie, left with 

 the battell and ringing of doleful knels. h< * f: * * 



" Thursday, the 29 of August, the winde rose and blewe vehemently 

 at South and by East bringing withal raine and thicke miste, that wee 

 could not see a cable length before us. And betimes in the morning wee 

 were altogether nmneanc^/oWecZ m among flats and sandes, amongst which 

 we found shoale and deepe in every three or four ship])es length, after we 

 began to sownd, but first we were upon them un wares until Master Coxe 



1 The word scant is here used in the nautical sense as descriptive of a wind so 

 nearly ahead that the vessel can scarcely lav her course with the yai'ds sharp up. 



