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NEW ATLANTIS 



E failed from fern, ( where we had continued by 

 the (pace of one whole year) for China and Iapan, 

 by the South-fea • taking with us Victuals for 

 twelve Months ; and had good Winds from the 

 Faft s though fofc and weak , for five Months fpace and more. 

 But then the wind came about and fetled in the ^eft for many 

 daies , fo as we could make little or no way , and were (ome- 

 times in purpofe to turn back: But then again there arole 

 Strong and Great windes from the South , with a Point Eaft; 

 which carried us up, ( for all that we could do ) towards the 

 North : By which time our Victuals failed us , though we had 

 made good fpare of them. So that finding our felves , in the 

 Midft of the greateft VVildernelTe of waters in the world, with- 

 out Victual , we gave our felves for loft Men , and prepared / 

 I for Death. Yet we did lift up odr Hearts and Voices coGod 

 above, who fiewetb bis Wonders in the Deep ; Befeeching him of 

 his Mercy , that as in the 'Beginning He difcovered the Face of 

 the Veep, and brought forth Dr&tind ' So he would now 

 difcover Land to us, that we might not perifih. And it came 

 to pafTe } that the nextday about Evening, we law within a 

 Kenning before us , towards the North , as it were thicker 

 Clouds, which did put us in fome hope of Land : Knowing 

 how that part of the South- Sea was utterly unknown 5 . And 

 might have Iflands or Continents, that hitherto were not come 

 to light. Wherefore we bent our courle thither, where we faw 

 the appearance of Landfall that Night: And in the Dawning of 

 the next Day, we might plainly difcem that it was a Land 

 Flat to our fight and fuil of Bofcage • which made it fliew the 

 more Dark, And after an Hour and a halfs Sayling , we en- 



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