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the Seaman commonly call, as do fome Spanijb 

 Writers, Afes-hill^ from the great number 

 of Apes which ufed formerly to haunt there, 

 (at which places Hercules is feigned to have 

 let up his Pillars) may be about fix Leagues ; 

 . tho' both Lands lying very high (forwefawthe 

 Clouds much below them) it does not appear 

 in the middle of the Current, out of a tall 

 Ship, fcarce half fo broad* 



14. Little Wind ftirring. 



15. A great Mill all the Sea over, fo that 

 we could fcarce fee three lengths of the Ship, 

 which began to vantfh in the Afternoon ^ and 

 than we defcryed the Cafe of Malaga a,t about 

 four Leagues diftance ; and came to an An- 

 chor that Night. Tlie City lies under a high 

 Hill, and is the Seat of a Bifhop, who is at 

 this time a Natural Son of King Philip the . 

 Fourth, of the Order of St. Dominic. Here 

 the,Merchants told us, that it had not rained 

 for feven Months together, except a day ot 

 two for an Hour: and that the Algerines^ 

 who were then breaking with us, had not 

 been able to have fet a Fleet to Sea about 

 two years before, if they had not been fur- 

 nifhed with Mafts from England •, anci that 

 they were now in Expeftation of another 

 Ship laden 4vith the fame, notwithftanding 

 the Rupture, which was as good as began* 



I only make a Query,Whether Jews ox EngU^i 

 Men were the Fraighters ? 



i5. The next Morning the Governour im- 

 mediately returned our Salute Gun for Gua : 

 foon after we weighed from Malaga Road^ 

 the Weather vgry hot. Some Rain fell at 

 Night, though very moderately. In the 



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