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Three in the Afternoon he weighed Anchor, 

 and having gotten the f^/W andTide with him^ 

 he Saird about Eight Miles from the firft 

 place, and AnchorM againft an open and plain 

 Shore. 



2. Here he made his Defcent, and having 

 told us the oppolition that was made, and the 

 jneans he ufed to get on Shore, he comes to 

 {ay, that after he had been Four Days in Bri^ 

 tain^ the 1 8 Ships with his Horfe put to Sea, 

 and were come iri fight of his Camp, when 

 a ^fiiddain Tempeft arofe, with contra- 

 ry Wind, fo that fome of the Ships put back 

 again, others were driven to the Weftwards, 

 not without great danger, and coming to 

 Anchor, they found they could not ride it 

 out : fo when Night came on, they put off 

 to Sea and returned from whence they came. 

 71?^^ fame Night it was Full-Moon^ which 

 makes the greateft Tides in the Ocean, and 

 they being ignorant thereof, their Gallies, 

 \vhich were drawn on Shore, were filled by 

 the Tide, &cy - 



3. Then he fays that the Day of the Au- 

 tumnal Equinpx being at hand, after Ibme 

 Days ftay, wherein there pafied no Aftion 

 becaufe he kept clofe in his Gamp by the 

 ihore \ and not thinking it proper to ftay till 

 the Winter came on, he returned into Gallia : 

 ThQ next Year he made a further Expediti-^ 

 on with 5 Legions and a good Body of Horfe, 

 but ther^ is but little in the Hifl:ory thereof 

 ferving to our purpofe, excepting that he 

 fays he fet Sail from the Portm kirn about Sun 

 ^*et, with a gentle S. W. Wind, leni Africa 

 vrofe^^ '^ that about Midnight it fell Calm, 

 ^ " , ' afld 



