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grccs 15 minwfs, we dcfcryed a Village and 
a fmall Church or Chappcl feated in a plea- 
fant valley^ to the Eafter-fide of the Ifland, 
. the whole liland k rockic and mountanious 
about 8 miles in Gompafs, ftorcd with Cotn^ 
Wine and Goats, antf inhabited ly out- 
law'd Foriingals^ the Town they czll Santa 
Cruz^ Corvo is not far fronn this, iTuppofed 
two or three leagucs,a meet naountain, and 
very high and fiecp on all fides, cloaihed 
with tall wood on the very top, uninhabi- 
ted, but tht flomemsh^t^ keep fonnc nunri- 
ber of Goats* 
The Seven and twentieth day, 50 leagues 
to the weft ward of thefe Iflmds we met 
with a fmall Veffel ftoln from Jamnco^ but 
10 men in her,and thofe of feveral nations, 
Englijhy French J Scotch y Dutch almoft fa- 
tni(h d, having been out as they told us, by 
reafon of calms, three moncths, bound for 
Holland* 
July the fixth, calm now for two or 
three dayes, our men went out to fwim , 
fomc hoifted the Shallop out and took divers 
Turtles, there being an infinite number of 
them all over the Sea as far as we could 
ken, and a man may ken at Sea in a clear 
Air 20 miles, they floated upon the top of 
the water beinga fleep, and driving gently 
upOTi them with the Shallops of a liidden^ 
D 3 they 
