Y5) 
they cut fomc of it info thin pkccs^and 
frycd, it tafts like rufty Bacor, or hung Beef, 
if not worfc ', hit the Liver boiled and 
foufed fomctimc in Vinegar is nnore grateful 
to the pallat. About 8 of the clock at 
fiighf, a flame fettled upon the main ma% it 
was about the bignefs of 3 great Candle 
and is called by our Seamen St. Elmes fire^ 
it comes before a ftorm, and is .cotfimonly 
thought to be a Spirit *, if two appear they 
prognofticatc fafety ; Thefe are known to 
the learned by the names of Cajior and Pol- 
lux^to the Italians by St. Nicholas and St. 
Hermes^hy the Spaniards c^WcdCorpos S anlof* 
The Ninth day, about two of the clock 
in the afternoon, we found the head of our 
main maft clofe to the cap twifted and (liive- 
red, and wc prefently after (ound the fore- 
top-maft crackt a little above the cap > So 
they wolled them both, and about two of 
the clock in the morning 7 new long Boat 
oars br^ke away from our Star-board quar- 
ter with a horrid crack. 
The Eleventh day, they obfervcd an4 
made the Ship to be in latitude 48 degrees 
46 minutS) having a great Sea all night > a*^ 
bout 6 of the clock in the morning we 
fpake with Mr. Kufe in a Ship of P^ri- 
woHth, which came from Mmdlotsh aijd 
jiowis Silly N. £. by E. 3^ leagues off * 
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