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Quantity growing on the Land. That they faw the 
Tra6ts of Deer and Bears, and ftore of Fowl, of which 
they killed fome, but no Sign of People. That they paf- 
fed over two little Rivers, and came to a third, which 
tliey could not pafs. That it flowed very near three 
Fathom fometimes, as appears by the Shore. That it 
was low Water at four o-clock ; that the Flood came 
from the North-weft j and that it flowed half Tide, which 
both they and we had perceived by the Ship. At low 
Water we had but three Fathoms where we rid. 
On the 29th in the Morning we made Account we 
had driven back again fome fixteen or eighteen Leagues, 
and in the Morning, as it cleared, we faw a Ship to 
Leeward of us three or four Leagues, fo we made fail 
and bore up with her ; flie was then at anchor in thirteen 
Fathom. It was his Majefty’s Ship, commanded by 
Captain Fox ; I faluted him according to the Manner of 
the Sea, and received the like of him fo I flood in to 
fee the Land, and thought to tack about, and keep the 
Weather of him, and to fend my Boat aboard of him ; 
but the Wind fhifted, fo that for that Time I could not. 
Yet in the Evening I came to weather of him, who pre- 
fently weighed, and flood off with me till Midnight, and 
then we flood in again. In the Morning Captain Fox 
and his Friends came aboard of me, where I entertain- 
ed them in the befl Manner I could, and with fome frefli 
Meat I had gotten from the Shore. I told him that I 
had named the Land the Principality of South Wales. I 
fhewed him how far I had been to the Eaflward, where 
I had landed, and, in brief, I made known to him all 
the Dangers of this Coafl, as far as I had been. ' Ke 
told me he had been in Port Nelfon, and had made but a 
curfory Difcovery hitherto ; and that he had not land- 
ed, ner had many times feen the Land. In the Even- 
ing after I had given his Men fome Neceflaries, with 
Tobacco, and other things they wanted, he departed 
aboard his Ship, and the next Morning flood away South- 
fouth-wefl, fince which Time I never faw him. The 
Wind fometimes favouring me, I flood in for the Shore, 
and fo proceeded along. The Month of Augujl ended 
with Snow and Flail; the Weather being as cold as at 
any Time I have felt in England. 
II. September the ifl we coafled along the Shore in 
ten Fathom, when it cleared in fight of Land ; at length ' 
the Water fhallowed to fix and five, and, as it cleared, 
we faw it all Breaches to Leeward, fo we hulled off 
North-north-eafl, but frill raifed Land ; by Night we 
had much ado to get out of this dangerous Bay. At 
Midnight the Wind came up at South, and fo we took 
in our Sails, and let the Ship drive to the Northward, 
into deeper Water. This Day was the firfl Time the 
Chirurgeon told me that there were diverfe of the Men 
tainted with Sicknefs. At Noon we were in Latitude 55 
Degrees 12 Minutes. 
On the 2d we flood in for the Shore ; but as we came 
into fliallow Water it began to fhew the Weather threat- 
ening a Storm, wherein we were not deceived ; for in 
Handing off we had a violent one. By Midnight it 
broke up, and the '3d in the Morning we flood in for 
the Shore, and by eleven we faw it ; here we found the 
Land to trend South-fouth-eafl, and South, fo that wc 
knew that we were at a Cape Land, and named it Henri- 
etta Maria, by her Majefly’s Name, who had before 
named our Ship. At Noon we were in Latitude 55 De- 
grees 5 Minutes, and that is the Height of the Cape. 
From Port Nelfon to this Cape the Land trends generally 
Eaft-fouth-eafl, but makes with Points and Bays, which 
in the Particulars doth alter it, a Point two or three; the 
Diflance is about one hundred and thirty Leagues. The 
Variation at this Cape, taken by Amplitude, is about 16 
Degrees, a mod fhallow and perilous Coafl, in which 
there is not one Harbour to be found. The 3d Day in 
the Afternoon, we had a Storm at North, which conti- 
nued nil Midnight with extreme Violence. The 4th in the 
Morning the Storm being broke up, we flood in again 
South-weft, the Weather being very thick, and we con- 
tinued founding. By Noon it cleared, and we faw the 
Land; here it trended South-eafl, and the Tides fat 
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along it with a quick Motion. In the E'^ening there 
came a great rolling Sea out of the North-north-eaft, and 
at eight o-clock it blew very hard at South-eafl ; and by 
Reafon of the Encounter of the' Wind, and this great 
Sea, the Sea was all in a Breach ; and to make up a per- 
fedl Tempeft, it did fo lighten, fnow, rain, and blow 
all the Night long, that I was never in the like. We 
fiiipped many Seas, but one more dangerous, which 
racked us fore and aft ; and I verily thought it had funk 
the Ship, it ftruck her with fuch Violence. The Ship 
did labour moft terribly in this Diftradlion of Wind and 
Waves; and we had much ado to keep all things faft in 
the Hold, and betwixt Decks. 
The 5th in the Morning the Wind fhifted South-Weft,,' 
but changed not its Condition ; in the Afternoon it 
changed again to the North- weft, with that tearing Vio-^ 
lence, that not I, nor any that were then with me, ever 
faw the Sea in fuch a Breach. Our Ship was fo torment- 
ed, and fo laboured with taking it in on both Sides, and 
at both Ends, that we were in moft miferable Diflrefs, in 
this fo unknown a Place ; at eight o-clock in the Even- 
ing the Storm broke up, and we had fome Quietnefs in 
the Night following, not one having flept a Wink in 
twenty Hours before. If this Storm had continued Eaft- 
erly, as it was at firfl, without God’s Goodnefs we had 
all perifhed. . 
On the 6th the Wind was at South-weft, fo that we 
could do no good to the Windward. We fpent the 
Time therefore in trimming our Ship ; we brought all 
our Coals, which for the moft part was great Coal, aft, 
as we alfo did feme other things, and all to lighten her 
afore. Others picked our Bread, whereof there was much 
wet; for do what we could we flripped abundance of 
Water between Decks, which ran into the Hold, and 
into our Bread-Room ; for the Sea fo continually over- 
racked us, that we were like Jonas in the Whale’s Belly ^ 
We overlooked our Tacks and Sheets, with other Rig- 
gings of Strefs, becaufe that henceforward they were to 
look for no other but Winter Weather. This Evening 
our Boatfwain, a careful Man, and one that had labour- 
ed extremely thefe two or three Days, was very fick, 
fwooning away -three or four Times, infomlich that we 
thought he would prefently have died. 
The yth in the Morning the Wind came up to South- 
weft, and we flood away South-weft, under all the Sail 
that we could make. In this Courfe we fav/ an Ifland, 
and came clofe aboard it, and had twenty Fathom Water, 
which was fome Comfort to us ; for hitherto we could 
not come within four or five Leagues to the Shore at that 
Depth. This Ifland Hands in 54 Degrees lO Minutes* 
The Afternoon we Hood away South-weft, and in the 
Evening had .the fliallowing of the Weflern Shore, in 
eight, ten, and feven Fathom, but it was fo thick, that 
v/e could not fee the Land. It is about fourteen Leagues 
between this Ifland and the Main. The 8th was foggy 
and calm, which fo continued till the 9th in the Morn- 
ing, the Wind then coming up at South-fouth-weft. In 
the Evening the Water fhallowed to ten and nine Fa- 
thoms, wherefore we Hood off and on all Night. The 
loth we made it, finding it an Ifland of about eight or 
nine Leagues long. It Hands in Latitude 53 Degrees 5 
Minutes, and about fifteen Leagues from the Weftern 
Shore. The Part of it that we coaHed, trends Weft- 
north-weft, I named it my Lord WeftoFs Ifland. We 
flood ftill away to the Eaflward, it being foggy Weather. 
In the Afternoon we deferied Land to the Eaftv/ard of us, 
which made like three Hills. Tov/ards them we failed, 
keeping our Lead ftill going and very circumfpeeft. 
At length we alfo fav/ Land to the Southward of us, 
whereupon we loofed up and made to that by Courfe, as 
we had fet it in the thick Fog. We came in among fuch 
low broke, n Grounds, Breaches, and Rocks, that we knew 
not which Way to turn us ; but, God be thanked, it 
was but little Wind, andfbon came to an Anchor. Soon 
after it cleared, at which Time we could fee nothing but 
Sands, Rocks, and Breaches, round about us, that Way 
only excepted which we came in. I fent prefently the 
Boat to found among the Sholes and Rocks, that if we 
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