it selfe not so much
Southwarde, as it is set downe in the Carde: for if it were, we should haue
passed clean through the middle of the land.

The 22. of March the winde helde as it did, being vnder 19. degrees,
holding our course West South West.

The 19. of April our ship had no more bread left, but for our last
partition euery man had seuen pound, both good and badde breade, and from
that time forwarde our meate was Rice sodden in water, and euery man had a
canne of water euery day, with three romers of wine, and weekely each man
three romers or glasses of oyle and that very strong, and nothing els.

The 20. we had a calme, the 21. a calme with a Northerne aire.

The 23. a good wind that blew Southwest.

The 24. we saw the firme lande of AEthiopia, being vnder 33. degrees, and as
wee gessed, wee were then about an hundred miles from the Cape de bona
Sperance, yet we thought we had been at the least three hundred miles from
it, so that wee may say, that God wrought wonderfully for vs: for that if
wee had fallen by night vpon the land, we had surely runne vpon it: wee had
a good winde out of the West, and West Southwest.

The 25. of Aprill in the morning wee had a calme, with a very hollow water,
and at euening we had a good winde, that came North and Northeast, and
although wee had so good a wind yet our shippe bare but little sayle,
although the other two shippes of our company were at the least two mile
before vs, for most part of the night wee sayled with our schouer saile,
holding our course Southwest and by West.

The 26. of Aprill in the morning we coulde not see our shippes, which
pleased not our men, besides that our shippe was very weake, whereby her
ribs shoke, and her ioynts with the force of the water opened and shut, so
that as then our shippe was very leake, hauing the winde Northwest, holding
our course as neere as wee could West Southwest, and then we put out our
maine sayles, at noone the winde came West, with a great storme, so that
most of our sayles blew in peeces, and so wee draue forward with out
sayles.

The 27. of Aprill still driuing without sayle with a West winde, wee were
vnder thirty sixe degrees, so that we found that the streame draue vs South
and South West.

The 28. of Aprill still driuing without sailes, we had the height of 36.
degrees and 20. minutes, and about euening we hoised saile againe, the
winde being West Southwest, and we held our course Northwest with very
hollow