ome remembrances in writing, in token of
our being there. At this place died of the bloody flixe, the Pilot of our
Admirall Kees Collen of Munickendam, a worthy man, to our great griefe.

This Island (as Iohn Huighen van Linschotten describeth it) is replenished
with manifold commodities, as namely with goates, wilde swine, Turkies,
partridges, pidgeons, &c. But by reason that those which arriue there vse
to discharge their ordinance, and to hunt and pursue the saide beastes and
fowles, they are now growen exceedingly wilde and hard to be come by.
Certaine goates whereat we shotte fled vp to the high cliffes, so that it
was impossible to get them. Likewise fishes wee could not catch so many as
wee needed; but wee tooke in fresh water enough to serue vs till our
arriuall in Holland.

[Sidenote: A man left on land at Saint Helena.] Here we left on land as a
man banished out of our society, one Peter Gisbrecht the masters mate of
the great pinasse, because hee had stroken the Master.

Very penitent hee was, and sorie for his misdemeanour, and all of vs did
our best endeuour to obtain his pardon: but (the orders and ordinances
wherevnto our whole company was sworne being read before vs) we were
constrained to surcease our importunate suit, and he for the example of
others to vndergo the seuere doome that was allotted him.

There was deliuered vnto him a certaine quantity of bread, oile, and rice,
with hookes and instruments to fish withall, as also a hand gun and
gunpowder.

Hereupon we bad him generally farewell, beseeching God to keepe and
preserue him from misfortunes, and hoping that at some one time or other he
should finde deliuerance; for that all shippes sailing to the West Indies
must there of necessity refresh themselues.

Not far from this place we descried a saile which wee iudged to be some
Frenchmen, by whom peraduenture the saide banished party might bee
deliuered.

The fourth of May we set saile from Saint Helena, and the tenth of the same
moneth wee passed by the Isle of Ascension. The 17. day wee passed the
line. The 21. we saw the Polle-starre. The 10. and 11. of Iune we had sight
of the Canaries. About the Azores wee stood in feare to meete with some
Spanish Armada, because our men were growen faint and feeble by reason of
their long voiage. The 27. of Iune we entered the Spanish sea. The 29. we
found our selues to be in fortie foure degrees of northerly latitude. The
6. of Iuly our Admirall the M