said Palmitos they esteemed to bee a kinde of wilde date-trees.

We sought all the Island ouer for men, but could find none, for that it was
wholly destitute of Inhabitants.

Vpon this Island we built an house with a pulpit therein, and left behind
vs certaine writings as a token and remembrance of our being there, and
vpon the pulpit we left a Bible and a psalter lying.

[Sidenote: A good watering place.] Thus after 12. daies aboad at this
Island, being well refreshed, they tooke in excellent fresh water being
easie to get, and very sweet and sauory to drinke, and then set saile,
meeting the three other ships their consorts at the time and place before
mentioned.

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A briefe description of the voiage before handled, in manner of a Iournall.

The first of Maie 1598. with the eight shippes before mentioned, we set
saile in the name of God from Texell in Holland.

The third of May we passed along the coast of England, descrying some of
her Maiesties ships, and they vs, whom we honoured with discharge of our
artillery.

The fourteenth we had sight of the Isle of Porto Santo lying in thirty two
degrees.

The sixteenth, wee came within sight of the Canaries.

The twenty two, we first saw flying fishes.

The twenty three, we passed by the Isle Dell Sall.

The thirty one, we had a great storme, so that we lost sight one of
another: but by night we came together againe.

The eighth of Iune wee crossed the Equinoctiall line.

The twenty foure we sayled by the sholdes of Brasile lying vnder eighteene
degrees of Southerly Latitude.

The twenty one of Iuly we got to the height of the Cape of buona esperanza.

From the thirtith of Iuly till the second of August, we continually sayled
in sight of the land of the aforesaid Cape.

The seuenth and eighth of August wee had such foule and stormy weather,
that fiue ships of our company were separated from vs, whom we saw no more
vntill they came to vs before Bantam.

The twenty sixt we descryed the Island of Madagascar.

The twenty nine came by us the ship called the Long barke of Zeland, hauing
in her but nine sound men, tenne dead, and the rest all sicke: but the same
night we lost the sight of her againe.

The seauenth of September, we came before the Island of Santa Maria, and
afterward wee put into the great bay of Antogill.

The sixteenth of September, wee set saile from thence, directing our course
for Iaua.

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