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which (if wehid continued in it with that excefííve heat) might have proved irioft unfound and unhealthy to our bodies, Three days after we had Sailed, being Mttnday in the morning about feven of the Clock, one of our Friers faying Mafs, and all the people in the Ship kneeling to hear it, and to adoré their bread God, one Mariner with a loud and fodain voice ctyeih out TíerrajTierra, Tierra, Land, Land, Land, which rejoiced the hearts of all that were in the Ship, asitfeemed, more then their Mafs, for leaving that, and their God upori the Altar with thePricft to eat him alone, they arofe from their knees, to behold theContinent of America. Great was the joy of all the Ships that day ; and great was the (laughter tvhich our oíd Cafáo made among his Fowles, (which he had fpared formerly) to Feaft that day his friers. Aboiifc ten of the Clock the whole face of the Land was vifibly ap- parent, and we with full Sail running to embrace ir. But out faife Admiral knowing the danger of the Coaft, and efpeci- ally the dangerous entringinto the Haven, by reafon of the many Rocks that lie about it, and are known only by Marks and Fla^s fee out to give all Ships warning of them, perceiving that with the wind wherewith we Sailed then, we rtiould not come till towards evening to the Port: and laftly, fearing Ifcft fome North wind (which is dangerous upon that Coait* and ordinary iti the rtionth of September) fhould in the night arife, and endanger all oiir Ships upon the Rocks; he therefore Called to Council all the Pilots, to know whether it Were beflf to keep on oiir Sailing with full Sail that day, with hopes to get that day in good tinte into the Havén, oí elfe with the middle Sail only todraw near,' that the next morning with more fecurity we friight with trie help of Boats from Land be guided in. The fefult of the Council was not tó venture that day too near unto the Porr^ for fear of being benighted, but to pull down all Kin the middle Sail. The wind began to calme, and our Ships to ¿ove (lowly towards Land, and fo we continued till night, Ji double Watch was kept that night in our Ship, and the Pilot was more Watchful himfeli* and moré Careful then at other times j Bfdt our friers betook ttamfelvcs to their rcff£ which continued rfoc long • for before

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