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1558. and withall made a prayer: with that these Rovers stayed, declaring that they were Gentlemen, banished from their Countrey, and out of living, and came to see if there were any Russes, or other Christians (which they call Caphars) in our Barke: To whom this Azi most stoutly answered, that there were none, avowing the same by great oaths of their Law, (which lightly they will not breake) whom the Rovers beleeved, and upon his words departed. And so through the fidelitie of that Tartar, I with all my companie and goods were saved, and our men being come on boord, and the wind faire, we departed from that place, and winding East and South-east, that day being the twentieth of August sailed sixteene leagues.

The one and twentieth day we passed over a Bay of sixe leagues broad, and fell with a Cape of Land, having two Ilands at the South-east part thereof, being a good marke in the Sea: and doubling the Cape the Land trended North-east, and maketh another Bay, into which falleth the greater River Yem, springing out of the Land of Colmack. The two and twentieth, three and twentieth, and foure and twentieth dayes, we were at anchor. The five and twentieth, the winde came faire and we sayled that day twentie leagues, and passed by an Iland of lowe land, and thereabout are many flats and sands: and to the Northward of this Iland there goeth in a great Bay, but we set off from this Iland, and winded South to come into deepe water, being much troubled with shoalds and flats, and ranne that course ten leagues, then East South-east, twentie leagues, and fell with the maine Land, being full of copped Hills, and passing along the coast twentie leagues, the further we sayled, the higher was the Land.

The seven and twentieth day we crossed over a Bay, the South shoare being the higher Land, and fell with a high point of Land: and being overthwart the Cape, there rose such a storme at the East, that we thought verily we should have perished: this storme continued three dayes. From this Cape we passed to a Port called Manguslave.