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 For they saide that they neuer heard of any English ship to haue bene in that countrey before; and so they went to land againe, hauing one of our men with them to speak to the Gouernour of the towne, and we kept one of them for a pledge. Shortly after there came another canoa aboord vs with one Portugal and al the rest naked men of the countrey: of whom we had two small Oxen, one yong Hogge, with certaine hennes: also Pome-cytrons, limons, oranges, and other fruites of the countrey. For the which our Captaine gaue to them, linnen cloth, combes, kniues, and other trifles. In the meane time the Gouernour of the towne sent word that we should haue nothing, vnlesse we would bring our shippe into the hauen. Whereunto our Captaine would in no case consent: for all their practise was to haue gotten vs within their danger, neuertheles we came somewhat neere the towne with our ship, as though wee would haue gone in: but we neuer meant it.

Here we tooke in our man: and set the Portugal pledge on land.

After that we went to an iland called the isle of Sant Sebastian: where wee tooke fish.Here the Portugals had betrayed vs, if a Brasilian one of their slaues had not bene. For he stole from them, and shewed vnto vs by signes, that the Portugala were comming with their canoas to take vs, as it fell out in deed: for the next morning they shewed themselues with 12 or 16 canoas, some of them hauing 40 men in them. The same night two of our men ran away with our boat to the Portugals.

And thus wee came away from thence toward our owne countrey the l7 of March: and had sight of the Cape of sant Augustine, lying in 8 degrees to the Southward of the line.

After that we had sight of an island lying within 3 degrees of the Equinoctial, called the isle of Fernando de Loronha. We crossed the Equinoctial the 13 of April, and had sight of the North starre the 19 of the sayd moneth.

The 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of May, wee sayled through the sea of Weedes, about the space of 100 leagues, being vnder the Tropicke of Cancer. From whence we kept our course towards the North-east, vntill wee had the pole raysed 47 degrees. The 22 of May we ranne East-northeast.

The 29 we sounded and had 70 fathomes with white oaze;