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Title: The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Glasgow : James MacLehose and Sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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the Streight is faire and cleare, they helde their course a
[III. 744.]
harquebuse-shot in length from off the North side, having
nine and tenne fathome depth, with good ground, as I
said before, where (if neede require) a man may anker:
the hilles on both sides being full of trees, some of the
hilles and trees reaching downe to the sea side in some
places having plaine and even land: and there they sawe
not any great rivers, but some small rivers that issuedo
ut of the riffes and breaches of the land: and in the
countrey where the great Cape or crooking is, on the
South side they saw certaine Indian fishermen in their
Canoas or skiffs, being such as they saw first on the North
side, but more people they saw not on the South side.
Being out of the Streight on the other side, upon
the sixt of September of the aforesaid yeere, they held
their course Northwest for the space of three dayes, and
the third day they had a Northeast wind, that by forced
rave them Westsouthwest, which course they held for
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SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON

NUNO DA SILVA a.d. 1578.

the space of ten or twelve dayes with few sailes up:
and because the wind began to be very great, they tooke in
all their sailes, and lay driving till the last of September.
The 24 day of the same moneth having: lost the sight of

This was the Elizabeth M. John Winters ship

one of their shippes which was about an hundred tunne,
then againe they noised saile because the winde came
better, holding their course Northeast for the space of
seven dayes, and at the ende of the sayde seven dayes,
they had the sight of certayne Islands, which they made
towards for to anker by them, but the weather would
not permit them : and being there, the wind fell North-
west : whereupon they sailed Westsouthwest.
The next day they lost the sight of another ship of their
company, for it was very foule weather, so that in the
ende the Admirals shippe was left alone, for the ship
of Nuno da Silva was left in the Bay where they wintered
before they entered into the Streights :

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