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Title: A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: De Forest, Emily Johnston, 1851-1942 De Forest, Jesse, ca. 1575-1624
Subjects: De Forest family De Forest, Lockwood, 1775-1848 Walloons -- New York (State) Guyana -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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leuasmes lanchre le vent Ost courant Nord West a
midy nous eusmes i degré 53 min. de hauteur 2 heures
après nous vismes le Cap de Nord a l'West Nord West
de nous terre basse et noyée nous anions employe 50
jours despuis que nous estions partis de Pleimouth.
nous courusmes vers la coste qui entre dans l'Amazone
laquelle court Zud Zud West la rangeant tousiours a
8, 7, on 5 brasses d'eau nous vismes bien tost la premiere
Isle vers laquelle nous courusmes estant au droit
dicelle nous enchrasmes enuiron son milieu.

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rangeant la coste de l'isle de si près qu'on eust peu
facillement ietter sur icelle vne pierre ce que nous
fismes passant le long des autres mais non pas de si
près iusques a ce questant venu au droict de la Riuiere
de nous trauersames vers lisle de Sapno courant
vers le vilage ce village a trois longues maisons basties
sur de hauts peteaux au bord de la riuiere. Les Maraons
Indiens nous dirent que les Espagnols estoient en la
riuiere et qu'ils auoient pris vn nauire de Hollande
vers Sapanopoke ce qui nous fit poursuiure appres
auoir traite quelque rafraichissemens mais Pieter

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BLAEUW'S MAP OF GUIANA, 1635
In the Lenox Collection, New York Public Library

Journal of a Voyage to Guiana
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now noticed the water shew pale and found the bottom
1623
October 19
at 23 fathoms, which made us run West. At 3 o'clock
we sounded and found 10 fathoms, sandy bottom; in
the evening we found 8 fathoms, which made us run
West a quarter North; at midnight we put to the
North West to reach the North Cape;¹ and two hours
afterwards we anchored in 7 fathoms, sandy bottom.
On Friday the 20th at 6 o'clock in the morning we
weighed anchor — the wind East — running North
West. At noon we were in latitude 1 degree 53 min-
utes North. Two hours afterwards we saw the North
Cape to the West North West of us, land low and
overflowed. It was 50 days since we had left Plymouth.
We made for the side which projects into the Amazon,
and trends South South West, coasting all the time in
8, 7, or 5 fathoms of water. Very soon we saw the first
island, towards whioh we ran and keeping to the right
of it anchored about the middle.

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