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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 compass of these 1600 yeeres
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Glasgow J. MacLehose
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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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, havingnine and tenne fathome depth, with good ground, as Isaid before, where (if neede require) a man may anker:the hilles on both sides being full of trees, some of thehilles and trees reaching downe to the sea side in someplaces having plaine and even land: and there they sawenot any great rivers, but some small rivers that issuedout of the riffes and breaches of the land: and in thecountrey where the great Cape or crooking is, on theSouth side they saw certaine Indian fishermen in theirCanoas or skiffs, being such as they saw first on the Northside, but more people they saw not on the South side. Being out of the Streight on the other side, uponthe sixt of September of the aforesaid yeere, they heldtheir course Northwest for the space of three dayes, andthe third day they had a Northeast wind, that by forcedrave them Westsouthwest, which course they held for 136
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SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON NUNO DA SILVA ad. 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 one of their shippes which was about an hundred tunne, ^J,,ii^ ^, . ,1-1 -11 1 -1 JOfin IVtnters then againe they hoised saile because the winde came ^^^. better, holding their course Northeast for the space ofseven dayes, and at the ende of the sayde seven dayes,they had the sight of certayne Islands, which they madetowards for to anker by them, but the weather wouldnot 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 theircompany, for it was very foule weather, so that in theende the Admirals shippe was left alone, for the shipof Nuno da Silva was left in the Bay where they winteredbefore they entered i

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