The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
The first 6. dayes wee had faire weather: after that for 5 dayes wee had
fogge and raine, the winde being South. The 12. wee had cleare weather. The
Mariners in the Sunneshine and the Master could not agree: the Mariners
would goe on their voyage a fishing, because the yeere began to waste: the
Master would not depart till hee had the companie of the Elizabeth,
whereupon the Master told our Captaine that hee was afrayd his men would
shape some contrary course while he was asleepe, and so he should lose vs.
At length after much talke and many threatnings, they were content to bring
vs to the land which we looked for daily.
[Sidenote: Land descried.] The 14. day we discouered land at fiue of the
clocke in the morning, being very great and high mountaines, the tops of
the hils being couered with snow. Here the wind was variable, sometimes
Northeast, Eastnortheast, and East by North: but we imagined ourselues to
be 16. or 17. leagues off from the shore.
The 16. we came to an anker about 4. or 5. of the clocke afternoone, the
people came presently to vs after the old maner, with crying Ilyaoute, and
shewing vs Scales skinnes. The 17. we began to set vp the pinnesse that
Peerson framed at Dartmouth, with the boords which hee brought from London.
The 18. Peerson and the Carpenters of the ships began to set on the
plankes. [Sidenote: Salt kerned on the rockes.] The 19. as we went about an
Island, were found blacke Pumise stones, and salt kerned on the rockes very
white and glistering. This day also the Master of the Sunneshine tooke of
the people a very strong lusty yoong fellow.
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