The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
They discouer a very great bay with foure small Islands in it,
whereas they take possession. As they sayle along and discouer
diuers Islands they come at length to the port of Santa Cruz,
where not being able to get any knowledge of those Indians,
although they lay in waite for them at a place called The well of
Grijalua, they departed thence. They haue a perilous and long
tempest, which, ceased, after they had seene a light on their
shrowdes.
At our comming out of these openings we began to finde a Bay with a very
great hauen, enuironed with diuers small hilles hauing vpon them greene
woods and pleasant to behold. In this bay and strand were two small
Islands neere vnto the shore, one of the which was like vnto a table
about halfe a league in bignes, and the other was a round hill almost as
big as the former. These Islands serued vs onely to content our sight,
for we passed by them without staying, hauing but a slacke winde on
Munday morning: all which day we followed our course with the foresayd
slacke winde, and within a while after it became flat contrary, so that
we were constrained to anker at the sayd point of the sayd hauen; and on
Tewsday at breake of day we set sayle, but made but little away all the
day, because the winde continued contrary, although but very weake. The
night following wee were becalmed a little beyond the point of this
hauen; but about midnight wee began to haue a fresh gale, and on
Wednesday in the morning wee were seuen leagues distant from that point.
This countrey shewed (as it was indeede) more plaine then the rest, with
certaine small woody hilles, and within the other point which was before
descried, the situation seemed to be more pleasant and delightsome then
the rest which we had passed. And at the vttermost end of the point were
two small Islets. The sayd Wednesday about nine of the clocke the winde
blew a good gale, and we sayled by euening between seuen and eight
leagues, and came ouer against a land not very high, where wee saw
certaine creekes or breaches not very ragged, into euery of which a
riuer seemed to fall, because the soyle was very greene, and had
certaine trees growing on it farre bigger then those which we had found
before. Here the Captaine with fiue or sixe men went on shore, and
taking possession passed vp one of those riuers, and found the footing
of many Indians vpon the sand. On the bankes of that riuer they saw many
fruitful trees, as cherry-trees and little apple-trees, and other white
trees: they found also in the wood three or foure beasts called Adibes,
which are a kind of dogs. The same night we set sayle with the winde off
the land, which blew so freshly, that it made vs to strike our
foresayle; and on the sixteenth of October at nine of the clocke we came
neere vnto a point of certaine high mountaines, on which day being
Thursday we made little way, because the winde ceased, but it rose
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