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
[Sidenote: Fresh water is commonlie found by diging in the sands on the
sea side.] In the bay where they rode, after the tempest was past, they
went on shore, and with mattockes, which they had, they digged certain
pits, which grew full of fresh water, where they filled all the casks
which they had. The next day they departed thence, and sailed two daies,
and entred into a creeke like vnto a poole, fenced from the South winde,
which then did blow, and was against them: and there they staied foure
daies, not being able to get out: and when the Sea was calm they rowed
out: they sailed that day, and toward euening the winde grew so strong
that it draue them on the shore, and they were sorie that they had put
foorth from the former harbour: for assoone as night approched a storme
began to rise in the Sea, and the winde still waxed more and more
violent with a tempest. The brigandines lost one another: two of them,
which bare more into the Sea, entred into an arme of the Sea, which
pearced into the land two leagues beyond the place where the other were
that night. The fiue which staied behinde, being alwaies a league, and
halfe a league the one from the other, met together, without any
knowledge the one of the other, in a wilde roade, where the winde and
the waues droue them on shore: for their anchors did strengthen and came
home; and they could not rule their oares, putting seuen or eight men to
every oare, which rowed to seaward: and all the rest leaped into the
water, and when the waue was past that draue the brigandine on shore,
they thrust it againe into Sea with all the diligence and might that
they had. Others, while another waue was in comming, with bowles laued
out the water that came in ouerboord. [Sidenote: A swarme of grieuous
Moskitoes.] While they were in this tempest in great feare of being cast
away in that place, from midnight forward they endured an intollerable
torment of an infinite swarme of Moskitoes which fell upon them, which
assoone as they had stung the flesh, it so infected it, as though they
had bin venomous. In the morning the Sea was asswaged and the wind
slaked, but not the Muskitoes: the sailes which were white seemed blacke
with them in the morning. Those which rowed, vnless others kept them
away, were not able to row. Hauing passed the feare & danger of the
storme, beholding the deformities of their faces, and the blows which
they gaue themselves to driue them away, one of them laughed at another.
They met all together in the creek where the two brigandines were, which
outwent their fellowes. There was found a skumme, which they call Copee,
which the Sea casteth vp, and it is like pitch, wherewith in some
places, where pitch is wanting, they pitch their ships: there they
pitched their brigandines. They rested two daies, and then eftsoones
proceeded on their voyage. They sailed two daies more, and landed in a
Bay or arme of the Sea, where they staied two daies. The same day that
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