. Young folks library . ior we sailed for the cape ofGood Hope, which was the first land we fell withall:neither did we touch with it, or any other land, vntilwe came to Sierra Leone, vpon the coast of Guinea:notwithstanding we ranne hard aboord the Cape, find-ing the report of the Portugals to be most false, whoafiirme, that it is the most dangerous Cape of the world,neuer without intolerable stormes and present dangerto trauailers, which come neere the same. This Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairestCape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth,and we passed by it the 18. of lu
. Young folks library . ior we sailed for the cape ofGood Hope, which was the first land we fell withall:neither did we touch with it, or any other land, vntilwe came to Sierra Leone, vpon the coast of Guinea:notwithstanding we ranne hard aboord the Cape, find-ing the report of the Portugals to be most false, whoafiirme, that it is the most dangerous Cape of the world,neuer without intolerable stormes and present dangerto trauailers, which come neere the same. This Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairestCape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth,and we passed by it the 18. of lune. From thence we continued our course to Sierra Leona,on the coast of Guinea, where we arriued the 22. ofJuly, and found necessarie prouisions, great store ofElephants, Oisters vpon trees of one kinde, spawning Drakes Famous Voyage 185 and increasing infinitely, the Oister suffering no buddeto grow. We departed thence the 24. day. We arriued in England the third of Nouember the third yeere of our 188 A Book of Famous Explorers bords, and to dresse our meate, and to cary al manerof furniture in them, wherewith they were so pestred& vnsauery, that what with victualls being most fish,with the wet clothes of so many men thrust togetherand the heate of the sunne, I will vndertake there wasneuer any prison in England, that coulde be foundemore vnsauory and lothsome, especially to my selfe,who had for many yeares before beene dieted andcarred for in a sort farre more differing. . The Empyre of Guiana is directly east from Perutowards the sea, and lieth vnder the Equinoctiall line, and it hathmore abundanceof Golde thanany parte of Peru, andas many or more greateCities than euer Peruhad when it flourishedmost: it is gouemedby the same lawes, and the Em-perour and people obserue thesame religion, and the same formeand pollicies in gouerment as wasvsed in Peru, not differing in anypart: and as I haue beene assured by such of the Span-yardes as haue scene Manoa th
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