A true description of three voyages by the north-east towards Cathay and China : undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1594, 1595 and 1596 . True portraiture of our boats, and ho^v w. nearly got into trouble with the seahorses. INTO THF, 219 from thence, which had ahuost cost vs decre ; for they, beingmighty strong fishes^ and of great force, swam towards vs (asif they would be reiienged on us for the dispight that wehad don them) round about our scuts^ with a great noyse, asif they would haue deuoured vs ; but we escaped from themby reason that we had a good gale of wind, yet it
A true description of three voyages by the north-east towards Cathay and China : undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1594, 1595 and 1596 . True portraiture of our boats, and ho^v w. nearly got into trouble with the seahorses. INTO THF, 219 from thence, which had ahuost cost vs decre ; for they, beingmighty strong fishes^ and of great force, swam towards vs (asif they would be reiienged on us for the dispight that wehad don them) round about our scuts^ with a great noyse, asif they would haue deuoured vs ; but we escaped from themby reason that we had a good gale of wind, yet it was notwisely done of vs to wake sleeping wolues. The 21 of July we past by Cape Pluncio^ about the castnorth-east sunne, which lyeth west sou^th-west eight [32]miles from y® Admirable Island f and with the good gale ywe had, about y*^ south-west sun we sailed by Langenes, 9[36] miles from Cape Pluncio; there the land reacheth mostsouth-west, and we had a good north-east winde. The 22 of July, we hauing so good a gale of wind, whenwe came to Cape de Cant,^ there we went on land to seekefor some birds and egs, but we found none ; so we sayledforwards. But after y, about y*^ s
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