7. Item, Every Master To Give Charge Unto The Watch To Look Out
Well, For Laying Aboard One Of Another In The Night, And In Fogs.
8. Item, every evening every ship to hail the Admiral, and so to
fall astern him, sailing through the ocean; and being on the
coast, every ship to hail him both morning and evening.
9. Item, if any ship be in danger in any way, by leak or
otherwise, then she to shoot off a piece, and presently to bring
out one light; whereupon every man to bear towards her, answering
her with one light for a short time, and so to put it out again;
thereby to give knowledge that they have seen her token.
10. Item, whensoever the Admiral shall hang out her ensign in the
main shrouds, then every man to come aboard her as a token of
counsel.
11. Item, if there happen any storm or contrary wind to the fleet
after the discovery, whereby they are separated; then every ship
to repair unto their last good port, there to meet again.
OUR COURSE /agreed upon/.
The course first to be taken for the discovery is to bear directly
to Cape Race, the most southerly cape of Newfoundland; and there
to harbour ourselves either in Rogneux or Fermous, being the first
places appointed for our rendezvous, and the next harbours unto
the northward of Cape Race: and therefore every ship separated
from the fleet to repair to that place so fast as God shall
permit, whether you shall fall to the southward or to the
northward of it, and there to stay for the meeting of the whole
fleet the space of ten days; and when you shall depart, to leave
marks.
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