Having Much
Cloth In Our Ships, It Was Agreed To Steer For Japan, Which We
Understood Was A Good Market
For cloth; and we were the more inclined to
this measure, because the King of Spain's ships upon the coast
Of Peru
having now intelligence of us, would come in search of us, and knew that
we were weak by the loss of our men, which was all too true, for one of
our ships, as we learnt afterwards, was forced to surrender to the enemy
at St Jago.
[Footnote 51: In the second letter, the general and twenty-seven men are
said to have been slain at Mocha. - E.]
Having procured refreshments at Santa Maria, more by policy than force,
we departed from the road of that island on the 27th November with our
two ships, having heard nothing of the rest of our fleet. We took our
course direct for Japan, and passed the line together, keeping company
till we came into the latitude of 28 deg. N. in which latitude, on the 22d
and 23d of February, we had as heavy a storm of wind as I ever saw,
accompanied with much rain; during which storm we lost sight of our
other and larger ship, being very sorry to be left alone, yet comforted
ourselves with the hope of meeting again at Japan. Continuing our course
as we best could for wind and weather, till we were in the lat. of 30 deg.
N. we sought for the north cape of that island, but found it not;
because it is falsely laid down in all charts, maps, and globes, for
that cape is 35 deg.
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