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The 5th Of December, 1604, We Sailed From Cowes, In The Isle Of Wight,
And Arrived In The Road Of Aratana, In The Island Of Teneriffe, On The
23d Of That Month.
During the whole night of the 14th January, 1605, we
were troubled with excessive heat, thunder, lightning, and rain.
The 6th
we passed the line, shaping our course for the isle of Noronha, with
the wind at S.S.E., our course being S.S.W. About three degrees south of
the line, we met with incredible multitudes of fish; so that, with hooks
and harping irons, we took so many dolphins, bonitos, and other fishes,
that our men were quite weary with eating them. There were likewise many
fowls, called parharaboves and alcatrarzes. We took many of the
former, as it delights to come to a ship in the night-time, insomuch,
that if you hold up your hand, they will light upon it. The alcatrarze
is a kind of hawk that lives on fish; for, when the bonitos and dolphins
chase the flying fishes in the water till they are forced to take wing
for safety, the alcatrarzes fly after them like hawks after partridges.
I have seen often so many of these flying fishes at one time in the air,
that they appeared at a distance like a large flock of birds. They are
small fishes, hardly so large as a herring.
The 22d of January we came to anchor at the island of Fernando Noronba,
in lat.
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