We Saw The Day Before, Betwixt
Two And Three, A Spout But A Small Distance From Us, It Fell Down
Out of a black cloud, that yielded great store of rain, thunder and
lightning; this cloud hovered to the southward
Of us for the space
of three hours, and then drew to the westward a great pace, at which
time it was that we saw the spout, which hung fast to the cloud till
it broke, and then the cloud whirled about to the south-east, then
to east-north-east, where meeting with an island, it spent itself
and so dispersed, and immediately we had a little of the tail of it,
having had none before. Afterwards we saw a smoke on the island
Kosiway, which continued till night.
On New Year's Day we first descried the land of New Guinea, which
appeared to be high land, and the next day we saw several high
islands on the coast of New Guinea, and ran in with the main land.
The shore here lies along east-south-east and west-north-west. It
is high even land, very well clothed with tall flourishing trees,
which appeared very green, and gave us a very pleasant prospect. We
ran to the westward of four mountainous islands, and in the night
had a small tornado, which brought with it some rain and a fair
wind. We had fair weather for a long time, only when near any land
we had some tornadoes; but off, at sea, commonly clear weather,
though, if in sight of land, we usually saw many black clouds
hovering about it.
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