The Famous Voyage Of Sir Francis Drake Into The South Sea, And Therehence About The Whole Globe Of The Earth, Begun In The Year Of Our Lord 1577 Narrative By Francis Pretty
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The 24th Of August We Arrived At An Island In The Straits, Where We
Found Great Store Of Fowl Which Could Not Fly, Of The Bigness Of
Geese; Whereof We Killed In Less Than One Day 3,000, And Victualled
Ourselves Thoroughly Therewith.
The 6th day of September we entered
the South Sea at the cape or head shore.
The 7th day we were driven by
a great storm from the entering into the South Sea, 200 leagues and
odd in longitude, and one degree to the southward of the Strait; in
which height, and so many leagues to the westward, the 15th day of
September, fell out the eclipse of the moon at the hour of six of the
clock at night. But neither did the ecliptical conflict of the moon
impair our state, nor her clearing again amend us a whit; but the
accustomed eclipse of the sea continued in his force, we being
darkened more than the moon sevenfold.[*]
[*] In this storm the Marigold went down with all hands.
From the bay which we called the Bay of Severing of Friends, we were
driven back to the southward of the Straits in 57 degrees and a
tierce; in which height we came to an anchor among the islands, having
there fresh and very good water, with herbs of singular virtue. Not
far from hence we entered another bay, where we found people, both men
and women, in their canoes naked, and ranging from one island to
another to seek their meat; who entered traffic with us for such
things as they had.
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