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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Not Long Before Our Departure, They Told Us That Not Far Off There
Were Such Great Ships As Ours, Wishing Us To Beware; Upon This Our
Captain Would Stay No Longer.
From Java Major we sailed for the Cape
of Good Hope, which was the first land we fell withal;
Neither did we
touch with it, or any other land, until we came to Sierra Leona, upon
the coast of Guinea; notwithstanding we ran hard aboard the cape,
finding the report of the Portugals to be most false who affirm that
it is the most dangerous cape of the world, never without intolerable
storms and present danger to travellers which come near the same. This
cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole
circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 18th of June. From
thence we continued our course to Sierra Leona, on the coast of
Guinea, where we arrived the 22nd of July, and found necessary
provisions, great store of elephants, oysters upon trees of one kind
[mangrove], spawning and increasing infinitely, the oyster suffering
no bud to grow. We departed thence the four and twentieth day.
We arrived in England the third of November, 1580, being the third
year of our departure.
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