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BY THE COAST OF SPAIN. 95
Degate1; in the morninge we weare becalmed before Alama,2
a fair toune in Spaine, as it is said, not moche inferrier to
London. We weare in a maner becalmed all that daye and
the nyghte followinge.
This day we saw greate store of the spane (spawn) of
whales, whearof they make spermacetie; it did swym upon
the water as the whale lefte it: upon the water it showed
reed ; but when we touke upe som of it in a buckete, it
was whyte, and like grease.
Also this daye, beinge a verrie smale gale of wynde,
a great fishe caled a storke (shark ?), of a marvalus length,
did follow our ship, sid by sid, with his eyes a bove water
waytinge for a praye; for if a man had come withe in
his lengthe of the water, he would hardly have escaped
him.
Our Mr. goner made reddie his harpinge iron, and,
when the sutle fishe se him reddie to pitche it at him, he
staied and fell behinde the ship, and came up on the other
side, and sarved him so 2 or 3 times; but at laste he hitt
him a litle behinde the heade with a full blowe, but his
skine was so harde that the iron turned duble and would
not enter anythinge at all, only we myghte se a litle whyte
spott wheare it lighte. Nether did the fishe make any
show of felinge it, but turned him a boute, and vvente
awaye direcktly from the ship.
The 11th daye, the wynde beinge muche againste us, as
we weare turninge to gitt somthinge of the wynde, we
came neare unto the Castell Defeare3 in Spaine, and verrie
neare unto the shore, we loukinge still when the Castell
would shoute at us, but they would not. Than, beinge
com less than a league from the shore, we had no wynde
at all, and so it contenued all the nexte daye. By this
meanes our fleete weare scattered one a league from
: Cape de Gata.
- Alhama.
3 Castel de Ferro.
Degate1; in the morninge we weare becalmed before Alama,2
a fair toune in Spaine, as it is said, not moche inferrier to
London. We weare in a maner becalmed all that daye and
the nyghte followinge.
This day we saw greate store of the spane (spawn) of
whales, whearof they make spermacetie; it did swym upon
the water as the whale lefte it: upon the water it showed
reed ; but when we touke upe som of it in a buckete, it
was whyte, and like grease.
Also this daye, beinge a verrie smale gale of wynde,
a great fishe caled a storke (shark ?), of a marvalus length,
did follow our ship, sid by sid, with his eyes a bove water
waytinge for a praye; for if a man had come withe in
his lengthe of the water, he would hardly have escaped
him.
Our Mr. goner made reddie his harpinge iron, and,
when the sutle fishe se him reddie to pitche it at him, he
staied and fell behinde the ship, and came up on the other
side, and sarved him so 2 or 3 times; but at laste he hitt
him a litle behinde the heade with a full blowe, but his
skine was so harde that the iron turned duble and would
not enter anythinge at all, only we myghte se a litle whyte
spott wheare it lighte. Nether did the fishe make any
show of felinge it, but turned him a boute, and vvente
awaye direcktly from the ship.
The 11th daye, the wynde beinge muche againste us, as
we weare turninge to gitt somthinge of the wynde, we
came neare unto the Castell Defeare3 in Spaine, and verrie
neare unto the shore, we loukinge still when the Castell
would shoute at us, but they would not. Than, beinge
com less than a league from the shore, we had no wynde
at all, and so it contenued all the nexte daye. By this
meanes our fleete weare scattered one a league from
: Cape de Gata.
- Alhama.
3 Castel de Ferro.