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A Twelve Month** Voyage
Doubled Capi
de jhsguliis to
gain St. Lnn>-
The Easttrv
They also mform'd us, The French had worited the Flemmings in
idia, taken and demolished a Fort on the Island Ceilon; and that
they had beat the Moors out of St. Thomas.- That on our side never
a Ship was lost, as they heard. So likewise giving them an Account
of what we knew, with somc Instrudtions communicated on both
sides, we left them to take their Course, which served them for
St. Hellem, the Antartkk Monfoons favouring-them directly thi-
ther, and the Squadron under Captain Munday, if they have raised
the South Latitude of z8. may be there a little before to expect
them. /hi-zAtt-.n.
We kept on South-East, till we had doubled the most Southern
Promontory of the Cape, Cape de Angu'd'a, ("which Course would
lead us to Bantam) when bending to the North, we held on till wc
came betwixt St. Lawrence or Madigasiar, and the Main, reckoned
one of the sour bjggest Issands in the World, viz. Sumatra, Java,
St. Lawrence and Britannia. The most traded Empories here, are:
St. Augufiine on the Island, and Mofamhiqiie on the Main; frequent-
ed by the Portugal* for Elephants Teeth, Gold, Gimphire, and
Ambergreece. Why we creep in between this Island and the Main,
Is to borrow from the' Land-briezes assistance against the general
stated Winds settled for these Months between the Cape and this
Issind.
The Sea here takes the Name of Oceania Orientalise beginning
srom the Cape till it joyn with the Indian, Red, and Arabian
Seas.
Here it was we had a notable Fish stretched its self along our
sides for the space of an hour: Some called itaGrampos; butthose
that pretended skill, would have it a young Whale : It might be in
length forty Feet and upward, bolting out of the Water with a
great Surf; the Mouth large, but not responsible to so large a
Body, the Form whereof was a Pyramid inverted, the Basis of
which from Gill to Gill near five Feet in breadth, theConus termi-
nating with a narrow Snout; where his Mouth opening, he suckt
in a huge quantity of Water, and with that same eddy his Preyy
which he retains within his Jaws, but spouts the Water out with the
same spurting noisc our Engines make, and as immense an hcighth
from an hole in his Neck, opening after the fashion of a Mouth os
Slit j at the performance of which Action it contracts its self into
an Orbicular Figure, and again dilates its self in its Diastole: The
Back is of a dark Gray without Scales, sixteen Feet over, leaping as
other Fish.es, but in a more Majestick manner, moving bur. ssowsy,
whereby we had the sight of his Head and Neck sirst, (all one
Rock, and as impenetrable, it being proof against the Prongs of the
sharpest Harping-Iron); his whisking Tail last, near which a ridge
of.Fins, the true mark of Distinction for a Whale: The extreme part
of his Tail extended is very broad and finny, which is the Rudder to
this great Leviathan, wherewith, and two Fins more proceeding one
from each side, he guides himself through his watery Territories.
May had now began, when making after that glorious Charioteer,
the Sun, we were once more spirited with milder Weather; the
Mariners casting off their wet Cloaths, cared not for any more than
would ssiahtly cover them.
■ . - We
A Twelve Month** Voyage
Doubled Capi
de jhsguliis to
gain St. Lnn>-
The Easttrv
They also mform'd us, The French had worited the Flemmings in
idia, taken and demolished a Fort on the Island Ceilon; and that
they had beat the Moors out of St. Thomas.- That on our side never
a Ship was lost, as they heard. So likewise giving them an Account
of what we knew, with somc Instrudtions communicated on both
sides, we left them to take their Course, which served them for
St. Hellem, the Antartkk Monfoons favouring-them directly thi-
ther, and the Squadron under Captain Munday, if they have raised
the South Latitude of z8. may be there a little before to expect
them. /hi-zAtt-.n.
We kept on South-East, till we had doubled the most Southern
Promontory of the Cape, Cape de Angu'd'a, ("which Course would
lead us to Bantam) when bending to the North, we held on till wc
came betwixt St. Lawrence or Madigasiar, and the Main, reckoned
one of the sour bjggest Issands in the World, viz. Sumatra, Java,
St. Lawrence and Britannia. The most traded Empories here, are:
St. Augufiine on the Island, and Mofamhiqiie on the Main; frequent-
ed by the Portugal* for Elephants Teeth, Gold, Gimphire, and
Ambergreece. Why we creep in between this Island and the Main,
Is to borrow from the' Land-briezes assistance against the general
stated Winds settled for these Months between the Cape and this
Issind.
The Sea here takes the Name of Oceania Orientalise beginning
srom the Cape till it joyn with the Indian, Red, and Arabian
Seas.
Here it was we had a notable Fish stretched its self along our
sides for the space of an hour: Some called itaGrampos; butthose
that pretended skill, would have it a young Whale : It might be in
length forty Feet and upward, bolting out of the Water with a
great Surf; the Mouth large, but not responsible to so large a
Body, the Form whereof was a Pyramid inverted, the Basis of
which from Gill to Gill near five Feet in breadth, theConus termi-
nating with a narrow Snout; where his Mouth opening, he suckt
in a huge quantity of Water, and with that same eddy his Preyy
which he retains within his Jaws, but spouts the Water out with the
same spurting noisc our Engines make, and as immense an hcighth
from an hole in his Neck, opening after the fashion of a Mouth os
Slit j at the performance of which Action it contracts its self into
an Orbicular Figure, and again dilates its self in its Diastole: The
Back is of a dark Gray without Scales, sixteen Feet over, leaping as
other Fish.es, but in a more Majestick manner, moving bur. ssowsy,
whereby we had the sight of his Head and Neck sirst, (all one
Rock, and as impenetrable, it being proof against the Prongs of the
sharpest Harping-Iron); his whisking Tail last, near which a ridge
of.Fins, the true mark of Distinction for a Whale: The extreme part
of his Tail extended is very broad and finny, which is the Rudder to
this great Leviathan, wherewith, and two Fins more proceeding one
from each side, he guides himself through his watery Territories.
May had now began, when making after that glorious Charioteer,
the Sun, we were once more spirited with milder Weather; the
Mariners casting off their wet Cloaths, cared not for any more than
would ssiahtly cover them.
■ . - We