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A20784	The vvorld encompassed by Sir Francis Drake being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios formerly imprinted; carefully collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher preacher in this imployment, and diuers others his followers in the same: offered now at last to publique view, both for the honour of the actor, but especially for the stirring vp of herock spirits, to benefit their countrie, and eternize their names by like noble attempts.	Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.; Fletcher, Francis, 16th cent.	1628 (1628)	STC 7161; ESTC S105366	81,588	115

April 15. in 15. deg 40. min. was Guatulco so named of the Spaniards who inhabited it with whom we had some entercourse to the supply of many things which we desired and chiefely bread c. And now hauing reasonably as wee thought prouided our selues we departed from the coast of America for the present but not forgetting before we gate a-shipboard to take with vs also a certaine pot of about a bushell in bignesse full of ryalls of plate which we found in the towne together with a chaine of gold and some other iewells which we intreated a gentleman Spaniard to leaue behinde him as he was flying out of towne Apr. 16 From Guatulco we departed the day following viz. Aprill 16. setting our course directly into the sea whereon we sayled 500. leagues in longitude to gee a winde and betweene that and lune 3. 1400. leagues in all till we came into 42. deg of North latitude where in the night following we found such alteration of heate into extreame and nipping cold that our men in generall did grieuously complaine thereof some of them feeling their healths much impaired thereby neither was it that this chanced in the night alone but the day following carried with it not onely the markes but the stings and force of the night going before to the great admiration of vs all for besides that the pinching and biting aire was nothing altered the very roapes of our ship were stiffe and the raine which fell was an vnnatural congealed and frozen substance so that we seemed rather to be in the frozen Zone then any way so neere vnto the sun or these hotter climates Neither did this happen for the time onely or by some sudden accident but rather seemes indeed to proceed from some ordinary cause against the which the heate of the sun preuailes not for it came to that extremity in sayling but 2. deg farther to the Northward in our course that though sea-men lack not good stomaches yet it seemed a question to many amongst vs whether their hands should feed their mouthes or rather keepe themselues within their couerts from the pinching cold that did benumme them Neither could we impute it to the tendernesse of our bodies though we came lately from the extremitie of heate by reason whereof we might be more sensible of the present cold insomuch as the dead and sencelesse creatures were as well affected with it as our selues our meate as soone as it was remooued from the fire would presently in a manner be frozen vp and our ropes and tackling in few dayes were growne to that stiffenesse that what 3. men afore were able with them to performe now 6. men with their best strength and vttermost endeauour were hardly able to accomplish whereby a sudden and great discouragement seased vpon the mindes of our men and they were possessed with a great mislike and doubting of any good to be done that way yet would not our general be discouraged but as wel by comfortable speeches of the diuine prouidence and of Gods louing care ouer his children out of the scriptures as also by other good and profitable perswasions adding thereto his own cheerfull example he so stirred them vp to put on a good courage and to quite themselues like men to indure some short extremity to haue the speedier comfort and a little trouble to obtaine the greater glory that euery man was throughly armed with willingnesse and resolued to see the vttermost if it were possible of what good was to be done that way The land in that part of America bearing farther out into the West then we before imagined we were neerer on it then wee were aware and yet the neerer still wee came vnto it the more extremitie of cold did sease vpon vs. Iune 5 The 5. day of Iune wee were forced by contrary windes to run in with the shoare which we then first descried and to cast anchor in a bad bay the best roade we could for the present meete with where wee were not without some danger by reason of the many extreme gusts and flawes that beate vpon vs which if they ceased and were still at any time immediatly vpon their intermission there followed most vile thicke and stinking fogges against which the sea preuailed nothing till the gusts of wind againe remoued them which brought with them such extremity and violence when they came that there was no dealing or resisting against them In this place was no abiding for vs and to go further North the extremity of the cold which had now vtterly discouraged our men would not permit vs and the winds directly bent against vs hauing once gotten vs vnder sayle againe commanded vs to the Southward whether we would or no. From the height of 48. deg in which now we were to 38. we found the land by coasting alongst it to bee but low and reasonable plaine euery hill whereof we saw many but none verie high though it were in Iune and the Sunne in his neerest approch vnto them being couered with snow Iune 17 In 38 deg 30. min. we fell with a conuenient and fit harborough and Iune 17. came to anchor therein where we continued till the 23. day of Iuly following During all which time notwithstanding it was in the height of Summer and so neere the Sunne yet were wee continually visited with like nipping colds as we had felt before insomuch that if violent exercises of our bodies and busie imployment about our necessarie labours had not sometimes compeld vs to the contrary we could very well haue beene contented to haue kept about vs still our Winter clothes yea had our necessities suffered vs to haue kept our beds neither could we at any time in whole fourteene dayes together find the aire so cleare as to be able to take the height of Sunne or starre And here hauing so fit occasion notwithstanding it may seeme to be besides the purpose of writing the history of this our voyage we will a little more diligently inquire into the causes of the continuance of the extreame cold in these parts as also into the probabilities or vnlikelihoods of a passage to be found that way Neither was it as hath formerly beene touched the tendernesse of our bodies comming so lately out of the heate whereby the poores were opened that made vs so sensible of the colds we here felt in this respect as in many others we found our God a prouident father and carefull Physitian for vs. We lacked no outward helpes nor inward comforts to restore and fortifie nature had it beene decayed or weakened in vs neither was there wanting to vs the great experience of our Generall who had often himselfe proued the force of the burning Zone whose aduice alwayes preuailed much to the preseruing of a moderate temper in our constitutions so that euen after our departure from the heate wee alwayes found our bodies not as sponges but strong and hardned more able to beare out cold though