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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

we came out of excesse of heate then a number of chamber champions could haue beene who lye on their feather-beds till they go to sea or rather whose teeth in a temperate aire do beate in their heads at a cup of cold Sack and sugar by the fire And that it was not our tendernes but the very extremitie of the cold it selfe that caused this sensiblenes in vs may the rather appeare in that the naturall inhabitants of the place with whom we had for a long season familiar intercourse as is to be related who had neuer beene acquainted with such heate to whom the countrey ayre and climate was proper and in whom custome of cold was as it were a second nature yet vsed to come shiuering to vs in their warme furres crowding close together body to body to receiue heate one of another and sheltring themselues vnder a lee bancke if it were possible and as often as they could labouring to shroude themselues vnder our garments also to keepe them warme Besides how vnhandsome and deformed appeared the face of the earth it selfe shewing trees without leaues and the ground without greennes in those moneths of Iune and Iuly The poore birds and foules not daring as we had great experience to obserue it not daring so much as once to arise from their nests after the first egge layed till it with all the rest be hatched and brought to some strength of nature able to helpe it selfe Onely this recompence hath nature affoorded them that the heate of their owne bodies being exceeding great it perfecteth the creature with greater expedition and in shorter time then is to be found in many other places As for the causes of this extremity they seeme not to be so deeply hidden but that they may at least in part be guessed at The chiefest of which we conceiue to be the large spreading of the Asian and American continent which somewhat Northward of these parts if they be not fully ioyned yet seeme they to come very neere one to the other From whose high and snow-couered mountaines the North and North-west winds the constant visitants of those coasts send abroad their frozen nimphes to the infecting of the whole aire with this insufferable sharpnesse not permitting the Sunne no not in the pride of his heate to dissolue that congealed matter and snow which they haue breathed out so nigh the Sunne and so many degrees distant from themselues And that the North and North-west winds are here constant in Iune and Iuly as the North wind alone is in August and September we not onely found it by our owne experience but were fully confirmed in the opinion thereof by the continued obseruations of the Spaniards Hence comes the generall squalidnesse and barrennesse of the countrie hence comes it that in the middest of their Summer the snow hardly departeth euen from their very doores but is neuer taken away from their hils at all hence come those thicke mists and most stinking fogges which increase so much the more by how much higher the pole is raised wherein a blind pilot is as good as the best director of a course For the Sunne striuing to performe his naturall office in eleuating the vapours out of these inferior bodies draweth necessarily abundance of moisture out of the sea bat the nipping cold from the former causes meeting and opposing the Sunnes indeuour forces him to giue ouer his worke imperfect and instead of higher eleuation to leaue in the lowest region wandring vpon the face of the earth and waters as it were a second sea through which its owne beames cannot possibly pierce vnlesse sometimes when the sudden violence of the winds doth helpe to scatter and breake through it which thing happeneth very seldome and when it happeneth is of no continuance Some of our marriners in this voyage had formerly beene at Wardhouse in 72. deg of North latitude who yet affirmed that they felt no such nipping cold there in the end of Summer when they departed thence as they did here in those hottest moneths of Iune and Iuly And also from these reasons we coniecture that either there is no passage at all through these Northerne coasts which is most likely or if there be that yet it is vnnauigable Adde hereunto that though we searched the coast diligently euen vnto the 48. deg yet found we not the land to trend so much as one point in any place towards the East but rather running on continually Northwest as if it went directly to meet with Asia and euen in that height when we had a franke wind to haue carried vs through had there beene a passage yet we had a smooth and calme sea with ordinary flowing and reflowing which could not haue beene had there beene a frete of which we rather infallibly concluded then coniectured that there was none But to returne Iune 18 The next day after our comming to anchor in the aforesaid harbour the people of the countrey shewed themselues sending off a man with great expedition to vs in a canow Who being yet but a little from the shoare and a great way from our ship spake to vs continually as he came rowing on And at last at a reasonable distance staying himselfe he began more solemnely a long and tedious oration after his manner vsing in the deliuerie thereof many gestures and signes mouing his hands turning his head and body many wayes and after his oration ended with great shew of reuerence and submission returned back to shoare againe He shortly came againe the second time in like manner and so the third time When he brought with him as a present from the rest a bunch of feathers much like the feathers of a blacke crow very neatly and artificially gathered vpon a string and drawne together into a round bundle being verie cleane and finely cut and bearing in length an equall proportion one with another a speciall cognizance as wee afterwards obserued which they that guard their kings person weare on their heads With this also he brought a little basket made of rushes and filled with an herbe which they called Tabáh Both which being tyed to a short rodde he cast into our boate Our Generall intended to haue recompenced him immediatly with many good things he would haue bestowed vpon him but entring into the boate to deliuer the same he could not be drawne to receiue them by any meanes saue one hat which being cast into the water out of the ship he tooke vp refusing vtterly to meddle with any other thing though it were vpon a board put off vnto him and so presently made his returne After which time our boate could row no way but wondring at vs as at gods they would follow the same with admiration The 3. day following viz. Ian. 21 the 21. our ship hauing receiued a leake at sea was brought to-anchor neerer the shoare that her goods being landed she might be repaired but for that we were to preuent any danger that

we set saile shaping our course right North west to coast alongst the parts of Peru for so the generall mappes set out the land to lie both for that we might with conuenient speed full with the height of 30. deg being the place appointed for the rest of our fleete to re-assemble as also that no opportunity might be lost in the meane time to finde them out if it seemed good to God to direct them to vs. In this course we chanced the next day with two Ilands being as it were store houses of most liberall prouision of victualls for vs of birds yeelding not onely sufficient and plentifull store for vs who were present but enough to haue serued all the rest also which were absent Thence hauing furnished our selues to our content we continued our course Nouember 1. still Northwest as wee had formerly done but in going on we soone espied that we might easily haue beene deceiued and therefore casting about and steering vpon another point wee found that the generall mappes did erre from the truth in setting downe the coast of Peru for 12. deg at least to the Northward of the supposed straite no lesse then is the Northwest point of the compasse different from the Northeast perceiuing hereby that no man had euer by trauell discouered any part of these 12. deg and therefore the setters forth of such descriptions are not to be trusted much lesse honored in their false and fraudulent coniectures which they vse not in this alone but in diuers other points of no small importance We found this part of Peru all alongst to the height of Lima which is 12. deg South of the line to be mountainous and very barren without water or wood for the most part except in certaine places inhabited by the Spaniards and few others which are very fruitfull and commodious After we were once againe thus fallen with the land we continually coasted along til we came to the height of 37. d. or thereabout and finding no conuenient place of abode nor likelihood to heare any newes of our ships we ranne off againe with an Iland which lay in sight named of the Spaniards Mucho by reason of the greatnesse and large circuit thereof Nou. 25 At this Iland comming to anchor Nouemb. 25. we found it to be a fruitfull place and well stored with sundrie sorts of good things as sheepe and other cattell maize which is a kinde of graine whereof they make bread potatoes with such other rootes besides that it is thought to be wonderfull rich in gold and to want no good thing for the vse of mans life The inhabitants are such Indians as by the cruell and most extreame dealing of the Spaniards haue beene driuen to flie from the maine here to releeue and fortifie themselues With this people our Generall thought it meet to haue traffique for fresh victuals and water and for that cause the very same night of our arriuall there himselfe with diuers of his company went ashoare to whom the people with great courtesie came downe bringing with them such fruits and other victuals as they had and two very fat sheepe which they gaue our Generall for a present In recompence whereof hee bestowed vpon them againe many good and necessarie things signifying vnto them that the end of his comming was for no other cause but by way of exchange to traffique with them for such things as wee needed and they could spare and in particular for such as they had alreadie brought downe vnto vs besides fresh water which wee desired of them Herein they held themselues well contented and seemed to be not a little ioyful of our comming appointing where we should the next morning haue fresh water at pleasure and withall signifying that then also they would bring vs downe such other things as we desired to serue our turnes Nou. 26 The next day therefore very early in the morning all things being made readie for traffique as also vessels prepared to bring the water our Generall taking great care for so necessarie prouision repaired to the shoare againe and setting aland two of his men sent them with their Barricoes to the watering place assigned the night before Who hauing peaceably past on one halfe of the way were then with no small violence set vpon by those traiterous people and suddenly slaine And to the end that our Generall with the rest of his company should not onely be stayed from rescuing them but also might fall if it were possible into their hands in like manner they had layed closely behind the rockes an ambushment of as we guessed about 500. men armed and well appointed for such a mischiefe Who suddenly attempting their purpose the rocks being very dangerous for the boate and the sea-gate exceeding great by shooting their arrowes hurt and wounded euery one of our men before they could free themselues or come to die vse of there weapons to do any good The General himself was shot in the face vnder his right eye and close by his nose the arrow piercing a maruellous way in vnder basis cerebri with no small danger of his life besides that he was grieuously wounded in the head The rest being nine persons in the boate were deadly wounded in diuers parts of their bodies if God almost miraculously had not giuen cure to the same For our chiefe Surgeon being dead and the other absent by the losse of our vice-admirall and hauing none left vs but a boy whose good will was more then any skill hee had we were little better then altogether destitute of such cunning and helpes as so grieuous a state of so many wounded bodies did require Notwithstanding God by the good aduice of our Generall and the diligent putting too of euery mans helpe did giue such speedy and wonderfull cure that we had all great comfort thereby and yeelded God the glory thereof The cause of this force and iniurie by these Ilanders was no other but the deadly hatred which they beare against their cruell enemies the Spaniards for the bloudy and most tirannous oppression which they had vsed towards them And therefore with purpose against them suspecting vs to bee Spaniards indeed and that the rather by occasion that though command was giuen to the contrary some of our men in demanding water vsed the Spanish word Aqua sought some part of reuenge against vs. Our Generall notwithstanding he might haue reuenged this wrong with little hazard or danger yet being more desirous to preserue one of his owne men aliue then to destroy 100. of his enemies committed the same to God wishing this onely punishment to them that they did but know whom they had wronged and that they had done this iniurie not to an enemie but to a friend not to a Spaniard but to an Englishman who would rather haue beene a patron to defend them then any way an instrument of the least wrong that should haue beene done vnto them The weapons which this people vse

open their eyes they might vnderstand we were but men and no gods we vsed ordinary meanes as lotions emplaisters and vnguents most fitly as farre as our skills could guesse agreeing to the natures of their griefes beseeching God if it made for his glory to giue cure to their diseases by these meanes The like we did from time to time as they resorted to vs. Few were the dayes wherein they were absent from vs during the whole time of our abode in that place and ordinarily euery third day they brought their sacrifices till such time as they certainely vnderstood our meaning that we tooke no pleasure but were displeased with them whereupon their zeale abated and their sacrificing for a season to our good liking ceased not-withstanding they continued still to make their resort vnto vs in great abundance and in such sort that they oft-times forgate to prouide meate for their owne sustenance so that our generall of whom they made account as of a father was faine to performe the office of a father to them relieuing them with such victualls as we had prouided for our selues as Muscles Scales and such like wherein they tooke exceeding much content and seeing that their sacrifices were displeasing to vs yet hating ingratitude they sought to recompence vs with such things as they had which they willingly inforced vpon vs though it were neuer so necessarie or needfull for themselues to keepe They are a people of a tractable free and louing nature without guile or treachery they bowes and arrowes their only weapons and almost all their wealth they vse very skillfully but yet not to do any great harme with them being by reason of their weakenesse more fit for children then for men sending the arrow neither farre off nor with any great force and yet are the men commonly so strong of body that that which 2. or 3. of our men could hardly beare one of them would take vpon his backe and without grudging carrie it easily away vp hill and downe hill an English mile together they are also exceeding swift in running and of long continuance the vse whereof is so familiar with them that they seldome goe but for the most part runne One thing we obserued in them with admiration that if at any time they chanced to see a fish so neere the shoare that they might reach the place without swimming they would neuer or very seldome misse to take it After that our necessary businesses were well dispatched our generall with his gentlemen and many of his company made a journy vp into the land to see the manner of their dwelling and to be the better acquainted with the nature and commodities of the country Their houses were all such as wee haue formerly described and being many of them in one place made seuerall villages here and there The inland we found to be farre different from the shoare a goodly country and fruitfull soyle stored with many blessings fit for the vse of man infinite was the company of very large and fat Deere which there we sawe by thousands as we supposed in a heard besides a multitude of a strange kinde of Conies by farre exceeding them in number their heads and bodies in which they resemble other Conies are but small his tayle like the tayle of a Rat exceeding long and his feet like the pawes of a Want or Moale vnder his chinne on either side he hath a bagge into which he gathereth his meate when he hath filled his belly abroade that he may with it either feed his young or feed himselfe when he lists not to trauaile from his burrough the people eate their bodies and make great account of their skinnes for their kings holidaies coate was made of them This country our generall named Albion and that for two causes the one in respect of the white bancks and cliffes which lie toward the sea the other that it might haue some affinity euen in name also with our owne country which was sometime so called Before we went from thence our generall caused to be set vp a monument of our being there as also of her maiesties and successors right and title to that kingdome namely a plate of brasse fast nailed to a great and firme post whereon is engrauen her graces name and the day and yeare of our arriuall there and of the free giuing vp of the prouince and kingdome both by the king and people into her maiesties hands together with her highnesse picture and armes in a piece of sixpence currant English monie shewing it selfe by a hole made of purpose through the plate vnderneath was likewise engrauen the name of our generall c. The Spaniards neuer had any dealing or so much as set a foote in this country the vtmost of their discoueries reaching onely to many degrees Southward of this place And now as the time of our departure was perceiued by them to draw nigh so did the sorrowes and miseries of this people seeme to themselues to increase vpon them and the more certaine they were of our going away the more doubtfull they shewed themselues what they might doe so that we might easily iudge that that ioy being exceeding great wherewith they receiued vs at our first arriuall was cleane drowned in their excessiue sorrow for our departing For they did not onely loose on a sudden all mirth ioy glad countenance pleasant speeches agility of body familiar reioycing one with another and all pleasure what euer flesh and bloud might bee delighted in but with sighes and sorrowings with heauy hearts and grieued minds they powred out wofull complaints and moanes with bitter teares and wringing of their hands tormenting themselues And as men refusing all comfort they onely accounted themselues as cast-awayes and those whom the gods were about to forsake So that nothing we could say or do was able to ease them of their so heauy a burthen or to deliuer them from so desperate a straite as our leauing of them did seeme to them that it would cast them into Howbeit seeing they could not still enioy our presence they supposing vs to be gods indeed thought it their duties to intreate vs that being absent we would yet be mindfull of them and making signes of their desires that in time to come wee would see them againe they stole vpon vs a sacrifice and set it on fire erre we were aware burning therein a chaine and a bunch of feathers We laboured by all meanes possible to withhold or withdraw them but could not preuaile till at last we fell to prayers and singing of Psalmes whereby they were allured immediatly to forget their folly and leaue their sacrifice vnconsumed suffering the fire to go out and imitating vs in all our actions they fell a lifting vp their eyes and hands to heauen as they saw vs do Iuly 23 The 23. of Iuly they tooke a sorrowfull farewell of vs but being loath to leaue vs they presently ranne to the tops of the

it white moones and the white part blacke Suns being the marks and characters of their gods as is before noted They haue some commodity by painting of their bodies for the which cause they vse it so generally and that I gather to be the defence it yeeldeth against the piercing and nipping cold For the colours being close layd on vpon their skinne or rather in their flesh as by continuall renewing of these iuyces which are layed on soakt into the inner part thereof doth fill vp the pores so close that no aire or cold can enter or make them once to shrinke They haue cleane comely and strong bodies they are swift of foot and seeme very actiue Neither is any thing more lamentable in my iudgement then that so goodly a people and so liuely creatures of God should bee ignorant of the true and liuing God And so much the more is this to be lamented by how much they are more tractable and easie to be brought to the sheepfold of Christ hauing in truth a land sufficient to recompence any Christian Prince in the world for the whole trauell and labour cost and charges bestowed in that behalfe with a wonderfull enlarging of a kingdome besides the glory of God by encreasing of the Church of Christ It s wonderfull to heare being neuer knowne to Christians before this time how familiar they became in short space with vs thinking themselues to be ioyned with such a people as they ought rather to serue then offer any wrong or iniurie vnto Presuming that they might be bold with our Generall as with a Father and with vs as with brethren and their neerest friends neither seemed their loue lesse towards vs. One of the chiefest among them hauing on a time receiued a cap of our Generals head which he did daily weare remouing himselfe but a little from vs with an arrow pierced his legge deepely causing the bloud to streame out vpon the ground signifying thereby how vnfainedly he loued him and giuing therin a couenant of peace The number of men which here did frequent our companie were about fiftie persons Within in the Southermost part of this bay there is a riuer of fresh water with a great many profitable Ilands of which some haue alwaies such store of Seales or sea-wosues as were able to maintaine a huge army of men Other Ilands being many and great are so replenished with birds and foule as if there were no other victuals a wonderfull multitude of people might be nourished by the increase of them for many posterities Of these we killed some with shot and some with status and tooke some with our hands from mens heads and shoulders vpon which they lighted We could not perceiue that the people of the countrey had any sort of boate or canowe to come to these Ilands Their owne prouision which they eate for ought we could perceiue was commonly raw For we should sometimes find the remnants of Seales all bloudy which they had gnawne with their teeth like dogs They go all of them armed with a short bow of about an ell in length in their hands with arrowes of reeds and headed with a flint stone very cunningly cut and fastned This bay by reason of the plenty of Seales therein found insomuch that we killed two hundred in the space of one houre we called Seale bay And hauing now made sufficient prouision of victuals and other necessaries as also happily finished all our businesses Iune 3 Iune 3. we set saile from thence And coasting along towards the pole Antartick Iune 12. Iune 12 we fell with a little bay in which we anchored for the space of two dayes spent in the discharging of our Caunter the Christopher which wee here layed vp Iune 14 The 14. day we waighed againe and kept on our course Southward till the 17. Iune 17 and then cast anchor in another bay in 50. deg 20. min. lacking but little more then one degree of the mouth of the Straights through which lay our so much desited passage into the South sea Here our generall on good aduise determined to alter his course and turne his sterne to the Northward againe if happily God would grant we might find our ship and friends whom we lost in the great storme as is before said Forasmuch as if we should enter the Straight without them in our company it must needs go hard with them and we also in the meane time as well by their absence as by the vncertaintie of their state must needs receiue no small discomfort Iune 18 And therefore Iune 18. in the morning putting to sea againe with hartie and often prayers wee ioyned watchfull industry to serue Gods good prouidence and held on our purpose to runne backe toward the line into the same height in which they were first disseuered from vs. Iune 19 The 19. day of Iune toward night hauing sayled within a few leagues of port Saint Iulian we had our ship in sight for which we gaue God thankes with most ioyfull minds And forasmuch as the ship was farre out of order and very leake by reason of extremity of weather which she had endured aswell before her loosing company as in her absence our Generall thought good to beare into Port Saint Iulian with his fleet because it was so nigh at hand and so conuenient a place intending there to refresh his wearied men and cherish them which had in their absence tasted such bitternesse of discomfort besides the want of many things which they sustained Iune 20 Thus the next day the 20. of Iune we entred Port Saint Iulian which standeth in 49. deg 30. min. and hath on the South side of the harbour picked rockes like towers and within the harbour many Ilands which you many ride hard aboard off but in going in you must borrow of the North shoare Being now come to anchor and all things fitted and made safe aboard our Generall with certaine of his companie viz. Thomas Drake his brother Iohn Thomas Robert Winter Oliuer the Master gunner Iohn Brewer and Thomas Hood Iune 22 Iune 22. rowed further in with a boate to find out some conuenient place which might yeeld vs fresh water during the time of our abode there and furnish vs with supply for prouision to take to sea with vs at our departure Which worke as it was of great necessitie and therefore carefully to be performed so did not he thinke himselfe discharged of his duty if he himselfe bestowed not the first trauell therein as his vse was at all times in all other things belonging to the relieuing of our wants and the maintenance of our good estate by the supply of what was needfull Presently vpon his landing he was visited by two of the inhabitants of the place whom Magellane named Patagous or rather Pentagours from their huge stature and strength proportionable These as they seemed greatly to reioyce at his arriuall so did they shew themselues very familiar receiuing at our Generals

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