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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37432	Sir Francis Drake revived who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts : being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies ... / collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake, Mastet [sic] Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers, and notes of divers other gentlemen (who went on the said voyages) carefully compared together.	Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637. World encompassed by Sir Francis Drake.; Nichols, Philip.; Fletcher, Francis, 16th cent.; Bigges, Walter, d. 1586.; R. D.	1653 (1653)	Wing D84; Wing W3586; ESTC R1410	171,639	266

their healths much impaired thereby neither was it that this chanced in the night alone but the day following carried with it not only the marks but the stings and force of the night going before to the great admiration of us all for besides that the pinching and biting aire was nothing altered the very ropes of our ship were stiffe and the raine which fell was an unnaturall and frozen substance so that we seemed rather to be in the frozen Zone then any way so neer unto the sun or these hotter climates Neither did this happen for the time only or by some sudden accident but rather seems indeed to proceed from some ordinary cause against the which the heate of the sun prevails not for it came to that extremity in sailing but 2. deg farther to the northward in our course that though sea-men lack not good stomacks yet it seemed a question to many amongst us whether their hands should feed their mouths or rather keep themselves within their coverts from the pinching cold that did benum them Neither could we impute it to the tendernesse of our bodies though we came lately from the extremity of heate by reason whereof we might be more sensible of the present cold insomuch as the dead and senlesse creatures were as well affected with it as our selves our meat as soon as it was removed from the fire would presently in a manner be frozen up and our ropes and tackling in few dayes were grown to that stifnesse that what three men before were able with them to perform now six men with their best strength and uttermost endeavour were hardly able to accomplish whereby a sudden and great discouragement seased upon the minds 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 generall be discouraged but as well by comfortable speeches of the divine providence and of Gods loving care over his children out of the scriptures as also by other good and profitable perswasions adding thereto his own cheerfull example he so stirred them up to put on a good courage and to quit themselves like men to endure some short extremity to have the speedier comfort and a little trouble to obtain the greater glory that every man was as throughly armed with willingnesse and resolved to see the uttermost 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 we were aware and yet the neerer still we came unto it the more extremity of cold did sease upon us The 5. day of June we were forced by contrary winds to run in with the s●●are which we then first descryed and to cast anchor in a bad bay the best road we could for the present meet with where we were not without some danger by reason of the many extream gusts and flaws that beat upon us which if they ceased and were still at any time immediately upon their intermission there followed most vile thick and stinking fogs against which the sea prevailed nothing till the gust of wind again removed 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 us and to go further North the extremity of the cold which had now utterly discouraged 〈◊〉 would not permit us and the winds directly bent against 〈◊〉 having once gotten us under saile againe commanded us to the southward whether we would or no. From the height of 48. de in which now we were to 38. we 〈◊〉 the land by coasting along it to be but low and reason●●● plaine every hil whereof we saw many but none very 〈◊〉 though it were in Iune and the Sun in his neerest appr●ach unto them being covered with snow In 38. deg 30. min. we fell with a convenient and fit harborough and June 17. came to anchor therein where we continued till the 23. day of July following During all which time notwithstanding it was in the height of Summer and so neere the Sun yet were we continually visited with like nipping colds as we had felt before insomuch that if violent exercises 〈◊〉 ●ur bodies and busie imployment about our necessary lab●r● had not somtimes compeld us to the contrary we could very well have been contented to have kept about us still our winter clothes yea had our necessities suffered us to have kept ●●r beds neither could we at any time in whole foureteen dayes together find the aire so cleare as to be able to take the height of Sun or star And here having so fit occasion notwithstanding it may seem 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 extream cold in these parts as also into the probabilities or unlikelihoods of a passage to be found that way Neither was it as hath formerly been touched the tenderness of our bodies coming so lately out of the heat whereby the pores were opened that make us 〈…〉 of the colds we here felt in this respect as in many others we found our God a provident Father and careful physitian to us We lacked no outward helps nor inward comforts to 〈◊〉 Fortifie nature had it been decayed or weakned in us neither was there wanting to us the great experience of our Generall who had often himself proved the 〈◊〉 the burning zone whose advice alwayes prevailed much to the preserving of a moderate temper in our constitutions so that even after our departure from the heat we alwaies found our bodies not as sponges but strong hardned more able to beare out cold though we cam out of excess of heat then a number of chamber companions could have been who lie on their Featherbed till they go to sea or rather whose teeth in a temperate aire do beat in their heads at a cup of cold Sack and sugar by the fire And that is was not our tendernes but the very extremity of the cold it self that caused this sensibleness in us may the rather appear in that the naturall inhabitants of the place with whom we had for along season familiar entercourse as is to be related who had never been acquainted with such heat to whom the country aire climate was proper in whom custome of cold was as it were a second nature yet used to come shivering to us in their warm furs crowding close together body to body to receive h●●t one of another and shelting themselves under a 〈◊〉 bank if it were possible and as often as they could labouring to shroud themselves under our garments also to keep them warm Besides how 〈◊〉 deformed appeared the face of the 〈…〉 trees without leaves and the ground 〈…〉 those moneths of June and July The