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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

not with our coast and seeing us depart peaceably in honour of our fleet and Generall or rather to signifie that they were provided for an assault shot off two great peeces into the sea which were answered by one given them again from us South-west from Saint Jago in 14. deg 30. min. about twelve leagues distant yet by reason of the height seeming not above three leagues lyeth another Island called of the Portugals Fogo viz. the burning Iland or fiery furnace in which riseth a steepe upright hill by conjecture at least six leagues or eighteen English miles from the upper part of the water within the bowels whereof is a consuming fire maintained by sulphure matter seeming to be a marvellous depth and also very wide The fire sheweth it self but four times in an houre at which times it breaketh out with such violence force and in such main abundance that besides that it giveth light like the Moone a great way off it seemeth that it would not stay till it touch one heavens themselves Herein are ingendred great store of prumice stores which being in the vehement heat of the fire carried up without the mouth of that fiery body fall down with other grosse and slimy matter upon the hill to the continuall increasing of the same And many times these stones falling down into the sea are taken up and used as we our selves had experience by sight of them swimming on the water The rest of the Island is fruitfull notwithstanding and is inhabited by Portugals who live very commodiously therein as in the other Islands thereabout Upon the South side about two leagues off this Island of burning lyeth a most sweet and pleasant Island the trees thereof are alwaies green and faire to look on the soile almost full set with trees in respect whereof it s named the brave Island being a storehouse of many fruits and commodities as figs alwaies ripe cocos plantons orenges limons cotton c. from the banks into the sea do run in many places the silver streams of sweet and wholsome water which with boats or pinnaces may easily be taken in But there is no convenient place or roade for ships neither any anchroaching at all For after long triall and often casting of leads there could no ground be had at any hand neither was it ever known as is reported that any line would fetch ground in any place about that Island So that the top of Fogo burneth not so high in the aire but the root of Brava so is the Island called is buried and quenched as low in the Seas The only inhabitant of this Island is an Hermit as we suppose for we found no other houses but one built as is seemed for such a purpose and he was so delighted in his solitary living that he would by no meanes abide our coming but fled leaving behind him the relicks of his false worship to wit a cross with a crusifix an altar with his superaltar and certain other Idols of wood of rude workmanship Here we dismissed the Portugals taken neere Saint Jago and gave to them in exchange of their old ship our new pinnace built at Mogadore with wine bread and fish for their provision and so sent them away Feb. 1. Having thus visited as is declared the Island of cape Verde and provided fresh water as we could the second of Feb. we departed thence directing our course towards the Straights so to passe into the South Sea in which course we sailed 63. dayes without sight of land passing the line equinoctiall the 17. day of the same moneth till we fell with the coast of Brasill the fifth of April following During which long passage on the vast gulph where nothing but sea beneath us and aire above us was to be seen as our eyes did behold the wonderfull works of God in his creatures which he had made innumerable both small and great beasts in the great and wide Seas so did our mouthes taste and our natures fed on the goodness thereof in such fulness at all time and in every place as if he had commanded and enjoyned the most profitable and most glorious works of his hands to wait upon us not alone for the relief of our necessities but also to give us delight in the contemplation of his excellence in beholding the variety and order of his providence with a particular tast of his fatherly care over us all the while The truth is we often met with adverse winds unwelcome stormes and to us at that time less welcome calms and being as it were in the bosome of the burning zone we felt the effects of sultring heat not without the affrights of flashing lightning and terrifyings of often claps of thunder yet still with the admixture of many comforts For this we could not but take notice of that whereas we were but badly furnished our case considered of fresh water having never at all watred to any purpose or that we could say we were much the better for it from our first setting forth out of England till this time nor meeting with any place where we might conveniently water till our coming to the river of Plate long after continually after once we were come within foure degrees of the line on this side viz. after Feb. 10. and till we were past the line as many pegrees towards the South viz. till Feb. 27. there was no one day went over us but we received some raine whereby our want of water was much supplyed This also was observable that of our whole fleet being now 6. in number notwithstanding the uncouthnes of the way and what ever other difficulties by weather or otherwise we met withall not any one in all this space lost company of the rest except only our Portugall prise for one day who March 28. was severed from us but the day following March 29. she found us again to both her own and our no little comfort she had in her 28. of our men and the best part of all our provision for drink her short absence caused much doubting and sorrow in the whole company neither could she then have been finally lost without the overthrow of the whole voyage Among the many strange creatures which we saw we took heedfull notice of one as strange as any to wit the flying fish a fish of the bigness and proportion of a reasonable or middle sort of Pilchards he hath finnes of the length of his whole body from the bulk to the top of the taile bearing the forme and supplying the like use to him that wings do to other creatures By the help of those fins when he is chased of the Bonito or great mackrel whom the Aurata or dolphin likewise pursueth and hath not strength to escape by swimming any longer he lifteth up himself above the water flieth a pretty height sometimes lighting into Boats or Barks as they saile along The quils of their wings are so