The World Encompassed Offered Now At Last to Publick View Both for the Honour
The World Encompassed Offered Now At Last to Publick View Both for the Honour
Francis Drake
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Our trou bles did make an end, the ftorm ceafed, and all our calamities (only the abfence of our friends excepted) were removed, as if God, all this while, by his fecret provi dence, had led us to make this difcovery ; which being made according to his will, he ftayed his hand, as pleafed his Majefty therein, 1 and refreflied us as his fervants. At thefe foutherly parts we found the night, in the latter end of OUober, to be but two hours long, the fun being yet above 7 degrees diftant from the ...tropick ; fo that it feemeth, being in the tropick, to leave very little, or no night at all in that place. There be few of all thefe iflands but have fome inhabitants, whofe manners, ap parel, houfes, canoes, and way of living, is like unto thofe formerly fpoken of, a little before our departure out of the Streights. To all thefe iflands did our general give one name, to wit, Elizabe- thidts. After two days ftay, which we made in and about thefe iflands, the goth of OHo- ber we fet fail ; lhaping our courfe right north- weft, to coaft along the parts of Peru, for fo the general maps fet out the land to lie, both for that we might with conve nient fpeed, fall with the height of 30 deg.
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