of it into the sea this amazed the stoutest hearte, even of the
sailours, who confessed they had seene ships cast away with
lesse violence of weather, all the Catholiques fell to praier,
Confessiones, and vowes, and then the helme being bound vp,
and ship left without saile or gouernment to the windes and
waues, floated at hull like a dish till god were pleased to take
pittie vpon her: thus we were in feare of imminent death all
this night never lookeing to see day in this world, till at
length it pleased God to send some ease, and by little and
little still more, till we were with milder weather freed from
all those horrours: this deliuerie in a manner assured vs
of Gods mercy towards vs, and those infidells Conversion
of Maryland, his holy Goodness be foreuer praised, Amen,
from this time to our iourneyes end, about 3 monethes, we
had not one howre of bad weather, but soe prpous a nauiga-
tion, as our mariners never saw so sweet a passage: when I
say 3 months, I meane not we were so long at sea but reckon
the time spent at Barbadoes and S^t. Christophers, for we were
at sea onely 7 weekes and 2 daies, w^ch is held a speedy
passage: from this time all alonge the Spanish Coast we had
nor good, nor very bad windes, in w^ch time we looked for
Turkes but saw none, it seemes they were returned home to
celebrate their Tamisom, a great feast which happeneth about
that time, after we had passed the Straits=mouth and the
Maderas, and now went full afore the winde, which is here
trade, and ever constant on one point of the Compasse, still
servinge for south and Southwest as we sailed we made 3
ships bigger then ours, 3 leagus west from vs, labouring as
we imagined towards vs: we feared the might be turkes, and
therefore made readie for fight, neither wanted some who
imprudently wished the master to make towards them, but he
answered he could not iustifie that to the owners of the ship,