and indeed he might well have found a hard bargaine of it,
happily they were Canarie merchants and feared vs as we
them; in the long reach we feared nought but Calmes, which
sometimes held a fortnight or 3 weekes together, and starve
men, but this happens not above once in an age, there are
often tedious stayes for fault of winde, but when it comes it
is ever the same (1) for our way: we sailed 3000 miles in
this reach in a sea of milke without any calme in the dead
of winter, where we had every as hote, as the hotest day of
summer in England, so that in summer tis intolerable for
heat, where I see that, diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur
in bonum, for if we had not had those Crosses, rubbs, and
difficulties before our comeing forth, we had got the hote
weather which had doubtlesse, cost most of our liues: from
our setting forth till Christmas day our sickenesse onely sea-
sicknesse, then indeed for the celebrity of the daye wine being
given ouer all the ship, it was soe immoderately taken as
the next day 30 sickened of fevers, whereof about a dozen
died afterward amongest which one Catholique venturer,
M^r Nicholas ffarefax, and one very faithfull servant of my
L^rde named M^r Barefoot; some curiosities we see in our way,
as flieinge fishes, w^ch vse their finnes as well to flie as swimme,
they are of the bignesse of sparling fish or great smelt very
dainty for meat: some of them as they rise in hundreds pur-
sued by the dolphins fell into our ship, being not able to flie
aboue two or three acres, when their finnes being dried, they
must neede dippe them into the water to flie a fresh againe;
after we came within 21 and some odd minutes of the Aqui-
noctiall, where begins the tropicke, we saw the tropicke bird,
bigge as falcons, with 2 white feathers in their traines and
noe more, whether they alwaies, keep in the aire, or some-
times rest on the water I know not; when we had passed the