Of the Cape S. Aluise, and Cape Memorancie, and certaine other lands, and how one of our Boates touched a Rocke and suddenly went ouer it.
ON munday being the 27 of the moneth, about sunne-set we went along the said land, as we haue said, lying Southeast & Northwest, till Wednesday that we saw another Cape where the land beginneth to bend toward the East: we went along about 15 leagues, then doeth the land begin to turne Northward. About three leagues from the sayd Cape we s••und••d, and found 24 fadome water. The said lands are plaine, and the fairest and most without woods that we haue seene, with goodly greene fields and medowes: we named the sayd Cape S. Aluise Cape, because that was his day: it is 49 degrees and a halfe in latitude, and in longitude*. Ou Wednesday morning we were on the East side of the Cape, and being almost night we went Northwestward for to approch neere to the sayd land, which trendeth North and South. From S. Aluise Cape to another called Cape Memorancie, about fif••eene leagues, the land beginneth to bend North∣west. About three leagues from the sayd Cape we would needes sound, but wee could finde no ground at 150 fadome, yet went we along the said land, about tenne leagues, to the latitude of 50 degrees.* 1.1 The Saturday following, being the first of August, by Sunne rising, wee had cer∣taine other landes, lying North and Northeast, that were very high and craggie, and seemed to be mountaines: betweene which were other low lauds with woods and riuers: wee went abou•• the sayd lands, as well on the one side as on the other, still bending Northwest, to see if it were ei∣ther a gulfe, or a passage, vntill the fift of the moneth. The distance from one land to the other is about fifteene leagues. The middle b••tweene them both is 50 degrees and a terce in la••itude. We had much adoe to go fiue miles farther, the winds were fo great, and the ride against vs. And at fiue miles end, we might plainely see and per••eiue land on both sides, which there beginneth to spread it selfe, but because we rather fell, then got way against the wind, we went toward land, purposing to goe to another Cape of land, lying Southward, which was the farthermost out into the sea that we could see, abou•• fiue leagues from vs, but so so••ne as we came thither, we found it to be naught else but Rockes, stones, & craggie cliffes, fuch as we had not found any where si••••r we had sailed Southward from S. Iohns Cape: and th•••••• was the tide with vs, which caried vs a∣gainst the wind Westward, so that as we were sayling along the sayd coast, one of our boats tou∣ched a Rocke, and suddenly went ouer, but we were cons••rained to leape out for to direct i•• on ac∣cording to the tide.