their men and make better prouision of water and other necessaries at the Isle Anno Bueno, or Anobon. But espying land vnexpected a hundred and twentie miles or more sooner then their reckoning about three degrees of South Latitude, they determined to goe to Cape Lopo Consal∣ues. The people of Guinnee as they passed along the Coast yeelded a pedling Trade. The sicke men were set on shore the tenth of Nouember. On the three twentieth a French Sayler came abord, which promised to doe them all fauour with the Negro King. To him was sent Captaine Wert, who found him on a Throne scarsly one foot high with a Lambes skinne vnder his feet, his Garment of violet coloured cloth with guilded lace, attyred like a Rower, without shirt, shooes, or stockings, hauing a particoloured cloth on his head and many glasse Beades about his necke; at∣tended [ 10] with his Courtiers adorned with Cockes Feathers. The Palace was not comparable to a Stable. His prouision was brought him by women, a few rosted Plantans, and smoke dryed Fish in Wooden Vessels, with Wine of Palme in such sparing measure, that Masicissa and the re∣nowmed Examples of Temperance might hane beene this Negro's Disciples. Once the Dutch Captaine was faine (vnder colour of courtesie to shew the King his manner of Dyet) to call for some of his Holland prouision to satisfie his barking, and thus more prouoked entrailes. But in the Spanish Wine the Guinean forgot his Temperance and was carryed to his rest. Little refreshing was here to be had. A Bore and two Buffals they killed in the Woods: a little they bought, a few Birds they tooke, and (which worse was) as the Scorbuto forsooke the sicke, Feuers posses∣sed the stronger. On the eight of December they departed, and on the sixteenth arriued at An∣nobon. [ 20] Some prouision they got there by force, and that scuruie exchange of the Scuruie and F••∣••er, and lost by sicknesse thirtie men, amongst which Thomas Spring an English yong man of great towardnesse. In the beginning of the yeare 1599. they departed for the Magellane straits. In the tenth of March in fortie two degrees, the Sea was all red as if it had beene mixed with bloud, being full of red Wormes, which taken vp leaped like Fleas. On Aprill the sixt they en∣tred the straights. At Pinguine Islands they stored themselues with thirteene or fourteene hun∣dred. On the eighteenth they anchored in the Greene Bay in fiftie foure degrees, where they had fresh Water and large Muscles. Here they stayed till the three and twentieth of August in a perpetuall stormie Winter, and lost a hundred of their Companie. Alway the storme found them worke, and miserable was their toyle without any furtherance to their intended Voyage. Raine, [ 30] Winde, Snow, Hayle, Hunger, losses of Anchors, spoyles of Ship and Tackling, Sicknesse, Death, Sauages; want of store, and store of wants, conspired a fulnesse of miseries. But speci∣ally colde increased their appetite; and this decreased their Prouision and made them seeke out for supply. On the seuenth of May, they went to take Gudgeons towards the South ouer a∣gainst the Greene Bay, and their descryed seuen Canoas of wilde men, of ten or eleuen foot as they coniectured in stature with red bodies and long haire, which amazed the Dutch, and terrified them with stones and cryes, and after got into their Boates againe to assaile them, but seeing foure or fiue fall downe dead with Dutch Thunder, they fledde to Land and plucking vp bigge Trees, barricadoed themselues, and threw stones at the Hollanders, which their left them in their sudden erected Fort. But afterwards three of their Companie were slaine, who in seeking food for life, found death at the hand of naked Sauages, whose weapons were Saw-toothed Darts, which if [ 40] they entred, must be cut out of the flesh. This Greene Bay they called the Bay of Cordes, for their long stay. In another Bay called the Horse Bay, they erected a new Guild or Fraternitie, which Societie bound themselues by Oath to certaine Articles, which was done with more solemnitie of Ceremonie then prosperous effect. They stil••d it the Fraternitie of the freed Lion. The Ge∣nerall added sixe choice men to himselfe in this Societie and caused their names to bee carued in a Table fastened on high Pillers, to be seene of all Passengers, which was defaced, neuerthelesse by the Sauages who also plucked out the Corpses from the Graues and dismembred them, and carried one away. On the third of September, they passed out of the straight and continued till the seuenth, when Captaine Weert was forced by a storme to stay, and the Faith and Fidelitie [ 50] were left behind in much Miserie, Tempest, Hunger Leaks, &c. the death of their Master also at∣tending the losse of their Company, & thus in the end of the Moneth entred the straights againe. Straights againe, indeed, for in two Moneths they had not one faire day to dry their Sayles. The Faith lost the foureteenth of October two Anchors. Their troubles left Name of Perillous Bay, to one place of their miserie, and to another, Vnfortunate, which yet followed them to euerie place not without Diuine assistance and deliuerance. The Deuill added also Mutinie in this miserable Companie, and Theeuerie. They tooke a Sauage woman with two children one halfe yeare old, yet able to goe readily and hauing all the teeth. Their lothsome feeding with the bloud running out of their mouthes, I loath to rehearse. Here they met with Generall Noort, his men lustie, but not able to spare them any reliefe. After a world of straights in the Straights too [ 60] long to recite, they depart thence the two & twentieth of Ianuary 1600. & arriued in the Maes, the fourteenth of Iuly, without the straights homeward in fiftie degrees and fortie minutes, they saw three Ilands threescore miles from land stored with Penguins, called Sebaldinae of the Indies.