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followed obstinately his purpose, their victuals would haue failed them, hee departed with a faire winde and sailed sixe dayes to the Westwards,Zichmni departed from Icaria Westwards. but the winde chaunging to the Southwest and the Sea waxing rough wee sayled 4. dayes with the wind in the powpe and at length discouering land,Sight of land. wee were afraide to approch neere vnto it, being the Sea growen, and we not knowing what lande it was, but God prouided for vs, that the winde ceasing there came a greate calme. Wherefore some of our companie rowing to land with oares, returned and brought vs word to our great comforte, that they had founde a very good Countrie and a better harborough, vpon which newes wee towed our ships & amal Barkes to land, and being entred into the harborough, wee sawe a farre of a great mountaine, yͭ cast forth smoke, which gaue vs good hope that we shoulde finde some inhabitantes in y͏ͤ Iland, neither would Zichmni rest, although it were a great way of, but send a 100. good souldiers to search the Countrie100. good souldiers sent by Zichmni to search the countrie (which countrie is not named.) and bring report what people they were that inhabited it, and in the meane time they tooke in wood & water for the prouision of the Fleete, and catcht great store of fishe and Sea foule and founde such abundance of birdes egges that our men that were halfe famished, were filled withall. Whiles we were riding here, began the moneth of Iune, at which time the ayre in the Iland was so temperate and pleasant as is impossible to expresse,Iune. The ayre so tẽperate & sweete, as impossible to expresse it. but when we coulde see no people at all, wee suspected greatly that this pleasant place was desolate and dishabited. Wee gaue name to the hauen calling itHauen Trim. Trim, and the point that stretched out into y͏ͤ sea wee calledCapo di Trim. The 100. souldiers returned which had been through the Iland, report what they sawe and found. Capo di Trim. The 100. souldiers that were sent foorth, eight dayes after returned, and brought worde that they had been through the Ilande and at the mountaine and that the smoke was a naturall thing proceeding from a great fire that was in the bottome of the hill, and that there was a spring from which issued, a certaine matter like pitch, which ran into the Sea, and that there aboutes dwelt greate multitudes of people half wilde, hiding thẽselues in caues ofthe
