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make the best of their way before the wind, in order to avoid being taken by those infidels who pursued them, from four o’clock on Friday morning, till ten at night the following Sunday; at which time there arose a storm, the sky looked very black, the wind being at north-west, and clouds began to rise and move towards them, having hung all the morning in the horizon, so that they took in their topsails, and furled their main-sails, the sea ran very short and broke, in upon their deck: however, they put right before the wind, and sailed for three weeks, when they made Cape Horn: they had no sooner got round the Cape, but the wind veered to the south and it fell flat calm: which continued for two days when the wind sprung up at south-west, and they scudded before the wind very swift, and made an island, whose name none of them knew, the ship having never been on the coast before; ⟨but⟩ there they found wood, water, and herbs of several sorts, some seals and sea-fowls. Here they refreshed themselves for four days, and then weighed anchor, the wind being fair at full south, and traded at several ports on the coast of Peru, Chili, and Mexico. From Port Aquapulco they sailed, having a fresh breeze, at N. N. E They had not sailed above one day before the wind veered to the south-west, and blew a violent gale, and there being a great sea, so that their ship took in a great deal of water, the wind continuing two days increasing to a very great storm, which held for one day and two nights more; during which time they perceived themselves near some rocks The storm rather increasing, and it growing dark, they despaired of saving the
