I won't say much of what happened next; I own I was extremely vexed.
Trebles to right of them, Tenors to left of them, Basses in front of them, Bellowed and thundered.
Where they digge pits, in the grounde of a fadome and an halfe deepe, or thereabout, and so taking the fat or lard off from the skinne, they throw it into the pit, and cast in among it boat burning stones to melt it withall.
Catelina, litle more or lesse, but after you haue runne in the depth of foure fadomeand a halfe, about a mile or lesse, then you shall haue it deeper againe more and more.
Before the towne of Santos we rode in eight or tenne fadome water.
They growe fourteene or fifteene fadome deepe vnder the water, their tops reaching foure or fiue fadomeaboue the water.
Iohns Islets dryeth vp all the waters that rise by flowing, although they flow two fadome at the least.
About two leagues from Cape royall wee sounded and found 20 fadome water, and there is the greatest fishing of Cods that possible may be: for staying for our company, in lesse then an houre we tooke aboue an hundreth of them.
The day following we brought our two great shippes within the riuer and harborough, where the waters being at the highest, are three fadome deepe, and at the lowest, but halfe a fadome.
From Brest to The double Cape there is about 20 leagues, and about fiue or sixe leagues beyond we sounded againe and found 40 fadome water.
We with our boates entred in the sayd riuer, at the entrance of which we found about one fadome and a halfe of water.
Also you are to take heed of three shelues that are in the chanell vnder the water: and toward the Island on the East side in the chanell, the water is of three or four fadome deepe, and cleere ground.
In the entrance of the Bay wee sounded, and found it to be an hundred fadome round about vs.
And if you meane to anker in the said Bay, you may borow in four or fiue fadomeof the Southermost point of the sayd Iland, which you may see when you ride in the road.
This day we went into the road and ankered, and the west point of the road bare East northeast off vs, wee riding in foure fadome water.
When we came thwart the place they knew it, and we put wares into our boate, and the ship being within halfe a mile of the place ankered in fiue fadome water and faire ground.
The sayd day wee came to an anker within the Westermost point, about a league within the point and found in our sounding faire sand in ten fadome water, but you may go neere till you be in fiue or six fadome, for the ground is faire.
The said Cape standeth in two and twentie and a halfe: and all that coast is flatte, sixteene or seuenteene fadome deepe.
We bare with the said land till we were within 3 leagues of the shore, and then we sounded, and found 28 fadome water, black oase.
It is a very great riuer and 7 fadome water in some places at the entring.
But beware of the middle of the Baie, for there lieth a ledge of rocks, which at lowe water breaketh, yet there is three fadome water ouer them.
But hauing no knowledge of that coast, we went with Cape Blanke, and at the fall of the land we sounded and had 16 fadome water two leagues from the shore.
His Vergantines being nayled, and throughly ended, he made a sluise or trench of halfe a league of length, twelue foote broad & more, and two fadome in depth.
One there was found by measure to be 65 fadome aboue water, which for a kind of similitude, was called Solomons porch.
It is a maruellous thing to behold of what great bignesse and depth some Ilands of yce be here, some seuentie, some eightie fadome vnder water, besides that which is aboue, seeming Ilands more then halfe a mile in circuit.
They haue snow and haile in the best time of their Sommer, and the ground frosen three fadome deepe.
Lastly, it did ebbe and flow sixe or seuen fadome vp and downe, the flood comming from diuers parts, so as we could not perceiue the chiefe maintenance thereof.
There is between the Southerly lands, and the Northerly about thirty leagues distance, and more then two hundredth fadome depth.
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