An account of several late voyages and discoveries

8 Sir John Narbrough'·s Y<Jf/4g4 of\Vai' maytake anyShip outof t!1e Bay,without receiving any damage from the Forts aíbore, and with Fire-Ships a wh9le Fleet may b~ fpoiled at plea{ure ;for it's a freílt Gale e-uery day;·and there's, but two points ofLand by which a man may fetch into any par~ of thc Bay ; alfo the·Bay lies open ~o the Sea from the Eafi, Southerly to the W.S.W I called for my Lieutenants and Mafier, and acqu:iinted them, that I bad Orders to fail from thence to the Coaíl: of America to the South– ward of thc River of Pla.te, to"the Streights of 1'1.:.,~eilan, ti-1,·ough whicl1 we were to país into. the South Seas: :ind that we muft fhape our Cour(e to make'thc fhortcll wtty of it, and be careful to keep Eaílcrly cnough of it, to weather the füQals of 1Jraz.il callcd thc Ahoho/ls, lying in and about cighteen degrees of Southerly Latitude; for the \Vind blows for thcmoft part thcrcabouts hetween the Lati~de of ten South, and thc Latitude of twcnty South, at [aft by South, and Eaft South– eaft frefh gales: \\·hiHl: this pafs'd, in came the Maíler, and told me all things \.vcre fiowed, and the Wind at E..b.N. freff.1; I concluded with him that our beft Courfe at prefent would be South aod by Eafl:, and ns we got Southerly and the Wind grew large, wc might alter our Courfe when wc would: we íleered a Point or two from the \Vind, thát t~~e íhip might havc frefü way through thc Se~. 1 ordered my Maílcr to íl:eer South and by E~ft by thc Compafs, and my Licutcnant to call all h~nds to ~rayer, read Service, and beg'd ofG~d Afm1g~ty· a pr0fperous Voyage, continuance m lf~al~b., and Jove to onc another, •nd t/Jat 1a i:t!zh~ ;rofpe, i., thir V11dert,1ki»g, ~c. · Ja.