how they lost one another by a storme, and afterward came together in a creeke.

fresh water is commonlie found by diging in the sands on the sea side. in the bay where they rode, after the tempest was past, they went on shore, and with mattockes, which they had, they digged certain pits, which grew full of fresh water, where they filled all the casks which they had. the next day they departed thence, and sailed two daies, and entred into a creeke like vnto a poole, fenced from the south winde, which then did blow, and was against them: and there they staied foure daies, not being able to get out: and when the sea was calm they rowed out: they sailed that day, and toward euening the winde grew so strong that it draue them on the shore, and they were sorie that they had put foorth from the former harbour: for assoone as night approched a storme began to rise in the sea, and the winde still waxed more and more violent with a tempest. the brigandines lost one another: two of them, which bare more into the sea, entred into an arme of the sea, which pearced into the land two leagues beyond the place where the other were that night. the fiue which staied behinde, being alwaies a league, and halfe a league the one from the other, met together, without any knowledge the one of the other, in a wilde roade, where the winde and the waues droue them on shore: for their anchors did strengthen and came home; and they could not rule their oares, putting seuen or eight men to every oare, which rowed to seaward: and all the rest leaped into the water, and when the waue was past that draue the brigandine on shore, they thrust it againe into sea with all the diligence and might that they had. others, while another waue was in comming, with bowles laued out the water that came in ouerboord. a swarme of grieuous moskitoes. while they were in this tempest in great feare of being cast away in that place, from midnight forward they endured an intollerable torment of an infinite swarme of moskitoes which fell upon them, which assoone as they had stung the flesh, it so infected it, as though they had bin venomous. in the morning the sea was asswaged and the wind slaked, but not the muskitoes: the sailes which were white seemed blacke with them in the morning. those which rowed, vnless others kept them away, were not able to row. hauing passed the feare & danger of the storme, beholding the deformities of their faces, and the blows which they gaue themselves to driue them away, one of them laughed at another. they met all together in the creek where the two brigandines were, which outwent their fellowes. there was found a skumme, which they call copee, which the sea casteth vp, and it is like pitch, wherewith in some places, where pitch is wanting, they pitch their ships: there they pitched their brigandines. they rested two daies, and then eftsoones proceeded on their voyage. they sailed two daies more, and landed in a bay or arme of the sea, where they staied two daies. the same day that they went from thence sixe men went vp in a canoe toward the head of it, and could not see the end of it. they put out from thence with a south winde, which was against them: but because it was little, and for the great desire they had to shorten their voyage, they put out to sea by force of oares, and for all that made very little way with great labour in two daies, and went under the lee of a small island into an arme of the sea, which compassed it about. while they were there, there fell out such weather, that they gave god many thankes, that they had found out such an harbour. there was great store of fish in that place, which they tooke with nets, which they had, and hookes. heere a man cast an hooke and a line into the sea, and tied the end of it to his arme, and a fish caught it, and drew him into the water vnto the necke: and it pleased god that he remembred himselfe of a knife that he had, and cut the line with it. there they abode fourteen daies: and at the end of them it pleased god to send them faire weather, for which with great deuotion they appointed a procession, and went in procession along the strand, beseeching god to bring them to a land, where they might serue him in better sort.