Tweede scheeps-togt, van de Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy, onder den Hr. Hendrik Middleton, generaal,...

Where they found the other ships.
Their misfortune.

...miles from the Cape of Good Hope, having no more than 10 men on board; all his other crew had died, totaling 53 people who had perished since their departure from Bantam, and this within the period of 9 months. The Susanna had become separated from them 3 months after they had departed from Bantam, and nothing had been heard of her since. Here we came to anchor in 7 fathoms of water, having the low point in the northwest by west, and the Sugar Loaf southwest and half a point toward the west; the point of Penguin Island northwest by north, the mountain between the Sugar Loaf and the lower or low point, west-southwest.

How they pass Penguin Island.

1606. On the 16th of January in the morning, we set sail from the roadstead of Saldania and steered toward the north side of Penguin Island, between that and the mainland. When we measured the island to be about one and a half miles to the south of us, we had 20 fathoms of water, white coral and shell bottom. Having gotten outside this island, we took our path west by south, and subsequently west-southwest, so that the mentioned island lay southeast by east of us. On that same day, around 6 o'clock in the afternoon, we sighted the ship Hector, coming from the south side of the island, which we had left at anchor while we weighed ours. With the wind being southerly, we sailed westward the entire night close to the wind; The ship Hector gets separated from them. the next day in the morning, we lost sight of the Hector again, steering northwest with a schoover-seyl likely a staysail or a specific configuration for speed for 17 days, in hope of seeing the mentioned ship again, but in vain.

St. Helena.

On the 1st of February, we had 16 miles of southwesterly wind, and the latitude of 16 degrees and 20 minutes. About an hour after midday, we sighted the island of St. Helena, lying...