Derde reys, gedaan voor de Engelsche Maatschappy na Oost-Indien, met drie scheepen, de Draak, Hector, en ...

carved these words: The 24th of July 1607, Captain David Middleton in the Consent.

where they bought much livestock for refreshment.

On the 21st of December, I went ashore and bought 102 sheep, 12 cattle, and 2 calves, of which I gave a proper portion to the ship Hector. Thus we did for several days in a row, buying up very much livestock, namely: for 200 iron hoops, 450 sheep, 46 cows, 19 oxen, 9 calves, and a bull.

CHAPTER II.

Their departure from Saldania, and further experiences, until the ships separated.

They depart from Saldania.

On the 1st of January 1608, we set sail at sunrise, and by 6 o'clock in the evening, we were 10 miles West by South of the Southern point of the Cape.

Trouble in the ship.

On the 19th, around midnight, we took on much water through the helm port and in the hold of the gallery, through which some bales of cloth got wet. We were now at the latitude of 35 degrees 22 minutes and had various, and finally a Western, wind. We had too many heavy bales inside, which made our ship difficult to steer, which the company must pay attention to in the future.

What course they took,

On the 20th of the same, I aired and dried the cloth. I sailed thirty miles North-East, having a South-Western and Southern wind. At noon, we saw, against all expectations and to the great astonishment of our skippers, land lying North-North-West about twelve miles from us. We were at the latitude of 34 degrees.

and force of the current.

And certainly, it would have seemed strange to me too, had I not had the experience of the power of the Western current on my previous voyage. However, we were further West than I thought, as for the aforementioned reason I doubted whether we were not, by estimation, a hundred miles further East than we found ourselves to be upon seeing the land.