de
Dios.

The wind continued prosperous and favourable at northeast, and gave us
a very good passage, without any alteration or change: so that albeit
we had sight (3rd June) of Porto Santo, one of the Madeiras, and of
the Canaries also within twelve days of our setting forth: yet we never
struck sail nor came to anchor, nor made any stay for any cause, neither
there nor elsewhere, until twenty-five days after; when (28th June)
we had sight of the island Guadaloupe, one of the islands of the West
Indies, goodly high land.

The next morning (29th June), we entered between Dominica and
Guadaloupe, where we descried two canoes coming from a rocky island,
three leagues off Dominica; which usually repair thither to fish, by
reason of the great plenty thereof, which is there continually to be
found.

We landed on the south side of it, remaining there three days to refresh
our men; and to water our ships out of one of those goodly rivers, which
fall down off the mountain. There we saw certain poor cottages; built
with Palmito boughs and branches; but no inhabitants, at that time,
civil or savage: the cottages it may be (for we could know no certain
cause of the solitariness we found there) serving, not for continual
inhabitation, but only for their uses, that came to that place at
certain seasons to fish.

The third day after (1st July), about three in the afternoon, we set
sail from thence, toward the continent of _Terra firma_.

And the fifth day after (6th July), we had sight of the high land of
Santa Marta; but came not near the shore by ten leagues.

But thence directed our course, for a place called by us, Port Pheasant;
for that our Captain had so named it in his former voyage, by reason of
the great store of those goodly fowls, which he and his company did then
daily kill and feed on, in that place. In this course notwithstanding we
had two days calm, yet within six days after we arrived (12th July) at
Port Pheasant, which is a fine round bay, of very safe harbour for all
winds, lying between two high points, not past half a cable's length
over at the mouth, but within, eight or ten cables' length every way,
having ten or twelve fathoms of water more or less, full of good fish;
the soil also very fruitful, which may appear by this, that our Captain
having been in this place, within a year and few days before [i. e., in
July, 1571] and having rid the place with many alleys and paths made;
yet now all was so ove