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and we ran not in that time above 2 leagues. At
one the wind began to shift up at N.E. and pre-
sently to the N.W., and blew strong, so as by 4 we
ran 6 leagues.

From 4 to 8 we ran 7 leagues, from 8 to 12
other 7 leagues, from 12 to 4, being Friday
morning, 6 leagues, from 4 to 8 6 leagues, the
course S.S.W.; from 8 to 12 other 6 leagues
S.S.W.; and taking the height, we found ourselves
in 48 degrees wanting 10 minutes. We then steered
away S. by W., and so from 12 on Friday the
22nd day, to 8 in the morning, being Saturday,
the 23rd day, we ran near 24 leagues S. by W.,
the wind being at N.N.E.

From 8 on Saturday morning to 8 on Sunday
morning, being Bartelmeie day and the 24th, we ran
35 leagues S. by W.

Then it grew calm, and we ran not above 10
leagues from Sunday the 24th to Monday the 25th.

At 8 in the morning the wind failed and blew
but a little gale at S.E. Monday night it blew
strong at S., and it fell back from the S. to the
S.S.W., and overblew so as we could lie but W.
northerly, and so continued all Tuesday, the 26th
day, the wind falling back at one o'clock of the

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Discovery of Guiana, and the Journal of the Second Voyage Thereto. Contributors: Sir Walter Raleigh - author. Publisher: Cassell & Company, Limited. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1887. Page Number: 152.
    
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