The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 3.2.3

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and after Westerly. If any shipping (hauing tym enough) fall but 100 leaugs more to the North with the Mayne (which may be done with saftye, no wyndes forbidding it), I assure myselfe they shall haue good trade for Cattle and other Comodoties, and may by leauing some men discouer the land, and perhapes gett knowledge of the People that trade with the Spaniardes on the East syde in 21° for gould after the Manner of the Moores in Barbery to Gago. These lefte at the Cape will goe no further, but attend oportunity of passage; and thear can doe noe great good, beeing amounge the basest banished people, that knowe nothing sauoring of man, nor are no other way men, But as they speake and walke like men. June 17. — This night the Hope came to an Anchor in the Bay from Suratt, laden with Indicoes. June 20. — Wee weighed at 4 in the morning, the wynd at E.S.E., and stood off 5 leaugs N.W. by N., keeping the bay open. Then wee sawe a headland S. by E. 6 leaugs off; so steering S.E. by S., by Morning the 21th day, the Cape of Good Hope bearing from that headland S.E. and N.W., and from the Cape of Good Hope Cape Falso bearing E. by S. 1/2 S. and W. by N. 1/2 N. and from the ship N. by E. 7 leaugs off I proceeded towards Santa Lawrance. June 25. — Wee sawe the land, which I suppose was Cape Fernoso, N. by E. We sounded at 65 fadom 8 leauges off, and being Calme by an Eddy currant we draue to the N. 2 leaugs a watch.