On the first of Aprill we ankored in Santa Cruz rode, where we found two great shippes of London lading in Sugar, of whom we had 2 shipboats to supply the losse of our Shalops. On the 2 we set sayle from the rode of Santa Cruz for the Canaries. On Saturday the 4 we saw Alegranza, the East Ile of the Canaries.

'The 18th day wee weied and stood north and by east into a lesser sound, which Sir Francis in his barge discovered the night before; and ankored in 13 fadomes, having hie steepe hiles on either side, some league distant from our first riding.