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'The 12 in the morning we weied and set sayle into the Sea due south through a small streit but without danger' possibly the very gap in which the Rhone's wreck now lies 'and then stode west and by north for S. Juan de Puerto Rico. This northerly course is, plainly, the most advantageous for a homeward-bound ship, as it strikes the Gulf Stream soonest, and keeps in it longest.
'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.
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