(seq. 9)

Ship of 40 [?] which came from france
on a fishing voyage with 500 men was
making [?] fish somewhere about the [?]
of C[?] and in the mean was [?]
ing with his Ship

Tuesday 7.

the wind was westerly the most part of this
Day, so that at night we were
just upon the Pitch of C. Briton but the
wind Dying away about 4 P.M. we lay by

Wensday 8.

the wind at E all Day adn full of
of Fogg so we gaind no [casting?] only
some thing [southerly?]

Thursday 9

this morning at about 2 the wind came
about to N.W., and the fogg cleard away
so we stodd in the Land as near as we
could, but were driven so far southward
by yesterdays wind that at Day we
could not see the Land, however made
it by 7 o Clock to [?] in all Day
thinking we had tossed the Point of of
C Brito but to ward night the
land making so much East of us begun
to think we had not got the Length of
the Cape but the Point we lost for it
was [?] at the going in of the G[?] of
C[?]