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22 Sept.

LIBER PEREGRINATIONIS PRIMAE, 1583 - topics: weather,travel

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22 Sept. - Daybook Entries. Records weather, travel: We were in great danger of perishing (on the sands called the spits) about midnight.

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Records weather, travel: We were in great danger of perishing (on the sands called the spits) about midnight. We had (by force of wind contrary) anchored by them, and the anchor came home, no man perceiving it, till the ship was ready to strike on the sands. Then, upon great...

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LIBER PEREGRINATIONIS PRIMAE, 1583

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weather,travel

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We were in great danger of perishing (on the sands called the spits) about midnight. We had (by force of wind contrary) anchored by them, and the anchor came home, no man perceiving it, till the ship was ready to strike on the sands. Then, upon great diligence and policy used by our mariners in hoysing sail and cutting our cable (to leave our shot anchor) and committing ourselves to the hands of God, and most earnestly praying

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We were in great danger of perishing (on the sands called the spits) about midnight. We had (by force of wind contrary) anchored by them, and the anchor came home, no man perceiving it, till the ship was ready to strike on the sands. Then, upon great diligence and policy used by our mariners in hoysing sail and cutting our cable (to leave our shot anchor) and committing ourselves to the hands of God, and most earnestly praying