In The Pilgrims Of Purchas It Does Not Follow The Former
Relation, But That Was Owing To Its Not Reaching Him In Time, As Is
Stated In The Following Note, Which Is Both Characteristic Of That Early
Collector Of Voyages And Travels, And Of The Observations Of William
Finch.
[Footnote 208:
Purch. Pilg. I. 414.]
"This should have followed next after Master Hawkins, with whom William
Finch went into the Mogolls country, if I then had had it. But better
a good dish, though not in duest place of service, than not at all:
Neither is he altogether born out of due time, which comes in due place,
while we are yet in India, and in time also, before the Mogoll affairs
received any latter access or better maturity: And for that circumstance
failing, you shall find it supplied in substance, with more accurate
observations of men, beasts, plants, cities, deserts, castles,
buildings, regions, religions, than almost any other; as also of ways,
wares, and wars." - Purchas.
* * * * *
Sec. 1. Remembrances respecting Sierra Leona, in August 1607, the Bay,
Country, Inhabitants, Rites, Fruits, and Commodities.
The island, which we fell in with some ten leagues south from the bay of
Sierra Leona, in lat. 8 deg. N. has no inhabitants; neither did I learn its
name. It has some plantains, and, by report, good watering and wooding
for ships; but about a league from the shore there is a dangerous ledge
of rock, scarcely visible at high water. The bay of Sierra Leona is
about three leagues broad, being high land on the south side, full of
trees to the very edge of the water, and having several coves, in which
we caught plenty and variety of fish.
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