As he could not weather the group, he bore away to the southward,
and his subsequent proceedings are here quoted from Burney's _Voyages_:
"We went along three hundred leagues of coast, as I have mentioned,
and diminished the latitude 2-1/2 degrees, which brought us into 9
degrees. From thence we fell in with a bank of from 3 to 9 fathoms,
which extends along the coast to 7-1/2 south latitude; and the end of
it is in 5 degrees. We could go no further on for the many shoals and
great currents, so we were obliged to sail south-west in that depth
to 11 degrees south latitude. There is all over it an archipelago of
islands, without number, by which we passed; and at the end of the
eleventh degree the bank became shoaler. Here were very large
islands, and they appeared more to the southward. They were inhabited
by black people, very corpulent and naked. Their arms were lances,
arrows, and clubs of stone ill-fashioned. We could not get any of
their arms. We caught in all this land twenty persons of different
nations, that with them we might be able to give a better account to
your Majesty. They give (us) much notice of other people, although as
yet they do not make themselves well understood. We were upon this
bank two months, at the end of which time we found ourselves in
twenty-five fathoms and 5 degrees south latitude and ten leagues from
the coast; and having gone 480 leagues here, the coast goes to the
north-east.
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