Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head183" xml:space="preserve">NEW ATLANTIS.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12477" xml:space="preserve">WE ſailed from Peru (where we had continued by the
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            ſpace of one whole year) for China and Japan by the
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            South Sea, taking with us Victuals for Twelve Moneths,
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            and had good Winds from the Eaſt, though ſoft and
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            weak, for Five Moneths ſpace and more; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12478" xml:space="preserve">but then the
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            Wind came about, and ſetled in the Weſt for many
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            days; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12479" xml:space="preserve">ſo as we could make little or no way, and were
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            ſometimes in purpoſe to turn back: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12480" xml:space="preserve">But then again,
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            there aroſe ſtrong and great Winds from the South, with a Point Eaſt,
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            which carried us up (for all that we could do) to wards the North; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12481" xml:space="preserve">by which
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            time our Victuals failed us, though we had made good ſpare of them: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12482" xml:space="preserve">So
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            that finding our ſelves in the midſt of the greateſt Wilderneſs of Waters in
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            the World, without Victual, we gave our ſelves for loſt men, and prepared
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            for death. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12483" xml:space="preserve">Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, Who
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            ſheweth his wonders in the deep; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12484" xml:space="preserve">beſeeching him of his mercy, That as in the
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            Beginning he diſcovered the Face of the deep, and brought forth dry-land; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12485" xml:space="preserve">ſo he
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            would now diſcover Land to us, that we might not periſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12486" xml:space="preserve">And it came to
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            paſs, that the next day about Evening, we ſaw within a Kenning before us,
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            towards the North, as it were thicker Clouds, which did put us in ſome
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            hope of Land; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12487" xml:space="preserve">knowing how that part of the South-Sea was utterly un-
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            known, and might have lſlands or Continents that hitherto were not come
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            to light. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12488" xml:space="preserve">Wherefore we bent our courſe thither, where we ſaw the ap-
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            pearance of Land all that night; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12489" xml:space="preserve">and in the dawning of the next day, we
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            might plainly diſcern that it was a Land flat to our ſight, and full of Boſcage,
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            which made it ſhew the more dark; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12490" xml:space="preserve">and after an hour and a halfs ſailing,
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            we entred into a good Haven, being the Port of a fair City, not great in-
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            deed, but well built, and that gave a pleafant view from the Sea: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12491" xml:space="preserve">And we
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            thinking every minute long, till we were on Land, came cloſe to the Shore
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            and offered to land; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12492" xml:space="preserve">but ſtraight-ways we ſaw divers of the people with
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            Baſtons in their hands, (as it were) forbidding us to land, yet without any
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            cries or fierceneſs, but onely as warning us off by ſigns that they made.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12493" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon being not a little diſcomforted, we were adviſing with our
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            ſelves, what we ſhould do. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12494" xml:space="preserve">During which time, there made forth to us a
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            ſmall Boat with about eight perſons in it, where of one of them had in his
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            hand a Tip-ſtaff of a Yellow Cane, t
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            ipped at both ends with Blew, who
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            made aboard our Ship without any ſhew of diſtruſt at all: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12495" xml:space="preserve">And when he
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            ſaw one of our number preſent himſelf ſome what afore the reſt, he drew
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            forth a little Scroul of Parchment (ſomewhat yellower then our </s>
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