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THE CAPTIVITY OF HANS STADE

eggs. Now when we had eaten, a great storm arose in the south, so that we could scarcely retain our anchor, and feared greatly that the wind would cast us up on to the rocks. Already it was almost evening, and we still hoped to enter a harbour called Caninee.^[1]

But before we got there it was night, and we could not enter, but sailed away from the land in great danger, thinking not otherwise but that the breakers would beat the ship to pieces, for it was near a promontory of land, where the waves are still larger than in the midst of the sea far from land.

And we had during the night got so far away from land, that in the morning we could not see it. But after some time we again sighted the land, and the storm was so heavy that we could hardly maintain ourselves longer, when he who had been into the country, came to the conclusion, as he saw the land, that it was Sanct Vincente, and we sailed there, but we found it so covered with fog and clouds that we could not recognize it. We were obliged to heave into the sea everything of very heavy weight, in order to make the ship lighter, and because of the large waves we were in great fear. Still we sailed on,

↑ Cananéa, or settlement of the Cananean woman—"La pauvre Chananée reputée pour chienne." Martim Affonso de Souza touched here, erected a Padrão, or stone cross, which still exists, and sent his ill-fated expedition to prospect for gold. It lies in S. lat. 25 deg., 1 min., 4 sec.; and W. long. (Rio de Janeiro), 4 deg., 49 min., 4 sec., or 60 direct geographical miles south-west of the Barra de Santos. The Ilha de (bom) Abrigo, a detached lump of rock masks the entrance, and in rough weather adds greatly to the danger. In the cloudy and foggy season, the entrance to the sea-arm, called Mar Pequeno, may easily be mistaken for that of Santos, and I know by experience the risk of making it in a small craft, when the water is not very smooth. Cananéa is one of the many little ports belonging to the Province of S. Paulo: of late years there has been a rumour about ceding it to the adjoining Southern Province of Paraná. Its name has been heard in England on account of the singular folly or knavery of attempting to stock the land with British peasants, the meanest of races.

[1] Cananéa, or settlement of the Cananean woman—"La pauvre Chananée reputée pour chienne." Martim Affonso de Souza touched here, erected a Padrão, or stone cross, which still exists, and sent his ill-fated expedition to prospect for gold. It lies in S. lat. 25 deg., 1 min., 4 sec.; and W. long. (Rio de Janeiro), 4 deg., 49 min., 4 sec., or 60 direct geographical miles south-west of the Barra de Santos. The Ilha de (bom) Abrigo, a detached lump of rock masks the entrance, and in rough weather adds greatly to the danger. In the cloudy and foggy season, the entrance to the sea-arm, called Mar Pequeno, may easily be mistaken for that of Santos, and I know by experience the risk of making it in a small craft, when the water is not very smooth. Cananéa is one of the many little ports belonging to the Province of S. Paulo: of late years there has been a rumour about ceding it to the adjoining Southern Province of Paraná. Its name has been heard in England on account of the singular folly or knavery of attempting to stock the land with British peasants, the meanest of races.

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