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Excerpt from Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. 19: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Other
We ran a Southerly course from the Tr0picke of Cancer, where having the Sun within sixe or seven degrees right over our head in July, we bore away West; so that b the fervent heat and loomes breezes, many of our men fefi sicke of the Calenture, and out of two ships was throwne over-boord thirtie two persons. The V1ceadmirall was said to have the plague in her; but in the Blessing we had not any sicke, albeit we had twenty women and children.
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