_ 339 _ westwards already, from the south-west. In the morning, I gave orders for Alvaro Paiz’s sail to be brought on board my foist. Francisco Fernandez mended it so the catur was able to keep up with me. At midday, the wind turned northerly. We were following a westward course but, at four o’clock, the wind abated again and turned north-north-westerly. Our course was west by south-west to north. At night there was no wind, and the sea was flat as a millpond, so that the sail flapped limply against the mast of the foist. At eleven o’clock, we lowered the oars and rowed until one o’clock in the morning, when the gentle north-westerly began to blow so we were able to rig up the sails. The wind lasted until morning. Route Saturday, 3rd March. At seven o’clock in the morning, the light wind turned into a gentle north-north-westerly. We were on a westwards course. At midday I took all the ... in order to wait for my fleet, which was a long way behind. I stayed like this until nightfall, when the wind dropped from the course which the foist was following. Half-way through the first night watch, a light wind began to blow and it became stronger throughout the night. For the most part we followed a westward or west by
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