He had lost his foremast in a storm, and remained at this place a week, preparing a new one.

He had heard in Europe that there was probably a passage through the unexplored continent, to the Pacific ocean, south of Virginia.

Continuing his voyage southward, he passed Cape Cod, which he supposed to be an island, and arrived on the 18th of August at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay.

He then ran along the coast in a northerly direction and entered a great bay with rivers, which he named South River, but which has since received the name of the Delaware.
Still following the coast, he reached the Highlands of Neversink, on the 2d of September, and at three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, came to what then seemed to him to be the mouths of three large rivers.

These were undoubtedly the Raritan, the Narrows, and Rockaway Inlet.