Now there remains but one, and fifty-eight men.

At the same rate we shall be reduced to a cock boat, and four men, before we reach England.

So keep up your heart, there is plenty of time before us." So great was the confidence which they felt in Ned that Reuben was cheered with this promise; although he knew, in his heart, that these adventures fell upon Ned not from any effort of his own, but by the effect of accident; or, as we may say, Providence.
The young men liked not their stay in San Francisco Bay.

Those who were best-looking and youngest were especially chosen out by the women as objects of their adoration, and the lads were horrified at the way in which these poor creatures beat and tore themselves, and groveled upon the ground; and so, being sick at heart at these mummeries, and at receiving a worship fit only for the Creator of the world, they remained on board ship, as much as possible, during the time that they tarried there.
Except for a group of islands which they passed the day after sailing west, the Golden Hind saw no more land from the 23rd of July until September 30th, sixty-eight days in all, when they fell in sight of some islands, lying about eight degrees to the northward of the line.

As soon as the ship was seen a great number of canoes came out, having in them some four, some six, some fourteen, or even twenty men, paddling rapidly and bringing cocoas, fish, and fruits.
The beauty and workmanship of these canoes astonished the voyagers.
They were made out of one tree of great length, hollowed with fire and axe; and being so smooth, both without and within, that they shone like polished wood.