About the twelfth day, the weather abating a little, the master made an observation as well as he could, and found that he was in about eleven degrees north latitude, but that he was twenty-two degrees of longitude difference west from Cape St. Augustino; so that he found he was upon the coast of Guiana, or the north part of Brazil, beyond the river Amazon, toward that of the river Orinoco, commonly called the Great River; and began to consult with me what course he should take, for the ship was leaky, and very much disabled, and he was going directly back to the coast of Brazil.
Augustijn was; zoodat hij berekende op de kust van Guiana of het noordergedeelte van Brazilië te zijn, tusschen de Amazonerivier en de Orenoko, gewoonlijk de Groote Rivier genaamd. Thans was de vraag welken koers te houden, want het schip was lek en zeer ontzet; en de kapitein was er voor regt naar de Brazilische kust terug te keeren.