But as soon as it grew dusk in the evening, I changed my course, and steered directly south and by east, bending my course a little towards the east, that I might keep in with the shore; and having a fair, fresh gale of wind, and a smooth, quiet sea, I made such sail that I believe by the next day, at three o’clock in the afternoon, when I first made the land, I could not be less than one hundred and fifty miles south of Sallee; quite beyond the Emperor of Morocco’s dominions, or indeed of any other king thereabouts, for we saw no people.
Zoodra het echter duister werd, veranderde ik van koers, en stuurde Z.Z.O., om niet te ver van de kust af te raken. De wind was stevig, de zee kalm, zoo dat ik geloof, dat ik den volgenden middag te drie uren, toen ik het eerst land zag, ten minste vijftig mijlen van Salé, buiten het gebied van den Marokkaanschen keizer of eenig ander vorst was, want wij zagen niemand.