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THE NEW ATLANTIS, by FRANCIS BACON.

(Written in 1626.)

From Ideal Commonwealths,
P.F. Collier & Son, New York.

(c)1901 The Colonial Press, expired.

Prepared by Kirk Crady
from scanner output provided by Internet Wiretap.

This book is in the public domain, released August 1993.

NEW ATLANTIS

WE sailed from Peru, where we had continued by the
space of one whole year, for China and Japan, by the
South Sea, taking with us victuals for twelve months;
and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for
five months' space and more. But then the wind came about,
and settled in the west for many days, so as we could make

little or no way, and were sometimes in purpose to turn back.
But then again there arose strong and great winds from the
south, with a point east; which carried us up, for all that we
could do, toward the north: by which time our victuals failed
us, though we had made good spare of them. So that find-
ing ourselves, in the midst of the greatest wilderness of waters
in the world, without victual, we gave ourselves for lost men,
and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and
voices to God above, who showeth His wonders in the deep;
beseeching Him of His mercy that as in the beginning He dis-
covered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so
He would now discover land to us, that we might not perish.

And it came to pass that the next day about evening we
saw within a kenning before us, toward the north, as it were
thick clouds, which did put us in some hope of land, knowing
how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown, and
might have islands or continents that hitherto were not come
to light. Wherefore we bent our course thither, where we
saw the appearance of land, all that night; and in the dawning
of next day we might plainly discern that it was a land flat
to our sight, and full of boscage, which made it show the more
dark. And after an hour and a half's sailing, we entered into
a good haven, being the port of a fair city. Not great, indeed,
but well built, and that gave a pleasant view from the sea.

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