Portuguese ships anchored in the harbour of St Helena Island in May 1589 from Jan Huygen von Linschoten's Voyages into ye Easte and West Indies published in 1598
English: Title:Iohn Huighen van Linschoten his Discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure bookes. in 159- Other Title: Discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies Nederlands: and Latin: Latin: Insula D. Helenae sacra coeli dementia et aequabilitate foli ubertate et aquarum salubritate nulli secunda, sed inhabitatat; hic receptus navium ex Or. India redetium sita in altitudine 16. gradum, ad austrum linea aequinoctialis. Dutch: Het eylant van Santa Helena, met soetheyt en eenpaericheyt van lucht, vruchtbaerheyt des aertrycks en soete wateren seer begaeft, maer onbewoont, een goede verversinge der gener die wt Oost Indijen comen leggende op die hoochte van 16. graet aande zuytzyde vande linea equinoctial. Latin: Quem capiant coelum lympheque salubria tellus, Queque novo semper gramine parturiat, Que facile admittat gremio et producat alendo Quod peregre intulerit provida cra solo: Fanum Helene capiat teneatq: nisi arctius ingens, Orbe procul nostro clanderet oceanus. P Hoogerb. [monogram]. Latin: Illustribus ac Generosis Dominis D.D. Philippo Eduardo et Octaviano secundi Fuggeris, Dnis in Kirchberg, et Weissenhoren. Nobillibus itidem praeclaris ac prudentibus Dnis, Marco Matthaeo Welsero ac sociis Dnis suis clementiss. acc honorandis, honoris et obsequii ergo d.d. Iohannis Hugonis á Linschoten.. Dutch: Boven op de bergen zijn mensen en geiten te zien. Dutch: Er liggen Portugese schepen voor de kust. English: From Dutch: View of the island of St Helena. From Latin: ‘’St Helens Community heavens and the island of forget alone balance the richness and wholesomeness of water a second to none, but inhabitatat; This was welcomed by a fleet Or. India debt is located at a height of 16 degree to the south line of the equator.’’ From Dutch: ‘’The eylant of Santa Helena, with soetheyt and a paericheyt of air, fertility of the aertrycks and fresh waters, very uninhabited, a good refresh of the gener that wt the East Indies comen on that amount of 16. graet to the zuytzyde of the linear equinoctial.’’ ‘From Latin: ‘’Whom do they comprehend heaven lympheque the symptoms of the earth, the grass, ever new, I gladly give birth to it, and brings forth and nourishes a fact that in a strange country uses the words, What is provident easily accept the sacred bosom of the ground: the Temple of Helen to let him receive it teneatq: but the more closely with the vast, far from the world, our clanderet ocean. P Hoogerb. [Monogram].’’ From Latin: ‘’The illustrious and generously to our Lord D.D. Philip Eduardo and Octavian second Fuggeris, dñis at Kirchberg, and Weissenhoren. Nobille similarly brilliant and intelligent dnis, Mark, Matthew, Welserus and its allies Dnis clementiss. ace esteem, honor, and that the d.d. John Hugh a Linschoten ..’’ ‘’People and goats can be seen on top of the mountains. There, Portuguese ships lie off the coast.’’ The old watring place is marked. Imprinted at London by John Wolfe Graven by Raygnald Elstrake. Ships are listed: The ‘’St Maery’’ – Vice Admirale; ‘’St Anthonye’’; ‘’The Conception of Our Lady’’; ‘’The Holy Crosse’’; the gallion of Mallacca; the ‘’St Christopher’’ – Admirale. The ‘’St Mary’’ – Vice Admiral; ‘’St Anthony’’; ‘’The Conception of Our Lady’’; ‘’Santa Cruz’’; the galleon of Mallacca; ‘’St Christopher’’ – Admiral. Original Dutch version lists them as: A nao Santa Maria; A, nao. Ant.o; A nao nosa Sra da Concepio; A. nao Santa Cruz; O galliao de Mallacca; A.nao Capitayna S. Xpuao. Abstract/medium: 1 print : engraving.