The Voyage of Lionel Wafer

Lionel wafer was on his way to john fernando, as he calls the modern juan fernandez. He says about four o'clock in the morning, when we were about nehundred and 50 leagues from the main of america, our ship felt a terrible shock which put our men in such consternation that they could hardly tell where they were or what to think. Minel then goes on to impute the shock to an earthquake, but seems to substantiate the imputation by stating a great earthquake somewhere about that time did actually do great mischief along the spanish land.