. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. tific your Majesticthe truth of the whole matter ; hoping in short timethat your Majestic will send some good order to qualifiethese broyles: for there is great hatred and malice amongus. Jesus Christ preserve and keepe the royall personof your Majestic with long health, as it pleaseth the Captaineship of Parajua this present 20 ofAugust. 1597. Feliciano Cieza de Carv
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. tific your Majesticthe truth of the whole matter ; hoping in short timethat your Majestic will send some good order to qualifiethese broyles: for there is great hatred and malice amongus. Jesus Christ preserve and keepe the royall personof your Majestic with long health, as it pleaseth the Captaineship of Parajua this present 20 ofAugust. 1597. Feliciano Cieza de Carvalsho. [III. 719.] A special note concerning the currents of thesea betweene the Cape of Buena Esperanzaand the coast of Brasilia, given by a FrenchPilot to Sir John Yorke knight, before SebastianCabote ; which pilot had frequented thecoasts of Brasilia eighteene voyages. Emorandum, that from Cabo de buenaEsperanza unto Brasilia the Sunne haththe like dominion over the tides there,as the Moone hath over our tides that whensoever the Sunne isin any of these signes he governeththe tides as followeth. ^, „ . • /-> ^ • • the tide hath his course The Sunne bemg m^ Gemmi \ Northwest. [^ Cancer J72. A RUTTIER FOR BRAZIL C LeoThe Sunne being in ■{ Virgo ^ no current[ Libra J ^, c u • • c^°^£^°- the tide hath his The Sunne being in c ^.u^^^*. => I /- ° • I course Southeast.(^ Lapricorne J C Aquarius 1 The Sunne being in -^ Pisces )■ no current. [ Aries J A ruttier or course to be kept for him that willsayle from Cabo Verde to the coast of Brasil,and all along the coast of Brasil unto the riverof Plate : and namely first from Cabo Verdeto Fernambuck. He ship that goeth from Cabo Verde toBrasilj must goe Southsoutheast : andwhen she is within 5 or 6 degrees ofthe Equinoctial she must go Southeastand by South. And if she have theternados, that is thundrings and light-nings, then thou must go altogetherSouth, or that way and by that boord that doth profi
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