The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
The ship that goeth from Cabo Verde to Brasil, must goe Southsoutheast:
and when she is within 5 or 6 degrees of the Equinoctial she must go
Southeast and by South. And if she haue the ternados, that is thundrings
and lightnings, then thou must go altogether South, or that way and by
that boord that doth profit thee most. And take this for aduise, that
hauing the general winds, and if the wind be at South or Southeast, then
go Southwest, or westsouthwest. [Sidenote: Ye that will sayle to Brasil,
must not come within 60 or 70 leagues of the coast of Guinea.] And if
the winde be South, then goe Southwest, and by this way but little, for
it is not a way for thy profit, because the more thou goest this way,
the more will be thy trouble, because thou mayest not come neerer the
coaste of Guinea then 60 or 70 leagues vnto the sholde called Os baixos
de Santa Anna. And being this distance from the same, thou shall cast
about the other way towards Brasil, and the wind will be large.
Thou shalt vnderstand that the ship that keepeth this course to
Fernambuck, and goeth in October or after, and chanceth to goe to
windward of the Isle of Fernando de Loronha, when thou commest to 8
degrees, or 8 and 1/2, [Ed: Of Southerly latitude] then thou
shalt go West and beare with the land. Thou must take this for a
warning, that if going West in 8 degrees thou see land, then looke to
the Northward, and thou shalt see certaine white cliffes. Then I aduise
thee that thou goe well to the Southward. And this is to bee vnderstoode
from October forward, for then the time is most subiect to Northeast,
and Eastnortheast winds. And if thou find thy selfe in the sayd height
aboue mentioned, and seest cliffes, and seest a cape to the Southward,
and seest no more land to the South, then make accompt that thou art at
Capiguoari: and from thence to Fernambuck thou hast sixe leagues, and
hast a good port.
Thou shalt take this for a warning, that if in 8 degrees and a halfe
thou see land lying all flat, thou mayest goe neerer it, and be bold
till thou come in tenne or twelue fadomes: And then thou shalt see a
great grosse land along the sea-coast which is called Capitagua: And
being East and West with this land, and, as I haue sayd, in tenne or
twelue fadomes water; and the time being from October to Februarie, then
thou needest not to feare any thing: but looke to the South and thou
shalt see the cape of S. Augustine: and looke to the North and thou
shalt see a point, and to the Southeast a point called Punta de Olinda,
where Aponiquay standeth. And the land from the cape to the poynt called
Punta Olinda lieth North and South.
I aduise thee that if thou be East and West with the cape of Saint
Augustine, thou shalt see within the land an high hill, hauing as it
were a saddle vpon it like to a camel: And thou shalt see to the
Southwards three hills along the sea, and then presently thou shall see
the coaste to lie Northeast and Southwest.
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