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
[Sidenote: Baia de todos Santos in 13 degrees.] This Bay of All Saints
standeth in thirteene degrees. And from thence to Fernambuck thou hast a
hundreth leagues: and the coast lyeth Northeast and Southwest. And from
thence to Rio das Ilhas,[34] that is, the riuer of the Islands the coast
runneth Northeast and Southwest, I meane taking a quarter of the North
and South.
[34] At the mouth of the Caxoeira River.
The course for Baia das Ilhas, that is, The bay of the Islands,
which lie on the sayd coast of Brasil, and the marks for the
finding of them.
[Sidenote: Baia das Ilhas lieth in 15 degrees lacking a quarter.] If
thou goe for Baia das Ilhas thou must looke for it in fifteene degrees
lacking a quarter.
If thou be minded as I sayd to goe for these Isles, if it bee from March
forward, thou shalt fall with the land in 15 degrees and a halfe, and
though it be in 15 degrees and 2/3, it is all the better.
And if thou haue sight of certaine high hilles, that seeme to reach to
the skie, these hilles are called As Serras Raiemores. Then hauing sight
of these hilles, thou shalt goe along the coast; and feare nothing, for
there are no sholdes along to the North. And when thou seest the
Islands, thou mayest make accompt they be these which thou seekest, for
there are no other on al this coast, and thou shalt see a round hil
along the sea. Thou shalt vnderstand that on the North side of this hill
is the going in of the riuer. But if it chance that thou finde thy selfe
in a time that will not suffer thee to goe in, then goe along the
Islands giuing them a bredth off. And thou mayest well come to an ankor
hard aboord them, for all is cleane ground. And thou shalt finde eight
or nine fadomes, and from thence thou mayest goe into the riuer hard
aboord the shore. And if it chance that thou goe from the North to the
South all along the great Island, thou must keepe thy selfe from the
land: and when thou hast brought it Eastnortheast, then thou mayest
ankor two cables length from the shore: for all is cleane ground.
[Sidenote: In what height a man must fall with this place in time of the
Northeast winds.] If thou chance to arriue on this coast in the time of
the Northeast windes, thou shalt seeke to fall with the land in
foureteene degrees. And if thou see a lowe land, thou mayest make
accompt it is the land called Ciemana, and then thou shalt see Mangues:
And also thou shalt come along this coast to the South: and when thou
seest an ende of the lowe land, then thou shalt finde an high land along
the sea like the other that I haue made mention of before, that is, all
sandie along the sea coast.
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