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
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[Sidenote: A dangerous riuer in 16 degrees.] And if it be thy chance to
arriue in the time of the Northeast winds, and commest in the height of
fifteene degrees and two third parts, and seest not certaine hilles,
then thou must goe along the coast being in 16 degrees, and vnder the
first hie land that thou shalt descrie, thou shalt see certaine sandie
bayes along the sea coast: And if thou haue sight of a riuer in this
height,[36] put not thy selfe into it, neither beare with the land, for
it hath many sholdes. And off them lie certaine sunken grounds, called
Os Baixos de Santo Antonio. And from hence to the Southward lyeth Porto
Seguro.
[36] Santa Cruz.
I aduise thee that going along the coast to the Southward, and seeing
such sholdes, and the sea to breake vpon them, as the other which I last
spake of, thou shall runne along them a sea boord of them: and when thou
art at the ende of them, then the towne will beare West of thee: and
then thou mayest goe to thine ankoring place as is abouesayd, giuing
these sholds a good birth.
The course to the hauen named Baia do Spirito Santo, that is to
say, The bay of the holy Ghost, lying on the sayde coast of
Brasil, and the markes thereof.
[Sidenote: Monzoins are certaine set winds with which the tides set.]
Thou shall vnderstand that the ship that goeth for Spirito Santo,[37]
when it hath doubled the sholdes called Os Baixos dos Abrolhos, and hath
brought it selfe in 20 or 19 degrees and a halfe, then it may hall with
the land in 18 or 19 degrees and a halfe, and in twentie. And the sayd
shippe must goe in this height, because on this coast there are no
Monçoins.
[37] A bay to the North of Victoria.
[Sidenote: Marks on the North side of Spirito Santo.] If thou chance to
come in the height of 19 degrees 1/2 and seest lowe land to the
Northwest off thee, then thou art on the North side of Spirito Santo,
and thou mayest make accomp that it is the land lying ouer Criquare, and
ouer the riuer called Rio dolce, that is the riuer of sweete or fresh
water. If thou come along the land thou shalt find certaine high hilles:
but trust not the first that thou seest only. [Sidenote: The situation
of la Sierra de Mestre Aluaro.] For besides the rest thou shalt see a
round hie hill which is at the capes end, which is called la Sierra de
mestre Aluaro.
[Sidenote: Rio dos Reyes magos.] Take heede that going for this land
thou looke to the North and thou shalt see a riuer called Rio dos Reyes
Magos: that is, The riuer of the three kings. And comming to the
Southward thou shalt see presently the mouth of the bay to open. At the
end of this hill on the South side, thou hast a point of a rocke, which
is called A punta do Tubaron. And on the South side of the bay it hath
two or three blacke hie hilles, and in the middest of the bay thou shalt
goe in westward.
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