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 [I. 215.] this hee putteth in every flote a certaine quantitie of 



money, of which hee enjoyeth of the gaines pound 

 This was the and pounds like as other adventurers doe. In a fleete 

 Jleete whereh Q f three shippes and a Caravel that went from this citie 

 a ^ d rib arme d by the marchants of it, which departed in Aprill 

 river of Plate, last past, I and my partener have one thousand foure 

 1526. hundred duckets that we employed in the sayd fleete, 



principally for that two English men, friends of mine, 

 which are somewhat learned in Cosmographie, should 

 goe in the same shippes, to bring me certaine relation 

 of the situation of the countrey, and to be expert in 

 the navigation of those seas, and there to have informa- 

 tions of many other things, and advise that I desire to 

 knowe especially. Seeing in these quarters are shippes, 

 and mariners of that countrey, and cardes by which 

 they saile, though much unlike ours, that they should 

 procure to have the said cards, and learne how they 

 understand them, and especially to know what naviga- 

 tion they have for those Islands Northwards, and 

 Northeastward. 

 Note. For if from the sayd Islands the sea did extend, without 



interposition of land, to saile from the North point to 

 the Northeast poynt one thousand seven hundred or 

 one thousand eight hundred leagues, they should come 

 The Newe to the New found Islands that we discovered, and so we 



found Islands s hould be neerer to the sayd Spicerie by almost two 

 discovered b\ . . 



the English, thousand leagues then the Emperour, or the king of 



Portingal are. And to advise your Lordship whether 

 of these Spiceries of the king of Portingal or the 

 Emperours is neerer, and also of the titles that either 

 of them hath, and howe our New found lands are parted 

 from it, (for that by writing without some demonstration, 

 it were hard to give any declaration of it) I have caused 

 A Mappe of that your Lordship shall receive herewith a little Mappe 

 or Carde of the world : the which, I feare me, shall put 

 your Lordship to more labour to understand, then me 

 to make it, onely for that it is made in so litle roome 

 that it cannot be but obscurely set out, that is desired 



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