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 out, is the maine land and Islands of the Indies of 

 the Emperour. Which maine land or coast goeth 

 Northward, and finisheth in the land that we found, 

 which is called here Terra de Labrador. So that it 

 appeareth the sayd land that we found, and the Indies 

 to be all one maine land. 



The sayd coast from the sayd Indies Southward, as 

 by the Card your Lordshippe may see, commeth to a 

 certaine straight Sea, called Estrecho de todos Santos : Now called 

 by which straight Sea the Spaniards goe to the Spiceries, the str **&kt of 

 as I shall declare more at large : the which straight a ™ 

 Sea is right against three hundred fifteene degrees of 

 longitude, and is of latitude or altitude from the Equi- 

 noctiall three and fifty degrees. The first land from 

 the sayd beginning of the Card toward the Orient are 

 certaine Islands of the Canaries, and Islandes of Capo 

 verde. But the first maine land next to the line Equi- 

 noctial is the sayd Capo verde, and from thence North- 

 ward by the straight of this sea of Italic And so 

 followeth Spayne, France, Flanders, Almaine, Denmarke, 

 and Norway, which is the highest parte toward the 

 North. And over against Flanders are our Islands of 

 England and Ireland. Of the landes and coastes within 

 the streights 1 have set out onely the Regions, dividing 

 them by lines of their limits, by which plainely I 

 thinke your Lordship may see, in what situation everie 

 region is, and of what highnesse, and with what regions 

 it is joyned. I doe thinke few are left out of all Europe. 

 In the parts of Asia and Affrica I could not so wel make 

 the sayd divisions : for that they be not so wel knowen, 

 nor need not so much. This I write because in the 

 said Card be made the said lines & strikes, that your 

 Lordship should understand wherefore they doe serve. 

 Also returning to the foresaid Capo verde, the coast 

 goeth Southward to a Cape called Capo de buona 

 speransa : which is right over against the 60. & 65. 

 degree of longitude. And by this Cape go the Portingals 

 to their Spicerie. For from this Cape toward the 



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