ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1527. 



Orient, is the land of Calicut, as your Lordship 

 may see in the headland over against the 130. degree. 

 From the sayd Cape of Buona speransa the coast 

 returneth toward the line Equinoctial, and passing forth 

 entreth the red sea, & returning out, entreth again 

 into the gulfe of Persia, and returneth toward the 

 Equinoctiall line, till that it commeth to the headland 

 called Calicut aforesayd, and from thence the coast 

 making a gulfe, where is the river of Ganges, returneth 

 toward the line to a headland called Malaca, where is 

 the principall Spicerie : & from this Cape returneth 

 and maketh a great gulfe, and after the coast goeth 

 right toward the Orient, and over against this last gulfe 

 and coast be many Islands, which be Islandes of the 

 Spiceries of the Emperour. Upon which the Portingals 

 and he be at variance. 

 Note. The sayd coast goeth toward the Orient, and endeth 

 right against the 155. degrees, and after returneth 

 toward the Occident Northward : which coast not yet 

 plainely knowen, I may joine to the New found lande 

 found by us, that I spake of before. So that I finish 

 with this briefe declaration of the Card aforesayd. Well 

 I know I should also have declared how the coasts 

 within the straights of the Sea of Italie runne. It is 

 playne that passing the streights on the North side of 

 that Sea after the coast of Granado, and with that 

 which pertaines to Spaine, is the coast of that which 

 France hath in Italie. And then followeth in one 

 piece all Italie, which land hath an arme of the Sea, 

 with a gulfe which is called Mare Adriaticum. And 

 in the bottome of this gulfe is the citie of Venice. 

 And on the other part of the sayd gulfe is Sclavonia, 

 and next Grecia, then the streits of Constantinople, and 

 then the sea called Euxinus, which is within the sayd 

 streights : and comming out of the sayd streights, 

 followeth Turcia major (though now on both sides 

 it is called Turcia.) And so the coast runneth South- 

 ward to Syria, and over against the sayd Turcia are the 



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