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the king of Portingals. And all the land from the said 

 Crosse towarde the Occident, untill it joyneth with the 

 other Crosse in the Orient, which conteineth the other 

 hundreth and eightie degrees, that is the other halfe of the 

 worlde, to be the king of Spaines. So that from the land 

 over against the said hundreth & eighty degrees untill it 

 finish in the three hundred and sixtie on both the ends of 

 the Card, is the jurisdiction of the king of Spaine. 

 So after this maner they divided the world betweene 

 them. 

 [I. 218.] Now for that these Islands of Spicery fall neere the 



terme and limites betweene these princes (for as by the 

 sayd Card you may see they begin from one hundred and 

 sixtie degrees of longitude, and ende in 215) it seemeth 

 all that falleth from 160 to 180 degrees, should be of 

 Portingal : and all the rest of Spaine. And for that their 

 Cosmographers and Pilots coulde not agree in the situ- 

 ation of the sayde Islandes (for the Portingals set them 

 all within their 1 80 degrees, and the Spaniards set them 

 all without :) and for that in measuring, all the Cosmo- 

 graphers of both partes, or what other that ever have 

 The longitudes bene cannot give certaine order to measure the longitude 

 hard to be Q f t | le wor lJ ej as they doe of the latitude : for that there 

 is no starre fixed from East to West, as are the starres of 

 the Poles from North to South, but all mooveth with the 

 mooving divine : no maner can bee founde howe cer- 

 tainely it may bee measured, but by conjectures, as the 

 Navigants have esteemed the way they have gone. But 

 it is manifest that Spaine had the situation of al the lands 

 from Cape Verde, toward the Orient of ye Portingals to 

 their 180 degrees. And in all their Cardes they never 

 hitherto set the saide Islands within their limitation of 

 the sayd 180 degrees, (though they knewe very well of 

 the Islands,) till now that the Spaniards discovered them. 

 And it is knowen that the king of Portingal had trade 

 to these Islands afore, but would never suffer Portingal to 

 go thither from Calicut : for so much as he knew that it 

 fell out of his dominion : least by going thither there 



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