ROBERT THORNE'S BOOK ad 



1527. 



passing the Pole, descending to the Equinoctial line, we 



shall hit these Islands, and it should be a much shorter 



way, then either the Spaniards or the Portingals have. 



For we be distant from the Pole but thirty and nine 



degrees, and from the Pole to the Equinoctiall be ninetie, 



the which added together, bee an hundred twenty and 



nine degrees, leagues 2489. and miles 7440: Where we 



should find these Islands. And the Navigation of the 



Spaniards to the Spicerie is, as by this Carde you may 



see, from Spaine to the Islandes of Canarie, and from 



these Islandes they runne over the line Equinoctiall 



Southwarde to the Cape of the maine land of the Indians, 



called the Cape of Saint Augustine, and from this Cape 



Southwards to the straites of Todos Santos, in the which Or the straites 



navigation to the said straites is 1700. or 1800 leagues ; °f Ma S eldne - 



and from these Straites being past them, they returne 



towarde the line Equinoctiall to the Islands of Spicerie, 



which are distant from the saide Straites 4200. or 4300. 



leagues. 



The navigation of the Portingals to the said Islandes is 

 departing from Portingall Southward towarde the Cape 

 Verde, and from thence to another Cape passing the line 

 Equinoctial called Capo de bona speransa, and from 

 Portingal to the Cape is 1800 leagues, and from this 

 Cape to the Islands of Spicerie of the Emperour is 

 2500. leagues. 



So that this navigation amounteth all to 4300. leagues. 

 So that (as afore is sayd,) if between our New found lands 

 or Norway, or Island, the seas toward the North be navig- 

 able, we should goe to these Islands a shorter way by 

 more then 2000. leagues. 



And though we went not to the sayd Islandes, for that Note. 

 they are the Emperours or kings of Portingal, wee 

 shoulde by the way and comming once to the line Equi- 

 noctiall, finde landes no lesse riche of golde and Spicerie, 

 as all other landes are under the sayd line Equinoctiall : 

 and also should, if we may passe under the North, enjoy 

 the navigation of all Tartaric Which should be no lesse 

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