THE SECOND PART OF THIS SECOND VOLUME 



containing the 



Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and 

 Discoveries of the English Nation, 



made to the South and Southeast quarters of the world 



without the Straights of Gibraltar, namely to the Hands 



of Madera, and of the Canaries, to the kingdome of 



Barbarie, to the lies of Capo Verde, to the River 



of Senga, to the Coast of Ghinea and Benin, about 



the Cape of Buona Esperanza, and so to Goa in the 



East Indies, and likewise beyond cape Comori 



to the lies of Nicubar, to Sumatra, to the 



Channell of Sincapura over against 



the City of Malacca, and to 



divers other places 



The voyage of Macham an English man, wherein [II. ii. i.] 

 he first of any man discovered the Hand of 

 Madera, recorded verbatim in the Portugall 

 history, written by Antonio Galvano. 



N the yeere 1344, King Peter the fourth 



of that name reigning in Aragon, the 



Chronicles of his age write that about 



this time the Hand of Madera, standing Madera first 



in 72 degrees, was discovered by an dlscovered h 

 t? 1- 1 a , • 1 1 tv /r 1 on e Macham 



English man, which was named Macham, a n Englishman 



who sailing out of England into Spaine, 



with a woman that he had stollen, arrived by tempest in 

 that Hand, and did cast anker in that haven or bay, 

 which now is called Machico after the name of Macham. 



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