THE MONSOONS FOR PORTUGAL ad. 



1584. 



The monsons of the Portingall ships for the 

 Indies. 

 The ships which come from Portugall depart thence 

 ordinarily betwixt the tenth & fifteenth of March, 

 comming the straight way during the moneth of July 

 to the coast of Melinde, and Mosambique, and from Note. 

 thence goe straight for Goa, and if in the moneth of 

 July they should not be at the coast of Melinde, they 

 can in no wise that yeere fetch Melinde, but returne 

 to the Isle of Saint Helena, and so are not able, that 

 time being past, to fetch the coast of India, and to 

 come straight for Goa. Therefore (as is abovesaid) they 

 returne to the Island of Saint Helena, and if they cannot 

 make the said Island, then they runne as lost upon the 

 coast of Guinea : but if the said ships be arrived in 

 time upon the coast of Melinde, they set forwardes for 

 Goa, and if by the fifteenth of September they cannot 

 fetch Goa, they then goe for Cochin, but if they see 

 they cannot fetch Cochin, they returne to Mosambique 

 to winter there upon the sayd coast. Albeit in the yeere Note. 

 of our Lord 1580 there arrived the ship called San 

 Lorenzo, being wonderfull sore sea-beaten, the eight of 

 October, which was accounted as a myracle for that the 

 like had not bene seene before. 



The monson from India for Portugall. 

 The shippes depart from Cochin betweene the fifteenth 

 and last of January, going on till they have sight of 

 Capo de buona speranza, and the Isle of Saint Helena, 

 which lslande is about the midway, being in sixteene 

 degrees to the South. And it is a litle Island being 

 fruitfull of all things which a man can imagine, with 

 great store of fruit : and this Island is a great succour 

 to the shipping which returne for Portugall. And not 

 long since the said Island was found by the Portugales, 

 and was discovered by a shippe that came from the 

 Indies in a great storme, in which they found such 

 abundance of wilde beastes, and boares, and all sort of 

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