a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



The times or seasonable windes called Monsons, 

 wherein the ships depart from place to place 

 in the East Indies. 



NOte, that the Citie of Goa is the principall place of 

 all the Orientall India, and the winter there 

 beginneth the 1 5 of May with very great raine, and so 

 continueth till the first of August, so that during that 

 space, no shippe can passe over the barre of Goa, because 

 through the continuall shoures of raine all the sandes 

 joyne together neere unto a mountaine called Oghane, 

 and all these sandes being joyned together, runne into 

 the shoales of the barre and port of Goa, and can have 

 no other issue, but to remaine in that port, and therefore 

 it is shut up untill the first of August, but at the 10 of 

 August it openeth by reason of the raine which ceaseth, 

 and the sea doeth then scoure the sands away againe. 

 The monson from Goa to the Northward, to say, for 

 Chaul, Diu, Cambaia, Daman, Basaim, and other 

 places. 

 The ships depart betwixt the tenth and 24 of August, 

 for the Northward places abovesayde, and to these places 

 they may saile all times of the yeere, except in the winter, 

 which beginneth and endeth at the times abovesaid. 

 The monson from the North parts, for Goa. 

 The ships depart from Chaul, Diu, Cambaia, and other 

 places Northwards for Goa, betwixt the 8 and 15 of 

 Januarie, and come to Goa about the end of Februarie. 

 The first monson from Diu for the straight of Mecca. 

 The ships depart from Diu about the 1 5 of Januarie, 

 and returne from the straights to Diu in the moneth of 

 August. 



The second monson from Diu for the straight of 



Mecca. 

 The ships depart betwixt the 25 and first of September, 

 and returne from the straights to Diu, the first and 15 

 of May. 



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