THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The place of 

 comming to an 

 ankor before 

 Porto Seguro^ 

 which standeth 

 in 1 6 deg. 13 

 one third. 



1 6 degrees. 



A dangerous 

 river in 1 6 

 degrees. 



Baixos de 



Santo Antonio. 



thou shalt see certaine rocks lying two leagues off into 

 the sea, whereon the sea doth breake, and to the South- 

 ward of them thou mayest come to an ankor against 

 the towne, and hast a good place to ride in thirteen 

 fadomes in sight of the towne. 



And if it be thy chance to arrive in the time of the 

 Northeast winds, and commest in the height of fifteene 

 degrees and two third parts, and seest not certaine hilles, 

 then thou must goe along the coast being in i6 degrees, 

 and under the first hie land that thou shalt descrie, thou 

 shalt see certaine sandie bayes along the sea coast : And if 

 thou have sight of a river in this height, put not thy selfe 

 into it, neither beare with the land, for it hath many 

 sholdes. And off them lie certaine sunken grounds, 

 called Os Baixos de Santo Antonio. And from hence 

 to the Southward lyeth Porto Seguro. 



I advise thee that going along the coast to the South- 

 ward, and seeing such sholdes, and the sea to breake 

 upon them, as the other which I last spake of, thou 

 shalt runne along them a sea boord of them : and when 

 thou art at the end of them, then the towne will beare 

 West of thee : and then thou mayest goe to thine ankor- 

 ing place as is abovesayd, giving these sholds a good birth. 



Monzoins are 

 certaine set 

 winds with 

 which the tides 

 set. 



The course to the haven named Baia do Spirito 

 Santo, that is to say, The bay of the holy 

 Ghost, lying on the sayd coast of Brasil, and 

 the marices thereof. 



Hou shalt understand that the ship that 

 goeth for Spirito Santo, when it hath 

 doubled the sholdes Os Baixos dos 

 Abrolhos, and hath brought it selfe in 

 2o or 19 degrees and a halfe, then it 

 may hall with the land in 18 or 19 

 degrees and a halfe, and in twentie. 



And the sayd shippe must goe in this height, because 



on this coast there are no Monzoins. 



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