THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



thou shalt goe along the coast ; and feare nothing, for 



there are no sholdes along to the North. And when 



thou seest the Islands, thou mayest make accompt they 



be these which thou seekest, for there are no other on 



A round hill, al this coast, and thou shalt see a round hil along the 



sea. Thou shalt understand that on the North side of 



this hill is the going in of the river. But if it chance 



that thou finde thy selfe in a time that will not suffer 



thee to goe in, then goe along the Islands giving them 



a bredth off. And thou mayest well come to an ankor 



hard aboord them, for all is cleane ground. And thou 



shalt finde eight or nine fadomes, and from thence thou 



mayest goe into the river hard aboord the shore. And 



if it chance that thou goe from the North to the 



South all along the great Island, thou must keepe thy 



selfe from the land : and when thou hast brought it 



Eastnortheast, then thou mayest ankor two cables 



length from the shore : for all is cleane ground. 



In zvhat height \{ thou chance to arrive on this coast in the time 



Vir^-^Tl- ^^ ^^^ Northeast windes, thou shalt seeke to fall with 



place in time ^^ hiwdi in foureteene degrees. And if thou see a 



of the North- lowe land, thou mayest make accompt it is the land 



east zuinds. called Ciemana, and then thou shalt see Mangues: 



Ctemana. ^j^^ ^jg^ ^.j^^^ gj^^j^ come along this coast to the 



South : and when thou seest an ende of the low land, 



then thou shalt finde an high land along the sea like 



the other that I have made mention of before, that is, 



all sandie along the sea coast. 



And thou must understand, that where the high land 

 beginneth, there is a little river called Rio das Contas, 

 but enter not into it: it hath for a marke to be knowen 

 by as it were a white mouth. And from thence to 

 the Islands thou hast nine leagues. And at the ende 

 of this high land to the Southward of it thou shalt 

 find a great bay within the land, & then thou 

 shalt looke to the Westsouthwest, and shalt see another 

 high land, which lieth as it were in the middest of 

 the bay, and thou shalt there see certaine white houses 



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