THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The situation 

 of the Isle of 

 Tapaon. 



When a man 

 may beare in 

 mth Bahia. 



The distance 

 of O morro de 

 San Paulo 

 from Bahia. 



Rio de Tin- 

 sare a very 



white land, and long bankes of white sand, which shew 

 much like linnen cloth when it is in whiting, then 

 thou must go along from the North to the South untill 

 this white land doe end : and thou needest not to feare 

 to goe along the coast, for there are no sholds. Before 

 thou be cleane past the white land or white sands, thou 

 shalt have sight of an Island that standeth along the bay, 

 I say on the Northside of the bay, which is called 

 Tapaon : and here the land lieth West and by South. 



When thou art so farre shot as Tapaon, thou shalt 

 see a certaine great tree which is round, and standeth 

 neere the sea upon the very point of the entrance into 

 Bahia on the Northside. 



And marke well that if thou looke to the Southward, 

 and seest no white grounds such as I wrote of before, 

 but that they be all behind thee to the Northward : 

 then when thou seest none to the Southward, thou 

 mayest bee bold to beare in with Bahia. And if when 

 thou goest into Bahia to the Northwest, and seest the 

 sea to breake, feare nothing : for it is the breach of a 

 certaine banke, whereon thou shalt have alwayes 5 or 

 6 fadomes water : and this be sure of 



Thou shalt understand that if thou come for this 

 place from March to the end of April, I would wish 

 thee not to fall to the Southward of 13 degrees and a 

 halfe. And falling with the land, and not seeing the 

 white sands, thou shalt strive to goe to the North- 

 ward. And seeing the land in 13 degrees and a halfe, 

 thou shalt have sight of an hill along the sea: And if 

 thou be nigh the land, and cannot make it certaine what 

 land it is : thou shalt marke if it bee a round high hill 

 along the sea, that it is O morro de San Paulo, or. The 

 hill of Saint Paul: and it lieth blacke and bare on the 

 top. And from thence to Bahia is tenne leagues. 



And here along this hill on the Northwest side 

 there is a great river called Tinsare : and it is a very 

 good river. And in the entrance of Bahia there are 

 sixe or seven fadomes water in the chanell. And I 



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