STEPHEN HARE ad. 



1596. 



There are certaine rockes that lie off betweene the 

 yle of Alcatrarzas and S. Sebastian, about two leagues, ^'^^ y^^ ^f 

 which are to be taken heed of, which a farre off in faire ^^%/^'^^^^^ 

 weather shewe like the sailes of ships. dangerous for 



There are other rocks that lie off S. Catelina also rocks. 

 five leagues to the East and by South into the sea off 

 the yland. 



At our comming up to Santos we found foure fadom 

 and a halfe water in the shallowest place, and the like we 

 found within a league after we were departed from 

 S. Catelina, litle more or lesse, but after you have runne 

 in the depth of foure fadome and a halfe, about a mile 

 or lesse, then you shall have it deeper againe more and 

 more. 



Before the towne of Santos we rode in eight and 

 tenne fadome water. 



A letter of Francis Suares to his brother Diego 

 Suares dwelling in Lisbon, written from the 

 river of Jenero in Brasill in June 1596. con- 

 cerning the exceeding rich trade newly begunne 

 betweene that place and Peru, by the way 

 of the river of Plate, with small barks of 30. 

 and 40. tunnes. 



Ir, we set saile from Lisbon the fourth 

 of April 1596. and arrived here in this 

 river of Jenero the twentie seventh of 

 June next ensuing. And the same day 

 the Visitadores did visit our ship with 

 great joy, thinking that those com- 

 modities which wee brought with us, 

 had bene for the marchants of this countrey : but it 

 prooved to the contrary. 



The pilot brought with him in the sayd shippe two [III. 707.] 

 pipes of wine which were taken from him, and solde Wine solde at 

 by the Justice for foure and twenty reals every gallon. ^« excessive 

 But I solde mine for two and thirty and sixe and thirty ^^^^' 



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