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Voyages of the Spanish fleets 114 



Navigation in the South Sea 115 



Winds without the tropics 116 



CHAPTER 5. -Of the differences of the Brisas or Easterne windes, 

 find the West-erne t and likewise of other windes. 



Direction of the trade winds 1 1 7 



Names of the winds 119 



CHAPTER 6. What is the reason why, sailing under tJie burning 



Zone, we finde alwayes Easterly windes. 



Cause of the trade winds 121 



Motion of the Comet of 1577 122 



Father Alonzo Sanches on trade winds - 124 



CHAPTER 7. Why, without the Zone, in a greater altitude, we finde 

 alwai/es westerly w hides. 



Explanation of westerly winds outside the tropics 1 25 



Variable winds in 40 N. Lat. 125 



CHAPTER 8.- Of the exceptions to the foresaid Pules, and of the 

 Windes &amp;lt;ntd Calmes, both at Land and at Sea. 



On land the same rule does not hold 1 25 



Land and Sea Breezes 126 



Rain-bearing winds 127 



The author s voyage from Peru to Mexico 127 



CHAPTER 9. Of some marvellous effects of tJte windes, vldch ore in 



some parte* of the Indies. 



Strange effects of winds 128 



Sea sickness 129 



Sickness at great heights 130 



Remedy for sickness 131 



Intense cold of the Punas - 132 



CHAPTER 10. Of the Ocean that environs the Indies, and of the 



North and South /Seas. 



No inland seas 135 



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