94 CAUSES FOE A TEMPEEATE CLIMATE 



LIB. it. temperature is not there equall in all places, but vnder one 

 climate, one part is hote, another colde, and the third 

 temperate, all at one season ; we are forced to seeke out 

 other reasons, whence this great diversitie should proceede 

 in the burning Zone. Discoursing therefore vpon this 

 question, I do finde three apparant and certaine causes, and 

 a fourth more obscure and darke. The apparant and 

 certaine causes be : The first is the Ocean, the second 

 the scituation of the land, and the third, the nature and 

 propertie of many and sundry windes. Besides these three 

 which I holde for manifest, I beleeve there is a fourth 

 hidden and lesse apparant, which is the propertie of the 

 same land inhabited, and the particular influence of the 

 heavens. Whoso woulde neerely consider the causes and 

 generall reasons before mentioned, shall finde them insuffi 

 cient for the full resolution of this point, observing that 

 which daily happens in diverse partes of the Equinoctial!. 

 Manomotapa, 1 and a great part of the kingdom of Prester 

 lean 3 are seated vnder the line, or very neere. In which 

 regions they endure excessive heate, and the men are all 

 blacke ; the which is not onely in those parts of the land 

 farre from the sea, but also in Hands invironed with the 

 sea. The Hand of Saint Thomas is vnder the Line, the 

 Hands of Cape Verd are very neere, and both in the one 

 and the other are violent heates j and the men are likewise 

 blacke. Vnder the same line, or very neere, lies a part of 

 Peru, arid of the new kingdome of Granada, which not 

 withstanding are very temperate Countries, inclining rather 

 to colde then heate, and the inhabitants are white. The 

 Country of Bresill is in the same distance from the line 

 with Peru, and yet both Bresill and all that coast is ex- 

 treamely hot, although it be in the North sea, and the other 

 coast of Peru, which is in the South sea, is very temperate. 

 I say then, that whosoever would consider these differences, 

 1 On the cast side of Africa. 2 Abyssinia. 



