120 NAMES OF THE WINDS. 



LIB. m. ^- vge tliem very diver sly, vntill I found that these names 

 were more generall then proper and peculiar. They call 

 Brisas those which serve to goe to the Indies, the which 

 blowe in their poope, which by this meanes comprehend all 

 the Easterly windes, and those which depend of them. And 

 they do call Vendavales those which are fitte to returne 

 from the Indies, which blowe from the South to the west, 

 so as they be, as it were, two Esquadrons of windes of 

 eyther side; the Corporalles be of one side Northeast or 

 Gregal, on the other Southwest or Leveche. But you 

 must vnderstand that of the number of eight windes and 

 differences which we have counted, five are proper to saile 

 by, and not the other three. I say that when a ship sailes 

 at sea he may make a long voyage with one of these windes, 

 although they serve him not equally, but he cannot vse any 

 of the other three. As if a shippe goe to the South he 

 shall saile with the North, Northeast, Northweast, and 

 with East and Weast, for side-windes serve to goe or to 

 come. But with a Southerne wind he cannot saile, being 

 directly contrary, nor with his two Collaterals, which is 

 Southest and Southwest, which is a very triviall thing, and 

 common to them that saile. And therefore it is not neede- 

 full to explaine them heere, but to signifie that the side- 

 windes of the right East are those which commonly blow to 

 the burning Zone, which they doe call Brisas, and those 

 from the South declining to the Weast, which serve to saile 

 from West to East, are not common in the burning Zone, 

 and therefore they seeke them without the tropikes; and 

 the Indian Mariners commonly call them Vendavales. 



