172 THE UNKNOWN LANDS. 



LIB. in. Y ivQ Y O f Silver, then Tucuman, which makes the round to 

 Chille and Charcas. Of late we have vnderstood by letters 

 from some of ours which go to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, that 

 they go discovering of great Provinces and dwellings, 

 betwixt Bresill and Peru. Time will reveile them, for as 

 at this day the care and courage of men is great, to com- 

 passe the world from one part to another; so wee may 

 beleeve, that as they have discovered that which is now 

 knowne, they may likewise lay open that which remaines, 

 to the end the Gospell may be preached to the whole world, 

 seeing the two Crownes of Portugall and Castille, have met 

 by the East and West, ioyning their discoveries together, 

 which in truth is a matter to be observed, that the one is 

 come to China and lappan by the East, and the other to 

 the Philippines, which are neighbours, and almost ioyning 

 vnto China, by the West ; for from the Hands of Lusson, 

 which is the chiefe of the Philippines, in the which is the 

 Citie of Manilla, vnto Macao, which is in the He of Canton, 

 are but foure score or a hundred leagues, and yet we finde 

 it strange, that notwithstanding this small distance from 

 the one to the other, yet according to their accoumpt, there 

 is a daics difference betwixt them ; so as it is Sunday at 

 Macao, whenas it is but Saterday at Manilla, and so of the 

 rest. Those of Macao and of China have one day advanced 

 before the Philippines. It happened to father Alonso 

 Sanches, of whom mention is made before, that parting 

 from the Philippines, he arrived at Macao the second day of 

 Maie, according to their computation, and going to say the 

 Masse of S. Athanasius, he found they did celebrate the 

 feast of the invention of the holy Crosse, for that they did 

 then reckon the third of Maie. The like happened vnto 

 him in another voyage beyond it. 



Some have found this alteration and diversitie strange, 

 supposing that the fault proceedes from the one or the 

 other, the which is not so; but it is a true and well 



