Ui/lorie of the Indies, lib.z* 111 



of their opinion, faying that the equalitie of the daye$ 

 and nights , was fufficient of it felfe to make that Zone 

 temperate ; to which opinion many others have beene 

 oppofite, of which number was that renowmed Poet, 

 faying; 



* Thatcoati inceffantly by kotte be Ames tyred 

 0/Phoebus, who from thence never retired. 



The coolenefle of the night then is not fufficient 

 to moderate andto.corred the violent heate of the 

 Sunne; but rather this burning Zone, receives fo fweet 

 a temperature,by the benefite of the frefh and pleafant 

 airc,as notwithftanding, it were held by the Ancients 

 to be more hotte then a burning furnace : yetthofc 

 which inhabite there , take it for a delightfull fpring. 

 It appeares by arguments and very apparant reafons, 

 that the caufehecreof confiftes principally inthequa- 

 litie of the winde. We fee in one climate,fome regions 

 and Citties hotter then others, onelyfor that they 

 feele lefle winde to refrefli them . The like is in other 

 Countries where no winde blowes, the which are all 

 on fire like vnto a furnace. There are many ofthefe 

 Villages and Towaes in Breft/l, Ethiefia, and Parague^ 

 as every one knoweth r and that which is more confide- 

 rable; wee fee thefe differences,not only on the Land* 

 butalfoon theSea: there are fbme feas where they 

 feele great heat , as they report of that of (JWozambigus 

 and Ormus in the Eaft, and of the Sea ofPanamA in the 

 Weftrthe which for this reafon, engenders and brings 

 forth great Lizards (called Cajainans y ) as alfo in the 

 faiofBrcfill. There are other feas in the fame degree 

 of height, very colde, as tharof Peru, in the which wee 

 were a cold, (as I have faid before) when we firft failed 

 it, which was in March, when the Sunne wasdiredly 



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