Hi/loris of the Indie!. 1 ib. 2 > n 3 



ise retumes fuddcnly , the heat is qualified how great 

 fbever it be: and whereas this coole winde raines ordi- 

 narie, it keepes the grofle vapours and exhalations of. 

 the earth from gathering together, which caufeahea- 

 vie and troublefome heat : whereof we fee theconrra- 

 nemEunps, for by the exhalation of thefe vapours, 

 the earth is alnioft burnt vp with the Sunne by day, 

 which makes the nigh tsfo hone and troublcfome, as 

 the aire doth often fetme like vnto a furnace: for this 

 reafbn, at Pew*, this freflincs of the winde , is the caufe 

 (by the meanesoffbmefmall (hade at. the Sunncfet- 

 ting) that they remaine coole. But contrari wife, m Eu 

 rope the moft agreeable and pleafing time in (ummer, is 

 the morning, and the evening is the moft hotte and 

 troublefome. ButatP^v/, andvnderalltheEquino(5U. 

 all it is not fo , for every morning the winde from 

 the fea doth ceafe, and the Sunne beginnes to caft his 

 beames ; and for this reafbn they feele the grcateft heac 

 in the morning , vntill the returne of the fame windes, 

 which otherwife they call the tide or winde of the fea, 

 which makes them firft to feele cold. We have tried 

 al this,whilft we were at the Hands of Barlwante, where 

 in the mornings we did fweat for heat, and at noonc 

 we felt a frefli dre-for that then, a North-eafterly wind 

 which is frefh and coole, doth commonly blow. 



That they which inhabite vndtrthe EquinoftiaH, live 

 afaeeteandpleafintlife. CHAP. 14, - 



IF thofe which have held opinion , that the earthly 

 Paradice wasvnder theEquinodiall,had beenegui- 

 dcdby this difcourfe , they had not teemed altogether 



I deceived, 



