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rate and divide themfelves, whereof fome (which go 

 to new Spaive,} take to the right hand towards H$am- 

 clapnd having difcovered Cape S . Anthonie 5 they pafle 

 vnto S. ihonDcliM, alwaies vfing the fame Eafterly 

 windes. Thofe for' the maine Land ,take the left hand, 

 difcovering the high mountaine vfTayrone 3 then ha 

 ving touched at Cartkagtns y they pafle vnto Nomlrc 

 de Diffs.fi om whence they go by land to Panama , and 

 from thence, by the South fea to Peru. But when the 

 fleetes returne to Spaiv'e , they make their voiagc in this 

 fort: The fleete of Peru difcovers Gape S. Anthonie, 

 then they enter into the Havana , which is a goodly 

 Port in the Hand of Cuba. The fleete of new Sfaine, 

 doth likewife.touch at the Havana , being parted from 

 the true Crofle,or from the Hand of S. ikon Delttt, the 

 which is not without difficultie , for that commonly 

 Eafterly windes blow there, which is a contrarie winde 

 togotdthc//4V^?4. Thefe fleetes being ioyned toge 

 ther for Sfaine , they leeke their height without the 

 Tropicks, where prefently they finde Wefterly winds, 

 which ferve them vn till they come in view of the Aco* 

 resiOiTcrccrts, and from thence to Seville. So as their 

 voiage ingoing,is of a fmall height, not above tvventie 

 degrees from the line, which is within the Tropickes. 

 But the returne is without the Tropickes , in eight and 

 twcntieor thirtie degrees of height at the leaft, for 

 that within the Tropickes,the Eafterne winds continu* 

 ally blovv,the which are fitteft to go ftom 5 ^ww to the 

 Weft indies, for that their courfe is, from Eaft to wefl- 

 and without the Tropickes , (which is in three and 

 twentie degrees of height,) they finde wefterly winds, 

 the which are the more certaine and ordinarie, the 

 farther you are from the line , and more fit to returne 



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