Hfilorieoftbe Indies, lib. 



name then Vheriicitn ." Some divide them after an other 

 manenbut for that it is not now our purpofe to repeate 

 the Latine and Greeke names of all the windes, lette vs 

 onely (hew which be thofeamongft thefe windes, that 

 the Mariners of the Indian Ocean call Brifes,and lower 

 winds. I was long in fbme difficulty about thefe names, 

 feeing them to vie them very diverfly , vntill I found 

 that thefe names were more gen erall , then-proper and 

 peculiar. They call Brifes thofe which ferve to goc to 

 the Indies, the which bio we in their poope, which by 

 this meanes comprehend all the Eafterly windes , and 

 thofe which depend of them . And they do call lower 

 windes thofe which are fitte to retui nefrom the Indies > 

 which blowe from the South to the fummer-weaft, (o 

 as they be, as it were, two Efquadrons of windes ofey^ 

 ther fide , the Corporalles be of one fide Northeaft or 

 Greguatt&n the other Sou thweaft or Levefche. But you 

 mull vnderftand, that of the number of eight windes 

 and differences which wehavecounted,five are proper 

 to faile by, and not the other three. I fay , that when a 

 (hip failes at iea , he may make a long voyage with one 

 of thefe windes, although they ferve him not equally^ 

 but he cannot vfe any of the other three. As if aflirppe 

 goe to the South, he fhall faile with theNorth,N6fth- : 

 caft,Northweafl:, and with Eaft and Weaft : forfide-^ 

 windes ferve togoe,or to come. But with a Southerne 

 wind he cannot (aile,being dire^ly contrary, nor with' 

 with his two Collaterals which is Southeft and South- 

 weft, which is a very trivial! thing,& common to them* 

 that faile. And therefore it isnot needefull to explaihe 

 them heere, but to fignifie that the fide- windes of the 

 right Eaft,are thofe which com monly blow to the bur 

 ning Zone, which they doe call Brifes.:" andihofefrom 



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