Ui/lori$ of the Indies, lib* 3, 191 



knownc, they may likewife lay open that which re- 

 maines , to the end the Gofpell may be preached to 

 the whole world, feeing the two Crownes tePortttgAll 

 andCaffiffe, have met by theEaft and Weft, ioyning 

 their difcoveries together, which in truth is a matter to 

 be obfervcd , that the one is come to China and lappan 

 by the Eaft, and theother to the Philippines, which arc 

 neighbours , and alnioft ioyning vnto China , by the 

 Weft: for from the Hands ofLuffw, which is the chiefc 

 of the Philtppwes , in the which is the Citicof J/*/*///*, 

 vnto Mac**, .which is in the lie of Cr0fr#,are but foure 

 (core or a hundred Ieagues 5 and yet we finde it ftrange, 

 that notwithftanding this fmalldiftance from the one 

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

 a daies difference betwixt them fo as it is Sunday at 

 Macan^ whcnasitisbutSatcrdayatJi/4^!r, andfbof 

 the reft. Thofe of Macau and of China have one day ad 

 vanced before the Philippines. It happened to father 

 Alonfc Sancbes,of whom mention is made before , that 

 parting from the Philippines, he arrived at Mown theie- 

 cond day ofMaic, according to their computation, 

 andgoingto%theMa{TeofS.^/^^/;W, he found 

 they did celebrate the feaft of the invention of the holy 

 Crode/or that thjey did then reckon the third ofMaic. 

 The like happened vnto him in another voyage be 

 yond it. 



Some have found this alteration and diverfitic, 

 ftrange , fuppofing that the fault proceedes from the 

 one or the othcr,the which is not fo :bu t it is a true and 

 well obfervcd computation>for according to the diffe 

 rence of waies where they havebeene, wcmuft nece 

 (arilyfay, that when they meete, there muft bee diffe 

 rence of a day 3 the reafon is, for diat failing from Weft 



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