7* MifctUanea Curiofa, 



other two. What the Spanijh Authors fay of rhe 

 Winds they find in their Courfes, and what is 

 confirro'd by the old Accounts of Drake and Can- 

 difhj and fince by Schooten, who faiPd the whole 

 breadth of. this Sea in the Southern Latitude of 

 fifteen or fixteen Degrees, is, that rhere is a great 

 conformity between the Winds of this Sea, and 

 thofe of the A?lantic\ and JEthiopick j that is to 

 fay, that to the Northwards of the ./Equator, 

 the predominant Wind is between the Eaft and 

 North-Eaft, and to the Southwards thereof there 

 is a conftant fteady Gale between the Eaft and 

 South- Eaft, and that on both fides the Line 

 with fo much conftancy, that they fcarce ever 

 need to attend the Sails, and Strength, that it 

 is rare to fail of crofling this vaft Ocean in 

 ten Weeks time, which is about igo Miles per 

 diem ; befides, 'tis faid that Storms and Tem- 

 pefts are never known in rhefe parrs : So that 

 here is the very beft of Sailing , no want of a 

 frefh fair Wind, and yet no danger of having 

 too much : Wherefore fbme have thought it 

 might be as fhort a Voyage to Japan and Chi- 

 na % to go by the Streights of Magellan, as by 

 the Cape of Good Hope, 



The Limits of thefe general Winds are al(o 

 much the fame as in the Atlantic^ Sea, 

 about the thirtieth Degree of Latitude on both 

 fides j for the Spaniards homewards bound 

 from the Manilhas, always take the advantage 

 of the Southerly Monfion, blowing there in the 

 Summer Months,, and run up to the North- 

 wards of that Latitude, as high as Japan, be- 

 fore they meet with variable Winds, to ftiape 

 their Courfe .to the Eaft wards. And Schcoten 

 and others that have gone about by the Magel- 

 lan StreightSj have found the Limits of S. E. 



Winds, 



