Se^f on for cutting Sugar-canes. 87 
comes in in Jpril, at the lame time that 
it doth in N. Latitudes, and die Dry (as '•-''''VX; 
I have faid here) in September ; the Rains 
here not lafting fo far in the year as in o- 
ther Places : for in September the Weather 
is ufually lb fair, that in (the latter part of 
that Month they begin to cut their Su- 
gar-Canes here, as I was told ; for I en- 
quired particularly about the Seafons ; 
Though this, as to the Seafon of cut- 
ting of Canes, which I was now af- 
fur’d to be in September, agrees not very 
well with what I was formerly told 
[Vol. II. Part 5. p. 82. ] that in Brazil 
they cut the Canes in "^alj. Andfo, as to 
what is faid a little lower in the lame 
Page, that in managing their Canes they 
are not confin’d to the Seafons, this ought 
to have been exprefs’d only of Planting 
them ; for they never cut them but in the 
Dry Seafon. 
But to return to the Southerly Winds, 
which came in (as I expeded they would) 
while I was here : Thefe daunted my 
Ship’s Company very much, tho’ I had 
told them they were to look for them ; 
But they being ignorant as to what I told 
them farther, that thefe were only Coall- 
ing-Winds; fweeping the Shore to about 
40 or 50 Leagues in breadth from it ; and 
imagining that they had blown fo all the 
Sea over , between America and Jjnca ; 
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