'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎11] (32/448)

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and 27 of longitude from the Lizard. Howbeit, ^0/? multos fequitur ma ferena diesy for on
the 13. day, in the firft watch, our long lookt for Favonim blew fweetly upon us.
• TheWefi ■wind (mofl men know) Semper lenis aura Favonl
From the vafl Sea is ever felt to blow, Spirat ab Oceano.——
At which time fome Boobies pearcht upon the Yard-Arm of our Ship, and fuffered
our men to take them, an Animal fo very fimple as becomes a Proverb.
Boohc.
Long it is not fince I told you how favourably the Wind had been unto us, but ere
long found that his other adjund is Inconftancy; for after a fhort calm we obferved the
Ocean firft to ferment and heave, and then to wrinkle her fmooth face, and veering in
to a contrary romb at length to puff and blufter, yea next day to ftorm fo outragioufly,
that the Sea-men themfelves (fo my apprehenfion; had fome fear, and not without reafon,
the Cape-land being thought (not near enough, and yet in this condition) too near: for
four days and nights we were forced to hull, not having the leaft rag of fail out j but
driving whither wind and tide (being near the fhorej compelled, during which we were
now toll; as it were into the Air, and then thrown down into an Abyfs, dancing upon the
ridge of dreadful waves, others at a greater diftance threarning tofwallow us ^ the Air
and Ocean contending who fliould make the greater noife,that it was not poifible to be
hold a fiercer conflid 'twixt thole Elements. Neverthelefs hoping in the Lord, and having
tite fhips, through good providence after fixteen days longer fail (by this late ftorm ha
ving put forth farther to fea)our Fleet which were all difperft met joyfully together foon
after at the Cape, where I had better leifure to contemplate that Ironique Satyr of Juvenal,
Go mw, and to the winds thy life commit, I nunc & vends animam cortimitte, dolofo
Trufl the fmooth wood four or feven fingers fet Confifus ligno, Digitis a raorte remotus
From death, the broadeft heart of Fine admit. Quatuor aut feptcm j fi fit latifTima ta^da,
Neverthelefs, albeit the waves were extream high in this late ftorm, they were withal ex
traordinary long •, and experience taught us, that in the narrow Seas (as 'twixt England and
France, or Wales and where the Sea is fhallower, the waves are much fhorter and
break more, whereby they become much more dangerous ^ for where the Ocean is vaft and
deep, there it rouls in long waves, and has the flower motion. It may alfo be remembred,
that during this late tuffon, lightning was feen to fall and hang like fire, fometimes to skip
to and fro about the Yards and Tackling of our Ships. In old times the Greeks call'd them
Caftor and Pollux, whom they feign'd to be Leda's Twins*, which fome call Hermes fire j
Saint Elmo others, the French Furole but the Portugal Corpo Sanffio^sj withall believing,
that when two are feen, they foretel Halcyon weather and fafety v if one, it imports daa-
ger, but three threaten ftorms and fhipwrack. Sed^ non ego credtdm Ulis, well-knowing
that thefe.Meteors are no other than natural Exhalations.
June 24. We rais'd the Pole Antartique fix and thirty degrees, at which time our longi
tude from the Meridian of the Lizard was 25 degrees wanting three minutes-, variation
three degrees, courfe E.S.E. Suns declination 22 deg. 26 min. and as many feconds North,
in the 17. degree Gemini. Where note, that at this lame time being Mid-fummer in
England, it was mid-winter with us in this South Climat, being near the Antipodes. July
the 7. betimes in the morning by thsSargaJfo or Sea-weeds we faw floating upon the Sea
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