'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.' [‎391] (414/448)

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Arifiot. 2. lib. Meteor- is of opinion that no great blafts of wind blow from the South ^
doubtlefs had he travelled in our company he would have retraced that opinion; for
from that meridional quarter many gufts and ftorms aflaiied us. Quid in his 4. lih. de
JPonto agrees with that learned Greeks and may be granted in our Hemifphere.
Rough Boreas our Dome flicker uleth here-, Hie oritur Boreas Oraeque domeftkus huic eft.
And takes his 'vigour from a -place more near. & fumit vires a propiore loco.
But the mild South) from adverfe quarter fent. At Notus adrerfo tepidus qui fpirat ab Axe
Comes far, blows gently, and more impotent, eft procul & rarus languidiorque venit.
But as it was, after threefcore and ten dayes further fail we attained fight of Saint
lem where the Ocean bellows on every fide fo fretfully as the place might fear an inunda
tion, had not the extraordinary height, but chiefly that Supreme providence which hath
fet the Sea its bounds, fafe-guarded it. It has no neighbouring Hies great or fmalU but
feems equidiftant from thofe two noted Ports called Rio Grandi and Cape Negro, in Bra-
the one, the other in Congo ; both in one elevation, and parallel with Saint Helena:
from that in America diftant 400 leagues i from the other in Afric not much lefs, if any,
from that number.
It had its name given by John de nova, in, or about, the year after the incarnation of
our Saviour 1502. fo called for that in his return from India to Lisbon it was difcovered
the 3. of May, a day confecrated to the memory of Helena the Emprefs who firlt found
the Crofs, the moft religious of Ladies in her time, Mother to the firlt Chrilliari Em-
rour, Conjiamine both of them glorious in their age, Brittans both *, both bright Gems
of this our Nation.
This Ifle is removed South from the Equator fixteen degrees: from the utmoft Pro
montory of South Afric hath two and. twenty degrees of longitude, and where the Needle
varies five degrees and thirteen minutes, but from the lands end of England diftant 45 00
Bnglifh miles', from the Cape of Good hope 1740*, Madagascar 3000•, Surat 6600, and
from Bantam 6900 or thereabouts. In that Bay, which takes name from the Chappel,
the Ifle has this refemblance.
But to what part of the inhabited World it appertains may be queried, feeing the vaft
/Ethiopic Ocean fo largely circles it. To Afer I may imagine (becaufe it is neareft that
Continent) rather than Kefputim. It is but fmall, not exceeding thirty JEnglijh miles _ cir
cumference, yet exceffive high •, for it vails its head often in the clouds, where opening a
wide mouth it gulps down fufficient moifture to cool its ardor, which by realbn of the
Clime 'tis in, cannot but be fometimes intemperate; and but for that affinity it has with
the middle Region which invelops it as with a chil-cold Tulipant, and long nights it has,
that extreme heat which the Sun darts conftantly twice every year perpendicular upon
this Ifle, would doubtlefs make the entrails enfiame (had it Sulphur) like another Fefet-
viui, Neverthelefs the Land is not more eminent in its height than the ambient Sea pro
found in the depth*, fo deep that it admits ill anchoring faveattheN. W. from the
Chappel, where is 20 fathoms; fo as that there are Mountains in the Sea as in the Earth
is not to be doubted ^ feeing that upon the cafting of the Lead, Log, or Plummet, upon
the one fide of the Ship is fometrmes found 30 fathom, and upon the other fide 60. Ne-
verthelefs it is lo very deep here that the founding Line or Plummet will fcarce find
ground', which is the caufe thatMarriners dofbmetimes carry their Anchorsafhore that
they may moor or ride the more fecurely. By reafon of the depth I could hardly difcern
♦ either