The Discoveries of the World From Their First Original Unto the Year of Our Lor
The Discoveries of the World From Their First Original Unto the Year of Our Lor
Antnio Galvo
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E como daqui por dianta tornasse a costa ao leuante, fizerãose na outra volta ao logo delia descobrindo toda a baya, rio, enseada, p'ra ver se passaua da outra banda, & foram assi diminuindo naltura ate trinta 1 Or inlet. DISCOUERIES OF THE SPANYARDS. 89 to 38 degrees toward the cquinoctiall line, and from thence jj^jj^ of returned into England. There be others which say that he ^, ' went as far as the Cape of Florida, which standeth in 25 degrees. In the yeere 1497 the kinsr of Spaine, Don Fer...nando, coiumbus J o i > » third roiage sent out Christopher Columbus with sixe ships, and he him- [. -'X'^' selfe prouided two ships at his owne cost, and sending his ffcap^ai. Brother before, he made saile from the Bay of Cadiz, carry- ing with him his sonne, Don Diego Colon. It was then reported that he went to take the Island of Madera, because he mistrusted the French men, and therefore sent thither three ships : others say it was to the Canaries. But how- soeuer it was, this is true, that he and three more went vnto the Islands of Cape Verde, and ran along by the line, find- ing great calmes and raine, and the first land which they came vnto of the Antiles was an island standing in 9 degrees of latitude towards the north, ioining fast vnto the maine land, which they called La Trinidada ; and so he entred Trinidada > into the Gulfe of Paria, and came out of the mouth which they named Bocca de Dragone, or the Dragons mouth : and & oyto grãos, donde se tornaram a Inglaterra.
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