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house_n	contrary_a	king_n	knight_n	139,856	5	12.4234	5	true
house_n	contrary_a	king_n	knight_n	139,856	5	12.4234	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00400	A discourse of the nauigation which the Portugales doe make to the realmes and prouinces of the east partes of the worlde and of the knowledge that growes by them of the great thinges, which are in the dominions of China. Written by Barnardine of Escalanta, of the realme of Galisia priest. Translated out of Spanish into English, by Iohn Frampton.; Discurso de la navegacion que los portugueses hazen à los reinos y provincias del Oriente. English	Escalante, Bernardino de, 16th cent.; Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1579 (1579)	STC 10529; ESTC S101702	64,782	94

departe for Portugale hee met with two Iewes of that Realme which went to seeke after him with the king Don Iohn his order because that one of them had beene in Babylon which are called Bagodad amongest those small Riuers of the riuer Euphrates that doe run iointly with that of Tiger into Sinus Persicos hee shoulde refourme him of the Trade and Traffike of the Ilande of Armos which was in the entrie of it in twentie and niene degrees of height of the North side where hee saide that thyther came all the Spices and Riches of the India with expresse cōmaundement to Covillana that if hee had not 〈◊〉 Prester Iohn ●…ee shoulde not returne without knowledge of him and that with the other Iewe hee woulde sende him relation of all that hee had seene and vnderstoode in his voyage the whiche hee did very effectually and when hee had dispatched hym hee returned with the other to Adem where they dyd embarke them selues to returne to Ormos ▪ And the thinges of that Ilande beeyng noted he left him there that hee might returne by lande with the Cafilas ▪ which are Carriers that carried Spices from thence to the Cities of Alexandrie ▪ Damasco in Suria ●… that he should continue goyng vppon his iourney vntill hee came to Portugale Hee returnyng to the red Sea ▪ and wente towardes the Courte of the Emperour of Aethiopia called by his owne people Alexander of whom bee was receiued with countenance of great contentinent esteeming much the embassage because it came from a Christian Prince from the partes of Europe And although that with all speede Covillana returned yet he had not in this good hay ▪ For that within a fewe dayes died the Emperour Alexāder And Nant●… his brother which did succeede him kept him there by force wherewithall he loste the hope to returne anye more too Portugale ▪ And by the aduice and relation hee sente with the Iewes and with others by diuers wayes the king Don Iohn determined too sende some Shippes by the Nauigation of the 〈◊〉 of Buena Esperanca vntoo the Trade of the Spicerie of the India And because that in this time which was in the yeere of one thousande foure hundred nientie and two they begunne too discouer the Weast Indias by Christopher Colo●… beyng a ●…inoues ●…orne who was the first that durst take so valiaunt an enterprise ▪ in ●…ande by the commaundement of the Catholike kinges Don Fernando and Ladie Elizabe These kings for the auoyding of differences made s●…te to the high Bishop Alexander the sixth who then was President in the Catholike Church that it woulde please him to appoint out and confirme to them theyr discoueries And the Pope beyng informed did graunt too the kynges of Castile the conquest of the Indias Ilandes and landes that should be discouered in the West parts and to the kings of Portugales that of Affrica and the Countries of the Caste partes in equall portions so that it might bee vnderstoode the Nauigation from one hundred leagues more too the Westwarde of the Ilandes of Cape verde whereof the king Don Iohn found him selfe agreeued because he gaue him no more space or Circuite towardes the West And so it was graunted with the will and consent of the Catholike kinges other three ●…undred and sixtie leages more towardes the West The king Don Iohn not vnderstanding at that time howe hurtful it would be to his successours for the pretence of the Ilandes of Mal●…cas and because his life is waxed shorts it fortuned not in his time this Nauigation should be begun ▪ but was reserued by a diuine prouidence for the king Don Emanuel his Cosin that shoulde succeed him in those Realmes The fourth Chapter how that the king Don Emanuel sent by the way of Cape Buena Esperanca Don Vasco ▪ de Gama with an embassage to the king of Calicut of the successe he had vntil he returned to Portugal AND although that the King Don Iohn had prepared ships for the Nauigatiō of the India ▪ Whē he died yet y king Don Iohn Emanuel coulde not see forward this iourney vntil the 2. yeere of his raigne with was in the yeare 1491 when as he sent although that they of his counsell were of contrarie opinion yet thē I say he sent Don Vasco de Gama a knight of his house and other twoo captaines in three shippes with ambassadge vnto the king of Calicut too the ende be might bee in league with him and with other kings of the same coast of India to obteine of them that hee and his successors might haue the trade of the spicerie graunted vnto them Nowe you shal vnderstand that the said Don Vasco departed with these shippes leauing the king and his court and al others very sad bicause he went vpon a voiage so long so daungerous so vnknowen And hee was fyue monethes in the Sea before hee coulde get as farre as the cape of Buena Esperanca by reason in those daies the Portugales sailed not by the Bowlyng in the hye Seas in such sort as they do now but alwaies wēt neere to the coast of Ginea For although that in the tyme of the king Don Iohn they had knowledge of degrees and of the Astrolobe yet the Pilots which they caried with them durst not put themselues into any gulfe as they now do which doo runne from the tyme that they departe from Lishebron towards the southwest vntil they passe the Ilands of Puerto Sancto and the Medera and from thence towardes the south southeast to the sight of the Ilands of Canaria and then south passing betweene the firme lande and the Ilands of Cape Verde and South and by East vntill they put themselues in the height of the lyne and although that the cape of Buena Esperanca do fal Southeast of them they cannot make their way good by reason that in those Seas are many leuantes which are Eastsoutheast and Southeast windes that doeth cause them to fal ouer neere too the coast of Brasil and therefore they go by the Boweling running towardes the South Southeast South and Southwest according as winde and weather do giue them leaue vntill they put themselues intoo thirtie and six degrees sometymes in sight of the Ilandes of Tristan de Acunna which lye from the West parte of the cape Buena Esperanca foure hundreth and fiftie leages and at other tymes they runne into fourtie fourtie fiue degrees vntil they ●…nde Westerly windes wherewith they returne and runne towards the East and Eastnortheast too seeke the cape When Don Vasco de Gama passed he ran towards the Northeast along the coast and bicause he would put himselfe into the Sea when hee came to the cape of the currentes or tydes for feare he should put himselfe intoo any baie or shallow place and bicause he woulde passe along the coaste with al the van●…age hee could he past and had no sight of the inhabitantes of Zofala betweene the Iland of Saincte Lorence