ABSTRACT
H.m sailed from Seville on the lO~h day of August of the said year, and remained at the bar until the 21st day of Septem-- ber, and as soon· as he got outsid_e_, he steered to the south-. west to make the island of Tenerife, and they reached the said island on the day of St. Michael, which was the 29th of September.1 .Thence he made his. course to fetch the Cap& Verde islands~ and they passed between the islands and the Cape without·sighting either the one or the other. Having got as far as this neighbourhood, he shaped his course so as to make for Brazil, and as soon as they sighted the other coast of Brazil, he steered to the south-east2 along the coast as far as Cabo-frio, which is in twenty-three degrees south latitude ; and from this cape he steered to the west, a matter of thirty leagues, to make the Rio de Janeiro, which is in the same latitude as Cabo-frio, and they entered the said Rio on the day of St. Lucy, which was the 13th Decembe:r, in which place they took in wood, and they remained there until the first octa.ve of Christmas, which was the 26th of December of the same year.
