'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎11] (48/506)

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Ids : In this remedilefs Condition we lay, till Heaven pitying our lan-
Euiniing under this burnt ngFever.difpatched to onr Reliei anEafl Si-uth
Eaft Wind,which leading us Weft and by brought Us to the South
of the Equinoctial Line, deprelfing our Longitude to 5 deg. 5-5- min.
Ec'ft And now we were to the Northwarel of the Sm four dtgreeSj
u itii whom circling a little Eaft , in nine days time we were in a
Perpendicular, whereby our Quadrants became of fmali ufe, we
no^ being able to make an Oblervation for their want of Shade,
but by an Aftrolabe at Nighr : The Sun pafling over our Heads,
and we being to the Southward of the Line, the firfl fair Wind m ide
us out-fail the Northern Polar Star, it not being to be feen in this
Horizon. , ^ n n • i'- •
Steering now by the Crofters , a South Conltellation, taking" its
Name from the Similitude of that Pailoral S:afF; as alfo fupplied
by the Magellan/an Clouds', in number Tw o, (averred to befuch by
thofe that ufe this way continually) fix«d as the Nwth Star; but
to me they fcem no other than aGa/^/^,caufed by the Refkdion of
the Stars. ? .....
Being to the Southward of the Suns Declination, it is obvious to
note, a North Sun makes the fame time of Day a South Sun does on
the contrary fide*
An Epidemical Diflemper, by the Sea-Chyrurgions termed a
Calenture fa malignant Fever with a Frenzy, fo that if not watch
ed, they leap into the Sea) raging in the Fleet, many were thrown
over-board.
Where the Atlantick ( wafhing the Shores all .along from the
Strehhts of Gibraltar) mixes with the /Ethiopick there the
Meridian Compafs varies very much, fo that the Wind being at
'South-Uaft and by Eaft, lays out a South and by Weft way, ^but cor-
reded by the Mignetick Azimuth- ( which gives the Suns Ampli-
tudt) it difFers two Points and an half, which with Leeway allow V,
makes a South-Weft Courfe, which we held on till we were on the
Coafls of Brafily when we were at diftance enough to take the Alti
tude of the Sun, which made 14 deg. 40 m. South Latitude, Longi
tude x deg 24 min. Eaft. '
Being between Brafil and feveral Iflands, as Trinidado, Jjl.de
Tkns, Savfta Maria , &c. we met with Winds carried us to the
South of the Tropick of Capriccrn, which crofTeth /Ethiopia Inferior,
and the mid ft of .
Before we leave this Ecliptick Circle, we mull obferve at the
Equator, the Sun becomes twice Perpendicular; at each Tropick
but once; beyond them never; becaufe hence may naturally be
colied:ed all the Seafons of the whole Ye^r; unlefs fome accidental
Caufe, as the Interpofition of Mountains, Headlands, Lakes, or fuch
like intervene.
But in his Solar Progrefs Through thfe twelve Signs, the Sun
always carries Rain along with him, its Heat otherwife could not
be endured ; for which realon, the firft Contriver and Former of all
things^as ordained the wet Seafon a Winter to thofe inhabit here, and
to chem as dreadful as our cold Seafons to us (which we fhall evidence
more experimentally when we come to live among them) : On this
account is it, that under the Line two Winters and two Summers
C a alternately
Chap. II.
Crofled the
Line.
Put-failed tfoe
horth-Sur:
Raifed the
Crofters and
Magellanian
Clouds.
A North Sun
makec NToon
as a South Sun
did before.
The Calen
ture rages in
the FJeet.
Extent of the
Atlantick and
Ufe of the
Aiimuth td
coitefl- the
Common '
Chart.
The Tropick
of Capricorn.
the Courfe
of the Sun
through the
Zodiack, the
caufe of the
Seafons of th®
Year.