A COMMENTARIE, OR SHORT DISCOURSE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
Summary
OF ALL SUCH NOTABLE THINGES AS BE BETWIXT SPAINE TILL YOU COME VNTO THE KINGDOME OF CHINA, AND FROM CHINA VNTO SPAINE, RETURNING BY THE ORIENTALL OR EAST INDIAS, AFTER THAT THEY HAD ALMOST COMPASSED THE WHOLE WORLD. WHEREIN IS CONTAYNED ALL THE RITES, CEREMONIES, AND CUSTOMES OF THE PEOPLE, THE RICHES, FERTILITIE, AND STRENGTH OF MANY KINGDOMES: AND THE DESCRIPTION OF THEM
Made and set fourth by the Author of this Book, as well by that which he hath seene, as also by true relation that he had of the religious and barefoot Fryers of the order of Saint Francis, who travailed the same the yeare 1584
CHAP. I.
A Commentarie of the New World
Saint Lucas de Barrameda, and the citie of Cadiz, from whence ordinarily goeth foorth all such fleetes and shippes that go vnto the Occident, or West Indias, are distant the one from the other onely fiuc leagues, and in thirtie seuen degrees of altitude; from whence vnto the ilandes called the Canarias is two hundred and thirtie leagues, and alwayes doo rut to the southwest, and is ordinarily sailed in eight or ten dayes. The seas are rough, which causeth great waues; for which cause it is called the gulfe of the Jeguas.
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- History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation ThereofCompiled by the Padre Juan González de Mendoza and now reprinted from the early translation of R. Parke, pp. 207 - 340Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010