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44 Mind during this Vexatious Voyage; wherein the Ignorance, and Obstinacy withal, of some under me, occasion'd me a great deal of trouble: tho' they found all along, and were often forc'd to acknowledge it, that I was seldom out in my Conjectures, when I told them usually beforehand what Winds, &c. we should meet with at such or such particular Places we should come at.

Pernambuc was the Port that I designed for at my first setting out from St. Jago; it being a Place most proper for my purpose, by reason of its Situation, lying near the Extremity of C. St. Augustine, the easternmost Promontory of Brazil; by which means it not only enjoys the greater benefit of the Sea-breezes, and is consequently more healthy than other Places to the Southward, but is withal less subject to the Southerly Coasting Trade-winds, that blow half the year on this shore; which were now drawing on, and might be troublesome to me: so that I might both hope to reach soonest Pernambuc, as most directly and nearest in my run; and might thence also more easily get away to the southward than from Bahia de Todos los Santos or Ria Janeira.

But notwithstanding these Advantages I propos'd to my self in going to Pernambuc I was soon put by that Design through the