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 springeth a Well of oile: and beyond that Island they came to the Isles of Frailes, Roques, Aruba, and Curaçao, with other small ones all along the Bay: and they came to the point of Cabo de Vela, and discouered along the coast almost 200. leagues, from whence they crossed ouer to Hispaniola, hauing had also sight of the Island called Beata.

In this same yeere 1497. on the 20. day of the moneth of Iune one Vasques de Gama sailed from Lisbon by the king Emmanuels commandement to India with 3. ships, wherein there went for captaines Vasques de Gama, Paulus de Gama his brother, and Nicolas Coello with 120. men; with whom also there went one ship laden only with vittailes, and in 14. daies they came vnto Cape Verde, vnto the Island of Saint Iago, where they refreshed themselues; and from thence they went along the coast beyond the Cape of Bona Sperança, whereupon they erected certaine pillars of stone, and so came vnto Mosambique standing 15. degrees to the south of the line, where they staied not long, but went from thence to Mombaza, and vnto Melinde: where the king of that place gaue them pilots, which conducted them into India, in which discouerie they found out Los Baxos do Padua, that is to say, the flats of Padua.

In the yeere 1498. in the moneth of May they came to an anker before the citie of Calicut, and Panana, where they remained all the winter: and the first day of September they set saile towards the north discouering the coast all along till they came to the Island of Angediua, which standeth on that side in 15. degrees of latitude, where they came to an anker in the beginning of October, and so they departed from Angediua in Februarie in the yeere 1499. and came in sight of the coast of Africa about Melinde towards the north 3. or 4. degrees, and from thence they sailed vnto the said citie, and so vnto Mosambique againe, and to the Cape of Bona Sperança sailing along by the coast, and then they came to the Island of Cape Verde, and last of al to the citie of Lisbon in the moneth of September, hauing been in the voiage 26. monethes.

In the yeere 1499 on the 13 day of the moneth of Nouember there departed from Palos one Vincent Yannez Pinson and his