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 craued a generall licence of the king Emmanuel to discouer the New found land. Here went from the Island Terçera with two ships well appointed at his owne cost, and he sailed vnto that climate which standeth vnder the north in 50. degrees of latitude, which is a land nowe called after his name; and he came home in safetie vnto the citie of Lisbon; And making another time this voiage, the ship was lost wherein he went, and the other came backe into Portugall.

Wherefore his brother Michael Cortereal went to seeke him with three ships well appointed at his owne cost; and when they came vnto that coast, and found so many entrances of riuers, and hauens, euery ship went into her seuerall riuer, with this rule and order, that they all three should meete againe the 20. day of August. The two other ships did so, and they seeing that Michael Cortereal was not come at the day appointed, nor yet afterwards in a certaine time, returned backe into the realme of Portugall, and neuer heard any more newes of him, nor yet any other memorie. But that countrey is called The land of Cortereall vnto this day.

In the yeere 1501. in the moneth of March Iohn de Noua departed from the citie of Lisbon with fower ships, and passed the line on the south side into 8. degrees of latitude, and he discouered an Island, which he called the Isle de Ascension:

And he went vnto Mosambique, and to Melinde, and from thence he crossed ouer vnto the other side, where they tooke lading, and so came back and doubled the Cape, and found an Island called Santa Helena, being but a small thing, but yet of great importance in respect of the situation thereof.

In this same yeere 1501. and in the moneth of May there departed out of Lisbon three ships vpon the commandement of Emmanuel the king to discouer the coast of Brasill: and they sailed in the sight of the Canaries, and from thence to Cape Verde, where they refreshed themselues in the towne of Bezequiche, and passed from thence beyond the line southward and fell with the land of Brasill in fiue degrees of latitude, and so went forward till they came in 32 degrees little more or lesse according as they accounted it, and from thence they came backe in the moneth