African side they are more Southerly , on the Brazilian more Easterly , so as to become almost due East , the little deflection they have being still to the Southwards . In this part of the Ocean it has been my fortune to pass a full Year, in an Employment that oblig'd me to regard more than ordinary the Weather, and I found the Winds constantly about the South-East , the most usual Point S E b E ; when it was Easterly, it generally blew hard, and was gloomy, dark, and sometimes rainy Weather; if it came to the Southwards it was generally Serene, and a small Gale next to a Calm, but this not very common. But I never saw it to the Westwards of the South, or Northwards of the East.
- That the Season of the Year has some small effect on these Trade Winds, for that when the Sun is considerable to the Northwards of the Æquator, the South-East Winds, especially in the Straight of this Ocean (if I may so call it) between Brazile and the Coast of Guinea, do vary a Point or two to the Southwards, and the North-East become more Easterly; and on the contrary, when the Sun is towards the Tropick of Capricorn the South-Easterly Winds become more Easterly, and the North-Easterly Winds on this side the Line veere more to the Northwards.
- That as there is no general Rule that admits not of some Exception, so there is in this Ocean a Tract of Sea wherein the Southerly and South-West Winds are perpetual, viz. all along the Coast of Guinea, for above five hundred Leagues together, from Sierra Leona to the Isle of St. Thomas; for the South-East Trade Wind having pass'd the Line, and approaching the Coast of Guinea within eighty or 100 Leagues, inclines towards the Shore, and becomes S. S. E. and by Degrees, as you come nearer, it veeres about to South, S. S. W. and in with the Land South-West, and sometimes West