Latitude, and withal they come so much Southerly, as to be sometimes South, sometimes a Point or two to the West; there remains then only to ply to Windward, and if on the one side they stand away W. S. W. they gain the Wind still more and more Easterly; but there is danger of not weathering the Brazilian Shoar, or at least the Shoals upon that Coast. But if upon the other Tack they go away E. S. E. they fall into the Neighbourhood of the Coast of Guinea, from which there is no departing without running Easterly, as far as the Isle of St. Thomas, which is the constant practice of all the Guinea Ships, and which may seem very strange, without the consideration of the sixth Remark, which shews the Reason of it: For being in with the Coast, the Wind blows generally at S. W. and W. S. W. with which Winds they cannot go to the Northward for the Land; and on the other Tack they can lie no nearer the Wind than S. S. E. or South; with these Courses they run off the Shoar, but in so doing they always find the Winds more and more contrary; so that when near the Shoar they could lie South, at a greater distance they can make their way no better than S. E. and afterwards E. S. E. with which Courses they fetch commonly the Isle of St. Thomas and Cape Lopez, where finding the Winds to the Eastward of the South, they keep them favourable, by running away to the Westward in the South Latitude, of three or four Degrees, where the S. E. Winds are perpetual.
For the sake of these general Winds, all those that use the West-Indian Trade, even those bound to Virginia, count it their best Course to get as soon as they can to the Southwards, that so they may be certain of a fair and fresh Gale to run before it to the Westwards; and