Fernando de Noronha

It's incredible.

I go to this island called Fernando de Noronha.

Noronha.

And it's paradise.

So, oh, WSL is the end of the month.

So, okay, now I have a 6,000 in Fernando de Noronha and I have a 10,000, let's say, in Spain.

Okay, I'm going for these two comps first before going for the world tour because I need to make money.

And Adriano, as his mentality as a poor, young, known surfer, he wanted money, he wanted to do better for his family, for himself.

Thence, after some delay, they sailed to the Azores, where they also stayed some time, and on August 15 sailed for Lisbon, reaching that port on September 7, 1502. fourth voyage in the service of portugal six ships in one of which vespucci was captain under the admiralship of gonzalo coelho fifteen o three june vespucci says may but it is evidently a mistake for june they started from lisbon went to cape verde staying there thirteen days and thence proceeded south-east this was for the purpose of touching at sierra leone according to the admiral's desire but much against that of vespucci the ultimate object of the expedition was to reach malacca which was understood to be the richest emporium of the east and the intention evidently was to seek it by a western passage although vespucci does not clearly say so it is possible that the place said to be thirty two or thirty eight degrees of south latitude from which they quitted the american continent in the third voyage was really near montevideo at about thirty four and a half degrees south latitude thus allowing them to discover the great expanse of water at the mouth of la plata and leading them to believe that they had reached the southern end of the continent in any case a notion seems to have existed that the plata was the wished-for passage to the east which columbus and others had sought in vain so far as vespucci was concerned he looked upon this voyage as a failure through the misconduct of the admiral Bad weather prevented them from landing at Sierra Leone.

They turned southwest, and after sailing 500 leagues, Vespucci says 300 erroneously, or by a typographical error, for the 300 is in Arabic numerals, came in sight of the island of Fernando Noronha.

He calls it Bad Island, for here the admiral lost his ship on a rock on August 10. august ten the chief and his crew were saved his men being distributed among the other crews here however the fleet was separated vespucci's ship harboured alone in a part of that island with only half his crew the rest having been called away in his boat at the time of the disaster and so entirely lost to him He was joined a few days later by one of the other vessels, and the two sailed thenceforward in company.

Vespucci left Fernando Noronha and sailed south-southwest for Bahia, where, by the king's order, they had appointed a rendezvous in such a case of separation as had taken place.

NOVEMBER They waited at Bahia for over two months, but seeing nothing of their companions, quitted that harbour under the impression that the other ships, which had gone on with the Admiral, were all lost.

1503-4 DECEMBER-APRIL they next sailed two hundred and sixty leagues southwardly and landed at cape frio near rio janeiro here they stayed five months building a fort in which they placed a garrison of twenty-four men part of the admiral's crew saved from the wreck at fernando naranja whom they furnished with weapons and ammunition and provisioned for six months van hagen discovered a document which proved that this fort and garrison were still maintained by the portuguese in fifteen eleven and therefore makes light of the discrepancies of latitude and longitude between vespucci's statement and the actual situation of cape frio He is probably right, and the Florentine printer may be responsible for the change of 23 into 18 south latitude and 31 into 37 longitude west of Lisbon, mistakes easily made in the use of the old Roman type with its indistinct Arabic numerals.