_ 118 _ and whose reputation among learned men is as great as the demand for his publication.(A)(B) The "Sailing Directions" finalyy came to the public gaze in Paris, last year, 1833 as we shall say later, Note 14. (A) Concerning this Rutter, we hope that the reader will forgive us for copying here the words of Brother João de Santos, in his Ethiopia Oriental, Book 5, Chapter 20, where in a passing reference to the different ways in which people have tried to explain the term Red Sea, says: “This sea never was red, neither is it now. However, from time-to-time debris appears in different parts of it, because of the many red corals which have grown at the bottom of those same areas. For that reason it does not appear all of the same colour, except only in those places, where there is this coral, which makes the very sea seem red, our purple, with the reflection of the sun, when the waters are clear. In the places where he saw those red stains, he gave orders for some great divers, whom he had brought for that purpose, to go to the bottom. When these went down to the floor of the sea to explore that redness, they brought up many pieces of red coral, which they tore form the bottom. They claimed that all the reset of the redness that appeared was red similarly from coral. The “ Saling Directions” finally came to the public gaze in Paris, last year 1833, as we shall say later, Note 14. (B) No indication of location or original document.
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