_ 61 _ Jeronimo Rodrigues travelling as chief treasury officer; all sailed in galleons and caravels. The captains of the foists were: Dom Jeronimo de Castelo Branco, Diogo Pereira, João Serrão, Antonio Henriques, Goncalo de Morais de Sousa, Martim Barbudo, Antonio de Betancor, João Coelho, Rui Lopes, Pedro Alvares,Goncalo Pires and others Having set sail, they continued on their voyage, to which we shall return. The State of India The State of India begins at the Cape of Good Hope, which is at latitude ½ degree south, and at present extends to the Bay of Munkin in China, which is latitude 34 north. It embraces the whole of the known coast of Asia, which stretches for three thousand nine hundred and seventeen leagues, measured by the standards of the navigation charts compiled in India, which are the best and most accurate in the world as far as this coast and the Asian seas are concerned. This measurement does not include the bays and straits and estuaries, and still less the inlets and rivers from end to end, because it would then be many more leagues. Along the coast of Asia, the sea makes three in roads into the land in the shape of an arc, which are called gulfs.
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