Note 381 — THE THIRD VOYAGE NORTH-WARD TO THE KINGDOMES OF CATHAIA and China, in Anno 1596.
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The 12 of January it was faire cleare weather, the wind west.381 That euening it was very cleare, and the skie full of stars. Then we tooke the height of Occulus Tauri,382 which is a bright and well knowne star, and we found it to be eleuated aboue ye horison twenty nine degrees and fifty foure minutes, her declination being fifteene degrees fifty foure minutes on the north side of the lyne. This declination being substracted from the height aforesaid, then there rested fourteene degrees; which substracted from ninety degrees, then the height of the pole was seuenty sixe degrees. And so by measuring the height of that starre and some others, we gest that ye sun was in the like height,383 and that we were there vnder seuenty sixe degrees, and rather higher than lower.