Pinzón sights Brazil and takes possession at Cabo de Consolación

… who, having taken the road of the Canaries, and from there to those of Cabo Verde, and having left that of Santiago, which is one of them, on the 13th day of January of the year 1500, took the way of the south wind and then of the east, and having gone, as they said, 700 leagues, they lost the North Star and crossed the equinoctial line. Having passed it, they had a most terrible storm in which they thought to perish; they went by that way of the Orient or Levant another 240 leagues, and on the 26th of January they saw land, very far off; this was the cape that is now called of Sant Agustin, and the Portuguese call the land Brazil: Vicente Yañez then gave it the name Cabo de Consolacion. They found the sea turbid and whitish like that of a river, cast the sounding line, which is a plummet with its cord or line, and found themselves in 16 brazas; they went to the land and landed on it, and no people appeared, though there were traces of men, who, when they saw the ships, fled. …