... thus, the navigation section from the Tagus river bar to the south of Cape Verde, is almost always described with optimism; sometimes, although more rarely, the defeat did not suffer incidents to the equator, as happened on the voyage of the ship «Rainha» in 1562: «We always had a very good time, strong wind, and in less than 15 days we arrived very near it, where he began to visit us with the boredom he usually gives to those who pass by it »... (life on board in the Indian career) Francisco Contente Domingues