Does anyone know how long it took a ship to get from the Netherlands to Brazil in the 1640s? I'm assuming it was at least a few months. Thanks, Steve

Hi Steve, From: "Steve Brewer" <slbrewer@fuse.net> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:31 PM Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Travel time to Brazil > Does anyone know how long it took a ship to get from the Netherlands to Brazil in the 1640s? I'm assuming it was at least a few months. One actual journal of such a voyage has survived. It is the journal of the voyage that Jesse de Forest and Jean de le Montange made in 1623. This journal (probably kept by Montagne) is in vol. 2 of the book, A Walloon family in America : Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848 : together with a voyage to Guiana : being the journal of Jesse de Forest and his colonists 1623-1625 which is available on line at HeritageQuest. They left Texel on 16 July 1623 [p. 191]. But they didn't leave Plymouth until 31 August [p. 199]. They arrived at the mouth of the Amazon on 20 October 1623. [p. 223] So, 50 days. You can read the whole thing to see if they had good winds or bad. Based on times from the Netherlands to New Netherland, I would have guessed about 2 months; so I think their voyage was in the range to be expected. Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com