Jn questi giorni mauigassemo fra iL ponente et iL maestralle et a La quarta deL maestralle in verso ponente et aL maestralle fin ɋ ajungessemo a la linea equinoti alle longi da la linea de la ripartitiōe Cento et vinti dui gradi la linea de la ripartitiōe e trenta gradi longi daL meridionale el meridionale e tre gradi al leuante longi de capo verde Jn questo Camino pasassemo poco longi da due Jzolle richisie vna in vinti gradi de latitudine al polo antarticho ɋ Se chiama Cipangu Lalta in quindici gradi chiamata Sũbdit pradit passata la linea equinotialle nauigassemo tra ponente et maistralle et a la carta deL ponente verso eL maestralle poi duzente legue aL ponente mudando eL viago. a La Quarta in verso garbin fin in tredici gradi aL polo articho þ apropinquarse piu a La tera deL capo de gaticara iL qaL capo cō perdon de li Cosmo grafi þ ɋ nō Lo visteno nō si troua doue loro iL pensauāo ma aL setentrione in dodeci gradj poco piu o mancho.
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During those days we sailed west northwest, northwest by west, and northwest, until we reached the equinoctial line at the distance of one hundred and twenty-two degrees from the line of demarcation. The line of demarcation is thirty degrees from the meridian, and the meridian is three degrees eastward from Capo Verde. We passed while on that course, a short distance from two exceedingly rich islands, one in twenty degrees of the latitude of the Antarctic Pole, by name Cipangu, and the other in fifteen degrees, by name Sumbdit Pradit. After we had passed the equinoctial line we sailed west northwest, and west by north, and then for two hundred leguas toward the west, changing our course to west by south until we reached thirteen degrees toward the Arctic Pole in order that we might approach nearer to the land of cape Gaticara. That cape (with the pardon of cosmographers, for they have not seen it), is not found where it is imagined to be, but to the north in twelve degrees or thereabouts.
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