FRANCISCO DE GUALLE a.d. 



1584. 



right with the Hand of Ter^era. From thence we helde 

 our course Westward for the space of 280. leagues, till 

 we came to the point called El capo de Espirito Santo, 

 that is. The point of the holy Ghost, lying in the Hand 

 Tandaya, the first Hand of those that are called Philip- 

 pinas, Lu9ones, or Manillas, which is a countrey with 

 fewe hilles, with some mines of brimstone in the middle 

 thereof. From the point aforesayde, wee sailed West 

 for the space of eighteene leagues to the point or entrie 

 of the chanell, which runneth in betweene that Hand 

 and the Hand of Lu^on. This point or entrie lieth 

 scarce under 12. degrees. All the coast that stretcheth 

 from the entrie of the chanel to the point of El capo 

 del Spirito santo, is not very faire. 



Eight leagues from the sayde point lyeth a haven of 

 indifferent greatnesse, called Baya de Lobos, that is, 

 The Bay of woolves, having a small Hand in the mouth 

 thereof: and within the chanell about halfe a league 

 from the ende of the sayd Hand lyeth an Hand or cliffe, 

 & when you passe by the point in the middle of the 

 chanell, then you have five and twentie fathom deepe, 

 with browne sand : there we found so great a streame 

 running Westward, that it made the water to cast a 

 skum as if it had beene a sande, whereby it put us in 

 feare, but casting out our lead, wee found five and 

 twentie fathom deepe. 



From the aforesayd entrie of the chanell North, 

 and North and by East about tenne leagues, lyeth the 

 Island of Catanduanes, about a league distant from the 

 lande of Lu9on, on the furthest point Eastward, and 

 from the same entrie of the chanell towards the West 

 and Southwest lyeth the Hand Capuli about sixe leagues 

 from thence, stretching Westsouthwest, and Eastnorth- 

 east, being five leagues long, and foure leagues broad : 

 and as wee past by it, it lay Northward from us under 

 twelve degrees and ^. and somewhat high lande. Foure 

 leagues from the aforesayd Hand of Capuli Northwest- 

 ward lie the three Hands of the haven of Bollon in the 



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