FRANCISCO DE GUALLE ad. 



1584. 

 leagues, leaving the Hand Masbate on the Southside, 

 and the Hand Buryas on the North side : at the ende 

 of thirteene leagues wee came by an Hand called 

 Banton, which is in forme like a hat, under twelve 

 degrees and f. when we had sayled the aforesayd 

 thirteene leagues and eight leagues more, on the South 

 side wee left the Hand called Rebuiam, which stretcheth 

 Northwest and Northwest and by North, and Southeast, 

 and Southeast and by South, for the space of eight 

 leagues, being high and crooked lande, whereof the North 

 point lyeth under twelve degrees and f . and there you 

 finde 25' fathom deepe, with white sand. 



From the aforesayd Iland of Banton Southward nine 

 leagues, there beginne and followe three Handes, one of 

 them being called Bantonsilla, which is a small Hand in 

 forme of a sugar loafe: the second Crymara, being some- 

 what great in length, reaching East and West about two 

 leagues: the third Itaa, or the He of Goates, having cer- 

 taine hovels. By all these Hands aforesayd you may passe [III. 444.] 

 with all sortes of shippes, whereof the foremost lyeth 

 Southward under twelve degrees and J. From the Hand 

 of Bantonsilla, or small Banton, wee helde our course 

 Northwest for the space of foure leagues, to the chanell 

 betweene the Hands called de Vereies, and the Iland 

 Marinduque, the Vereies lying on the South side under 

 twelve degrees and £. (which are two small Hands like 

 two Frigats) and the Hand Marinduque on the North 

 side under twelve degrees, and |. which is a great Iland, 

 stretching Westnorthwest, and Eastsoutheast, having in 

 length 12. & in bredth 7. leagues. On the North side 

 with the Iland Lu^on it maketh a long and small chanell, 

 running somewhat crooked, which is altogether full of 

 shallowes and sandes, whereby no shippes can passe 

 through it. The furthest point Westward of the same 

 Iland lyeth under thirteene degrees and J. It is high 

 lande, on the East side having the forme of a mine of 

 brimstone or fierie hill, and on the West side the land 

 runneth downeward at the point thereof being round like 



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