AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



a loafe of bread : in the chanell betweene it and the 

 VereieSj there are 18. fathom deepe with small blacke 

 sand. 



From the aforesayd chanell of Vereies and Marinduque, 

 wee helde our course Westnorthwest twelve leagues to 

 the lande of Mindora, to the point or hooke called 

 Dumaryn, lying full under thirteene degrees : Five leagues 

 forward from the sayde chanell on the South side wee left 

 an Hand called Isla del maestro del Campo, that is. The 

 Hand of the Colonell, lying under twelve degrees and 5. 

 which is a small and flat Hand : In this course we had 45 

 fathom deep, with white sand. 



By this point or end of the Hand Marinduque be- 

 ginneth the Hand of Myndoro, which hath in length East 

 and West five and twentie leagues, and in bredth twelve 

 leagues, whereof the furthest point Southward lyeth under 

 thirteene degrees, and the furthest point Northward under 

 thirteene degrees and f. and the furthest point Westward 

 under thirteene degrees. This Hand with the Hand of 

 Lu^on maketh a chanell of five leagues broad, and ten or 

 twelve fathom deepe with muddie ground of divers 

 colours, with white sande. Five leagues forward from 

 Marinduque lyeth the river of the towne of Anagacu, 

 which is so shallowe, that no shippes may enter into it. 

 From thence two leagues further lie the Hands called 

 Bacco, which are three Hands lying in a triangle, two of 

 them being distant from the land about three hundred 

 cubits, and between them and the land you may passe 

 with small shippes : And from the lande to the other 

 Hand, are about two hundred cubites, where it is altogether 

 shallowes and sandes, so that where the shippes may 

 passe outward about 150. cubites from the lande, you 

 leave both the Hands on the South side, running be- 

 tweene the third Hand and the river called Rio del 

 Bacco, somewhat more from the middle of the chanel 

 towardes the Hand, which is about a league distant 

 from the other : the chanell is tenne fathom deepe, 

 with mud and shelles upon the ground : the river of 



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