FRANCISCO DE GUALLE a.d. 



1584. 

 Bacco is so shallowe, that no ships may enter into it. 

 From this Hand with the same course two leagues 

 forward, you passe by the point El Capo de Rescaseo, 

 where wee cast out our lead, and found that a man 

 may passe close by the lande, and there you shall finde 

 great strong streames : and halfe a league forward with 

 the same course, lyeth the towne of Mindoro, which 

 hath a good haven for shippes of three hundred tunnes. 

 Three leagues Northward from the same haven lyeth 

 the Hand called Cafaa, stretching from East and West, 

 being hilly ground. 



From the sayde towne of Myndoro, wee helde our 

 course Westnorthwest eight leagues, till wee came to 

 the poynt or hooke of the sandes called Tulen, lying 

 upon the Hand of Lu9on, which sande or banke 

 reacheth into the Sea halfe a league from the coast : 

 you must keepe about an hundred cubites from it, 

 where you finde eight fathom water, muddie and shellie 

 ground : you runne along by those sandes North, and 

 North and by West for the space of two leagues, till 

 you come to the river called Rio de Anasebo : all the 

 rest of the coast called De los Limbones to the mouth 

 or entrie of the Bay called Manilla, (which are foure 

 leagues) is sayled with the same course. The Limbones 

 (which are Hands so called) are high in forme like a 

 paire of Organs, with good havens for small shippes, 

 running along by the Limbones : and two leagues be- 

 yond them on the South side, wee leave the Hands of 

 Fortan, and foure Hands more, but the three Hands of 

 Lubao, which are very low, lie under 13. degrees and 

 •g-. and the Limbones lie in the mouth or entrie of the 

 Bay of Manilla under 14. degrees and J. The Bay of 



From thence we ranne Northwest for the space of sixe Manilla in 14 

 leagues to the haven of Cabite, keeping along by the ^^^^^^ ^^ 

 land lying on the West side, where it is shallowe, and 

 is called Los Baixos del Rio de Cannas, The shallowes 

 of the river of Reedes : all along this Bay in the same 

 course, there is from ten to foure fathom deepe. 



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