FRANCISCO DE GUALLE a.d. 



1584. 



Westnorthwest an hundred and twentie leagues, untill 



we came to the Hand called A Ilha Branca, or the white 



Hand, lying in the beginning of the coast and Bay of 



the river Canton under two and twentie degrees, having Cjinton 22. 



foure and twentie fathom browne muddie ground. ^^^^^' 



From the Hand Hha Branca, wee helde the aforesayde 

 course of Westnorthwest, for the space of sixteene 

 leagues, to the Hand of Macao lying in the mouth of ^e Hand of 

 the river of Canton, and it maketh the river to have 

 two mouthes or entries, and it is a small Hand about 

 three leagues great. 



Chap. 3. 

 The Navigation or course of the aforesayd Francisco 

 Gualle out of the haven of Macao to Newe Spaine, 

 with the situation and stretchings of the same, with 

 other notable and memorable things concerning the 

 same voyage. 



WHen we had prepared our selves, and had taken 

 our leaves of our friends in Macao, we set saile 

 upon the foure and twentieth of July, holding our course 

 Southeast, & Southeast and by East, being in the wane 

 of the Moone : for when the Moone increaseth, it is 

 hard holding the course betweene the Hands, because as 

 then the water and streames run very strong to the 

 Northwest ; wee travailed through many narrowe chanels 

 by night, having the depth of eight or ten fathom, 

 with soft muddie ground, untill wee were about the Hand 

 Hha Branca, yet we saw it not, but by the height we Ilha Branca. 

 knew that we were past it. 



Being beyond it, we ranne Eastsoutheast an hundred 

 and fiftie leagues, to get above the sands called Os 

 Baixos dos Pescadores, and the beginning of the Hands 

 Lequeos on the East side, which Hands are called As ^^ Uhasfer- 

 Hhas fermosas, that is to say. The faire Hands. This ^^^^^' 

 I understoode by a Chinar called Santy of Chinchon, and 

 hee sayde that they lie under one and twentie degrees 

 and ^. there it is thirtie fathom deepe : and although 



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