THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The Port of 

 Tecuanapa. 



The Bishop- 

 ricks of 

 Guaxacan, iff 

 Tlarcali. 



Cuahintla. 



Tulaningo a 

 small lake. 



relation of the Haven of Tecuanapa, a most 

 convenient place for building of ships, situate 

 upon the South sea not farre from Nicaragua, 

 which was sent unto the viceroy of Mexico 

 or to the king of Spaine : wherein are de- 

 scribed the rivers of Ometepec, Tlacamama, 

 and Tlacolula falling into the said Haven, with 

 the townes, people, and mountaines adjoyning 

 to the said rivers, and other things fit for 

 the building and victualling of ships. 



He Port and small harbour of Tecuanapa 

 hath in the driest time of Sommer in 

 the chanell little lesse then one fathome 

 at low water, and at full sea one fathome 

 and an halfe : in the time of raine, with 

 the increasing of the land-water it hath 

 three fathoms and more. It lyeth toward 

 the West, and there the Bishopricks of Guaxacan and 

 Tlarcali are separated. From hence toward the point 

 called Punta de Intla and Dordaci there is a Bay 2. 

 leagues distant, which though it be no special harbour, 

 yet upon an extremity ships may come and ride there, as 

 in times past they have done. This Bay on the right 

 hand toward the North maketh a lake somewhat large 

 towards the midst of the chanell, and in some parts 

 deepe, but specially on the side of Cuahintla, but on 

 either side it is but shallow. As you passe betweene 

 the sea & certaine great and large woods of orenge 

 trees, and trees of other nature which grow along the 

 sea coast, which are of no great bredth, al the countrey 

 appeareth very open : howbeit on the side of Cuahintla 

 the mountaines have many creeks and a small lake called 

 Tulaningo, and the countrey cannot be travelled, except 

 you take the way betweene the sea and the end of this 

 lake, which may be about two leagues of sandy way. 



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