A.D. 

 1596. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Cape Same 



Jntonio. 



made the night before, they loofed up into the middest 

 of their fleete againe, and then all the fleete stayed 

 untill the Salomon came up, and so stood along for 

 Cape S. Antonio, which wee came in sight of by two 

 in the after noone, being a low cape also, and to the 

 Southwest a white sandie bay, where 3 or 4 ships may 

 very well water. There is a good road for North & 

 Easterly windes : there the Spaniardes began to fall 

 a Sterne. That night wee stood away a glasse or two 

 Northwest, and Northnorthwest, and Northeast, and in 

 the morning-watch South, and in the morning had sight 

 of Cuba about the East part of the Organes, which are 

 dangerous rocks lying 8 leagues off upon the North 

 part of Cuba, presently assoone as you passe Cape 

 S. Anthonie : then we stood to the Eastward of 

 the land, the winde at Southsouthwest, and at 6 at 

 night had foule weather, but after were becalmed all 

 night. The 5 the winde came scant. The 7 we sawe 

 a hie land like a crowne, which appeareth so 13 or 14 

 leagues to the Westward of Havana, and another place 

 in Cuba called The Table, 8 leagues to the Eastward 

 The Crowne. of the crowne. The land over Havana maketh two 

 small mountaines like a womans breasts or paps. Here 

 we found no great current untill we came to the Gulfe 

 of Bahama. 



The 10 we saw the Cape of Florida being but 

 a reasonable low land and broken Hands to the South- 

 ward of the Cape. And at two in the afternoone we 

 lost sight of the land 12 leagues to the Northward of 

 the Cape. After we had disemboqued, we stood West 

 till midnight, and were in 28 degrees, and then stood 

 Northeast till the 13 at night, when we were in 31 degrees. 

 And after the wind scanted with a great storme, in which 

 we lost the Bonaventure, and the Little John, they bearing 

 on head. Then we stood with our larbord tacked 

 Eastsoutheast. 



The 19 we were in 29 degrees our course Eastnorth- 

 east. The 21 we had a great stormie gale of winde 



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The Cape of 

 Florida. 



[III. 590.] 



