A RUTTIER FOR THE WEST INDIES 



of the Island. But I advise thee, if it be in winter time, 

 that thou keepe another course, and that as followeth. 



The course that a man must keepe departing in 

 winter for the Indies from Sant Lucar. 



DEparting from Sant Lucar in winter thou shalt goe 

 West and by South keeping along the coast, because 

 if thou goe farre from the coast, thou shalt meete with 

 the wind off the sea untill thou be as high shot as 

 Cape Cantin, which is a low flat cape with the sea. Cape Cantin. 

 And thou shalt see a great wood before thou come at A great wood 

 this cape, called Casa del Cavallero. And from thence before you 

 thou shalt steere thy olde course, that is Southwest and ^^^^^ ^P^ 

 by South for the Isles of Alegranza, and Lancerota ; and 

 when thou art North and South with Alegranza, thou 

 shalt steere thence Southwest, and so thou shalt see the 

 Canaria, which is a round high land, and standeth in 

 twentie eight degrees. 



What thou must doe if a contrary wind take 

 thee fiftie leagues off the shore. 



WHen thou art fifty leagues shot on thy way into 

 the sea Southwest off, and there thou chance to 

 meete with a contrary winde off the sea, and if it force 

 thee to put roome, then thou shalt steere Northeast and 

 by East, and shalt hall with sight of Cabos del Plata, 

 which shew when thou art a seaboord so farre as thou 

 mayest descrie them, to be like two points of white sand : 

 and if it be cleere thou shalt see within the land certain 

 high hilles lying Northwest and by West called las 

 Sierras de Zahara, and being three leagues from land 

 thou shalt have thirtie fadomes water, and sand : And 

 from thence to the bay of Cadiz thou shalt goe along ^^^ ^^y °f 

 Northwest by the coast: and if thou be in thirtie or ^^^^^' 

 forty fadomes, thou shalt have oaze ; but if thou bee 

 in lesse then thirtie fadomes, thou shalt have other 

 sounding ; which if it chance, then thou art against S. 



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