THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



San Pedro. 



San Sebastian, 



Los Puercos. 



The Diamant. 



The Canaries. 



The Isle De- 

 seada in the 

 West Indies 

 standeth in 1 5 

 degrees of 

 latitude. 



Markes to 

 know Domi- 

 nica by. 



Guadalupe. 

 Monserate. 



Pedro. And if it bee by day thou shalt see the Ermi- 

 tage of Sant Sebastian, which seemeth to be a shippe 

 under sayle. And thou shalt goe into the bay taking 

 heede of the Puercos, give them a good birth off. 

 And if thou chance to bee benighted when thou fallest 

 with the bay, and wouldest goe into the bay, thou shalt 

 carie thy lead in thy hand, and be sounding : and finding 

 thy selfe in rockie ground, thou shalt steere North be- 

 cause of shunning the Puercos : and yet give them not 

 too great a birth because of The Diamant, and so thou 

 mayest goe in, sounding when thou thinkest good. 

 And being benighted and then not East and West with 

 the bay, and if thou doest not goe into it, then make 

 the largest boord thou canst keeping off till day. 



If thou be at the Canaries and wouldest sayle to Nueva 

 Espanna, thou shalt sayle foure and twenty houres South 

 because of the calmes of Fierro. And from thence thou 

 shalt goe Westsouthwest, untill thou finde thy selfe in 

 twenty degrees. And then thou must goe West and 

 by South, which is the course for the Isle Deseada. And 

 from Deseada thou shalt goe West and by North, be- 

 cause of the variation of the compasse. And falling with 

 Deseada, thou shalt finde it to rise low with the sea : 

 and it standeth in 15 degrees. And the eastermost part 

 is the sharpest, and smaller then the West point. 



And if thou art going for Tierra firma, thou shalt 

 goe West and by South untill thou come to Dominica, 

 and there on the Northwest side is a river, where thou 

 mayest water. The marks to know it bee a certaine 

 high land full of hilles. And seeing it when thou art 

 farre off to the seaward, it maketh in the middest a 

 partition ; so that a man would thinke it devided the 

 Island in two parts. And this Island standeth in 14 

 degrees and a halfe. 



I advise thee that if thou wouldest goe for Nueva 

 Espanna, and so doest passe betweene Guadalupe and 

 Monserate to the Westward, that being thus open off 

 the entrance betwixt them thou shalt go Westnorthwest, 



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