A RUTTIER FOR THE WEST INDIES 



thou have thy moarings readie in thy boat to carry 

 on shore with foure or five men, and if thou thinke 

 good, thou mayest let them fall on land with a rope. 

 And when thou art come to anker thou mayest send 

 on shore to moare, so shalt thou be best moared. 



The course from Hocoa to Nueva Espanna. 



Going from Hocoa to Nueva Espanna thou shalt 

 stirre Southwest : and this way thou shalt find the 

 Isles Beata, and Alto velo : Beata hath these marks: Beata.andthe 

 It is a low land with the sea, and full of trees : and ^"^^^^ ^^^^'^f- 

 on the East side an high land or cliffe ; and Alto velo Alto z>elo, and 

 hath these markes. A blacke round land, and the Easter- ^^^ ^^^'^^ 

 most part thereof is highest, and it hath a downefall. ^^^^' 

 When thou art North and South with * then 



thou shalt go West, untill thou be so farre shot as 

 the Frailes : and from thence goe West and by North, Frailes. 

 and keeping this course thou shalt have sight of Cape 

 Tiburon. And if by keeping this course thou have 

 sight of a little Island, thou mayest make account it 

 is the Isle of Baque : and it is hard to the land, and The Isle of 

 from thence thou shalt go West, keeping thy selfe ^^1^^- 

 out untill thou double a poynt that maketh as it were 

 a great Bay, and then thou must go West and by North, 

 till thou come to Cape Tiburon, that hath a round blacke Cape de 

 land, and in some part thereof certaine white cliffes. itoumi. 



I advise thee that when thou art against Cape de 

 Tiburon, thou stirre Northwest, and so thou shalt have 

 sight of Cuba, which lyeth East and West : and thou Cuba. 

 shalt see certaine hilles which are called Sierras del Cobre, 

 and in the highest of them is the harbour of S. lago de 5. lago de 

 Cuba : and finding thy selfe so, thou mayest runne West Cuba. 

 unto Cape de Cruz. And before thou seest Cape de 

 Cruz thou shalt see the hils called Sierras de Tarquino, Sierras de 

 and from these hils to Cape de Cruz the land waxeth Tf{^^^J^'^}- -, 

 lower and lower, and it is lowest of all at the Cape it "- " 

 selfe. And if thou chance to have the water troubled, 

 as though thy ship did raise up the sand from the 



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