THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Cape de la 

 vela. 



Cape del 

 Aguja. 



[III. 607.] 



Rio de Palo- 

 minos. 



Morro her- 



moso. 



Rio grande. 



Isla de Are- 

 nas. 



Samba or 

 Zamba. 



The Cape de la Vela lieth with a redde shewe not 

 very high ; and without this Cape about a league there 

 is a little coppled rocke. A man may be bold to go 

 betwixt this rocke and the maine. 



And going from this Cape to have sight of Cape del 

 Aguja thou must stirre Southwest, and thou shalt 

 have sight of the Ancones which lye at the ende of the 

 hilles called Sierras Nevadas. And then presently thou 

 shalt see the Cape del Aguja : the marks whereof are 

 these : It is a low Cape, and upon it is a copple not 

 very high, and there beginneth the high land of the 

 Sierras Nevadas, or snowy mountaines. 



Take this for a warning that if thou goe for Cape de 

 la Vela by night by the course abovesayd, and commest 

 into a whitish water, then sound and thou shalt find 

 40. fathoms, and thy sound will be certaine smal sandy 

 white oaze, and some smal weeds. And then thou 

 mayest make account that thou art North and 

 South with the river called Rio de Palominos, which 

 commeth out of the midst of the Sierras Nevadas. And 

 being benighted thou shalt go Westnorthwest, or West 

 and by North until day : and being day then thou mayest 

 hale in with sight of the land Southwest, because thou 

 mayest be sure to come right in with it. 



If thou goe from Cape del Aguja for Cartagena, 

 if it bee by day, thou shalt goe West and by South, and 

 shalt goe to have sight of Morro Hermoso, that is 

 The faire mountaine, which lyeth to the Westward of Rio 

 grande. And being alone, and with a good ship of saile, 

 and drawing towards night, then thou must come to 

 anker behind Morro hermoso : and after the first watch 

 thou must set saile, and go out West and by North, 

 because thou must be sure to keep a seaboord from the 

 Island de Arenas, which lyeth 2 leagues to seaward right 

 against Samba. 



And if thou goe from Cape del Aguja by night, thou 

 shalt goe West and by North : and so thou shalt goe 

 without the force of the water of Rio Grande. And 



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