THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



A shonld, 

 A shoald halfe 

 a league to the 

 sea. 



The Isle of 

 Cares. 



Sal Medina. 



Cabeza de 

 Cativa. 

 Rio de 



Francisco. 



The Isles of 

 Cativa. 



Punta de 

 Samblas. 



Sierras de 

 Santa Cruz. 



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poynt del Judeo, give a breadth off, because there is a 

 shoald. 



I advise thee that if thou be benighted, when thou 

 art at The poynt de la canoa, and wouldest enter into 

 Cartagena by night, that thou take good heede of a shoald 

 that lyeth halfe a league to the sea, and so thou shalt 

 goe in 8 fathoms, and sandie ground. And when thou 

 findest thy selfe in deepe water, as in 30 fathoms and 

 more, then the harbour will bee open before thee. 

 And if thou have any fresh Northerne winds, then loofe 

 up to the seaward, and lye with thy stemme Eastsouth- 

 east, and so thou mayest goe in East through the 

 middest of the chanell : and though it bee by night, 

 yet thou mayest goe in safely, because it is all cleere. 

 And if the night be cleere thou shalt have sight of the 

 Island called Cares, and it is an high land. 



Comming from Cartagena to goe for Nombre de Dios 

 in the time of the Northerne winds, thou must bring 

 thy selfe to the offward of Sal medina : and thence 

 stirre West till thou bring thy selfe North and South with 

 Cabeza de Cativa ; and then goe Southwest and by West, 

 and thou shalt so fall with Rio de Francisco. It hath for 

 markes a certaine land not very high, and within the 

 land certaine high hils lying East and West. And on 

 the West of the river of Francisco thou shalt see certaine 

 cliffes that bee sixe leagues from Nombre de Dios, 

 inclining toward the sea. 



I advise thee that going this course above written ; 

 if thou see 3 or 4 Isles lying lowe with the sea, and also 

 lying East and West, thou mayest make account that 

 they be the Islands de Cativa, and then runne West, and 

 so thou shalt go along the coast. And if thou see by this 

 way a poynt of low land, make account it is Punta de 

 Samblas : and upon it thou shalt see a row of hie rockie 

 hils, and they be the mountaines of Santa Cruz. 



If thou come from Cartagena to go to Nombre de 

 Dios in the time of the sea winds, when thou art out from 

 Sal Medina, thou shalt goe West and by North, that thou 



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