THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



time abovesayde, and commest from Cabeza de Cativa, if 



the wind will not suffer thee to lye but West, then 



going thus if thou seest a great high Island full of 



mountaines, and on the North side thereof thou see 



a ledge of rocks two leagues into the sea, thou mayest be 



Islafuerte. sure it is Isla fuerte : but if thou see not the rocks, 



A ledge of g-^^ them a good breadth : and if thou wilt come to 



anker, thou mayest ride well on the West side of them, 



betwixt the maine and them in fifteene fathomes ; and the 



sounding is clay. And if thou wilt go betweene this and 



Islas de Sm ^he Islands of Saint Barnardo to goe into Cartagena, thou 



Barnardo. ni^yest goe safely. And if any man aske thee how thou 



knowest the Islands of Baru and San Barnardo, thou 



mayest answere truely, that the Isles of San Barnardo are 



full of high hilles, and certaine sandie bayes to seaward ; 



and the sayd Isles have a good depth two or three leagues 



La Bacilla. to the sea : and this depth is called the Bacilla. And 



these are all the markes for the Islandes of San Barnardo, 



And touching the Isles of Baru, they bee 3 or 4 little 



Islands and very even with the sea, and full of trees, and 



there is no good depth about them, but hard aboord 



them. 



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A ruttier from Cartagena to Havana in Cuba. 



lOmming from Cartagena to goe to Havana, thou 

 must goe Northnorthwest untill thou be in foure- 

 teene degrees : and then forwardes thou shalt goe with 

 great care to anker every night, and when it is day 

 set sayle. And this is to bee done in this place be- 

 The shoalds cause of the shoalds of Serrana : and so thou mayest 

 ofSerrana. pj-oceede with a care to anker when thou commest 

 Seranilla. about Seranilla, or neere to it, which is in fifteene de- 

 grees and a halfe. And upon it thou shalt see a lowe 

 flatte land lying Northeast and Southwest: and the 

 sea beateth upon it round about, except that on the 

 Southeast part it hath certaine shelves of sand, and on 

 the West side it hath a certain litle copple, which 

 from sea seemeth to bee a shippe under sayle : and 



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