A RUTTIER FOR THE WEST INDIES 



being Northeast and Southwest off it, scant a league 

 from the shoald commeth out on the West side a 

 certayne shoald, whereupon the sea doth alwayes beate. 



I advise thee that if thou canst not passe on the 

 West side, then thou must goe betwixt the sayd little 

 copple that it is like a sayle and the shoald : for the 

 passage is good. But if thou depart from the Serranilla 

 to the Northwest, and seest a lowe land with the sea, 

 and certaine white sandy bayes, and on the West side 

 seest a low land, and on the Eastside a little coast lying 

 East and West, thou mayest make account it is Cape Cape de 

 de Corrientes. Corrientes. 



And if thou goe from Cape de Corrientes for Cape Cape de San 

 de Santo Antonio, thou must goe Westnorthwest, and ^"^'^"^^^ 

 so thou shalt goe with the Cape. The marks be a low 

 land full of trees with certaine white sandie bayes : and 

 upon the Cape it selfe thou shalt see two thicke groves 

 of great trees, and they be upon the Cape it selfe. 



To go from the Cape de Sant Antonio for Havana [III. 609.] 

 in the time of the North winds, thou shalt goe North- 

 west untill thou be cleere of all the shoalds of the 

 Cape, and then hale thy bowlines, and go as neere the 

 wind as thou canst possibly, untill thou bring thy selfe 

 unto 24. degrees, and there sound, and thou shalt find 

 it the Tortugas, and thy sounding will be white sand. T^e Tortugas. 



Thou must take heede what is said in the Chapter 



before : for he that writ the same hath seene it, and 



bene witnesse to this : that comming from Seranilla, Serani/Za. 



and stirring North and by East he had sight of an j„ island in 



Island standing in 16. degrees, and it is on the shoalds 16. degrees, 



of Cape de Camaron. And from thence, if thou have ^^^^^ ^^ 



the wind large, goe Northeast and by East, because ^ 



^ , . .^ ' R. 1 J ■'1 / . - Lamaron. 



or the variation or the compasse, and thou shalt make The variation 



thy way Eastnortheast, and thou shalt fall with Isla of the 



de Pinos. This I say, because the currents set compasse. 



sometime West : and so it fell out to bee true in ^ll^ '^^ ^"^°^' 



March, Anno Domini 1582. I tell thee farther, that set here some- 



wee came out from this aforesayd Isle stirring North times West. 



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