THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Isla de 



Cozumel. 



and by East, for the wind would not suffer us to lye 

 neerer the East, and one evening at Sunne going 

 downe we fell with a land, that had the same markes 

 to our judgement with the Cape de Corrientes : and 

 because night was at hand, we wrought to double Cape 

 de Sant Antonio, stirring West : and about midnight 

 we had land all high right a head, & the coast lying 

 Southwest: and then we cast and lay Northeast till 

 day : And being day, wee saw the land all a head, 

 and we plied to windward to the East, and kept it a 

 larboord till we had brought it Southwest. And to be 

 short, we went here on land in the same place that we 

 first fell with in the evening before: and it was an Island 

 called Cozumel, lying on the coast of Yucatan. And 

 this Island was the land which we saw first, seeming 

 by the marks to be the Cape de Corrientes. Wee 

 came to an anker about the middest of the Island, 

 rather to the Norther then the Souther part : there we 

 found a towne of Indians, who gave us all things 

 which we needed for our money : and wee carried our 

 Astrolabs on shore and tooke the height in 19. degrees 

 and one tierce. A man may goe betweene this Island 

 and the coast of Yucatan, and the Cape de Catoche 

 at pleasure Northeast; and the water wil set in thy 

 favour : and thou must go till thou be in 24. degrees. 

 Las Tortugas. and SO thou shalt have the sounding of the Tortugas. 



The course to be kept from the Cape de Santo 

 Antonio for Nueva Espanna. 



IF thou goe from the Cape de Santo Antonio for 

 Nueva Espanna, and beeing late, thou shalt stirre 

 Westnorthwest till thou be in the height of 24. 

 degrees : and from thence thou shalt stirre something 

 to the West, until thou bring thy selfe North and 

 South with the litle Hand called Vermeja : and when 

 thou art so, thou shalt go Southwest, & by this way 

 thou shalt find Villa Rica, which is in 19 degrees & 

 a halfe, and the signes be these. Thou shalt find a 



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The latitude 

 of Cozumel 

 in 19. deg. 

 and one 

 tierce. 



The little Isle 

 called 

 Vermeja. 

 Marks of 

 Villa Rica. 



