A RUTTIER FOR THE WEST INDIES 



ledge of high hils lying Northeast and Southwest. 



But if thou chance to fall with a coast that lyeth North 



and South, then thou mayest account, that it is about 



the low ground of Almeria which hath these markes. T'he low 



It is a land not very high, and it is full of little copples. ^2h!^r'ta 



And if thou have cleare weather, thou shalt see within the 



land certaine high hils which are called the hils of Papalo. ^^^ Sterras 



And I advise thee that beeing so farre shotte as the ^ ^^^°' 

 poynt called Punta delgada, which is the ende of all 

 those hilles of Villa Rica, thou mayest stirre thence South 

 and by West, and thou shalt goe along the coast, and 

 shalt see a lowe land, and with this land thou shalt 

 fall, going for Saint Paul, and being so farre shotte as Saint PauL 

 Saint Paul, if thou wilt goe into the harbour, thou 

 must stirre Southwest : and this is the course that 

 thou must keepe being shotte into the Bay. And 

 thou shalt goe along the coast of the lowe land in 

 sight thereof: and keeping this course thou shalt see 

 on the other side a blacke hill, and it is called Monte ^°^^^ ^^ 

 de Carneros. Take this for a note, that it lyeth over ^^^^^^^^* 

 the house of Buytron : and as thou doest come neerer ^^^^ ^^ 

 to the poynt of rockes, thou must bee sure to keepe ^'■y^^^- 

 thy lead going, and shalt have foure fathomes and a 

 halfe or five fathomes, and so thou mayest goe through 

 the middest of the chanell. And comming against 

 the castle, thou shalt give it some breadth off towards ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^f 

 the Arrecife or rocke: and having doubled the castle, (jij"'^^ ^ 

 thou shalt goe from thence and shalt bring thy selfe to 

 an anker hard by the Herreria, which is a cleane Bay, 

 and thou shalt ride against the hospitall. The hospitdl. 



I advise thee that if thou be benighted when thou 

 art neere to S. Paul, and meetest with a Northerly 

 wind after midnight, that then thy best way is to bring 

 thy selfe into thy coarses, and lye by, plying to wind- 

 ward, and to seaward in 20. fathomes which depth 

 thou shalt have neere the shore, to the Northward : 

 and being day, then goe in with the harbour as thou 

 canst best, observing what is abovesaid. 



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