THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



to the sea, with a litle white tower on the top thereof: 

 and as thou goest into the port, thou must keepe neere 

 the high blacke land, and when thou art hard to it, 

 strike thy toppe sayles in signe of peace to the castle, 

 least it shoote at thee. 



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What course the Spaniards keepe from Havana 



to Spaine. 



F from Havana thou wouldest set thy course for 

 Spaine, thou must goe Northeast, and shalt so have 



losMartyres. sight of the Martyres, which stand in 24. degrees and 

 a halfe. And the coast lieth East and West. The 

 marks be these, it sheweth like heads of trees, and in 

 some places certaine rocks with white sandy bayes. 

 And if the wind be large, thou mayest go East and 

 by South untill thou see the coast to lye Northeast 

 and Southwest : and if the wind be scant, then go turn- 

 ing up : and take good heed that every evening at Sunne 

 going downe thou have sight of the land, and so thou 

 must do being in the chanell, untill thou bring thy selfe 



[III. 611.] into the middest of the chanell: and thou must lye off 

 from the going downe of the sunne, untill the ende of 

 the first watch with thy coarses alone, without any more 

 sayle ; and from midnight forwards cast about, and lye 

 the other way with the like sayle untill day: and thus 

 thou must doe untill thou bring thy selfe into the 

 chanel. And if being in the Chanel thou finde the 

 winde large, thou shalt stirre Northeast, with a care to 



The sholds of goe cleane off the sholds of the Mimbres or the Osiars. 



^^^fT' ^^^^ ^"^^ ^^ \:i€\ng in the Chanel thou meete with the wind 

 'at North, then thou must turne with a litle saile 4. 

 glasses one way, and 4. another, as thou thinkest good. 

 And if thou canst not beare sayle, then thou mayest 

 goe with all thy sayles downe, except when thou wouldest 

 cast about, thou mayest loose some small sayle to winde 



The chanell t j * 1 1 1 1 r 1 



reachethtoz^. ^ advise thee, that when thou art come out or the 



degrees. Chanel, thou shalt be in 28. degrees. And if it be 



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