THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



This zvorde 

 Cayo in the 

 Biskayne 

 tongue signi- 

 Jieth a fiat or 

 a shoald. 



Pracellas. 



The Mosozves 



Camoloquea. 



The Flats of 

 Mecala to be 

 avoyded. 



Cropeda a fiat 

 Island. 



2. Roches of 

 stone. 



Punta de 



Caucus. 



Matanzas. 



and Southwest with it, or till you thinke you are gone 

 12. leagues: and you shal know that you are upon Cayo 

 de Moa. For before you come at it by 2. leagues or 

 more, you shall understand that it hath a poynt of 

 lowe land, and upon the poynt it hath a Palme tree ; 

 which tree you shall see alwayes, before you see the 

 point : and it is like a sayle. From thence to the 

 Pracellas or Flats you shall stirre Northwest two parts 

 of your way, that you have to runne from Cayo de 

 Moa to the sayd Pracellas or Flats, and the one halfe 

 part of the way North Northwest and by West. And this 

 way you shall see the Pracellas or Flats in a cleane 

 place of the shoald above the water, for all the breach 

 of the sea. The Mosowes bee from the Pracell West, 

 and you shall leave them to windward. 



And if you will goe with the Pracellas or Flats, you 

 shall finde 4. or 5. fathomes : and you may goe sure 

 without danger a Northwest course untill you come in 

 7. fathomes. And if you will goe upon the Shoald, 

 you shall goe upon that depth, untill you have runne 

 40. or 45. leagues: And from thence you shall set 

 your course Southwest, till you see the Flattes of the 

 maine land. You shall then see to the Westward a 

 rocke divided into 3. partes, which is called the Camo- 

 loquea. And looke that when you come from the 

 Pracellas Southwest, you have certaine Flats before 

 you : take heede of them that you fall not by night 

 with them by foure leagues, for feare of the Mecala : 

 and you shall set your course West Northwest untill 

 day : and when it is day, you must beare close aboord 

 the shore, and then you shall see a flat Island with 

 many broken sands, which is called Cropeda, and lyeth 

 but a little out of the trade way, somewhat to the 

 Northward. Off that you shall see 2. Rocks of stone, 

 which are the poynt of all the Flats : And two leagues 

 from them on the mayne land you shall see a poynt 

 which sheweth like broken land. This is called the 

 poynt of Caucus. And from that poynt to Matanzas 



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