THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Punta de 

 Naga. 



[III. 614.] 



A principal ruttier conteining most particular 

 directions to saile from S. Lucar in Anda- 

 luzia by the Isles of the Canaries, the small 

 Isles called Las Antillas, along the South 

 parts of the Isles of S. Juan de Puerto rico, 

 Hispaniola and Cuba : and from Cabo de 

 Corrientes, or Cabo de S. Anton without and 

 within the litle Isles called Los Alacranes, 

 to the port of S. Juan de Ullua in Nueva 

 Espanna : and the course from thence backe 

 againe by Havana, and through the Chanell 

 of Bahama to Spaine: together with the 

 speciall markes of all the Capes, Islands, and 

 other places by the way ; and a briefe declara- 

 tion of their latitudes and longitudes. 



F you depart from the barre of S. Lucar 

 de Barameda toward the West Indias 

 in the Summer time, you must stirre 

 away Southwest untill you come to the 

 head-land called Punta de Naga upon 

 the Isle of Tenerif. But if your depar- 

 ture be from the sayd barre in the 

 Winter, you must stirre away Southwest and by South, 

 untill you come to the height of Cape Cantin on the 

 coast of Barbaric : the markes and signes whereof be 

 these following. 



The markes to know Cape Cantin. 



CApe Cantin is a lowe Cape and small to the sea 

 ward, and maketh a snowt like the nose of a 

 galley, and hath upon the top of the poynt a Heath 

 or shrubby place, and on the toppe thereof stand two 

 homocks, that to the sea-ward being higher then the 

 other; but that on the Souther side sheweth like a 

 tower: and his Cape is in 32. degrees and J. 



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