A SECOND KUTTIER 



The course from Cabo de Corrientes and Cabo 

 de S. Anton upon the West end of Cuba, 

 towards Nueva Espanna, within the Isles called 

 Los Alacranes, or The Scorpions. 



F you saile from Cape de Corrientes 

 towarde Nueva Espanna on the inside 

 of The Alacranes, you must stir West : 

 and when you thinke you have sailed 

 2S' or 40. leag. you shall sound upon 

 the pracel, and you shall come upon 

 many bristlings of waters, which, if it 



Cah de 

 Corrientes. 



Cabo de 5. 

 Anton. 



were faire weather, would seeme a skull of fish. And 

 before you come out of the bristlings, if you sound 

 you shal have depth as I have sayd. If you goe from 

 Cape de S. Anton by the inside of The Alacranes, you 

 must stir away West and by South, and you shall 

 finde sounding in the same order as I have sayd : you 

 shall have white sand, and neere the land you shall 

 finde it like the shavings and peckings of free stone, 

 and white sand like houre-glasse-sand, and sometimes 

 periwinkles or small shelles. Also if you sound in 

 deepe water, and on the sudden finde rockes, then 

 knowe that you are upon The Alacranes, and then stir 

 away Westsouthwest untill you finde cleane ground, 

 and til you bring your selfe into 18. or 20. fathoms. 

 And if you goe deeping your water, then stir away 

 West, and by these depths you shall go sounding; 

 and then taking your heigth by sunne or starre, you 

 must beware that you passe not 21. degrees & \, or 

 21. degrees and \. at the most; and in this heigth, and [HI. 620.] 

 at 18. or 20. fathoms you shall follow your way: and 

 if you deepen water, edge to the Northwestward, and 

 if you alter more your depth, edge to the Southwestward, 

 untill you have gotten so farre ahead as Cape Sisal, and 

 discovered the coast of Campeche, which coast lyeth 

 North and South, and you shall take up on your lead 

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Cape Sisal 

 upon the coast 

 of Campeche 

 in Yucatan 

 Or Is /a de 

 Arenas. 



