A SECOND RUTTIER 



The course from Sant Juan de Ullua in the bay 

 of Mexico to Spaine in Europe. 



F you depart from S. Juan de Ullua to 

 Havana, you must stir away Northeast ^ 



until you bring your selfe in 25. de- / 

 grees, and from thence you must stir 

 away East from the little Islands called 

 Las Tortugas, untill you have the LasTortugas, 

 sounding of them ; and if you finde 

 white sande very small, you shall bee East and West 

 with them, and if your sounding bee shellie ground 

 and periwinkles, or small shelles or skales, then shall 

 you be Northeast and Southwest, and the shelles or 

 skales must bee red, and if at some time you take up 

 blacke sande, then are you North and South with the 

 sayd Tortugas. 



Markes of The Tortugas. 



IF you chance to fall with The Tortugas, they are 

 5. or 6. little Islands of white sand, lowe and close 

 by the sea, saving one which hath on it some shrubs 

 or bushes of trees: and they are in 25. degrees. 



The course from The Tortugas toward Havana. 



IF you depart from The Tortugas towards Havana 

 with a fresh winde, you must stir away Southwest : 

 and if it be faire weather, and a small gale of winde, 

 then stir South, that the current may not draw you in, 

 Hor set you too much to the Westward : and if you 

 fall with Los Organos, they are a ranke of high and 

 low hilles with many sharpe heads like unto Organ 

 pipes and at the entring thereof on the South side is 

 Rio de puercos, or The river of hogs ; and at the 

 further ende is the deepe bay called Baya honda, and 

 there is the round loafe or heape called El pan de 

 baya honda, that is to say, The loafe of the deepe 

 bay : and from this place untill you come to Cape 



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The hilles 

 called Los 

 Organos upon 

 Cuba neere 

 Havana. 

 Rio de 

 Puercos. 

 Baya honda. 



