THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



de S. Anton all is sholdes and flats 4. or 5. leagues 



into the sea, even as farre as the sayde Cape : and from 



Baya honda or The deepe bay to Havana, all the coast 



La Quadrilla is full of high and lowe hilles, which they call La 



de Sierras. Quadrilla de sierras, which is as much to say, as A 



companie of hilles together like souldiers on a heape ; 



and more to the Eastward you shall descry an high 



El pan de hill which is called El pan de Cabannas. And if you 



Lavannas. £^jj ^^\\\\ Havana, you shall see on the Southwest side 



La mesa de an hill called La meza de Marien, or the Table of 



anen. Marien ; and if it be cleare, you shall see lower to the 



Westwarde the heape or loafe that is called El pan de 



[III. 621.] Cabannas. You must note, that about Havana it is all 



lowe land even with the sea, till you come to Mesa 



de Marien, and then looke well within the lande, and 



you shall see 2. little round trees like to the teates of 



womens breasts ; and bringing your selfe North and 



South, you shall be with the harborough of Havana, 



The tower of ^nd then shall you soone perceive the tower that is 



^^^^'^'^- upon the clifFes of Havana. 



Markes of the haven or port called Puerto de 



Marien. 



lUerto de Marien is a harbour that you may enter 



into without any danger or feare, but at the 



entrance thereof you must borrow on the West side, 



by reason of the rockes and shelves, and when you are 



within, then borrow on the East shoare, and leave the 



'^ote. other side, and so shall you enter safe : and from this 



place to Havana is all lowe lande. Note, that if you 



overpasse the harborough of Havana to the Eastward, 



or if the current hath set you past it by meanes of 



calmes, then shall you perceive at full sea upon the 



Chipiona a coast certaine broken places like the enterances of har- 



towne standing bours, because the lande is lowe ; and comming neere 



TV^f /^"^^^ the shoare you shall see in some places of the coast 



of AndaLWLia ^^, ^ , ^ , i • i i i • i 



next unto S. ^^^J^^ or strandes or sande which shewe like unto 

 Lucar. Chipiona : and looking Eastward along the sea coast, 



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