A SECOND RUTTIER 



you shall see a round loafe which is called El pan de El pan de 

 Matanzas : and also you shall perceive in certaine ^^^^"^<^^- 

 places round white heapes of sande called Barrancas. ^^^^ siznifie 

 If you will recover Havana, go along the coast close creeks or 

 by the lande, for the current runneth very swift in the broken 

 chanell, and there is no feare but of that which you ^»^^J»^'^^ ^f 

 may see ; for all the coast is cleane ground. 



The course from Havana to Spaine. 



IF you will saile from Havana to Spaine, you must 

 stirre away Northeast, till you come to the head of 



The Martires called La Cabeza de los Martires. If it <^^^^^^ (^^ ^^^^ 



chance before you come to the said head, that the winde 'tj/I^^l^^' 



should chop up at North on you, then stand to the East- Martires are 



ward, untill you bring your selfe as farre ahead as a number of 



Matanzas ; then cast about to the West, to discover the ^^'^^^ Hands 



lande of The Martires, or of Florida, that the current h^ng^kead 



_,, A /r • 1 ^ • r ^ i the L ate of 



may not set you on 1 he Mimbres : and it by chance Florida. 



you see The Pan de Matanzas at ful sea, it hath these Los Mimbres. 



markes following. It is a round heape or loafe, and high ^^^ markes of 



withall, and on the Westerne side thereof, appeareth a rocke jV^ ^ 



like to the head of a Tortoise : and betweene this Pan and 



the hilles of Seluco, there will appeare unto you a great 



broken lande, like as it were sunken places, and upon 



the East side of this Pan toward Punta de los Puercos it ^^^^^ ^^ ^"^ 



is all lowe lande, and you shall see no high lande at all: ^^''^^^• 



and being so farre shot, that this Pan de Matanzas 



shall beare Westnorthwest and Southsoutheast off you, 



and being desirous also to avoyde the furie of the current The furious u^ 



of the chanell of Bahama, stir away Northnortheast, and ^.^^^^///y? 



by this course you shall passe the chanell, and win the Bahama, 



coast of Florida. 



Markes of the head of The Martires called 

 Cabeza de los Martires. 



THe head of The Martires are three heapes of white 

 sande full of trees, and that in the midst hath on 

 the top a crowne, as it were of white sande, and is higher 



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