A SECOND RUTTIER 



if you see this hill at West Southwest, the Pan or 

 round heape of Matanzas will beare off you West 

 and by South. 



Markes of the round hill called El pan de 



Matanzas. 



THis Pan is a round heape standing on a lowe 

 land and if you bring your selfe North and 

 South with it, it will make you two saddles ; and on 

 the West side it maketh a great parted lande as it 

 were sinking with the sea. Note that wheresoever you 

 shall goe to seeke the Tortugas, and shall come with 

 the coast and finde it beare off you Northeast and 

 Southwest, I advise you to goe along the coast to the 

 Southwestward : you may not deepen more then fortie 

 five fathomes, for if you doe, you shall cast your selfe 

 without the Tortugas. 



Also you must note, that if by chance you finde Note. 

 your selfe shotte betweene the Tortugas, and the 

 Martyres, and that you cannot goe on the out-side 

 of the sayde Tortugas, then cause one to goe to the 

 top, to see if you can descry them ; and if you cannot 

 see them, stir away Southwest untill you see them ; 

 and having gotten sight of them, sounde, and you shall 

 finde eighteene or ninteene fathomes : and so sholding 

 stir away South and by West, and goe by this course. 

 And feare you not the sholding, for you shall meete 

 with 12 fathoms, and shall have blacke sand in your 

 sounding. And going neerer to the ende of the said 

 Tortugas (for hee that is on the toppe shall see them 

 all) as you passe by, you shall finde but eight fathomes, 

 and stony ground, and that is the sholdest water you [ill. 624.] 

 shall have. And you shall passe by a bustling of a 

 tyde, that shoules out of the chanel that way : but 

 you neede not feare any thing for you shall have no 

 lesse then eight fathome water : and being past the 

 said bustling but a minion shot, you shal loose the 

 ground and be in the chanell. 



