A.D. 

 I554- 



Cape Men- 



surado. 



The river of 



Sesto. 



The river of 

 Sesto. 



Rio Duke. 



Cape de 

 Monte. 



Cate de las 

 Pa/mas. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The nineteenth of the said moneth we set our course 

 East and by North, reckoning our selves seventeene 

 leagues distant from Cape Mensurado, the said Cape 

 being Eastnortheast of us, and the river of Sesto being 

 East. 



The one and twentieth day of the said moneth, we fell 

 with Cape Mensurado to the Southeast, about two leagues 

 off. This Cape may be easily knowen, by reason y* the 

 rising of it is like a Porpose-head. Also toward the 

 Southeast there are three trees, whereof the Eastermost 

 tree is the highest, and the middlemost is like a hie 

 stacke, & the Southermost like unto a gibet : and upon 

 the maine are foure or five high hilles rising one after 

 another like round hommocks or hillocks. And the 

 Southeast of the three trees, brandiernwise : and all the 

 coast along is white sand. The said Cape standeth 

 within a litle in sixe degrees. 



The two and twentieth of December we came to the 

 river of Sesto, & remained there untill the nine and 

 twentieth day of the said moneth. Here we thought it 

 best to send before us the pinnesse to the river Duke, 

 called Rio Dulce, that they might have the beginning of 

 the market before the comming of the John Evangelist. 



At the river of Sesto we had a tunne of graines. This 

 river standeth in sixe degrees, lacking a terce. From 

 the river of Sesto to Rio Dulce are five and twentie 

 leagues. Rio Dulce standeth in five degrees and a halfe. 

 The river of Sesto is easie to be knowen, by reason there 

 is a ledge of rockes on the Southeast part of the Rode. 

 And at the entring into the haven are five or sixe trees 

 that beare no leaves. This is a good harborow, but very 

 narow at ye entrance into the river. There is also a 

 rocke in the havens mouth right as you enter. And 

 all that coast betweene Cape de Monte, and cape de las 

 Palmas, lieth Southeast & by East, Northwest & by West, 

 being three leagues off the shore. And you shal have in 

 some places rocks two leagues off: and that, betweene 

 the river of Sesto and cape de las Palmas. 



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