A.D. 



1554. 



The lie of 

 Palmes. 

 Teneriffa. 

 The Canaries. 



From Madera 

 to the Isle of 

 Palmes. 



Gran 



Canada. 

 Forteventura. 

 The Hand of 

 Gomera. 



Teneriffa. 

 Snow. 



The coast of 

 Barbarie. 

 Cape Blanke. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



if you may see it, and in the Northeast part there is a 

 bight or bay as though it were a harborow : Also in the 

 said part, there is a rocke a little distance from the shoare, 

 and over the sayd bight you shall see a great gappe 

 in the mountaine. 



The 19 day at twelve of the clocke we had sight of 

 the isle of Palmes and Teneriffa and the Canaries. 

 The He of Palme riseth round, & lieth Southeast and 

 Northwest, and the Northwest part is lowest. In the 

 South is a round hill over the head land, and another 

 round hill above that in the land. There are betweene 

 the Southeast part of the He of Madera & the Northwest 

 part of the He of Palme seven and fifty leagues. This 

 Isle of Palme lieth in eight and twenty degrees. And 

 our course from Madera to the lie of Palme was South 

 and South and by West, so that we had sight of Teneriffa 

 and of the Canaries. The Southeast part of the He of the 

 Palme, & the Northnortheast of Teneriffa lie Southeast 

 and Northwest, and betweene them are 20 leagues. 

 Teneriffa and the great Canary called Gran Canaria, and 

 the West part of Forteventura stande in seven and 

 twenty degrees and a halfe. Gomera is a faire Island 

 but very ragged, & lieth Westsouthwest off Teneriffa. 

 And whosoever wil come betweene them two Hands must 

 come South and by East, and in the South part of 

 Gomera is a towne and a good rode in the said part 

 of the Hand : and it standeth in seven and twentie degrees 

 and three terces. Teneriffa is an high land, with a great 

 high pike like a sugar loafe, and upon the said pike is 

 snow throughout all the whole yeere. And by reason 

 of that pike it may be knowen above all other Hands, and 

 there we were becalmed the twentieth day of November, 

 from sixe of the clocke in the morning, untill foure 

 of the clocke at afternoone. 



The two and twentieth day of November, under the 

 Tropike of Cancer the Sunne goeth downe West and 

 by South. Upon the coast of Barbarie five and twentie 

 leagues by North Cape blanke, at three leagues off the 



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