JAMES WELSH a.d. 



1590. 

 ground ; here we sounded and had but 20 fadome and 

 blacke sand, and we might see plaine that the rockes 

 went not along the shore, but from the land to the 

 seaward, and about 5 leagues to the Southward we 

 sawe a great bay, here we had 4 degrees and 27 minuts. 



The 16 we met with a French ship of Hunfleur, A French ship 

 who robbed our pinnesse, we sent a letter by him, and °f Hun fl eur - 

 this night we saw another spot in the Sunne at his 

 going downe. And towards evening we were thwart 

 of a river, and right over the river was a high tuft of 

 trees. 



The 17 we ankered in the rivers mouth, and then 

 we found the land to be Cavo de las Palmas, and Cavo de las 

 betweene us & the cape was a great ledge of rockes, Pa * mas - 

 one league and a halfe into the sea, and they bare to 

 the West of the Cape, we saw also an Island off the 

 point of the foreland, thus it waxed night that we could 

 perceive no more of the lande, but onely that it 

 trended in like a bay, where there runneth a streame 

 as if it were in the river of Thames, and this was the 

 change day of the Moone. 



The 19 a faire temperate day, and the wind South, 

 we went East, and the lande a sterne of us West, and 

 it shewed low by the water side like Islands, this was 

 the east of Cavo de las Palmas, and it trended in with 

 a great sound, and we went East all night, and in the 

 morning wee were but 3 or 4 leagues from the shore. 



The 20 we were thwart of a river called Rio de los Rio de b* 

 Barbos. Barbos - 



The 21 we went along the shore East, & 3 or 4 

 leagues to the West of Cavos de tres puntas, I find the 

 bay to be set deeper then it is by 4 leagues, and at 4 of 

 the clocke the land begun to shewe high, and the first 

 part of it full of Palme trees. 



The 24 still going by the shore, the land was very 

 low and full of trees by the water side, and at 1 2 of the 

 clocke we ankered thwart of the river called, Rio de Rio de Boila 

 Boilas. Here we sent our boate a shore with the mar- 



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