THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The port of 

 Sainf Julian. 



llhas de As- 

 censaom. 



Morro de 

 Santo Tves, in 

 50 degrees 

 large. 



Rio de Cruz. 



Rio de Gale- 

 gos and the 

 marks thereof. 



From Cabo Blanco to Puerto de San Julian are 37 

 leagues, and the coast lyeth North and by East and South 

 and by West. This harbour of S. Julian hath in the 

 entrance certaine high hilles, which afarre off seeme to be 

 towers. On the South part of the entrance the chanell 

 is deepest in the middest : and thou must borrow neerer 

 the North side then to the South. Within the harbour 

 are two Islands : thou must come to an anker hard to 

 them. This haven lyeth in 49 degrees. And betweene 

 Cabo Blanco and this harbour are The Islands of 

 Ascension, and they be eight. From this said harbour 

 to the hill of S. Yves are 35 leagues; the coast lyeth 

 Northeast & Southwest: it is a low land and even and 

 hath onely one hill, and it is a plaine from one part to the 

 other, and hath certaine cliffes to seaward, and to the 

 Southward, and to the South side it hath certaine little 

 copples : it standeth in 50 degrees large. 



From the hill of S. Yves to Rio de Cruz are 8 leagues, 

 Northeast and Southwest : and on the Northside of the 

 river it hath a very high land, and in the toppe it is 

 plaiile and lyeth two leagues broad, layd out along North 

 and South, and the downefall on both sides hath as it 

 were saddles. This Cape hath many poynts of rockes 

 lying 4 leagues into the sea : and when thou hast sight 

 of this land, it is good for thee to keepe from it a good 

 bredth off. And going from thence thou mayest runne 

 in sight of the land in 25 fathoms. 



From Rio de Cruz to Rio de Galegos are 25 leagues, 

 Northeast and Southwest; and it standeth in 52 degrees 

 and ^ of a degree. It hath a certaine high land : and in 

 the highest of the sayd land it is plaine, and to the 

 Northeast it is a pike up, and hath certaine white cliffes : 

 and on the toppe and something downewarde it is blacke : 

 at the foote of this high land to the Eastward thereof 

 it hath certaine steps like a lather : and to the sea it 

 hath a sharpe poynt that lyeth into this Cape almost 

 halfe a league. To the Southward of this Cape where 

 the lather is, there is a little Bay, which is the entrance 



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