THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Cdbo de 



Arenas 



Gordas. 



Rio de S. 

 Anna. 



Cape de S. 

 Andre. 



Baia Ane- 

 gada. 



Punta de 

 Tierra liana. 



Bala sin 

 fondo. 



Cabo redondo. 

 Puerto de los 

 leones. 



Puerto de los 

 leones in 44 

 degrees l^ 

 better. 



of weedes, which come from the coast, and a man may go 

 20 leagues from the shore in this sounding. 



From the Cape de Santo Antonio to the Cape de 

 Arenas Gordas are eight & forty leagues, and the coast 

 lieth Northeast and Southwest, and by East, and by 

 West : and in the first eighteene leagues is the river 

 called Rio de Santa Anna, which hath at the entrance 

 certaine flats and sholds, give them a good breadth, and 

 come not nigh them by much, but keepe thy selfe in 

 forty fadomes to goe surely. 



From the cape de Arenas Gordas to the cape of Sant 

 Andre are one and thirty leagues : it lieth Northeast and 

 by East, and Southwest by West : I meane when thou 

 art in the middest with an equall distance from them 

 both. And betweene both the capes are many bayes 

 and rivers, but all full of sandie sholdes. 



From the cape of Sant Andres to the bay called 

 Anegada, that is. The sunken bay, are 30 leagues East- 

 northeast, and Westsouthwest. It standeth in 40 degrees, 

 rather lesse then more. 



From the bay called Baia Anegada to The point of the 

 plaine land are 25 leagues Northnortheast, and South- 

 southwest. This point lyeth in 41 degrees and a halfe. 

 And from this point to Baia sin fondo, that is to say The 

 bottomlesse bay, are '^^ leagues Eastnortheast, and West- 

 southwest. This bay standeth in 42 degrees and a halfe, 

 rather lesse then more. 



And from Baia sin fondo to Cabo Redondo, & Puerto 

 de los leones, are 37 leagues Northnortheast and South- 

 southwest, somewhat to the North and South. And if 

 thou meane to go out from thence with a compasse about 

 after the maner of a halfe circle or an arch, so thou 

 mayest passe through the Baia sin fondo along the 

 shore : for there is water enough. 



Note that from the river of Plate to this place is 

 never a good harbour for great shipping. 



From this place to Puerto de los leones the coast 

 is cleane, and a man may come nigh unto the land : 



86 



