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tohtinent : it lies under the tropic of Cancer, 

 that is, in twenty-three degrees and a half north 

 latitude. Near the middle of the ifland, to the 

 fouthward, are a number of little ifles very 

 clofe to each other, which are called the Garder; 

 of the Queen *. 



During the equinox we fufFered a very vio- 

 lent liorm between Cape Catoche and Cape An- 

 tonio % the latter, which we doubled on the 

 twenty-third^ is at the weflern point of the ifle 

 of Cuba, I was very fea-fick, having never been 

 at fea on fo long a voyage \ but the defire of 

 ferving rhy country in a new land, ' fufficiently 

 compenfated all the hardlhips I underwent on 

 my pafTage. The winds changed, the fea be- 

 came fmooth, and, a few days after, we enter- 

 ed into the famous gulph of Mexico^ where we 

 met with a prodigious quantity of floating tim- 

 ber, coming from Lotiifiana down the river MiJ/i- 

 Jtppi : thei€ logs of wood are feen for above two 

 hundred leagues at fea, and ferve as guides to 

 the entrance of the river in hazy and foggy wea- 

 ther ', it being very difficult to get into it, on ac- 

 count of the rocks and Ihoals in the neighbour^ 

 {lood of its entrance, 



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