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many more. Forty miles or so to the east, on the 

 south side, is a land projection called Cape Corri- 

 entes which appears from the sea a counterpart 

 of San Antonio. Vessels from the south seeking 

 to round the cape are sometimes borne to the 

 eastward of their course by currents, and first 

 sighting Corrientes mistake it for Antonio, soon 

 finding themselves in the Ensenda de Corrientes 

 with land ahead, to the right and left ; but if they 

 recognize their error in time, they can make good 

 their escape. Many vessels so confused have 

 not recovered in time, and their bones upon the 

 reefs of Corrientes make appeal to the Cuban 

 Government for a light upon this very misleading 

 point of land. Having successfully passed Antonio 

 from the south, vessels bound for Havana and 

 the Atlantic — as most of them are — have still to 

 face even more perilous conditions. While beat- 

 ing against the northeast trades they fall within 

 the influence of the lateral wash of the Gulf Stream, 

 bearing them rapidly eastward toward the line 

 of the hidden Colorados. For some fifty or sixty 

 miles north and east of Antonio these dangerous 

 reefs lie well out beyond sight of land, and to make 

 them even a greater menace, their proximity can- 



