may not deepen more then fortie fiue fathomes, for if you doe, you shall cast your selfe without the Tortugas.
Note. Also you must note, that if by chance you finde your selfe shotte betweene the Tortugas, and the Martyres, and that you cannot goe on the out-side of the sayde Tortugas, then cause one to goe to the top, to see if you can descry them, and if you cannot see them, stir away Southwest vntill you see them; and hauing gotten sight of them, sounde, and you shall finde eighteene or ninteene fathomes: and so sholding stir away South and by West, and goe by this course. And feare you not the sholding, for you shall meete with 12. fathomes, and shall haue blacke sand in your sounding. And going neerer to the ende of the said Tortugas (for hee that is on the toppe shall see them all) as you passe by, you shall finde but eight fathomes, and stony ground, and that is the sholdest water you shall haue. And you shall passe by a bustling of a tyde, that shoules out of the chanel that way; but you neede not feare any thing for you shall haue no lesse then eight fathome water: and being past the said bustling but a minion shot, you shal loose the ground and be in the chanell.
An aduertizment.
When you shall passe this course, goe not out of sight of the Tortugas. And if you will goe from thence to Hauana, hauing a faire winde, stir away Southwest because the current may not set you off: and if with a fresh winde and Northerly, then stir away Southerly.
Here follow the latitudes of the headlandes, Capes, and Islands, as well of Madera, The Canaries, and The West Indies, as of the Açores and the Isles of Cabo Verde.
Degrees of
Latitude.
The island called Puerto Santo standeth in - - 33
The isle of Madera standeth in - - - - 32-1/2
The isle Saluaja in - - - - - 30
The isle of Alagrança in - - - - 29-1/2
The isle Fuerte ventura in - - - - 28-1/2
The Grand Canaria in - - - - - 28-1/2
The isle of Palma, and the point called Punta de Naga
in Tenerif in - - - - - 28-1/2
The isle of Gomera in - - - - - 27-1/2
