by South keeping along the coast, because if thou goe farre from the coast, thou shalt meete with the wind off the sea vntill thou be as high shot as Cape Cantin, which is a low flat cape with the sea.
A great wood before you come at Cape Cantin. And thou salt see a great wood before thou come at this cape, called Casa del Cauallero. And from thence thou shalt steere thy olde course, that is Southwest and by South for the Isles of Alegrança, and Lancerota; and when thou art North and South with Alegrança, thou shall steere thence Southwest, and so thou shalt see the Canaria, which is a round high land, and standeth in twentie eight degrees.
What thou must doe if a contrary wind take thee fiftie leagues off the shore.
When thou art fifty leagues shot on thy way into the sea
Southwest off, and there thou chance to meete with a contrary
winde off the sea, and if it force thee to put roome, then thou
shalt steere Northeast and by East, and shalt hall with sight of
Cabos del Plata, which shew when thou art a seaboord so farre
as thou mayest descrie them, to be like two points of white sand:
and if it be cleere thou shalt see within the land certain high
hilles lying Northwest and by West called las Sierras de Zahara,
and being three leagues from land thou shalt haue thirtie fadomes
water, and sand: And from thence to the bay of Cadiz thou shalt
goe along Northwest by the coast: and if thou be in thirtie or
fortie fadomes, thou shalt haue oaze; but if thou bee in lesse
then thirtie fadomes, thou shalt haue other sounding; which if it
chance, then thou art against S. Pedro. And if it bee by day
thou shall see the Ermitage of Sant Sebastian, which seemeth to
be a shippe vnder sayle.
Los Puercos. And thou shalt goe into the bay taking heede of the Puercos, giue them a good birth off. And if thou chance to bee benighted when thou fallest with the bay, and wouldest goe into the bay, thou shalt carie thy lead in thy hand, and be sounding: and finding thy selfe in rockie ground, thou halt steere North because of shunning the Puercos: and yet giue not too great a birth because of The Diamant, and so thou mayest goe in, sounding when thou thinkest good. And being benighted and then not East and West with the bay, and if thou doest not goe into it, then make the largest boord thou canst keeping off till day.
