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much the higher will they shewe vnto you: neither shall you finde any bottome till you bee at the very shoare.

The course from Roca partida or The clouen rocke to S. Iuan de Vllua.

Or Antoniserro. If you depart from Roca partida or The clouen rocke for Sant Iuan de Vllua, you must stir away Westnorthwest, and so shall you fetch or fall with the point of Anton Mislardo: and if you happen to sound vpon The sunken rocks called Cabeças anegadas, you shall haue black sand and 17. fathom water, and you shall bee but a league from the land, and if you bee 2. leagues from the land, you shall haue 34. fathoms.

The course from Sant Iuan de Vllua in the bay of Mexico to Spaine in Europe.

Las Tortugas. If you depart from S. Iuan de Vllua to Hauana, you must stir away Northest vntil you bring your selfe in 25. degrees, and from thence you must stir away East from the little Islands called Las Tortugas, vntill you haue the sounding of them; and if you finde white sande very small, you shall bee East and West with them, and if your sounding bee shellie ground and periwinkles, or small shelles, or skales, then shall you be Northeast and Southwest, and the shells or skales must bee red, and if at some time you take vp blacke sande, then are you North and South with the sayd Tortugas.

Markes of The Tortugas.

If you chance to fall with The Tortugas, they are 5. or 6. little Islands of white sand, lowe and close by the sea, sauing one which hath on it some shrubs or bushes of trees: and they are in 25. degrees.

The course from the Tortugas toward Hauana.

If you depart from the Tortugas towards Hauana with a fresh winde, you must stir away Southwest: and if it be faire weather, and a small gale of winde, then stir South, that the current may