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 by East, for the wind would not suffer vs to lye neere the East, and one euening at Sunne going downe we fell with a land that had the same markes to our iudgement with the Cape de Corrientes: and because night was at hand, we wrought to double Cape de Sant Antonio, stirring West: and about midnight we had land all high right a head, and the coast lying Southwest: and then we cast and lay Northeast till day: And being day, wee saw the land all a head, and we plied to windward to the East, and kept it a larboord till we had brought it Southwest.

And to be short, we went here on land in the same place that we first fell with in the euening before: and it was an Island called Coçumel, lying on the coast of Iucatan. And this Island was the land which we saw first, seeming by the marks to be the Cape de Corrientes.

Wee came to an anker about the middest of the Island, rather to the Norther then the Souther part: there we found a towne of Indians, who gaue vs all things which we needed for our money: and we carried our Astrolabs on shore and tooke the height in 19. degrees and one tierce.

A man may goe between this Island and the coast of Iucatan, and the Cape de Catoche at pleasure Northeast; and the water wil set in thy fauour: and thou must go till thou be in 24. degrees, and so thou shalt haue the sounding of the Tortugas.

The course to be kept from the Cape de Santo Antonio for Nueua Espanna.

If thou goe from the Cape de Santo Antonio for Nueua Espanna, and beeing late, thou shall stirre Westnorthwest till thou be in the height of 24. degrees: and from thence thou shalt stirre something to the West, vntil thou bring thy selfe North and South with the litle Iland called Vermeja: and when thou art so, thou shall go Southwest, and by this way thou shall find Villa Rica, which is in 19 degrees and a halfe, and the signes be these. Thou shall find a ledge of high hils lying Northeast and Southwest.

But if thou chance to fall with a coast that lyeth North and South, then thou mayest account that it is about the low ground of Almeria which hath these markes. It is a land