Page:The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation 15.djvu/395

 Howe to worke comming through the olde Chanell, if you be not minded to goe ouer the Pracellas or shoalds.

If you will come through the olde Chanel, when you come as hie as the Shoalds, comming vpon your course from the Caio de Moa, as I told you, keepe 2. leagues from the Pracel or shoald: and then set our course West vnto the low islands of the firme land.

And vpon this course you shal ken the Flats on the point of Caio Romana: and within it is one Flat higher then the other, and smooth vpon, and in the middest it maketh as it were broken land; and when you are in the chanel in the day time, you must take heede you come no neere the shore by 2. leagues, and by your sounding no neerer then 3. fathoms. And you must take heede stil when ye night commeth to keepe 2. or three leagues off for feare of the shoalds. And in the night you must goe Northwest as is aforesaid. And also you must take heed that you keepe in the middle of the chanel, as nere as you can toward the shoald. And finding much wind and being beknighted, from midnight till day stirre West Northwest, and when it is towards day, then you may edge towards the Flats as is aforesaid.

And as you stirre hence one day and one night from Caio Romano to the inwards of the Chanell, you shall see the firme land of Cuba, and other markes: and among the rest, a round hamocke, which you may easily know. It is called Alcane de Barasoga.

And from thence to Sauano and to Basquo is 6. leagues, and likewise Hauana 6. leagues. And from thence to crosse vnder the Forts is 45. leagues. And stirre hence vpon your course aforesaid.

And if you haue gone from Barasoga 30. leagues, you shall see none of the Flats of Mecala:

And giue them a bredth off two or three leagues, and keepe your course West Northwest, as aforesayd, vntill it be day, and presently you may edge round to the Flats.

And thus stirring, keepe your course vntill you see the hilles of Camaloqua.

And looke that when you come from Caio de Moa, along the Pracel or shoald by night close by it, you shall not see what land it is, till it be day; and in the Morning