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to see the lande, then stir away West vntill you see Villa rica, and from thence saile you South for the harbour of S. Iuan de Vllua: and if you should be neere the land you must stir South and by West towardes the same harbour.

And if you chance to see the Volcan or burning hill to beare west and by South from you, then know, that the harbour of S. Iuan de Vllua shalbe East and west off you.

Markes of Villa rica.

Villa rica standeth in 19. degres and 1/2, and the signes thereof are certaine high hiles full of homocks of many heads, which haue on the top of them certain white patches after the maner of white beaten wayes; and these hils lie Northeast and Southwest.

And if you doubt whether these be the Sierras or hils of S. Martin, wet your lead or sound, and if you finde bottome, they are the Sierras of Villa rica: and saile you to the landward, and looke by how much you come neerer the land, so much will they seeme lower vnto you: but so doe not the hilles of S. Martin; for the neerer you come to them, the higher will they appeare to you and likewise if they be the hilles of S. Martin, you shall not finde bottome, but euen at land it selfe.

Markes of Rio de las palmas, and of the riuer of mountaines called Rio de las montannas.

If you should chance to fall with Rio de las palmas, or The riuer of palmes, or els with the riuer of Mountaines, it is all a plaine lande, and full of trees and certaine woodie homocks, and among them certaine heapes of sand, and all this along by the sea side: and if you went by land to the riuer of Panuco, you shall haue many mouthes or openings of plaias strands, where also are many lizas or oazy places, which stretch to Rio Hermoso.

You must beware what part soeuer you happen of this coast to fall withall, to discouer it, and although you knowe it, you must sound the depth; because if the windes bee Easterly, the current setteth there much to the North: but if you should be 40. leagues at sea, then this current setteth to the Northeast.