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 the rest of the Island is without trees, and round about it are sundry playas or strandes, and it is inclosed round about with arraçifes or shoalds, and chiefly toward the maine lande.

And from thence to Cape Roxo or the red Cape are 3. leagues. And if you will come to anker at this Island to water, for that there is water in it, you may ride on all the South side close by the poynt that stretcheth to the Westward, and you may passe by the East side of it, and ride in 22. fathom, and vntill you come to 15. fathoms, all is cleane ground.

Markes of the riuer of Tuspa.

If you fall with the riuer of Tuspa, you must beware the sholdes which run 5. or 6. leagues into the sea: and vpon this riuer of Tuspa within the lande there are high hilles which lie Northeast and Southwest, and haue their ending vpon the bay of Cassones: and vpon the riuer you shall perceiue a white cliffe, which will shew vnto you like the castle of S. Iuan de Vllua.

Markes of the riuer of S. Peter and S. Paul.

If you chance to fall with the bay of Cassones, and vpon the riuer of S. Peter and S. Paul, take heede: for the sayd bay is a deepe bay, and the hilles of Tuspa haue their ending vpon this bay.

And in the mouth of this riuer of S. Peter and S. Paul are two homockes of white sand, the Westermost being bigger then that on the Northeast. And by and by you shall perceiue the water to change white which commeth out of the riuer, and sounding you shall finde sande mixed with clay vpon your lead; and looke vpon the West side,

and you shall see the Sierras or mountaines of S. Paul, which are two, and that on the North side is higher then the other.

Markes of Almeria.

If you should chance to fall or come vpon the plaines of Almeria, it is a lande full of many homocks, some with tuftes of trees on them, and some bare with white sand, and in 60. fathoms