The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
[Sidenote: Rio de Galegos and the marks thereof.] From Rio de Cruz to
Rio de Galegos are 25 leagues, Northeast and Southwest; and it standeth
in 52 degrees and 1/6 of a degree. It hath a certaine high land: and in
the highest of the sayd land it is plaine, and to the Northeast it is a
pike vp, and hath certaine white cliffes: and on the toppe and something
downewarde it is blacke: at the foote of this high land to the Eastward
thereof it hath certaine steps like a lather: and to the sea it hath a
sharpe poynt that lyeth into this Cape almost halfe a league. To the
Southward of this Cape where the lather is, there is a little Bay, which
is the entrance of Rio de Galegos, it ebbeth and floweth here 12
fathomes. A man must haue a great care how he goeth in here for the
cause abouesaid: but he must keepe himselfe out and not anker in it.
From Rio de Galegos to the Streits of Magelan the coast lyeth
Northnorthwest and Southsoutheast: 8 leagues vnto Cabo de la virgin
Maria, which is the entrance into the Streit: and 4 leagues before a man
come to this Cape there are white cliffes with certaine blacke spots in
them; and they be caused with the falling downe of the water. [Sidenote:
Ciudad de Nombre de Iesus called by M. Candish Port Famine because he
found al the Spaniards famished, and the towne it selfe vtterly
abandoned and ruined.] Here is water inough, and thou mayest come to an
anker hard aboord the shore, and hast a good defence for a Southwest
wind. And the Cape it selfe is the highest land of all, and is like to
Cape Saint Vincent in Spaine: and it hath on the east side a ledge of
rockes, and a poynt of sand, with diuers sands which shewe themselues at
a lowe water: thou must take great heede heere and giue them a good
breadth halfe a league or a quarter of a league off, vntill thou bring
the Cape Westnorthwest, and then thou mayest stirre away Southwest. And
when thou commest to the lower land and into tenne or twelue fathoms,
then art thou ouer against la Purificacion. [Sidenote: Where Nombre de
Iesus stood.] And halfe a league within the land the citie of Nombre de
Iesus was builded, East and West with the sayd cape right against a
cliffe, which commeth from the sayd Cape, and goeth within the Streits.
This Cape standeth in 52 degrees iust.
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