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Title: The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Glasgow : James MacLehose and Sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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e aforesayde five hundred leaguesalong by the coast, are many Ilands: and although theybee but small, yet without doubt there are in them somegood havens, as also in the firme land, where you havethese havens following, now lately found out, as thatof the He of Sant Augustine, lying under thirtie degreesand £. and the Hand called Isla de Cedros, scarce undereight & twentie deg. and \. and the Hand lying beneathSaint Martyn, under three and twentie degrees and \.All this coast and countrey, as I thinke, is inhabited,and sheweth to be a very good countrey: for there bynight wee sawe fire, and by day smoke, which is amost sure token that they are inhabited. From the poynt or hooke of Saint Lucas, to theSoutheast side of California, wee helde our course East-southeast, for the space of 80. leagues, to the pointcalled El cabo de las corrientes, that is, the Cape of thestreames lying under 19. degrees and f. And runningthis course. Northward about a league from us wee sawe 11^ •.i.vi
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MAP OF THE COASTS OF CHINA. FRANCISCO DE GUALLE a.d. 1584. three Hands called Las tres Marias, (that is to say, The three Maries) running the same course. About foure leagues from the other Hands, there are other Hands, reaching about two or three leagues: All this way from (III. 447-) the mouth or gulfe of California aforesayd, for the space of the sayd fourescore leagues, there are great streames that run Westward. From the point or Cape de las Corrientes, wee ranne Southeast, and sometimes Southeast and by East, for the space of an hundred and thirtie leagues to the haven of Acapulco. In this way of an hundred and thirtie leagues, being twentie leagues on the way, we had the haven of Natividad, that is, of the birth of the Virgin Mary: and other eight leagues further, the haven of Saint lago, or Saint James: and sixe leagues further, the sea Strand called La Playa de Colima, that is, the Strand of Colima. All this coast from California to the haven of Acapulco is Acapulco. inhabite

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