reckoning ourselves 17 leagues from Cape Mensurado, we set our course E. by N. the said cape being E.N.E. of us, and the river Sesto E. The 20th we fell in with Cape Mensurado or Mesurado, which bore S.E. 2 leagues distant.  This cape may be easily known, as it rises into a hummock like the head of a porpoise.  Also towards the S.E. there are three trees, the eastmost being the highest, the middle one resembling a hay-stack, and that to the southward like a gibbet.  Likewise on the main there are four or five high hills, one after the other, like round hummocks.  The south-east of the three trees is brandiernaure? and all the coast is a white sand.  The said cape stands within a little of six degrees [lat. 6 deg. 20’ N. long. 10 deg. 30’ W.] The 22d we came to the river Sesto or Sesters, where we remained till the 29th, and we thought it best to send our pinnace before us to the Rio Dulce, that they might begin the market before the arrival of the John Evangelist.  At the river Sesto, which is in six degrees less one terce, or 5 deg. 40’, we got a ton of grains[205].  From Rio Sesto to Rio Dulce the distance is 25 leagues, Rio Dulce being in 5 deg. 30’ N. The Rio Sesto is easily known by a ledge of rocks to the S.E. of the road[206], and at the mouth of the river are five or six trees without leaves.  It is a good harbour, but the entrance of the river is very narrow, and has a rock right in the mouth.  All that coast, between Cape Mount and Cape Palmas, lies S.E. by E. and N.W. by N. being three leagues offshore[207], and there are rocks in some places two leagues off, especially between the river Sesto and Cape Palmas.

[Footnote 202:  The real distance is 84 marine leagues, 20 to the degree.—­E.]

[Footnote 203:  The parallel of lat. 28 deg.  N. goes through the centre of Grand Canarea, touching the southern point of Teneriffe, and just keeping free of the S.W. point of Fuertaventura.—­E.]

[204][Footnote 204:  7 Cape Blanco is in lat. 20 deg. 50’ N. 25 leagues to the north, would only reach to lat. 22 deg. 5’; exactly almost in 22 deg. is the small island of Pedro de Agale.—­E.]

[Footnote 205:  In the preceding voyage grains have been explained as Guinea pepper, a species of capsicum.—­E.]

[Footnote 206:  Rock Sesters is in long. 9 deg. 20’ W.]

[Footnote 207:  This is not intelligible, unless meant that ships may anchor for three leagues from the shore.—­E.]

Between the river Sesto and the river Dulce are 25 leagues.  Between them and 8 leagues from Sesto river is a high land called Cakeado, and S.E. from it a place called Shawgro, and another called Shyawe or Shavo, where fresh water may be had.  Off Shyawe lies a ledge of rocks, and to the S.E. is a headland named Croke, which is 9 or 10 leagues from Cakeado.  To the S.E. is a harbour called St Vincent, right over against which is a rock under water, two and a half leagues