Acapulco is a pretty large Town, 17 deg. North of the Equator. It is the Sea-Port for the City of Mexico, on the West-side of the Continent; as La Vera Cruz, or St. Joan d’Ulloa in the Bay of Nova Hispania, is on the North-side. This Town is the only…
For the great Design we had then in Hand, was to lie and wait for a rich Ship which comes to Acapulco every Year richly laden form the Philippine lands.
The Bay of Campeachy is a deep bending of the Land, contained between Cape Condecedo on the East and a Point of shooting forth from the High-Land of St. Martins on the Weft. The distance betweem thefe two place is about 120 Leagues, in which are…
As the Coasts of Angola and Peru, do in most things run parallel each with the other; so do the Coasts of Mexico and Guinea: And if I am not mistaken, the Winds on both these Coasts are much alike; Both these Coasts do begin at the Bite or Bending of…
They had no Vessels upon the water in their Seas, Lakes or Rivers, but Canoes or Periagoes, which only differ in the Dimensions. They are both of them made out of the body of a Tree, and carry from three Men to Threescore. They first hew’d one Side…
Before we quit the subject of the western waters, we will take a view of their principal connections with the Atlantic. These are four, the Hudson’s river, the Potomac, St. Lawrence, and Mississippi. Down the last will pass all the heavy commodities.…
C´est une navigation bien singulière & bien hardie pour des Chinois, qui ont toûjours passé pour des navigateurs médiocres, peu capables d´entreprendre de longs voyages, & dont les visseaux ne sont point d´une construction assez solide, pour…
After the set stay at Carthagena. The Armada goes away to the Havana in the Isle of Cuba, to meet there the Flota, which is a small number of Ships that go to la Vera Cruz, and there takes in the Effects of the City and Country of Mexico , and what…
On Holy Thursday of the year 1519, we arrived at the port of St. Juan de Ulua, and Cortes hoisted the royal standard. In about half an hour, tow large canoes called piraguas full of Mexicans set off from the shore to visit the ship which bore the…
Thus the Policies from la Vera Cruz to Cadiz often mention no more than Insurance being made on Goods, or Money to be shipp’d by A, a Factor at the former Place, to the Consignment of B at the latter.
