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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
If you were at Acheane and would saile for Priaman which is a Town upon ye west Sid of Sumatra, and hath in Latitude no degres fifty minutes South and Longitude from ye Cape of Good Hope seventy sevon degrees fourty minutes East, ye veryation foure degrees forty minutes from North to West, ye surest way is this.—To ye Eastward of Priaman, there are Ilands in ye South Latitude of one degre and thirty minutes which are called ye Ilands of Nimcam; your course is to goe with these Ilands and come not betweue ye maine, but keepe ye Sea, till you see those Ilands: keepe in one degree twenty minutes of South latitude, and you shall shurly fall with ye north end of ye Biggest. Now this great Hand being ye biggest of ye two, is twenty leagues long very neere, and there are many little Ilands neere it, and when you are with this Iland goe up by it; for its ye bolder of the two, but have your lead going now and then to prevent danger, yet I have found ye least to bee ten fathoms watt'r: when you are shutt within these Ilands your course is East and by North eighteen leagues, but sayle not by Night, but hull reather, and saile by day.
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