Bound sheet. Col. ms. Additional Places: Mexico. Contents Note: Compass rose. Latitude noted. One of very few of Ringrose's charts to show soundings.
From a book of sailing directions of 110ff: 'The South Sea Waggoner shewing the making & bearing of all the coasts from California to the Streights of Le Maire done from the Spanish originall by Basil Ringrose'. The charts all have a square pencil grid for making copies.

Administrative / biographical background
The source was a Spanish derrotero captured by Captain Sharpe in the 'Trinity' (with Ringrose on board) from the Spanish ship 'Rosario' off modern Ecuador on 29 July 1681. Acapulco was the American terminus of the Manila galleons.