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An image showing '[Tambo de Mora]. A Waggoner - 'Shewing the making and bearing of all the coasts from California to the Streights of Le Maire done from the Spanish original by Basil Ringrose' Text and drawings.P/32(77)'
An image showing '[Tambo de Mora]. A Waggoner - 'Shewing the making and bearing of all the coasts from California to the Streights of Le Maire done from the Spanish original by Basil Ringrose' Text and drawings.P/32(77)'
An image showing 'P/32(77) Sta Domingo by Ringrose'
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[Tambo de Mora]

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Additional Places: Peru.
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. In his text, Ringrose reported that this is a very pleasant healthy country where they deal in wine and brandy.
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Record Details

Item reference: P/32(77); MS 1939-9944
Level: PART
Extent: 16 x 20cm
Date made: 1682
Creator: Ringrose, Basil
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London