Guacho

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Additional Places: Peru, Huacho. Contents Note: Anchorages marked, settlements depicted. Sailing directions and warning about rats at the anchorage. Note: 'here they load salt'. Bound in 'A Wagoner of the South Sea describeing the sea coast from acapulco to Albemarle isle', an English translation of a Spanish derrotero captured from the Spanish ship 'Rosario' by Captain Bartholomew Sharpe in 1680. Hack made multiple copies of this atlas. This one was presented to James II.

Record Details

Item reference: P/33(94); MS31-9945C
Level: PART
Extent: 40.5 x 50cm
Date made: 1685
Creator: Hack, William
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London