A RUTTIER FOR THE RIVER PLATE ad. 



1577- 



North and South, and in the way are many flats and 



shoalds ; and great store of people, which are a bad 



nation, although they bee divided. From the place The dtieof 



where these two rivers are divided, that is to say, from "^^^^^P^^^^f 

 , r T^ • • • 1 1 • • Ascension 6o. 



the mouth or Paraguai are sixtie leagues unto the citie leagues from 



of Assumption. This is a good river, and better to sayle the mouth of 



then all the rest of the rivers, which are in this countrey. Paraguai. 



And from this towne to Los Xaraes are 200. leagues, 200. leagues 



very well inhabited with people of divers nations, which -^^^ Assump- 



^ J ^ ^ tion subject to 



serve the Spanyards. the Spaniard, 



to the citie of 



THE TWO FAMOUS VOYAGES Xaraes. 



Happily perfourmed round about the v^orld, by 

 Sir Francis Drake, and M. Thomas Candish 

 Esquire, together with the rest of our English 

 voyages intended for the South Sea, the kingdomes 

 of Chili, Peru, the backe side of Nueva Espanna, 

 the Malucos, the Philippinas, the mightie empire 

 of China, though not so happily perfourmed as 

 the two former : whereunto are annexed certaine 

 rare observations touching the present state of 

 China, and the kingdome of Coray, lately 

 invaded by Quabacondono the last 

 monarch of the 66. prince- 

 domes of Japan. 



The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the 

 South sea, and therehence about the whole 

 Globe of the earth, begun in the yeere of our 

 Lord, 1577. 



He 15. day of November, in the yeere of our 

 Lord 1577. M. Francis Drake, with a fleete of 

 five ships and barkes, and to the number of 



164. men, gentlemen and sailers, departed from Plim- 

 mouth, giving out his pretended voyage for Alexandria : 

 but the wind falling contrary, hee was forced the 



