A.D. 



[527. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



to have informations of many other things, and advise 

 that I desire to know especially. Seeing in those 

 quarters are ships and mariners of that countrey, and 

 cardes by which they saile, though much unlike ours : 

 that they should procure to have the sayd cards, 

 and learne how they understand them, and especially 

 to know what navigation they have for those Islands 

 Northwards and Northeastward. 

 The Islands of For if from the said Islands the sea doth extend 

 theMaluccs. ^itho^t iiiterposition of land to saile from the North 

 point to the Northeast point one thousand seven 

 hundred or one thousand eight hundred leagues, they 

 should come to The new found Islands that we dis- 

 covered, & so we should be neerer to the said Spicerie 

 by almost 200 leagues then the Emperour, or the king 

 of Portugall are. 



An extract out of the discourse of one Lopez 

 Vaz a Portugal, touching the fight of M. 

 Fenton with the Spanish ships, with a report 

 of the proceeding of M. John Drake after 

 his departing from him to the river of Plate. 



Pon the relation of Pedro Sarmiento 

 concerning the streits of Magellan, that 

 they might be fortified, and for that the 

 king heard, that there were ships in 

 England preparing for the same streits, 

 he commanded Diego Flores de Valdes 

 a noble man of Spaine, to passe thither 



The New 

 found Hands 

 discovered by 

 the English. 



with 23 ships, and 3500 men to stoppe the passage 



of the Englishmen. 



There went in this fleete the governour of Chili, 



with 500 olde souldiers that came out of Flanders : 

 Five ships of . but this was the unhappiest fleet of ships that ever 

 this fieete cast ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ gp^ine : for before they came from the 

 away on the r a • 11 ^ 



coast of Spaine. coast ot bpame a storme tooke them, and cast away 



[III. 727.] five of the fleete and in them above 800 men, and the 



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