VOYAGES TO THE RIVER PLATE 



A.D. 

 1527. 



TWO VOYAGES 



Of certaine Englishmen to the river of Plate 

 situate in 35 degrees of southerly latitude: to- 

 gether with an exact ruttier and description 

 thereof, and of all the maine branches, so 

 farre as they are navigable with small 

 barkes, by which river the Spaniards 

 of late yeeres have frequented an 

 exceeding rich trade to and 

 from Peru, and the mines 

 of Potossi, as also to 

 Chili, and other 

 places. 



A report of a voyage of two Englishmen in the 

 company of Sebastian Cabota, intended for 

 the Malucos by the Streights of Magellan, 

 but perfourmed onely to the river of Plate 

 in April 1527. Taken out of the informa- 

 tion of M. Robert Thorne to Doctor Ley 

 Ambassadour for King Henry the eight, to 

 Charles the Emperour, touching the discovery 

 of the Malucos by the North. 



N a flote of three ships and a caravell 

 that went from this citie of Sivil armed 

 by the merchants of it, which departed 

 in Aprill last past, I and my partner 

 have one thousand foure hundred duckets 

 that wee employed in the sayd fleete, 

 principally for that two Englishmen, 



friendes of mine, which are somewhat learned in Cos- 

 mographie, should goe in the same ships, to bring me 

 certaine relation of the situation of the countrey, and 

 to be expert in the navigation of those seas, and there 



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This teas the 

 Jieete wherein 

 Cabot discov- 

 ered the river 

 of Plate, 

 1526. Two 

 Englishmen 

 went with 

 Cabot in this 

 discovery. 



