A.D. 

 1587. 



[III. 806.] 



The';^ enter 

 the Streights 

 the 6. of 

 Januarie. 

 A Spaniard 

 taken in the 

 Streights of 

 Magellan. 



The Barke 

 John Thomas 

 one of sir 

 Francis 

 Drakes cen- 

 sor tes. 



King Philips 

 citie left de- 

 solate in the 

 Streights of 

 Magellan, 

 zvhich our 

 Generall 

 called Port 

 famine. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The third day of the foresayd moneth we fell with 

 another great white cape, which standeth in 52. degrees 

 and 45. minutes : from which Cape there runneth a lowe 

 beach about a league to the Southward, and this beach 

 reacheth to the opening of the dangerous Streight of 

 Magellan, which is in divers places 5. or 6. leagues wide, 

 and in two severall places more narrow. Under this 

 Cape wee anchored and lost an anchor, for it was a 

 great storme of foule weather, and lasted three dayes 

 very dangerous. 



The 6. day we put in for the Streights. 



The 7. day betweene the mouth of the Streights and 

 the narrowest place thereof, wee tooke a Spaniard whose 

 name was Hernando, who was there with 23 Spaniards 

 more, which were all that remayned of foure hundred, 

 which were left there three yeeres before in these streights 

 of Magellan, all the rest being dead with famine. And 

 the same day wee passed through the narrowest of 

 the Streights, where the aforesayd Spanyard shewed us 

 the hull of a small Barke, which we judged to be a Barke 

 called The John Thomas. It is from the mouth of the 

 streights unto the narrowest of the Streights 14. leagues, 

 and the course lieth West and by North. The mouth 

 of the streights standeth in 52. degrees. 



From the narrowest of the Streights unto Pengwin 

 Hand is 10. leagues, and lyeth West Southwest some- 

 what to the Southward, where wee anchored the 8. day, 

 and killed and salted great store of Pengwins for victuals. 



The ninth day wee departed from Pengwin llande, and 

 ranne South Southwest to King Philips citie which the 

 Spaniards had built : which Towne or citie had foure 

 Fortes, and every Fort had in it one cast peece, which 

 peeces were buryed in the ground, the cariages were 

 standing in their places unburied : wee digged for them 

 and had them all. They had contrived their Citie very 

 well, and seated it in the best place of the Streights for 

 wood and water : they had builded up their Churches 

 by themselves : they had Lawes very severe among them- 



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