A.D. 



1572-87. 



The hknd of 

 Cam. 



Pedro Sarmi- 

 ento sent from 

 Lima to the 

 Streits of 

 Magellan. 



5 8 degrees of 

 Southerly lati- 

 tude discov- 

 ered. 



Many Islands 

 discovered to 

 the South of 

 the Streights. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



called The Island of Cano hee discharged all things out 

 of his shippe and graved her, and remained there ten 

 dayes. From thence hee went along the coast of Nueva 

 Espanna, where hee tooke certaine ships laden with spices, 

 silkes, and velvets, but no golde nor silver, for there 

 was none to bee had on this coast. And here at 

 Guatulco he set on shore his Portugal-pilot, which he 

 tooke at one of the Islands of Cape Verde. But what 

 course he kept from this coast till he came into England 

 I know not of certainety, and therefore I will not meddle 

 therewithail. 



The foresayd three ships which were sent in pursuit 

 of captaine Drake, returned backe againe to Lima without 

 doing of ought. All which notwithstanding, the Viceroy 

 of Peru determined to send two ships to the Streights 

 of Magellan, either to meete with captaine Drake there, 

 or else to see if they could fortifie the sayd Streights 

 against such ships as might afterward attempt to passe 

 through the same. And albeit this was thought a most 

 dangerous voyage, and impossible to be perfourmed, by 

 reason of the sholds on that side of the Streights, yet 

 sent he forth the two said ships. The Admirall being a 

 ship of an hundreth tunnes, and the other of eighty tunnes, 

 & having one hundreth and twenty men in them both, 

 sayled from Lima under the conduct of Pedro Sarmiento, 

 who was then accompted the best navigator in all Peru. 

 These ships after their departure touching on the coast to 

 take in victuals, were nine moneths before they came to 

 the latitude of the Streights, and there were they en- 

 countred with a cruel storme : but Pedro Sarmiento being 

 a man of good courage, bare in with the land in this 

 storme, & in a night hee was put into the streits, not 

 knowing how nor which way ; and the other ship running 

 farther into the sea, sayled to 58 degrees of Southerly 

 latitude. The storme being past, this other shippe found 

 many Islands neere unto the main land, and so returned 

 with faire weather all along the shore, neither could they 

 find any other way to enter the Streights, but onely that 



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