LOPEZ VAZ AD. 



1572-87. 



which Magellan discovered : notwithstanding that others 

 affirme the contrary, saying that the Streights be full of 

 Islands to the Southwards : but they may be deceived, 

 for if there be any other Streight, it is beyond 58 degrees, 

 and hath never bene seene of any man : for this ship 

 was farthest to the Southwards of all that ever I heard of: 

 for Francis Drake being driven by tempest no farther 

 then 57 degrees could not know so much as this other; 

 which ship from hence returned backe to Lima. But 

 Pedro Sarmiento entred the Streights, where his men fall- 

 ing into a m^utinie would have returned to Lima ; where- [III. 794.] 

 upon hanging one of them he proceeded on his voyage 

 for Spaine. Where being arrived, he told the king that P^'^^'o Sarmi- 

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might build a forte, and that there was a very good spainetofor- 

 countrey abounding with great store of riches and other tifie the 

 necessaries, and very well inhabited with Indians. Upon Streights of 

 whose wordes, and for that there were more ships making ^^K^^^^^- 

 ready in England to passe the sayd Streights, the king 

 sent Diego Flores de Valdez with 23 ships and 3500 

 men, and a new governour to Chili with five hundred 

 old souldiers newly come out of Flanders. These ships 

 had the hardest hap of any that ever went out of Spaine 

 since the Indias were first discovered : for that before 

 they could get cleere of the coast of Spaine, a storme 

 tooke them, and cast away five of them, and above eight 

 hundred men, and the residue of the fleete put into 

 Cadiz. Notwithstanding which hard successe, the king 

 sent them word that they should proceede : and so they 

 did with sixteene sailes only, for two other of their ships 

 were so shaken with the storme, that they could not goe 

 foorth. In these sixteene saile of ships Pedro Sarmiento 

 was sent to be governour in the Streights : he caried 

 with him all kind of artificers, to build forts, and other 

 necessaries, with great store of Ordinance and munition. 

 This fleete because it set late foorth, wintered on the 

 coast of Brasil in the river of Jenero. Winter being 

 past, they set sayle from hence, and about the height 



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