LOPEZ VAZ A.D. 



1572-87. 



ships which were yet remaining unto him, and other 



foure which the king sent to succour him, set forth to Foure ships 



seeke the Englishmen ; but having runne along all the ^JJ'/ ^^^J ^^ 



coast of Brasil hee could not finde them, because they ^^^^ 



were gone directly for England. Whereupon shaping 



his course unto a port called Parajua, and finding there ^'^"^^ French 



five French ships, he burnt three and tooke two, and f^^J^J'J'' ""^ 



the fort also which the Frenchmen had built, and put 



Spaniardes therein, but the Frenchmen fledde into the 



mountaines to the Salvages. This done hee returned 



for Spaine. 



In the meane season his Lieutenant Diego de Ribera, 

 and Pedro Sarmiento had the next yeere so good ^^^^'^ Sarm- 

 fortune, that they arrived safely in the streights with all ^J^^ v^^ y^ 

 their ships, and set on shore foure hundreth men : but Magellan 

 because the ships boate could not land, being once with 400 men 

 laden, they ran that ship, which had all the victuals ^30^"^^^- 

 and munition in her, on shore in a bay, and as the 

 water did ebbe they tooke all things out of her. 

 This being done, Diego de Ribera left Sarmiento with 

 foure hundreth men, thirtie women, and a ship, with 

 victuals for eight moneths : and with the other three 

 shippes hee returned, having remained in the Streights 

 but eight dayes. Nowe Pedro Sarmiento built a towne N ombre de 

 at the mouth of the Streights on the North side, placing ^^^^^ builded. 

 therein an hundreth and fiftie men : and from thence 

 he went by land, and sent the ship further into the 

 streights, and fiftie leagues within the Streights, at the 

 narrowest place of all, where there is a very good porte, 

 hee built another towne, which he named The towne Ciudaddel 

 of king Philip ; and would also have made a forte, and ^P-F/f^^^^ 

 planted Ordinance for the defence of the Streights : 

 but the snowe and Winter was so intollerable, that hee 

 could not bring it to perfection. Whereupon taking 

 about 25 mariners with him into the foresayd ship, hee 

 sayd hee would goe see howe his other people did, and 

 so hee sayled to the Streights mouth, unto the towne 

 which was first built ; where having continued a day 



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