LOPEZ VAZ A.D. 



1572-87. 



in the same shippe, v/herein hee last sayled toward 

 the Streights: and it is sayd that hee was taken in the P^^^o Sar- 

 way by Englishmen, and caried into England. This f^^^,^^^ 

 Sarmiento hath caned the name to be the best Navigator ivdter Ra- 

 in all Spaine, and that hee hath sayled the furthest of kghs barkes 

 all others. After all this the captaine of the river of ^S^^- 

 Jenero sent a smal ship with victuals for the Streightes, 

 which was put backe also in fortie degrees. And this 

 is all the discovery of the Streights of Magellan, made 

 as well by Spaniards as other nations unto this present 

 yeere 1586. It is foure yeeres since these poore and Master Can- 



miserable Spaniards were left in the Streights, from ^'^^^ found hut 

 . . ^22 men Itvins 



which time there hath no succour gone unto them, so Qfthem. 



God he knoweth whether they be dead or alive. 



Thus according to my promise I have declared unto 

 you to the uttermost of my knowledge, all things 

 concerning the Indias, as farre as the very Streights of 

 Magellan ; thinking to have proceeded along the coast, 

 as at the first ; but that the doings of captaine Drake 

 and other captaines which attempted to passe the sayd 

 Streights have caused mee to bee the longer in this my 

 pretended worke. Howbeit now let us proceede on 

 forward from the Streights to the coast of Chili : the 

 distance betweene which two places no man hath 

 travelled by land, in regard of the huge mountaines 

 covered with snow that lie in the way : yea I may well 

 say, that it hath not often bene travelled by sea ; for 

 that all the ships which have passed that way have at 

 the least gone thirty leagues off the shore, to avoide 

 the sholds and many little Islands that lie neere the 

 maine land ; and therefore the inland of that coast 

 remaineth as yet unknowen. 



The first towne after you have passed the Streights 

 standeth on the coast of Chili, and is called Castro, Castro upon 

 being situate upon the worst place of all the coast, for the cofist of 

 there is but small store of golde with scarcitie of victuals, 

 and a sharpe colde ayre. The harbour belonging to 

 this towne is compassed about with so many sholdes, 

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