A.D. 



1587. 



The lie of 

 Mocha in 38 

 degrees not 

 subject to the 

 Spaniards. 



Arauco is the 

 richest place in 

 the South sea 

 for golde, and 

 is not subdued 

 by the 



Spaniards as 

 yet. 



Saint Marie 

 Hand in 3 7 

 degrees and i , 

 terce, which is 

 subdued to the 

 Spaniards. 



A Church 

 zvith crosses 

 and altars. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



ships, looked every houre to slnke, our barke was so 

 leake, and our selves so dilvered and weakened with 

 freeing it of water, that we slept not in three dayes and 

 three nights. 



The 15. of March in the morning the Hugh Gallant 

 came in betweene the Hand of S. Mary and the mayne, 

 where she met with the Admiral and the Content, which 

 had rid at the Hand called La Mocha 2. dayes, which 

 standeth in the Southerly latitude of 38 degrees: at 

 which place some of our men went on shore with the 

 Vice-admirals boate, where the Indians fought with them 

 with their bowes and arrowes, and were marveilous warie 

 of their Calivers. These Indians were enemies to the 

 Spaniards, and belonged to a great place called Arauco, 

 and tooke us for Spaniards, as afterward we learned. 



This place which is called Arauco is wonderfull rich, 

 and full of golde mynes, and yet could it not be subdued 

 at any time by the Spaniards, but they always returned 

 with the greatest losse of men. For these Indians are 

 marveilous desperate and carelesse of their lives to live 

 at their owne libertie and freedome. 



The 15. day aforesayde in the afternoone wee weighed 

 anchor, and ranne under the West side of Saint Marie 

 Hand, where we ridde very well in 6. fathoms water, and 

 very faire ground all that night. 



The 16. day our General went on shore himselfe with 

 70. or 80. men every one with his furniture : there came 

 downe to us certaine Indians with two which were the 

 principals of the Hand to welcome us on shore, thinking 

 we had bin Spaniards, for it is subdued by them : who 

 brought us up to a place where the Spaniards had erected 

 a Church with crosses & altars in it. And there were 

 about this Church 2. or 3. store houses, which were full 

 of wheate and barley ready threshed and made up in cades 

 of strawe to the quantitie of a bushel of corne in every 

 cade. The wheate and barly was as faire, as cleane, and 

 every way as good as any we have in England. There 

 were also the like cades ful of potato rootes, which were 



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