JOHX CHIDLEY ad. 



1590. 



there, to hinder the passage of all strangers that way into 



the South sea. But that and the other Spanish colonie 



being both destroyed by famine, he said he had lived in 



an house by himselfe a long time, and relieved himselfe 



with his caleever until our comming thither. Here we 



made a boat of the bords of our chests ; which being 



finished wee sent 7. armed men in the same on land on 



the North shore, being wafted on land by the Savages Sez-en of our 



with certaine white skinnes ; who as soone as they came ^^c-n kilL-d by 



on shore were presently killed bv an 100. of the wilde ['^ ^^^'^^^ V 

 1 • 1 • 1 r - ' 1-1 11 ^^^ Savages en 



people m the sight or 2. ot our men, which rowed them the yorth 



on shoare, which two onely escaped backe againe to us shore. 



with the boat. After this traiterous slaughter of our men, 



we fell backe againe with our ship to the Northeast^vard 



of Port famine to a certaine road, where we refreshed 



our selves with muskles, and tooke in water &: wood. 



At this time wee tooke in the Spaniard aforesaid, and so 



sailed forward againe into the Streight. Wee passed 7. Thes passed 



or S. times 10. leagues Westward bevond Cape Froward, ~' '"^, ^'^^^ 

 1 • -11 "" 1 -1 • 1 • ' X ' 1 . , tc'r. leazuis 



being still encountered with mi^htie Northwest winds. u'c^t--vard of 



These winds and the current were so vehement against Cape Fro- ^ 



us, that they forced us backe asmuch in two houres, as ''■'^^'<i- 



we were getting up in 8. houres. Thus after wee had 



spent 6. weekes in the Streight striving against the furie 



of the elements, and having at sundry times partly by 



casuakie, and partly by sicknes lost 38. of our best men, 



and 3. anckers, and nowe having but one ancker left us, 



and small store of victuals, and, which was not the least 



mischiete, divers ot our companv raisins dano;erous [HI- S+o.] 



mutinies : we consulted, though somewhat with the 



latest, for the safegard of our lives to returne while 



there was some small hope remayning : and so set saile 



out o\ The Streight homeward about the 14. of Februarie 



159c. We returned backe againe bv The river of Plate ; ^% retume 



and sailing neere the cost of Brasill we met with a Portu- h"'^^''-'^^^' 



gal ship of 80. tunnes, which rode at an ancker upon the 



coast, who as soone as she descried us to chase her, 



incontinently weyed, & ran her selfe on ground betweene 



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