AD THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1592. 



gentlemen of the Galeon wee found them faithfull, honest, 

 and resolute in proceeding, although it pleased our 

 Generall otherwise to conceive of them. 



The 20. of March we departed from Port Desire, 

 master Candish being in The Desire with us. The eighth 

 TheyfallwUh of April 1 592, wee fell with the Streights of Magellan, 

 iheStreights of iiiciuring many furious stormes betweene Port Desire and 

 the Streight. The 14. we passed through the first 

 Streight. The 16. we passed the second Streight being 

 ten leagues distant from the first. The 18. we doubled 

 Cape Froward, which Cape lieth in 53. degrees and \. 

 The 21. wee were inforced by the fury of the weather 

 to put into a small coove with our ships, 4. leagues from 

 the said Cape, upon the South shoare, where wee remained 

 until the 15. of May. In the which time wee indured 

 extreeme stormes, with perpetual snow, where many of 

 our men died with cursed famine, and miserable cold, 

 not having wherewith to cover their bodies, nor to fill 

 their bellies, but living by muskles, water, and weeds of 

 the sea, with a small reliefe of the ships store in meale 

 sometimes. And all the sicke men in the Galeon were 

 most uncharitably put a shore into the woods in the 

 snowe, raine, and cold, when men of good health could 

 skarcely indure it, where they ended their lives in the 

 highest degree of misery, master Candish all this while 

 being abord the Desire. In these great extremities of 

 snow and cold, doubting what the ende would be, he 

 asked our Captaines opinion, because he was a man that 

 had good experience of the Northwest parts, in his 3. 

 severall discoveries that way, imployed by the marchants 

 of London. Our Captaine tolde him, that this snow was 

 a matter of no long continuance, and gave him sufficient 

 reason for it, and that thereby hee could not much be 

 prejudiced or hindered in his proceeding. Notwithstand- 

 ing he called together all the company, and tolde them, 

 that he purposed not to stay in the Streights, but to depart 

 upon some other voyage, or else to returne againe for 

 Brasil. But his resolution was to goe for the Cape of 



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