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out- land on eyther side, although it hath not yet beene LlB - m - 

 knowne how far it stretcheth of the one side of the straight 

 towards the South. After Magellan, a shippe of the Bish- 

 oppe of Plasencia, Don Guttieres Carvajal, passed the straight 

 (whose mast they say is yet at Lima, at the entrie of 

 the palace), they went afterwards coasting along the South 

 to discover the Straight, by the commandement of Don 

 Garcia de Mendoza, then governor of Chill e, according to 

 that which Captaine Ladrillero found it and passed it. I 

 have read the discourse and report he made, where he 

 saieth, that he did not hazard himselfe to land in the 

 Straight, but having discovered the North sea he returned 

 back, for the roughnes of the time, winter being now come, 

 which caused the waves comming from the North to grow 

 great and swelling, and the sea continually foming with 

 rage. In our time, Francis Drake, an Englishman, passed 

 this straight. After him, Captaine Sarmiento passed it on 

 the South side. And lastly, in the yeere 1587, other 

 Englishmen passed it, by the instruction of Drake, which 

 at this time runne all along the coast of Peru. And for that 

 the report which the master Pilot that passed it made, 

 seemeth notable vnto me, I will heere set it downe. 



CHAP. xi. Of the Straight of Magellan, and how it was 

 passed on the south side. 



In the yeere of our Lord God, one thousand five hundred 

 seaventy nine, Francis Drake having passed the Straights 

 and runne alongest the coast of Chille and all Peru, and 

 taken the shippe of San Juan de Antona, where there was a 

 great number of barres of silver, the Viceroy Don Francisco 

 de Toledo armed and sent foorth two good shippes to dis 

 cover the Straight, appoynting Pedro Sarmiento for Cap- 



