138 VOYAGE OF SARMIENTO. 



LlB - In - taine, a man learned in Astrologie. They parted from 

 Callao of Lima in the beginning of October; and foras 

 much as vpon that coast there blowes a contrary winde 

 from the South, they tooke the sea, and having sailed litle 

 above thirty days with a favourable winde, they came to 

 the same altitude of the Straight; but for that it was very 

 hard to discover, they approched neere vnto the land, where 

 they entred into a great Bay, in the which there is an 

 Archipelague of Hands : Sarmiento grew obstinate, that 

 this was the Straight, and staied a whole moneth to finde 

 it out, by diverse wayes creeping vppe to the high moun- 

 taines. But seeing they could not discover it, at the in 

 stance of such as were in the army they returned to sea. 

 The same day the weather grew rough, with the which they 

 ranne their course ; in the beginning of the night the Ad- 

 miralls light failed, so as the other shippe never see them 

 after. The day following the force of the winde continuing 

 still, being a side wind, the Admiralles shippe discovered an 

 opening, which made land, thinking good to enter there 

 for shelter vntill the tempest were past. The which suc 

 ceeded in such sort, as having discovered this vent, they 

 found that it ranne more and more into the land, and con- 

 iecturing that it should be the Straight which they sought, 

 they tooke the height of the Sunne, where they found them 

 selves in fiftie degrees and a halfe, which is the very 

 height of the Straight; and, to be the better assured, they 

 thrust out their Brigandine, which having run many leagues 

 into this arme of the sea without seeing any end, they found 

 ,| it to be the very Straight. And for that they had order to 

 f passe it, they planted a hie Crosse there, with letters 

 thereon, to the end, that if the other ship should chance to 

 arrive there, they should have newes of their Generall and 

 follow. They passed the Straight in a favourable time, 

 without difficultie, and, passing into the north sea, they 

 came to certaine vnknowne Ilandes, where they tooke in 



