170 CLIMATE OF CHILE. 



_ gold in the riuers of these Hands, which some draw foorth, 

 but in small quantitie. I was little lesse then a yeere in these 

 ilands, and as it hath beene told me of the maine land of 

 the Indies, where I have not been, as in Florida, Nicaragua, 

 Guatimala, and others, it is in a maner of this temper, as I 

 have described ; yet have I not set downe every particular 

 of Nature in these Provinces of the firme land, having no 

 perfect knowledge thereof. The Countrie which doth most 

 resemble Spaine, and the regions of Europe, in all the West 

 Indies, is the realme of Chille, which is without the generall 

 rule of these other Provinces, being seated without the 

 burning Zone, and the Tropicke of Capricorne. This land 

 of it selfe is coole and fertile, and brings forth all kindes of 

 fruites that be in Spaine ; it yeeldes great aboundance of 

 bread and wine, and aboundes in pastures and cattell. The 

 aire is wholesome and cleere, temperate betwixt heate and 

 cold, winter and summer are very distinct, and there they 

 finde great store of very fine gold. Yet this land is poore 

 and smally peopled, by reason of their continuall warre 

 with the Araucanos and their associates, being a rough 

 people and friends to libertie. 



CHAP. xxni. Of the vnhnownc Land, and the divcrsitle of a 

 wltule day betwixt them of tJie East and the West, 



There are great coniectures, that in the temperate Zone 

 at the Antartike Pole, there are great and fertile lands ; 

 but to this day they are not discovered, neither do they 

 know any other land in this Zone, but that of Chille, and 

 some part of that land which runnes from Ethiopia, to the 

 Cape of Good Hope, as hath been said in the first booke ; 

 neither is it knowne if there be any habitations in the other 

 two Zones of the Poles, and whether the land continues 



