Htilorie of the Indies, lib. 



cirit and dangerous to iearch out . Whether thcfe two 

 great girfphes doioyne in any other part of the world, 

 which was the enterprise tf Fernando MagetUnz^w- 

 tugall gentleman 5 whofe great courage and conftan- 

 cic in the refearch of this fubied, and happy fucceffe in 

 thefinding thereof, gavethename of etei nail memory 

 to this ftraight , which iuftlythcy call by the name of 

 the difcovcrer ^Magellan, of which ftraight we will in- 

 Create a little, as of one of the greateft wonders of the 

 world. Some have beleeved, that this Straight which 

 <JMAgdl&n had difcovered in the South fea , was none, 

 ' or that it was ftraightned , as Don ^Alonfo d'Arfilk 

 writes in his Auracane : and at this day there are fbme 

 that fey, there is nofuch ftraight, but that they are 

 Hands betwixt the fea and land , for that the maine 

 land endes there, at the end whereof are all Hands, 

 beyond the which the one fea ioynes fully with the o- 

 ther , or to fpeake better , it is all one Sea . But in 

 turth it is moft certaine, there is a ftraight and a long 

 and ftretched out land on eyther fide, although it 

 hath not yet beene knowne how farrc it ftrctcheth 

 of the one fide of the ftraight towards che South. After 

 UMagdbw, a fliippe of the Biflioppe of Plaifancs paffed 

 the ftraight, Don Guitieres Carvatil, (whofe mafte they 

 fay is yet sit Lima > at theentrie of the palace/) they 

 went afterwards coafting along the South , to difcover 

 the Straight, by the commandement of Don Garcia of 

 ^Mcfidoc: y then govern er of Chille, according to that 

 which Captaine Latin Hero found it and paflcd it. I have 

 read thedifcourieand report he made, where hefaieth, 

 that he did not hazard himfelfetolandin the Straight, 

 but having difcovered the North fea,he returned back, 

 for the roughnes of the tioic,\vintcr being now come> 



which 



