which caufed the waves comming ftom the North, to 



grow great and fwelling , and the fea continually fo- 



ming with rage. Inour time,Fr4rttitIfrakai\ Englifliw 



roan,p^Ied this ftraight. After him, Captaine&*ra/- 



cnto paSTed it on the South fide. And laftly, in the yeere 



15 87. other Englifhmen pafled' it, by the inftru&ion of 



Drake , which at this time runne along all the coaftof 



Peru* And for that the report which the matter Pilot 



that pafled it made ,,feemeth notable vntome^ I will 



heerefetitdowiie. ' ' 



QftRe Straight ^Magellan, and how it wasfAJjed\ 

 dt+ CHAP. ii. 



IN the yeere of our Lord God , one thoufand five 

 hundred feaventy nmz,FrAnci* Drtkc having pafled' 

 the Straights thatrunne alongeft thecoaft of cht&^nd- 

 all PerUf and taken the fhippe of Saint lean d'Anthom, 

 where there was a great number ofbarres of filver , the 

 Viceroy Don Francisof Toledo armed and fent foorth 

 two good fliippes, to difcover the Straight, appoynt- 

 ing Peter Sarmiento for Captaine 5 a man learned in A- 

 ftrologie. They parted from Callat of Lima in the be* 

 ginning of Odobcr 5 and forafinuch as vpon that coafl 

 there blowes a contrary winde from the South 9 they 

 toolce the fea, and having (ailed litle above thirty days 

 with a favourable winde , they came to the fame alti 

 tude of theStraight:butfor that it was very hard to dif 

 cover, they approchedneere vnto the land,where they- 

 entred into a great Buy, in the which there is an Archie 

 pelague of Hands: ^f/w^^^grewobftinatc, that this 

 was the Straight^ and ftaieda whole moncth to findc if 



