ffi8orieoftkfnJics\ lib. 5. 



cut, by diverfe waycs creeping vppeto the high maun- 

 taines. But feeing they could not difcover it , at the in. 

 ftance of fuch as were in the army , they returned to 

 fea. The fame day the weather grew rough, with the 

 which they ranne their courfe, in the beginning of the 

 night the Admiralls light failed fo, as the other fliippe 

 never fee them after : The day following, the force of 

 the winde continuing ftill, beinga fide wind, theAd- 

 miralles fliippe difcovercd an opening, which made 

 land,thinking good to enter there for fhelter, vntill the 

 temped were paft . The which fiicceeded in fiich fort, 

 as having difcovcred this vent, they found that it rannc 

 more and more into the land; and conie&uring that 

 it fhould be the Straight which they fought,they tooke 

 the height of the Sumac, where they found thernfclves 

 in fiftic degrees and a halfe, which is the very height of 

 the Straight : and, to be the better aflTured, they thruft 

 out their Brigandine, which having run many leagues 

 into this artne of the fea, without feeing any end, they 

 found it to be the very S traight . And for that they had 

 order to paileit, they planted a hie Crofle there, with 

 letters thereon, to the end, that if the other fhip (hould 

 chance to arrive there, they fhould havenewes of their 

 Generall,and folio vV. They pafled the S traight in a fa 

 vourable time without difficultie , and pafling into the 

 north fea , they came to certaine vnknowne Ilandes, 

 \vhere they tooke in frcfh water ,and other refrefhings: 

 From thence they tooke their courfe towardes Cafe dt 

 Pert, from whence the Pilotc maior returned to Peru, 

 by the way oFCarthageM, and Panama , cany ing a diC 

 courfe of the Straight to the Viceroy , and of all their 

 fucceffe , of whom he was well rewarded for his good 

 fervice. 



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