But Captaine Peter Sarmiento (ailed from Cape Vert 

 to Seville in the fame (hip wherewith he had paflTed the 

 Straight,and went to Courtjwhere his Maieftie rewar 

 ded him 5 and at his inftance , gave commaundement 

 to prepare a great army, which hefentvnderthecom- 

 maundof 'Diego F lores de V aides, to people and fortifie 

 this Straight. But this army, after variable fuccefie* 

 fpent much, and profited little. 



Returning now to the Viceadmiralles fhippe,which 

 went in company of the Generall , having loft him in 

 the ftorme,they tooke thefea,but the wind being con- 

 traiy and ftormy , they looked all to perifh , fo as they 

 coufefled themfelves , and prepared for death. This 

 tempeft continued three dayes without intermifllon^ 

 and hourely they feared to runne on ground; but it fel 

 out contrary , for they went ftili from land, vntill the 

 cndcof the third day, that the ftorme ceafed y and 

 then taking the height, they found themfelves in fif- 

 tie fixe degrees : but feeing they had not crofled, and 

 yet were farre from land, they were amazed, whereby 

 they furmized (as ffernando LamerettAde me) that the 

 land which is on the other fide of the Straight, as wee 

 goeby thefbuth fea, runncsnot the fame o romer that 

 it doth to the Straight , but that it turneth to the Eaft: 

 forclfeit wereimpolfible but they fhoukk have tou 

 ched land , having runncfb long time with this erode 

 winde : but they pafTed on no further, ncy ther coulde 

 they diicover the lands end ( which fomeholde to be 

 chcrej whether it were an Hand on the other fide of the 

 Straight, where the two feas of North and Sonth doe 

 ioyne together, or that it did runne vppe towardes the 

 Eaft , and ic^ne with the knd of reft* , as they call it, 

 which anfwers to the Cape of Good Hope (as it is the 



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