to the land, the banckes being ftraight and vneven ; 

 but in the 70. leagues towards the North , they findc 

 ground* andof either fide-there are large piaines, the 

 \vhich tbey call CMnM. Many great rivers of fairc 

 and cleere water runne into this Straight , and therea 

 bout are great and wonderful! forreits , whereas they 

 finde, fome trees of excellent wood and fwcete, the 

 which are not knowne in thefe partes , whcrcoffuch as 

 paHed from thence to Peru^ brought fome to (hew. 

 There are many mcdowes within the land, and many 

 Hands in the midft of the Straight. The Indians that 

 inhabite on the South fide, are little, and cowards, 

 thofc that dwell on the North part , are great and vali 

 ant . they brought fome into Spam, which they hadde 

 taken. They found peeces of blew cloth, and other 

 markes and fignes that fome men of Europe had palled 

 there. The Indians faluted our men with the name of 

 It fa. They are good Archers , and goe clad inwildc 

 beafts skinnes, whereof there is great aboundance.The 

 waters of the Straight rife and fall as the tide , and they 

 may^vifibly fee the tides come of the one fide of the 

 North fea, and of the other from the South} whereas 

 they meete, the which (as I have (aid)is thirtie leagues 

 from the South , and three fcore and tenne from the 

 North. And although it feemes there fhould be more 

 daunger then in all the reft, yet whenas Captaine Sar- 

 miwto liis fliippe (whereofl fpake) paded it, they had 

 no great ftormes 5 but found farre lefle difficultie then 

 they expeded : for then the time was very calme and 

 pleafant. And moreover, the "waves from the north 

 (ea,camebroken,by reafon of the great length of three 

 fcore and tenne leagues,and the waves from the fouth 

 fca were not raging , by reafon of the great dcapth 5 in 



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