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 through famine, 



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Ifland. 





A M EXJ- C A. Chap. III. 



difcover'd two Iflands, from one of which the Sea-men going aland, brought 

 four Boys and two Girls • who afterward inftru&ed in their Tongue, in- 

 formed them concerning the fcituation of the Countreys thereabout. 



After that, the Fleet Sail'd into Hungers HaVen, where they found the ruines 

 of the deferred Philip-Stadt , wkich Captain Thomas Candijh had feen fourteen 

 years before, fortifi'd with four Bulwarks . but now onely fome Houfes, * 

 Church, and a Gibbet were Handing : Four hundred Spaniards built that City, 

 as a Key to the Straights of Magellan. But all their Provifions being fpent in 

 three years time, and no relief coming from Spain , and what they Sow'd ex- 

 pecting the hopes of a Harveft, the Salvages coming down by night de- 

 ftroy'd- which caus'd fo great a Famine to rage amongft them, that many 

 dy'd, not fo much as putting off their Clothes , who lying in the Houfes un- 

 bury'd, occafion'd fuch a ftench in the City, that the remainder fled into the 

 Field ; where they liv'd a whole year by the Fruits of the Trees, Herbs, and 

 Roots : At laft, three and twenty of them, amongft which were two Women 

 remaining yet alive, refolv'd to travel to the River La <Plata, and accordingly 

 fet forward, but what became of them could never yet be heard, only on* 

 Fcrdinando that was of that company, accidentally wandring from the reft, 

 happen'd to light upon Candifh's Fleet. 



Here Van £{oord fet on Shore the Vice- Admiral Jacob Claefepon Ilpendam, for 

 fome crimes which he had committed • and leaving him behind, Sail'd from 

 a**,*, W h« kind of thence thorow the South-Sea along the Coaft of Chili and Mocha ; which Ifland, 

 of a confiderablc bignefs, rifes in the middle with a forked Mountain , from 

 which a convenient River comes flowing down into the Countrey. 



The Inhabitants conduced the Hollanders to their Village, confifting of 

 about fifty Houfes built of Straw, but were forbid to go into their Huts : Up- 

 on the Mens call the Women appeared, which being divided into three par- 

 ties , humbly kneel'd down before them ; and foon after an old Woman 

 (MaftranjeDrink. brought an Earthen Can full of Cica, a Liquor made of Mays , whofe extra- 

 cted Juycc, boyl'd and put into Tubs, ferments like our Beer or Ale, with a 

 cap of Barm, with which they treated the Hollanders, who drinking moderate- 

 ly, were well rcfrefli'd ; but the Natives will ply this Liquor, till thfy make 

 thcmfelves Diftracted, and are mad Drunk. 



From hence Van Noord fteer'd his courfe to Santla SMaria, where in his way 

 he took a Spanifh Ship, call'd 'Buonjefus, that is, Good JeJ W, and received intelli- 

 gence from the Prifoners, that the Admiral Simon de Cordes, with twenty three 

 Men was kill'd by the Americans on the Promontory LaVapia, being the head 

 Land or Point oppofite to St. Maries 5 that a year fince, tydings were brought to 

 Lima of 'his Fleet ; fo that they had made all things ready to withftand him. 

 But Van Koord hinder'd by ftrong contrary Winds, not able to reach Santla Ma- 

 ria, flood directly for St. Jago, in whofe Haven lay a great Spanifi) Ship full of 

 Indians, and two other going in, which two he fet on Fire , and the third he 

 Tow'd towards his Fleet . repenting extremely that he had given liberty, and 

 fet Fraticifco de harro Commander of the !Buon Jeftts afhore - becaufe he after- 

 wards underftood from the Spanift Pilot , that harra threw ten thoufand two 

 hundred pound weight of Gold, pack'd in fifty two Cafes, over-board, when 

 lie obferv'd that he was like to loofe his Ship. 



The Fleet Sailing forward came to an Anchor before the TbieVes-ljIand,whoCc 

 Inhabitants are very light Finger'd, go ftark naked, and are of great ftrength j 

 they found the Women much Disfigured, their Nofes, Lips, and Cheek-bones 

 eaten by the French Pox. In 



Van Xitrd tikes a Sp*' 

 M'Jh Ship. 



