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no good there, for he not onely found the City to be furrounded with a Wall 

 of fifteen Foot high, but having alio many Earthen Redoubts, behind which 

 lay above two thoufand arm' d Men, wherefore he deferred the fame after fome 

 viffim'* E*pi it. Rancounters: But the Rear-Admiral, JohnWilliamJ\oonVirjhor, who was fen t 

 to Gamquil, had much better luck . for he not onely took that Metropolis, but 

 alfo burnt a new Royal Gattion, and two letter Veflels j carry'd a concper'd 

 VeiTcl to Lima ; flew above a hundred Spaniards, and threw feventeen over- 

 board, becaufe they had (hot Poyfon'd Bullets againft the Law of Arms .- of 

 which Conqueft Captain Engelhert Shutte had the greateft honor : But the Sea- 

 men grew weaker and weaker by the Scurvy, and all of them would have pe- 

 rilVd, had they not found a foveraign Herb on the higheft Mountains of Lima, 

 sch^nhams remarkable Schapenham being chofe Admiral in V Heremites place, Weigh'd Anchor from CaU 

 1 fa, and ran into the Inlet <Pifc adore *,where on the fhore he rais'd a Sconce ; yet 



not long after departed from thence without any effe& , but loft twenty eight 

 Men, through the bad Conduct of their Commanders - the like number he 

 loft alio at Jquapulque, on the fide of which City ftands a Caftle with four 

 ftrong Bulwarks - the Holland Fire-fliip lay juft without the reach of the fliot, 

 the reft lay along'the fhore in a row, there to feize upon the VeiTels expeded 

 thither from the Manillaes : But becaufe the Scurvy raged amongft the Sea-men, 

 and difabled them , they waited in vain, Schapenham Sail'd through the South- 

 Sea to the Ladrones, where he found ftore of Provifions. Jnno i 625. in March, 

 he drop d Anchor before Maleye, and from thence went with Herman Spiult.thc 

 Governor for the Eajl-lndia Company in Amboina, to Qetam, where they Con- 

 cjuer'd the Fort Lochot, and foon after Qambella^ then the Fleet being divided, 

 Schapenham carry'd home two Ships from BataVta, and the remainder return'd 

 at feveral times, they being hir'd to ferve the Eaftdndia Company to Surratta, 

 Malacca, Coromandel, and the Molucca Illes : Schapenham Deceafing near Bantum, 

 and being Bury'd on Tula Boftok, the Ships arrived at the Texel in July, Jnno 



Henry Brewer his Voyage. 



Afyio 1 643. Brewer fee Sail with four Ships from $ecifo, and ran dole along 

 the States-ljle, fo dangerous and Rocky, that he durft not put in to the 

 Land • from which flew great abundance of Party-colour'd Ducks, withfharp 

 Bills, about the Ships, and under the Keels (warn alfo Whales, 



On the Weft fide of the Straights Le Maire, Brown ran into Valentine's Inlet, 

 where he was much troubled by the Winds which came whittling through the 

 hollow Mountains with great and fudden gufts : The fhore afforded red and 

 black Strawberries, CarVtlle and Mufcles, to the great re/refliment of the Sea. 

 men, who daily law Seasons, but could not come to (hoot one of them, for 

 no fooner they perceiv'd any body, but they Diving under Water, fwam a way ; 

 and though they faw Mens Foot-fteps of eighteen Inches long, yet they never 

 found any Men. Thence Sailing into the South-Sea, along the Coaft of Chdi, 

 theyenter'd a Bay which they nam'd Brewer 9 s-HaVen- where Landing, they 

 walk'd towards a great Smoke which they faw afar off, but coming near it, 

 found only two Houfes within a large Plain, full of Sheep, Oxen, and Hoc- 

 fes ; before the Houfes flood Woodden Crofles. 



The Dolphin Pink and a great Boat being fent to the Inlet, lay the following 

 Night at an Anchor near a high Mountain • from whence, in the Night, two 

 great Guns were fir'd, whereupon, Lieutenant William Ter Bergen Landed with 



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Sea Lions. 



Brtwr's Haven. 

 Remarkable Exploits. 



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