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and other Natives of Chile, through whofe Countrey the March lieth, and who 



muft firft be conquer'd, fo that very little can be faid more of this Countrey than 



££k, onel y t0 nam « the Ports and Places upon the Sea-Coafts, at which the Spaniards 



"* *™* a and "kewifc lome other Nations at feveral times have touched, the chief whereof 



. upon the South Sea are, i. Cabo de las I/las, a Promontory or Foreland, twenty fix 



Leagues diftant from that of St. Felix on the Confines of Cbilc. 



z. Puerto de San Stephana, fifty Leagues from that, towards the South. 



3. La Villa de Nueftra Sennora, or Our Ladies Dale, a large and fecure Bay, eighteen 

 Leagues Southward of St. Stephens. 



4. La Punta Deglada 5 5. Puerto de los ^eyos ■ and 6. JnconaSin Saltda, all of them 

 opening towards the Straights. There is alfo at the opening of the Straights, Xabo 

 de la Vatoria, Cabo Dejfeado, and fome others. 



Upon the North Sea, and up towards <$» de la Plata, the chief Places bbfervable, 

 are 1. %to de la Crux, and the Cape which they call De las %amera4, about thirty 

 Leagues diftant from the Straights Mouth. 



2. The Bay of St. Julian, forty Leagues Northward of the former. 

 z. EfPuerto Dejfeado ■ 4. Puerto de los Leones . 5. The Bay of Anegada, all of them 

 good and capacious Havens for the fecuricy of Shipping upon thefe Coafts, and 

 y>ng at a diftancc of thirty or forty Leagues one from another, up towards fljj* de 

 la Plata, and the Countrey of Paraguay, of which we are next to fpeak. 

 2£S&. , As f ° r the Straights thcmfelves,fo much fpoken of,and likewife fo necetfary to be 

 *****. known by thofe who Frequent thefe parts of the World, they are a narrow Sea or 

 Fnth, by which the Atlantkk Ocean, or rather fome parts of it, doth fall into Mare 

 ddZur, or the South Sea : thePalfageis long, running, as 'tis commonly fuppos'd, 

 well nigh a hundred Leagues together, almoft in a paralel Line, or in the fame 

 Degree or Latitude from one end to the other . an d likewife extreamly difficult by 

 realon of the many windings and turnings of the Sea, which force them to be ever 

 and anon altering of their Courfe, and a mountainous high Countrey on both fides 

 of .t, from whence it is almoft continually beaten with Storms, both dangerous 

 and terrible : They were firft difcover'd by Ferdinand Magellan, by Nation a Portu- 

 guese, but in the Service of the King of Spain, and by him nam'd Magellan's Straits - 

 who .although himfelf liv'd not to return into Spain, being flain in the Conqueft of 

 the Molucca Iflands, yet his Companions did, in the Ship call'd Fittoriafiom whence 

 the Cape Dela Fittoria abovefaid took its Name. The Mouth or Entrance of 

 them, by the Atlantkk Ocean, lies in fifty two Degrees of Southern Latitude, 

 and hath not above fifty three and fome Minutes at the Exit, or opening into the 

 South Sea. re 



%?%£ Th "e « likewife fincethis, and but of late times, *fc about the Year 1615. ano- 

 thei Straight difcover'd by the Dutch, and call'd from the Difcoverer Fretum Mairi, 

 or Ihe Stratghts of le Make, four or five Degrees more to the Southward than thofe 

 or Magellan, and fuppos'd to be a much eafierand fafer Paffage. 



w r l TTar h l thedifcovcr y of the k Straights, was to have found a fhorter 

 Way to the Eaft^Ues and the Kingdoms of Cathay and China, than that which was 

 then onely us d, ^ by the Cape de <Buena Speran^a, and the Coaft of J f rick, but by 

 reafon of the great difficulty, as 'tis to be fuppos'd, and uncertainty of the Paffage, 

 nether the one nor the other is much frequented, the Spaniards for the moft 

 part ferving themfelves of their American Ports upon the South Sea, from whence 

 they make their Voyages and Returns to and from the other Jndies,znd from thence 

 home to Spam; and the EngUJ),, with other Nations of Europe, Trading ftill by the 

 Coaft of Jfnckznd Cape of Good Hope,ox elfc by the way of Alexandria and the Perftan 

 Gulf, as heretofore. CHAP. 



