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CHAP. HI. 

 Magellanica. 



NOrthward againft «i/i and flfcWe fc *>/** juts the Countrey, which from SeveralVo ^ 

 Ferdinand Magaglianus is wrongly call'd Magelianica ; to which feverai Voya- CS^' 

 gcs have been made by fundry People from the North=Sea to the Sou- ' 

 thern Ocean, divers Steering ftill new Courfes : for fome follow'd the Straights of 

 Magellan . others Sail'd more or lefs South- Weft : By which means Lc Mairtpend 

 a new Paffage between Mauritius and the States-IJland . and H. Brtefr, a Way below 

 the States -I/land- yet all Steer'd their Courfe.Wcfterly,fo that none of them return'd 

 the fame Way, except Bias Herkmans and Capt. Ladrillero, the laftof whom coming 

 irom Chili to go to the North.Sea, met with fuch Storms, that he was fore'd to 

 Tack about, and ftand back again to Chili, as Herkmans did from Chili to Brafile. 



Anno 1 570. <Peter Sarmiento weigh'd Anchor with two Ships, and Sailing from **•'«*■*• 

 Qallaodt Lima through the Straights of Magellan to Spain, ran by the Ifles Felix and fS^** 

 Amber, difcover'd in one Inlet eighty five Ifles, moft of them defolate, founded all 

 the Havens, found abundance of Oyfters with Pearls in them, call'd an Inlet Fran. 

 cifco, and a Mountain on the right-hand, Tunta de la Gente %ubra, becaufe the Inha- 

 habitants thereof painted their Bodies red, found the Havens Miferkordia and Can* 

 delaria, and the Ifland Sataynes, where five of the Natives gave him an Account of 

 Sir Francis Drake, for whom he Cruis'd, and had fight of a fnowy Mountain, 

 whofe top vomited Fire. On the Promontory Ana he ereded a woodden Crofs, 

 and laid a Writing under the fame, wherein he advertised all Pcrfons to take no- 

 tice, that Pope Alexander the Sixth had freely given the King of Spain all the Conn. 

 treys thereabouts. Not long after he Steer'd through the Straights of Magellan along 

 the Coaft of Brafile, to Spam. 



Concerning the Sea-Coaft, which extends from Qhili to Magelianica, it is as fol- The » 

 loweth : Next to the Promontory Felts lie Cypriaen, Clara, Cabodc Us IjUs, the Illand a*«o jJ2? 

 Socora, the Haven Domingo, the Point Galiego, the Road Stcvan, the Cape Andres, and * ' 

 OchaVario, and the Valley Nueftra Sennora, between two Hills, Along the Southern 

 Ocean lie Abra de San Guillen, <Punta del Gada, Los %eyes, Innocentes, Auguftinc, <i\oia, Ca* 

 talina, Amaro, and Fitlonano j before which the three Ifles call'd The Sorlmgs, are feen 

 in the Mouth of the Straights againft the South Sea. 



Magaglianm Steering hither, Winter'd within the Straights in an Inlet call'd Stju. 

 Man, ftay'd two Moneths before the Mouth of the River Santa (/£& where he took 

 abundance of Fifii, and from thence ran along the Shore to the Promontory Las 

 Virgines 7 which receiv'd that Denomination, becaufe it was difcover'd on the Day 

 Confecrated to St. Urfula and her eleven thoufand Virgins : Going a League up into 

 the Countrey, he found a Hut,in which above two hundred dead Bodies were bury'd 

 after a ftrange manner, and on the Shore a great Whale, driven on the Sands by a 

 Storm. Henam'dthe Countrey to the Southward, Terra del Fuego, becaufe from the 

 Promontory Severino in the Night he efpy'd feverai Fires. He was exceedingly de- 

 lighted with the pleafant Coafts on each fide of the Straights, which were the more 

 pleafant, by reafon of feverai Hills overgrown wich fweet-fraelling Trees, whofe 

 tops lay cover'd with Snow. 



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