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^ iioru Diego Vim's Steer'd four years before CandiJJ? to the Straights of Magellan with 

 iuv£££ twenty three Sail of Ships, Mann'd with three thoufand five hundred Seamen, 

 ttJZJt. befides five hundred old Netherland Soldiers, with which he unhappily weigh'd An- 

 chor from (ales ; for befor'e he got out of fight of the Spamjh Coaft, he loft five 

 of his Ships and eight hundred Men 5 yet profecuting his Voyage, he ftay'd du- 

 ring the Winter Seafon on the Coaft o(Brafile, and was furpris'd by Co vcli'ment a 

 Storm, near the IfcnACatalina, that a company of Women, fent under the Charge 

 of feter Sarmiento to Settle in the Straights of Magellan, were all caft away, with the 

 greater! part of the Ammunition and Provifions. The Englijh Admiral Fenton 

 took three Ships of this Fleet from Flores, two were caft away in the River La TUta, 

 and one ran back to Spain, whileft Flores came into the Straights of Magellan on the 

 laftday of March, at which time the whole Countrey lay cover'd with Snow 5 

 wherefore feeing no hopes of finding out any place to Settle Sarmiento upon, he 

 flood back with eight Sail to Brafde, and in his Return burnt three French Ships, 

 took two more, and Sail'd home. But his Lieutenant Diego ^tbera, and the Gover- 

 nor fcter Sarmiento, Landed the Year after Flores his departure, with four hundred 

 Men, thirty Women, and Provifions for eight Monechs, in the Straights of Magellan • 

 from' whence libera Sail'd back, whileft Sarmiento built on the North fide of the 

 Mouth of the Straights, the Town Nombre de Jefiu ; and fifty Leagues farther in the 

 narrowed place, fhilipftadt, with fourBulwarks • the Inhabitants of which (as is 

 before related) were deftroy'd by Famine. 



Terra delFuego, already mentioned, oppofite to the Countrey of the Vatagoncs, ly- 

 inthe South between the Straights of Magellan, is a broken Countrey, .with high 

 Mountains full of Trees, and wafh'd by pleafant Rivulets : four Foot deep in the 

 Ground it begins to be all Rocky. The Air is troubled with exceeding great 

 Winds out of the Weft. The Inhabitants are pale Countenanced, but Paint their 

 Bodies with divers Colours . they have long, thick, and black Hair, and very (harp 

 Teerh j the Men go ftark naked - the Women cover their fecret Parts with a piece 

 of Leather, and wear Strings full of Sheik about their Necks- fomealfo Mantle 



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