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ULLOA — LADllILLEROS. 



Dec. 



netic, instead of true bearing; and the fragments of know- 

 ledge acquired, about the latitude of 46° S., from the master 

 of the Anna Pink, the pilot Machado, and the officers of the 

 Santa Barbara frigate, clashed so much that their result was 

 what we see in the charts hitherto used, a dotted line, and a 

 few stragghng islands, totally unlike the truth, leading one to 

 expect a comparatively open space, whereas there is a succes- 

 sion of high and considerable islands, so near one another, that 

 from the offing they ' make ' like a solid unbroken coast. 



While on this subject I may remind the reader that besides 

 the expeditions above-mentioned, the missionary voyages des- 

 cribed by Agiieros (Appendix, No. 23), the important under- 

 taking of Sarmiento, and the disastrous voyage of the Wager, 

 there have been other visitors to the west coast of Patagonia, 

 part of whose acquired information, though slight, is upon 

 record. 



In 1552, two ships, commanded by Don Francisco de Ulloa, 

 were sent by Valdivia to gain some knowledge of the Strait of 

 Magalhaens.* The journal of their voyage is not extant. Five 

 years afterwards (in 1557), Don Garcia Hurtado, Viceroy of 

 Peru, sent two vessels to examine the southern part of the coast 

 of Chile, as far as the Strait of Magalhaens. The commander 

 was J uan Ladrilleros, and with him were two pilots, named 

 Hernan Gallego and Pedro Gallego. A mutiny took place, 

 and one ship deserted, but with the other Ladrilleros persevered, 

 passed four months in the Strait at anchor during the winter, 

 then reconnoitred the eastern entrance, and afterwards sailed 

 back to Chile, where he at last arrived with only one seaman 

 and a negro, the rest of his people having perished by expo- 

 sure to hardships, by scurvy, or by famine. The principal 

 geographical information obtained at so high a price, was some 

 slight knowledge of Childe, and the archipelago of islands near 

 it.— (Burney, vol. i. p. 246-9.) 



Sarmiento's expedition in 1579-1580, has already been often 

 quoted in the first volume of this narrative. 



In 1675 Antonio de Vea was sent from Peru in a ship, 



* Pastene, a Genoese, was, I believe, in this expedition. His MS. 

 Journal is said to exist in the archives of Barcelona. 



