1585, 



SARMIENTO^S COLONY. 



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ships were blown away to sea, leaving the colonists very desti- 

 tute ; fortunately, however, they were enabled to return, but 

 were four times, afterwards, obliged to put to sea, from stress 

 of weather. On the last return, one of the ships, La Trinidad, 

 was run on shore. The ardour of Ribera being damped by 

 repeated misfortunes, he returned to Spain, without the know- 

 ledge or consent of Sarmiento, leaving, for the use of the colony, 

 only one ship, the Maria. 



While unloading the Trinidad, the Spaniards were attacked 

 by Indians, whom they dispersed. 



Sarmiento, after making the necessary arrangements at Jesus, 

 set out by land with one hundred men, to go to Point St. 

 Anna,* the ship Maria being ordered to follow. On the 

 journey, the sufferings of the party were very great, as well 

 from the fatiguing nature of the march, as from their being- 

 harassed by the natives, with whom they had an engagement, 

 in which one was killed, and ten men were wounded. A 

 mutiny among his people then broke out, which was quelled 

 by assistance from the ship. At last they reached their desti- 

 nation, and founded, with the usual solemnities, the city of King 

 Philip (or San FeHpe). 



At the latter end of March, while preparing habitations, the 

 winter set in so suddenly, that for fifteen days it did not cease 

 to snow. Sarmiento, then, after quelling a mutiny which had 

 broken out afresh among the soldiers, embarked with thirty 

 men to visit the first encampment at Jesus, and to superintend 

 the erection of forts in the Narrow ; but upon reaching the 

 anchorage, a gale of wind forced him to sea, and, lasting twenty 

 days, obliged him (with his people blinded and frost-bitten) 

 to bear up for Rio de Janeiro. 



Here his ship was stranded; upon which he chartered a 

 vessel to convey flour to the Strait, and went himself to Per- 

 nambuco, to procure large boats for carrying supplies to his 



Valle, where some peaked elevations, dividing- vallies near the coast line, 

 are conspicuous. The Beagle anchored there, and found plenty of fresh 

 water. 



* Close to Port Famine. 



