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barren and defolate lit and in 20° 3 c/ South Latitude, where 
they had nothing but a few Fowl, (called Malle Mewen ) 
which they knocked down with their Clubs. Having 
therefore quickly had enough of this barren Place, they 
put off to Sea again ^ and the Firft of June , thinking to 
have reached the Afcenfion , they found themfelves on the 
Continent of Brafil ; but the Portuguefe not fuffering them 
to land there, they failed to the lile of St. Clara , which 
lies in 2 1° 1 cj South Latitude ^ it is about a Mile in Com- 
pafs, and as much diftant from the Continent. The Ifland 
afforded them little elfe but Herbs. But what it denied 
them in Food, it paid in Phyfic, yielding a fort of four 
Plums, which in Fifteen Days cured all their Sick. June 
the 1 6th, they failed for Port Befit e , in 47 0 40' South 
Latitude, which (after much bad Weather) they reached 
September 20. They furnifhed themfelves with Store of 
Fifli and Penguins in an Ifland that lies Three Miles to the 
South of this Place. Of the latter fort of Creatures they took 
50,000 (which were as big as Geeie) with a vaft Quantity 
of their Eggs, that proved good and refrefhing Meat to 
their fick Company. They went up the River October 
the 5th, and, going on Shore, found Beads in the Country 
like Stags and Buffaloes, with a Multitude of Oftriches, 
forxie of whofe Nefts they ’lighted on, in which were Nine- 
teen Eggs. The 20th, the Admiral went afhore to ob- 
ferve the Country, leaving Orders with them that guarded 
the Boats, not to ftir a Foot from their Charge ; but they, 
having a mind, it feems, to fee the Country too, took a 
fmall Ramble, and fell into an Ambufcade of Savages, 
who killed Three of them, and wounded the Fourth. 
Thefe Savages were very tall portly Men, painted, and 
armed with fhort Bows and Arrows, which latter were 
headed with Stone. 
6. The 29th, they failed from hence ; and, November 
the 24th, they made Cape Virgins , where the Land is low 
and plain, and, by its Whitenefs, yields a Profpedt like 
England. They made many Attempts to have entered the 
Streights, and were as often fruftrated, being beaten back 
by Tempefts of Wind, Rain, Hail, and Snow. They 
loft their Anchors, broke their Cables *, Sicknefs and Con- 
tention (worfe than any Difeafe) were added to all the reft 
of their Calamities ; and all thefe retarded their Progrefs 
fo far, that it was very near Fifteen Months (from the 
Commencement of the Voyage) before they could make their 
Way into the Streights. They obferved the Land to lie 
South-weft from the Cape Virgins , and the Mouth of the 
Streights to be about Fourteen Miles Diftance from it, and 
half a Mile in Breadth. November 25. they faw fome 
Men upon Two Iflands that lay near the Cape Najj'au , 
who bid Defiance to the Hollanders , and fhook their Wea- 
pons at them ; but they landing, notwithftanding this De- 
fiance, purfued the Savages to a Cave, which they ftub- 
bornly defended to the laft Man, dying every one of them 
upon the Spot. The Butch , being got in, found their 
Wives and Children in that dark Receptacle j and the 
Mothers, who expefted nothing but prefent Death to 
themfelves and their Infants, covered the little ones with 
their own Bodies, refolving to receive the firft Stab them- 
felves. But the Butch did them no more Injury than the 
taking of Four Boys and Two Girls of their Number from 
them, which they brought on Ship-board. One of the 
Boys, having learnt to fpeak Butch, gave them this Intel- 
ligence *, That the greater of thefe Two Hands was called 
Cajlemme , and th§- Tribe that inhabited it Enoo ; that the 
lefs Ifland was called Falcke ; and that both were well ftor’d 
with Penguins, whofe Flefh was their Food, and the Skins 
their Clothing ; and, as for Habitations, they had none 
but thefe Caves : That the adjoining Continent abounded 
with Oftriches, which alfo ferved for Food : That they 
were diftinguifhed into Tribes, which had their feveral 
diftincl Refidences ; the Kemenetes , that dwelt in Kaefay •, 
the Kennekin , in Karamay •, the Karaites , in Morina ; all 
which People were of the common Size, but broader 
breafted, and painted all over •, the Men tying the Pudenda 
up with a String, and the Women covering thofe Parts 
with a Penguin’s Skin j the former wearing long Hair, and 
the latter Haven j but both Sorts naked, except a Cloak 
of Penguin-skins, reaching to the Waifts : That there was 
alfo a Fourth Tribe of them, called Tirimenen, that dwelt 
Numb. 3, 
in Coin ; and thefe were of a gigantic Stature, being Teri 
or Twelve Feet high, and continually at War with the 
other Tribes. 
7. The 28th, they paffed over to the Continent, and. 
faw fome Whales at a Diftance, having Sight too of a 
very pleafant River, about which are very delicate Trees* 
and Store of Parrots : Upon the fcore of this pleafant 
Profpedf, they called this Summer Bay. The 29th, they 
fet Sail for Port Famine ; here the Land tends fo far to the 
South, that the Hands of Pantagons , and F'erra del Fuego , 
feem afar off to meet together. They found no remain- 
ing Tokens here cf the late famous Philip's, City, but a 
Heap of Stones, to fhew, that once there had been a 
Building. The Magellanic Streights are in Breadth here 
about Four Miles ; the Hills on both Sides of which are 
vaftly high and deep, and all the Year long covered with 
Snow. Here, at PoxxFamine, they cut down Wood to 
make them a Boar, and found the Bark of the Trees to 
be hot, and, in Tafte, biting like Pepper. Having no 
good Watering here, they left this Place, (doubting, in- 
deed, whether it were Port Famine or no) and, after Two 
Miles paft, found a good River. This Was Becember the 
Firft. The next Day they doubled Cape Froward , with 
fome Danger, by reafon of unfafe Anchorage, and con- 
trary Winds fo palling Four Miles farther into a large 
Bay, they anchored there. Here was a Plant like Sneeze- 
wort, good againft the Scurvy * and another, which caufed 
Madnefs, making fome that tailed it almoft diftrabled for 
a time. Here they had a Sight of Sebajlian de IVeert’s 
Ship, who was one of VerhageV s Company, with which 
another of the fame Fleet had been driven back out of the 
South Sea. He told them he had fpent above Five Months 
in the Streights, and had but Thirty-eight left out of One 
hundred and Ten Men, and, not being able to endure the 
Storms of the South Sea, was forced to put in there, while 
the reft of the Fleet held on their Courfe. 
8. January 2. 1600. they fet out again, diretfting their 
Courfe to Maurice Bay, which they obferved to extend 
very far Eaftward, and to receive feveral Rivers into it ; 
in the Mouths of which were vaft Quantities of Ice, - that 
feemed never to melt all the Year round : For though this 
was near the Midfummer Sealbn in that Southern Climate, 
yet the Ice was fo thick, that at Ten Fathom Sounding 
they could not reach the Bottom of it. The Land alfo 
feemed to be an Heap of broken Hands, which the Height 
of the Mountains made appear like one firm and continued 
Piece. Here they had the Diftreffes of Hunger, and con- 
tinual Rains, and the Lois of Two of their Company, who 
were killed by the Savages as they were picking Muffels, 
which were their chief Sufferance. Having weathered out 
many Storms which endangered them in Menifie Bay, and 
fome Encounters too with the Savages, they fet Sail on the 
1 7th, and were driven by aStorm into Goofe or Penguin Bay, 
Three Miles diftant, and receiving the .Name from the 
Multitude of that Sort of Fowl found there * of which 
they obferved, that they could both dive and fwim very 
well, but not fry at all. Here the Vice-admiral, for divers 
Crimes, was condemned by a Council of War to be turned 
afhore, there to fliift for himfelf amongft the wild Beads, 
and wilder Inhabitants of the Country * which was exe-* 
cuted accordingly. 
9. February the iff, they entered another Bay, which 
they called Popijlo Bay , and in which they run many Ha- 
zards. On the 27th, they faw at a Diftance a huge Moun- 
tain of Ice in Penguin Bay * but the next Day, viz. the 
laft of February , they bid adieu to all thofe difmal Profoebls, 
and paffed Cape Befire into the South Sea. Their Com- 
pany was now 147, but quickly leifened by the Lofs of 
the Ship of the Vice-admiral, whom they dropt. March x he 
1 2th, expedting her in vain, they failed to the Ifland La 
Mocha , which is about Six Miles from the Continent.* and 
lies in 38° South Latitude. It is remarkable for an high 
' Mountain in the Middle of it, that cleaves at Top to make 
Way for a Courfe of Waters into the Valley underneath it. 
Here they barter’d Knives and Hatchets for Sheep, Heins, 
Maize, Bartulas, and other Fruit. They went to fee the 
Town, which confided of about Fifty Houfes of Straw, 
where they were entertained with a four fort of Drink 
called Cici, which is made of Maiz deeped in Water, 
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