. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . rinitie proceeding on his discoverycoasted the land untill he came to a point called Cabodel Enganno standing in thirty degrees and a halfe ofNortherly latitude, and then returned backe to Newspaine,because he found the winds very contrary, and hisvictuals failed him. 278 FERNANDO ALARCHON 1540. The relation of the navigation and discovery [HI. 425.]which Captaine Fernan
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . rinitie proceeding on his discoverycoasted the land untill he came to a point called Cabodel Enganno standing in thirty degrees and a halfe ofNortherly latitude, and then returned backe to Newspaine,because he found the winds very contrary, and hisvictuals failed him. 278 FERNANDO ALARCHON 1540. The relation of the navigation and discovery [HI. 425.]which Captaine Fernando Alarchon made bythe order of the right honourable Lord DonAntonio de Mendo^a Vizeroy of New Spaine,dated in Colima, an haven of New Spaine. Chap. I. Fernando Alarchon after he had suffered a storme,arrived with his Fleete at the haven of Saint lago,and from thence at the haven of Aguaiaval : he wasin great perill in seeking to discover a Bay, andgetting out of the same he discovered a river on thecoast with a great current, entring into the same,and coasting along he discried a great many ofIndians with their weapons : with signes hee hathtraffique with them, and fearing some great dangerreturneth to his N Sunday the ninth of May in the yeere1540. I set saile with two ships, the onecalled Saint Peter being Admirall, andthe other Saint Catherine, and wee setforward meaning to goe to the haven ofSaint lago of good hope: but before wearrived there wee had a terrible storme,wherewith they which were in the ship called SaintCatherine, being more afraid then was neede, cast overboord nine pieces of Ordinance, two ankers and onecable, and many other things as needfuU for the enter-prise wherein we went, as the shippe it selfe. Assooneas we were arrived at the haven of Saint lago I repaired The haven ofmy losse which I had received, provided my selfe of ^^^^^ ^^SP-things necessary, and tooke aboord my people whichlooked for my comming, and directed my course towardthe haven
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