. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. fmWmW. w
. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. fmWmW. was less successful, but in LOJit), Alfonso de Camarcfo, liavini; lost two vcsstls in the strait, passed it with the third, and reached the ])ort of Callao. Until now the Spanish Hatf had alone been seen in these remote ;ind solitarv â waters, but the time was come when they were to open a j)assage to its most inveterate foes. On Au_u;ust 20, 1570, Francis Drake, commissioned bv Oiicin Elizai)eth to ))lunder and destroy the Spanish settlements on the west coast of America, ran into the strait, and on December'C sallied forth into the Pacific To meet this formidable enemy, the Viceroy of Peru sent out in tlie sMinc year two ships under Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, His orders were to inter- cept Drake's passasjje through the strait and then to sail on to Spain. Tiiout:li he failed in the ol)ject of his mission, yet Sarmiento displayed in the naviu^u- tion of the intricate and dangerous passages along tlie south-west coast of America, the courage and skill of a, consunmiate seaman, and he !j;ave the lirst exact and detailed account of the land and waters of Fuegia. His vovai^o ac- cording to the weighty testimony of Captain King, deserves to be noted as oiio of the most useful of the age in which it was performed. On his arrival in Spain, Sarmiento strongly jwinted out the necessity of es- tablishing a colony and erecting a fort in the strait (at that time the onlv known passage t
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