. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. 6-)% AMERICA. Y Chap. IIL f. ^ iioru Diego Vim's Steer'd four years before CandiJJ? to the Straights of Magellan with iuv£££ twenty three Sail of Ships, Mann'd with three thoufand five hundred Seamen, ttJZJt. befides five hundred old Netherland Soldiers, with which he unhappily weigh'd An- chor from (ales; for befor'e he got out of fight of the Spamjh Coaft, he loft five of his Ships and eight hundred Men 5 yet profecuting his Voyage, he ftay'd du- ring the Winter Seafon on the Coaft o(Brafile, and was furpris'd by Co vcli'ment a Storm, near the IfcnACatalina, that a company of Women, fent under the Charge of feter Sarmiento to Settle in the Straights of Magellan, were all caft away, with the greater! part of the Ammunition and Provifions. The Englijh Admiral Fenton took three Ships of this Fleet from Flores, two were caft away in the River La TUta, and one ran back to Spain, whileft Flores came into the Straights of Magellan on the laftday of March, at which time the whole Countrey lay cover'd with Snow 5 wherefore feeing no hopes of finding out any place to Settle Sarmiento upon, he flood back with eight Sail to Brafde, and in his Return burnt three French Ships, took two more, and Sail'd home. But his Lieutenant Diego ^tbera, and the Gover- nor fcter Sarmiento, Landed the Year after Flores his departure, with four hundred Men, th
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