An account of several late voyages and discoveries

. IX The lntrodué\:ioó. Anno ·1680 ami 1681, Capt. Slnrp m.tát "'""J bold Advent11res on jtVtral lftanás 11nJ. (..'oajls in the S011tb Sta. ln_his ,.,tt,rn,_he being_ 'JIIÍU or,t of a/1 /,ol'eiofreeovermg the Stre,ghts oj Magellan,or tbofi oj le Maireor Brewer, w111 forld tofeek Jor $ . Pa]fage f11rther South tha11 /,y Cape Horn, he rr,ent to Abor,t 60 a~,. S. L1tt. meeting 1vilh man, !flanás oflee, Snow, l•rojl. and U 1 ha/es; departing from .i fma/1 Pl,ti·e, named by him thr Duke ef York's I• íland, in the South Sea, he jleered near 800 Leanues to the Eajlrv11rd, aml Ajttn,Aras, t1.s many to the 1'Vejln•.ird. The firfl Land he fa,11 in thofe three .ftlonths wa.r the Iíland of .Barbadocs,fo th.tt Land in the Streight oj le Maire 11nd in llrcwer·s Paf jigt, 11111ft be !fl.inds, Ana nol }oin'd to ATIY great Southcrn Contincnt, as Juppos'd by fa,ne. . Siflct theft Auernpts aná Vndert•-~ings,f everttl Engliíl1 Ship.r hAve pafs'd into the South Sea both l,y rln Streights o{ Magcllan, ami Ir, tht So1'tb of Cape Hom ; hr,t what 1rAdethty ma»11ge in thoje 1'arts, or 'WhAt Di.faoveries they h&vemade, or wh11t Arti&/es and Trelltiu they 11rt e11g11ged i» with the Spaniard, n,e ,.11m1ot infarm the Reaáer, being no llereh11»ts 011r felves,nor having faen 11»11our1111/s ,ir Voyag~s of tho/e Rf,arters oj tht UTorJtl, b,Jides tho/e bejore mention á. I1, thtje Navigationsto theStrághts ef Magellan, t/.,ro the South Sea, APa by the F.atl Indies home again, the ,ommon things noted.in the fev, r.sl VoJ• ages, (befide.r the Winds, Lon?.itudes, Latitudes, Variations of thc Compaf~ rydes, Soundings, ác.).:re Flying Fifhes, Dolphins, 1\1bacores, Bo. nitos, Sharks, 'f ropick Birds 1 the Sc:a W eeds l CAl/td