An account of several late voyages and discoveries

94 Sir John Narbrotigh 1 .1 Poyage 1 ask'd them how far it was to Baldavia? thc anfwered me, tluee Leagues, and that the Boa could go up to ir, and tbat it was fituatecl by ti fadc of the River and the Plains, and that the were five great Ordnanccs in a Fort to comma the City, and that there werc one thoufand I habitants in the City of-all forts of Men, Wom and Children. I ask'd him , if there werc an paífage by Land from Ba!d.n,oi:1 to the other pa of Chile? they fard therc w:1.s, and they font cv ry· Week, but they went with good Guards to recure from the Indians. Thcn I ask'd them t.h cy built·S hipping herc? they faid No, hut [·"' elp.arraz.eo they did buikl great Ships. I ask ! hem who liv'd in ·thc Itl:md of JftJcha: they ra· lndi.tns, many ·Men and \Vomcn, and that th wcre Poco Amigo's to them; in E,,g/ijh, they w i)ut íinall Fricnds to the Spa,,iards. There many Sheep, Goats, Hogs and Hens, .which (ndian1 will felt for H:.itchets, Knives and Bca As tQ the It1and of St. Jl,fary, theSpa11iards ate , !lers of it, and havc a Forc on ir with fivc Gu but few Spa11iartfs live therc : it is plentiful Provifions, as Hogs, and Sheep, and Corn, Potatocs : and thcr faid thcre is fome Gold, t thc Tntlians have on the Iíland of Mocha, but t will not parc,,from it.The Spani.1rds did not care .mfwcring me to foch things as I would gla have heard of thefe parts; for I laid the Ora of nll that Coaíl: on rhe Table before them, 1sk'd them who liv'd at this Port, and whol at that : at fome phces they wonld fay the .~iards liv'd thcrc, and fome thc I11dia11s; t