An account of several late voyages and discoveries

i 10 Sir Johrr Narbrougi1's V~yage glaffes, ancl fuch like Commodities werc inu cnquircd for here, and would havc fold at gr~ Rates. Gnn--powder for FowlingJicccs, is worth Pico;; of Eight per pound; an Bird-!hot is wo, two Ryals of Piare a pound, anda Ryal and half a ponnd. All Commoditics of Europe \V orkman!hip are of grcat worrh hcrc, as I und íb.nd ; añd helieve, that n1orc North1.:rly, on t Coa{t of C.bilc~ .ibout Vale Parazo, and Coqui11 ~lid Areca, wiicrc rhcrc :irc more Inhabitan Com!JLnditics would b.:ar a much gn:.m:r Pri th1n w:1at l mention>.md thcrc would vcm grc:i ~~mtitics; for Silvcr is more plcntifi.1l by mu in thcfc P;,1.rts than at Baldarvia, thcy hei ncarer thc ~1ines of thc Potofea; for the Si!v pf Potofta comes down tothc Port of Areca, a from thenct: it is carricd ~o Lima by Sea. . I am ofOpinion, tb.1.t che mofi advamagc 'frade in thc World mightbe madc in thcfc J>a1 if it wcrc but follow' d, and tha.t le~wc wer;: gr.\ td by thc King of Sptiin for the Engl~(h to tra frecly in all thcir Ports and Coafts; for tht: 1\ ple which inhabit rhcrc are vcry ddirous o Tr~ldc ; but rhc: Govcrnours duríl: not permit without Ordcrs, unlcfs foch Ships óf Force v: to go thithcr, and tradc per force, and nott noticc of thc Governours ; which might be cJ performed· by four Ships, of twcnty and th: ' Picccs of Ordnancc a Ship; and I bclicvc t thc Nativcs in thc Southcrn Parts of Cbile, :1 Caftro, and O,fono, .ind a.t Ba!da'"Jia, would brought to a rich Trade of Gold, whcn once t e g