An account of several late voyages and discoveries

tothe Streight1 of Magellan. 11 t . ¡ieVI to be acquaintcd with thofo that íhould be ~ploycd on thc Ddign, and they did but ufc tem civilly at che füft, and gain thcir Lovcs; r'.:id1 may b~ eafily done, by giving them Knives.. ·i 1ors, GlatfcJ, Beads, Combs, Hatchcts, and elikc Commodities, and treat thcm kindly. or what I undcríl:and by thc lndiam, who were i .ird of me, rhcy are Maftcrs of thc Goldcn ¡rt of thc Country. My lntcnt being, if ,vcathcr pcrmit me, to ·¡¡ :dl alon§ tite Coaft from Balda·-via to thc ·urhw~rd, till I come to the Strcights-Mouth at a~e Defiade, I e.une in gr~at hopes to mece i~h thc lndittm in fome Part of thc Coafl:s, and tr:tde with them for Gold, and to find good :irbours. I rcfolvc alfo to fcc in at thc lffands f C(l.jtro and Or{ono, and try what I can find 1ong thofc Spa.niard.r who at·c fcttlcd therc, and hcthcr thcy livc accordingly as the Spaniard formcd me hcrc. he Names of thc fo~tr Mcn of my Company~ whom thc Spnniardr dctaincd at Ba!da·-via, .md whom I left thcr~. · 1boma.r .11.rmig,er Licutenanr, agcd forty Y ears, dborn in Norfolk. ' .1ohn Forte[<:ue Gentleman, aged twcnty fcvcn cJrs, and born in Kent. Hugh Cooe Trump~tcr~ agcd tWcnty cight l ms, and born in 1/Tappin_f!.. 1 Tl.1oma; Higbway 8 Litnguifi 1 ~a 9 cJ thirty fivc cars, and born in ar 1ar..7 or JVJoor{!I~ Parcnts : . He