An account of several late voyages and discoveries

Thc lntrodué\ion. V trcights wh..:rc any Trccs grew. Hcrc an: huncfance of .l'v/1'.f_e/es, ve1·y refrcílling Diet nd full of Pe.crl; alfo Li111pets, and incrcdiblc 1 umbcrs of Pe11g1lins and Se1tls. A. D. 1598. 1 J,e jo11rth C.:irG11mnavig11tion of he Globe w111 ftr/01111 d. b J Olí ve,· Noort,a Dutch· 1an, his ,hit¡ Pilot l,eing C11pt. Melis"" Engiifü 1an, who l,,cd 11e&11mp1tnied Mr. Candiíll in hú oyage. This Noorc .fleer d m11el, t/Je .f'a,ne Courje ,,;, Magalhancs, Drakcs aná Candiíl1, having ent near three 1'e.1rs i'! encompa//ing 1he H,,trth. e flw upon the únd oj Patagoma fome Veer, 4 · rt of Bufido '1nd Oíhichcs. We 111:11 note here, that in tlú 1ear 1s89, the elip,ht o/ Urifrol, 011, of the Crmjoru of John h1ctlcy Ejq; and ,Ur. Paul Wheel got i11to the 'i re.;~hts of Magc:llan; but meeting ivith 1.Uisfor.. wes, w11s forera b11cl:, hA·ving reaclld.only Cape rnward. Al/o in the 'l'ear 1598. Vcrhagcn's 1eet, under ~ir James Mahu,Simon de Cordcs, c:bJ}d de Wcrt, ¿ ...,. wherein William Adams as ,hicf l'ilot, Ji1fe,'d .~real }llij'eries in thefe 1reights. Thü Scbald de Wert g ,ive Clufius A ' farips.on ofthe ffTinter-b4rk-Tree groJJJÜ{~ 11p and orl'» Petagonia. They preferv'd tbe111/'elves wüh eefc 1 Ducks, -v1tjl l•rge Mufdcs, Pcnguins,Scal,;, ,. Rett,r,;ing o1't of the Stre~~ht~ ~11d J~i/i11g 011thrvards the ,lijcover'd Scbald's Hles. A. D. 1614. George 5pilbcrgcu Gcmr4l ()f., .utch 1'1eet offtx Sh,¡.s, p:tffed thrt:> the Stre~~ht s ~1agcllan and tbe Soll!h Se.1 to the Ealt Jt, - ies, jrom n•J,ence he rett11·11ed by :he Cape of ood Hope to the Tcxcl, having bren 011t abMt A J 1hrt1