An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to the Str1ighti of Magellari~ 4 7 finall pieces of Gold-wire in two Mufcle-fhells: ,·hid: Shclls were made together by a green Gut· ftring: the Gold was to the value of two lliillings liji. and had been hammered, theWire as big a great Pin. Mo11d4J, Ju11e 6. Cloudy cold weather, Wind at uth-wefr, a freíh gale. This day I went a-fhore irh íixteen Men, ancl tr~velled ten miles Weíl: o the Land; the Bilis there are cover'd with · ow: 'tis very cold, we could not go any fur– r for Snow; and the Air is fo cold that wc Id not endure to lie on the ground : on the ill that I was on, we could fee nothing but Hill yondHill; no Woods, norTrees, nor Bufhcs, grafs Downs : the Land is flat 0!-1 the tops of Hills; frefh Water runs down in fevcral pl:ices, hicb is melted Snow,ami when the Water !caves ing, thcre's no Snow. I faw many Guiana– and Ofiriches ; no People or figo of any : lofc by the water-fide we faw many places,where y had Jain on open Bilis in the Snow,and fome faces wherc they had kill'd and eat Guianacoe's d Oftriches; they make but fmall Fires with efücks ; I do not find t hey roafi: their flefh at m, for we faw fome raw l<'lc{h hanging to the ncs, which they had gnawed with their Teeth: ir Fires are only to warm their Children's Fin– rs, as we imagine. I gathcr'd fome handfuls of uianacoes lVooll that lay here: I am perfuadcd fe People muft neecJs fee us travelling to and every day, but won't come near or be feen by ~ :they live like wild Beaíls, or rather worfc, for etimes tbey muft be in grea~want of F ood ; . here',