The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

Hereafter followeth a Ruttier from the sayd riuer of Plate to the Streight of Magelane.

THe cape of Santa Maria is in 35 degrees. Frō thence to the Cape de Santo An∣tonio, which is on the other side of the riuer, are 30 leagues Northnortheast, & Southsouthwest. And this is the broadest place of the riuer. And this cape is in 36 degrees and a halfe, and it is a blacke grosse land. And thou must marke that 25 leagues a seaboord the mouth of the riuer there lie certaine sands, which be called Baixos de los Castellanos.* 1.1

He that falleth with the cape or Santa Maria must take good heede to go Southeast vntill hee be in 36 degrees, an•• f••om the••ce Southsoutheast vntill 36 degrees and a halfe, giuing the sayd sholds de los Castellanos a breadth: and also taking heede of the flats of the cape. And when hee findeth 40 or 45 fadomes, and russet sand, then he must goe Southwest and by South, vntill he be in 40 degrees: where hee shall find great store of weedes, which come from the coast, and a man may go 20 leagues from the shore in this sounding.

From the Cape de Santo Antonio to the Cape de Arenas Gordas are right & forty leagues,* 1.2 and the coast lieth Northeast and Southwest, and by East, and by West: and in the first eighteene leagues is the riuer called Rio de Santa Anna,* 1.3 which hath at the entrance certaine flats and sholds, giue them a good breadth, and come not nigh them by much, but keepe thy selfe in forty fa∣domes to goe surely.

From the cape de Arenas Gordas to the cape of Sant André are one and thirty leagues:* 1.4 it li∣eth Northeast and by East, and Southwest by West: I meane when thou art in the middest with an equall distance from them both. And between both the capes are many bayes and riuers, but all full of sandie sholdes.

From the cape of Sant Andres to the bay called Anegad••,* 1.5 that is, The sunken bay, are 30 leagues Eastnortheast, and Westsouthwest. It standeth in 40 degrees, rather lesse then more.

* 1.6From the bay called Baia Anegada to The point of the plaine land are 25 leagues Northnorth∣east, and Southsouthwest. This point lieth in 41 degrees and a halfe. And from this point to Baia sin fondo,* 1.7 that is to say, The bottomlesse bay, are 35 leagues Eastnortheast, and Westsouth∣west. This bay standeth in 42 degrees and a halfe, rather lesse then more.

* 1.8And from Baia sin fondo to Cabo Redondo, & Puerto de los leones, are 37 leagues North∣northeast and Southsouthwest, somewhat to the North and South. And if thou meane to go out from thence with a compasse about after the maner of a halfe circle or an arch, so thou mayest passe through the Baia sin fondo along the shore: for there is water enough.

Note that from the riuer of Plate to this place is neuer a good harbour for great shipping.

* 1.9From this place to Puerto de los leones the coast is cleane, and a man may come nigh vnto the in land: And it is a lowe land with white cliffes. This harbour is in 44 degrees. And as a man goeth thither, after hee bee in 43 degrees or more, hee must haue a care to looke out for certaine small rockes which lie neere the land,* 1.10 and lie North of the harbour.

From this harbour to Cabo de Matas,* 1.11 or The cape of shrubs, are 30 leagues North & South, halfe a point to the East and to the West: and betwixt them there is a great bay very long: And to the Northwest 18 leagues from Cabo redondo is a riuer lying East and West: and it is cal∣led Rio de Camarones,* 1.12 or, The riuer of shrimps. You shall know when you fall with this riuer, by seeing many white spots vpon the water, and they are small shrimps.

From this riuer to Cabo redondo the coast lieth Northwest and by North, and Southeast and by South. This cape is in 45 degrees and a halfe large.* 1.13

From this sayd cape to Cabo Blanco and Barancas Blancas that is to say, to The white cape

and white cliffes are 32 leagues lying North and by East and South and by West: and they stand in 47 degrees.* 1.14

From this Cape the coast lyeth towards the North side Northwest about 3 leagues all full of white cliffes steepe vp: and the last cliffe is the biggest both in length and height, and sheweth to be the saile of a ship when it is vnder saile. These white cli••••es are 6 in number. And this Cape hath in the face thereof a certaine round land that sheweth to bee an Island afarre off: and it hath cer∣taine poynts of rockes hard by it. And two cables length from the land is 25 fathomes water. Aboue these white cliffes the land is plaine and euen: and it hath certaine woods. There is much people in the countrey: of whom I wish thee to take good heed.* 1.15

From this Cape the land lyeth North and South; which is the first fall of the Cape: and in the face thereof it hath a poynt of rocks, which shewe themselues. And on the South side of this Cape is a good harbour and road,* 1.16 and there is a Bay in the middest.

From Cabo Blanco to Puerto de San Iulian are 37 leagues, and the coast lyeth North and by East and South and by West. This harbour of S. Iulian hath in the entrance certaine high hilles,* 1.17 which afarre off seeme to be towers. On the South part of the entrance the chanell is deepest in the middest: and thou must borrow neerer the North side then to the South. Within the har∣bour are two Islands: thou must come to an anker hard to them. This hauen lyeth in 49 degrees. And betweene Cabo Blanco and this harbour are The Islands of Ascension, and they be eight.* 1.18 From this said harbour to the hill of S. Yues are 35 leagues: the coast lyeth Northeast & South∣west: it is a low land and euen and hath onely one hill, and it is a plaine from one part to the other, and hath certaine cliffes to seaward, and to the Southward•• and to the Southside it hath certaine little coppies: it standeth in 50 degrees large.

From the hill of S. Yues to Rio de Cruz are 8 leagues,* 1.19 Northeast and Southwest: and on the North side of the riuer it hath a very high land, and in the toppe it is plaine and lyeth two leagues broad, layd out along North and South, and the downefall on both sides hath as it were saddles. This Cape hath many poynts of rockes lying 4 leagues into the sea: and when thou hast sight of this land, it is good for thee to keepe from it a good bredth off. And going from thence thou mayest runne in sight of the land in 25 fathoms.

From Rio de Cruz to Rio de Galegos are 25 leagues,* 1.20 Northeast and Southwest and it stan∣deth in 52 degrees and 1/6 of a degree. It hath a certaine highland: and in the highest of the sayd land it is plaine, and to the Northeast it is a pike vp, and hath certaine white cliffes: and on the toppe and something down••warde it is blacke: at the foote of this high land to the Eastward thereof it hath certaine steps like a lather: and to the sea it hath a sharpe poynt that lyeth into this Cape almost halfe a league. To the Southward of this Cape where the lather is, there is a little Bay, which is the entrance of Rio de Galegos, it ebbeth and floweth here 12 fathomes.* 1.21 A man must haue a great care how he goeth in here for the cause abouesaid: but he must keepe himselfe out and not anker in it.

From Rio de Galegos to the Streits of Magelan the coast lyeth Northnorthwest & South∣southeast 8 leagues vnto Cabo de la virgin Maria,* 1.22 which is the entrance into the Streit: and 4 leagues before a man come to this Cape there are white cliffes with certaine blacke spots in them; and they be caused with the falling downe of the water. Here is water inough, and thou mayest come to an anker hard aboord the shore, and hast a good defence for a Southwest wind. And the Cape it selfe is the highest land of all,* 1.23 and is like to Cape Saint Vincent in Spaine: and it hath on the East side a ledge of rockes, and a poynt of sand, with diuers sands which shewe themselues at a lowe water: thou must take great heede heere and giue them a good bredth halfe a league or a quarter of a league off, vntil thou bring the Cape Westnorthwest, and then thou mayest stirre away Southwest. And when thou commest to the lower land and into tenne or twelue fathoms, then art thou ouer against la Purificacion. And halfe a league within the land the citie of Nombre de Iesus was builded, East and West with the sayd Cape right against a cliffe, which commeth from the sayd Cape, and goeth within the Streits. This Cape standeth in 52 degrees iust.

And this is to be taken for a warning, that he that commeth neere this Cape, and passeth by it as I haue said with the wind at Northeast, or any other wind off the sea inclining to the Southeast, must not come to anker, but presently be sure to passe by; because in Sommer this place is much subiect to Southwest winds,* 1.24 which blow right in: and they put a man from his tackle, & make him to loose his voyage. And from March forwards there blow fauourable winds from the sea to goe from this Cape to enter into the Streits,* 1.25 from this said Cape the Streits go in to the Northwest 14 leagues: and the chanell wa••eth narrower and narrower vnto the first Streit which runneth

Eastnortheast, and Westsouthwest. And comming out of the mouth thereof a man must keepe himselfe a poynt to the Northward, because there be rocks and stoalds. And if you see beds of weeds, take heed of them, and keepe off from them: and after you be past this Streight you must stirre Westsouthwest 8 leagues vnto Cabo de San Gregorio,* 1.26 which is a high white cliffe, and is a good road for any wind from the Northwest to the Southwest. But men must beware and not trust the Indians of this Cape:* 1.27 for they be subtill and will betray a man.

From this Cape beginneth the second Streit which is called Nuestra Sennora de Gracia, and lyeth Eastnortheast and Westsouthwest 3 leagues. And comming out of this Streit thou shalt see 3 little Islands, lying West off this Streit: thou mayest go betweene them, for there is no danger: prouided alwayes that thou keepe well off from the bayes on both sides, lest thou bee imbayed. And from these Islands thou must keepe forwards in the chanell Westsouthwest two leagues: and then the coast lyeth North and South vnto 53 degrees and a halfe, vnto a place cal∣led Punta de Santa Anna:* 1.28 and to the Northwest thereof in a corner or nooke (which is one of the rincones or nookes) was the towne builded called La Ciudad del Don Philippe.* 1.29 Thou must come to an anker to the Northward thereof, after thou art past the castle and a great tree.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Baixos de los Ca∣stellanos.
• * 1.2

  Cabo de Arenas Gordas.
• * 1.3

  Rio de S. Anna.
• * 1.4

  Cape de S. André
• * 1.5

  Baia Anegada.
• * 1.6

  Punta de Tierra Ilan••.
• * 1.7

  Baia sin fondo.
• * 1.8

  Cabo redon••o. Puerto de los leones.
• * 1.9

  Puerto de los leones in 44 de∣grees & better.
• * 1.10

  Take good heede of ••hese little rocks.
• * 1.11

  Cabo de Matas.
• * 1.12

  Rio de Cama∣rones.
• * 1.13

  Cabo redondo in 45 degrees & a halfe large.
• * 1.14

  Cabo Blanco and Barancas Ploncas in 47 degrees.
• * 1.15

  People to be∣taken heed of.
• * 1.16

  A good har∣bour.
• * 1.17

  The port of Saint I••li••••.
• * 1.18

  Ilhas de Ascen∣sion. Mo••••o de San•• Yues, in 50 de∣grees large.
• * 1.19

  Rio de C••••••.
• * 1.20

  Rio de Galegos and the marked thereof.
• * 1.21

  In the mou•••• of Rio de Gale∣gos it ebbeth and floweth 12 fathomes.
• * 1.22

  Cabo de la vir∣gin Maria
• * 1.23

  Ciudad de Nom∣bre de lesus ••a••∣led by M. Ca••¦dish Port Fa∣mine, because he sound al the Spaniards ••a∣mished, and the towne it¦selfe vtterly abandoned, and run••••ed. Where Nom∣bre de Iesus stood.
• * 1.24

  Southwest winds raigne much here in Sommer.
• * 1.25

  From March forward the winds are fa∣••orable for the Streit••••
• * 1.26

  Cabo de San Gregorio a good road∣stead for any wind•• from the Northwest to the South∣west.
• * 1.27

  The Indians aboue Cape de San Gregori•• in the Streits are very tre∣cherous.
• * 1.28

  The second streit call••d Nuestra Sennora de gracia Punta de Santa Anna in 53 deg. and a halfe.
• * 1.29

  La Ciudad d••l Don 〈◊〉〈◊〉 which is 〈…〉〈…〉.