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" which is now in Spoil, might long" since have been in the Tower of" London , to the King’s great Honour," and the Wealth of this Realm. To" this fame Voyage it is probable, that" Got salvo Oviedo , a famous Spanish“ Writer, alludes, in the Beginning of" the 13 th Chapter of the 19th Book of" his general and natural History of the" Wejl-Indies. His Words are to this" Purpose. In the Tear 1 $ iy. an Erg-“ lijh Rover (so the Spaniards were" wont to call all Ships and their Ma-" sters in those Seas but their own) un-“ der the Colour of travelling to dif-,c cover, came with a great Ship, unto" the Parts of Brajil on the Coast of" the firm Land, and from thence he‘ r crossed over unto this Island of Hif-<( paniola, and arrived near unto the" Mouth of the Haven of this City of" S t.Domingo. Here he sent his Ships-" boat, full of Men, on Shoar, and" demanded Leave to enter into this" Haven, saying that he came with" Merchandize to traffick. But at the" very Instant the Governour of the" Castle, Francis deTapia , caused a Fire" of Ordnance to be shot from the Ca-stle, at the Ship, for she bare in di-" rectly with the Haven. When the" Englishmen saw this, they withdrew" themselves out, and those that were" in the Ships-boat got themselves withall Speed on Board. And in Truth" the Warden of the Castle committedan Oversight, for if the Ship had en-" tered into the Haven, the Men there-of could not have come on Land," without Leave both of the City and" of the Castle. Therefore the Peopleof the Ship, seing how they were re-ceived, sailed towards the Island oft( St. John, and entering into the Port" of St. Germaine, the Englijfmen par-“ led with those of the Town, requir-ing Victuals, and Things needful to" furnish their Ship, and complained of" the Inhabitants of the City of St. Do-" mingo, faying that they came not to“ Jo any Harm, but to trade and traf-" sick for their Mony, and Merchan-" dize. In this Place they had certain" Victuals, and for Recompence theytc gave and paid them with certain Ves-selsof wrought Tin, and other Things.And afterwards they departed towards" Europe, where it is thought they ar-e£ rived not; for we never heard any" more News of them.

The Year 1519. was famous for thefirst News of the Discovery, and Begin-

ning of the Conquest of Mexico and New 151 9'Spain, by Hernando Cortex, the Men- Nezuseftion of which would seem foreign to our Di/coveSHistory, if the great Alteration, which Me " lC0the Quantity of Gold and Silver broughtfrom those Parts, made in the Navalas well as other Affairs of Europe, didnot' render it necessary.

I hope, likewise, that another shortDigression, which I am now going tomake, will,be as favorably thought ofby the Reader. As I shall have Oc-casion, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth,to treat particularly of the famous Vo-yages of Drake and Cavendish, round theWorld, an Undertaking, which for somany Thousand Years, as pafs’d fromthe Creation to the Discovery of theWesl-Indies, could never so much as en-ter into the Thoughts of Man, andwhich, after it was performed, gave sojust Subject of Admiration; I t hink itproper to mention the first Attempt ofthis Nature, tho’ made by a Foreigner,as it, in a great Manner, paved the Whyfor those which followed.

Inis wonderful Enterprise was be-

f un and carried on in the followingfanner.

In the Year 1519. Ferdinand de Ma- Magell^jgalhaens, or, as we corruptly call him, VoyagersMagellan, by Nation a Portuguese , t beF' oT 1by Descent a Gentleman, and by Pro- ^session a Soldier and Sea-man, having Int t r h ° e col-served his Prince faithfully, both in M- ^5 y 0 ssfrica and India, and, being ill-reward- in fix ^ed, renounced his Country, difnatura- ^ ol - , aS ,sizing himself, as the Custom then was, urCand offered his Service to the Emperor,

Charles V. then King of Spain. Hehad long before conceived an Opinion,that another Way might be found toIndia, and particularly to the Molucco-Islands, besides the common Track,by the Cape of Good Hope, followed bythe Portuguese. This he proposed tothe Emperour , with such Assuranceof performing what he promised, thathe had the Command of five Ships givenhim, the San Vitlorio, Luys de Mendo-za, Captain; the St. Mntonio, John deCarthagena ; St. J ago, John S err an,and the Conception, Gafpar de ksuexada,Commanders^ and in them two Hun-dred and fifty (or,as some say two, Hun- ,

dred and seven and thirty Men.) With M a g el ^y/sthis Squadron he failed from St. Lucar d e P ar fpde Barrameda, on the twentieth of Scp-fif m $i-tetnber, the aforesaid Year 1319. he Lucas :himself, being Commander in Chief.

Being come to the River called Rio deJaneiro f on the Coast of Brajil, and

near