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• He was carried before the King, towhom giving an Account, that thisFleet belonged to the Queen of England,andwas come, in an amicable Manner, totraffick, he was immediately sent back,with Presents to the Captain; And theFleet being departed before his Return,was afterwards sent to England, in ano-ther Ship, But to return to the Fleet:Their Pinnace being ready, they de-parted thence, the last Day of December ,and coasting along the Shoar, they met. some Spanijh Fishermen, to which giv-ing Chace, they took three of them :And, a little farther, they met with aBooty of three Caravels. On the seven-teenth of January, they arrived at CapeBlanco, in ■ one and twenty Degrees,of North-Latitude , where theyfound a Ship, with only two Marinerson Board, which they took,, and, carry-ing her into the Harbour, staid therefour Days, in which Time Drake mu-stered, and exercis’d his Men. Herethey took some Necessaries of the Fi-shermen, and also one of their Barks, ofabout forty Tun ; leaving a little Bark oftheir own, (the Chriftopher) in the Roomof it. Departing from this Harbour,on the two and twentieth of January ,they proceeded to the Cape FAAIstands,and took in Refreshments, of all Sorts,at the pleasant Island of Mayo.

From thence they sailed, the thirty-first of January, over towards St .J ago,the principal of these Islands; But keptat some Distance, for Fear of the Inhabi-tants. Here they chased two PortugueseShips, and took one of them, loadedwith Wine, which they brought off withthem ; And Drake gave the Commandof her to one Doughty, of whom westall fee more below. He dismissed herCompany, retaining only Nuno de Silva,the Master of her, in Order to make■ Use of him for a Pilot, on the Coast ofBras I, with which they found him tobe well acquainted. To the Ship’sCompany they gave their Pinnace, witha But of Wine and some Provisions.Thence, pursuing their Voyage, theypass’d by the Islands of Fuogo (or Fire,so called from the sulphurous Flame,which the Earth throws up) and Brama,the two Southermost of those Islands;

And crossing the Equinoctial Line, onthe thirteenth of March (a) (Drake Re-vived fays, the seventeenth of February )after having been five and fifty (the sameAuthor says, sixty three) Days withoutfeing Land, arrived in Sight of Braftil,in three and thirty Degrees of South-Latitude, on the fifth of April. Coast-ing along that Country, on the seventh,they lost the Chriftopher, (for so theynow called the Bark they had taken inBarbary) in a Tempest ; But the ele-venth they found her again, and thePlace where all the Ships, which weredispersed in Search of the Bark, met a-gain, the Admiral called Cape Joy.

Here they found a good Climate, an a-greable Air, a pleasant Country, andan exceeding fruitful Soil, with greatStore of Deer, of an uncommon Size 5 Butthey saw none of the Inhabitants, tho’the Print of their Feet was visible in ft 1the Clay. On the six and twentieth, Plate,they came to the Mouth of the Rto del laPlata, (or River of Plate) where theysaw an infinite Number of Sea-calves, orSeals.

The Mary-gold and Chriftopher, be-ing sent to discover a convenient Har-bour, found one, into which they went,with all their Ships. The Inhabitantscame boldly to them, while they wereworking on Shoar. Their Faces werepainted, and they had no other Cloath-ing but Skins of Beasts, about theirWastes. Setting Sail from thence, South-ward, they arrived,the twentieth of June,

(Sir William Monson fays, the nine and p 0 rt St. Jwtwentieth of May, but he seems to be kan,mistaken) at Port St. Julian, wherethey found a Gibbet, which had beenerected, by Magellan, for the Punishmentof his Mutineers, as we have seen above.

A t this Place, John Doughty, a stoutand industrious Seamen, but haughtyand turbulent, (who was the next inCommand to Drake,) was brought tohisTryal, for raising a Mutiny in theFleet, and conspiring his Commander’sDeath, and, by a Jury, not of twelve,but of above forty, of the chief Men ofthe Fleet, condemned to die. It wasput to his Choice, whether he would ra-ther be set on Shoar, or be sent to take JohnDough-his Trial in England, or submit to his c y beheaded,Sentence; And he preferring the latter,he was there beheaded. H e

st) Before they passed the Equator, this great deed, depended likewise his own Life and Saferand vigilant Commander, careful of the Health ty, let every Man Blood with hjs own Hand.and Lives of his Seamen, on whose Welfare, in-