[■ Chap. XXTX. during the Reign of §^teen Elizabeth.

CHAP. XXIX.

Captain William Michelfon’r Voyage to the Bay of Mexico ; AVoyageto theStreight of Magellan, by John Chid ley, Esq-, and others : With some other‘Transactions of the Tear, 1589.

*589. f~fp*HIS Voyage was performedj j^hckluyt, I by a Ship called the Dog, of! jj P- JL the Burden of seventy Tuns,

! Capt, Mi- carrying about forty Men. They

j set Sail from the Coast of England, in

i tff t0 the Month of May, directly for the| Wef-Indies. They fell in with the

| Bay of Mexico, and there, at sundry

Three s Da n- Times, met with several Spanijh Ships,three of which they made Prize of.j **’ The last Ship they met with in the

Bay was a Spanijh Man of W ar, which' the EngUJh chafed, and engaged for

three several Days together. At Length,the Spaniards, being put hard to it,hung out a Flag of Truce, and demand-ed a Parly; Their Request was grant-1 ed, and several of them coming on

Board the Englijh Ship, after a Con-ference held, were very civilly enter-tained. The Spaniards, under the Pre-text of requiting the Courtesy of theEnglijh, invited them to their Ship,whither, trusting to their Honour, they^eachery likewise went; But, instead- of then Spa- courteous Entertainment they expected,

1 were treacherously set upon, and RogerKingfnod, their Pilot, with several o-thers, killed, William Mace, the Ma-ster, with some few more, escaped byjumping over Board, and swimming totheir Ship, which they immediately setunder Sail, and arrived at Plymouth,the tenth of September, of the sameYear.

Chidley’s Voyage to the South-Sea, bythe Streight of Magellan.

The. fifth of August, of this Year,'sl- pi 3 p. John Chi die y, of C hi die y, in the Countyof Devon, Esq; with Mr. Paul Wheel,and Captain Andrew Merick, set outfrom Pip mouth, with three large Ships.C and The Wild-Man, of three Hundred^^nders. Tuns,. in which Mr. Chidley went him-self, as General, and Benjamin Wood,Masher,, with one Hundred and eightyOfficers and-Men.

Th fe White-Lion, Captain Paul Wheel, x r go.

Commander, and John Ellis, Master,with one Hundred and forty Men.

The Delight of Briftol, commandedby Captain Andrew Merick, and Ro-bert Bur net, Master, with ninety-oneMen and Boys: And.

Two Pinnaces, of fourteen or fifteenTuns each.

The Design of this Voyage was to ‘PJeDeJtgUgo, by the Streight of Magellan, to the °yjg e jSouth Sea, and chiefly to the famousProvince of Aranco , on the Coast ofChili.

They kept Company together to theCanaries, and from thence to CapeBlanco, on the Coast of Barbary. With-in twelve Days after their Departurefrom that Place, the Delight was fepa- frotn^he'rated from the two larger Ships, and other Ships ithe two Pinnaces; And it is of her onlyI shall give any farther Account; For Ino where find what came of the other.

The Delight kept on her Course, ac- Pursues hercording to the Directions given her, a- Course ;long the Coast of Bras I, and by theRiver of Plate, without touching anywhere, ’till they came to Port De (ire,in eight and forty Degrees Southern a t Pcri~De‘Latitude, by which Time' they had sire.lost sixteen of their Men by Sickness.

They staid in that Harbour seventeenDays, in Hopes of joyning theirCompanions again; But to no Pur-pose.

From thence they failed towards the T j' iey eMerStreight of Magellan, which they enter- the Streighted about the first of January, 1590. <?/Magellan.and anchored off of Pengwyn- Island.

Here, sending their Boat on Shoar,with fifteen Men, they never heard Lg j- e thdrmore of her; But supposed she was lost Boat, within a Storm, in which they likewise lo {I fifteen Men,two Anchors. From thence they passed a c ^f° n ~farther up the Streight, and near Portfamine spoke with a Spaniard, whosaid he had lived there six Years, andwas one of the four Hundred, who weresent thither by the King of Aywyz, in theYear, 1 -M. to fortify and' inhabit

there,