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. at large, lays, my Author, in the Rolls, the Turky-Company, bearing Date, them Her, Majesty’s Chancery.* 1 ' “ w ' k seventh' ’of January, for twelve Years.

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Mrgfe WHadkluyt j dot iris too long tofetters Patent granted to the fife inserted here. J !A

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Vof^y"’ This Year, likeyhse, Her Majesty^L. ' granted her' fecondl' '“DesterE HarAclr^to

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Captain Richard Hawkins’^ Expedition to the South-Sea, with the Queen’s

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igai. Jsi¥,! he Ye F 1 593* Mewife, Cap-^mdenf I * Hm Richard Hawkins, (or, as>f^sCoi. jji sis Calls .him, ,Sir’ Richard Hawkins)*38. *' P ‘ the Sqn oC Sir John Hawkins, ' thatukichard famous Sea-Commander , of whom IJSkins’j 'have already frequently made honou-«C^^^,rable Mention, fitted out' two substan-the tial Ships and a .Pinnace, at his own.Expence, with, two Hundred Men. He( had a Commission from the Queen, un-der the.Broad Seal, to inlelt the Spani-ards, m.South America.

jT.he Design of this,brave MarinerW was to visit, the celebrated (Kingdoms''ofXhina, the Isles of Japan, the Moluc-cas and Philippines, by the ,)Ya.y of the'Streight pf Magellan’, and the "Sduth-iSea. , ffe - intended, if } Providence' fa-. voured him, to fetch no less a Com-.pafs, than Drake, Cavendijh, and the^Rest of the, famous Circum-riavigators.had done before him. ' i' ' " !

, I shall pass over .the Disasters hemet with, as wpll . before he left the< Channel, as in ..tsie former Part of h‘is..Voyage, partly by contrary Winds andbad Wpather;..But more by theVile-f ness, and Knavery ofj his Mariners, and. consider, him arrived at . the Island of

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\Jt. Hnn, where,, his.Pinnace was acci-f , dentally, burnt. .. Erom.thence. he pro-...ceeded, to , thqlViouth of Rio della Pla-] ta, (pr,. r( tfiq i i?.wcr^‘.| > /^). t yhefe he

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*akes a took a portugueje Ship,, loaded withQaffqvi'jAeJi. and Sugar,, bpund for^«-gofa, .,apd from. thence, repairing to-;.,w.ajrds. : .the , Strejght of, Magellan, was,^hy-.the Way,, before h e got thither, de-fy* MertedX rtpd by^ f .g^ptjier ( of ,'his-, Ships, forh°p e s the Captain,. whqfej,Na'me was’ 5. %hpyl%on ,. and who, by a like Treache-

ly^jhad ,conti;ij?utgd towards.blasting Ad-

miral Cavendijh’’ s last Expedition, wasafterwards punished; ; ’ ■ ; > ■

'' sis he 'Desertion : of this Ship effectu-ally frustrated the whole Design of the'Voyage, and laid them open to allthofesiDisaftefs, which afterwards befellthem, ’ as will plainly appear in ! thefollowing Relation. .. , i . f ■

' ' Bt:ixo thus left alone, and at a greatDistance from Shoar, in the Latitude of'about fifty Degrees, he happened upon'a fruitful Coast, abounding with 5 Wood ,and having* gbod‘Harbours'; 'But theywere utterly ignorant what Land It was;v For nd'Sea-'Chaff made 1 'Mention of anywhich , lay' i n th at- Mabner, and abouttha l t Height, ft ‘wafa^oodly Champidn, Country, and we 11-peopled^ as'they- saw^hy - the Multitudes -of ‘Fires-’ updn theCo^st': But they-could not 'Come hear e-' no ugh to'Tpeak to any of the -Inhabitants,"’waritiiig tsteif 'Pihn'ace 'so discover the'Shofir' before them;-' 1 'It had Abundance“ of'‘fresh "Rivers( and^thb-Out-fhoots ofi 'thdm’discdlt)iired i theSea in manyPlaces,

' as 1 they pafs’d along; Here he ! cruised" up and down','from West to North, 1 for^ the Space of sixty Lbagues/ ’tilly being^driven back'' by contrary Winds, he■'made thdStreight ‘of ‘Magellan- in- Janu-

* aryji'it'fy. ‘‘and Tailed up it to'the' Height' of fik‘and fifty-Degrees.- Ans some Parts : of : the Stfei ght - they found^grect Plenty of MufcldS, '‘which-' wbre'' very goody and made ho small Part -ofTheir. Refrblhment* f Yhsiy had most-'»of*' them some Pearl in therhf-afid some^to‘■•the Number of-twenty Dr thirty, but1 not’ver Vlarg'e, nor Of chat-bright'' Ori-*• en^ Coloiiff whidhMWtheM their Va-

* TuefA'ftePhe had Tp'ehVsix Weeks-; a-’' ‘rnong ’the Asiahds 'of YhlFSfrdigKt, and

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