Before The Fleet Separated, We Had Appointed, In Case Of Separation By
Foul Weather, That We Should Wait On The Coast Of Chili, In The Latitude
Of 46 Deg.
S. for thirty days, in hopes of rejoining.
Accordingly, I went to
that latitude, where we remained twenty-eight days, and procured
refreshments from the natives, who were very good-natured, though the
Spaniards had nearly prevented them at first from dealing with us. They
brought us sheep and potatoes, for which we gave them bells and knives;
but at length they retired into the country, and came no more near us.
Having set up a pinnace which we brought with us, and remained in
waiting for our consorts during twenty-eight days, we proceeded to the
port of Baldivia in lat. 40 deg. 20' S. but entered not by reason of
contrary winds, on which we made for the island of Mocha, where we
arrived next day. Finding none of our ships there, we sailed for the
island of Santa Maria,[50] and came next day to the Cape, which is
within a league and half of that island, where we saw many people; being
much tempest-tost endeavouring to go round that cape, and finding good
ground, we came to anchor in a fine sandy bay, in fifteen fathoms water.
[Footnote 50: The island of Santa Maria, or St Mary, is on the coast of
Chili near Conception, in about the latitude 86 deg. 50' N.]
We went in our boat, to endeavour to enter into a friendly conference
with the natives, but they opposed our landing, and shot a great many
arrows at our men.
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