30' S. Many Times During The Winter We Had The Wind Fair
For Passing Through The Straits, But Our General Would Not; So That We
Remained In The Straits Till The 24th August,[62] 1599, On Which Day We
Came Into The South Sea.
Six or seven days after the whole fleet was
separated, and the storm-continuing long, we were driven south, into 1st
54 deg.
30' S. The weather clearing up, with a fair wind, we saw the admiral
again, to our great joy. Eight or ten days afterwards, having very heavy
wind in the night, our foresail was blown away, and we again lost sight
of the admiral.
[Footnote 62: In the former letter this is called the 24th September,
which seems to be the true date from what follows - E.]
Having a fair wind for that purpose, we directed our course for the
coast of Chili, where we arrived on the 29th October, at a place
appointed by the general for a rendezvous, in lat. 46 deg. S. where we
waited twenty-eight days, and set up a pinnace. In this place we found
people, with whom we had friendly intercourse for five or six days,
during which they brought us sheep, for which we gave them bells and
knives, with which they seemed contented. But shortly afterwards they
all went away from the place where our ship lay, and we saw no more of
them. The twenty-eight days being expired, we set sail in the intention
to go to Baldivia, and came to the mouth of the port; but as the wind
was high, our captain changed his mind, and we directed our course for
the island of Mocha, in thirty-eight degrees, where we arrived the 1st
November.
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