Voyages of Drake Gilbert Select Narratives From the Principal Navigations O
Voyages of Drake Gilbert Select Narratives From the Principal Navigations O
Hakluyt Richard
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These mountains are covered with snow. At both the southerly and easterly parts of the Strait there are islands, among which the sea hath his indraught into the Straits, even as it hath in the main entrance of the frete 2 . This Strait is extreme cold, with frost and snow continually ; the trees seem to stoop with the burden of the weather, and yet are green continually, and many good and sweet herbs do very plentifully grow and increase under them. The breadth of the Strait is in some places a... league, in some other places two leagues and three leagues, and in some other four leagues ; but the narrowest place hath a league over. 1 Drake here changed the name of the Pelican to the Golden Hind, the crest of Sir Christopher Hatton. A Lat. Fretuw. 1578] Strait of Magellan The Pacific. 207 The 24. Of August we arrived at an island in the Straits, where we found great store of fowl which could not fly, of the bigness of geese ; whereof we killed in less than one day 3, 000, and victualled ourselves throughly therewith.
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