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A11585	The relation of a wonderfull voiage made by VVilliam Cornelison Schouten of Horne Shewing how south from the Straights of Magelan, in Terra Del-fuogo: he found and discouered a newe passage through the great South Sea, and that way sayled round about the world. Describing what islands, countries, people, and strange aduentures he found in his saide passage.; Journal ofte beschryvinghe van de wonderlicke reyse. English	Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon, d. 1625.; Phillip, William.	1619 (1619)	STC 21828; ESTC S116796	53,362	91

our course Westward with an east winde and an in different gale rainie weather and smoth water The same day wee were vnder 14. degrees 46. minutes That Island was 15. leagues distant from the other we called it the water Island by cause there we got some water The 17. wee gaue our men six cups of water and sod a great ketle with pottage made of the greene herbes that wee had in water Island which did our men some good and eased them of their loosenesse The 18. in the morning wee saw an other low Island south west from vs lying West north west and east south east as farre as wee could see at the least twentie leagues distant from the other Wee made to it and being hard by it sent out our boate to sound the depth they told vs they found ground by a point of land from whence there came a streame at twentie twentie fiue and fortie fathom running softly downe about a musket shot from the land whereupon wee sent the boate with our emptie caske thither hoping to finde vvater When it came to the land they let the Schut lie fast at a dreg in the water and drew one an other with a rope though the water to land as they did before there they sought a good vvay vvithin a vvood for fresh vvater but because they had no armes with them and savv a vvilde man vvho as they thought had a bovv in his hand they turned presently backe to the Shalop and came aboord againe vvithout doing any thing and lying a good vvay from the shoare there came fiue or six vvild men to the strand vvho seeing that our men were gon went backe againe into the wood Vpon that Island there were great store of greene wild trees being also full of salt water within When our men came into the shippe they were couered all ouer vvith flies in such abundance that we could not know them their faces hands and Scute and all full and the owers also as farre as they were out of the water were couered ouer with blacke flies wonderfull to behold those flies came with them aboord our ship and flue so thicke vpon our bodies and in our faces that vve knew not how to shun them for wee could hardly eate or drinke but all was full of them vve still wipt our faces and hands and made flaps to kill as many as wee could this continued two or three dayes with great trouble vnto vs all at last wee had a good gale of winde whereby and with continuall killing them in the ende when three or four dayes were past we were rid of them wee called that Island the Flie Island and therewith set forward from it and had some raine as also the next day whereby wee gathered so much water with clothes and sayles that it holpe vs well in the night wee made no great way but often times let the ship driue that wee might not by night fall vpon such low Islands and spoyle our ship The 23. wee were vnder 15. degrees 4. minutes and then againe had great hollow bill ovves out of flie south which the next day also continued the winde vvas north east and most part east and east and by south There they sayd that Terra Australis which we sought for lay yet 250. leagues further The 25. wee filled foure vessells full of raine water and still had hollow billowes out of the south as we commonly haue in the Spanish seas out of the north west The 3. of May the winde was still east and wee say led West and at woone were vnder 15 degrees 3 minutes That day we saw many great Dorados which were the first that wee had seene in the south sea The 9. Wee were vnder 15. degrees 20. minutes and at that time as wee thought were 1510. leagues distant from the coast of Peru and Chili About noone wee saw a sayle which as wee gessed was a Barke comming out of the south and went northward towards vs we presently made towards it and as it came neere to vs wee shot at it with one of our peeces right ouer her to make them strike but they would not then wee shot againe but yet they would not strike with that we put out our Shalop with 10. musketiers in it to take her which calling to them wee shot another peece yet without any intent to reach or to hurt them but they would not strike but sought as well as they could to get away from vs and got to loofeward of vs but our Shalop being too crafty for them rowed to them and being about halfe a musket shot from them shot foure muskets one after an other as they drew neere to her and before they could reach her some of her men in great feare leapt ouerboord whereof one of them had a little child and another was hurt and had three holes in his backe but not very deepe for it was hayleshot those we fetcht out of the water againe they also threw much of their goods ouer boord and amongst the rest three Hennes our men leapt into their ship and carryed them into our ship they not once resisting for in truth they had no armes when they were in our ship we fetcht two men more that were left in theirs which presently fell downe before vs and kist our feete and hands one of them was a very old man the other a young man wee could not vnderstand them but vsed them kindely and presently the Shalop rowd to fetch those that leapt ouerboord to saue their liues but they gotte but two of them that droue vpon one of their oares and pointed to our men with their hands to the ground as much to say that the rest were drownd one of those two that was hurt whom wee drest had long yealowish haire In that shippe there was at least eight women three young sucking children and some of nine or ten yeares old so that we made account they were three and twentie in all cleane naked prople both men and women onely something hanging before their priuie members About euening vvee set the men on boord their shippe againe that were welcome to their wiues which claspt them about the necks and kist them Wee gaue them beades which they hung about their neckes and some kniues and shewed them all the friend●hip we could and they the like to vs giuing vs two fir●● Matiens and two Cocos nuts for they had not many that was all they had to eate and drinke and they had drunke out all the vvater out of the nuttes so that they had no more drinke Wee saw them drinke salt vvater out of the Sea and gaue it also to their young children to drinke which vvee thought to bee against Nature They had certaine clothes vvhich they vvare before their priuie members and therevvith couered themselues against the heate of the Sunne of a yealowish colour They vvere reddish people that annoynted themselues with Oyle the Women had

North and wee held our course West to wards the Islands of Salomon and called that Island Dogs Island In the night it blewer hard with a great showre of raine The 14. the winde east and east southeast wee sayled West and west and by north with winde and weather afore sayd and saw much fish and many birdes after noone vve saw another low Island North vvest from vs being very great and reached northeast and southvvest wherat vvee reioyced hoping to get vvater and some refreshing there and made to it holding our course northwest About euening being with our ship about a league from the land there came a Canoe to meete vs with 4. Indians in it al naked of a reddish colour very black long haire they kept a good way from our ship first calling to vs making signes to haue vs come on land but we vnderstood them not nor they vs not withstanding that we ansvvered and called to them in Spanish Molucus Iauan and our owne Netherland speech About euening at Sunne-setting we got to the land but found no ground nor no changing of water although we were so neere to the shore that with a musket we might shoote into it and therefore put to Sea againe and the Canoe to land vvhere a great many Indians stood vpon the shore to watch for them not long after againe there came another Canoe from the Land to our shippe but would not as the first come aboord they called to vs and vvee to them but vnderstoode not one the other at last their Canoe ouerthrewe in the water but they soone turned it vp againe and leapt quickely into it they shevved and pointed to wards the land and wee the like to them towards the shippe but they would not come wherewith we held on our course and left the Island sayling South and southwest to get aboue the land the Island was not broad but somewhat long and full of trees which as wee gessed were Palmitas and Cocus trees it lies vnder 15. degrees 15. minutes hauing white sand ground that night wee saw fire vpon the land in diuers places The 15. in the morning hauing in the night sayled about ten leagues south southwest wee sayled close along by the land where we saw many naked men standing on shore calling and crying as it seemed to bid vs come on land and then again there came another Canoe from the land towards our ship with three Indians in it which also called to vs and would not come aboord but rowed to the Shalop and went close to it our men shewing them all the friendship they could giuing them some beades and kniues but they vnderstood not one another hauing beene a little while by the Shalop they left it and came so neere to our shippe that we cast out a small rope to them which they tooke but would not enter into the ship but went into the Shalop which came backe from the land without doing any thing and hauing bin a good while in it at the last one of them came into the gallerie and drew our the nayles of the windowes in the marchants and Masters Cabines and taking them away hid them in his haire they were desirous of Iron for they ventured to pull out the bolts with their hands and to earry them away we sought to keepe one of them in the ship and to send one of our men with the other two in their Cano to land to make friendshippe with them but they would not they were very theeuish people all naked only a peece of a mat hanging before their priuie members Their skin was marked with diuers figures as Snakes Dragons and such like things vvhich shewed very blew as if they had bin burnt thereon with gun-powder we gaue them wine as they sat in the Canoe but they would not giue vs the cup againe We sent our Shalop once againe to the land vvith 8. musketiers and 6. men vvith svvords Claus Iohnson our vnder Marchant and Arice Clauson the Marchant of the Horne vvent vvith them to see vvhat vvas to be gotten in the Island and to make friendship vvith them But as soone as they vvere by the strand and the men vvent on shore there came at least 30 Indians out of the vvood vvith great Clubs or Cudgels and vvould haue taken our mens armes from them and thought to dravv the Shalop vpon the land ventred to take tvvo of our men out of the Shalop thinking to carrie them into the vvood but our musketiers hauing their muskets ready discharged three of them amongst them and verily thought that they either killed or sore vvounded some of them They likevvise hadde long staues vvith very long sharpe things at the endes thereof vvhich as vvee thought vvere sinnes of blacke fishes they also cast stones vvith stings but God be thanked hurt none of our men bowes they hadde not as farre as wee could see Our men saw some of their women that cryed and claspt their men about the neckes but knew not vvhat they meant but thought they did it to get them from thence That Island by reason wee could there finde no ground to anchor we called the Island without ground On the out side it was low plaine ground full of palme trees but within full of salt water At last when wee saw that there was nothing to be gotten we determined to leaue it and with an east vvinde held our course VVest to seaward There we had slight water and no billowes as the day before we had out of the South and therefore we gest that Southward there was more land it is vnder 15 degrees about 100 leagues distant from Dogs Iland The 16. in the morning betimes wee saw an other Island North ward from vs which we made to but found it as the other without anchor ground within also being all drowned land yet on the sids it was full of trees but no plume nor Cocos trees Wee put out our Shalop to sound the depth but going to the shore found no ground and therefore came a boorde againe without doeing any thing or seeing any men Wee sent our Shalop once againe to see if we could get any refreshing or water vpon the land who returning againe tolde vs that they hadde found fresh water not farre from the shore in a pit or keele which they might bring with buckets to the strand but hard to get into the shippe for the Shalop by reason of the billowes lay fast at a dreg by which meanes the men were forced to draw one an other vvith a rope on land and in like sort on boorde againe so that it was very troublesome and dangerous to goe on the land and therefore fetcht but foure small fats of water There also vvee found such herbes as vvee hadde in the Dogs Island vvhereof vve brought a sackefull a boorde and some crabs as also some shels and hornes that had fish in them of very good tast That euening we held on