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hundred vessels in company, and arrived at Lisbon about the eighth day of October, 1548, having been sixteen months on the voyage.
After this I rested some time in Lisbon, determined to sail with the Spaniards to the new countries which they оссиру. I sailed with that intention from Lisbon in an English ship to Castile, to a city called Porta Sancta Maria.[1] There they purposed loading the ship with wine, and thence I travelled to a city called Civilien,[2] where I found three ships fitting out, to sail to a country called Rio de Platta,[3] in America. This region with the rich gold-country named Pirau,[4] which was discovered some years ago, and Brazil, all form one continent.
To conquer this land forthwith, several ships had been sent some years before, and one of them returning (home) requested more assistance, saying how rich it was in gold. The commander of the three ships was named Dohn Diego de Senabrie,[5] he was on the part of the king to become governor of the country. I repaired to one of the ships, which were well equipped; and we sailed from Civilien to Sanct Lucas,[6] where the Civilien river enters the sea, there we lay awaiting a favourable wind.
- ↑ Porto de Santa Maria, the most southerly island of the Azores, is in N. lat. 36 deg. 58 min., and in W. long. (G.) 35 deg. 12 min. 33 sec.
- ↑ Seville.
- ↑ Rio de la Plata.
- ↑ Peru.
- ↑ In 1549 D. Juan de Senabria (Southey, i, 133) accepted the captaincy of Paraguay, but died in Spain before the expedition was ready to sail. He was succeeded by his son Diego.
- ↑ San Lucar (here by mistake Lucas) do Barameda is the harbour at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river (Wady el Kabir, the great Fiumara), about forty miles S.S.W. of Seville.