Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. 17: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. 17: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others

Anno 1534.I went from Antweroe to Cadiz, and there found fourteens ships furnished for the River of Plate. There were 2500. Spaniards,150. high and low Dutch, unto which I joyned my selfe. They set forth in September the same yeere, and (having had some trouble at Palma, one of the Canaries, about stealing of a Citizens Daughter by George Mendoza, a kinsman of the Commander Don Pedro de Mendoza) arrived at the River Jenero.

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