A letter written to M. Richard Staper by Iohn Whithal from Santos
in Brasil, the 26. of Iune 1578. 252
A copie of the letters of the Aduenturers for Brasill sent to
Iohn Whithall dwelling in Santos, by the Minion of London, Anno
1580. the 24. of October in London. 256
Certaine notes of the voyage to Brasil with the Minion of London
aforesaid, in the yere 1580. written by Thomas Grigs Purser of
the said ship. 258
A letter of Francis Suares to his brother Diego Suares dwelling
in Lisbon, written from the riuer of Ienero in Brasill in Iune
1596. concerning the exceeding rich trade newly begunne
betweene that place and Peru, by the way of the Riuer of Plate,
with small barks of 30. and 40. tunnes. 263
The well gouerned and prosperous voyage of M. Iames Lancaster,
begun with three ships and a galley-frigat from London in
October 1594, and intended for Fernambuck, the porte-towne of
Olinda in Brasil. In which voyage (besides the taking of nine
and twenty ships and frigats) he surprized the sayd port-towne,
being strongly fortified and manned; and held possession
thereof thirty dayes together (notwithstanding many bolde
assaults of the enemy both by land and water) and also
prouidently defeated their dangerous and almost ineuitable
fireworks. Heere he found the cargazon or freight of a rich
East Indian carack; which together with great abundance of
sugars, Brasil-wood, and cotton he brought from thence; lading
therewith fifteene sailes of tall ships and barks. 266
A speciall letter written from Feliciano Cieça de Carualsho the
Gouernour of Paraiua in the most Northerne part of Brasil,
1597, to Philip the second king of Spaine, answering his desire
touching the conquest of Rio Grande, with the relation of the
besieging of the castle of Cabodelo by the Frenchmen, and of
the discouerie of a rich siluer mine and diuerse other
important matters. 283
A special note concerning the currents of the sea betweene the
Cape of Buena Esperança and the coast of Brasilia, giuen by a
French Pilot to Sir Iohn Yorke knight, before Sebastian Cabote;
which Pilot had frequented the coasts of Brasilia eighteene
voyages. 290
A report of a Voyage of two Englishmen in the company of
Sebastian Cabota, intended for the Malucos by the Streights of
Magellan, but perfourmed onely to the riuer of Plate in April
1527. Taken out of the information of M. Robert Thorne to
Doctor Ley Ambassador for King Henry the eight, to Charles the
Emperour, touching the discouery of the Malucos by the North.
306
An extract out of the discourse of one Lopez Vaz a Portugal,
touching the fight of M. Fenton with the Spanish ships, with a
report of the proceeding of M. Iohn Drake after his departing
from him to the riuer of Plate. 307
A ruttier which declareth the situation of the coast of Brasil
from the Isle of Santa Catelina vnto the mouth of the riuer of
Plata, and all along vp within the sayd riuer, and what armes
and mouthes it hath to enter into it, as farre as it is
nauigable with small barks. 310