PATAGONIA, 1599.

Martyr1 the same year (1587), we find Tierra del Fuego broken up, unprecedentedly, into a number of islands, though its maker could not as yet have got Cavendish's reports of his passage of the Straits in 1586-1588.

Other maps of the Ortelius type, like those of Maffeius and Judæus, both of 1593, those of De Bry in 1592 and 1596, those in the Ptolemy of 1597, variations upon the same contour, the Wytfliet map of the same year, that in the Basle edition of Münster's Cosmographia (1598), the mappemonde of Wolfe's Linschoten (1598) and that in Botero's Relaciones (1603), indicate how stable the view had become at this time of the greatly broadened shape of South America and of the wide circumpolar continent to the south.

In 1598-1599 a fleet of five Rotterdam ships, the first Dutch vessels to enter the waters of Magellan's Straits, sailed under the direction of Mahn and Cordes. Sebald van Weert, one of the commanders, did not pass out of the Straits on the Pacific side, but remained a long time in them; and Kohl thinks that Van Weert brought home the drafts which made the map of the Straits published by Hondius in 1600, the amplest survey of those waters up to that time. Another of the commanders, Olivier van Noort, passed into the Pacific in 1599.6 His map, showing his track, was not published till 1646,7 in an abridged edition of his narrative, at Amsterdam. It gives an exaggerated elongation to Porto Desire, on the east coast, under 47° 66'. Only a portion of "Terra Fogo" is shown. The west coast is much better drawn, and seems to be based on Spanish authorities. Levinus Hulsius published at Nuremberg in 1599 a Nova et exacta delineatio Americæ partis australis, to accompany the Vera historia admirandæ cuiusdam nauigationis (1534-1554), of Huldericus Schmidel. Hulsius also compiled (1602) a map of the southern parts of South America to illustrate these voyages. At the beginning of the next century the distorted South America of the Ortelius type begins to disappear; and we find better proportions in the map of 1601 in Herrera, in that of 1606 in the Regimiento de navegacion of Cespedes, in that connected with De Quir's narrative in the Detectionis freti, etc., 1613, and in the maps of Hondius which illustrated Die seer heerlücke Voyagie der Capiteyn Draeck,1o and which appeared in the Mercator atlas of 1613.11 The map of Joannes Oliva of 1613 in the British Museum still preserves the newer type. The map of Spilbergen (1615), as shown in De

1 See Vol. III. p. 42.

8

2 This is Kohl's no 365.

3 See Vol. II. p. 459, with those of Metellus (1600) based on them.

+ This is Kohl's no. 398.

5 Van Weert's narrative was published at Amsterdam in 1600 as Wijdtloopigh Verhael, etc., with a description of the Straits by Outgheraz, which was not repeated in later editions. This first edition is extremely rare. Cf. Tiele, nos. 11a, 11; Muller (1872), no. 1,976, (1877) no. 2,402; Carter-Brown, p. 466. De Bry in his part ix (1602) abridged and inexactly translated the account, and inserted a map which seems to be based on the same material as Hondius used; and he repeated the map in part xiii. (CarterBrown, ii. 346, 349, 352). An abridged edition of the narrative, Begin ende Voortgangh, etc., with Outgeresz' description, was issued at Amsterdam in 1646. Cf. Muller (1872), no. 1,977, (1877) no. 3,472. There were other issues in 1648 and 1650, and this narrative is given in English in the Voyages by the Dutch East India Company (London, 1703).

His Voyagie was printed at Amsterdam in 1601, and again in 1602 with some changes in

spelling. The original edition is of great rarity
(Muller, 1877, no. 2,309, etc.; Tiele, no. 11). It
was given in Latin by De Bry in his ninth part, but
abridged; it is also in Hulsius, xi. De Bry's Ger-
man appeared in 1602, and another German trans-
lation (Lenox Library) the same year; the first
and second French editions in 1602, and again
in 1610 (Tiele, nos. 17, 18, 19; Carter-Brown,
ii. 107). Later abridged editions appeared at
Amsterdam in 1646, 1648, 1650, 1663, 1764, etc.,
and at Utrecht in 1708 (Tiele, nos. 21, 23, 25, 29,
33 Stevens, Historical Collection, i. 493).
7 Kohl's no. 399.

8 Kohl points out his omission of the island of Juan Fernandez, discovered in 1570, and of the bay where Diego Galleyo perished (circa 1570). The map shows a Spaniard and a Patagonian giant in "Chica regio." It is Kohl's no. 401.

9 Repeated in the edition of 1622 and in the early editions of Torquemada.

1) Fac-simile in the Hakluyt Society's edition of Drake's World Encompassed. Hondius' map of the Straits is given in Purchas, iii. 900, and his map of South America, iii. 882.

11 A map by Michael Mercator in the same edition restored the Ortelius type.