Magellan's Strait, and, after p..tssing the two narrows, he anchored the ships and proceeded to explore in his boat ahmg the shore. Presently he saw two men waving to him from rock. ]lc pulled in and took one of them into his heat. The man turned out to he ouc of the surviw)rs of S;trmicnto's cohmy, and he told harrowing tale. Nearly all had died of starw;tion. For months they had lived on shell-fish picked off the rocks. Fiftccn were still alive about a mile distant, including two worncu. The man's name was Tomas tlcrnandcz. Cavendish promised to take them all on board, but � fair wind springing up he made sail and left them to their fate. ]lcrnandcz was the only one who escaped to tell the talc. Carendish visited the deserted town called Fclipe which the colonists lind built. Thcy had abandoned it when their lawvisions � came to an end, and had hoped to maiutain life. by mattering thcnmelves along the shore and living on shell-fish until the long-deferred succour arrived; and so they perished slowly, the weakest first. The English commander called the place Port Famine.

Hernandez was fqucntly consulted hy Carendish, espially on the occasion of an encounter with the natives near Ca Froward, the most southern point of America--so named on this occasion. After entering the South Sea, Cavcndish sailed north- wards along the west coast of South America, and &nchored at Quintcro, a little bay near Valparaiso, foi' wood and water. Hernandez hmded with the watering party, as a guide, several horsemen having heen seen on the hills. Through his trcachc' the party was surprised, and a dozen English sailors were taken S,mtago, th,rnmlcz escaping behind one prisoners and hanged at " ' of the horsemen. Sir Richard Hawkyns tells us that retribution overtook the treachery of thq'nandcz. In the fight with the Daiaty, he served on board one 'of the Spanish ships and was severely wounded. Three years afterwards Sir lichard saw him begging on crutchcs, and in such a miserahle state that he had been better dead thn alive. He lived afterwards at Lima, and, iu the days of the Viccny l'rince of Esquilache (16L he nutde a deposition giving a full account of the sufik, rings of the cohmists in the Stntit of Magellan, of his rescue hy Carendish, and of his trcache at Quintvro.

Touching at Atica, Carendish, with his little squadron of three vessels, made his way to the island of Puna in the Gulf of