Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XXXII.--The Five Ships of Rotterdam--Battle at the Island of

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Brava--Sebald de Weert--Disasters in the Strait of Magellan--The Crew eat Uncooked Food--The Fleet is scattered to the Winds--Adventures of De Weert--A Wretched Object--Return to Holland--Voyage of Oliver Van Noort--Barbarous Punishment--The Emblem of Hope becomes a Cause of Despair--Fight with the Patagonians--Arrest of the Vice-Admiral--His Punishment--Description of a Chilian Beverage--Capture of a Spanish Treasure-Ship--A Pilot thrown Overboard--Sea-Fight off Manilla--Return Home, after the First Dutch Voyage of Circumnavigation 304