But _Van Noord_ having spent fourteen Months in search, and lost a hundred Men, set sail again with three Ships; for one of them, being the _Unity_, he burnt at the Island _Clara_, where he Winter’d, because of a great Leak which could not be stopp’d. Here they brought five thousand Fowls aboard, which much increased their Stock of Provisions. From hence parting the Wide Ocean, into the _Straights of Magellan_, four times the Fleet attempted to go into the _South-Sea_, and was as often driven back by cross Weather into the _Straights_; but the fifth time prov’d more successful; for having got through, and left the _Straights_ a handsom way astern, they discover’d two Islands, from one of which the Sea-men going aland, brought four Boys and two Girls; who afterward instructed in their Tongue, inform’d them concerning the scituation of the Countreys thereabout. [Sidenote: _Philip-Stadt_ forsaken through famine.] After that, the Fleet Sail’d into _Hungers Haven_, where they found the ruines of the deserted _Philip-Stadt_, which Captain _Thomas Candish_ had seen fourteen years before, fortifi’d with four Bulwarks; but now onely some Houses, a Church, and a Gibbet were standing: Four hundred _Spaniards_ built that City, as a Key to the _Straights_ of _Magellan_. But all their Provisions being spent in three years time, and no relief coming from _Spain_, and what they Sow’d expecting the hopes of a Harvest, the Salvages coming down by night destroy’d; which caus’d so great a Famine to rage amongst them, that many dy’d, not so much as putting off their Clothes, who lying in the Houses unbury’d, occasion’d such a stench in the City, that the remainder fled into the Field; where they liv’d a whole year by the Fruits of the Trees, Herbs, and Roots: At last, three and twenty of them, amongst which were two Women remaining yet alive, resolv’d to travel to the River _La Plata_ and accordingly set forward, but what became of them could never yet be heard, only one _Ferdinando_ that was of that company, accidentally wandring from the rest, happen’d to light upon _Candish_’s Fleet. [Sidenote: _Mocha_, what kind of Island.] Here _Van Noord_ set on Shore the Vice-Admiral _Jacob Claeszoon Ilpendam_, for some crimes which he had committed; and leaving him behind, Sail’d from thence thorow the South-Sea along the Coast of _Chili_ and _Mocha_; which Island, of a considerable bigness, rises in the middle with a forked Mountain, from which a convenient River comes flowing down into the Countrey. [Sidenote: _Cica_, a strange Drink.]