At length _Schouten_ Weighing Anchor from _Porto Desire_, and Sailing to four and fifty Degrees Southern Latitude, met whole Shoals of Whales, insomuch, that he was fain to Tacque to and again to shun them. Sea-Pies, bigger than Swans, came flying in great numbers aboard, suffering themselves to be taken with the hand. On the North-side they spy’d a high and scraggy Coast spreading it self to the East South-East, which they call’d, The _States Countrey_, that which lay to the Westward of it, _Maurice_ of _Nassau_, the Islands in fifty seven Degrees _Barnevield_’s Isles, and the sharp Point in which lay the Snowy Mountains, Southward of the _Magellan Straights_ end, the _Cape_ of _Hoorn_. [Sidenote: _Straights Le Maire._] _Schouten_ had now gotten the height of fifty nine Degrees, when he enter’d the South-Sea, through the new passage between _Mauritius_ and the _States-Countrey_, which was call’d from his Partner, _The Straights of Le Maire_. [Sidenote: Isles in the South-Sea.] Near the two Isles _Juan Fernando_, they found great store of Fish, after that they view’d these Islands, that lay scatter’d up and down the South-Sea, each of them they nam’d according to their several occasions, calling the first, _The Isle of Dogs_, because they have abundance of Dogs there that could not bark: Another, _The Bottomless Island_, because the Sea was so deep about it, that they could not come to an Anchor. The Inhabitants who go naked, with their Skins pounced full of strange shapes, of blue Snakes, Dragons, and such like Creatures, Salli’d out of the Woods upon the _Hollanders_ with great Clubs, to which was fasten’d the Sword or Snout of a Sword-Fish, and also with Slings. Somewhat further they came to _Water-Land_, and _Flyes-Island_, the first so nam’d, because the Shore round about was planted with Trees, but in the middle all lay cover’d with Salt-Water; the other from the _Flyes_, which with incredible numbers troubled the Sea-men four days together. [Sidenote: Strange entertainment at the Horn Islands.] Moreover, the Reception or Entertainment which _Schouten_ was welcom’d withal, at the _Hoorn-Islands_, being very remarkable, we will in brief relate: Anchoring in nine Fathom Water, Shelly ground, before a fresh Rivulet, three _Hollanders_ sent to the King were by him courteously entertain’d, who with strange humility, not bow’d, but kissing their Feet fell flat on the ground, and put the _Hollanders_ Feet upon his Neck; and after this manner of Salutation, waited upon them aboard: Yet although this King fawn’d so much, and seem’d so humble, yet he was very severe over his Subjects, for finding one that had filch’d a Sword, he not onely brought and restor’d it, but immediately Executed the Thief before their Faces.