small Boat, that there were on the place near two thousand Inhabitants. Moreover, an ancient Matron call’d _Lovysa Pizarra_, from _Quintian_, one of the Isles in the _Chilean_ In-Land-Sea, being fetch’d from thence, gave information, that forty years since, before the _Indians_ took up Arms, the _Spaniards_ were quietly setled in _Osorno_, and in so good a condition, that an ordinary Planter had at least three hundred Slaves, of which, every one was to procure a certain quantity of Gold; that the Isles _Chiloves_ were divided into above a hundred Colonies or Plantations, the _Chileses_ serving the _Castilians_ as their true Governors; those that do good Service the King of the Colony makes them Commanders, and that the _Chileses_ had Rebell’d in several places. _Brewer_ on the _Chileses_ request took some of them, with their Wives and Children into his Ship, furnish’d with Arms, he digg’d a Chest of Silver and a Brass Gun out of the Earth, and soon after being sick, dy’d. His Successor _Elias Herkmans_ prosecuting those Publick Affairs, sent the Pilot of the _Unity_ out of _Brewer’s Haven_, and some Sea-men, with two _Chilean Casiques_ with a Boat to _Carelmappa_; but being surpriz’d by a violent Storm, stood in for _Horse-Island_, where he and the _Casiques_ Landing, he order’d seven Sea-men to carry the Boat to a safer Harbor; but being driven from the shore by strong Winds it took in so much Water as fill’d and sunk it, so that all of them were drown’d. _Horse-Island_ being destitute of Provisions and Lodgings, those that were Landed expected nothing but Death, till they found out a small Hut, and in the same six brave Sheep, and a good quantity of Potatoe Roots, which serv’d for Bread: But when this their new-found Store was almost spent, they happily were fetch’d off by the Boat belonging to the Ship _Amsterdam_, and with the whole Fleet came to an Anchor before _Baldivia_. This City built by the _Castilians_, consisted formerly of five hundred and fifty fair Houses, and was divided into Streets and cross Ways, with two large Markets, and as many costly Churches. [Sidenote: Why the _Chileses_ grew strange to the _Hollanders_.]