REYS VAN ANDRIES BATTEL original title: "TRAVELS OF ANDREW BATTELL"

And find an exiled man there.

brought by land from Peru to the River Plate. Abraham Cock, understanding this, desired to undertake this expedition, and took some of the men from the Dolphijn into his ship, and sent the Dolphijn, which had not yet completed a long voyage, back home. In the meantime, the Portuguese merchant brought us to a certain place on this island where an exiled man was, who had planted a quantity of plantains a type of cooking banana and told us that we could reach the River Plate with that fruit, which was fortunate for us, as our bread and other provisions were nearly consumed.

Sailing to the River la Plate. The Island of Labos Marinos.

With these supplies, we departed from this island and were 36 days underway before we reached the island of Labos Marinos original: "Sea Lions" (modern Lobos Island), at the mouth of the River Plate. This island is half a mile long and has no fresh water, but there are very many sea lions and so much sea-moss likely seaweed or kelp that our boat could not reach land without clearing an opening with its oars. This was our food for 30 days while we sailed back and forth on the river, although we were desperate for other provisions. Here we decided to sail up the river
Buenos Aires.

toward Buenos Aires and take a pinnace a small, light sailing ship that was lying near the city with our boat. But when we had sailed up the river to the height of the city, we encountered a storm from the South-West that drove us back down to Isla Verde, or the Green Island, which lies to the North of the river's mouth.

The Island of S. Sebastiaan.

Meanwhile, we were greatly discouraged by a lack of provisions, and since we had no hope of continuing our voyage, we headed North to the Island of S. Sebastiaan, which lies under the Tropic of Capricorn. Here we sailed to the land to fish, and some went inland to look for fruit because we were all nearly starving. At that same time, there was a