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Identifier: cu31924021189315 Title: Chile today and tomorrow Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Joyce, Lilian Elwyn (Elliott), 1884- Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company


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Text Appearing Before Image: Balmaceda Glacier, Soijth Cfiile.

Text Appearing After Image: In Smyth Channel, heading North from Magellan Strait. THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN 125 and single colonists, the former taking their familieswith them. Two forts were to be constructed in theFirst Narrows, each garrisoned with 200 soldiers. Withthe expedition also went the new Governor of Chile,Alonso de Sotomayor, taking 600 married and singlemen as settlers. Twenty-three vessels, carrying 3000people, comprised the imposing fleet that sailed fromSan Lucar on Sept. 25, 1581. Sarmiento himself wentas Governor and Captain-general of the Strait, withcommand over the forts and settlements; but untilthey arrived the chief authority lay with Diego Floresde Valdes, commanding the fleet, an unfortunate choiceon the part of the Crown, for Flores would not workwith Sarmiento, and seems to have been a coward. Theruin of the expedition was certainly attributable in partto his actions. Ill luck dogged them from the start. A storm assailedthe fleet outside San Lucar, and five ships, with 800men, were los


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