A man and a woman encountered on the eastern side of the Strait of Magellan

After losing sight of the Trouw, the Geloof continued to sail further into the Strait of Magellan in December 1599 and January 1600. Hope was not immediately given up to see the Trouw again, but the idea had to be abandoned eventually. While in the Strait, the Geloof encountered the fleet of admiral Oliver van Noort, who was sailing in the opposite direction. The Geloof received some assistance, but was unable to stay with the much better equipped fleet of Van Noort. Then, the captain Sebald de Weert, finally decided to sail further towards the eastern entrance of the Strait and accepted his crew’s demands to sail back home to Dutch Republic. They sailed first to islands where many birds could be found and hunted extensively for them. During this hunt they again encountered an indigenous woman and they saw the dead body of an indigenous man, who had been killed in a violent clash with Oliver van Noort’s foragers. The woman, from the Patagonian shore, was observed to be better dressed than her previously captured counterpart from the southern Tierra del Fuego. She is described as dressed with a cloth around her loins, a cape of sewn fur or skin and very short hair. The man wore a skirt of feathers, a hat and was armed with a bow and arrow. They left the woman behind on the island.

This image shows the captured woman and an image of the man described in the text. At the back the image shows the Faith and the small boat it set ashore to hunt for birds. A man with his arms bound behind his arms lies on the ground. A group of people kneel in a circle around a man who may be a preacher. They appear to be praying.