Copie van een brief van den heere Admirael Spil-berghen: : inhoudende de voyage by hem gedaen door de Strate Magelanica, tot inde Zuydt-Zee, al waer hem bejeghent is de Vlote van don Rodrigo de Mendosa daer hy mannelijcken tegen gevochten, ende de victorije behouden heeft. Ende voorts wat hem op die reyse wedervaren is tot inde Molucques toe
A 1617 Dutch printed account, issued in Delft, of Admiral Joris van Spilbergen's voyage through the Strait of Magellan into the South Sea, including his battle with Don Rodrigo de Mendoza's fleet and his passage on to the Moluccas, written as a letter for a general Dutch readership. Its two pictures are a plain heraldic coat of arms with a motto ribbon reading GAUDEO, and a crude woodcut of a tall-masted sailing ship on choppy water, a cheap and direct style a designer could borrow for maritime emblems or antique seafaring motifs.
