Published in Herrera's 'Novus Orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis' (1622), also printed in Dutch and French, to accompany 'Ephemerides sive Descriptio navigationis Australis institutae Anno M.D.C.XV. ductu & moderamine fortissimi Viri Iacobi Le Maire, duarum navium, quarum una Concordia, altera Cornu dicta fuit, Praefecti', an account of Jacob Le Maire and Cornelis Schouten's voyage from Texel in June, 1615, on a mission to find a new route to reach the Spices Islands which would break the trade monopoly of the VOC (which had been grant a monopoly trade through the Strait of Magellan). The pair succeeded by rounding South America south of the Straits of Magellan. The new cape was name "Horn" (or "Hoorn") after Shouten's ship which had been lost due to fire at the Patagonian port Desire. In doing so they also dispelled the myth of a great southern continent joined to South America.

Le Maire and Schouten would continue to sail across the Pacific, discovering numerous islands along the way, and sailing up the northern coast of New Guinea. By September 1616 Le Maire reached Ternate in the Moluccas, the headquarters of the VOC. Initially well received, they were soon accused of having encroached on the rights of the Company and were tried, found guilty and shipped home on Spilbergen's ship which was completing its own trip around the world. Le Maire died on the return voyage and his journals were taken by the Company. Schouten and Spibergen published an abbreviated version of the journals; but it was not until 1622, after a long trial, that Isaac Le Maire was able to regain custody of his son's journals and to publish them in full.

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Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1559-1625), Spanish historian, secretary to Vespasiano Gonzaga, a brother of the Duke of Mantua, and Viceroy of Navarre and Valencia, who recommended him to Philip II. He became grand historiographer, "cronista mayor", of America and Castile, to both Philip II and III. He is best remembered for his 'Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Océano' (1601), covering the years 1472 to 1554.