'Shipwreck of a boat off of the Parana River where it empties into the Rio de la Plata. Men cling to the mast and other flotsam to reach shore.Text concerns Schmidel's travels on the Rio de la Plata, Argentina. This acccount is one of a series of accounts of voyages selected, edited, and translated by Levinus Hulsius and others, and known as the Erste-[XXVI] Schiffart or the Sammlung von Sechs und Zwanzig Schiffahrten.'