The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1

WORKS ISSUED BY
                          The Hakluyt Society.

                              THE VOYAGES
                                   OF
                       PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS,
                             1595 TO 1606.

                             SECOND SERIES.
                                No. XIV.







                              THE VOYAGES
                                   OF
                       PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS,
                             1595 TO 1606.

                         Translated and Edited
                                   BY
                         SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM,
                           K.C.B., P.R.G.S.;
                   PRESIDENT OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

                        IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. I.

                                LONDON:
                    PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

                               M.DCCCCIV.







                                COUNCIL
                                   OF
                          THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.


    Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S., Pres. R.G.S., President.
    The Right Hon. the Lord Amherst of Hackney, Vice-President.
    Rear-admiral Sir William Wharton, K.C.B., F.R.S., Vice-President.
    Colonel George Earl Church.
    Sir William Martin Conway.
    George William Forrest, C.I.E.
    William Foster, B.A.
    F. H. H. Guillemard, M.A., M.D.
    The Right Hon. the Lord Hawkesbury.
    Edward Heawood, M.A.
    John Scott Keltie, LL.D.
    Frederic William Lucas.
    Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham, K.C.B.
    Mowbray Morris.
    Commr. John Franklin Parry, R.N.
    Edward John Payne, M.A.
    Ernest George Ravenstein.
    Admiral of the Fleet Sir F. W. Richards, G.C.B.
    Henry William Trinder.
    Richard Stephen Whiteway.

    Basil H. Soulsby, B.A., Honorary Secretary.






CONTENTS.


VOLUME I.

                                                                    Page

    Dedication                                                        ix
    Introduction                                                      xi
    Note on the Cartography of the Southern Continent.
    By B. H. Soulsby                                              xxxvii

        I.--Narrative of the Second Voyage of the Adelantado
            Alvaro de Mendaña, by the Chief Pilot Pedro Fernandez
            de Quiros                                                  3

       II.--Narrative of the Voyage of the Adelantado Alvarez de
            Mendaña de Niera for the Discovery of the Islands of
            Solomon, written by the Chief Pilot Pedro Fernandez
            de Quiros for Don Antonio de Morga, Lieutenant-General
            of the Philippines                                       149

      III.--Narrative of the Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
            in 1606, for the Discovery of the Austrial Regions       161


VOLUME II.

       IV.--True Account of the Events of the Voyage that the
            Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros made to the unknown
            Southern lands, by Gaspar de Leza, Chief Pilot of the
            said Fleet                                               321

        V.--Torquemada's Account of the Voyage of Quiros             407

       VI.--Letter from Luis Vaez de Torres to the King of Spain     455

      VII.--Legends on the Four Maps signed by Diego de Prado y
            Tobar                                                    469


APPENDIX.

        I.--Eighth Memorial of Quiros                                477
       II.--Memorial of Quiros, 1607                                 487
      III.--Memorial of Quiros, 1609                                 504
       IV.--Memorial of Don Fernando de Castro, 1608                 508
        V.--Letters from Diego de Prado y Tobar, 1613                511
       VI.--Note on the Memorials of Quiros by the Council of
            the Indies, 1610                                         514
      VII.--Memorial touching Papers printed by Quiros, 1610         516
     VIII.--Memorial by Juan Luis Arias                              517

    Index                                                            537


MAPS.

    1.--Planos de las Bahías descubiertas el año de 1606,    In Pocket
        en las islas del Espíritu Santo y de Nueva Guinea    at the end.
        y Dibujadas por D. Diego de Prado y Tovar en Igual
        Fecha (Soc. Geogr. de Madrid, 1878).

    2.--New Hebrides, Banks and Duff Groups, showing         In Pocket
        Discoveries of Quiros in 1606. G. Mackay del.        at the end.

    3.--Routes of Mendaña, 1595; Quiros, 1606, and Torres,   In Pocket
        1606. G. Mackay del.                                 at the end.






                              DEDICATION.

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