The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606
Volume I
Edited by
SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM
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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.;
RESIDENT OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I.
LONDON:
PRINTED AT THE BEDFORD PRESS, 20 AND 21, BEDFORDBURY, W.C,
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.
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
V.Torquemadas Account of the Voyage of Quiros
VI.Letter from Luis Vaez de Torres to the King of Spain
VII.Legends on the Four Maps signed by Diego de Prado y Tobar
APPENDIX.
I.Eighth Memorial of Quiros
II.Memorial of Quiros, 1607
III.Memorial of Quiros, 1609
IV.Memorial of Don Fernando de Castro, 1608
V.Letters from Diego de Prado y Tobar, 1613
VI.Note on the Memorials of Quiros by the Council of the Indies, 1610
VII.Memorial touching Papers printed by Quiros, 1610
VIII.Memorial by Juan Luis Arias
INDEX
MAPS.
1.Planos de las Bahas descubiertas el ao de 1606, en las islas del Espfritu Santo y de Nueva Guinea 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 Discoveries of Quiros in 1606. G. Mackay del
3.Routes of Mendaa, 1595 ; Quiros, 1606, and Torres, 1606. G. Mackay del
TO
COMMANDER ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, R.N.,
M.V.O., F.R.G.S. ;
LEADER OF THE NATIONAL ANTARCTIC
EXPEDITION, 1901 TO 1904.
MY DEAR SCOTT,
I dedicate this translation of the Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to you, because the efforts and aspirations of the first navigator who ever conceived the idea of discovering the Antarctic continent cannot fail to have an interest for you who have actually made such great discoveries in the Far South ; as a tribute also of admiration for your great qualities as a leader, and of affectionate regard for yourself.
Believe me to be ever, my dear Scott,
Your attached friend and well-wisher,
CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM.
THE Council of the Hakluyt Society has decided that the volumes containing the narratives of the discovery of the Solomon Islands by Mendaa shall be followed by a monograph on the two voyages of Quiros. In the first voyage he was Chief Pilot to Mendaa; the second and most famous voyage was under his own command.
The best and most detailed narrative of both voyages is contained in a work which remained in manuscript until twenty-eight years ago, when it was edited and published at Madrid by Don Justo Zaragoza. It is entitled History of the Discovery of the Austrial Regions, made by the General Pedro Fernandez de Quiros.1 Two copies were known to be in existence: one in the private library of the King of Spain, the other in that of the Ministry of Marine. Both have erroneous titles, written by careless librarians. The narratives were evidently dictated by Quiros, or written from his notes; but Seor Zaragoza gives reasons for the belief that the work, in its present form, was written by Luis de Belmonte Bermudez, a young man who was Secretary to Quiros during the voyage of 1606, and that it contains several passages for which the Secretary was alone responsible. Belmonte Bermudez remained faithful to Quiros in his adversity, and, after his masters death, he became a poet of some celebrity. Seor Zaragoza quotes several passages which show the hand of a poet.1 There is also a quotation from the Araucana of Ercilla on unknown lands not yet revealed by God, to which is added another version by the young sailor-poet on those unknown lands now revealed by God.2
The author is mentioned twice in the narrative: once as being nearly drowned in landing on the island of Anaa3 (Conversion de San Pablo), and again in the list of officials for the municipality of the city of New Jerusalem projected by Quiros.4 The question of authorship is really settled by the poet himself, in a line of his poem entitled La Hispalica, quoted by Zaragoza. Speaking of Quiros as his Lusitanian master, the star of gallant Portuguese, he adds that, in recording the history of the voyage there was:
Want of a writer, which I supplied.
The Historia, as published by Zaragoza, is continuous in eighty-one chapters. It has been found more convenient to divide the translation into two parts: the first containing the second voyage of Mendaa, and the second part being the story of the voyage of Quiros in 1606.
