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Appendix,* which will render any extract of it 

 here, or any further comment, unnecessary.! 



JUAN DE FUCA. 1592. 



The authenticity of the narrative, given by this 

 person, of a voyage from New Spain for the dis- 

 covery of the Estrecho d'Anian, rests on better 

 grounds than the voyage of Maldonado. The vera- 

 city of the narrator has frequently been called in 

 question, because he happened to be wrong in his- 

 conclusions ; but the facts of his statement have, 

 in our times, been in so many instances verified, 

 as scarcely to leave a doubt of the reality of the 

 voyage. Besides, the little that we have is at 

 second-hand, and the mere record of a conver- 

 sation, misunderstood probably in some points/ 

 and imperfectly stated in most of them. Under 

 such circumstances, the story of Juan de Fug a 

 ought not to be canvassed with the severity of 

 criticism. 



The story of this voyage is as follows : Mr. 

 Michael Lok, consul for the Turkey merchants at 



* Obtained from Don Filipe Bauza, Superintendant of the 

 Hydrographical Department in Madrid. 



t The detection of this German imposture may be seen in 

 Burney's Hist, of Voyages; in the Quarterly Review, No. XXXI.; 

 and in Baron de Zach's Journal, by Baron de Lindenau, 1812. 



