1592. JUAN DE FUCA. 131 



Aleppo, transmits to England a note, of which 

 the following is the substance aiul nearly a copy. 

 He says, "when I was in Venice, in April 159^, 

 happily arrived there an old man, about sixty 

 years of age, called commonly Juan de Fuca, but 

 named properly Apostolos Valerianus, of nation a 

 Greek, born in Cephalonia, of profession a mariner, 

 an ancient pilot of ships." He then goes on to 

 say, that one John Douglas, an Englishman, 

 brought this man before him, who made the fol- 

 lowing declaration, in the Italian and Spanish 

 lano'uao-es : — First, '' that he had been in the West 

 Indies of Spain forty years; that he was in the Spa- 

 nish ship which, in returning from the Philippines 

 towards Nova Spania, was robbed and taken a^ 

 the Cape California by Captain Candish, an Eng- 

 lishman, whereby he lost 60,000 ducats of his 

 own goods ; that he was pilot of three small ships 

 sent from Mexico by the Viceroy, armed with 

 100 men, to discover the straits of Anian, along 

 the coast of the South Sea, and to fortify that 

 strait to resist the attempts of the English to pass 

 into the South Sea; that, however, a mutiny 

 broke out among the seamen, which prevented 

 -any thing being done in the ^ way of discovery on 

 that voyage. 



Secondly, " that the Viceroy of Mexico sent 

 him out again in 1592, with a small caravel and a 

 pinnace, to follow up the said voyage for the dis- 

 covery of the straits of Anian, and the passage 



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