734' DISCOVERIES OF 1592. 



in June 1602, minding to pass from thence for 

 England by sea, for that I had then received a 

 little monev, I wrote another letter to this Greek 

 pilot to Cephalonia, and required him to come 

 to me at Zante to go with me into England ; but 

 I had no answer thereof from him, for that, as 1 

 heard afterwards at Zante, he was then dead, or 

 very likely to die of great sickness/'* 



The Spaniards deny all knowledge of any such 

 voyage as that mentioned by the old Greek pilot ; 

 but this is no ground whatever for calling in 

 question its veracity. Mr. Lok was a public cha- 

 racter, and living in England when Purchas 

 printed his narrative ; he was also known as the 

 translator of the last fixe decades of Peter Martyr, 

 which treat of American discovery. Candish him- 

 self states, that in the rich Spanish ship called the 

 Santa Anna, and taken by him off Cape California, 

 there was a skilful pilot, t But the most power- 

 ful argument in favour of the reality of Juan de 

 Fuca's voyage is the subsequent discovery of a 

 strait, on the north-west coast of America, exactly 

 on the spot where tlie old pilot placed it ; within 

 which are islands and broad channels, leading in 

 all the directions as mentioned by him. This 

 strait, it is true, opens through Queen Charlotte's 

 Sound into the Pacific, which the old man mistook 



* " Note made by Michael Lok.'' — Purchas^ vol.iii. p. 849. 

 t Candish's Voyage. — Id. vol. i. p. 56. 



