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confused and mixed up witli otliers of that older and far-ofif Hawaii and \'evao where 

 they had sojourned before arriving- at tlieir own o-roup of islands. 



On October 31, 1527, according to Burney, three vessels left a port called 

 Zivat-Lanejo, said by Galvoam to be situated in latitude 20 north, on the coast of New 

 Spain, for the Moluccas or Spice Islands. They were the Florida with fifty men, the 

 ,S"^ J ago with forty-five men, and the Espiritu Santo with fifteen men, under command 

 of Alvaro de Saavedra, with thirty pieces of cannon and merchandise. These vessels 

 were said to have sailed in company for 1000 leagues' and then to have been separated by 

 bad weather. The two smaller vessels were never afterward heard of, and Saavedra 

 pursued the voyage alone. (Burney, Discoveries in the South Seas, I, 147-148.) 



"A Spanish or Portuguese league is 17^ to an equatorial degree. looc = to 584/15 of a degree. 



