INTRODUCTION. 1X 
The story of the raft we already know. The 
remainder was to the effect that he entered into 
the service of the Viceroy of Mexico, by whom 
he was sent, in a small caraval, to explore the 
Californian coast. He managed to reach lat. 
47° N., and finding the coast inclined towards 
the N. & NE., and that a wide expanse of sea 
opened out between 47° lat., his position, and 
48°, he entered the Strait, and sailed through it 
for twenty days. Finding the land still tended 
to NE. & NW. and also E. & SE., he proceeded, 
passing through groups of beautiful islands, and 
so sailed on until he came into the North Sea; 
but being quite unarmed, and finding the natives 
very hostile, he made his way back, and reported 
his discovery of the entrance to what he believed 
the North-West Passage. 
But the Viceroy was not impressed with the va- 
lue of the old man’s report, and paid him nothing 
for it. Disgusted with the government and all 
belonging to it, he worked his way back to 
the Mediterranean, and we next meet with him 
as a pilot on the Adriatic. 
Master Locke at once wrote to Sir Walter 
Raleigh, Master Hakluyt, and to Lord Cecil, 
