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One wonders whether De Morga owed something of his De Morga 

 enthusiasm to conversation with a man of kindred spirit, ai 

 Fernando de Quiros, who, after adventurous voyage 

 through mid-Pacific, had come to Manila in 1595, full of a 

 grand scheme that should add to the Spanish Empires in 

 West and East a Spanish Empire in the South, " so that 

 all round the world God might be known and adored by 

 all his creatures." 



