CHAPTER VIII 



THE VOYAGE OF 1595 



AUTHORITIES : 



HAKLUYT'S Voyages. 



Historia del descubrimiewto de las vzgiones Austriales hecho por el 



general PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS, publicado por DON 



JUSTO ZARAGOSSA. 

 Voyages ofQuiros, ed. MARKHAM (Hakluyt Society). 



Mendafia's MENDAA had handled no gold in the Solomons. But 

 voyage ne ^ a( ^ seen l an ds that were large and rich, and doubt- 

 postponed less close to " the mainland, where it is reported there 

 arrest", ' IS g^ and silver and people clothed." There seemed 

 good chance of reigning over a second Peru. In 1574 

 he obtained a Royal Decree giving him authority to make 

 a permanent colony, which he and his family should 

 rule for two generations. Such decrees, were obtained 

 at Madrid with some ease. But they were not always 

 . obeyed in Peru. The new Viceroy was an enemy to 

 Mendafia and his enterprise. In 1577 he was arrested, 

 and we have no news of him for the next eighteen years, 

 and (2) by It seems likely that personal disfavour was not the 

 English. on ly reason. During those eighteen years things were 

 happening in the Pacific that had great influence on Spanish 

 minds. When Mendafia had reached Mexico in March 

 1569 his ships had been mistaken for those of " the strange 

 Scottish people " who, under Sir John Hawkins, had 

 " troubled them two years before." Why men of Devon 

 were turned by Spanish imagination into " strange 

 Scottish folk " we know not. But those who have read 

 the story of the exploits of Hawkins and his men at S. John 

 de. Ulua will understand the strength of Spanish fears 



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