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may take the spoil of them all. I have either discovered, 

 or brought certain intelligence of, all the rich places of the 

 world that ever were known or discovered by a Christian." 



These things were known to the Spaniards of Peru 

 who listened to Mendana's petition that he should be 

 sent to found a colony in the Solomons. Drake and 

 Cavendish had changed the point of view. " When," 

 says a contemporary, " they thought to send colonies unto 

 these islands, Captain Drake entered the South Sea, where- 

 upon commandment was given that they should not be 

 inhabited, that the English or others who pass the Straits 

 of Magellan to go to the Moluccas might have no succour 

 there but such as they got of the Indians." l 



But Mendafia did not despair. He still held the Royal 

 Decree. He still hoped to reign over a second Peru, 

 which should be truly a Kingdom of Christ. The stories of 

 Solomon's gold grew ever more splendid. The best men and Mendana 

 the worst men were eager to go. And at last, in 1595, sails for the 

 twenty-eight years after the first voyage, Mendana was de- Solomon, 

 spatched by a friendly Viceroy, Mendoza, Marquis of Cafiete. Ap- I595 ' 



But the interesting person in this story is the man whom 

 Mendana now " persuaded and induced " to sail with 

 him as Chief Pilot. Pedro Fernandez de Quiros was Quiros 

 born in 1565. He was by birth a Portuguese ; but when Chief 

 in 1580 Philip II. of Spain made himself King also of 

 Portugal, Quiros became a Spanish subject, and his life 

 was spent in the service of the Spanish King. We have 

 no knowledge of his early years ; but his reputation 

 proves that he spent them on the sea, and that he acquired 

 the skill of a first-rate " Pilot," that is, one whose pro- 

 fession it was to know all that was known about the various 

 sciences necessary for the navigation of the Ocean. In 

 1595, at the age of thirty, he was in Peru, and Mendana 

 persuaded him "throwing his arm round his neck "- 

 to act as Chief Pilot. 



The narratives both of the expedition of 1595, in which The Quiros- 

 Quiros sailed as Chief Pilot, and of the later expedition narratives, 

 of 1606, in which he held the command, profess to have 



1 Lopez Vaz in Hakluyt. 

 W.A. K 



