CHAPTER IX 



QUIROS 



AUTHORITIES : 



Historia del descubrimiento de las regiones Austriales hecho par el 

 general PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS, publicada por DON 

 JUSTO ZARAGOSSA. 



The Voyages of Quiros, edited by MARKHAM (Hakluyt Society). 



QUIROS assumed' the mission. He returned to Peru, 

 and asked a new Viceroy to send him at once to ".return 

 and discover those lands which I suspect to exist, and 

 even feel certain that I shall find, in those seas." But the 

 Viceroy replied that Quiros must first win permission 

 Quiros the from the King of Spain. Quiros arrived in Seville, with 

 missionary. g - x Collars in pocket, in February 1600. It was Jubilee 

 year at Rome, and he determined to lay his foundation 

 true by a visit to the Holy City. Selling the little he 

 possessed, he bought the dress of a pilgrim, and, staff 

 in hand, walked through the cities of Italy. At Rome 

 he appealed to the Spanish ambassador, the Duke of 

 Sesa, to help win the sanction and the blessing of the 

 Pope for a mission which would " save an infinity of souls 

 in the New World." The great nobleman treated the 

 pilgrim with respect. He had received a letter from the 

 Prior of the Order of St. Dominic at Manila, testifying 

 that Quiros was " a great pilot, with much experience 

 of the South Sea, and of the great Gulf between the coasts 

 of New Spain and Peru and Japan and the Philippine 

 Islands," and that it " would be much for the service 

 of God and King to introduce him, that he might again 

 return to discover those unknown parts and islands." 



