i;2 THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA 



making peace ! " " Such was the end of the peace which 

 the Captain hoped for, and sought for, as the means of 

 discovering the grandeur of the land, and all that was 

 contained in it ; such indeed was the intention the Captain 

 had, but it was only a sound." 



The first thing necessary now was to protect the mission- 

 aries against the hostility which they had so wantonly 

 provoked. Quiros sought to do this, in the Spanish 

 way, by the creation of " a ministry of War and Finance," 

 and he gives a list of the nineteen ministers who were to 

 provide for the safety of the colony. On the I3th of May, 

 Torres, transformed from "Admiral" into " Master of the 

 Camp," was sent on shore " to put up a Church, so that 

 next day Mass might be said, and possession taken of the 

 land in the name of the Majesty, divine and human." So 

 they made a Church, the Church of " Our Lady of Loretto," 

 with trees and branches of plantains, and they surrounded 

 it with stakes, so that it might serve as a fort in case of 

 necessity. In the afternoon, Quiros assembled the people 

 of all the ships, and made to them a triumphant speech. 

 To strengthen their resolves, to give firmness and hope, 

 which are the qualities needed to achieve great and famous 

 deeds, he had resolved to give sacramental expression 

 to the ideal of the mission by incorporating all those 

 and become engaged in it into a new chivalrous Order, " the Knights 



thelioiV* of the Hol y Ghost " ; an Order which p P e and Kin s 



Ghost. would " confirm, with advantageous privileges, as long 



as the World endures." " In the name of the Most Holy 

 Trinity, in the name of the Roman Pontiff, in the name 

 of His Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, and my Lord, 

 I the Captain Don Fernandez de Quiros give to each 

 one of your mercies this cross of a blue colour, which 

 presently you are to place on your breasts, being the 

 insignia by which the Knights of the Order of the Holy Ghost 

 are to be known ; the persons in whose charge, if I should 

 fail, is to be placed the discovery, pacification, and posses- 

 sion of all these parts which we are discovering, and may 

 discover in the time to come." Let them know and esteem 

 the value of the cross ; it signified determination to win 



